After much deliberation, I've come to the conclusion that over all hip hop just isn't a very good genre. I've always been the kind to say that it's just as good as any other genre, but I realize now that all the amazing albums are outliers.
My roommate is very into the genre, it's pretty much all he plays. He's very into underground, although he does play the occasional big artist. He always tells me how great a track is, or how "weird" it is, and it just ends up being either boring as fuck or just really low effort garbage. It's literally just one sample or beat played on loop for a whole song. There's almost never any variation, and any song that's good is almost always because the song that it samples is good.
This isn't to say that the genre can't be good. Because it can be, and every now and then it can be amazing, but the majority of the shit that gets praised as "new" and "innovative" is just the same old shit with maybe a slightly abnormal beat.
I'm just getting really fucking sick of this music. I don't think there's anything fundamentally wrong with the genre, but it's just so lazy and people are ready to praise it as fantastic when it's literally just some dude speaking over a small section of someone else's song, with some booms and baps added. And nowadays they don't even fucking rhyme half the time and just repeat random nonsensical phrases. It's just not good.
>>75184870
I really feel like live band based hip hop is the next evolution of the genre, if the beats were more that just beats and instead the musical vision of a group of instrumentalists, I feel like we would be able to incorporate new influences and more inventive musicality than just a generic producer "beat." Anyone else feel this way?
> It's just not good.
because people don't care to make good (pop) music anymore. in the 60s and 70s, music was kind of all that young people had so they were really excited to make good music. Nowadays music is just background noise, no one cares since there's a million other things to do
A bad roommate can ruin absolutely anything. It's understandable, sorry that happened to you. Try not to hold it against the hip hop culture for your roommate being shitty.
Who are the greatest band in the world?
I'm so pissed their new tour isn't for The Astonishing
>>75161149
im so pissed they dont come to germany.
>>75161158
Yeah but you get Lypura, Brutus, and Holy fucking Moses. I am so pissed I will never get to see Holy Moses
Still the best single of the decade
>>75122102
>century
Fixed.
this is one of the worst songs Outkast ever made but okay
>>75122132
Welcome to /mu/
We suck balls all day just because we like it so much.
based our lip
oppa am i yeppeo
>tfw your favourite album came out the day you were born
>tfw no good albums came out the day, week, or month you were born
My birthday is the exact same day as the single for "Smells Like Teen Spirit".
And the day before 9/11. Fuck.
>>75121841
happy late birthday anon
Anyone else here like Carro Emerald? She is legit the one reason I'm jealous of Europoors, I wish she would do more tours in the US.
>>75121763
obama chuckled
"You mean the Chaos Emeralds?"
caro emerald is fucking amazing
bioshock.swf
heres an idea lets put the drums and all the instruments in one ear and the vocals in the other
why are the stereo mixes so fucking retarded
>>75161027
Because stereo panning is a gimmick.
>>75161027
no one bought stereo mixes back then so the artists didn't really care
>>75161027
headphones probably weren't popular and panning probably wasn't very understood
LIKE A CAT ON MARS,
MY HEART DOESN'T CHANGE
DON'T BELIEVE THAT, CAUSE THAT'S A LIE
Will the world EVER see such a world-stopping, artistic musical collaboration like pic related ever again?
I fucking laughed on 9/11. I jizzed my pants. I fingerfucked my mom that day and gave the dog a blowie. What were you doing when the towers fell?
>>75161002
10/10, best new Lil Wayne Single this year
>>75160987
Numb/Encore is unironically great.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK4lD3Uf8_o
>>75184720
>synthpop song
>singer is pretty good
>suddenly starts growling like in death metal
https://youtu.be/1hYqvtHzr48
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=caEYU9_hAlo
Why is no one bothered with this guy's antics?
>WE THE BEST MUSICCCCK
>"DJ KHALED!!!"
>MY SON IS THE BESTTTT
Is it because he's fat?
Because he's a genuinely nice guy
I have no idea how or why this guy is suddenly world famous as I have not heard a single track of his. I also thought the name "DJ Khaled" was a joke but w/e, he looks very kind
IMA HOLD YOU DOWN
DJ KHALED
>Pic related
>>75121675
Beautiful dreaaaaaamer
:'c
tim buckley, jeff buckley, van morrison, jason molina,
happy 9/11 /mu/ guess what turned 10 today?
das rite senpaitachi Sean Bonnette's magnum opus people who can eat people are the luckiest people In the world came out a whole decade ago
>>75121543
>9/11
Another great album came out on 9/11/2001
Why are guitars so impractical instruments?
t. frustrated after 10 minutes of practice
>>75184050
You have to be autistic to be good at pinpointing this shit every time.
>why am I so shit at guitar
Play more.
Ground control to Major Tom
more like ground control to Uncle Tom, bitch nigga bowie
>>75160937
DIAMOND SWORD TO MAJOR STEVE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKGUN56JM_Y