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The entire genre of hip-hop is a meme, as it's objectively inferior/cheaper music.
We've tried to make ourselves believe rap is an "essential" genre and that if you don't like it you must be close minded. That's why this music has no staying power. All of rap is just a sub-genre of top-40 pop, with a "urban" paint job.
This music doesn't stand the test of time, it's a fad. That's why rappers are discussed about like fashion. Image/fashion/numbers sold are actually considered when talking about them.
Rap is just a really cheap/lazy form of music anyways. The majority of rap beats are just stealing (MUHH "SAMPLING") another artist's music, looping it over a generic drumbeat while someone raps over it. The "technical aspects" of rapping are not hard at all. That's why there's 14 year old white girls on YouTube uploading themselves flowing with ease and speed, dropping multis like it's nothing. But because they don't fit the image of a rapper, no one would take seriously. I've listened to it all from backpacker shit (cLOUDDEAD, dalek) to the "golden days" to 90's, to "experimental" (Death Grips), etc.
All rap is meme rap. Rap is not quality music. It's more of a guilty pleasure, like fast food. I guess it can taste good for a little while, until you realize how cheap and unhealthy it is.
>>65421125
Post more goggle dog
I unironically agree.
post godly underground rap albums
pic related
>>65421116
still waiting for the related pic, op
>>65421116
his flow on Imaginary Places is absolute bonkers
>>65421179
the beat is fucking killer too
As a composer of even eighth note based music, Kenny G SHOULD be compared to Herbie Hancock, Horace Silver or even Grover Washington. Suffice it to say, on all above counts, at this point in his development, he wouldn't fare well.
But, like I said at the top, this relatively benign view was all "until recently".
Not long ago, Kenny G put out a recording where he overdubbed himself on top of a 30+ year old Louis Armstrong record, the track "What a Wonderful World". With this single move, Kenny G became one of the few people on earth I can say that I really can't use at all - as a man, for his incredible arrogance to even consider such a thing, and as a musician, for presuming to share the stage with the single most important figure in our music.
This type of musical necrophilia - the technique of overdubbing on the preexisting tracks of already dead performers - was weird when Natalie Cole did it with her dad on "Unforgettable" a few years ago, but it was her dad. When Tony Bennett did it with Billie Holiday it was bizarre, but we are talking about two of the greatest singers of the 20th century who were on roughly the same level of artistic accomplishment. When Larry Coryell presumed to overdub himself on top of a Wes Montgomery track, I lost a lot of the respect that I ever had for him - and I have to seriously question the fact that I did have respect for someone who could turn out to have such unbelievably bad taste and be that disrespectful to one of my personal heroes.
But when Kenny G decided that it was appropriate for him to defile the music of the man who is probably the greatest jazz musician that has ever lived by spewing his lame-ass, jive, pseudo bluesy, out-of-tune, noodling, wimped out, fucked up playing all over one of the great Louis's tracks (even one of his lesser ones), he did something that I would not have imagined possible. He, in one move, through his unbelievably pretentious and calloused musical decision to embark on this most cynical of musical paths, shit all over the graves of all the musicians past and present who have risked their lives by going out there on the road for years and years developing their own music inspired by the standards of grace that Louis Armstrong brought to every single note he played over an amazing lifetime as a musician. By disrespecting Louis, his legacy and by default, everyone who has ever tried to do something positive with improvised music and what it can be, Kenny G has created a new low point in modern culture - something that we all should be totally embarrassed about - and afraid of. We ignore this, "let it slide", at our own peril.
His callous disregard for the larger issues of what this crass gesture implies is exacerbated by the fact that the only reason he possibly have for doing something this inherently wrong (on both human and musical terms) was for the record sales and the money it would bring.
Since that record came out - in protest, as insignificant as it may be, I encourage everyone to boycott Kenny G recordings, concerts and anything he is associated with. If asked about Kenny G, I will diss him and his music with the same passion that is in evidence in this little essay.
Normally, I feel that musicians all have a hard enough time, regardless of their level, just trying to play good and don't really benefit from public criticism, particularly from their fellow players. but, this is different.
>>65421127
There ARE some things that are sacred - and amongst any musician that has ever attempted to address jazz at even the most basic of levels, Louis Armstrong and his music is hallowed ground. To ignore this trespass is to agree that NOTHING any musician has attempted to do with their life in music has any intrinsic value - and I refuse to do that. (I am also amazed that there HASN'T already been an outcry against this among music critics - where ARE they on this?????!?!?!?!, magazines, etc.).
Everything I said here is exactly the same as what I would say to Mr. Gorelick if I ever saw him in person. And if I ever DO see him anywhere, at any function - he WILL get a piece of my mind (and maybe a guitar wrapped around his head.)
Okay cool yeah I love this rant but does Kenny G actually play out of tune?
>The Sun has fallen out of orbit and is going to crash into the Earth. Humanity has randomly chosen people to enter an underground nuclear shelter with enough food and provisions for the next 50 years until the Earth is habitable again, luckily you were picked.
>You are allowed to bring 1 (one) album with you.
Choose wisely..
Autechre - Elseq 1-5
It's long, good, and I haven't really listened to it that much yet.
Cheerleader Concubine - Tentacle Induced Intestinal Displacement
Get fucked nigga new Earth is slam af
check my tirps niqqa
Is Charli queen of pop 2k16? Carly-Rae? Bey? RiRi? Someone else?
I imagine she is not clean down there
>>65420936
She looks like Valentina Nappi
>>65421873
i imagine she is delicious down there
It's the biggest pool party of the summer. What songs would you include for this occasion?
http://youtu.be/qP42FZtmBpQ
http://youtu.be/d1Nq82S7_0Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYpYi9bLloE
>tfw this is the only innovative release of 2016
I've been enjoying it. I don't know if I'd agree with your sentiment though. Although as I'm saying this, counter arguments aren't readily coming to me so you could be right
It's not the only one, but certainly one of the best!
It sounds hipster
BUT THE LEGEND
OF THE RENT
WAS WAY HARDCORE
Wew
that was a good movie senpai
>>65420471
wew lad
Now that the dust has settled, what is /mu/ opinion on this masterpiece?
>>65420408
THAT ENTIRE ALBUM IS FUCKING PERFECTION
>poptimism
>>65420408
>"""""masterpiece"""""
If you're really optimistic about it, you might give it 8/10 max.
If you're being objective, it's not anywhere higher than 6.
Uninteresting, poor cameos, unmemorable songs, focus group feel. Feels like an album that could've been made by Max Martin for any other artist.
What was his problem?
>>65420364
pleb taste
>>65420364
he gave all 4 archers of loaf albums an A ranking he's good in my hood
>>65420364
I don't care if he's a comedic genius, he shouldn't have raped his daughter.
post blunders of the year
bump for my trips :)
Views
TLOP
>>65420333
more like blunder of the century
Hey guys,I wanna start a playlist dedicated for orgys.
What could be some good additions for a good playlist?
Here's an example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phyC9rzjpPQ
We like to party-Vengaboys
DARUDE SANDSTORM DUDUUDUDUDUDUD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTb3ZbWUv9Y
"All rap is memerap"
>listens to memerock like pic related and the velvet underground and nico
>>65420186
>implying that listening to """"""""meme"""""" rock is worse than listening to talking niggers
>>65420226
>>65420186
>I listened to a few rap songs on the radio, rap is all the same
>mfw brain damage and any colour you like isn't 10 minutes long
whats ur favorite song on peel slowly and see by andy warhol
Heroin, easy
Black Angel's Death Song
I'm Waiting For The Man
So I guess weird/obscure samples and sub-avant-garde beats are all you need to make a "10/10" hip hop album. This is the worst album I've heard in my life.
>>65420035
What are your favorites? Just wondering
don't forget the fact that he died, or are you above such petty accusations.
>This is the worst album I've heard in my life
show your 5/5, faggot
