Do you listen to Hip-Hop?

Do you listen to Hip-Hop music?

  • Absolutely

    Votes: 16 27.6%

  • Not really my cup of tea

    Votes: 33 56.9%

  • It's kind of impossible to avoid these days / I listen to a genre with it's roots in Hip-Hop

    Votes: 9 15.5%
  • Total voters
    58
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BabyHeadCrab

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Simple question. Keep in mind, Hip-Hop is a massive genre that most popular music today can, in some way, be lumped under (or influenced by). No, Beyonce and 50-Cent or even Atmosphere are not what "Hip-Hop" is, nor can all "rap" be classified as Hip-Hop, so know your terminology before assuming you hate an entire genre. There's an enormous amount of genre crossover and Hip-Hop culture is rapidly expanding it's horizons. Basically it's an awesome time to be a Hip-Hop fan--are you?

Here are a few of my frequent listens these days:

Sage Francis
Immortal Technique
Deltron
Lupe Fiasco
Ratatat
 
Love it. Due to travelling in my friends' cars a lot, I've recently opened up to a lot of Notorious B.I.G. which I thought would never happen considering the time of the whole West/East and explosion of thug and gangster rap is an era I tend to avoid with the exception of N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton record (<3), though I still think Tupac is overrated tosh.

But for all time, I've love for the anticon label for folk such as Themselves, Why?, Alias and the like. Currently digging the new Themselves record which features Aesop Rock and Sole, amongst others. Good stuff.
 
Depends. I listen to certain artists, mostly gangstarr and wiz khalifa, but rarely does anything on the radio appeal to me.
 
TheAntipop said:
Love it. Due to travelling in my friends' cars a lot, I've recently opened up to a lot of Notorious B.I.G. which I thought would never happen considering the time of the whole West/East and explosion of thug and gangster rap is an era I tend to avoid with the exception of N.W.A's Straight Outta Compton record (<3), though I still think Tupac is overrated tosh.

But for all time, I've love for the anticon label for folk such as Themselves, Why?, Alias and the like. Currently digging the new Themselves record which features Aesop Rock and Sole, amongst others. Good stuff.
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I enjoy B.I.G. and Tupac quite a bit, though I sort of grew up listening to both. I particularly love the song Thugz Mansion--and my record collection would feel absolutely incomplete without All Eyez on Me. Regardless of the discerning public's opinion on "Gangster" rap and the East Coast / West Coast feud (which was primarily a marketing blitz propagated by, you guessed it, white guys in hollywood), it was and continues to be enormously influential to pop music. I woke up this morning and played through Dr. Dre's The Chronic--great shower + coffee music!
 
BHC said:
I enjoy B.I.G. and Tupac quite a bit, though I sort of grew up listening to both. I particularly love the song Thugz Mansion--and my record collection would feel absolutely incomplete without All Eyez on Me. Regardless of the discerning public's opinion on "Gangster" rap and the East Coast / West Coast feud (which was primarily a marketing blitz propagated by, you guessed it, white guys in hollywood), it was and continues to be enormously influential to pop music. I woke up this morning and played through Dr. Dre's The Chronic--great shower + coffee music!
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Eh... it's not what it was, it's what it is. I haven't heard everything from the time, but enough to be mostly put off by the output. Keeping in mind that I got into hip-hop through the anticon label (if you haven't heard any of the above that I mentioned, you'll know give or take what it's all about if you enjoy Sage Francis who is often affiliated with a few names I mentioned) which isn't rap made by knuckleheads with glocks. I'm going full circle with a very old genre by getting into it from the recent sprawl of backpacker hipster/indie hip-hop.
 
Oh don't get me wrong, I'm certainly not suggesting Hip-Hop is all about those "knuckleheads with glocks" I just happen to enjoy listening to them. I'll definitely check out some more of the Anticon stuff, the connection where I'm staying in L.A. is outstanding so I'm taking this time to grab/listen to as much music as possible--any other suggestions would be marvelous.

It's important to note though--that for all intents and purposes the "knuckleheads with glocks" mentality has even left pop music. The guys getting radio play aren't singing about stickups and blunts anymore, like you said, it's targeting hipsters with generically globally conscious lyrics and catchy choruses and melodic, electronic influenced hooks. Maybe the reason I tolerate more "gangster" rap lately is because I find it easier to stomach than the likes of contemporary pop Hip-Hop. We white people ruin everything.
 
Why, yes! I have a moderate amount of older stuff, such as Eric B and Rakim, A Tribe Called Quest, Wu Tang Clan, Jungle Brothers. I also have a secret crush on Missy Elliott's stuff. I also very much enjoy the contemporary electronic post hip-hop that is coming out of LA, from the Low End theory/Brainfeeder crews, such as Flying Lotus, Samiyam, Nosaj Thing, Ras G, Mike Slott, Martyn, The Gaslamp Killer and so forth.
 
Major, major brownie points for Tribe Called Quest, I still regularly play Midnight Marauders, fantastic album. They're also a really fun live gig. Your Missy crush shouldn't be secret, either--she is an awesome producer and has done some fun stuff.

KineticAesthetic said:
contemporary electronic post hip-hop that is coming out of LA, from the Low End theory/Brainfeeder crews, such as Flying Lotus, Samiyam, Nosaj Thing, Ras G, Mike Slott, Martyn, The Gaslamp Killer and so forth.
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Yes yes yes yes yes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyD9H70PAa8&feature=related
 
I think you are mistaking Hip-Hop with the Blues in terms of influence.
 
I was referring to pop music, so no, but I can understand how you might think that. I'm not accrediting Hip-Hop for all contemporary and moderately popular music--just giving credit where credit is due. A lot of [pop] music these days has it's roots in Hip-Hop culture and influence.

If you're suggesting that Blues has had a lot to do with manufacturing Hip-Hop and just about all contemporary, western popular music--I completely agree.

/music history snob
 
BHC said:
Yes yes yes yes yes
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MAD PROPS, BRO

Also that's a pretty sweet track, but sadly not a real collaboration, just a mashup. Which saddens me a leetle. Doom is a GREAT rapper, though. Also Cannibal Ox.
 
I listen to hip-hop's roots. Hip-hop itself? I don't own any music by any rap artist, but I do have some very funky Herbie Hancock and Miles Davis.
 
Not I. I'll listen to anything but Rap, Hip-hop, Country, and modern Pop. I say modern pop because I enjoy the likes of MJ and ABBA.
 
i listen to a little bit, old stuff mostly. the beastie boys, run dmc, grandmaster flash, snoop, ice cube, that kinda stuff. basically whatever they put in a gta game 99% of the time i like.
 
I am a newbie in the Hip-Hop and Rap Genres, but I like what I'm hearing.

Pretty much what my hip-hop/rap playlist is limited to at the moment-

Saul Williams
Outkast
Why?
Just Jack
Alias
Themselves
Deltron 3030
Flying Lotus

I'm not crazy about MF Doom, he's alright. Don't know why he's so big.
 
My rap listening is pretty much contained within the Anticon label (Why?, cLOUDDEAD, 13 & God, etc.). But that is a good portion of my total music listening.
 
Not really, not. Don't mind it, though, I just don't listen to it much.
 
"Not really my cup of tea" is not nearly emphatic enough of a description for my aversion to this type of music.
 
I like the 90s hip hop but today I maybe listen to about 2% of hip hop on iTunes. im a fan of rock and heavy metal music
 
I like hip-hop and rap from foreign countries.

American Stuff is trash these days, but check out Hilltop Hoods/Bliss-N-Eso/The Herd/Terra Firma from Australia. Very old school vibe in Aussie Hip-hop.
 
zombieturtle01 said:
I am a newbie in the Hip-Hop and Rap Genres, but I like what I'm hearing.
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This to the extent where I can't honestly vote "absolutely" even though I'd like to. I enjoy gangsta rap. But I was sitting in a pub and one friend said "Nah, I'm west coast" and the other said "I'm east coast" and I leaned back and said "I'm post-coast" and put on my sunglasses.

Fan for a while of: Outkast, Sage Francis, Immortal Technique, Lupe Fiasco. Recently got into: Saul Williams, Alias.
 
That was pretty smooth, I'll have to pull out "post-coast" in casual conversation sometime soon
 
Hate it. All of it. I liked Aussie Hip-Hop for a while, but that just became gay & I've always thought that American Hip-Hop was just dog balls.
 
I don't like it, though i tend to like it when it's mixed with rock.
 
I don't mind rap but I really can't stand hip-hop music and whole basics of the hip-hop "culture".
It just seems quite alien to ME.
 
Sulkdodds said:
This to the extent where I can't honestly vote "absolutely" even though I'd like to. I enjoy gangsta rap. But I was sitting in a pub and one friend said "Nah, I'm west coast" and the other said "I'm east coast" and I leaned back and said "I'm post-coast" and put on my sunglasses.
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Heh, I think I've seen "post-music" and "post-everything" used before. If I had a radio show, I'd want to call it "The Post-Music Show" just for the absurd pretentiousness factor. I don't really listen to any post-[genre] though except post-rock, which is a term I never go around using because it sounds ridiculous.

On topic, I don't listen to hip-hop. There's a possibility I'd like it especially if it's catchy, but I've never bothered listening.
 
Huh, I must be in the wrong place, I thought this was a fansite for Half-Life 2, not where a whole bunch fags that are in love with some guy who finds fault with everything continue to make gay jokes, my mistake guys.

It's a free world guys I'll say what I like & I don't give a shit about what anyone says.
 
gordenfreemannumbers ur so gay
 
Actually, you cant say what you like here because this isnt your forum.
 
Them's fightin' words, boy!

Hip-hop: mainstream stuff like Lupe Fiasco, indie stuff like El-P, Aesop Rock and the rest of Def Jux, Atmosphere, harder (but still mainstream) stuff like Immortal Technique, old school NWA and Public Enemy, 2Pac and Biggie of course, Method Man, Quasimoto, Roots Manuva, Mr. Lif, the list goes on. I don't really listen to any particular subgenres of rap, just a bunch of artists from all over the place that I've picked up. Really don't like mainstream trash like Lil Wayne but I am exposed to it a lot by my less pretentious friends and it's not that bad.

I introduce you all to El Producto, the most talented producer and indie rapper on earth:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9b-ibeakUA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v4RXArgH-4
 
What do you guys really expect from a 15 year old angsty Slipknot fan?
 
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