is there any interest in a hip-hop thread? We’ve got a metal thread, for good reason - but i’m curious if any of y’all have artists you like, what the crossover looks like.
i just got recommended Jay Electronica, and his album A Written Testimony was one that left such an impression on me that i don’t know what to do but write about it. It’s maybe one of the best examples of my favourite to listen to approach of getting the most emotion out of the sparsest production. The beat drones and repeats sometimes for an atmosphere meditative enough, i could forget where i am. In any style of music, that’s something i love to find.
Plus the guitar on the last track could put most guitarists from bands to shame, Jesus it’s so expressive. Definitely an album to reserve an hour for and listen to like watching a movie.
i dunno, what do y’all like? I got plenty of recs already but ngl i’m kinda curious who in hip-hop ends up interesting to vkei fans. Depending on the artist i think there can be a lot of experimenting and emotional expression in common.
My first reflex was to say “not really a genre I listen to”. But in theory I think every genre has songs that I can enjoy. Just the amount of songs will differ depennding on how much I am into a genre.
So I put on the album you mentioned. It’s best to judge by hearing something by yourself right?
My conclusion is: I am not the audience for this But that’s fine. Would be boring as hell if didn’t had all these diffrent kinds of music.
A hip hop thread is more than welcome! Curious to see how VK and J-rock interests coalesce with all things hip-hop and/or rap here
It might be just me boasting, but I have a huge backlog of hip-hop to “crate dig”, yet I find myself coming back only to a small number of favs every now and then. You can tell that I tend more towards trippier stuff:
One mainstream example that I play back and forth. Does anyone have any similar dub/hip hop-influenced favs around here?
I feel bad for not discovering this until much later. Dilla for every moment.
I also feel bad for having a long hiatus from listening to this gem as well.
There’s also a Jet Set Radio Future OST that led me to where I am at the moment with my specific tastes in rap and hip-hop, but I am not sure if people around here enjoy that kind of stuff
Hip-hop was born in English and it’s great, it sounds very much in tune with the rhythm and sonority of the language, but now in other languages, frankly some of them sound awful. Hip-hop in German is horrible, imagine in other languages that don’t sound close to the language structure of English.
Outside of VK, hip-hop is my main genre although I’m an oldhead and dig boom-bap.
Deltron’s 3030 is one of the greatest hip-hop albums and concept albums!
Yeah, I got a preference. I listen to JID and Denzel every now and then, but I still prefer the cadence of the older stuff. I also got into the Nujabes and CYNE/Cise Starr pipeline as well.
Ramirez dropped a new album today, and it’s a follow-up to 2020’s masterpiece that is “Tha Playa$ Manual”. Tha Playa$ Manual is one of my favrite hip hop albums from the past 20 years. It’s summer. That’s what the album is. It’s pure vibes and summer. The second album might not reach the hights of its predecessor, but after one round it’s truly magnificent. The productions (mostly by Rocci but with additional help by frequent Ramirez collaborator Mikey the Magician and a few others) are god tier, and Ramirez is on fire as usual, Rocci sings like a god and the other features (like Mikey the Magician) are also top tier. I can’t wait to dive deeper into this album this summer. It’ll most likely be played on repeat through out the summer.
But that’s fine. Would be boring as hell if didn’t had all these diffrent kinds of music.
大坂! Jake is about to make waves in Korea too!
