I'm Southern and I favor East Coast, West Coast and Midwest hip-hop.

shit hop is the autotune/ringtone mess

babybugz said:

Autotune/Vocoder has been around since SWV and early Mary J Blige.T-Pain took it to the extreme(autotune app on the Iphone)..now autotune is dead..next

SavonOsco said:

Vocoder's been out longer than that. I don't know about autotune but the vocoder has been out since the late '60s at least.

SavonOsco said:

I know it's been around but that was mainly all the "hip hop"songs well the hits any way sound is in this era , I'm a hip hop fan though just not of that style of it

They should've threw it in Troutman's casket

I love the vocoder on funk, electro pop and dance music. Hip-hop now is at an electro pop style so when they do it like that, I like it but when they put autotune on a "grimy" track, it sounds tacky to me. But I really don't care, it's another form for them. Don't listen to it much tho.

shorttrini said:

4. The fact that multimedia corporations (especially Clear Channel Communications) put all of their focus on the gangsta style of rap and totally forsake all the other hip-hop/rap sub-genres (political rap, hip-house, alternative rap, etc.) in the process.

5. On a mainstream level, hip-hop (like most of USA pop culture in the 21st century) has too much elements taken from Freemasonry, witchcraft, & the occult.
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Tony, you should do like me and say fuck the corporate world, biatch. I can't bitch about the current hip-hop because that'll be too snobbish of me, not saying you're a snob but it's just not cool criticizing especially when you don't like it anyway.

Timmy84 said:

THAT^ is true. But it's a lot of fun as well as more educational to do what Vainandy is doing: bitch on!

TonyVanDam said:

Well I can understand that. I'm one of those that just ignores it and goes on to something else anyway though I get your points (even with the devil shit).

Damn right. Music was meant to entertain and since it's not doing it's job, we have to entertain ourselves some kind of way so bitch on people, bitch on! Hell, it's fun. And if it pisses people off in the process that actually like shit hop, well that's just another extra added little goodie.

But see guys this is what I feel, if you want to educate people, give them the music and hopefully they can be converted.

That's because you are young and have all that old stuff to explore and get the feeling that we used to get when hearing it for the first time. We've already been there and had that feeling so pulling out the old records does the job for a little while but eventually we long for something new and since there's nothing new to fill that void, (and no I'm not going underground because that don't get me no dick) hell, bitch on.

I'm not trying to educate people. I'm just trying to get some funk, some good nightlife, and some dick.

vainandy said:

I'm 25 but I knew about "old stuff" since 3 or 4 or something like that.

vainandy said:

Well of course, you did say you was a slut.

And a whore.

vainandy said:

TonyVanDam said:

I can see where both you and Timmy are coming from, by not wanting to criticize. But, If we don't, then how are they,(the one's that are making an inferior product), going to know that what they are producing is bullshit!! There are some who believe in the theory, "Why say something, they are not going to listen anyway". I don't believe that, not for a millisecond. You think that I am gonna go out and support Drake with his contradicting, misogynistic ass, (singing about success, but at the same time telling these kids who are listening to it, that in order to be successful, you need the, "Money, cars and the Hoes", what's up with that?). Yeah, Biggie and Pac, sang about hoes too, but at least they lived what they sang about, to a degree...Drake never lived that life. But then again, I guess singing about that would be more interesting than him singing about his role on "Degrassi High" as a wannabe paraplegic...

shorttrini said:

Yo, is your YouTube name shorttrini2000?

Pulling out the old music is like being married and having sex. It gets the job done but you've already had it before so you already know what's behind the zipper. But there's nothing like getting some new dick for the first time and not knowing what's going to either flop or spring out from behind the zipper. Music is the same way. I'm always looking for a new thrill and lately the thrill is gone....the thrill has gone away....I said the thrill is gone baby....the thrilllll is gonnnnne away.

But you can't be hating on this:




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vainandy said:

OK, BB King.

Timmy84 said:

shorttrini2002. I subscribed to ur u tube page, this morning.

shorttrini said:

2002 excuse me. Thanx for subscribing!

I love old school hip hop / rap music. I don't really care for the music out now for the fact that it's been "dumbed down". Only thing that usually gets the audience moving is the actual beat to the song. I'll take 90's hip hop/rap over this era

ViintageJunkiie said:

'90s hip-hop/rap is the bomb! I'm playing Queen Pen's "Party Ain't a Party" on IMEEM right now!

Imagine any rapper of today doing a video of that kind, wearing a purple sweater.

Timmy84 said:

Hell yeah!

A party aint a party till ran all through
and leave it to my crew, its gon' be playa proof!