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Last good song you listened to?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmMXZfDkOmI

Mos Def is coming to Edmonton on Friday. I have tickets.


I iz excite. PS, franklin, that artist blows at rapping. Voice is decent I suppose, though.
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcIuGl1_3w8

I never knew that Robert Glaspar and Mos Def collaborated. I now feel like an idiot for not going to Glaspar's event 3 months ago. Sighhhh :(
 
dalamon said:
I iz excite. PS, franklin, that artist blows at rapping. Voice is decent I suppose, though.
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Okay Eazy E.

I'm guessing you haven't heard any of his rap and are going on these two songs only. Dude is a one man Outkast. You might not like his style but claming his rapping blows is pretty damn ignorant.
 
franklin said:
Okay Eazy E.

I'm guessing you haven't heard any of his rap and are going on these two songs only. Dude is a one man Outkast. You might not like his style but claming his rapping blows is pretty damn ignorant.
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I think we just have different views of great rapping, I suppose. I will backtrack, and say that his rapping doesn't blow; however, I'd confidently classify it as mediocre. I must give him props for going in a different direction than all of this bubble-gum rap that I unfortunately have to listen to on the radio every now and then. Still, they have ways to go before they can acclimate themselves to the quality of hip hop from a decade ago.


One Man OUTKAST!?!??!?! Man, frank I love ya, really, but that is utter sacrilege. Dre and Boi would run lyrical cycles around him, and don't even get me started on their musical vision.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Z5_ZaEOrCI

^ probably one of my all-time favourite songs.
 
You're not getting any argument from me on putting many others at Andre's level.
I actually just found that line while searching for a collab with Outkast and it was perfect for you. :)
 
franklin said:
You're not getting any argument from me on putting many others at Andre's level.
I actually just found that line while searching for a collab with Outkast and it was perfect for you. :)
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Haha thank goodness, I was about to have an aneurysm just there. I love OutKast a little too much, admittedly. Sucks that I can post more hip-hop on this thread, due to the prevalence of swears :(

How about something from Guru's Jazzmatazz :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN1frXGY5aU&feature=related
 
I don't get why you underground hip-hop purists think lyrics are dead. I don't know if it's nastalgia, jealousy over the fact that good artists from the past don't get mainstream burn anymore, or that a lot of awefully stupid people with a voice are granted the franchise emcee tag (i.e. Game's rap is downright shameful).

The way I see it is the industry went from being overly serious to playful and jovial, and it's hard to deem someone a clever lyricist when s/he's rapping about getting messed up all the time. If anything, the old guard failed to keep up with the progression in the instrumental end of things and watched as time passed them by. There are still really good lyricists running mainstream music. Hell, even Nikki Minaj puts together some solid lines. Jay-Z is quickly losing steam but he's still as clever as ever, if not moreso.

Anyway... maybe you can explain that frame of mind to me. Just don't go Chitown alright.


And a vid of old school catching up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KsH2UgcLiHM
 
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franklin said:
I don't get why you underground hip-hop purists think lyrics are dead. I don't know if it's nastalgia, jealousy over the fact that good artists from the past don't get mainstream burn anymore, or that a lot of awefully stupid people with a voice are granted the franchise emcee tag (i.e. Game's rap is downright shameful).
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I wouldn't exactly say that lyrics are dead. Only thing I seem to be noticing is that many emerging rappers seem to lack respect for lyricism and flow 9 times out of 10. With the ten percent that do offer it respect, rarely do so at a level as good as other rappers who emerged several years ago, and are continuing to perform.

The way I see it is the industry went from being overly serious to playful and jovial, and it's hard to deem someone a clever lyricist when s/he's rapping about getting messed up all the time. If anything, the old guard failed to keep up with the progression in the instrumental end of things and watched as time passed them by. There are still really good lyricists running mainstream music. Hell, even Nikki Minaj puts together some solid lines. Jay-Z is quickly losing steam but he's still as clever as ever, if not moreso.

Anyway... maybe you can explain that frame of mind to me. Just don't go Chitown alright.
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See, now that I disagree with. The more serious, gangster-rap movements were much more of a 90s thing, brought on by NWA. If you look at rap that came out of the East, or even rap that was more common in the 80s, you'd find it a lot more jokative, and not-serious. When you compare the jokative rap of then, and the jokative rap of now....well... there is no comparison.

Speaking of non-serious rap, and since you have Common mentioned:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E938zzbYvfo

This is what most rap started out like. Especially groups like Stetsa, Run DMC, and so on.
 
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