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justnickbell t1_j9gspz2 wrote

Reply to I need Albums by Freaks-24

Plastic Beach - Gorillaz

Ticker - Pist Idiots

The Mollusk - Ween

The Don - Donny Benet

City Slicker - Ginger Root

Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo! - DEVO

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Mister_Weiss t1_j9gs3pr wrote

Oh, come on. Here’s a better question. What makes it any different. The meter of his vocals are no different than anyone else making rap. The beat has no creativity. Oh, cool, he uses a guitar in the opener. Been done a million times. Are you with his PR Team? What exactly is “innovative” about his music?

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musicenjoyer25 t1_j9gri7h wrote

Reply to I need Albums by Freaks-24

Rust in peace - Megadeth One of the greatest thrash albums of all time

Slipknot - Slipknot Angry shouty metal but not death metal

OF tape Vol.2 - Odd Future Alternative hip hop

Good kid M.A.A.D city - Kendrick Lamar one of the greatest rap albums of all time

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DrannonMoore t1_j9gqt47 wrote

Hip Hop is definitely not the most versatile genre in the world. That title would have to belong to rock music. There's really nothing to debate there. However, the idea in your head that Hip Hop has only recently become versatile is entirely fantasy.

The 90's had G-Funk, Crunk, Chopped & Screwed, Horrorcore, Alternative Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Bounce, Miami Bass, & Chopper, which were all uniquely sounding subgenres of Hip-Hop. You're a fool if you think they all sounded alike in the 90's. They were more versatile back then than they are now.

Also, you talk about Nas as if he is a modern rapper. Lmfao, Nas debuted in the same era that you say isn't versatile and then used him as an example to explain how versatile Hip-Hop is today. How tf does that make sense? If you're going to make a case for how versatile modern Hip-Hop is then you should at least use examples of modern Hip-Hop artists. Wtf?

However, back to my original point... Rock is hundreds of times more versatile than Hip-Hop will ever be. Metal and Punk both started as subgenres of Rock before becoming genres in their own right and, themselves, spawning subgenres of their own. There are literally hundreds - if not thousands - of subgenres, microgenres, fusion genres and derivatives of rock music.

Rock music is so big that the fans of it's music developed entire subcultures around it. You had rockers (rockabillies), hippies, greasers, deadheads, goths, cybergoths, emos, scene, metalheads, crusties, psychobillies, riot grrrls, surf punks, gutter punks, straight edge punks, skinhead punks, neo-nazi punks, (enter name here) punks. All of these were entirely different subcultures that developed because of rock music or one of its derivatives.

The only subcultures that came from Hip-Hop are like mainstream rap culture, wangstas and juggalos. Hip-Hop simply can not compete with how many subgenres or subcultures that rock music has developed over the years. Rap music simply doesn't have the diversity that is obvious when you listen to Elvis Presley before transitioning to Ozzy Osbourne; the Beatles to GG Allin, Metallica to Cannibal Corpse, etc. I could point out even more polarizing extremes but I chose those artists to make my point because more people are familiar with them. Hip-Hop isn't anywhere near as diverse or versatile as Rock music, regardless of which metric you use to measure it.

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Elegant_Spot_3486 t1_j9gqspx wrote

Always have. If I like it I wear it out. In my youth the cycles were shorter though because so much good music was made back then I always had something new to crank up. So often it might be a couple albums of different styles (rock, pop, hip hop, metal). But I can play any of those and know what I was in to at the time, my relationship info, who I hung out with and stuff like that.

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Acceptable_Designer9 t1_j9gqo3c wrote

Sounds pretty similar to me. I get it, you think this guy is the leading edge and that’s cool. You put it on here thinking he is the epicenter of innovation and then proceed to question anyone else’s opinions. But if this is what constitutes innovation to you, awesome. And if I am wrong I will admit as such, but I am betting this feed will be full of comments more similar to mine then yours. But I hope he gets all the support he needs, respect to him for even putting his stuff out there.

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TheWonkyBonk t1_j9gqiny wrote

his delivery is your average rapper's delivery.

Vocals so mired in autotune his words/lyrics aren't coherent.

After I googled the lyrics to understand what he is saying, it's the same shit that every generic rapper talks about: money, drugs, nice cars.

Same drum pattern that has been used since raps been alive (4/4 signature, literally dubbed common signature because it has been used so much).

Even when he switches flows, he is switching from an already pioneered lyrical flow to another already pioneered flow. Basically, goes from young thug to migos around 45 seconds in.

pretty run of the mill.

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