2. "All those '80s and early '90s artists did though" In response to Reply # 0
Run-DMC, Kane, Stetsasonic, BDP, Jungle Brothers, De La Soul, NWA. All of them. "Dance music" these days sucks.
I'd rather have the conversation of how hip-hop music that you can dance to became equated with "fluff" or just straight up dumb. In that case, it's probably Puffy's fault.
>I'd rather have the conversation of how hip-hop music that you >can dance to became equated with "fluff" or just straight up >dumb. In that case, it's probably Puffy's fault.
I wouldn't go that far, but prior to that.... danceable hip-hop was its OWN thing. R&B actually had to steal from IT to keep up.
-DJ R-Tistic- Member since Nov 06th 2008 51986 posts
Wed Aug-20-14 05:34 PM
6. "Lyrical rappers before 96 made way better dance music" In response to Reply # 0
than lyrical rappers after that point.
Don't use this point to diss commercial/party record makers...because you're pretty wrong, by the way.
Use it to diss all those "Keep it real" "Real Hip Hop" type rappers who make records that you can only wave your Hip Hop hands to.
Tribe, Rakim, P.E., DMC, plenty other rappers in the 80's and early 90's knew how to Rap AND make good, party music. Then, a divide happened, and it's a sin for lyrical rappers to make a song that has a danceable beat, unless it's some Breakdancing type shit...or unless it sounds like it came straight from the 80's.
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