I've SERIOUSLY Have Lost Touch With Hip-Hop!!! [Archive]

JUSE_HEDD

02-24-09, 02:58 PM

Big Jeff

02-24-09, 03:25 PM

I haven't really been up on the whole hip-hop thing like I used to when I was younger. I don't even want to DO hip-hop/rap music anymore. I'm dabbling in a new genre just to sort of expand my mind and step away from the 106 and Park crowd. But it's not just MAINSTREAM hip-hop it's ALL FORMS of it. I just can't get into it like once use to.

Now I find myself riding in my car listening to the likes of Nickelback, RHCP, Coldplay, and other alternative rock artist and some of the smooth R&B at the least like Jamie Foxx, Boyz 2 Men and other artist.

Hip-hop just doesn't do it for me anymore. I dunno. I tell that to black people and I get this face ALL THE TIME :eek: lol

Anybody else really been treading that path???

I see what you're saying a little bit. I'm still a true to life Hip-Hop head who still rocks with the classics in the whip. I just can't find the energy to sift through all the crap to even find the good stuff anymore. The game has changed. I find myself dabbling in more alternative/rock shyt than I ever used to. Beck's Modern Guilt is my favorite album of the year with Zach de la Rocha's One Day as a Lion EP right there. I'm looking foward to Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. 2 joint, Eminem, and hopefully M.O.P. drops another album in my lifetime (hopefully '09). I just don't see any new MC's making music the way cats were doing it when we were coming up. I've definitely drifted into other shyt, not to mention being a father to my 2 seeds and all that comes with that. I feel out of touch now as well. Hip-Hop till I die. The music? *prays for rebirth*

THE 101

02-24-09, 05:10 PM

I'd still rather listen to any hip hop artist (including Do The Stanky Leg & Laffy Taffy looped over each other for 5 hours) than Nickleback.

Korrosiv

02-24-09, 06:08 PM

I was the same for about 6 or 7 years since round about 2000... I thought it was just me outgrowing the scene and stuff, but I completely lost interest in all Hip Hop, save for a handful of artists that I cared about more than others. I didnt cop any new music, read up on hip hop news or anything whatsoever. Age was a definate factor, in my late twenties now shyt just isnt the same as when your like 18-21...

But then about a year or so ago, I slowly came back to it. Its just in my genes or whatever, like it was inevitable. I still dont fukk with 95% of the whole scene coz its mostly trash but theres a lot of good music out there that keeps you in love with it.

But I've kept some of my alternative leanings from my non hip hop period... wouldn't be checking out the alt music forum if I hadnt.

JUSE_HEDD

02-24-09, 07:51 PM

I'd still rather listen to any hip hop artist (including Do The Stanky Leg & Laffy Taffy looped over each other for 5 hours) than Nickleback.

Chad Kroeger>>>>>>>Southern Hip-Hop (except Facemob, Luda, and Outkast)

BreakCanon

02-24-09, 09:42 PM

I'd still rather listen to any hip hop artist (including Do The Stanky Leg & Laffy Taffy looped over each other for 5 hours) than Nickleback.

YES!!!11!!11!1!111

:yes:

Air Nikes N Hats

02-24-09, 10:37 PM

I am in the same boat. I still listen to Hip-Hop a bit, but nothing really does it for me anymore.....artists I wanna hear from constantly getting the shelf, delayed, etc....

Duran Duran
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Foals
Fleet Foxes
Deadmau5
Flying Lotus

Thats the kind of stuff I find myself listening to alot. Only recent hip hop albums I still listen to entirely are Q-Tip, Budden, Blu, etc

StreetSweeper

02-26-09, 12:20 PM

Listen to Max-B or somethin'..

Y are you hating on the South? you must b one of those ppl...

JUSE_HEDD

02-26-09, 04:13 PM

Listen to Max-B or somethin'..

Y are you hating on the South? you must b one of those ppl...

I was talkin sh!t when I'm up in the clubs I be dancing to the southern sh!t all night lol

but that's just it...it's only when i hit the club I actually listen to it. Either that or I'm listening to the old hip-hop from the 80's-2005 pretty much.

Felipe Q

02-27-09, 03:33 PM

I see what you're saying a little bit. I'm still a true to life Hip-Hop head who still rocks with the classics in the whip. I just can't find the energy to sift through all the crap to even find the good stuff anymore. The game has changed. I find myself dabbling in more alternative/rock shyt than I ever used to. Beck's Modern Guilt is my favorite album of the year with Zach de la Rocha's One Day as a Lion EP right there. I'm looking foward to Raekwon's Only Built 4 Cuban Linx Pt. 2 joint, Eminem, and hopefully M.O.P. drops another album in my lifetime (hopefully '09). I just don't see any new MC's making music the way cats were doing it when we were coming up. I've definitely drifted into other shyt, not to mention being a father to my 2 seeds and all that comes with that. I feel out of touch now as well. Hip-Hop till I die. The music? *prays for rebirth*

:yes:

TheT Organization

02-28-09, 08:24 PM

Variety is the spice of life my friend.

I grew up in a family that played soca, reggae, R&b, disco, blues, jazz, and funk around me. Then, my older sister got me into hip-hop in the late eighties/early nineties. At the same time, I was living in the suburbs and all them kids were listening to rock and metal, so I ended up listening to that because that was a lot of my friends were listening to. Then I got really into hip-hop around 94/95. It's weird for me because I've always been into all music, since I was an MTV junkie. Then I got into electronic and stuff in the late nineties.

Now, I listen to everything I can find. Sans country...i fukkin hate that shyt.

I've been getting back into soca, dance music, and dancehall. Some punk and ska...some reggae, some indie rock, some experimental, some r&b, some commercial stuff, mash-ups, kuduro and brazillian music, reggaeton, congtronix, dubstep, bass/....

So, for the most part, I've always been in the mood to listen to something other than hip-hop because I fiend for music in general. I couldn't listen to just one type of music forever. I just don't find myself into new hip-hop anymore...not as much as I did in the nineties.

Life's too short to listen to one type of music forever.

ZEUS

03-03-09, 01:35 PM

C/S im so tired of rap its just stale as hell to me, i listen to rock and classic rock like 75% of the time nowadays. Just too much classic stuff im still discovering like Lennon, Hendrix, CCR etc...I dont know if its just me getting older or just the quality of rap being at an all time garbage high. Id say its more the latter.

Copper Scroll

03-03-09, 02:50 PM

All of this happened about 10 years ago for me. Since then, I've gone through phases of listening to a lot of reggae, funk, and jazz most of the time. I mostly listen to jazz now. But I still check in on hip hop, because exciting and progressive rap albums still come out every once in a while. Actually, I don't think we've ever seen a drop-off in truly great rap albums (i m o). I've just discovered that there are other genres worth delving into and anything short of greatness is probably a waste of time.

soj0

03-09-09, 01:16 PM

This has happened to me pretty recently. Mostly I've been into punk/funk/garage rock but it varies. There's still the occasion where I'll come across something hip-hop that strikes me but it's rare nowadays. Last thing I listened to was Drake's "So Far Gone". It was alright. I can't really think of anything on the hip-hop side that I'm waiting for eagerly. And that's kinda sad. Hip-hop was my first love and the classics are always gonna get rotation on the iPod but the genre is pretty tired out, imo.

whitedawg3000

03-10-09, 09:40 AM

subs

frush11

03-10-09, 11:24 PM

I still love the Hip-Hop I grew up, and pretty all the New Hip-Hop I do listen is from the same artist I grew up listening to(Bought Q-Tip, Scarface, Large Professor's albums). I don't know the last time I actually bought or was interested in anything from a new artist. I'm going through the same thing with Drum&Bass. It just seems like this generation of Hip-Hop artist aren't capable of reaching the standard of the previous generations. This stuff pretty much happens with every genre.:(

Cutz

03-16-09, 12:12 AM

I prefer to listen to alot of R&B/Pop/Rock/Alternative/Latin songs than hip hop music that's out today

Coldplay's album (along with the song "Viva La Vida") imo was one of the best mainstream albums (and song) that came out in 2008.

I simply cannot "get" into rap music that's out now man; too many garbage top 20 hit wonders screwing up the game (along with record companies, the radio stations and the customers) and not enough artist that can substain careers

yaga

03-16-09, 12:49 AM

This stuff pretty much happens with every genre.

I didn't even realize this. That's f*cking CRAZY to me for some reason.

Stylezeitgeist

03-16-09, 04:26 AM

I completely agree with you.

Reason is: Maturity

I feel I have grown up while hip hop seems to be getting younger and I can't relate to them anyway any more. Plus I am not so narrow minded as I was once so I can appreciate other genres, rather than my first instinct being "If it ant hip hop, f*ck it".

Also, the old classic hip hop, I've listened to it TOO much. I haven't heard a Pac album, front to back in almost 6 years, and when i mentioned I hadn't listened to Ready To Die since 2004 I got this response :dry:

I'm ready to engross myself in new music forms, listen to the rock channel, pop channel. If I like it, i like it. Whether The Killers, Maroon 5, Babyshambles or Coldplay. I'm not hiding the fact I like these bands whereas in my early years I would listen to them behind closed doors.

Like those Joe Budden lyrics saying that he wouldn't recognize half these ring tone rappers. Well, I couldn't recognize 90% of them.

Anyone see where I am going?

ZEUS

03-16-09, 09:33 AM

Going back and discovering this Bob Dylan ish, its just makes current rap look like shyt by comparison.

HARD TIMES

03-17-09, 12:34 PM

Ive been feeling this way for a while.. My Music taste is real eclectic right now.. The other day I Heard some ridiculous rap music and just cut the radio off.. I agree Though, Alternative music is the choice for me right now.. Coldplay, Daft Punk, All American Rejects, Even DJ Tiesto, Shwayze Even.. Im just all over the place.

Fries

03-17-09, 07:22 PM

JUSE_HEDD

03-17-09, 08:07 PM

None of that is alternative

:huh:

How so?

Luken

03-17-09, 08:22 PM

there is absolutely nothing wrong with expanding your horizons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsQMpJ5lURQ:yes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPKR1YJP9JA

Fries

03-17-09, 09:02 PM

:huh:

How so?

Daft Punk are the closest to alternative on that list and everybody copies their sound now. All-American Rejects, Shwayze, Tiesto & Coldplay are about as pop-punk/pop-hop/pop-dance/AOR as you can get. Therefore it's not really alternative

I'm not saying anything about the quality, just the definition

HARD TIMES

03-17-09, 10:04 PM

Daft Punk are the closest to alternative on that list and everybody copies their sound now. All-American Rejects, Shwayze, Tiesto & Coldplay are about as pop-punk/pop-hop/pop-dance/AOR as you can get. Therefore it's not really alternative
I'm not saying anything about the quality, just the definition
Ok.. But the Music is my Alternative to Rap.. That's all im saying.. I wasnt necessarily using the word in the traditional sense. I Just Like all types of sh*t.. Even Country.. I Like the sounds of Actual Instruments sometimes.

The Left Hand of God

03-26-09, 10:27 AM

I haven't really been up on the whole hip-hop thing like I used to when I was younger. I don't even want to DO hip-hop/rap music anymore. I'm dabbling in a new genre just to sort of expand my mind and step away from the 106 and Park crowd. But it's not just MAINSTREAM hip-hop it's ALL FORMS of it. I just can't get into it like once use to.

Now I find myself riding in my car listening to the likes of Nickelback, RHCP, Coldplay, and other alternative rock artist and some of the smooth R&B at the least like Jamie Foxx, Boyz 2 Men and other artist.

Hip-hop just doesn't do it for me anymore. I dunno. I tell that to black people and I get this face ALL THE TIME :eek: lol

Anybody else really been treading that path???
yup...about ....2 years ago
I got so sick of todays state of hip hop
I knew I had to venture out and start listening to new stuff, whether it be old or new.....

so I went old old and went on a beatles kick for like a year straight
watching that show "Supernatural" got me into all that Mullet Rock from the 70's and sh*t, "carry on wayward son" "don't fear the reaper" and all that other good sh*t

**edit**
wait when you guys say 'alternative music' you don't mean 'anything but hip hop?'
you mean 'alternative rock' as that specific genre?

failure

03-26-09, 12:36 PM

Oddly, I'm starting to get back into hip-hop. I actually like a lot of the new emcees out now, and since hip-hop is global, I've been exposed to a lot of different styles across the world. I understand where you're coming from though.

ZEUS

03-26-09, 04:18 PM

yup...about ....2 years ago
I got so sick of todays state of hip hop
I knew I had to venture out and start listening to new stuff, whether it be old or new.....

so I went old old and went on a beatles kick for like a year straight
watching that show "Supernatural" got me into all that Mullet Rock from the 70's and sh*t, "carry on wayward son" "don't fear the reaper" and all that other good sh*t

**edit**
wait when you guys say 'alternative music' you don't mean 'anything but hip hop?'
you mean 'alternative rock' as that specific genre?

You ever get into the Beatles solo material? Im just now getting around to it, some brilliant material.

DAREALBIGMEECH

03-26-09, 06:54 PM

Now I find myself riding in my car listening to the likes of Nickelback, RHCP, Coldplay
So instead you've SERIOUSLY gained touch with the most redundant bands out there?

yaga

03-26-09, 09:28 PM

...I actually like a lot of the new emcees out now, and since hip-hop is global, I've been exposed to a lot of different styles across the world.

If there is a decline in good hip-hop music, as in the quality of the music itself, it's my opinion that one of the main reasons is the fans being incapable of expanding, & only supporting the generic formula.

Daps to you for seeking out rap in a larger way. I think supporting an emcee's different approach to 16 bars is what does the genre good.

On the flip i'm saying saying what 'Ye or Weezy is doing is any good at all, or that OBFQL2 is going to be predictable, i'm just saying it's necessary for some emcees, in order to keep things pure, to branch rock it different.

Born Like This, by the way, is heatrocks.

whitedawg3000

03-27-09, 05:49 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsLUIfXEVTk

great house track: d'menace - deep menace (spank) ^^^^

TheT Organization

03-27-09, 03:11 PM

i did the hip-hop thing for a while.. About a year. It was fun, but I ended up spinning 90s sh!t because I'm just not that fanatic about new hip-hop.

I've been spinning house/techno/breaks in between, so I was more well versed in mixing stuff like that. and now that I got serato, I stopped even trying to do any new hip-hop mixes. I'm already on my way to doing the Dance DJ thing full time simply because I know the audiences that are into it respect what I'm doing. it's like when I was spinning hip-hop, because I didn't appear like the "atypical hip-hop black dude", only the heads who were into the music took me seriously. that 106th and park crowd just doesn't appreciate music, or anything other than who they perceive to embody "hip-hop" and it's really gotten on my nerves.

It's hard to really make a break in the hip-hop world now, considering the way the industry is...so eventually I gave up on it as a DJ. I'm already getting asked to do shows in london because of the Dance sets I've been doing so I'm keeping my foot in that ground.

JUSE_HEDD

03-27-09, 07:37 PM

So instead you've SERIOUSLY gained touch with the most redundant bands out there?

Those were just examples of what I like:

I fukks with:
Radiohead
Kings of Leon
Audioslave
Staind
The Dandy Warhols
Lynard Skynard
The Beatles
Modest Mouse
etc.

I still like the mainstream pop alternative rock stuff though I don't care lol.

Profasi

03-28-09, 08:06 AM

Now I find myself riding in my car listening to the likes of Nickelback
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Fries

03-28-09, 08:27 AM

Hip-Hop has slowly been creeping back into my iPod. Lots of stuff I didn't really listen to back when I strictly loved Hip-Hop though. Kid Cudi & Drake are the only new acts in there but I've been listening to Camp Lo, Black Rob, UGK, Dilla, Geto Boys, DOOM, CunninLynguists and 8Ball/MJG. I'm more appreciative of it now.

De3yo

03-28-09, 08:33 AM

sh*t... at least you guys still into MUSIC... Hip Hop has gotten so garbage I listen to strictly Talk Radio (sports/politics/Humor) or Audiobooks in the whip..

Dead End

03-28-09, 09:56 PM

I'd still rather listen to any hip hop artist (including Do The Stanky Leg & Laffy Taffy looped over each other for 5 hours) than Nickleback.
this

nalej

03-29-09, 03:00 AM

i get this from time to time but i always go back to hiphop. I listen to all types of genres to keep me from getting tired of any one.

mrexclusive

03-30-09, 10:29 AM

do that laffy taffy.that laffy taffy, that laffy taffy

AKee1981

04-12-09, 08:06 PM

I still listen to a lot of Rap, but I began choosing non-Rap/R&B stuff many years ago.

I'm a weirdo, so I like weird sounding artists with weird things to say. I think Tori Amos is one of the strangest creatures to ever make a record. Yeah, mainly Lesbians and gay guys listen to her, but she speaks to me anyhow. Waitress (live), in whatever form at whatever venue, is a treasure.

I listen to a lot of Trip Hop/Trance, or stuff that's purposely un-immediate and ambient. I'm not some raving ass nlgga so its really just for the grooves. Generally speaking, 'singing girls' are the only ones that really resonate with me. I don't have any one favorite, but I like Beth Gibbons (Portishead), Esthero, Anjali, Sia (Zero 7), Kelli Ali (formerly of the Sneaker Pimps), Feist, and so on.

Rice N Beans

04-12-09, 08:18 PM

Those were just examples of what I like:

I fukks with:
Radiohead
Kings of Leon
Audioslave
Staind
The Dandy Warhols
Lynard Skynard
The Beatles
Modest Mouse
etc.

I still like the mainstream pop alternative rock stuff though I don't care lol.

Put me on to some of that man. Where to start?

AKee1981

04-12-09, 08:21 PM

Put me on to some of that man. Where to start?
Use Somebody and The Bucket are good songs, but I imagine they have a good number of good songs.

Fries

04-12-09, 08:32 PM

I still listen to a lot of Rap, but I began choosing non-Rap/R&B stuff many years ago.
I'm a weirdo, so I like weird sounding artists with weird things to say. I think Tori Amos is one of the strangest creatures to ever make a record. Yeah, mainly Lesbians and gay guys listen to her, but she speaks to me anyhow. Waitress (live), in whatever form at whatever venue, is a treasure.
I listen to a lot of Trip Hop/Trance, or stuff that's purposely un-immediate and ambient. I'm not some raving ass nlgga so its really just for the grooves. Generally speaking, 'singing girls' are the only ones that really resonate with me. I don't have any one favorite, but I like Beth Gibbons (Portishead), Esthero, Anjali, Sia (Zero 7), Kelli Ali (formerly of the Sneaker Pimps), Feist, and so on.

Check out Jenny Wilson - she's signed to The Knife's record label.

AKee1981

04-12-09, 10:31 PM

Check out Jenny Wilson - she's signed to The Knife's record label.
She's good. Her voice reminds me of Supreme Beings of Leisure/Bitter:Sweet.

Fries

04-12-09, 10:47 PM

She's good. Her voice reminds me of Shana Halligan from Supreme Beings of Leisure/Bitter:Sweet.

You might know more about this kind of music than I do - can you recommend me some more in the same vein as the stuff you listed?

AKee1981

04-12-09, 10:53 PM

I just edited that post too lol.

I dunno, besides the aforementioned, I can't think of many more. I just experiment with shlt. I can only say stuff like Massive Attack and Hooverphonic. I'm sure there's others more familiar with artists in these genres.

BreakCanon

04-13-09, 03:28 AM

You can't find these guys on youtube. But they are worth listening to if you are into underground hip-hop/ambient. The sounds they create are nothing less than sublime.

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Opus

I highly recommend "I Come In Peace". Someone here described the song as "...deep metaphysical sht". Perfect description.

Rice N Beans

04-14-09, 05:49 PM

Use Somebody and The Bucket are good songs, but I imagine they have a good number of good songs.

I already have them, was looking for a good CD to start with. Guess I'll go in without recommendations here. :dj:

ScrewdUp

04-15-09, 04:20 PM

Hip Hop till i die, but recently ive been listenin to
Incubus
Kings of Leon are the ****
Modest Mouse first two albums
Killers First album
Rage Against the Machine
Deftones last 4 albums
System of a Downs whole discgraphy
some 311

i really want to find an alternative rock forum like sohh so i can really get into it, anyone know a good site??