Are we in the Post-rap era?
SPlDEY
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I was just being turned onto Earthgang and JID by a former co-worker out here in Austin. It was interesting going down the YouTube rabbit hole of these artists. There are so many innovations going on with music around the world, but it's still interesting to me to watch how genres evolve.
Especially when it becomes so alien to you that it almost becomes unrecognizable.
- Spidey
Especially when it becomes so alien to you that it almost becomes unrecognizable.
- Spidey
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http://www.youtu.be/watch?v=ITILk-dc4Wo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITILk-dc4Wo
screw it, I've completely forgotten how to embed stuff
For some reason you have to use the share link now. How did you first hear about these guys?
- Spidey
Also these guys (but their beats are more trap as far as I can tell)
https://youtu.be/NwaE6UpMk5s
I remember that being a bit absurd and not very memorable moment in the news, but now I'm starting to hear the aftermath of some of the new rap music that has been coming out lately. Makes me think back to that story. Popular stuff too. It's so far removed from hip hop/rap.
For a comparison of what I'm talking about:
^No idea what this is
^This is/was Hip Hop
- Diego
Heavy Anderson .Paak vibes
I think Soul Strut is smart enough to fully digest what DMC is saying in this video. I've been on this site for a now, and every year there was a re-occuring joke on Soul Strut about the "Hip Hop is dead" thread. Here's the beginning/end of the conspiracy theory: In 2019 the unseen corporations that actually run the music industry are finding more ways to profit off of Rappers not making rap music.
peace and love,
- spidey
man that was dope as fuck it was slow enough at work so i could watch it end 2 end... is there more from that interview? id love to hear more of that
- Diego
Watched DMC's whole rant there, and he's not wrong. But I don't know that you can put the cat back in the bag. Transgressive shit in music feels like it's here to stay, and I think it's of only limited influence on what people actually do. I remember Vince Staples talking about growing up a crip saying when he was like 11 "we played GTA San Andreas and all thought that was what gangbanging was, and we should do it like that, and after a really short time, we realized that shit was stupid". I think likewise you can have media depicting any manner of ridiculous behavior and it's not gonna have much but a limited influence on, basically, 11 year olds for a month before they realize it's fiction. The root cause of people getting shot in Black communities has more to do with wider economic and social factors. Nothing wrong with taking responsibility for your own actions as an individual but there's a lot of external and historical baggage fucking over these communities as a whole that needs to be organized around too.
- spidey
The new Tyler is a whole lot of weirdo r&b pop - I feel like that might pos-rap? *typo, but fuckit
Yep, Post-rap uses some familiar Hip Hop elements in a completely new context. It abandons typical hip-hop tropes or conventions, and usually bears little resemblance musically to contemporary Hip-Hop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLsTskih7_I
- spidey