louder's hip-hop café
 

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I'm counting on you to educate me on modern hip-hop. My tastes are almost strictly oldskool. And I mean OLD.

i'll make a list of notable releases from the last few years.

You realize you will only lose further IQ points by doing this.

i am usually nice to everyone here, cuz i try to remember there are actual people behind the screen, but.. fuck off.

I don't often do this with you, but I beg to differ. While it is not my most oft-listened to genre, there is definitely some appreciable hip-hop out there. I will confess my love for

modern hip-hop classics:

Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
Common - Like Water for Chocolate
The Diplomats - Diplomatic Immunity
Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
Jay-Z - The Blueprint
Kanye West - Late Registration
Madvillain - Madvillainy
OutKast - Stankonia

newskool essentials ('10-pres):

Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
Big K.R.I.T - Return of 4eva
Curren$y - Pilot Talk
Danny Brown - XXX
Drake - Take Care
Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
Killer Mike - R.A.P Music

I'll join in (in the auditorium). Thanks.

must spread rep

i think the main problem here is that louder's taste is really banal and dull.

sonic sphere's cafe of absolute indefference towards this thread about crap hip-hop is doing great business.
no word on noisereductions raptastic bistro however having spent an evening with viewtiful, it's clear to me that his taco wagon has great potential.

Well put!! Being an asshole to someone over the internet ALWAYS reflects more poorly on the insulter than on the insulted. It makes the world look on u with more disdain than you had for the victim ti begin with. :)

Though louder you *were* a snot in my oh-so popular Stripes thread ;)

Louder, seeing as you are an expert on worthwhile modern hip-hop, I think it would be extremely kind of you to make me a mix. The fact that I am lazy and it will take me ages to steal all of those songs is only a minute factor in that proposal.

Pretty pretty please?

haha. still upset, i see.

not really.

far from an expert, i love it with all my heart though, as opposed to a bunch of brits here who called hip-hop "generally uninteresting". smh.

but sure, when i'll be home.

hey, i said i'm sorry!!

i love hip hop, i called you uninteresting.

yeah, that's pretty true.

Derek, you've been chasing me around the forum for a few months now, constantly crying for attention, then counting on SpaceCadetHayden to back you up, or just starting to talk about how you were/are friends with atsonicpark for no reason. if you really were as cool as you always claim to be, you wouldn't find it so necessary to impress a bunch of strangers on an internet forum all the time. think about it.

also, i'd like to see you criticizing my list without making a fool out of yourself. then i might gain some respect to you.

modern hip-hop classics:

Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens
- haven't heard.

Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury
- a classic definitely, this was the album that made me realise just how important the neptunes sound was to music in those years.

Common - Like Water for Chocolate
- another classic, probably my favourite common record behind 'be' (which apparently is an unpopular opinion but whatever).

The Diplomats - Diplomatic Immunity
- not heard.

Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
- it's decent. i think it's kinda weird to throw this in when 'ironman' and 'supreme clientele' are everything you could want in a hip hop record.

Jay-Z - The Blueprint
- jay-z is pretty consistent, you could put a number of his records here. no complaints.

Kanye West - Late Registration
- i'd say 'the college dropout' is a better record, but you can't really go wrong with this record either.

Madvillain - Madvillainy
- always thought this record was overrated but then again, madlib and doom have always been overrated to me despite being great at their craft.

OutKast - Stankonia
- this is a weird pick. out of their pre-'hey ya' albums, i'd say this one was the worst. it still has it's merit but i think they dumbed themselves down a little (and fair play to them for selling millions doing it).

newskool essentials ('10-pres):

Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot
- pretty good. i wasn't expecting it to be great because andre 3000 was always the more interesting character out of the duo, but big boi can of course hold his own. i prefer it when the two are working together though ('roses' was the best song out of their double album and that's probably because it was the only song where they both had presence).

Big K.R.I.T - Return of 4eva
- not heard.

Curren$y - Pilot Talk
- curren$y is cool with me and i like some of the stuff here, but it's a pretty mediocre record.

Danny Brown - XXX
- probably the most interesting rapper of this decade so far. no complaints.

Drake - Take Care
- awful, insufferable garbage.

Kanye West - My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy
- definitely a modern masterpiece. no one expected this after his weird break-up record.

Killer Mike - R.A.P Music
- it's good but it only really holds up for a few listens. it's a total sugar rush record.

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also, i have barely been at this forum the past few months. it's somewhat akin to checking my myspace at this point so i'm not 'chasing you around' nor am i trying to impress an internet forum all the time. i just tell 'em how i see 'em.

cool. now i see that for the most part, you find my list pretty solid. hence why i thought your previous comments were so childish and annoying. you should've just made this post instead. and listened to Below the Heavens because it's simply one of the greatest rap albums of all time.

Aquemini is way better than Stankonia. the only reason i put it in my list was because it came out in the 00's and The Love Below is more like a psychedelic pop album.

i liked Take Care's sound from the beginning, but it took me a while to admit it's just a great record. whether you like it or not, it's the soundtrack to the Twitter/FB-era generation. it's going to age extremely well.

you need to work on that though. for starters, figure out how to make your remarks on people without being so cringeworthy.

sure, you don't post here often, but every time you do makes us feel like we're in a remake of Mean Girls. except instead of being a "bitch" (which Hayden excels at), you just come off as dorky and awkward.

if you come at louder's café like that, you better step your game up.

Derek??? He's a lovely boy!

Genteel death is totally "Mean Girls" though. All he posts are quips and insulting remarks. At first I thought he was just a frustrated kid, late teens or low 20's, who tended toward Grumpy-Gus snarkiness. I thought it was kinda cute actually! But now he's starting to be the type of person that people stay away from online-forums just to avoid.

I hope his home life is ok. Genuinely... because he acts like a frustrated college drop-out with or an ax to grind, and he grinds it with invisible people because he perceives them as both harmless and immune to being/feeling harm.

But Derek > Genteel. Far and away. Sorry genteel! I like you and enjoy your posts when they're not a) cut/pastes from other users and nothing more b) insults aimed at users in discussion you weren't even part of or c) taking up space to insult the forum as a whole. Sounds like a pretty unhappy guy. :(

Next time, Genteel, just open up and tell use what you're feeling and maybe we can help, because the insults are objectively lame and usually desperate sounding. Get happy!!!;)

uhm there is no Mista Thug Isolation on this list so it's null and void because that is an important record.

I also don't appreciate being called a bitch it makes me think of like drag queens or something but Mean Girls is a great movie I'm Regina George okay

I TAKLED TO ADAM TODAY I MISS HIM SO MUCH I'm friends with adam too and like we're not trying to impress you we're friends with adam

get over yourself

was porky in this thread too? hello porky

have you guys heard the new fiona apple? can we pause for a second and talk about the new fiona apple? it's good. it's record of the year probably.

yeah i really wanna listen to Fiona's new album. she's got one of my fav flows in the game and all. but apparently i'm banal as fuck and every album i like might make you lose further IQ points so ignore my opin.

true

i take it black

i have to work in 4 hours

He's a cunt, basically.

Hi sweets. You're all like a bunch of faggots fighting over the same unwashed dick.

still not sure what Genteel had to do with anything.

You guys treat us girls like shit round here. I may be only 17 but I am not a moronic, pretentious bitch like E. Noisefield.

And now, back to WHAT'S RELEVANT HERE,

Thank you. I truly would appreciate that. What a nice young man you are.

It makes me laugh to see you children bickering. Had you been around on the board many moons ago like us old fogies, you'd have seen some real maligning and shit-throwing.

Oh, you kids.