TradeTheBeal! Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 Went ahead and snatched this one up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted August 19, 2022 Share Posted August 19, 2022 ^ Is that an SMU Mustangs logo on the wall? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 23, 2022 Share Posted August 23, 2022 Grand opening grand closing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted September 5, 2022 Share Posted September 5, 2022 Pat Stay, Canadian Battle Rapper, Dies in Stabbing at 36 (thewrap.com) I don't know how many of you follow battling, but Pat Stay was really good. He recently released a diss track aimed at The Game - don't want to speculate but if that is related then **** is really ugly. He had a five-year-old son. Very sad. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted October 8, 2022 Share Posted October 8, 2022 Need a 30 for 30 type special on the Rise and Fall of Kanye, unreal... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted October 10, 2022 Share Posted October 10, 2022 We really not gonna talk about this? How the mighty have fallen... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted November 7, 2022 Share Posted November 7, 2022 RIP Tame One of The Artifacts. Underground legend. Those Artifacts albums are borderline classic. Artifacts Rapper Tame One Passes Away (hiphopwired.com) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted November 10, 2022 Share Posted November 10, 2022 Loving this one. RIP Doom. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted January 2, 2023 Share Posted January 2, 2023 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted February 12, 2023 Share Posted February 12, 2023 RIP Trugoy the Dove from De La Soul. A key member of a legendary group. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted March 1, 2023 Share Posted March 1, 2023 New track from Living Legends. Been in rotation every day, fire. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 Hard for rappers to make it past 60 is seems 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted August 14, 2023 Share Posted August 14, 2023 Damn, so is this now like the Unofficial Hip Hop Obituary thread now? The last couple pages are just depressing AF... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted August 16, 2023 Share Posted August 16, 2023 Eminem finally addressed Melle Mel talking about him being on top 5 lists and Melle Mel responded with this You're not ready for it. Prepare yourself The Em song Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cooked Crack Posted November 14, 2023 Share Posted November 14, 2023 Quote For the first time in over 17 years, André 3000 is releasing an album of new music. New Blue Sun – announced today and set to be released this Friday, Nov. 17 – is a stunning 87-minute mind-bender, minimalist and experimental, tribal and transcendent. One thing it is not, however, is a rap record: No bars, no beats, no sub-bass. André doesn't sing on this joint, either. What he does do is play flute, and plenty of it — contrabass flute, Mayan flutes, bamboo flutes — along with other digital wind instruments. In place of lyrics, he offers eight provocative song titles, the first of which almost reads like a lowkey apology, with a wink of irony: "I swear, I Really Wanted To Make A 'Rap' Album But This Is Literally The Way The Wind Blew Me This Time." He coming out with a flute record. What is this **** Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TradeTheBeal! Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 LULLZZZZ 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abdcskins Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 ^ I saw that. Speaking the truth straight up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Hip Hop has evolved, it's allowed to do that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samy316 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 (edited) 8 hours ago, Renegade7 said: Hip Hop has evolved, it's allowed to do that. Evolved to what, exactly? Hip Hop today, is NOTHING like the Hip Hop we grew up on. It seems like the dumbest artists are pushed to the forefront now, to the point that all you ever hear on the radio is the same beat, with the same messages about bling, lean, etc. I'm not even going to get started on what female rap has devolved into the last 5-10 years. The biggest difference in Hip Hop today and Hip Hop 10+ years ago is the balance. For every Cardi B or Nicki Minaj, there was a Missy Elliot, for every Lil Wayne or Future or insert any bling/drug rapper, there was Mos Def, or Nas or The Roots or even Kanye (Pre-Kim K) on the radio to even things out. Those days are long gone, and labels have pretty much taken out the conscious/introspective rap artists out of the mainstream, and replaced them with the thuggish, dumber rappers who promote drugs, clapping back at "opps" and popping bottles. Hip Hop is not in a good place at all. It hasn't been for a while, and the numbers are starting to bear that out. Not many people realize this, but until October, there wasn't a #1 song or album on the Billboard charts: https://www.billboard.com/music/rb-hip-hop/hip-hop-no-number-one-albums-singles-charts-reasons-why-1235350404/ That's the first time since 1993 that there was no #1 Hip Hop song or album on the charts that late into the year. Drake finally broke that streak with his last album, but that's incredible that it took until the Fall for their to be a #1 hip hop song/album on the charts. I think younger people are tuning out Hip Hop, and finding other genres/artists to listen to. Edited January 17 by samy316 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 I've never been able to take this dude seriously. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 (edited) @samy316 Listen to how many commercials are using hip hop beats now. How many children's videos on youtube now are using hip hop, Snoop Dog has a youtube channel, Gracies Corner is fire, my toddler daughters love it. How much Electronica and Country have either absorbed concepts and grown appearances from Hop hop artists? Kane Brown is an example of this evolution, something the gate keeping would've never allowed 20+ years ago is artists that are frankly good at multiple genres. What he, Drake, and even Nicki Minaj are doing is great for music in general. Hip Hip is now international with dictatorships like China and Russia trying to crackdown on it for speaking to the same struggles we did when we first invented hip hop. That's not dead, but our artist have no right to say what hip hop should be if they ignore the struggles artists are going through in other countries. Jus because a song that I wish we on our radio today isn't in English or from this country and thus not, does NOT make it any less important to overall genre and vision of Hip Hop. Expressing oneself is happening here speaking to struggles of the world is happening all over the world. Hip Hop is no longer an American only genre, it's also incredibly easy for anyone to get into now, so if they do have talent youtube or SoundCloud will find them even if the record labels and radio dont. When I'm studying and listening to either lofi hip hop or covers with classical instruments, it's obvious to me the Hip Hop is the Jazz of the 21st Century. It's flexibility and international multicultural appeal is necessary for its longevity. Whens last time a jazz song was in the billboard 100? Would we have Hip Hop without Jazz? There's so much that many people haven't even heard yet from the time period many of us reminisce about to say we should be in pain because we aren't adding to it. While I can enjoy that musical journey one dive at a time on say pandora or youtube, the people in general have spoken, they don't want blackthought or neosoul right now. That period had their run like many other subgenres in and outside of Hip Hop. 2 hours ago, Spaceman Spiff said: I've never been able to take this dude seriously. Seriously as what? A gangsta rapper. If we keep judging fish by whether they climb a tree we'll never respect them. Edited January 17 by Renegade7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 10 minutes ago, Renegade7 said: Seriously as what? A gangsta rapper. If we keep judging fish by whether they climb a tree we'll never respect them. Way to put words into my mouth that I never said. Seriously as a human being. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renegade7 Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 Just now, Spaceman Spiff said: Way to put words into my mouth that I never said. Seriously as a human being. He's such the typically easy target that I'm afraid to even ask why anymore. If that's not the angle you were coming from, okay, it's almost cliche to say what your saying now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spaceman Spiff Posted January 17 Share Posted January 17 1 minute ago, Renegade7 said: He's such the typically easy target that I'm afraid to even ask why anymore. If that's not the angle you were coming from, okay, it's almost cliche to say what your saying now. He's only an easy target because he's funny looking. I don't listen to much hip hop anymore and when I do, I usually stick to what I grew up listening to. I don't think there's anyone recent outside of maybe Kendrick Lamar that I listen to right now and I don't even listen to him that much. The Drake songs that I've heard aren't anything I'd care to listen to again. To double check, I just put on Hotline Bling and didn't last past the first couple minutes. It doesn't have anything to do with being a "gangsta rapper" and even though I don't have my ear to the ground with the genre like I used to, that's a phrase that I've only heard my mom use in the past 15 years or so. I can see why his music is catchy, but it doesn't catch my ear. And I can see the girl on the video said what she said, commercial, fun, entertaining, formulaic. There's nothing really wrong with that. There's also nothing really wrong with not preferring it, either. Anyway, if you're curious, the good people at TMZ put up a poll to see if Drake's music is considered hip-hop. 58% of the people have said no. https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/16/drake-hits-back-yasiin-bey-mos-def-umi-says-lyrics-target-shopping/ But in the end, I'm also not sure why it really matters what his music is considered, it doesn't take away from the fact that a lot of people enjoy it and he's made a **** ton of money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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