The Cringe/Beta/Omega Thread

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Originally Posted by Josh

To me hip hop has always been about the words, and what you could do with them. Why is this repeated line shit a thing now?

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Originally Posted by Brisco Bold

For me, hip-hop (and music in general) was about the beats and the way the words sound. For better or worse*, that's the direction things are going.

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Originally Posted by Josh

The beat is, obviously, important. But the cadence, and the rhyming is what has always jumped out. Some mother fucker only rhyming the last syllable of every line is just so boring. Even I do more than that, and I write punk rock.

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Stop co-opting the culture, Josh.

But for real, rap isn't rap any more. Hip hop is still around but it doesn't sell. Imagine someone trying to release "Blazing Arrow" now. That stuff is fodder for Daniel Radcliffe to "rap" on Jimmy Fallon.

When Daniel Radcliffe and Tom Hiddleston are rapping, you know there's trouble.

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Originally Posted by Calliander

Stop co-opting the culture, Josh.

But for real, rap isn't rap any more. Hip hop is still around but it doesn't sell. Imagine someone trying to release "Blazing Arrow" now. That stuff is fodder for Daniel Radcliffe to "rap" on Jimmy Fallon.

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Old Rap is still there. It's just not on the radio/rdio/Youtubes now.

Run the Jewels.

New Rap is pop.

RTJ2 is so good

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Originally Posted by Brisco Bold

Old Rap is still there. It's just not on the radio/rdio/Youtubes now.

Run the Jewels.

New Rap is pop.

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It's the same with any genre, really. There's tons of good shit out there if you actually bother to look.

This is the only rap that matters anymore:

http://www.the-nextlevel.com/tnl/att...4&d=1420913116

Sex is about communication for alpha males? Some of those words can't mean what I think they mean.

I think Ghandi wrote this before popped collars were in fashion.

I find the veracity of that chart highly dubious as well.