tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post6089586386781523818..comments2023-10-03T00:09:27.749+09:00Comments on The Adventures of a Foreign Salaryman in Tokyo: Hip Hop is dead!Mr. Salarymanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02874380653396343115noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post-73992055414287297702012-02-06T23:34:56.315+09:002012-02-06T23:34:56.315+09:00i'm responding to your suggestion that hip hop...i'm responding to your suggestion that hip hop is dead, and it is not.<br /><br />if you're referring cross-genre hiphop, of coz, there're many fine examples, hip hop with jazz, even hip hop with punk rock..<br /><br />the point is if you dont explore and do some research on your own , then no one can save you from your mistaken view that hip hop is dead, which you conclude only by knowing some mainstream hiphop music.<br /><br />need some hints??<br />allmusic.com/explore/genre/rap-d1<br />en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_rapikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post-24220273701070014022012-02-06T22:06:06.921+09:002012-02-06T22:06:06.921+09:00RSA - EBM is the shit, always was, always will be!...RSA - EBM is the shit, always was, always will be! Nothing like a sequencer, heavy dance beat and rough vocals!<br /><br />Will - Yeah, it's a bit sad how the revolution got lost in all the confusion...<br /><br />asdahoudha - Yep, Japanese hip-hop I have even less love for, never was anywhere near the underground at any point...<br /><br />Chris - Yeah, they all got rich... Hey, whatever happened to 2-live crew btw ;)<br /><br />Theresa - I agree, something like that... All of that "do it yourself" punk-attitude with the whole culture just gone nowadays from hip hop...<br /><br />Kamo - Indeed! You can go on about how "Daddy can shake his booty with the best of them", but then there's probably some new fad that we'll never be able to understand...<br /><br />Ike - Sure, I know that there's some people trying to keep it real, but the fact is that musically it's not that different from the mainstream hip-hop, if it would, it would be a separate music genre... I used to like some of the cross-genre stuff until it all turned into nu-metal... I even tried so hard to like Ice-T's metal project but couldn't really take it...<br /><br />Theresa - Didn't Stravinsky sample "The Robots" from Kraftwerk too ;)Mr. Salarymanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02874380653396343115noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post-91241209197033992132012-01-31T23:20:11.255+09:002012-01-31T23:20:11.255+09:00I just listened to Stravinsky's The Rite of Sp...I just listened to Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and I think that was the first hip-hop.Theresahttp://theresaurus.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post-83427323469990323342012-01-31T22:58:52.463+09:002012-01-31T22:58:52.463+09:00wow, wow, and wow,
i cant believe you guys who kno...wow, wow, and wow,<br />i cant believe you guys who know little about hiphop and yet thinking that hip hop is dead..<br />that's because if all you know are what comes out from tv/mtv or radio then you pretty much are really just at the tip of the hip hop iceberg.<br />and from your comments, it's just sad that you look like you havent really done much research on the music genre before commenting as such<br /><br />to start things off, <br /><br />en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_Tongues<br /><br />en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underground_hip_hop<br /><br />happy exploring.ikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post-14856020765381544282012-01-30T19:21:36.772+09:002012-01-30T19:21:36.772+09:00White middle-aged men are just the kiss of death t...White middle-aged men are just the kiss of death to any kind of counter-culture. I don't know why kids' parents try to prevent them listening to certain types of music, when the easiest way to totally destroy any credibility it had is simply to say how much you 'dig' it.<br /><br />It's one of the few things I'm looking forward to about my son's teenage years, to be honest.kamohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10785763841038321633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post-64038785483959160092012-01-30T19:04:57.318+09:002012-01-30T19:04:57.318+09:00I'm an Olde and a teenager when the whole New ...I'm an Olde and a teenager when the whole New York City Renaissance of art/dance/fashion/music that was graffiti, break dance, hip-hop style, rap, was going on, the Golden Age: a burst of creative energy, everybody wanting to be different, creating something out of nothing. It was new. Rap to me will always be "Rapper's Delight" by the Sugarhill Gang, Curtis Blow's "The Breaks," Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Afrika Bambaataa, the funk of Parliament. Then something happened and it was like corporations swept everything up and packaged it for sale and you were in or out. What's really new since then? It's all recycled. How many more years do we have to see sixties and seventies fashions yet again? I cringe at the phony hip hop all over the place. And get off my lawn or I'm calling the police.Theresahttp://theresaurus.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post-79023523499204338932012-01-30T15:08:10.467+09:002012-01-30T15:08:10.467+09:00They went from "Ghetto" N.W.A/Ghetto Boy...They went from "Ghetto" N.W.A/Ghetto Boys to Jay-Z and Kanye...who are the 1%ers of the 1%ers...the only thing street about them is their million dollar cars drive on them...or they fly in private jets everywhere?Chrishttp://badboyinjapan.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post-54115965436065197962012-01-30T09:17:32.886+09:002012-01-30T09:17:32.886+09:00Not to mention that Japanese hip hop was never any...Not to mention that Japanese hip hop was never any good, and corporate from the start (isn't all music that gets heard here?). Besides, this language doesn't rhyme and hardly has rhythm: just like Japanese dancers.Ἀντισθένηςhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06199983680204710885noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post-77271694043094264752012-01-30T08:37:54.989+09:002012-01-30T08:37:54.989+09:00You hit the vain with that post. Anything worthwhi...You hit the vain with that post. Anything worthwhile these days is all self-promoted. Skinny Puppy started out that way...though I was more of a NoMeansNo listener myself, but that's neither here nor there.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09661426960326013304noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6531601964128518668.post-32718675766346700922012-01-30T00:09:51.884+09:002012-01-30T00:09:51.884+09:00I still kind of cross my eyes every time you (infr...I still kind of cross my eyes every time you (infrequently) mention EBM. <br /><br />synthetic.orgReal Synthetic Audiohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02490922511902593770noreply@blogger.com