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!
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
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.
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 message detail quote Immortal Technique quate the ravens never more CherryCokes Posted 3/22/2012 11:54:44 AM message detail quote the Pharcyde Dr. Octagon Cokes as The Green Lantern, by fr0q
MonkClive0 Posted 3/22/2012 11:55:25 AM message detail quote 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
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.
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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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
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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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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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
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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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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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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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
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.
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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