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question from an old school guy: where do outkast, common, jay-z sit? they all started in the golden age but have continued through to the apocalyptic wasteland that is today's rap music scene
Old School Rap versus the hot garbage masquerading as rap today
There are a lot of young people (much younger than me) here on BCP. I challenge you to convince me that there is any rapper in this generation that is anywhere close to the old school rappers that truly created quality music.
There is no one in this era that can hold a candle to KRS-One, Rakim or a half dozen others that I could name.
Go ahead. Prove me wrong
question from an old school guy: where do outkast, common, jay-z sit? they all started in the golden age but have continued through to the apocalyptic wasteland that is today's rap music scene
The only new age guy who can hold a candle to the real stuff is Eminem. Other than him, I guess Kanye is the closest.
Here's a song with Foxy Brown (laughs at people saying Nikki Minaj is better)
I don't even like Biggie that much, but this shits on anything out today
Old school Jay-Z
And somebody who never gets any love but is one of the greatest as far as I'm concerned, Mos Def
I can't hardy stand new aged rappers. But these are some of the youngins I listen to.
Jay Electronica ft. Jay Z
I love the MLK intro
Joel Ortiz...Hip Hop's Abe Lincoln trying to free us from wackness
J. Cole....Fayetteville NC's own
I would consider Jay-Z old-school. Common, Oukast, Mos Def, Talib Kweli and that group came along just slightly after what I would consider the Old school period. During this time period they were still producing a lot of quality music. I'm a huge, HUGE Mos Def fanOriginally Posted by Chef
i think we talked about this before but there are certainly different ages: i call the golden age 1990-1997/98/99, i consider old school the bronze age, but i definitely think the height came during the golden age. i think i am a few years younger than you (31) and the golden age hit right through my high school years so that could be a big part of it but there was so much variation from east coast to west coast/gangsta, to afro-centric, to non-classifiable pharcyde, das efx, "weed rap" etc and even the southern stuff started to really hit ghetto boys (west coast/southern mixture), ugk, outkast, goodie mob, mystikal.
The version with Slick Rick on it is better of course.
More NC bias....Sean Price & Ruck
Little Brother....But Phonte is the beast of the group. They went to UNC-Central in Durham when i was at Fayetteville State
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If you like real old school, you should check out this doc: The Freshest Kids. It's focused on dancing, but you get a ton of hip-hop history in the process. Available on Netflix!
SOMEONE will pay for THIS!
Props to the Knicks going old school last night....couldn't find any video of it yet.
Knicks kick it old school with Grandmaster Flash
From Associated Press
January 27, 2011 11:14 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — There was an old-school vibe at Madison Square Garden on Thursday night.
With the New York Knicks showing signs of life not seen since the Patrick Ewing days, the team brought in pioneering DJ Grandmaster Flash to pump up the crowd against the rival Miami Heat.
"There's an energy here. It's getting back to the way it was," Grandmaster Flash said. "It's exciting. This team, as a collective, has a chance to be good."
In an age of iPod mashups, the 53-year-old Grandmaster Flash still was spinning vinyl — the record players hooked into a laptop, of course — from his booth off a corner of the court during the pregame, timeouts and at halftime.
The DJ from the Bronx, who is one of the inventors of hip-hop, played for a star-studded crowd that included Kanye West, Q-Tip and Fat Joe.
Before the game, Amare Stoudemire was voted an All-Star starter, the first Knicks player to earn the honor since Ewing in 1997. Behind Stoudemire, the Knicks are 23-21, second in the Atlantic Division.
Here is just a taste of Grandmaster Flash for those that weren't around back then
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