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4/13/2009 10:11:18 AM

I still enjoy some "gutter" hip-hop (AKA Rap) like TI or Lil Wayne, but I think there are still some solid lyrical hip-hop artists making good records. Common comes to mind along with Lupe Fiasco. It's refreshing to hear rhymes when they're not constantly about fuckin bitches, gettin money, and bustin caps

4/13/2009 11:05:20 AM

when someone realized all you had to have was a beat and a hook

[Edited on April 13, 2009 at 11:07 AM. Reason : e]

4/13/2009 11:07:08 AM

i do like PLIES ...

4/13/2009 12:07:40 PM

Quote :

"there were these things called poems before rap... all rap/hiphop/whatever is, is a fucking poem (a really really bad one most of the time) set to a sample of someone elses music... shit they use vocoders and auto-pitch now so much any fat slob can do it... freestyling takes some talent. the majority of everything else in that entire genere does not really"

This is so ignorant that I can only assume it's some second rate trolling.

4/13/2009 12:10:57 PM

okay ... based on the url:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/1xtra/30yearsofhiphop/downloads/jagskills.shtml


its started dying around 2000 and by 2004 it was officiallly dead.

4/13/2009 12:11:08 PM

The timing of that mixtape and this thread is almost tooooo convenient.

4/13/2009 5:31:17 PM

sh!thop.

4/14/2009 10:11:22 AM

The only thing about rap that entertains me now is Eminem... Still funny as ever... but I think about the time I went to college in 2001 was when rap started to blow chunks. Rap was pretty awesome about the mid 90s as everyone said.

Now I hear that shit thumpin in my apartment parking lot and wish those people who play it would fall off the earth. Its horrible now... Would much rather listen to Blue Grass... and I am not really a fan...

4/14/2009 10:18:26 AM

Quote :

"I still enjoy some "gutter" hip-hop (AKA Rap) like TI or Lil Wayne, but I think there are still some solid lyrical hip-hop artists making good records. Common comes to mind along with Lupe Fiasco. It's refreshing to hear rhymes when they're not constantly about fuckin bitches, gettin money, and bustin caps"

Wayne and TI are both currently leaving their rap routes. Both can be good rappers, but "Whatever You Like" and "Lollipop" point to them moving pretty far from rap.

4/14/2009 10:53:21 AM

i like circle research group from toronto, canada ... they play real hiphop.

4/15/2009 12:45:05 PM

Raleigh, NORTH CAROLINA. The land of wide ranging musical culture and home to the world's premier music critics.

4/15/2009 1:10:28 PM

I'm really curious as to what kind of music Mulva listens to

i dont know when rap went down hill...late 90s? basically when it went from hip hop to hip pop and all of a sudden everything was more about image than talent...but that kinda describes how all music has gone down hill

[Edited on April 15, 2009 at 1:18 PM. Reason : .]

4/15/2009 1:15:12 PM

are there any RALEIGH, NC artists that make good hiphop ... i remember that had that group Little Brother when i was there and everyone spoke highly of them in the press and all, but honestly I didn't get what it was all about.

4/16/2009 12:36:58 PM

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.5291/title.joe-budden-who-full-version

4/16/2009 3:44:13 PM