So I don't listen to any new school rap/hip hop but I am surrounded every day by people who do. From my observation rap has just become a trend. For example, one week a new rapper will become popular and everyone will hop on the band wagon for a few weeks. But after 2-4 weeks a new rapper become popular and everyone forgets about the old one that they were just dick riding a few days ago. And it goes on and on like this. Has anyone else noticed this? Or is it just me?
Basically.....which is why I stopped listening to mainstream shit as I matured. Good music is timeless my friend.
Just tune out of that mainstream wave, and things are a little more stagnant. Mainstream rap and radio stuff is always going to be the flavor of the week. They hear the song on the radio with a catchy synth on the chorus, abuse the song looped in their cars, and then move onto the next hit.
Mainstream music has only one goal, to make as much money as possible. They're creating images to brainwash us and make us think that that's how people really should be/are. Underground music for life!
it's the Illuminati fuckers are tryin to control me and bring that new world order shit, FUCK DAT KILLUMINATI
Yeah guys I feel, Mainstream is to music as the Government is to telling you the truth (does that even make sense lol). It's another way to brainwash people. But I posted this sort of hoping to hear from people who actually hop from artist to artist, and their reasoning behind it. Anyways one time I was at a friends party and I was playing some good old school rap out of this amplifier on my ipod, and some goons are like "lets play some cutz gaiz!!!!! durr hurrr" and they take my ipod out, look at all of my music (which has old school rap along with plenty of classic rock, old metal, prog, the works) and say how shitty the music on my ipod is. Then they plug in their ipod and start playing some of the most mindless garbage I have ever heard (new stuff, wiz khalifa, tiga, whoever these simpletons listen to). It's actually a buzz kill no lie.
2-4 weeks? IMO it's 6-12 months, mainstream isn't government, it's what sells. There's so much to be said about this, but listen to these albums (thank me later) and you'll get a good perspective:
I hate that kind of people, thats why i stick to underground shit and dont expose any rapper to nobody.
You sir, are part of the problem. There's nothing wrong with sharing hip hop, especially when many of these underground cats are broke. I would say exactly the opposite. It's arguably a golden age if you know where to look. Dom Kennedy, Blu, Blue Scholars, Grouch, Lil B, J Cole, Nipsey Hussle, Kendrick Lamar, CunninLynguists, Big K.R.I.T., DOOM, OFWGKTA, Casey Veggies, Kanye, Lupe Fiasco, Curren$y, P.O.S., Hopsin, The list goes on.... Hip Hop is doing just fine.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdkrkAsEbKg]YouTube - D12 - Rape A Bartender ft. Maestro (Freestyle)[/ame]
Actually popularity almost always goes to the artists head. Eminems first album was so sick...He changed so much after people started to recognize him... [ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtRbEgoTqQs]YouTube - Eminem - Infinite[/ame] And I don't see how any argument whatsoever could be made that this is the golden age of hip hop.....LOL
L oh fuckin L!!!!!! Dude your response is 100% not relevant to what he said except for the last part.....
I already listed artists who I feel are putting in loads of work right now. Success does not equal excellence. Mainstream does not equal, is not, and will never be what hip hop is about. The underground is doing fine. You must be listening to the wrong music... I mean seriously what do you expect from a golden age of hip hop? At what point do you say we are in a golden age? When there's thousands of rappers blessing the mic with their presence? You can pick any style and find an excellent rapper in that category. If you dig around there is excellent music everywhere. Hip hop fashion is developing and in my opinion looking ill as fuck. I am from LA/LB area so maybe it's different than where you are from. "No success, only excellence, success is what they see, excellence in yourself." - Lil B
Is it just me or does that quote not make any sense at all... although I wouldn't expect anything else from Lil B.
Well i didn't think I needed to spell it out but oh well... He said that by NOT sharing sick underground artists with the public, that you are part of the reason why rap sucks. But My response was saying that if word is spread of a good underground artist, he could eventually become very popular. With popularity comes money, and when an artist gets all of that money they start to conform and water down their music to appeal to a larger general audience. Coo?
The thing is, although you did list some good artists...YOU PUT KANYE ON THERE!!!! Him and his giant ego are killing hip hop. Those dudes can't compare to all of the talent there was back in the 80's and 90's....they can't even come close.
Yeah I wouldn't say its a Golden Age for Hip-Hop, that's just silly. There are plenty of good artists out there, you just can't be lazy. Gotta look for them yourself and not rely on the radio.