25. "This is just more poorly mixed college rap." In response to In response to 0
I mean I like niche music as much as the next guy, but you guys talk about these underground artists like they should be playing on radio five times a day, and then when i click the link it's all cool, slightly nsecure guys rapping over roughly mixed, sleepy, loungy beats.
Can anyone even tell me the words to that chorus? Is there a quotable in that verse? I like that song, but it just sounds like an album track bidden on the second side of some album from the early 00s.
The reason people hail songs like Sucker MCs or I Ain't No Joke or Shook Ones Part II isn't because they were imbued with some everglowing essence of hip-hop. It was because they were clearly mixed, excellently produced songs with a clear, identifiable message.
Sometimes I feel us here fail to contextualise our songs into the broader genre is all.
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