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"An Artist whose discography doesn't explain their name recognition."
Mon Sep-26-22 06:00 PM by Buddy_Gilapagos

  

          

That is, you know who they are and are often in the news, but you really can't name many of their songs.

I am told Kid Cudi is super creative, very influential, a muse to Kanye, but I really only know his song Day N' Nite.

I see Asap Rocky's name all the time, know he pulled the Baddest, and has some features on some cool records, but I can't really name an ASAP Rocky song.

Who else?


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I’ve never heard Lil Baby rap
Sep 26th 2022
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this is mostly an age gap for me. Travis Scott
Sep 26th 2022
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Yes! I only know Antidote and Sicko Mode
Sep 26th 2022
3
      and had a McDonald's meal named after him
Sep 27th 2022
30
           And a victim of the Kardashian/Jenner curse having Kylie for his GF.
Sep 27th 2022
33
Couldn't tell you a Ty Dolla $ign song to save my life.
Sep 26th 2022
4
I actually heard a jam with him and dvsn
Sep 27th 2022
34
had to read your post twice because I thought it said Kid Capri
Sep 26th 2022
5
Kid Cudi is a great pick.
Sep 26th 2022
6
A ton from the blog rap era.
Sep 26th 2022
7
Blu got “Below the Heavens”
Sep 26th 2022
9
Wale and Wiz had a bunch of hits.
Sep 27th 2022
22
Megan Thee Stallion
Sep 26th 2022
8
Aside from her being on WAP and who I thought was the 2nd best rapper
Sep 27th 2022
32
I see this more as, "Artists I Am Unfamiliar With"
Sep 27th 2022
10
RE: I see this more as, "I need a new backpack, this ones dusty&quo...
Sep 27th 2022
11
Special Delivery is G. Dep
Sep 28th 2022
36
      lmao
Sep 28th 2022
43
      well I'll be damnned...lol....see...
Sep 30th 2022
48
Maybe
Sep 27th 2022
16
Lana Del Rey, Bon Iver, James Blake
Sep 27th 2022
12
hold up now... Bon Iver & James Blake BOTH have some heat...
Sep 27th 2022
13
RE: hold up now... Bon Iver & James Blake BOTH have some heat...
Sep 27th 2022
15
Lana's last album was great.
Sep 27th 2022
18
I haven't listened to any of her full albums
Sep 27th 2022
23
this thread is so dusty 😂
Sep 27th 2022
14
LMAO
Sep 27th 2022
31
aka the Nipsey Hussle post...
Sep 27th 2022
17
YES
Sep 27th 2022
19
Nah, Nipsey and Mac Miller are a couple of artists who I really
Sep 27th 2022
20
Nah, I agree with Nipsey (and Mac)
Sep 27th 2022
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I remember him from a track he did with The Game and appearing
Sep 27th 2022
29
some might say Frank Ocean
Sep 27th 2022
24
I think any Black person under 45 (probably 50)
Sep 27th 2022
25
SNL performance? Did something wild happen?
Sep 28th 2022
44
      It was a big deal because he came out with the rollout
Sep 30th 2022
49
RE: some might say Frank Ocean
Sep 28th 2022
39
"am i so out of touch? no. it's the children who are wrong."
Sep 27th 2022
26
Lil Wayne and his clones
Sep 27th 2022
27
Dude.
Sep 28th 2022
41
Sorry, my list is more of unfamiliar artists to me
Sep 28th 2022
42
I can name only one song from any of those artists
Sep 30th 2022
46
XXXTentacion
Sep 27th 2022
28
Rita Ora should be the beginning and end of this post.
Sep 27th 2022
35
absolutely.
Sep 28th 2022
38
Neither do i actually. Ha
Oct 01st 2022
53
Are you from the UK?
Sep 28th 2022
40
      Half British-Half American
Oct 01st 2022
52
Kevin Gates
Sep 28th 2022
37
I just know him from his Combat Jack interview
Sep 30th 2022
50
RE: An Artist whose discography doesn't explain their name recognition.
Sep 30th 2022
45
I’m a much bigger fan of Long Live A$AP, personally
Oct 01st 2022
51
Edit: I'm trying to thing of some 80's, 90's & early 00's examples
Sep 30th 2022
47
No one said Vince Staples
Oct 20th 2022
54

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1. "I’ve never heard Lil Baby rap"
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Lol

  

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2. "this is mostly an age gap for me. Travis Scott"
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name just throws me off..

never heard him rap before or sing, or whatever he does..



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3. "Yes! I only know Antidote and Sicko Mode"
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and I’m baffled why he’s got a Nike shoe.

  

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30. "and had a McDonald's meal named after him"
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>and I’m baffled why he’s got a Nike shoe.

I don't even think I know what he looks like


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33. "And a victim of the Kardashian/Jenner curse having Kylie for his GF. "
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4. "Couldn't tell you a Ty Dolla $ign song to save my life."
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I'm old and out of touch though.

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34. "I actually heard a jam with him and dvsn"
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F93FdbWZiQ

and this joint with Musiq

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BqbvyRKHW4

made me check out his stuff and I became a fan


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5. "had to read your post twice because I thought it said Kid Capri"
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6. "Kid Cudi is a great pick."
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i'm like, "who likes this music?"

he's moreso famous for being a "cool kid" and kanye collaborator than his own music i guess.

  

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7. "A ton from the blog rap era."
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Blu, Wale, Wiz, etc.

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9. "Blu got “Below the Heavens”"
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which is a legit classic album IMO.

But yeah, I see what you mean about that era.

  

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22. "Wale and Wiz had a bunch of hits."
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8. "Megan Thee Stallion "
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I know none of her songs.

  

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32. "Aside from her being on WAP and who I thought was the 2nd best rapper "
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in the 2019 XXL class, same here.

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10. "I see this more as, "Artists I Am Unfamiliar With" "
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I think the header conveys a different criteria than than the explanation in the body. Not a knock, just an observation.

I think a good candidate that fits the header, is someone like Joe Budden. His discography, a fair amount of which I enjoy, doesn't quite explain his overall stature. His overall name recognition owes far more to his podcast, dating life, various beefs, and the things he says off wax, than his discography.

I don't think the body of the post, nor the responses, fit the header criteria, and is much more what the body describes: artists I know of, but don't really know, or just don't quite get.

For me, the most notable name I can think of is Drake.

I can name... Forever, Duppy, Hotline Bling, and.... that's about it. There's She Will, but that's a Lil Wayne joint. I struggle to name Drake songs after that. I just never conencted with him or 40's production, which often sounds like I'm listening while wearing earmuffs, while sitting in a submarine, which is somehow both underwater, and outside the club where the song is playing.

Thing is, that's no a knock on either of them. It's just a generational divide. I'm still stuck on in the 90's and early 00's.

  

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11. "RE: I see this more as, &quot;I need a new backpack, this ones dusty&quo..."
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and lol at the Joe Budden...spot on... the ONLY Joe Budden song I've probably actively every listened to by choice is Special Delivery.. I thought dude had been fell off and then he started surfacing at some point in the mid-aughts. I don't think I realized until the past year or two that he'd become some sort of reality TV personality.

  

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36. "Special Delivery is G. Dep"
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Pump it Up is Joe budden

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43. "lmao"
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48. "well I'll be damnned...lol....see... "
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so i've basically never actively even listened to a Joe Budden song...

  

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16. "Maybe "
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I did intend the former. "Artists I Am Unfamiliar With" isn't really that interesting because their are tons of great artists that we are all unfamiliar with. The idea was artists whose name recognition far surpasses their discography.

Joe Buddens, Travis Scott are good additional names.

SOmeone said Lil Baby but I think that's someone we old heads just aren't familiar with. I ended up at a Lil Baby concert and it was sold out and their was a whole arena singing along to every song. Made me feel Old AF.


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12. "Lana Del Rey, Bon Iver, James Blake"
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13. "hold up now... Bon Iver & James Blake BOTH have some heat..."
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you should probably check for them.
Might not be chart toppers...but they both have robust catalogs of quality material.

  

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15. "RE: hold up now... Bon Iver & James Blake BOTH have some heat..."
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James Blake jawn with the Aaliyah sample
Bon Iver - into the woods
Literally couldn’t name another song by either.

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18. "Lana's last album was great. "
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If you haven't really listened to her, you should start there.

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23. "I haven't listened to any of her full albums"
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but LDR has a solid 6-7 tracks that I fuck with HEAVILY.

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14. "this thread is so dusty 😂"
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31. "LMAO"
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17. "aka the Nipsey Hussle post..."
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I hear folks comparing his influence to Tupac? nah, if most people don't know who you are until you die you're not an icon.

I had heard of him, I had seen him in Meek Mill's video, I knew he was married to Lauren London. I'm sure I had heard some of his stuff but I couldn't name one song or album off the top off my head at the time of his death.

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20. "Nah, Nipsey and Mac Miller are a couple of artists who I really"
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didn't know before they died but learned they had a super passionate following and bangers and great albums after they died.

The music world is huge, and YOU don't have to know them in order for them to be icons.



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21. "Nah, I agree with Nipsey (and Mac)"
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the point of this post is artists whose music feels niche but their names ring off in the public.

i think both Nipsey and Mac fit that bill.

neither of them have huge discogs, or the widespread commercial success that would typically put their names in the minds and mouths of the general public, yet they are quite well known.

  

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29. "I remember him from a track he did with The Game and appearing "
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in the We Are The World video back in late 2000's and early 2010's.

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24. "some might say Frank Ocean"
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for all intents and purposes, he's only got 2 albums. He's definitely never had a "hit" radio song

but he's collaborated with Hov, Kanye, Beyonce, Tyler...

he has probably the 2 most consensus well-received albums of the last 10 years...

and he may just be the most influential pop musician living today (you obviously can't measure influence, but I'm just going off how everyone else borrows from him)

Frank's one-of-one. He's kind of the mascot for all things cool in the eyes of millenials and Gen-Zers. But he's also, oddly, not mainstream in the conventional sense.

  

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25. "I think any Black person under 45 (probably 50) "
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at least knows what his voice sounds like and remembers his big features from 10 years ago, plus his performance on SNL and when he came out.

I'm with everyone else who doesn't know one note of an A$AP Rocky song. Not even sure what his rapping voice sounds like. I do remember him from the movie Dope, but that's it.

  

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44. "SNL performance? Did something wild happen? "
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why would that be a moment?

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49. "It was a big deal because he came out with the rollout "
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of that album. Then he appeared on SNL a week or two later. There was alot of fanfare around the whole situation.

I just looked it up, two weeks ago made 10 years.

  

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39. "RE: some might say Frank Ocean"
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>for all intents and purposes, he's only got 2 albums. He's
>definitely never had a "hit" radio song

2? He's got 4 and if we want to be picky about Endless 3

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>but he's collaborated with Hov, Kanye, Beyonce, Tyler...
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>he has probably the 2 most consensus well-received albums of
>the last 10 years...

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>and he may just be the most influential pop musician living
>today (you obviously can't measure influence, but I'm just
>going off how everyone else borrows from him)

He was a paradigm shift in how R&B was even created. Both The Weeknd and Frank Ocean dropping within a month of each other reformatted the entire R&B landscape.

Until then R&B's difficulty was how expensive it was. It had become a bi-product of the Major label system and NEEDED the big budgets to survive.

In 2 mixtapes the entire game changed. It reframed how an R&B artist could scale and made it extremely cheap (indie rapper cheap) to do so.

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>Frank's one-of-one. He's kind of the mascot for all things
>cool in the eyes of millenials and Gen-Zers. But he's also,
>oddly, not mainstream in the conventional sense.

Looking back, Odd Future might be as strong a cultural force in rap & r&b as Bad Boy in the 90s

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26. ""am i so out of touch? no. it's the children who are wrong.""
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27. "Lil Wayne and his clones"
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Lil Wayne
Future
Travis Scott
Asap Rocky
Da Baby
Lil Baby
Migos
Favio Foreign
J Cole
Griselda
Nipsey Hussle
Pop Smoke
Mac Miller
etc.

  

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41. "Dude. "
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Wayne has one of the most extensive rap catalogs out there.

Griselda puts out like an album a week.

And Ill let the J Cole fans have a word with you.


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42. "Sorry, my list is more of unfamiliar artists to me"
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46. "I can name only one song from any of those artists"
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Migos - Trap Queen

  

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28. "XXXTentacion"
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Aside from his death, catching a DV case and having a glorified XBox Live name, I didn't actually pay him much mind.

Rest In Peace, Bad News Brown

  

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35. "Rita Ora should be the beginning and end of this post."
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I have no idea how she became so famous, nor could i name a single song of hers. Shes a "musician" but shes known for everything but music i guess.

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38. "absolutely."
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I can't name one song she's sung. I don't even know how her voice sounds.

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53. "Neither do i actually. Ha"
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I just realized i have zero clue what singing voice is hers if someone played it for me. I always assumed she sounded like Rihanna or something.

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40. "Are you from the UK?"
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There are certainly artists who scaled during the mid-aughts early 2010s in the UK that we know because of instagram but had hits in their country

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52. "Half British-Half American"
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She never transitioned to being a hit, music wise, in America. Id say most Americans still have no clue she had any hits in the UK or Ireland.

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37. "Kevin Gates"
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I know far too many women who went to see him perform at a bigger venue (by my city's standards) to make any sense of it. Like... I can see him having fans, but... not that many damn fans.

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50. "I just know him from his Combat Jack interview"
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"Prisonhouse rules in effect..."

  

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45. "RE: An Artist whose discography doesn't explain their name recognition."
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Some of these are wild. Rocky is just not prolific and often raps like he's freestyling at a BBQ. But At Long Last ASAP is great.

Ray J is a better example. He has One wish and the banger Wait a Minute.

  

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51. "I’m a much bigger fan of Long Live A$AP, personally"
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I don’t really disagree with the rest.

But LLA was a thing of beauty for me, and gave me faith in a newer generation of artists

  

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47. "Edit: I'm trying to thing of some 80's, 90's & early 00's examples"
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Modern artists... I just don't listen to that type of music so I won't be exposed to any of their songs.

  

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54. "No one said Vince Staples"
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Magic is dope and I loved Norf Norf. But that's all I got.

Dude is a talented and funny dude though.


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