what got you out of hip hop?

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― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 12:57 (twenty-three years ago)

Still loving it.

― Marcello Carlin, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

i think i had a period where i dropped out, kind of around the period das efx and cypress hill were big (91-94) was not a big hip hop period for me, i got back into it again though after this period

― gareth (gareth), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:16 (twenty-three years ago)

It started getting too nasty.

― Rockist Scientist, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 13:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Public Enemy espousing the teachings of Louis Farrakhan and the Nation Of Islam, and proceeding to give instructions to the Youth of Brixton from the stage of the Academy on the fine art of "steaming" tube trains on their first UK tour.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not out of it. Aside from pop it's the main thing I listen to.

― Tom (Groke), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I liked when it first got nasty, with NWA, Kool Keith, etc. I lost interest when it made nasty seem banal. I rarely pay attention to the rapping anymore, just the music.

― Curt (cgould), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

this is one of the few genres that continues to make tiny amounts of headway on occasion. when i buy new stuff that's not a re-release, there's probably a 30% chance it's a hip-hop record.

― msp, Wednesday, 16 October 2002 15:55 (twenty-three years ago)

gangsta. i'd been a fan while young, then got turned off when the daisy age faded and everything got nasty. at the time, PE was too hard for me and NWA just nasty... but I was young. NWA still sounds nasty, but i grew up and learned why. and it's much easier for my ears to appreciate the bomb squad now.

then herbaliser, ninja-tune style hip-hop got me back in. then i discovered the stuff i'd been missing: freestyle fellowship, solesides, even illmatic. been back in ever since.

― bucky wunderlick (bucky), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 16:10 (twenty-three years ago)

haha the Nas thread!

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 16 October 2002 17:13 (twenty-three years ago)

A more solitary existance. It's not the sort of thing I put on when I'm alone & reading. Hip-hop is social music for me, so my peak listening period ('94 to '99, maybe) was when I was going out to bars a lot, etc.

― Mark (MarkR), Thursday, 17 October 2002 01:32 (twenty-three years ago)

The samples got less interesting.

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 17 October 2002 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

i dont get out of genres anymore.

― boxcubed (boxcubed), Thursday, 17 October 2002 02:30 (twenty-three years ago)

Mark, that's an interesting comment about it being social music for you. If I remember, I can pinpoint the last gasp of my hip-hop period to a particular party I went to where one of the CDs I heard and liked was by the Pharcyde (and I think another one might have been by the Brand New Heavies, but never really checked them out); and then I came home and put on the radio and heard KRS-One's "Higher Level," which sounded great early in the morning, while I was still high from the party. (In fact, I still think the keyboard sample at the beginning, or whatever it is, sounds amazing. I just don't think too much of his rapping.) My losing interest in hip-hop actually occurred around a time I became more socially withdrawn, temporarily. On the other hand, I didn't really go out to hear hip-hop. I shared it primarily with one of my friends. Also, I do remember listening to it by myself, though not necessarily when I was reading. I'm not sure if it was an issue for me.

Incidentally, this proves that as late as 1993, I was finding hip-hop to listen to beyond the NWA mold that seemed to bother me, though some of even this material got to be more offensive, or at least abrasive, to me, later on. I think, though, that I was already listening to less of it by this point, and I've never listened to much since then, though it wouldn't surprised me if I were to get back into it one way or another (possibly through a combination of going back to old things I once liked and listening to some undie stuff).

― Rockist Scientist, Thursday, 17 October 2002 02:45 (twenty-three years ago)

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