Has anyone successfully transitioned from being a rapper to working in another genre or vice versa?
Artists in other genres seem to regularly hop between genres but I can't think of any rappers who came from or went into another style and pulled it off.
Beck is maybe the closest I can think of
Lou Reed
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Am45JrwQ4
Dee Dee Ramone
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAl-xzN8e-M
>>61978661
I said "successful" transition. I know in the 80s a bunch of artists made novelty rap songs.
>Doesn't comprehend the brilliance of Dee Dee
So this proves that rappers really aren't musicians, right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4Ui3jiyOFE
>>61978574
Mala of Digital Mystikz went from being a 2step garage MC to being the most important dubstep producer out there.
kid cudi
ice t became body count
>>61978879
Don't give us no sass or we'll kick your ass
Cause we're the heralds of crowleymass!
Rapper Eyedea went from this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECg6h2ggAdY
To this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yM7C89rnJY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJufbHPo_jI
Why? From clouddead kinda.
>>61979061
This. This 100%.
The reason I even clicked this thread.
>>61979061
Is this some kind of post-rock hip-hop blend?
It's beautiful
>>61979274
Eyedea's one of a kind, died too soon. Check him out anon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVR17FPNv9I
>>61979274
Eyedea started making music at the age 14.
He got into rock music first but later in life after a few God-tier Hip-Hop records he created a grunge band.
He passed away 5 years ago. at 28.
Pic related is his first solo project he made when he was 18.
My favourite works of his.
dean blunt
>>61978574
Mark Wahlberg.
House of Pain ---> Everlast
Beastie Boys were a hardcore band at first.
I don't think I'd call it all that successful but Miles Davis did a rap album.
>>61979412
Doo Bop has a pretty sick beat though. Also, that album was posthumous so you can't really blame him.
Kanye West
>>61978574
Lauryn Hill
>>61978574
James Ferraro
>>61979061
Also gotta mention the noise influenced stuff on the Many Faces of Mikey record. He had a lot to give.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5E7Ij3hfBQ
