The Future of Hip-Hop

[Woozie]

Lil Wayne was the stuff back in the day. I'm with Miz on this one.

[Takedown3]

you guys hear that new tpain/akon joint

[Takedown3]

it's poppin

[ZarakiKujata]

Y'all need to stop hatin.

[Xno Kappa]

Your so cool Take. No seriously, A+.

/thumbs up

[tyven]

lil wayne is jumpin on this shit like a pogo on the potty

[Chun Liroy]

Just listened to Dr. Carter, still don't see how it makes sense ex.

Like hey, brighter then the suns rays got a pistols on the playground.
Watch the gunplay like

Wat.

I still <3 Kanye even after the whole Taylor Swift thing. Everything before 808s was hot and from the heart (least Late Registration, maybe not Graduation).

Example:
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[Xno Kappa]

Line seems pretty self-explanatory to me unless your just nitpicking. If that's the case then how about "auntie Team?"

[Gunitsoldier]

I was hoping for a serious thread, ALAS.

[Amastacia]

Only person allowed to auto tune is T-pain. However, it is kinda sad that my mom listens to some of the same shit as me, Flo Rida etc.

I'll give T-Pain a pass for "bringing it back" (or should we be giving him a bullet between the running lights?), but only because he did some unusual shit with it.

I don't mind it so much when it's being used analogously to an effects pedal, except that it's being so overused it's annoying. Sort of like the old talkbox, it's cool when one person does it, but the more people that bandwagon on, the less I want to hear it.

I utterly despise when it's used in its intended fashion to disguise and correct vocal errors without overly noticeable alteration to the original audio characteristics. It's a crutch for the lazy, and one more tool to market talentless hacks to a public utterly devoid of any trace of discernment.

The "hip hop" and "R&B" of the past decade is atrocious (and neither are, in my opinion, true to what either of those terms originally meant), and for all our parents gave us shit for how generic/similar the music of the late 80s and 90s sounded, it's even an order of magnitude worse now.

Some of that shit's catchy, but I could never call it good music, or really even music at all. It's all just recycled hooks with crappy beats an 8 year old could make with Fruity Loops.

Michael Jackson made catchy shit, but he innovated and tried new things while he made pop.

[kuronosan]

Couldn't say it better myself right now.

[Chun Liroy]

Line seems pretty self-explanatory to me unless your just nitpicking. If that's the case then how about "auntie Team?"

I may be overcritical because it's him, but lemme find this verse that is just fucking weird, it's like he has ADD.

jump on the track like Michael Jeffrey
Even the referee said I need an ESPY, award just applaud I'm a boar with a broad
I go hard and my leather so soft and I cough
And the board of health say the boy need help
I am so hot the AM just melt
All aboard all aboard black card no fraud
I'm an extension cord I'm a lightning rod
I'm a lion roar I'm a dinosaur
I'm a sinus minus the nose I'm a cold
I'm raw than a temperature rose to five and, two o's that's 500 degrees for those who know
My fire's higher than a liar, we don't burn rubber, we burn tires
We riders we ciders, we live in The Carter
Wayne is a flame that could live in the water
Ok now let's get it straight either you bait
Or the mate either eay you on my plate gettin ate
After grace, if you taste like base, snares and tenors be my dinner
I'm hotter in the winter, burn like sinners, turn like *spinners*
I swear I'll put ya in the urn by your picture
Pa we ain't playin Weezy baby be the man
Hotter than the Peter Pan till wet here I am

It sounds good, don't get me wrong, but it seems like he's stretching for some shit just to rhyme rather than lettin it flow and that could be said about a lot of "rappers" but it just seems so overly obvious listening to him and everyone around me like "omg he's so awesome"

Edit: 100% agree amast, kinda what I was trying to get at with the whole Autotune thing.

[Mizango]

lol

[Pringles]

*edit* damn iPhone cut 90% of my post away and too lazy to type
it all back in.

[Xno Kappa]

Don't get me wrong, I'm just saying a lot of times he's creative with his lyrics while others he's Lucy Sky Diamond'ing it up. I'm more or less just comparing him to himself. Trust me, I really don't think lil'wayne is "awesome" lol.

EDIT: At least Blueprint3 is better then that Kingdom Come garbage.

[Heavencloud]

You are a magical kingdom.

[Silos]

Sqad Up was Wayne's best shit.

YouTube - Lil Wayne and Sqad Up - Guess Whos Back

YouTube - Lil Wayne - Im Gangsta

[Mizango]

Nah.

[Marcin]

who is that girl my science I would do terrible things to her

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VezL62ACQKg

It's funny, he just took her and stuck her into his video.

[Sho]

Only person allowed to auto tune is T-pain. However, it is kinda sad that my mom listens to some of the same shit as me, Flo Rida etc.

I think you and agree fully. XD

My mom is weird about rap music, she likes most anything with a beat, she doesn't care about lyrics at all. Which is why I'm glad I take from her; I can listen to most anything if it has a good beat (supplementing a decent flow and subject matter), minus country.

From there, not even gonna lie, a lot of rappers out there are complete garbage (or are now). Why? Very few do it from the heart anymore. Why does everyone reminisce about the 80s~90s? Because just about everyone who was an artist or a producer was hungry when they released their music. Everyone wanted to be known, they wanted their sound to be known. So we as the listeners and hip-hop goers of the time got a ton of flavors and creativity to listen to and enjoy. To the point where I'm not surprised it wasn't called a Hip-Hop Renaissance, or something.

Everyone remembers when Nas put out Illmatic, when Biggie put out Ready to Die or when Jay-Z put out Reasonable Doubt. Or Tupac and Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. You ain't never heard of more hungry rappers. Now we just have people that mainstream rap, without any substance. And everyone will buy it. Why? Because the people that listen to shit now-a-days are just going with the popularity, everyone is simply complacent with listening to the same old dribble about hoes this, money that, "I'm the realest" whatever. And the real artists that flow from the heart don't get as much shine that they deserve.

Actually I take fun and pleasure in dissecting songs and reading out the lyrics and content, then once I smell bullshit in a certain song, I ask random people who are into pop culture about it. The only "truthful" reasons they give me are "Well, it's a hot song" or "I love the hook!" or "Shit is on the radio so it's great/awesome/tight/off da chain/fie shit". Run it back to them again 2-4 weeks later and ask them about the same song, and I get "Haha, that song fucking sucks, it's all about "<insert song here> now." My junior brother is a huge example of this sometimes, but I actually taught him about meaningful artists, and he's introduced me to some amazing artists as well (a major artist being Lupe Fiasco).

I'm pretty sure Jay-Z fell off after S. Carter III, though Black Album was amazing.