Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

[harlemtothebronx]

The fact that this isn’t on Spotify grinds my gears.



It’s not something I ever really thought about, but now I’m mourning all the years of Rick we missed. Hearing how well he blends on some stuff today is wild.

 

[servechilled81]

i'm stunned at cats not knowing what Freestyle is, absolutely stunned...

nah for real.

 

[c flyness]

 

[wavycrocket]

Coming from the main one in this thread who does

Cuz….He is HIM

 

[Magic33]

i stunned at cats not knowing what Freestyle is, absolutely stunned...

are you latino?

 

[servechilled81]

no

 

[finessence]

Slick Rick was just silky smooth. Would’ve loved to have seen a continuation of his career without prison

 

[wavycrocket]

Unfoonk joint chills. Pleasantly surprised. Thug fam got a lot talent.

 

[servechilled81]

the backing track should not be louder than the performer. This is awful. DaBaby is a war criminal,

 

[finessence]

Unfoonk joint chills. Pleasantly surprised. Thug fam got a lot talent.

this what we be talking about. IT’S OKAY FOR DUDES TO BE TRASH!

I feel like I’m the only one in here who gives honest criticism. That s**** trash. Same sounding a*** s****

 

[Master Zik]

I swear MC Lyte stay with the bag cuz she is always the MC of these awards.

 

[wavycrocket]

this what we be talking about. IT’S OKAY FOR DUDES TO BE TRASH!

I feel like I’m the only one in here who gives honest criticism. That s**** trash. Same sounding a*** s****

Thug brother joint is chills TO ME. You disagree. That’s fine.

now go on about your K2 business.

You boring ******s want a consensus on subjective ****. Relax

 

[illphillip]

I'm guessing it was just regional NY thing? They used samplers & synthesizers n stuff. Pretty much fully electronic produced dance music. A lot of it is "low quality" and the singers tend to not be as "technically" gifted vocally, but the emotion they put out packs a punch.Overall, its some fast paced funky sounding beats w/ some pop, rap, and latin infusions.

these are probably the most know songs:

I kinda consider this song freestyle, but then I kinda don't. It's like some electro/early techno stuff. I definitely feel like Pharrell built his style off this, so in a way I consider it Hip Hop as well:

Wasnt regional to NY. Huge in FL, Philly, Chi., TX, up and down Cali etc.

Fonda Rae and Strafe aren’t freestyle. Most of the others you posted were along those lines though.

And **** like this…..









as for the Hip Hop connection it was an extension of post Bambaataa electro **** (which is what I consider Strafe “Set It Off”) and a lot of the early breakdance crews were Latino so they got down to these records.

And I think similar to the early park jams these records were getting played at Hip Hop parties. I hear them in old school sets by DJs from back then.

 

[finessence]

Thug brother joint is chills TO ME. You disagree. That’s fine.

now go on about your K2 business.

You boring ******s want a consensus on subjective ****. Relax

that garbage *** s**** you champion be b

Thug brother joint is chills TO ME. You disagree. That’s fine.

now go on about your K2 business.

You boring ******s want a consensus on subjective ****. Relax

Mog equates NOT LIKING YOUNG THUG’S brother’s music to = boring




Keep being you bruh. You the epitome of a sensitive millennial

 

[finessence]

808, auto tune, and a few adlibs and you got Crockett’s attention. I ain’t ever heard bruh speak ill of that formula

 

[wavycrocket]

808, auto tune, and a few adlibs and you got Crockett’s attention. I ain’t ever heard bruh speak ill of that formula

bruh, get off my ****

Enjoy the hawks game.

 

[ahat]

That MFer Tank had the whole Baltimore down there last night cutting up huh @king j @a blinkin & @lamekilla @OTG

Man did a backflip off the turnbuckle after he TKO'd dude

 

[wayniac211]

 

[Maximus Meridius]

I dead*** forgot slick Rick was booked for almost a decade in the 90s for shooting at his cousin who tried to rob in.

Russell visiting him on The Show talking real honest




"I'm not f'n wit Ricky, he called me 4 times I missed each call"

 

[marikomorose]

Wasnt regional to NY. Huge in FL, Philly, Chi., TX, up and down Cali etc.

Fonda Rae and Strafe aren’t freestyle. Most of the others you posted were along those lines though.

And **** like this…..





as for the Hip Hop connection it was an extension of post Bambaataa electro **** (which is what I consider Strafe “Set It Off”) and a lot of the early breakdance crews were Latino so they got down to these records.

And I think similar to the early park jams these records were getting played at Hip Hop parties. I hear them in old school sets by DJs from back then.

Like the Miami Bass a.k.a. "Booty Shaking Music" is that what you're referring to? That Chicago & Detroit was usually house & techno (r.i.p. frankie knuckles). Like this was Chicago at the time:


Detroit:


^I know they were treated like weirdos

 

[servechilled81]

Damn Monie Love hasn't aged at all on the awards

 

[servechilled81]

Like the Miami Bass a.k.a. "Booty Shaking Music" is that what you're referring to? That Chicago & Detroit was usually house & techno (r.i.p. frankie knuckles). Like this was Chicago at the time:


Detroit:


^I know they were treated like weirdos

i love getting into the origins of music styles
a lot of the house music came out of underground gay clubs, one of the pioneers of Chicago house was twakked out on heroin while he was DJing so he sped the music up
because it sounded too slow while he was high,

 

[marikomorose]

Stevie B’s the king of freestyle

Desus & Mero absolutely ruined Stevie B for me."I wanna be the one your titi is *******." It's Mero in my head singing this **** btw, sounds like some fusion ****

i love getting into the origins of music styles
a lot of the house music came out of underground gay clubs, one of the pioneers of Chicago house was twakked out on heroin while he was DJing so he sped the music up
because it sounded too slow while he was high,

You know how fascinating I find this.

 

[illphillip]

Like the Miami Bass a.k.a. "Booty Shaking Music" is that what you're referring to? That Chicago & Detroit was usually house & techno (r.i.p. frankie knuckles). Like this was Chicago at the time:


Detroit:


^I know they were treated like weirdos

No Freestyle proper was big in Miami. Miami Bass is kind of an extension of that popularity.

People that ****** with Hip Hop ****** with a lot of different ****. That’s how Hip Hop was born.

Freestyle was big in Detroit and Chicago but the Midwest is really the home of House Music. At a certain point both genres were kind of popping at the same time. And both were still grimey *** cities at the time. Gang heavy.

That Ten City joint is a classic. That’s Chicago House.

Also Chicago….



Also Detroit….





This kind of **** was absolutely getting rocked at Hip Hop parties back then too.

A lot of early hip hop albums had “dance records” on them. “Get On The Dance Floor” by Rob Base is an acid house joint. “The House That Cee Built” by Big Daddy Kane.

There was a whole Hip House sub genre. Doug Lazy. Twin Hype. King Sun did one.

That was all a part of the “culture” back then.

 

[servechilled81]

i'm watching the BET awards right now and the Queen Latifah tribute is reminding me of how house oriented a lot of her early stuff was
Freestyle had a tiny resurgence in the early 2000's with Nina Sky and JLo dabbling