The Official Rap/Hip-Hop Thread (classic, good, Soul)
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Does anybody in this thread listen to anything besides 90's east coast underground? Just curious... I used to listen to a lot of that (Godfather Don, Cenobites, Da Youngstas/Illy Funkstaz, Royal Flush, Rough House Survivors, Nine, The Artifacts, etc.) but now I don't listen to any of it... got tired of it. The music component wasn't strong enough... the lyrical style was focused too much on b-boying and freestyling as opposed to actually saying something (good or bad). IMO the bay and the south do a better job of that... there's also more focus on the bass, which is seriously lacking in 90's east coast rap. Even the newer east coast rap sound lacks bass.
I'll clarify more about the lyricism part. While obviously there's a lot of conscious emcees on the east coast, a lot of the time east coast rappers are just trying to rhyme for the sake of rhyming (ie Godfather Don) and punchlines for the sake of punchlines (ie Big L). The only east coast rappers who tend to rap in a continous every-line-matters sort of way that I've heard would be rappers like Nas, Jay-Z, Camp Lo, Killah Priest, Raekwon and a couple others. On the west coast, lyricism is more about being relatable and less about proving that you can bite Rakim and rhyme history with mystery.
Well lets see..on this page b4 you posted we have Ice Cube (West Coast), The D.O.C. (from Texas, but a definite West Coast sound), and Outkast (Southern). So yeah I think most of listen to hip hop other than 90s East Coast.
Big L is dead so I don't know how he's continuing to rhyme for the sake of punchlines...died in the 90s.
However, most heads would agree that the 90s was the Golden Age of Hip Hop and it started going way down starting somewhere in the very late 90s-early 2000s.
I will not deny 90s East Coast hip hop is my favorite, so yeah I do post a lot of it. I would agree that some of the best East Coast rappers that were great in the 90s are not so great anymore. Nas will never top Illmatic, for example. (or probably any other rapper).
You are free to post whatever you like, so why don't you do that if you want to see a little variety? Except Lil Wayne and Soulja Boy (j/k).
Those battles were classic, this was Kool Moe D comeback to break of dawn, one of the funniest diss videos ever, LoL, oh and lyrically he murdered LL on this one.......
Can I just tell you guys that I met KRS once and I did not like him at all. He was arrogant and borderline rude. Maybe he was just having a bad day...it was really late.
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