Hip Hop 101 For Baby Boomers
New Year, New Look. Gold baby? What, it hurts your eyes? Am I shinin' too bright? Deal with it.
Okay. I think you've been schooled enough in old skoolism and new skoolism. It's time to let you have some avant-garde artsy shit. I kept this from you intentionally because I didn't want you to get all goo-goo-ga-ga over some offbeatness without having a firm foundation in the fundamentals of dopeness. So here's some obscure fancy pants rap music for the New Year. This is that off the wall shit you always wished hip-hop would be instead of cars, money and strippers. But before we get into the progressive, weirdo stash, let us take a moment to remind ourselves that cars, money and strippers are dope things which deserve praise and celebration in song. If you like any of this stuff and want to buy it in a record store, please, for the love all that is hip-hop, buy a Young Jeezy record too. And please don't go telling all your friends that you've discovered this stuff and thinks it's amazing and better than all that crappy rap you hear on the radio. You will sound like a jerk. Repeat after me, "I mean, it's aiight. Some of the tracks are cool but it's not really my thing."
Okay then. Without further ado. A sampler:
Old school Lootpack. Madlib aka Quasimoto and Wildchild.
Latyrx. Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker
Awol One "rapping?" over the freejazz beats of Daddy Kev
Spank Rock with a tribute to Beastie Boys/LL Cool J/Johnny Cash/Jay-Z/Dixie Chicks super-producer, Rick Rubin:
Okay. I think you've been schooled enough in old skoolism and new skoolism. It's time to let you have some avant-garde artsy shit. I kept this from you intentionally because I didn't want you to get all goo-goo-ga-ga over some offbeatness without having a firm foundation in the fundamentals of dopeness. So here's some obscure fancy pants rap music for the New Year. This is that off the wall shit you always wished hip-hop would be instead of cars, money and strippers. But before we get into the progressive, weirdo stash, let us take a moment to remind ourselves that cars, money and strippers are dope things which deserve praise and celebration in song. If you like any of this stuff and want to buy it in a record store, please, for the love all that is hip-hop, buy a Young Jeezy record too. And please don't go telling all your friends that you've discovered this stuff and thinks it's amazing and better than all that crappy rap you hear on the radio. You will sound like a jerk. Repeat after me, "I mean, it's aiight. Some of the tracks are cool but it's not really my thing."
Okay then. Without further ado. A sampler:
Old school Lootpack. Madlib aka Quasimoto and Wildchild.
Latyrx. Lyrics Born and Lateef the Truthspeaker
Awol One "rapping?" over the freejazz beats of Daddy Kev
Spank Rock with a tribute to Beastie Boys/LL Cool J/Johnny Cash/Jay-Z/Dixie Chicks super-producer, Rick Rubin:
posted by E at 11:18 PM
2 Comments:
Love the new color. I even like two of these "songs," thank you for the education, we need it!
I don't know about the new color. I'm always a little iffy about change.
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