Board 8 > My roommate doesn't listen to rap besides Kanye and Childish Gambino

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anything I can recommend to him? He's my friend and I constantly feel the need to rectify this situation.

He also likes Sufjan Stevens, Bon Iver, State Radio and the like, and classical music.

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Tag. These are some of the only rappers I like too.

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Well here are some of my "basics":

Nas - Illmatic
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

But all of those are significantly darker in tone than kanye/donald glover and I don't think my roommate likes that. He's open to giving Illmatic a listen, though!

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UGK. Lots and lots of UGK.

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Busta Rhymes

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Immortal Technique

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the Pharcyde
Dr. Octagon

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Nas - Illmatic
Cannibal Ox - The Cold Vein
Jay-Z - Reasonable Doubt

^second these

also:
Madvillain - Madvillainy
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Three 6 Mafia - Underground Vol. 1: 1991-1994
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

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From: MonkClive0 | #008
Madvillain - Madvillainy
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Three 6 Mafia - Underground Vol. 1: 1991-1994
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

Those are probably the first ones I'd do along with 3 Feet High and Rising, actually. I feel like he'd be a Tribe fan.

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I should tag this for my own future reference.

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I second Paul's Boutique

also Run DMC - Raising Hell

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Will Smith

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Del and Jurassic 5

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LMFAO at all the dad rap being posted in here

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From: MRNlCEWATCH | #014
LMFAO at all the dad rap being posted in here

define dad rap

also my roommate doesn't like gritty music

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WalrusJump posted...
From: MRNlCEWATCH | #014
LMFAO at all the dad rap being posted in here
define dad rap

also my roommate doesn't like gritty music

bryans7
Posted 3/22/2012 11:48:29 AM
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quate the ravens never more
CherryCokes
Posted 3/22/2012 11:54:44 AM
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quote the Pharcyde
Dr. Octagon
Cokes as The Green Lantern, by fr0q

MonkClive0
Posted 3/22/2012 11:55:25 AM
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also:
Madvillain - Madvillainy
A Tribe Called Quest - Midnight Marauders
Wu-Tang Clan - Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Three 6 Mafia - Underground Vol. 1: 1991-1994
Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde

shadosneko
Posted 3/22/2012 1:43:14 PM
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http://last.fm/user/ShadosNeko



probably more that i just skipped over since there is so much ITT

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is dad rap a thing that people say now

cokes' post is probably the best - you're probably going to want to expose him to really strong, clever, and/or fast MCs. madvillainy is a great rec, too. maybe add some blackalicious, outkast, and big boi's solo album?


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dr. octagon has a good chance of grossing him out but i'm definitely showing him the pharcyde and probably madvillainy, along with native tongues guys.

blackalicious is a good pick too. not sure what he'd think of outkast initially.

dr. octagon, madvillain and immortal technique are hardly "dad rap" no matter how you define it.

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WalrusJump posted...
dr. octagon has a good chance of grossing him out but i'm definitely showing him the pharcyde and probably madvillainy, along with native tongues guys.

blackalicious is a good pick too. not sure what he'd think of outkast initially.

dr. octagon, madvillain and immortal technique are hardly "dad rap" no matter how you define it.

dad rap, internet rap, s*** rap, whatever works bro

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a tribe called quest - internet rap

brilliant


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a tribe called quest - internet rap

brilliant


god i love board 8

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MRNlCEWATCH posted...
WalrusJump posted...
dr. octagon has a good chance of grossing him out but i'm definitely showing him the pharcyde and probably madvillainy, along with native tongues guys.

blackalicious is a good pick too. not sure what he'd think of outkast initially.

dr. octagon, madvillain and immortal technique are hardly "dad rap" no matter how you define it.

dad rap, internet rap, s*** rap, whatever works bro

how are dad rap and internet rap the same thing

dads don't use the internet

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das racist

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From: foolm0ron | #023
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das racist

now das racist, that's internet rap

I have a feeling he'd like them though

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Tonedeff - Archetype seems like it would be up his alley; it's pretty much just a slew of quickly spoken wit
seconding Tribe and Madvillainy and Big Boi
oh and Sage Francis. definitely think he would like Sage Francis.

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a tribe called quest - internet rap

brilliant

What? I mean, as much as I love Tribe, Mr. Nice is absolutely right here. White people seem to be capable of liking rap only when it's fallen back into irrelevancy ("isn't mainstream" is the hipster phrasing, I believe). But rap that black people actually listen to, like Wayne/Drake/etc.? "Garbage rap."

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Get him to listen to Jon Connor - Season 2.

It's a mixtape, but it's pretty sick.

Also J. COLE

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trolling via race

how classy

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Also, relevant:

http://stuffwhitepeoplelike.com/2008/11/18/116-black-music-that-black-people-dont-listen-to-anymore/

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80s/90s rap is just so good though. I can definitely see the hipster appeal to it, but also the objective appeal.

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80s/90s rap is just so good though. I can definitely see the hipster appeal to it, but also the objective appeal.

Good though it may be, it's no better than modern rap. People's judgments are clouded by a) the music's age, giving it a more "refined" feel, and b) the fact that we conveniently forget about all the really **** music during that bygone era, while we constantly talk about crappy modern artists.

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so what you're saying is that well-regarded hip-hop albums of the past aren't no better than the hip-hop of the present because we can't forget the ongoing bad hip-hop of the present era

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no one in this topic said that modern rap is bad.

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so what you're saying is that well-regarded hip-hop albums of the past aren't no better than the hip-hop of the present because we can't forget the ongoing bad hip-hop of the present era

Partly. I'm saying that we have an idealized conception of "old school" rap that makes us believe it was better than it really was. Same amount of good stuff, same amount of commercial crap.

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no one in this topic said that modern rap is bad.

We're building off of Mr. Nice's point that all anyone is recommending is dad rap, which implies that old rap is "better" than new rap.

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No, the best modern rap doesn't compare to the best old school rap. The trash rap in both eras are pretty equal I guess.

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i'm pretty sure most of the recommendations were made with what walrus said about his roommate's taste in mind, and not any particular old-school rap bias. particularly knowing the tastes of some of the people who recommended the 'dad rap'.

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No, the best modern rap doesn't compare to the best old school rap.

And this is exactly the dad rap / white people stereotype point Nice was making.

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Uhhh a handful of older ones were recommended and a handful of newer ones were recommended.

Different ages and artists makes for almost completely different genres even if they're "rap" too. Personal preference can range everywhere there.

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Uhhh a handful of older ones were recommended and a handful of newer ones were recommended.

...Go read the topic again. It's 90+% dad / hipster rap.

Not that this is necessarily a bad thing; I'm white and happen to love old, irrelevant rap. But I accept my position as stereotypical and dated, and would never consider adopting pretensions like "old rap is the real stuff; this new **** is just sellout, corporate trash."

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this westbrick guy is new, right?

because even with the very minor dealings i've had with the music group here, i know for a fact that the music lovers here don't discriminate rap, or any other kind of music, based on age or "hipster" cred

pretty sure we've got some people who like some of lil wayne and drake's stuff

and there is certainly nothing wrong with recommending the classics

sess is just being sess

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because even with the very minor dealings i've had with the music group here, i know for a fact that the music lovers here don't discriminate rap, or any other kind of music, based on age or "hipster" cred

Literally not a single suggestion for mainstream / modern rap except for like J. Cole out of dozens of recommendations. This is indicative of something.

and there is certainly nothing wrong with recommending the classics

It's pretentious. I'm just poking fun anyway, but it is kinda entertaining to see how perfectly B8 falls in line with white hipster stereotypes on the music front (myself included).

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I think you've just entirely missed the topic is the thing.

He didn't ask for current good rap only, he asked for any rap to suggest to someone who likes Kanye and Childish Gambino.

Those two aren't very indicative of mainstream rap that everyone's been exposed to.

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I think you've just entirely missed the topic is the thing.

Yeah, I'm probably just stupid, thanks for your patience

He didn't ask for current good rap only, he asked for any rap to suggest to someone who likes Kanye and Childish Gambino.

Those two aren't very indicative of mainstream rap that everyone's been exposed to.

What's really interesting about these two examples is that one is more "old school" and one is more "new school." If B8 didn't have a white-boy dad-rap preference, you'd expect a pretty even split between the old and the new, but alas, the overwhelming majority of suggestions have come from the former camp.

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I've never met a person in my life who doesn't like Biggie

Ready to Die is p good

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