Scottyboi
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My favourite this
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Hip Hop/Rap Appreciation thread
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My favourite this
Blue Maverick
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There is a good documentary on Netflix about the origins of hip hop
Zin 'messiah' Zimmer
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Machiavelli
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Films? Video games? Books? TV? Oh sorry you were on about music.Glorification of violence, terrible attitudes towards women, celebrating criminality, unapologetically status-obsessed - yep, sounds great.
Banned Tosspot
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My favourite this
Mine too. One of the best of all time. So so under rated
yeseye
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FogBlueInSanFran
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Have to say as an old man once hip-hop artists couldn't sample anything they wanted for free (due to properly enforced copyright violations), the genre lost its spark for me. The grooves became a lot thinner. I loved old Public Enemy -- still do -- and early Beasties. Thought NWA were posers. Eminem is still okay for shock value and the groove but he's not as funny nor as smart as everyone seems to think he is. Tupac grew up five minutes from where I live but never really liked his stuff. Does MIA count? I think she's really strong. Pretty much missed everyone else.
Be curious if anyone can point me to a hip-hop artist with an actual sense of humor who doesn't take him/herself too seriously (besides the Beasties). Of course, I suppose great street music emanates from difficult lives, so maybe I'm asking for the wrong thing.
Be curious if anyone can point me to a hip-hop artist with an actual sense of humor who doesn't take him/herself too seriously (besides the Beasties). Of course, I suppose great street music emanates from difficult lives, so maybe I'm asking for the wrong thing.
blue aura
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Banned Tosspot
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Biz Markie.Have to say as an old man once hip-hop artists couldn't sample anything they wanted for free (due to properly enforced copyright violations), the genre lost its spark for me. The grooves became a lot thinner. I loved old Public Enemy -- still do -- and early Beasties. Thought NWA were posers. Eminem is still okay for shock value and the groove but he's not as funny nor as smart as everyone seems to think he is. Tupac grew up five minutes from where I live but never really liked his stuff. Does MIA count? I think she's really strong. Pretty much missed everyone else.
Be curious if anyone can point me to a hip-hop artist with an actual sense of humor who doesn't take him/herself too seriously (besides the Beasties). Of course, I suppose great street music emanates from difficult lives, so maybe I'm asking for the wrong thing.