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48. "As a whole, I'd say I'm more of a "Hip Hop" or even "Underground""
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head than the average commercial fan...but yet I'm more of a "commercial/mainstream head" than most underground heads. It's a fine line, and I tend to offend both sides at times, even though I'll receive credit from both sides.

>>I did feel like a LOT of Underground music was Underground
>>for a reason...
>
>Like it attempts to evaluate a set of artists by standards
>those artists reject by self identifying as underground, and
>then uses those standards to say they failed to succeed, when
>that success model isn't what it means to be underground. and
>then:

All I'm saying is that a lot of that music wasn't enjoyable to me. I'd hear the hyped up artists that were championed online (rarely from folks I personally knew)...check it out, and be like "eh.....I guess this is what they like?"

>>and it shouldn't have been compared to 90's
>>Boom Bap just because it was a descendant.
>
>this attempts to disconnect it from history while
>
>>I was more of a
>>champion for Just Blaze and Kanye's evolution of that sound,
>
>this tries to chop the underground down by insinuating what
>they were trying to do was done better by those that went
>mainstream. Which again is weird because... well before I go
>in on that, do you see what I'm hinting at? It's a tad
>revisionist, and I'm wondering if that's just your I don't
>really fuck with that or if it's your intent to marginalize
>like that.

Nowhere near me trying to "marginalize" it, but here's my issue.

Many underground heads are the same as the "Real Hip Hop" heads...especially those who are fans of the 2000's Underground. And what they do, is put this era of underground in the same category of the 90's "Hip Hop classics" as if it's the only descendant that's worthy of praise. Some of these folks will even knock a Jay, Kanye, even Lupe, basically anything that became mainstream, without acknowledging that it's also a descendant of the same era. And my issue is that a lot of the Underground artists and songs material is NOWHERE near as strong as the 90's classics, which is why it's only enjoyed by certain types.

Now, since names would eventually be mentioned, here's some "Underground" artists who I am not referring to, and who I enjoyed just as much or more than Mainstream artists: Little Brother, Slum, Murs, Brother Ali, Madlib...a few others, but those are some I actively listened to.

If you ask me about any other artist, I'll tell you if I liked em or not. But one thing I've said before on here, is that I hate how modern Underground Rap was so disconnected from the 90's and 80's, that they never made any party music, and were almost against anything that you could dance to. This is one reason I feel the Just Blaze type production was more of a descendant...because you can throw on Hip Hop Hooray, Check the rime, Buddy, even Shimmy Shimmy Ya and TROY in some places and people go WILD. And this may be me looking at it as a DJ, but yeah.

>It's not the first time I've read something like this for you
>and I'm always left scratching my head because I don't think
>of you as being that dismissive.... but at the same time
>recognize we've all got our biases.
>
>No snark in any of this I hope you realize.
>
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So....how do we describe the changes from 2000-2009 in Rap? [View all] , -DJ R-Tistic-, Thu Jul-25-13 05:06 PM
 
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The Stones Throw run during the early 00s was uncalled for.
Jul 25th 2013
1
My Take
Jul 25th 2013
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RE: My Take
Jul 25th 2013
9
one of the most humorous aspects to me...
Jul 25th 2013
3
It's a beautiful thing, man. That whole "he's not popular so he's good"
Jul 25th 2013
5
      has nothing to do with what phil was getting at
Jul 25th 2013
6
      im not a fan of either of those dudes...
Jul 25th 2013
8
Eminem
Jul 25th 2013
4
RE: So....how do we describe the changes from 2000-2009 in Rap?
Jul 25th 2013
7
i would also say that one of the most unfortunate developments...
Jul 25th 2013
10
hmmmm
Jul 25th 2013
11
      i know i have
Jul 25th 2013
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      its just horrible
Jul 25th 2013
16
           is it this endemic in any other art, do you think?
Jul 25th 2013
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                I don't think so
Jul 25th 2013
18
      fuck it was awful
Jul 25th 2013
15
in the year 2000
Jul 25th 2013
12
my FR yr of college and every album on there was huge for me
Jul 26th 2013
41
shit i cant believe i forgot Back for the First Time
Jul 26th 2013
42
And on our side, Restless and Da Last Meal
Jul 28th 2013
85
      Da Last Meal was when Snoop really came back if you ask me
Aug 01st 2013
113
I'm in the worst decade in rap camp
Jul 25th 2013
13
thing about DOOM's run...
Jul 25th 2013
19
well *of course* it's the worst decade of the genre. That's unavoidable.
Jul 26th 2013
49
yet I didn't focus my post in that way
Jul 26th 2013
50
      you're absolutely right, I just did a general riff off your subject line
Jul 26th 2013
53
           cool. you know thinking about it I did enjoy Cam's persona as well
Jul 27th 2013
64
The 2nd half of the decade was brutal for backpack rap
Jul 27th 2013
55
      RE: The 2nd half of the decade was brutal for backpack rap
Aug 01st 2013
111
808 drums defined the decade's sound...at least mainstream
Jul 25th 2013
20
The decade is the worst if you focus on mainstream but
Jul 25th 2013
21
I'll tell you one thing...
Jul 25th 2013
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things were rough all over.
Jul 25th 2013
24
there were a shit ton of gatekeepers in the first half n/m
Jul 25th 2013
27
      curators imploded so badly from 04 onwards.
Jul 27th 2013
56
Would this mean folks like Atmosphere, Aesop? Or who?
Jul 26th 2013
39
This is a weird statement to me...
Jul 26th 2013
44
      I think a lot of the blame can be cast on the fans of said music
Jul 27th 2013
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           its not a seperate post and you and RTistic are spot on
Jul 27th 2013
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                THIS.....THIS....THIS...X10!!
Jul 28th 2013
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                     Been trying to figure out how to address all of this
Jul 29th 2013
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                          this sums it up
Jul 29th 2013
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:(
Jul 26th 2013
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      It's just not touchin Find a way. Runnin. Players. I don't know.
Jul 27th 2013
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           that's cool
Jul 27th 2013
60
           Yea that is for sure. He almost had two distinct eras
Jul 28th 2013
84
           agreed n/m
Jul 27th 2013
69
which "underground" records are you talking about?
Jul 26th 2013
46
oh boy a conversation i've been trying to have for 3 years...
Jul 25th 2013
23
but how come when i asked you directly what year
Jul 25th 2013
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what year... what?
Jul 25th 2013
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      i don't even remember... LOL!!
Jul 26th 2013
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           RE: i don't even remember... LOL!!
Jul 26th 2013
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                that's why i say writing was on the wall
Jul 26th 2013
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                     2001 was a hotter year than 2000 in terms of material.
Jul 26th 2013
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                          Once Phillips sold Polygram to Seagrams it was a wrap for the industry
Jul 26th 2013
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                               I think its under-discussed/analyzed how much those mergers affected
Jul 27th 2013
67
This is the best condensng of your main points so far. Well done.
Jul 26th 2013
30
RE: This is the best condensng of your main points so far. Well done.
Jul 26th 2013
31
and thats the piece of the puzzle i got focusing on
Jul 27th 2013
57
      you're not romanticizing poverty in the least
Jul 27th 2013
68
i agree with most of what you said but The Source was done before 02
Jul 27th 2013
61
Oh boy...
Jul 25th 2013
25
I have a theory about it that has to do with the decline in rock
Jul 25th 2013
29
one other thing about 2000's rap...
Jul 26th 2013
36
People just seem to worship the hell out of the 90's for EVERYTHING
Jul 29th 2013
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to me it was a turning of the guard
Jul 26th 2013
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Favorites 2000-2009
Jul 26th 2013
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2006-2007 are my favorite years
Jul 26th 2013
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This is an underrated album
Jul 26th 2013
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      yeah that album is dope
Jul 26th 2013
51
gotta dip for work but I'll rank em right quick
Jul 26th 2013
45
its kinda weird for me cos i was born in '87
Jul 27th 2013
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in your broken beat post I even said I wished I got into it at the time
Jul 27th 2013
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The best stuff was connected to Quest, Kast, or Kanye.
Jul 27th 2013
62
smh
Jul 27th 2013
63
      That ain't narrow tho
Jul 27th 2013
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           I would add Madlib/Doom
Jul 28th 2013
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           yeah, its a pretty narrow group
Jul 28th 2013
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                but see I feel like Dilla wasn't "change"
Jul 28th 2013
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                     this sounds like gobbledygook to me
Jul 29th 2013
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                     This is bullshit
Jul 29th 2013
90
                     Really bad writing on my part
Jul 29th 2013
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                     RE: but see I feel like Dilla wasn't "change"
Jul 29th 2013
99
I think mixtapes should be measured on the same level as albums
Jul 27th 2013
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I used to be such an epic backpacker
Jul 27th 2013
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does this mean you avoided mainstream during the time
Jul 27th 2013
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i couldn't, based on my job and other factors
Jul 28th 2013
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Give some examples of backpacker acts/albums that haven't aged well
Jul 28th 2013
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u think that ties into whats going on today at all?
Jul 30th 2013
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music that will stay with me forever came out that decade
Jul 28th 2013
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word to all of this
Jul 28th 2013
82
my thoughts:
Jul 28th 2013
77
lol, i had to google prescriptivist/descriptivist
Jul 28th 2013
80
I'll say this. Jerkin music in 2009 = Best thing that happened for L.A. ...
Jul 28th 2013
83
I'd Like To Hear This
Jul 29th 2013
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RE: I'd Like To Hear This
Jul 29th 2013
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      I think you are only looking at it with your DJ glasses on
Jul 29th 2013
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           I think "best" vs "most important" is a major difference in what I'm say...
Jul 29th 2013
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                It's hard to even agree with "Best"
Jul 29th 2013
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                     RE: It's hard to even agree with "Best"
Jul 30th 2013
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RE: I'll say this. Jerkin music in 2009 = Best thing that happened for L...
Jul 29th 2013
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      Got to. Truth is, L.A. folks really don't look down on the Bay, and have
Jul 30th 2013
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the democratization of the music
Jul 28th 2013
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i don't think music has been democratised though
Jul 29th 2013
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      I don't follow. What do you mean?
Jul 31st 2013
110
           the bottom end opened up
Aug 01st 2013
112
The Superproducer era had more minuses than pluses. Wasn't all
Jul 29th 2013
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I think the most notable thing about this era
Jul 30th 2013
104
      It did. Yet, it kinda created it too
Jul 30th 2013
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           this is true
Jul 31st 2013
109
Flavor Flav and Chuck D get bored, log on to Lesson, give interview
Jul 29th 2013
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