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what do you people think of it?

V (vebroll), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 05:59 (seventeen years ago) link

straight stupid

renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 06:05 (seventeen years ago) link

DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB DUMB

Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 06:07 (seventeen years ago) link

e-feezay should know better than that shit

rizzx (Rizz), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 06:16 (seventeen years ago) link

What about the music?

V (vebroll), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:04 (seventeen years ago) link

That E-40 CD is my favorite of 2006 so far. GOUDA! GOUDA! GOUDA! CHALUPA!

Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 08:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Hyphy gets approximately 50x more airtime on NPR than any other form of hip-hop.

Shoes say, yeah, no hands clap your good bra. (goodbra), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 13:04 (seventeen years ago) link

How does it actually differ from crunk?

Ned Beauman (NedBeauman), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i think hyphy is a rad new form of music. good stuff.

M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:06 (seventeen years ago) link

better than Fiddy or Diddy

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 16:26 (seventeen years ago) link

Quite liking the new Keak album. The E-40 album kinda spins offcourse badly.

It's Rodney, pimp! (R. J. Greene), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

E-40 is mostly classic minus the dick sucking song and the track with t-pain that they inexplicably made into a single.

deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I haven't heard the new E-40 but the single/video I saw was pretty uninspiring. It didn't really have any of his stylistic trademarks on it, which was weird.

Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

-- Ned Beauman

NEW NED

¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ¨ˆ (chaki), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

deej.. is OTM. "Gimme Head" is the only song on there I really don't like. I'm buying the new Keak next chance I get.

Marmot 4-Tay (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:21 (seventeen years ago) link

stupid dumb = truth in advertising

Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

Bay Area BEST BUYs have full (8x6) endcaps this week.

Steve Shasta (Steve Shasta), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 22:39 (seventeen years ago) link

What about the fact that Sonar has special "Hyphy experience" performance this year?

I wonder if that will be as much of a success as So Solid Crew was in 2004...

Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't really understand how hyphy isn't catching on. I mean i'm biased living in sf, but if you've heard either of these-
http://youtube.com/watch?v=taypGhWo93M&search=super%20hyphie
http://youtube.com/watch?v=feYbZA4RUXI&search=keak%203%20freaks
I dunno how it isn't huge. and if you care about that kind of thing, hyphy is largely feel-good, "lets party" hip-hop (with crazy ass beats). sure theres yay slinging and some songs about shooting people but more or less most hyphy songs are about self-expression and being happy. i love hyphy.

goodbyesoberday (goodbyesoberday), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

also see:
super sic wit it - mistah f.a.b.
fellin' myself - mac dre

and countless youtube videos of teenagers going dumb.

goodbyesoberday (goodbyesoberday), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link

hyphy is largely feel-good, "lets party" hip-hop (with crazy ass beats). sure theres yay slinging and some songs about shooting people but more or less most hyphy songs are about self-expression and being happy

so how's this different from rap + r&b music at large??

renegade bear shot by cops on frat row (vahid), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 05:55 (seventeen years ago) link

it's way less about talking about how hard you are- especially in comparison to southern rap and whats popular coming out of ny. I mean, i'm not saying that people aren't partying and having a good time listening to that music either, its just that the very nature of being hyphy is just stupidly having as much fun as you can. I don't see hyphy rappers starting violent feuds anytime soon, mac dre's death notwithstanding. I'd say its also significantly less materialistic, too- and the things hyphy rappers tend to be materialistic about are stuff like white t's and vans sneakers. but again, to many people the subject matter is less important than an interesting song so i dunno if it matters one way or another.

goodbyesoberday (goodbyesoberday), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 06:01 (seventeen years ago) link

My former high school (in Seattle) had a Hyphy Day for their Spirit Week. And from what I heard, Mac Dre did a free show in the gym. Why didn't this get popular two years ago?

clotpoll (Clotpoll), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:07 (seventeen years ago) link

i really love the, er, three hyphy tracks i've heard - 'let the bass go' by balance was the first i heard and it's not dumb at all, and i was like, why are people calling this dumb? then i heard e-40's 'the dummy' and mistah fab's 'city limits' and it was like haha that's why. but they're GREAT, seriously. that or i'm a sucker for rave synths in hip-hop.

The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually if you read Murder Dog's issue with the Thizz Nation cover it's remarkable how Snap music in ATL and Hyphy in the bay are converging on exactly the same vibe, but with slightly different aesthetics. Both are about party music, and a shift away from violent lyrics.

Makes me wonder if what's happening with hip hop now is a more defined split between club music (hyphy, snap and chart stuff) which is very producer-based, and is basically disco in some root way versus the street stuff which is obviously more rap as we know it, more MC focused, and with the mobb and trap styles getting no less violent in content...

Jacob (Jacob), Wednesday, 14 June 2006 07:42 (seventeen years ago) link

eight years pass...

the hyphy hitz beats sound way more mid-00s now than they did at the time. somehow i can hear a really huge neptunes influence (in the drums) that i don't recall noticing at all then, too.

j., Saturday, 20 September 2014 03:22 (nine years ago) link

still like this ... is there a thread for posting rad hyphy tracks?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLRCIja0Eb4

the late great, Saturday, 20 September 2014 04:28 (nine years ago) link

I have so many opinions 4 u

deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 20 September 2014 07:23 (nine years ago) link

do tell!!

the late great, Saturday, 20 September 2014 07:26 (nine years ago) link

I like 40 Water but never got into this beyond the surface & it never really popped off so I don't really have an opinion on it. I like the P-Lo/The Invasion / League of Starz post-hyphy style though, less goofy (?) but the beats still bang (bang, bang)

P sure crunk decisively won the popularity wars back in the day tho lol, I mean people at my college liked "Blow the Whistle" and "Tell Me When to Go" but nowhere near how much people went nuts for "Get Low" for example. Lil Jon uber alles

nova, Saturday, 20 September 2014 14:36 (nine years ago) link

actually nvm p sure people did go nuts to "Blow the Whistle" too. All Lil Jon tho which is kinda weird to think about & shows he was more versatile than people sometimes give him credit for (to say nothing of casual/non-rap fans who think he just yelled over shit)

nova, Saturday, 20 September 2014 14:38 (nine years ago) link

Blow the whistle and tell me when to go ate both produced by lil jon you know

Οὖτις, Saturday, 20 September 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link

Nm xxp

Οὖτις, Saturday, 20 September 2014 14:40 (nine years ago) link

blow the whistle has actually only gotten more popular as time has gone on ... it barely charted initially:
http://www.complex.com/music/2014/05/how-did-blow-the-whistle-become-hyphys-biggest-anthem

deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 20 September 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link

really forward thinking stuff that breaks the boundaries. this is the kind of stuff that is literally catnip to real music buffs

cool music buff (missingNO), Saturday, 20 September 2014 19:30 (nine years ago) link

actually seen that article before, nice job btw

And yeah def. prefer it to "Tell Me When to Go" although both are dope

nova, Sunday, 21 September 2014 00:00 (nine years ago) link

I feel like I barely go to a party where "Blow the Whistle" doesn't get played but I had assumed this was strictly a west coast phenomenon

The Reverend, Sunday, 21 September 2014 00:15 (nine years ago) link

I still hear "Feelin' Myself" out pretty often (which ppl go nuts to obv) and "The Thizzle Dance" and "Super Hyphy" every once in a while

The Reverend, Sunday, 21 September 2014 00:20 (nine years ago) link

At the time tho "Tell Me When to Go" was the biggest song that year but I rarely hear it now. There was one time that summer when I was at a red light and it came on the radio and I realized the guys in the next car had it on too and we started rapping it back and forth between are cars and going all dumb. That was the best.

The Reverend, Sunday, 21 September 2014 00:35 (nine years ago) link

Feelin myself is the jam

Οὖτις, Sunday, 21 September 2014 00:45 (nine years ago) link

of all the songs you just mentioned, literally only 'blow the whistle' gets played at non-west coast clubs IME

deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:28 (nine years ago) link

blow the whistle is a national legacy hit, now

deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:29 (nine years ago) link

feel like I hear blow the whistle every day

puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 21 September 2014 01:40 (nine years ago) link

man I hated "The Thizzle Dance" in college, thought it was terrible. college college blahblah.

I really should correct my lack of Mac Dre knowledge though, letting the Bay down

nova, Sunday, 21 September 2014 02:15 (nine years ago) link

At the time tho "Tell Me When to Go" was the biggest song that year but I rarely hear it now. There was one time that summer when I was at a red light and it came on the radio and I realized the guys in the next car had it on too and we started rapping it back and forth between are cars and going all dumb. That was the best.

― The Reverend, Saturday, September 20, 2014 5:35 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I had this experience (kinda sorta) with Snoop Dogg "Who Am I (What's My Name)" a couple weeks back lol, SoCal in NorCal man

nova, Sunday, 21 September 2014 02:21 (nine years ago) link

Other Too Short songs of that period I hear out once in a while: "Shake That Monkey", "I Want Your Girl", "Burn Rubber"

The Reverend, Sunday, 21 September 2014 06:50 (nine years ago) link


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