Originally posted by: Sinsear
Drive-by shootings
Yeah, as a college radio DJ, I have a short fuse. I've listened to tens of thousands of recordings and when I hear stuff that prevails on me excessively, well it's "I'm outta here, man." A lot of hip hop is like that -- just seems to be trying to be as hackneyed, trendy and generic as can be and I lose patience in a heartbeat. If it ain't got nothin' else to say in the first few bars, forget it. It's not all like that. I've heard some ingenious stuff. Of course, this goes for genres other than hip hop as well.Originally posted by: SampSon
Incredibly wealthy uneducated black americans.
I have a huge vinyl collection from Djing and just from loving vinyl and music.This is the side of hiphop few people know about.
A lot of house, drum & bass, electronic producers got their feet wet by making hiphop beats & vice versa.
For those who think hiphop only contributed to mysogeny & violene, you guys need to do more research. MTV, BET, & the radio only promote less than 15% of the hiphop out there.
I'll put it this way, the vast majority of hip hop/rap producers are so lack-luster when it comes to talent, they have to rip every single riff from 70s funk/soul. If it took incredibly sh!tty hip hop/rap artists with absolutely no talent to shed light on the funk/soul masters of yesteryear then it doens't say much for either group.
I do have some great hip hop that I love and there is plenty out there, but it is by no means the majority as you suggest.
Originally posted by: Aikouka
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
No, seriously - every genre has good and bad artists. There's some brilliant hip hop out there, you just won't hear it on the radio. Remember,rock stations play Kelly Clarkson now - all mainstream music sucks, not just hip hop.
No rock station I listen to will play Kell-ah. Maybe you're confusing rock stations with "Top 40's" stations.
You forget 80% of AT equates hip-hop with a black dude doing a drive-by from his Escalade with spinner rims.Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
The matrix movies. Movies in general, actually, would be different if we didn't experience the cut and paste/remix culture that is hip hop. Rock music would be very different, most great indie rock bands have some sort of DJ element or feature production work that is very much inspired by hip hop. Many, many, many genres of music extend from hip hop (and hip hop from jazz) - electro-clash, goth (with their very heavy synth use), drum and bass, jungle, industrial... I could go on and on. Hip hop fashion often gets filtered down into the mainstream and much of the hipper, edgier fashion that's selling like hot cakes to people with far more money than you ATOT readers (white people, fashionistas, not the ghetto people you fear) on Madison Ave. would not exist. So we'd still be wearing Polo shIrts and jordache jeans.. Hmm.. What else.. We'd have no one to bitter toward when a black guy picks up the girl you like in a bar because their confidence makes them more appealing than your thinly veiled insecurities...
Originally posted by: QueBert
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
And what culture glorifies/glamorizes prison life?Originally posted by: IGBT
Originally posted by: nboy22
Stupid baggy clothing that goes all the way down to your knees, half of teenagers asses hanging out of their pants.
..comes from prison. the inside is out.
Country music was doing this WAY before Rap was even close to being born. Some of Johnny Cash's lyrics are as bad as anything a rapper has said if you take into account the Johnny Cash songs are old. He did a song about popping pills and burning down his GF's house. Oh and he shot a man just to watch him die.
I'm sick of rap getting blamed for everything, Country music is the root of all evil, maybe it's just more acceptable if it's a twangy redneck singing it?
Originally posted by: clamum
You forget 80% of AT equates hip-hop with a black dude doing a drive-by from his Escalade with spinner rims.Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
The matrix movies. Movies in general, actually, would be different if we didn't experience the cut and paste/remix culture that is hip hop. Rock music would be very different, most great indie rock bands have some sort of DJ element or feature production work that is very much inspired by hip hop. Many, many, many genres of music extend from hip hop (and hip hop from jazz) - electro-clash, goth (with their very heavy synth use), drum and bass, jungle, industrial... I could go on and on. Hip hop fashion often gets filtered down into the mainstream and much of the hipper, edgier fashion that's selling like hot cakes to people with far more money than you ATOT readers (white people, fashionistas, not the ghetto people you fear) on Madison Ave. would not exist. So we'd still be wearing Polo shIrts and jordache jeans.. Hmm.. What else.. We'd have no one to bitter toward when a black guy picks up the girl you like in a bar because their confidence makes them more appealing than your thinly veiled insecurities...
Originally posted by: ric1287
don't feel like reading 200 posts, but crime and gangs would not be gone if there wasnt crappy music on the radio.
Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
Originally posted by: ric1287
don't feel like reading 200 posts, but crime and gangs would not be gone if there wasnt crappy music on the radio.
Pretty sure that if you had read the thread, you wouldn't have seen anyone of importance say they would be.![]()
Originally posted by: freedomsbeat212
The matrix movies. Movies in general, actually, would be different if we didn't experience the cut and paste/remix culture that is hip hop. Rock music would be very different, most great indie rock bands have some sort of DJ element or feature production work that is very much inspired by hip hop. Many, many, many genres of music extend from hip hop (and hip hop from jazz) - electro-clash, goth (with their very heavy synth use), drum and bass, jungle, industrial... I could go on and on. Hip hop fashion often gets filtered down into the mainstream and much of the hipper, edgier fashion that's selling like hot cakes to people with far more money than you ATOT readers (white people, fashionistas, not the ghetto people you fear) on Madison Ave. would not exist. So we'd still be wearing Polo shIrts and jordache jeans.. Hmm.. What else.. We'd have no one to bitter toward when a black guy picks up the girl you like in a bar because their confidence makes them more appealing than your thinly veiled insecurities...
Hip hop fashion is not what poor kids get for $14.99 at the back of a wallmart. Or those stores in the ghetto. this is what i mean by hip hop fashion, Sean John blazer
I find it a good mix of edgy and classy. I prefer urban outfitters but don't confuse the clothing of poor kids from the ghetto with urban wear/hip hop inspired fashion.
Originally posted by: Ktulu
Kids that value a pair of $200 basketball shoes so much they will rob you at gunpoint for them
