An Old Head answers your burning hip hop questions
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This thumbnail crazy
I thought it was his dad and couldn't believe how similar they looked lol.
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Uncle Grandpa bout to tell us bout that boom bap spherical blerical lyrical miracle golden age
Seriously, how the hell?? Looked convincing!
Came here for this comment lmfao
You're younger than you think FD, you're not an oldhead YET. You're a young unc.
A rising old head. A soon to uncle.
Younger than you think. But old enough to be talking about filing taxes in a rap vid!
Well you know how it is online. They talk about 20 like it's old.
I feel like an old head whenever I reminisce on 2016/soundcloud rap era 😔
hip-hop fans are usually around 16-24, so yeah it is old
Yungcle
As a NYC old head, I feel like there’s a whole other level of conversation that you really only hear from NYC old heads.
Like from our perspective, we saw the West Coast, Dirty South, and Midwest as novelty acts vying for second place. So people were talking about Uncle Luke or Scarface as GOATS, we were laughing. Thinking “if they were any good, they’d be in NY”. If I haven’t heard them on Hot 97 or Power 103, they weren’t ready for the main stage.
Unfortunately, that made us lazy. And we got stale. Add to that the “east cost/west coast rivalry” and the country ass No Limit sound, and we got real proud and stubborn.
By the time we realized that we were no longer the center of the hip hop universe, the center fell out and the internet age expanded the playing field even more.
Well said
Now Atlanta is Too Dog, in Mainstream hip hop and underground
Good comment. You're right. Crazy how much thing have changed since.
@@MonkeyDJaden75 I would actually argue there is no Top Dog the way there used to be. You have artists coming from all over. There’s not really the same regional style anymore. The line between mainstream and underground isn’t as easy to draw. And no single area has a mon opoly on best in the business. The top artists right now are mixed from NY, LA, Texas, Philly, Canada, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, St. Louis, and depending who you ask, even more places.
Hip-Hop changed and left those rivalries behind.
Being from New Orleans (the birthplace of No Limit & Cash Money), now living in the Dallas area, you pretty much summed up what I was gonna point out...y'all got lazy & way too cocky.
bro made a whole rap video without mentioning the goat once. This Iggy azalea hate gotta stop
Jokes aside. The way people ignore what Carti has done to Iggy is disgusting. He like the rap version of Brad Pitt.
@@AntwannnnI know almost nothing about those two.. what did he do?
@@johnwerner69He missed the birth of his kid to play playstation with lil uzi
@@5bnc That’s some crazy man child behavior!
@@johnwerner69 he also "allegedly" was abusive to Iggy WHILE she was prego. If being abusive wasn't bad already. Bro tried to get a collateral.
47-year-old black woman in America here…Big conscious rap fan. Back in the ‘90s I was told my musical preferences were alternative. That said, loved, loved, loved Common, the Roots, OutKast, the Neptunes, LL, Digable Planets, Arrested Development, Black Star (Mos and Talib’s solo projects, as well).I also claim Lupe, and my OG favorite: Pete Rock & CL Smooth. And my guilty pleasure that I don’t usually admit to…MC Brains. Special shout out to Oaktown 3.5.7…and who am I liking now, ladies first: Doechii and Leikeli47; and the usual suspects: Kendrick, J. Cole. Also, didn’t feel it needed mentioning, but obviously, Ñas.
54 yr old blk woman, and I'm with you on all those 90s artists!
Kudos for Pete Rock & CL Smooth + Digable Planets ..you're cool like that
42 yo white guy and agree with that list 🙌🏼 Pete Rock really opened my ears up to the depth of sampling culture, and Digable Planets was the real eye opener to conscious rap for me. Shouts also to Souls of Mischief and the whole Hieroglyphics crew, Pharcyde, Tribe and Camp Lo
@@RoamingHeathen 42 year old white Colombian and I was going to add the Hiero crew. 3rd Eye Vision was the soundtrack to my Junior and Senior year of high school.
I'm an oldhead and the impact of the crack era totally and completely changed the message and energy of hip hop. Also, "the meeting" that took place in the early 90s with music execs was a real thing and shaped who got heard and who didn't.
Can you explain wich meeting youre talking about im curious !
I don't think it happened as a one off ..a famous one off meeting. But its happened through normal meetings.
@@_mirendal_
A conspiracy theory that heads of labels (and possibly prison executives I can't recal) met and decided to push the NWAs of this world and push aside the Tribes and De La Souls of this world.
@@_mirendal_yep, as the poster above me mentioned, it was a meeting of what hip hop was to be.
It's basically seen as a nefarious, 5th column illuminati type meeting.
I have a vague recollection of "the meeting" but I feel y'all give labels and execs too much power to remove personal responsibility from the people. Execs aren't taste makers, they just want to make money. And the way to make money is to sell people what they want. They didn't "change" anything. Rather more accurately was they put more money and focus into certain aspects of hip hop that was more profitable. It's not some evil thing.
"Old FD isn't real he can't hurt you"
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Omg that cover photo. 😂 Those high rank Tekken matches got you going grey early, huh?
Bro BECAME Leroy Smith
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there's a show called hip hop evolution which literally documents hip from the 70's to the late 00's it's really helpful
Love that show and waiting for another season
FD Signifier is so good at presenting information and sharing his thoughts that I would click on a video of him reading the phone book
Honestly me too and I need to know the psychology behind this 😅
I'm 27 and Rakim is in my top 3 for all the reasons he's not recognized as much. In 06 when saints row came out I was 11 I thought I ain't No Joke was newer than what it was. His lyricism really did flip the game from the early dance era n set the stage for the 90s
That's fkn awesome! Video games have definitely exposed younger listeners to a lot of great hip hop from the past.
I learned about him from watch dogs 2 he had his song “dont stress the technique” in the trailer and in one of the most memorable missions, i also remember him being in saints row but im not sure if it was 1 or 2, i was like 9 in 2016 and it still really intrigued me at the time and im not gonna pretend like hes one of my top artist or if i lived anywhere close to that era but i still dig some of his stuff especially from the paid in full album and his music really does sound ahead of its time
People don't talk about Guru and GangStarr enough.
I love Gangstarr!
@katehartley2333 they were ill, Dj Premier with the beats and Bald head slick with his monotone style lol.
@ItzGOOD95 True!
They ain't got mass appeal and got too much time to play
You're right. RIP Guru ❤
The difference between underground culture between then and now is that it used to be a localized, in-person lifestyle and event based thing you had to actively participate in, or know someone within willing to share it with you, whereas now it's just clicking the right link, getting the right algorithmic response, or searching the right term.
Right. It's a gift in a sense, because I've found channels of local stuff I missed that happened right under my nose...
For the hardcore scene, finding channels like Hate5six that records small bands all over the states has been an amazing gift for someone like me who isn't tapped into that genre yet. Yeah the underground isn't what I supposed it used to be
Hiphop commentary is what made me subscribe.
I was sad when I realized this channel wasn’t that fulltime 😂
It honestly could and should be, even “B sides” implies music
80s hip-hop was critical of 90s hip-hop. That's just part of the cultural cycle.
One thing I do miss about music before streaming is that, if you connected to a song(s) you heard on the radio or on a (physical) mixtape or burned onto a CD, you would go out and buy the album and listen to the song(s) in the context of the album.
I cannot tell you how many songs are slept on because people are only streaming the one or two songs they know. As someone who is deeply invested in music, I always try to encourage people to listen to the album a song they enjoy comes from because you never know what musical gems are on there.
i do that!! i find songs thru my yt music algorithm and often go to buy the cd so i can really appreciate the entire album. when i'm driving i don't like to have to get distracted so the cd forces me to listen to the entire thing and most of the time i end up loving most of the album :D
YOOOOOOO I honestly didn’t expect you to include my question in the video! Glad you liked it and thanks for answering. Gonna go check out the people you mentioned rn
Busta Rhymes was another rapper that changed the game because his style was so unique. Keith Murray was a great rapper that neevr made it due to the heavy competition at the time.
Pharcyde, Souls of Mischief, De La Soul....There were some awesome artists. I could go on and on
Love the Pharcyde.
Love all of them.
A Tribe Called Quest, Arrested Development
Was going through a signified B sides marathon your video came at a perfect time 😂
In the 1980s my very white probation officer auntie, took my 14 year old also very white, very nerdy brother to the Too Short/ NWA... ect concert in NEW ORLEANS. That's how new rap and hip hop was in the culture.
BTW they both remember it FONDLY.
FYI
The 90s was the best because that's when UGK got known. In my opinion.
That's wild!
Sun’s Tirade by Isaiah Rashad and Rodeo by Travis dropped both on the same days and both tapes were pretty big in my school. Closest thing I can remember to a double classic drop in the past ten years
I smiled so hard when you were talking about t rock. I want through a hard threesix/project Pat phase in college and stumbled upon his music then. He’s got some classics and definitely deserve more recognition
2:37 "If you're lucky you'll end up like me. If you're lucky you'll get to this age."
Growing old is a privilege. Not everyone gets to do it.
So to add something about the 90s that made it better than most eras that I think that you missed was that:
1. Folks had become creative, not simply because of artist development, but because of mastery of the craft. You had a 10-15 year timespan to really get to know what it took to be an MC, so rappers were becoming more skilled.
2. Beatmaking became much better. We were able to move away from the James Brown loops and "create" sounds. In the south we used live instruments (in production) much more than artists from NYC. We were singing on the hooks more too. We used samples in a much more skilled way, instead of just looping a hot R&B song (well everyone except you know who)
3. Albums were much more diverse. In the 80s you had 8-12 tracks. Which normally included 1 track for the ladies and at least 1 track with your DJ showing off his skills. In the 90s the albums became more conceptual. Artists but more thought and detail into their work.
4. The biggest thing I believe was the diversity of sound. In 94 on a Tuesday in June - Da Brat, House of Pain, Big Mike and Nice and Smooth dropped what would become some of the best work put out by each. Folks were still creating "conscious" music and in fact, the hip-hop community as a whole was leaning in that direction (especially after the Million Man March in 1995).
Well said!
As a younger fan of hip hop, I can definitely attest to the 1 track for the DJs. I remember being surprised listening to those tracks from Public Enemy and Big Daddy Kane xD
I've been watching that Tony short the whole day.😂😂😂 I can't get tired of it
I’m not even super into hip hop. Not any more than your average American. But I’m a big fan of you and your brain and so now I’m learning about hip hop just cause I like hearing you talk.
Twista never had to leave Chicago to blow up.
And Psychodrama was Yungbuk, Side Kick and Newsense
This is one of the reasons i like you so much. You are older, BUT not a hypocrite. There's no unjustified "oh back in my day X was better". Anyway, thanks for the takes as always!
In Living Color and Arsenio were monumental in promoting hip hop to rural America. Bless Wayans and Hall for this contribution cuz learned of so much music, I was already a fan of the culture but featuring new music really expanded the reach of the genre to middle America
so happy you included tony’s tiktok 😭 yall should collab one day!
Rakin is THE blueprint fr! still to this day 💯
T-Rocks guest appearance on Gangsta Boos first album is FIRE.
Back in the day I found music by actually buying albums and reading the credits. Within the credits were always gems of up and coming artist and producers who were featured on that project, they usually worked with other similar artist. Magazine reviews were also really helpful.
Does not being a fan of billy woods really count as being antagonistic to young rap fans? Cause i learned about billy woods (and came to _love_ his music) from dead end hip hop, who are all old hip hop fans lol
Yeah, billy woods is actually OLDER than FD, which is triple funny to me.
I legit did not get this criticism
I think he js assumed him to be younger because he's associated more with the newer wave of underground hiphop (i.e earl, ka, mike, pink siifu, jpegmafia etc.) than the period he started in
@JGarcia-yr9fx billy just become famous later in his career, I don't get where he went with that.
@@achronos178 yea that's what i meant
Shout out to you for giving Saigon and Psycho Drama their flowers. Amazing emcee’s in their own right.
Keep up the great content
Ye old heads have cometh upon us
Melt My Eyez See Your Future is a album that will withstand time from 2022 I recommend. Denzel Curry is a very thoughtful person and that album was on repeat that whole year
i genuenly think the albums Sometimes I Might Be Introvert (2021) and NO THANK YOU (2022), both by Little Simz, are already classics in my heart. im sure time will show that in the heart of many.
this the comment i was lookin for little simz is phenomenal
I also think a huge part of what made 90's hip hop different and that sweet spot, was you had a generation of musicians who had now grown up with hip hop already existing. So now that operates as their baseline and from a creative standpoint gives them the courage and ability to think outside of the parameters of what those before them had deemed possible within the genre. I was blessed enough to have a conversation with DMX one time before he passed, and we were talking about the drum machine from which he got his name, and he said that that machine was the moment that changed his life but people younger would never understand the impact of having lived an entire life before hearing those sounds. Like, and this is taking it to a nerdy ass place, there are people who were alive when star wars came out, and that changed them because it was an elevation of film. But for people who have always existed in a world with star wars, that's now the bare minimum. They don't know a world without that being possible. And so their imagination has more building blocks, the same way that someone like Timbaland, who had always known the existence of hip hop has a leg up on someone who has to first imagine that style of music before taking it to its limitations. Each generation starts at a different starting line, but has the opportunity to expand the sound into further regions. Anyway, great video.
2023 was a slow year for hip hop lol. The best 4 hip hop records of that year were Forever Story, Big Steppers, Denzel Curry's Melt My Eyez, and Little Simz's No Thank You. Of those the first three are probably going to be classics (TFS already is and is top 3 hip hop albums of the last 5 years imo), and they came out between the end of August and the middle of December. That sounds good but that was really the only movement in the genre for the whole year
Billy Woods is great and also impressive live performer. I can get that his vibe/atmosphere and abstract lyrics are something that is not for everybody. Still for me he is easily top-5 rapper right now
Everything changed for me (as an old head ) when , I was at my aunt's apartment and played doggy style while she was gone . I went on to find DJ Quick ,Dog Pound , Death Row, Too short , uncle Luke , 2 to None , etc . Had to hide being raised in the church . The West Coast sound really shaped my taste . 90's rap and R&B was some of the best music ever. Very boot strap on the come up type artist , Before the machine really took over .
This is so good. I’m 47 & been listening to Hip Hop since 82-84. My co-workers and I tried to come up with a top 50. The age range 24-47. Lordee. We all learned a lot and I had to wrap the project up because it was a lot of suffering on both sides. 😂 Collectively, Rakim didn’t make too 25 - which is when I gave up - BUT I see what you’re saying about how this Gen receive Rakim by telephone. They don’t know, but we’re out here trying to teach. Appreciate this youtube and will be tuning in!
All this hip hop talk; when we getting that Tech N9ne video... Because JESUS that man has a body of work
i heard a story that Elton John once walked into a record store in some random part of the midwest and asked if they had any Tech N9ne albums
(When they said they didn't, he ended up buying all of their Scritti Politti records instead lmao)
@@joshthefunkdoc from Tech N9ne to Scritti Politti 😂😂😂😂
That's a hell of a swing! He's a wild man! 🤣🤣🤣🤣
little Simz' introvert is the first album in forever that gave me that album feeling from back then where it feels like a really thought out progression through all the tracks and everything's in it's place. It's also probably my favourite album of the last decade period.
Thanks for this. I haven’t come to terms with being ‘old,’ as far as my outlook;, we were booking bands, helping them load in and out, wheatpasting flyers all night long, and being the Y in the DIY punk rock underground not that long ago. I try to tell my clients, who are legal to be tattooed if they were born in 2006, FFS, that they can start a band, they can write lyrics, they can host on college radio, they can shake shit up, and they just look at me like I’ve got five heads and am just a lying idiot. It’s so bizarre that everything Indy bands screamed about into microphones warning people about the dangers of the corporate media strip mining of the arts and creativity all came to pass, and way too many people seem cool with it.
Let’s goooo I made the video😤fr tho thanks for answering my question!
Great Rakim take for someone not being there. Rakim was the 1st Nas and is pretty much every rapper's favorite rapper. Swagger still on 1Mil!
2022 was one of the best years ever for hip hop. J.I.D Forever story, Denzel Melt my Eyes, Vince Staples Ramona park, Dot's Mr morale, Black Thought and Madlibs Cheat Codes, Rome Streetz Kiss the ring, Smino Luv 4 rent, Saba few good things, Freddie Gibbs $oul $old $eperatly, Little Simz no thank you, Pusha T it's almost dry, Nas King's disease 3. And so many others that I can't think of off the dome.
I came back to 'The Score' a few years back, and man, it struck me just how fuckin prophetic it was!..
Yo!!! That thumbnail looks exactly like my late father in law. I had to double take 😂
Drill Music In Zion dropped in 2022 and got majorly slept on. Amazing album.
I think Ramona Park Broke My Heart and vince staples' work in general will gain more appreciation with age, but I agree we haven't seen any "classic" albums last year or the year beafore. There have been years or a period of 2-3 years where a lot of good and some classic albums were dropped close together. 2017-2018 comes to mind along with like 2011ish but most of those classics are mixtapes (I thought Alternative Trap from Lucki Eck$ would have a bigger impact that mixtape is still in general rotation). I wasn't there and can only glean from existing footage, but to my mind Hip Hop right now has more in common with its awkward early 80s years than with any other part of its history. At least visually. I also wanted to shoutout GRIP and the Snubnose album in the conscious hip hop conversation. I had written a much longer comment, but folks might not even read this far. Just thank you for the great video.
Discovering music back in day was like getting sucked into an MLM. Someone had to invite you or sell you on it and then you did thag for somebody else. And the person on top of the food chain got paid in respec
7:30 I couldn't agree more about new rap not being any more offensive than older stuff. Black Sheep released U Mean I'm Not in 1991. I've since read that its lyrics were intended as parody, but it's so over the top it surpasses Frank Zappa territory.
When I played that 2nd track to my stoner friends "U Mean I'm Not" back in the day, they didn't know what to think. Oh my God I LOVE that freaking album.
Doechii has been on the scene for years and is so slept on. For weeks now she's been putting out hit after hit too. She's incredible
Hey FD! I love your content. I learn a lot. i am 54-year-old black women from Philly. I know there are people my age that act like we were not singing all of those examples you gave. I love, love Hip Hop, I listen mostly female rappers from the US, UK, and Australia. Older and younger rappers. I remember "OOCHIE WALLI" from my favorite Male Rapper Nasir Jones. I went to a Glorilla, Kash Doll, Trina, MC Lyte, Wu Tang, Nas, Lauren Hill (yes, she was 2 hours late in DC), and 50 years in hip hop with LL Cool J (he talked nasty too) , Queen Latifah, concert within the past two years. All that😂 to say there are some of us "ole heads" that can see we listened to the same freaky and drug filled songs.
28:03 “hot old heads in your area” is the first thought that came into my head
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Short answer Yes! Gen-Xers weren't feeling a lot of 90s hiphop or at least the new artists.
That's when the "conscious" sound went further underground.
They don't remember acting that way🤣🤣
I feel like the most noteworthy years for rap post 90s are 2013, 2016, and 2021. All incredibly stacked, multiple really big artists all dropping albums. 2021 had Tyler, J Cole, Kanye, Drake, Baby Keem, Little Simz, JPeg, Vince Staples, and Westside Gunn all come out with (mostly) great works that are arguably classics. Most of these released in a 6 month period too.
2013 had one of the craziest years for new up-and-coming artists like Joey, Drake, K Dot, Cole, Rocky, Chance, Childish Gambino, Travis Scott, Future, Mac, Logic, Nicki a lot of them had insane drops and even collabed with each other in that year and (some) became the biggest artists of the genre.
2016 is notorious for being the year everybody dropped an album, from Beyonce dropping a surprise album to Kanye, Chance again, schoolboy, young thug, kendrick again, anderson paak, rae sremmurd, drake.
Side note but this is why Beyonce really is one of the GOATs. She puts efforts into making albums as if they are fully realized concepts like the 90s
23:22 Keith Murray shoutout🔥🔥when I first heard TMBTIW...it grinded my gears how that album isn't more heralded because it is one of the most perfect blueprints for heavily technical and science spitting rhymers who also need to understand that they can rap about obscure things and still have superb beats to make really good songs
You really could do one of these a month or something. keep em coming! As a Zillenial i’m at that intersection that sees both sides and i love hearing this kind of content!
Pastor Troy! that's a name I haven't heard in a min. Dude's had a fanbase here in atl since I was a kid.
The biggest divide I notice is the ways in which younger people consume music compared to previous generations. It still surprises me how most younger people will skim through songs on an album finding which one has the hardest beat, then add it to a playlist. I primarily listen to albums all the way through. There are definitely a few playlists I have curated over the years that pertain to a certain vibe or time period of my life. Still, I believe it is important to respect the art enough to at least listen all the way through and make up your mind on how you feel about it. Unfortunately, we are living in a time where more music is being released than ever before and most artists today don’t respect the listeners’ time. They’ll release a bloated, half-assed piece of work, hoping at least one song they threw against the wall sticks and becomes a hit. It’s a viscous cycle where artists don’t respect their fans time, and fans by no fault of their own, refuse to pay any mind to any album since no one wants their time wasted.
Naaah, man, keep talking about hip hop. You've cultivated a space that I feel comfortable entering as a queer individual to invest more of my time in learning about the past and current state of hip hop. I will watch every single video at this point. Lol
Black Moon, Smif n Wesun, Helta Skelta,, Lord Finese, Gang Star, 8Ball & MJG, Panet Asia (started in the 90s, but more 2000s), AZ, Grandaddy UI, Shadez of Blacknes. There was a lot of dope hip hop from the 90s
Right, I could literally name 1000 off top. But nobody trying to read all that 😂😂😂
@@dogsandyoga1743 Yeah, I don't expect people to actually listen to lesser known artists, but these artists deserved to be named.
96 i was in 7th grade and that's when my love for rap and hip hop exploded because friends started really sharing all the music i had been missing. All thru middle school and probable hs is when you got classic after classic albums (95-2000)
Excellent comments on Rakim!
He was the first one that stylistically combined everything that hiphop was at the time along with the largest name recognition.
I'm very new to hip hop, so this was super interesting and gave me great stuff to check out like bahamadia, but even more than that I did not know Rakim was so important and now I'm way more inclined to listen to him
Hearing Rhymes like Dimes faintly appear in the background was the sweetest punch to the face I've ever received
I really like this channel, but my God that jump scare of an intro gets me every time
I’m glad you acknowledge the hypocrisy of older fans. I swear I hear a lot of bars about rape and homophobia from older hip hop that really makes me go back and check to make sure I heard what I heard. Enta Da Stage, I’m looking at you.
26 views in 1 minute? Man Unc fell off 😮
Bruh stop 😅
Busta was my fav in 96-97 too. I mean, he still is, but he was then too. When Disaster Strikes... was the first CD I ever saw that cost $18 when it dropped. I remember being like "Damn, that's like $3 more than most of these..."
FD genuinely having to explain going to a store to buy physical records/CDs makes me feel so old 🥲
Chicago was too caught up in beefing, the radio was scared to play music. Even back then. The 90s was actually worse.
Many artists, including Lupe and Rhymefest have spoke on it.
It's also why Old Chicago artists feel guilty about the part they played in modern culture.
I really enjoyed this type of discussion especially as someone who grew up on latin america hip hop, listening to rap in general helped me develop a more understanding of the culture here in the US.
Back in the nineties I heard only bad things about rap shows (pull up late, lazy talking over dat tapes, short shows) but when I finally went to a Heltah Skeltah (RIP Sean)/Smiff n Wessun show like 10 years ago they delivered and I loved it. Since then I've been to a gazillion rap shows, mostly younger guys like Flatbush ZOMBİES, Waka Flocka, Denzel Curry, Armand Hammer, the Griselda guys, and they all delivered. Only Ghostface and Killah Priest started a half hour before curfew. Calculated them coming late but didn't expect the curfew. Those 25 mins were 🔥 tho. Rakim advanced rap, I was into rap before but he stepped up the game fr.
I’ve been really looking for a good hip hop commentary channel that also knows about fighting games and pro wrestling, so I’m glad this video appeared when it did!
Tupac had the most impactful verses.
Twista is the best technical rapper? Remember him? Underrated.
Biggie had the best party songs. Dre had the best beats.
Nas was inconsistent.
Eminem is and always was mid. Drake is popstar poser.
Jayz is wack.
Diddy couldnot rap at all.
Ice cube, the roots, public enemy and nwa were the most conscious
So what you’re saying is MF DOOM is the best rapper of all time 🤔
@@BOGOworms4sale who?
Nah has to be pac for me. Not a single bad album.
@@jzilla1234 MF DOOM is my favorite artist lol but pac is such a respectable choice
I wouldn’t hold being inconsistent against nas. Just cut his vision didn’t hit all the time that doesn’t downgrade the greatness of the artistry in his hits that he is widely lauded and praised for.
@@christinathein951 true nas was epic in his prime. But he did fall off.
Excellent video. You should do a part 2 of this
I was gone click anyway but the thumbnail made me do it with a smile 😂
watching this one again and this is making me remember Rich Boy. hed be talking about some stuff on get this paper that felt pretty bold for the time. you had call of duty modern warfare the first releasing that same year too and that was actually in its time kinda subversive as well. there was something in the air in 2007 maybe lol
edit: pastor troys vice versa is so insane
*my 20 year old white ass who’s super nerdy about music history watching your hip hop videos* “Write that down, write that down!”
The Odo pfp is elite
@@Cdr2002 thanks my man!
@@odothedoll2738 no problem! Hope you’re having a good pride 🏳️🌈!
FD, god bless you for encouraging a lively inter-generational exchange of ideas. ❤
Love your videos in general but the hip hop focused ones are *chefs kiss.* Props to the person who brought up the Gatekeeper question. Definitely gonna check out T-Rock--that little sample you included sounded insanely good!
Great questions and answers. I love hearing all these kinda old stories and the evolution of the many many aspects of what makes hip hop hip hop.
i aint realize the thumbnail was FD until my second watch lol
I think this is such a good format i would love to see a part two with other questions you didnt get a chance to answer in this video
Common also left chicago and made his way to brooklyn.
Yeah he didn’t really blow until he went to New York and started working that scene. He still rapped about Chicago but he didn’t take off until he went to the east coast. Northern Midwest music scene wasn’t strong as other regions. Back then you had to go where the major labels were if you were from the Chi or Gary. We was all into rap and rapping, it was an up hill battle.
The old heads that try to act like they were never young or did “young things” are the problem. It’s like they scared to be judged and act like that stuff never happened instead of teaching the younger generation from their experiences
Another old head here. One thing I didn't see if you touched upon were the magazines like The Source, XXL, Vive, etc, and this is where a lot of us heard about new music during the 90s. Of course you had The Source's unsigned hype which introduced Biggie and Eminem. My personal favorite was Murder Dog, because that health with regions outside of New York and indie rappers.
80's heads definitely complained about the Puff Daddy era. That was the big shift in sound (not the mid-2000's), when Diddy started sampling entire songs.
Just to answer to the classic recently, Sometimes I Might Be Introvert came out in 2021 and it's for sure a classic
Most of the stuff you talk about as missing from today’s hip hop is present on Backwoodz Studioz label. They make ALBUMS. Concise. Thought out. Intentional.
2018 was the last year that was stacked with classics. Astroworld. KSG. Daytona. SRS. Swimming. As a matter of fact, swimming and Astroworld were released on the same day. Kinda similar to how All eyez on me and the score were released on the same day because nobody was listening to Mac like that before he died.