Super_Cobra
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Trash, every now and then there would be something good.
People love to trash modern rap and call for a return to the 90s, but the 90s had garbage rap too. You're just remembering the best of it.
And the late great told us,"Never get high on your own supply".
Notorious B.I.G. R.I.P. Would have been 44 years young today.
WTF is Tumblr rap?
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The king of it back when he blew up. He blew up off of Tumblr and he's got the aesthetic for it. He's changed now but look at the LLA mixtape, the themes, visuals, that's it pretty much.
WTF is Tumblr rap?
Is Tumblr rap different than Soundcloud rap?
I guess Odd Future?
The king of it back when he blew up. He blew up off of Tumblr and he's got the aesthetic for it. He's changed now but look at the LLA mixtape, the themes, visuals, that's it pretty much.
Between 2007 and 2012 Rap really was pretty much dead. But as a former, dusty 90's Hip Hop Head I must say we've been in a new golden in the last few years and if you don't see that I can't help you because you're probably stuck in your "Real Rap" Facebook groups that share lyrical-miracle-spiritual-individual freestyle videos and Eminem songs while posting about how Lil Yachty is killing Rap.
Nowadays there are so many new blends of sounds, and more experimentation and genre-bending than ever in Hip Hop. There's something for everyone if you're open. Ignorant or fun and eccentric Mumblerap, smooth and relatable Underground shit with a modernized Boom Bap sound, moody Cloud Rap, experimental Elelctronica-infused stuff etc...
Had no clue any rapper ever used Tumblr; that's not really a good way to define a genre.
Every rapper is on Facebook and Twitter and Soundcloud too..
Ctrl-F "Macklemore" There isn't a single true fan of authentic and/or goood hip hop on this goddamned forum.
If you don't know GAF-Hop, check out our AOTYs from the last years for good recommendations:
2016 results: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1334664
2016 voting: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1325606
2015 results: http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1173279
2015 voting: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1157075
2014 results: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=980156
2014 voting: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=952177
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The king of it back when he blew up. He blew up off of Tumblr and he's got the aesthetic for it. He's changed now but look at the LLA mixtape, the themes, visuals, that's it pretty much.
I guess Odd Future?
Pretty much the same thing except a different platform and today's artists use more auto-tune but you got it.
Yep they definitely were in their earlier days.
If you don't know GAF-Hop, check out our AOTYs from the last years for good recommendations:
2016 results: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1334664
2016 voting: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1325606
2015 results: http://neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1173279
2015 voting: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1157075
2014 results: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=980156
2014 voting: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=952177
Yeah Rocky blew up off Tumblr. Yams had a Tumblr account and was promoting his work heavy and that gained them connections so when his project dropped it was easy for them to get seriously noticed because Yams did the work. The type of visuals, themes, that type of thing was pretty common for Tumblr back then. Odd Future fits it as well, SGP, Young Lean, you know what I'm saying. They all have every social media platform but there's that specific kind of music that people call "Tumblr Rap."
The term's not good but it's all a similar "style" if that makes any sense. There should be a better term for it.
Check my post above with the links to our GAF-Hop AOTYs. Also here are my AOTYs from last year:Ohhh give me some artists to lookup. Like the way that sounds...
Death Grips alone made it a great decade, not to mention everything else that obviously happened.
Strange; A$AP Rocky and Young Lean have the same style? lol
Literally never heard the term. Either has google apparently https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=tumblr+rap&*
It's also barely mentioned on any of their wiki pages.
I used to frequent hip-hop forums like KTT back in 2011-2012ish and can confirm that "tumblr rap" was a very common term. Hard to really say what qualifies as "tumblr rap" though.
Interersting:
https://www.google.com/search?q=KTT...-8#q="tumblr+rap"+site:http://kanyetothe.com&
Still seems like a fairly niche term; forums like KTT are niche no matter how big they seem.
Ohhh give me some artists to lookup. Like the way that sounds...
Strange; A$AP Rocky and Young Lean have the same style? lol
Literally never heard the term. Either has google apparently https://www.google.com/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=tumblr+rap&*
It's also barely mentioned on any of their wiki pages.
Yeah because there's no Wiki does it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist, I hear it a good amount to describe that era and those types of rappers. Also yeah just peep this.
Kyoto - Young Lean
Wassup - ASAP Rocky
There's clearly a connection between the style and visuals between the two. Either way Rocky's evolved as an artist from his older days, I'm not sure how Lean's doing now but it was an era that's for sure.
Now it's this whole Mumble Rap thing but that's another story.
Tons of great stuff over the past decade and it's only getting better. Soulja Boy was truly the bottom of the barrel for shit rap but the rebound has been aaaaaaaaamazing, whips and nae naes aside.
I mean, Compton came out in that time period and it's one of my favorite albums ever so I can't really complain. I keep discovering new quality artists ever day it seems like.[/QUOTE]
It's easier than ever to produce, record, and have access to music so there's more out there to consume. The trash is in greater numbers than ever but so is the great stuff. It's just that trash is what dominates air-ways for the most part.
Kanye, Kendrick, and Tribe have dropped classic hip hop albums in the last decade.
and then you got more "underground" artists like Run the Jewels, Danny Brown, and Death Grips dropping some amazing and new experimental takes on the genre.
and the "mumble rap" thing is great if you like fun. Much love to Yachty.
so yeah in conclusion hip hop is doing well
difference is rocky actually raps