Dec 10, 2022 7:40 AM
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KetchupCatsup
Incase anyone needs. 1. California love - 2Pac. 2. Hypnotize - Notorious B.I.G. 3. Gummo - 6ix9ine. 4. I love it - Kayne West & Lil Pump.
5. Swang - Rae Sremmurd.
DeVermisMysteriis
90s - The golden age of rap
snotrocketscience
IliveIdyeIliveagain
Layloe
BirbsAreImportant
Micro plastics, pfas, lead, fossil fuels, climate change? Something must be responsible for such terrible music.
dexvd
90's and 2000s rap now is equivalent to classic rock 'the best of the 70s and 80's' when we were kids.
hijindc
sneerglaw
This is some boomer meme shit
GravyEducation
ThorGodOfHammerz
??So call me maybe ?
Housemaster
Loving his show Atlanta
EmotionallyCrippled
This isnt rap neither
MikeyOhno
No, no, hes got a point.
Redisia
"rap - răp - intransitive verb - To hit sharply and swiftly; strike">To">strike.To utter sharply.To criticize or blame." this on rythm i guess
BurrhusBacchus
DarkwingDuc
Double negative. So you’re saying this is rap, which is correct.
You're so wrong! My brother calls it mumble rap too. That's rap dude. Get out the way
I’m not wrong. He can rap. But this aint it.
I understood what you were grammaring little broken person
HeadJamistan
esopillar34
You can say the same for rock/pop. Vietnam era always evokes Fortunate Son/CCR, but the top hit of the time was went "Sugar, oh honey honey"
Sonicschilidogs
While I understand the sentiment and agree on the whole, there are good rappers making music today. Joynar, and recently I just found Coast
Contra, it's a rap group with Ras Kas's twin sons, a Columbian that can rap in English and Spanish (not Pitbull shit), and a Philly boy
Never Freestyle and Pimpin Benjamins were where I started, they did a Collab with Ciara too
nevernotsure
https://youtu.be/g0OdmRtuQew
6bender
"Once you be you, who can be you but you?" - Snoop
JoonasJalmari
You don't remember the shitty ones from back in the day do you? The same will happen to these ones, so don't fall to cynicism and nostalgia.
BlackDeku
Well comparing some of the best songs before with some of the worst songs today isn't fair
lemmerustlethosejimmies
Even Tekashi 6ix9ine has a couple good songs. Kooda is a good aggressive rap song
keyblader1985
That's true. There was crap then and there's good stuff now.
asmallcat
Well how else is op going to feel smugly superior about when he happened to be born like every other generation?
chilloutdawgyouknowyoumyboi
Yeah there were plenty of shit rap songs in those days as well. Tired old arguments.
fpsnoob
There was garbage music back then just like there is garbage music now.
Skizmo
yes, but these days the garbage is winning.
bannanaforone
Stop listening to mumble rap? Why not try listening to good music? Try Joyner Lucas, Token, Locksmith or Marlon Craft to name a few
GrimnLock
A$AP Rocky, JID, J Cole, Kendrick, Earthgang, Mac Miller, Tobe Nwigwe, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler The Creator etc. Theres wayyy to much variety1
2, to say that there isnt good rap in this day and age
Coast Contra needs on that list ASAP my friend, if you haven't heard them, give them a listen
Thanks for the tip I’ll have to check them out!
You still have this. This ain't 90's https://youtube.com/watch?v=XbGs_qK2PQA
fnoigy
Don't forget, kids: modern gangster rap was deliberately created to funnel black men into for-profit prisons.
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/921111245
quicksilver1
I saw an anime called Hypnosis Mic last year, and their rap battles were legit flames.
Well that combines two of my interests. Thanks for the recommendation.
GuitarsAndCodeAndRage
Counter point: Vanilla Ice. Marky Mark. Not all hip hop back then was good.
md22mdrx
Vanilla had some bangers. No amount of his poseurness or bullshit since takes that away. Hate all you want, but that shit was lit back then.
Him & MC Hammer were the biggest things on the planet at one time.
Snow!
PostmasterG
Marky Mark could kick the shit out of like all the mumble rappers at once lmao
DurendaI
If you're not hellbent on remaining stuck in the past, you'd see there are some new artists that are good, you just gotta look.
billyPiDriver
check out Harry Mack for freestyle raps
shorey66
vaughn122042
Eminem is still killing it so I'm good.
fuchsglove
Not being a Weiner or anything .. but do you have some recommendations:3
Jman403
Check out joeybadass unreal lyrics
They've been in the game for a while but people this is my fucking jam https://youtu.be/MHvNapx5PFo
IT'S A NEW ALBUM NEGASONIC TEENAGE NIRVANA ASS okay I came off a little strong
Bokse
People always say the previous generation was better, about everything. They're right. Return to monke. Ok OOK oook ook
Govote
Also. I seem to remember most white people hated rap in the 90's. Now it's all nostalgia? Quit policing this art form, Christ!
PoopyProblem5
Agreed! The best music is being made right now! You just have to dig through a mountain of shit to find the gold
naappa13
Ocean Wisdom from UK is pretty good...
Dalael
Like Harry Mack. Best freestyler. The GOAT.
jrayflo
It does feel like there's less where you actually know what they're saying
allihearisnoise
The ppl who complain no good music don't look far and are lazy fucks on high horses.
xBenoitBallsx
I always mention Freddie Gibbs when this comes up. Grown man raps.
Moose79
Grown man sport
humor is lost on you
It's nt funny
StArkyn
Seeing all the recommendations people posted. I would like to suggest Dax
Homicidalgerbil
First one that comes to mind is Tobe Nwigwe for me. Sure it's a little mumbly, but lyrically? *chefs kiss*
MrOsmo
Ah yes, the Eddie Vedder effect
TheGhostofElizabethShue
Also the stuff that was absolute dog shit in the 80s 90s got filtered out over time. I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago. It didn’t all slap
ChiliBeef
*there, Gandalf,
Tell it to my character count
CobraCommander1981
This is something we tend to forget: only the good and culturally relevant survives past about 10 years. Lots of dog shit gets filtered out.
MilesOfWhyles
Survivorship Bias. We don't hear the bad stuff anymore, so act like it's all gold.
djmcsquared
Bangers never die
SkynetWithAPoopKnife
Exactly I've heard some absolutely garbage music from 90s and 80s rap. Looking at you Jay-Z, when he can't steal biggies lines he sucks
CecilyBumTrinket
Waaaaghhumbug
This always infuriates me, "mUsIC iS ShIt nOW" fuck off, it's nostalgia or laziness. There's great music from all times.
SybilCrawley
people tend to only like music that was created when they were in adolescence.
HeywouldJablowme
It's not music as shit now. It's popular music is shit now. So much garbage saturating the top that good music doesn't make it through
Cthulhu2121
It's effectively the same as people who think jazz is boring and country sucks. There are wild ass jazz songs and some awesome country songs
drakionx
Agree. Found Amon Amarth, Deathspell Omega, and Wizardthrone because I didn't want to be stuck in good 90s music like Abbath and Dimu borgir
Amon Amarth is 90s....? Abbath isnt..? I don't get this comment
kmccre3
Akala, Lowkey, Marlon Craft, El Guante & Big Cats, Doomtree, Coops, Big Zuu, Supaman, Murs, there are plenty of artists making dope shit
TheMuellmann
Let me add Illmac, Blimes & Gab, Palmer Squares. Just came upo
*n Marlon Craft recently, awesome stuff the songs and the freesryles.
I will give them a listen!
Goldmarble
That's the problem/point though. California Love, and Hypnotize were big hits from very popular artists. You didn't have to look for them 1/
Now? Popular rap is...I cannot process how people actually like it. When I asked someone what they liked about Gucci Gang,they specified 2/
TellusEidolon
Look up the Stupendium and Dan Bull.
Jattetont
"Kids these days with their so-called music," grumbles middle-aged person. Read all about it!
Well, yes. I am 39, and primarily listen to some different forms of metal. It will happen to you too!
Oh, I'm already there, but I don't worry when some modern music doesn't appeal to me, since that's just the normal way of things.
spookyactionatadistance
Top top 3 rapper in everybody's list are Cole, Kendrick and Drake. So 2 out of 3 are actually amazing artists. Popular isn't the same as
2) it used to because there can be multiple lanes at once
the beat, the music, the way they could dance to it. I was left wondering: Why not just listen to the music then, without the annoying 3/
If all you focus on is the worst of the worst you're going to find nothing but dogshit. Broccoli is a decent track and it's by lil Yachty
vocals over it? But, I could at least...understand the reason. These three examples. I hear absolutely nothing appealing about the tracks.
Morsalbum
because the vocals are an instrument. i dont really like rap or anything, im a hardcore punk dude but it very much is its own art form
Ifacatsbuttholeisonly2inchesoffthegroundwhyisitalwaysateyelevel
Call me an oldhead, I don't give a fuck. You guys are listening to some garbage.
RidingDragonsWithoutALicense
BourbonDrinker666
Nope. Old school is turntables and a crew swapping the mic. Loops and cuts and need a hand clap
IconicM
Old school is two turntables and a microphone.
myusernameisnotmypassword
Oh hey what's up Beck?
Both are old school, it's the sad reality of time, the 90s was 30 years ago..... It's like when Motley Crue starts playing on that radio
Stationary dad listened to when you were growing up that played Queen, the Beetles, and the Stones. They're all good, but time keeps moving
Thispostisaboutacat
Listen to J. Cole, Run The Jewels, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem or Rod Wave.
I agree with most of these.
shanedan
Some of the best rap around us from a pair of elderly British geezers called Pete & Baz https://youtu.be/1e5oKp-tCY4
dgfox
Tekashi 69 is a lil bitch. I don't even listen to rap for the most part, and even I know that. Martha Stewart got arrested, kept her 1/
mouth shut, and did time. T69 got arrested, rolled over like a dog. Martha Stewart is more of a gangster that him.
FrogDelay
Did they really rip off the Big song from Nickelodeon’s Doug?
waitwtf
I now understand the term "mumble rap"
justplainvanilla
BESTtaylorINAUSTRALIA
Oh they told you that the singer Drake is a rapper too ha?
chaos021
Actually, musically-speaking... please pull that cord for me.
hnngh
Naramumu
So how do you make gifs?
Dev error 11557
thedoggoupvoter
They are like plants mostly you spot them in the wild and favourite it.
almostalone
But that isn't even old school rap, that's 90's rap. You got to go farther back, brother.
METROlD
Early Dr Dre was so horrible.
16bitStarbuck
Yeah, gotta go farther back than 10 years, for sure.
gtollie
Yeah .. this is probably a decade after the Roxanne Wars
BlueDub
Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge
gooftroop
Yeah, 1930s rap is where it's at tbh
thereitis101
Thank you!
It also isn't really modern rap either. Or a very selective take on it excluding rappers like Dan Bull and The Stupendium.
mbzlr
Haha, old man, we are the old school now! Maybe not the oldest, but definitely old. My joints are sad evidence of this...
DrewtanggaurdiumLeviosa
Now what you hear is not a test..
JerzeeTomato
Tribe, Arrested Development, Blacksheep, KRS1... that was the peak for me.
Don't hype it too much. The dude who rapped about his AK & a sawn off. A N.W.A. if you will. Became a comedic actor in kids movies.
DefinitelyNotAdolfHitler
Well, 90s rap is probably the golden age of rap. Some of the best lyricists came from that era. Like modern day poets.
ilhares
I always felt that Young MC had an excellent grasp of lyrical style, and managed it without being a drug-centric misogynist.
DoughnutEarthSociety
But the 90s was 30 years ago
JamesFaction
That's LATE 90s rap. Early 90s rap was when the magic happened
dirkmcdirk
Agreed!
randomdudefromtheinternet
Fits perfectly with the Matrix Timeline though
LetMeTellYouHowIPlannedToKillYouBeforeYouEscapeMrBond
Yeah to Vikings, they invented the first rap battle. Flyting is the stylized trading of insults and can be traced to the 5th century.
ForestRed
Vikings? 5th century? They weren't a thing until the late 8th century
Tuidjy
5th century? The Romans had ritualized trading of insults, veiled in Classical quotes, half a millennia (at least) before that.
The Romans did not rhyme them, as a matter of fact, it was considered gauche to do so, but I do not think the Norse did, either.
Honestly, I have the most vague memory of a historical flyting battle we went to as school kids. I need to revisit this topic.
Tairu8
90s is old now my friend. We’re old dude!
PajamaStripes
https://youtu.be/IpUsQq4Kv90
ruint
at that point they were already old, oldschool rappers. The songs are just late in their catalogues.
iwantmytwodollars
https://youtu.be/mcCK99wHrk0 Rapper's Delight 1970's. My favorite!!
DontCommentWhenDrunk
I went to school in the 90s, and my school has since been demolished. The 90s, therefore, are definitely old school.
DrPepperIsMyGP
41 different replies and counting
SkamanSam
It should be like The Piper by Cheeba or Humpty Dance.
Gibleteousjack
This reminds me of when I was listening to the classic rock station and icky thump comes on.
temposaur
TheCHIinChicago
Exactly.
Jaqdakloun
This guy, calling 10 years ago old-school.
LariCheltsy
WAY back
BillysDad
https://youtu.be/3d1phCytJyg
jacksonCookie1
don't mind him lol
transyam
Harry Mack, that is all
graehall
Aye, I reckon my favourite track is I Go to Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDFx8hJY5x8
TheDrunkenWrench
I love rolling in my '86 Mercedes listening to "My Hooptie" by Mix-A-Lot.
FisheswithDynamite
If Foo Fighters are playing on the classic rock stations, Biggie is absolutely old school.
MeisterKleister
Here's something old school
Great skit.... wish they would have made like a ton more seasons. I said biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch.
hitdog42
Nah, man! I'm talkin that OLD. SCHOOL.
HeadOffice
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five for me...
AtleastIvegotthatgoingforme0
"Broken glass everywhere, people **** on the stairs, they just don't care."
WillemHellfire
Don't push me.
zagibu
But the Matrix was built to be a version of the 90s world.
wrxnefx182
Yeah ... if the machines could just go ahead and hit that reset button back to the height of our civilization that'd be great ... ok Peter?
InnovativePurgatory
In that sense, Rap Now would be (Future)Rap of Tomorrow, Old School Rap is Today Rap and thus reason to go further back for Classic Rap
ghornby
I think 30 year old rap is old school. Anything before is also old school. More a term for what was popular when you were young.
Omnomnomicon
90's rap is from 10 years ago SHUT UP
Magjee
Tupac's been dead longer than he was alive homie.
popejubal
Look at you there buying’ the lie that Tupac’s dead.
"I love LA."
His last words were too badass: F U to a cop in the hospital
MapleSyrupMafia
Take your ibuprofen and go back to sleep grandpa.
cheeseguy3412
I would but we still have to work.
KitchenComandante
My Elder Millennial self: "I already did three hours ago. Now I'm up because I have to pee again and I'm still angry!!!"
Oh hello there fellow elder millenial, do you want to play Pogs?
EvilNinjaX24
I consider '79 (King Tim III/Rapper's Delight) to '92 (everything before The Chronic dropped in Dec '92) to be Old School. Also, I'm old.
xpooty
Yes and the release of the chronic marks the beginning of the golden era.
That’s my point.
MosquitoHawker
We’re in the same boat.
JayEnfield
I agree that 1992 marks the transition from the Fun Rap from the Gangsta Rap.
onecowboytoo
1988 Straight outta Compton, crazy motherfucker named Ice CubeFrom the gang called Niggaz With Attitudes
*to the gangsta rap.
bolobass
Fun rap? Have you not heard of Public Enemy? Good rap used to be political.
FloodingWaters
Good rap is still political. Tobe Nwigwe, Mos Def, Common, Talib Kwali, etc...
There is just no way you wear an entire clock without having at least a little bit of satire and humour involved.
jwillr86
Early to mid 80s rap was fucking ridiculous. But I hate the 80's so much I could be biased
jonbenwaa
Brakes on a bus, brakes on a car, breaks to make you a superstar!
cyanideremark
Amen Grandmaster Flash... Gil Scot Heron....
joemac65
The Gap Band. Oops upside your head. Sugarhill gang rappers delight so much great music
pip1
Rakim
Ishman2000
Yes. I came looking for this.
YiannisStannisBaratheannis
Afrika Bambata who even broke boundaries by making a song with John Lydon
StoopKidAfraidToLeaveHisStoop
White lines(VISIONS DREAMS OF PASSION) Blowin through my mind(AND ALL THE WHILE I THINK OF YOU) a-hah-huh-huh
DrMarioSThompson
Don't do em!
That saxophone interlude was fire
Zabulus
https://youtu.be/SOclc4VLP40 always thought GWB tore it up
malachilenomade
I remember when Roxanne was a hit. Boogie Boys, Fat Boys, Run-DMC, UTFO, The Egyptian Lover.
lampdog
Right here! THIS right here! All this lives on in rotation in my car right now!
The revolution apparently wasn't televised https://youtu.be/QnJFhuOWgXg
https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4 "Whitey's on the Moon" also one of my faves
KetchupCatsup
Incase anyone needs. 1. California love - 2Pac. 2. Hypnotize - Notorious B.I.G. 3. Gummo - 6ix9ine. 4. I love it - Kayne West & Lil Pump.
KetchupCatsup
5. Swang - Rae Sremmurd.
DeVermisMysteriis
90s - The golden age of rap
snotrocketscience
IliveIdyeIliveagain
Layloe
BirbsAreImportant
Micro plastics, pfas, lead, fossil fuels, climate change? Something must be responsible for such terrible music.
dexvd
90's and 2000s rap now is equivalent to classic rock 'the best of the 70s and 80's' when we were kids.
hijindc
sneerglaw
This is some boomer meme shit
GravyEducation
ThorGodOfHammerz
??So call me maybe ?
Housemaster
Loving his show Atlanta
EmotionallyCrippled
This isnt rap neither
MikeyOhno
No, no, hes got a point.
Redisia
"rap - răp - intransitive verb - To hit sharply and swiftly; strike">To">strike.To utter sharply.To criticize or blame." this on rythm i guess
BurrhusBacchus
DarkwingDuc
Double negative. So you’re saying this is rap, which is correct.
EmotionallyCrippled
GravyEducation
You're so wrong! My brother calls it mumble rap too. That's rap dude. Get out the way
EmotionallyCrippled
I’m not wrong. He can rap. But this aint it.
MikeyOhno
I understood what you were grammaring little broken person
HeadJamistan
esopillar34
You can say the same for rock/pop. Vietnam era always evokes Fortunate Son/CCR, but the top hit of the time was went "Sugar, oh honey honey"
Sonicschilidogs
While I understand the sentiment and agree on the whole, there are good rappers making music today. Joynar, and recently I just found Coast
Sonicschilidogs
Contra, it's a rap group with Ras Kas's twin sons, a Columbian that can rap in English and Spanish (not Pitbull shit), and a Philly boy
Sonicschilidogs
Never Freestyle and Pimpin Benjamins were where I started, they did a Collab with Ciara too
nevernotsure
https://youtu.be/g0OdmRtuQew
6bender
"Once you be you, who can be you but you?" - Snoop
JoonasJalmari
You don't remember the shitty ones from back in the day do you? The same will happen to these ones, so don't fall to cynicism and nostalgia.
BlackDeku
Well comparing some of the best songs before with some of the worst songs today isn't fair
lemmerustlethosejimmies
Even Tekashi 6ix9ine has a couple good songs. Kooda is a good aggressive rap song
keyblader1985
That's true. There was crap then and there's good stuff now.
asmallcat
Well how else is op going to feel smugly superior about when he happened to be born like every other generation?
chilloutdawgyouknowyoumyboi
Yeah there were plenty of shit rap songs in those days as well. Tired old arguments.
fpsnoob
There was garbage music back then just like there is garbage music now.
Skizmo
yes, but these days the garbage is winning.
bannanaforone
Stop listening to mumble rap? Why not try listening to good music? Try Joyner Lucas, Token, Locksmith or Marlon Craft to name a few
GrimnLock
A$AP Rocky, JID, J Cole, Kendrick, Earthgang, Mac Miller, Tobe Nwigwe, Earl Sweatshirt, Tyler The Creator etc. Theres wayyy to much variety1
GrimnLock
2, to say that there isnt good rap in this day and age
Sonicschilidogs
Coast Contra needs on that list ASAP my friend, if you haven't heard them, give them a listen
bannanaforone
Thanks for the tip I’ll have to check them out!
hijindc
You still have this. This ain't 90's https://youtube.com/watch?v=XbGs_qK2PQA
fnoigy
Don't forget, kids: modern gangster rap was deliberately created to funnel black men into for-profit prisons.
fnoigy
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/921111245
quicksilver1
I saw an anime called Hypnosis Mic last year, and their rap battles were legit flames.
keyblader1985
Well that combines two of my interests. Thanks for the recommendation.
GuitarsAndCodeAndRage
Counter point: Vanilla Ice. Marky Mark. Not all hip hop back then was good.
md22mdrx
Vanilla had some bangers. No amount of his poseurness or bullshit since takes that away. Hate all you want, but that shit was lit back then.
md22mdrx
Him & MC Hammer were the biggest things on the planet at one time.
snotrocketscience
md22mdrx
Snow!
PostmasterG
Marky Mark could kick the shit out of like all the mumble rappers at once lmao
DurendaI
If you're not hellbent on remaining stuck in the past, you'd see there are some new artists that are good, you just gotta look.
billyPiDriver
check out Harry Mack for freestyle raps
shorey66
vaughn122042
Eminem is still killing it so I'm good.
fuchsglove
Not being a Weiner or anything .. but do you have some recommendations:3
Jman403
Check out joeybadass unreal lyrics
GravyEducation
They've been in the game for a while but people this is my fucking jam https://youtu.be/MHvNapx5PFo
DurendaI
GravyEducation
IT'S A NEW ALBUM NEGASONIC TEENAGE NIRVANA ASS okay I came off a little strong
Bokse
People always say the previous generation was better, about everything. They're right. Return to monke. Ok OOK oook ook
Govote
Also. I seem to remember most white people hated rap in the 90's. Now it's all nostalgia? Quit policing this art form, Christ!
PoopyProblem5
Agreed! The best music is being made right now! You just have to dig through a mountain of shit to find the gold
naappa13
Ocean Wisdom from UK is pretty good...
Dalael
Like Harry Mack. Best freestyler. The GOAT.
jrayflo
It does feel like there's less where you actually know what they're saying
allihearisnoise
The ppl who complain no good music don't look far and are lazy fucks on high horses.
xBenoitBallsx
I always mention Freddie Gibbs when this comes up. Grown man raps.
Moose79
Grown man sport
PostmasterG
humor is lost on you
allihearisnoise
It's nt funny
StArkyn
Seeing all the recommendations people posted. I would like to suggest Dax
Homicidalgerbil
First one that comes to mind is Tobe Nwigwe for me. Sure it's a little mumbly, but lyrically? *chefs kiss*
MrOsmo
Ah yes, the Eddie Vedder effect
TheGhostofElizabethShue
Also the stuff that was absolute dog shit in the 80s 90s got filtered out over time. I was there Gandalf, 3000 years ago. It didn’t all slap
ChiliBeef
*there, Gandalf,
TheGhostofElizabethShue
Tell it to my character count
DurendaI
CobraCommander1981
This is something we tend to forget: only the good and culturally relevant survives past about 10 years. Lots of dog shit gets filtered out.
MilesOfWhyles
Survivorship Bias. We don't hear the bad stuff anymore, so act like it's all gold.
djmcsquared
Bangers never die
SkynetWithAPoopKnife
Moose79
Exactly I've heard some absolutely garbage music from 90s and 80s rap. Looking at you Jay-Z, when he can't steal biggies lines he sucks
CecilyBumTrinket
Waaaaghhumbug
This always infuriates me, "mUsIC iS ShIt nOW" fuck off, it's nostalgia or laziness. There's great music from all times.
SybilCrawley
HeywouldJablowme
It's not music as shit now. It's popular music is shit now. So much garbage saturating the top that good music doesn't make it through
Cthulhu2121
It's effectively the same as people who think jazz is boring and country sucks. There are wild ass jazz songs and some awesome country songs
drakionx
Agree. Found Amon Amarth, Deathspell Omega, and Wizardthrone because I didn't want to be stuck in good 90s music like Abbath and Dimu borgir
MrOsmo
Amon Amarth is 90s....? Abbath isnt..? I don't get this comment
kmccre3
Akala, Lowkey, Marlon Craft, El Guante & Big Cats, Doomtree, Coops, Big Zuu, Supaman, Murs, there are plenty of artists making dope shit
TheMuellmann
Let me add Illmac, Blimes & Gab, Palmer Squares. Just came upo
TheMuellmann
*n Marlon Craft recently, awesome stuff the songs and the freesryles.
kmccre3
I will give them a listen!
Goldmarble
That's the problem/point though. California Love, and Hypnotize were big hits from very popular artists. You didn't have to look for them 1/
Goldmarble
Now? Popular rap is...I cannot process how people actually like it. When I asked someone what they liked about Gucci Gang,they specified 2/
TellusEidolon
Look up the Stupendium and Dan Bull.
Jattetont
"Kids these days with their so-called music," grumbles middle-aged person. Read all about it!
Goldmarble
Well, yes. I am 39, and primarily listen to some different forms of metal. It will happen to you too!
Jattetont
Oh, I'm already there, but I don't worry when some modern music doesn't appeal to me, since that's just the normal way of things.
spookyactionatadistance
Top top 3 rapper in everybody's list are Cole, Kendrick and Drake. So 2 out of 3 are actually amazing artists. Popular isn't the same as
spookyactionatadistance
2) it used to because there can be multiple lanes at once
Goldmarble
the beat, the music, the way they could dance to it. I was left wondering: Why not just listen to the music then, without the annoying 3/
Cthulhu2121
If all you focus on is the worst of the worst you're going to find nothing but dogshit. Broccoli is a decent track and it's by lil Yachty
Goldmarble
vocals over it? But, I could at least...understand the reason. These three examples. I hear absolutely nothing appealing about the tracks.
Morsalbum
because the vocals are an instrument. i dont really like rap or anything, im a hardcore punk dude but it very much is its own art form
Ifacatsbuttholeisonly2inchesoffthegroundwhyisitalwaysateyelevel
Call me an oldhead, I don't give a fuck. You guys are listening to some garbage.
RidingDragonsWithoutALicense
BourbonDrinker666
Nope. Old school is turntables and a crew swapping the mic. Loops and cuts and need a hand clap
IconicM
Old school is two turntables and a microphone.
myusernameisnotmypassword
Oh hey what's up Beck?
Sonicschilidogs
Both are old school, it's the sad reality of time, the 90s was 30 years ago..... It's like when Motley Crue starts playing on that radio
Sonicschilidogs
Stationary dad listened to when you were growing up that played Queen, the Beetles, and the Stones. They're all good, but time keeps moving
Thispostisaboutacat
Listen to J. Cole, Run The Jewels, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem or Rod Wave.
Layloe
I agree with most of these.
shanedan
Some of the best rap around us from a pair of elderly British geezers called Pete & Baz https://youtu.be/1e5oKp-tCY4
dgfox
Tekashi 69 is a lil bitch. I don't even listen to rap for the most part, and even I know that. Martha Stewart got arrested, kept her 1/
dgfox
mouth shut, and did time. T69 got arrested, rolled over like a dog. Martha Stewart is more of a gangster that him.
FrogDelay
Did they really rip off the Big song from Nickelodeon’s Doug?
FrogDelay
waitwtf
I now understand the term "mumble rap"
justplainvanilla
BESTtaylorINAUSTRALIA
Oh they told you that the singer Drake is a rapper too ha?
chaos021
Actually, musically-speaking... please pull that cord for me.
hnngh
Naramumu
So how do you make gifs?
hnngh
MrOsmo
Dev error 11557
thedoggoupvoter
They are like plants mostly you spot them in the wild and favourite it.
almostalone
But that isn't even old school rap, that's 90's rap. You got to go farther back, brother.
METROlD
Early Dr Dre was so horrible.
16bitStarbuck
Yeah, gotta go farther back than 10 years, for sure.
gtollie
Yeah .. this is probably a decade after the Roxanne Wars
BlueDub
Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge
gooftroop
Yeah, 1930s rap is where it's at tbh
thereitis101
Thank you!
TellusEidolon
It also isn't really modern rap either. Or a very selective take on it excluding rappers like Dan Bull and The Stupendium.
mbzlr
Haha, old man, we are the old school now! Maybe not the oldest, but definitely old. My joints are sad evidence of this...
DrewtanggaurdiumLeviosa
Now what you hear is not a test..
fnoigy
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/921111245
JerzeeTomato
Tribe, Arrested Development, Blacksheep, KRS1... that was the peak for me.
BESTtaylorINAUSTRALIA
Don't hype it too much. The dude who rapped about his AK & a sawn off. A N.W.A. if you will. Became a comedic actor in kids movies.
DefinitelyNotAdolfHitler
Well, 90s rap is probably the golden age of rap. Some of the best lyricists came from that era. Like modern day poets.
ilhares
I always felt that Young MC had an excellent grasp of lyrical style, and managed it without being a drug-centric misogynist.
DoughnutEarthSociety
But the 90s was 30 years ago
JamesFaction
That's LATE 90s rap. Early 90s rap was when the magic happened
dirkmcdirk
Agreed!
randomdudefromtheinternet
Fits perfectly with the Matrix Timeline though
LetMeTellYouHowIPlannedToKillYouBeforeYouEscapeMrBond
Yeah to Vikings, they invented the first rap battle. Flyting is the stylized trading of insults and can be traced to the 5th century.
ForestRed
Vikings? 5th century? They weren't a thing until the late 8th century
Tuidjy
5th century? The Romans had ritualized trading of insults, veiled in Classical quotes, half a millennia (at least) before that.
Tuidjy
The Romans did not rhyme them, as a matter of fact, it was considered gauche to do so, but I do not think the Norse did, either.
LetMeTellYouHowIPlannedToKillYouBeforeYouEscapeMrBond
Honestly, I have the most vague memory of a historical flyting battle we went to as school kids. I need to revisit this topic.
Tairu8
90s is old now my friend. We’re old dude!
PajamaStripes
https://youtu.be/IpUsQq4Kv90
ruint
at that point they were already old, oldschool rappers. The songs are just late in their catalogues.
iwantmytwodollars
https://youtu.be/mcCK99wHrk0 Rapper's Delight 1970's. My favorite!!
DontCommentWhenDrunk
I went to school in the 90s, and my school has since been demolished. The 90s, therefore, are definitely old school.
DrPepperIsMyGP
41 different replies and counting
SkamanSam
It should be like The Piper by Cheeba or Humpty Dance.
Gibleteousjack
This reminds me of when I was listening to the classic rock station and icky thump comes on.
temposaur
TheCHIinChicago
Exactly.
Jaqdakloun
This guy, calling 10 years ago old-school.
LariCheltsy
WAY back
BillysDad
https://youtu.be/3d1phCytJyg
jacksonCookie1
don't mind him lol
transyam
Harry Mack, that is all
graehall
Aye, I reckon my favourite track is I Go to Work https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDFx8hJY5x8
TheDrunkenWrench
I love rolling in my '86 Mercedes listening to "My Hooptie" by Mix-A-Lot.
FisheswithDynamite
If Foo Fighters are playing on the classic rock stations, Biggie is absolutely old school.
MeisterKleister
Here's something old school
PostmasterG
Great skit.... wish they would have made like a ton more seasons. I said biiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitch.
hitdog42
Nah, man! I'm talkin that OLD. SCHOOL.
HeadOffice
Grandmaster Flash & the Furious Five for me...
AtleastIvegotthatgoingforme0
"Broken glass everywhere, people **** on the stairs, they just don't care."
WillemHellfire
Don't push me.
zagibu
But the Matrix was built to be a version of the 90s world.
wrxnefx182
Yeah ... if the machines could just go ahead and hit that reset button back to the height of our civilization that'd be great ... ok Peter?
InnovativePurgatory
In that sense, Rap Now would be (Future)Rap of Tomorrow, Old School Rap is Today Rap and thus reason to go further back for Classic Rap
ghornby
I think 30 year old rap is old school. Anything before is also old school. More a term for what was popular when you were young.
Omnomnomicon
90's rap is from 10 years ago SHUT UP
Magjee
Tupac's been dead longer than he was alive homie.
popejubal
Look at you there buying’ the lie that Tupac’s dead.
AtleastIvegotthatgoingforme0
"I love LA."
Magjee
His last words were too badass: F U to a cop in the hospital
MapleSyrupMafia
Take your ibuprofen and go back to sleep grandpa.
cheeseguy3412
I would but we still have to work.
KitchenComandante
My Elder Millennial self: "I already did three hours ago. Now I'm up because I have to pee again and I'm still angry!!!"
MapleSyrupMafia
Oh hello there fellow elder millenial, do you want to play Pogs?
EvilNinjaX24
I consider '79 (King Tim III/Rapper's Delight) to '92 (everything before The Chronic dropped in Dec '92) to be Old School. Also, I'm old.
xpooty
Yes and the release of the chronic marks the beginning of the golden era.
ghornby
That’s my point.
MosquitoHawker
We’re in the same boat.
JayEnfield
I agree that 1992 marks the transition from the Fun Rap from the Gangsta Rap.
onecowboytoo
1988 Straight outta Compton, crazy motherfucker named Ice Cube
From the gang called Niggaz With Attitudes
JayEnfield
*to the gangsta rap.
bolobass
Fun rap? Have you not heard of Public Enemy? Good rap used to be political.
FloodingWaters
Good rap is still political. Tobe Nwigwe, Mos Def, Common, Talib Kwali, etc...
JayEnfield
There is just no way you wear an entire clock without having at least a little bit of satire and humour involved.
jwillr86
Early to mid 80s rap was fucking ridiculous. But I hate the 80's so much I could be biased
jonbenwaa
Brakes on a bus, brakes on a car, breaks to make you a superstar!
cyanideremark
Amen Grandmaster Flash... Gil Scot Heron....
joemac65
The Gap Band. Oops upside your head. Sugarhill gang rappers delight so much great music
pip1
Rakim
Ishman2000
Yes. I came looking for this.
YiannisStannisBaratheannis
Afrika Bambata who even broke boundaries by making a song with John Lydon
StoopKidAfraidToLeaveHisStoop
White lines(VISIONS DREAMS OF PASSION) Blowin through my mind(AND ALL THE WHILE I THINK OF YOU) a-hah-huh-huh
DrMarioSThompson
Don't do em!
StoopKidAfraidToLeaveHisStoop
That saxophone interlude was fire
Zabulus
https://youtu.be/SOclc4VLP40 always thought GWB tore it up
malachilenomade
I remember when Roxanne was a hit. Boogie Boys, Fat Boys, Run-DMC, UTFO, The Egyptian Lover.
lampdog
Right here! THIS right here! All this lives on in rotation in my car right now!
GravyEducation
The revolution apparently wasn't televised https://youtu.be/QnJFhuOWgXg
cyanideremark
https://youtu.be/goh2x_G0ct4 "Whitey's on the Moon" also one of my faves