Your Top 5/Top 10 albums of 2018
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I got 20 I can think of. No critical judgement here, just saying these are the albums I played the most and that makes them good in my book. In no order.
Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour
Lucy Dacus: Historian
Noname: Room 25
Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy
Tierra Whack: Whack World
Kamasi Washington: Heaven and Earth
Prince: Piano & A Microphone 1983- hell yeah
Christine and the Queens: Chris
Saba: Care for Me
Leikeli47: Acrylic
Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer
Travis Scott: Astroworld
Earl Sweatshirt: Some Rap Songs
Ariana Grande: Sweetener
Pusha T: Daytona
Camila Cabello: Camila
The Carters: Everything Is Love
Drake: Scorpion
Eminem: Kamikaze
Lil Wayne: The Carter V
I got 20 I can think of. No critical judgement here, just saying these are the albums I played the most and that makes them good in my book. In no order.
Kacey Musgraves: Golden Hour
Lucy Dacus: Historian
Noname: Room 25
Cardi B: Invasion of Privacy
Tierra Whack: Whack World
Kamasi Washington: Heaven and Earth
Prince: Piano & A Microphone 1983- hell yeah
Christine and the Queens: Chris
Saba: Care for Me
Leikeli47: Acrylic
Janelle Monae: Dirty Computer
Travis Scott: Astroworld
Earl Sweatshirt: Some Rap Songs
Ariana Grande: Sweetener
Pusha T: Daytona
Camila Cabello: Camila
The Carters: Everything Is Love
Drake: Scorpion
Eminem: Kamikaze
Lil Wayne: The Carter V
Some of the best rap albums in years have dropped in 2018. Em, Drake, J. Cole, Pusha, Jay Rock, Phonte, Nipsy, Travis Scott, Royce, The Carters, Saba, Lil Wayne, Mac Miller, Denzel Curry, Mill. Start listening! Instead you're turning into your parents, getting married and shit. Talking about nostalgia, the good 'ol days.
Maybe I'll have to listen to J. Cole's KOD properly. I only listened to it once and I wasn't really paying much attention as I was researching at the same time.
Phonte is always good. Only listened to Swimming once, will give it another listen. Nipsey and Royce are my top two candidates I think though Kamikaze could easily take #1 spot.
Phonte is always good. Only listened to Swimming once, will give it another listen. Nipsey and Royce are my top two candidates I think though Kamikaze could easily take #1 spot.
I'd say it's more than that.
I know like a whole legion of people would take offense to this idea, but hiphop is a VERY unsophisticated genre. That's not subjective. Try to get into jazz. I don't mean as in just listening to it. There were a million myspace rappers. There's not a million myspace jazz musicians the same way. That's not because jazz is "boring" and hiphop is "new", it's because jazz requires tenfold the mental processing to execute and understand. I think you could say people below a certain IQ threshold could never comprehend jazz. Hiphop is way more tribal, lyrics are way more emotional and "monkey-like". That's why teenagers get caught up in it, and not 60 year olds. I'll always be nostalgic for hiphop, and it'll always have a place in my heart, but I wanted to add to your statement. I stopped listening to hiphop because it's so fucking basic, and it's all the same shit over and over again. I'm the kinda guy that goes on forums to discuss shit. I like depth. I hit bottom in hiphop and there's nothing truly new to explore there. It's not just that the rap game is stagnant, the whole genre and the culture surrouding it is very, very limited in very many respects. It's inevitable for anyone of sufficient intelligence to intuitively feel that sooner or later, and I think that's what you're feeling. Though I wouldn't presume to really know anything about you. That's what I'm feeling I should say!
I know like a whole legion of people would take offense to this idea, but hiphop is a VERY unsophisticated genre. That's not subjective. Try to get into jazz. I don't mean as in just listening to it. There were a million myspace rappers. There's not a million myspace jazz musicians the same way. That's not because jazz is "boring" and hiphop is "new", it's because jazz requires tenfold the mental processing to execute and understand. I think you could say people below a certain IQ threshold could never comprehend jazz. Hiphop is way more tribal, lyrics are way more emotional and "monkey-like". That's why teenagers get caught up in it, and not 60 year olds. I'll always be nostalgic for hiphop, and it'll always have a place in my heart, but I wanted to add to your statement. I stopped listening to hiphop because it's so fucking basic, and it's all the same shit over and over again. I'm the kinda guy that goes on forums to discuss shit. I like depth. I hit bottom in hiphop and there's nothing truly new to explore there. It's not just that the rap game is stagnant, the whole genre and the culture surrouding it is very, very limited in very many respects. It's inevitable for anyone of sufficient intelligence to intuitively feel that sooner or later, and I think that's what you're feeling. Though I wouldn't presume to really know anything about you. That's what I'm feeling I should say!
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Reminds me of the 1920s when jazz was called a form of bayou voodoo, primitive and evil compared to classical music. Here's one headline: "Why Jazz Sends Us Back to the Jungle." Now Preach is doing something like that to rap compared to jazz. And then similar arguments were made for R&B, then Rock. Every new music requires less intelligence than the last.
Hey, we're all monkeys. If there's any racism here, it's your assumption that I was talking about black people 
It's not to be taken 100% literally
I guess energy is a better word? Hiphop is full of youthful, naive and immature energy. On every hiphop forum everyone's still like "yeah word, that's dope" and coming from Germany. I don't know what else to say, like most things it has a lot of good elements and a lot of bad elements, but it's a young culture, and very finite. If you truly get deeply interested in anything hiphop has to offer, say like the social aspect of hiphop culture, or poetry, or the history of the oppressed, or yadda yadda, then that automatically branches into something that extend far beyond hiphop.
It's also not a subjective statement. We can measure it in the amount of information needing to be processsed to perform the art. To actually perform jazz you need to know a great deal about music theory. That's like knowing a lot of maths. It's not intuitively logical, it takes time and investment to learn, and it's useful. It's not confined to jazz. Music theory is in a sense related to physics, and it's tough shit. To be able to rap you don't have to even finish high school, and you can already be going at it large. It's more instantly gratifying to create a rhyme, and it's more natural to us., than it is to learn music theory The mannerisms that go hand-in-hand with hiphop music are part of the culture so again, it's something that's being picked up on from an early age and naturally embodied. That's not true of reading notes. This is not even an attempt to put down hiphop. There's many things that are more basic than jazz (or music theory), or more complex than hiphop, that's neither a put-down to those things or necessarily saying anything about jazz, other than that it's more difficult than many things and easier than some things. They are also incomparable in some ways, so that's something I guess. Hip-hop is younger than many art other forms, meaning it has had less time to mature. Meaning, effectively, it is less mature. It's also a physical thing. I think that's part of why people grow out of it. Like, it seems obvious to me that there's a relevant connection between the fact that when you're young, you're more hormonal, and that the music that young people listen to is more physical and emotionally amplified.
Which is why at some point, it was no longer super interesting to me. Doesn't mean I hate it, just means it doesn't get my blood pumping anymore.
The part about old people not getting into hiphop? Or the part about it being less complex than jazz? I don't think I'm wrong about those things.
It's not to be taken 100% literally
I guess energy is a better word? Hiphop is full of youthful, naive and immature energy. On every hiphop forum everyone's still like "yeah word, that's dope" and coming from Germany. I don't know what else to say, like most things it has a lot of good elements and a lot of bad elements, but it's a young culture, and very finite. If you truly get deeply interested in anything hiphop has to offer, say like the social aspect of hiphop culture, or poetry, or the history of the oppressed, or yadda yadda, then that automatically branches into something that extend far beyond hiphop.It's also not a subjective statement. We can measure it in the amount of information needing to be processsed to perform the art. To actually perform jazz you need to know a great deal about music theory. That's like knowing a lot of maths. It's not intuitively logical, it takes time and investment to learn, and it's useful. It's not confined to jazz. Music theory is in a sense related to physics, and it's tough shit. To be able to rap you don't have to even finish high school, and you can already be going at it large. It's more instantly gratifying to create a rhyme, and it's more natural to us., than it is to learn music theory The mannerisms that go hand-in-hand with hiphop music are part of the culture so again, it's something that's being picked up on from an early age and naturally embodied. That's not true of reading notes. This is not even an attempt to put down hiphop. There's many things that are more basic than jazz (or music theory), or more complex than hiphop, that's neither a put-down to those things or necessarily saying anything about jazz, other than that it's more difficult than many things and easier than some things. They are also incomparable in some ways, so that's something I guess. Hip-hop is younger than many art other forms, meaning it has had less time to mature. Meaning, effectively, it is less mature. It's also a physical thing. I think that's part of why people grow out of it. Like, it seems obvious to me that there's a relevant connection between the fact that when you're young, you're more hormonal, and that the music that young people listen to is more physical and emotionally amplified.
Which is why at some point, it was no longer super interesting to me. Doesn't mean I hate it, just means it doesn't get my blood pumping anymore.
The part about old people not getting into hiphop? Or the part about it being less complex than jazz? I don't think I'm wrong about those things.
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