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Rap/Hip-hop

#104
Glad you're digging Yelawolf. Like I said, dudes good. He definitely speaks from the gutter to the alley of the streets.

How about a little genre bustin' rap (or rap-ish)?

Not for the feint of heart but Scarlxrd is pretty dope. Brutal... I meant brutal :D

My youngest daughter really latched on to bands like Linkin Park around that age. Hybrid Theory still gets play in her room and she's 17 now. Thinking along those veins nu-metal, while not everyones cup of tea, seems to really speak to the younger girls in the last few gens.

To that end Manafest is someone my daughter said your daughter might like. I haven't sampled too much of them but with limited exposure they remind me a bit of Linkin P. and Skillet. It certainly brings that rock/metal/power pop vibe. Personally I have a pretty short listening tolerance of bands like Skillet because of the vocals. The formulaic delivery grinds my gears after a bit but my kid digs it so I let her play it in the car :) It's what Dads do . . . Every once in a while I slip in Incubus to see if she's come around yet.

Yeah, not so much ... :D S.C.I.E.N.C.E. is a fantastic album.

Oh well, just an idea. These days things are so amalgamated. I'm still trying to find my way :)
 
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#105
J Wilson said:
(While General Quarters are sounding and the watertight doors are being shut . . . . . . this won't be the last time I'm the circle in a square world, to borrow a turn of phrase from Marty Stuart )

After having spent a lifetime in and around music, the consuming passion of my life, listening and learning and being moved by great instrumentalists, singers, arrangers, and composers, when it comes to rap, I simply despise it.

When I think of all who moved and drove me, from Louis Armstrong, Ellington, Basie, Miles, Marvin, Smokey, Stevie, and the hundreds of other black artists and musicians who nailed me in the heart time after time, to have lived long enough to see this become 'the thing' is beyond disappointing, and quite disheartening.
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Old man doesn't like rap. Who would have thought that. What a world we live in.
 
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ChrisBowsman said:
Much to the dismay of my dad and many metal-centric friends, I’ve loved rap since I was a little kid. The problem is, I still only love what I listened to then. My wife and I (pre-marriage) used to cruise around with a bumping stereo, smoke rolling out the windows, blasting Cypress Hill, Dr Dre, DMX, and the like. This would’ve been 99-00.

Shortly after getting married, we found out our first son was on the way, so the smoke cleared up, and the subs came out of the trunk. Getting into any newer rap unintentionally went with it. The newest stuff I really know is the first three or four Eminem albums, so very early 2000s.

Anybody have any recommendations? 20 years later, I’m driving my 7 yr old daughter to school, and she LOVES rap, but I’d like to play something newer than Outkast, Dr Octagon, Public Enemy, LL Cool J, I’ve Cube, etc...
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JME - Man Don't Care


Frank Ocean - Crack Rock


This is a good starting point. If you like what you hear, I can send more your way. Enjoy!
 
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Frank Tuesday said:
OP: I need some new rap to listen to.
Most replys: Here's something from the '80s.

I guess that's progress. If you start a thread looking for new rock, most of your recommendations will be from the '60s and '70s.
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I read it more like:

OP: I listened to rap, but really just 90s to early 2000s. Who are some current people to listen to?

TB: Here are some people from the same time period you listened to but didn't specifically name.

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I realize that music I grew up listening to is oldies now. Like in the 90s when I was listening to Incubus and Rage Against the Machine, 60s music was so old. In 2020, 90s music is potentially 30 years old.
 
#116
Oddisee is worth checking too. Lots of positive message, soulful jazzy vibes and nice grooves, no swearing to worry about. Great sunny afternoon music.



I didn't know The Iceberg before today, so just checking it out, but DeadEndHipHop raved about it.
 
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#118
Frank Tuesday said:
So many wasted words, when "get off my lawn" would have gotten the exact same message across.
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I've been a regular on the Seymour Duncan forum for forever. If I'd posted this question there, the first response would've been "You can't spell 'crap' without 'rap.'"

I'm gonna go through this thread once people quit replying, and make a playlist of everything everyone's recommended. Love what I've heard of Yelawolf so far, and the Deltron 3030 album is gonna be an all time favorite. Looking forward to hearing more awesome stuff.
 

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