Sorted my top rated music by genre and year and got reminded why we call them the "golden years" of hip hop. In semi-chronological order, and in no way comprehensive:
Poor Righteous Teachers
Black Sheep
Del
Das EFX
Pharcyde
Freestyle Fellowship (was lucky enough to have seen them live with Busdriver in a
small club and they were all very approachable and happy to chat with this melanin-deficient individual. And to save time, let's just say a great deal of what came out of Project Blowed/The Good Life Cafe was legendary.)
Masta Ace
Souls of Mischief
Big L (RIP GoAT)
Tha Grimm Teachaz
Blackalicious (seen them several times in small venues and they rank among my favorite shows, and I've seen a lot of live music. I consider Blazing Arrow a desert island album.)
KMD
Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth (great show)
The Avalanches
Camp Lo
Jurassic 5
Ugly Duckling
Eyedea (RIP other GoAT)
cLOUDDEAD (and most of the Anticon Collective)
and to your counterpoint, Bad Brains put on a hell of a show back in the day, too)
Damn that took longer than anticipated. Miss live music so much right now. Guess I'll watch Die Hard again now.
I left out a lot; that took like an hour! And I know this might ruffle some feathers, but I like Mos' acting and poetry more than his flow. Like some of Talib's stuff, but nothing I've heard I'm really passionate about. Thank God I'll never run out of good music and movies to consume in my lifetime.
Dude! I was working in a record store when 3 Years... came out. That got so much play in store.
It's recockulous how effectively idealogical subversion works. It's wrong to condemn only certain acts of violence; Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, beloved icons erased; the many people ITT who never saw color, myself included, are somehow bad because of it. I never 100% aligned with any political party, but I'd be proud to call myself a "registered Anti-Communist," were such a party founded.
Main-stream media has radicalized me more than /pol/. Sorry, not sorry. If you're conscious enough to pick up on the propaganda and the hypocrisy once you've been alerted to it, your ass is getting radicalized right-quick.
Oh my goodness, I used-to want to help everyone. 20 years ago.
Are you me? I've said something very close to this sentiment here before. Gave up looking, but the first two sentences in the second paragraph of this post will do. Basically, it was that once I noticed the 'ganda, I began to see more and more of it everywhere, à la the sunglasses in John Carpenter's They Live. In fact it's been downright clumsy and heavy-handed last few years, likely far more. I'm sure I'd be labeled a "reactionary" by many these days, but I still hold the same core values that were "liberal" about that long ago. Shit, Ron Paul was "cool" in the 90s!
Sorted my top rated music by genre and year and got reminded why we call them the "golden years" of hip hop. In semi-chronological order, and in no way comprehensive:
Poor Righteous Teachers
Black Sheep
Del
Das EFX
Pharcyde
Freestyle Fellowship (was lucky enough to have seen them live with Busdriver in a small club and they were all very approachable and happy to chat with this melanin-deficient individual. And to save time, let's just say a great deal of what came out of Project Blowed/The Good Life Cafe was legendary.)
Masta Ace
Souls of Mischief
Big L (RIP GoAT)
Tha Grimm Teachaz
Blackalicious (seen them several times in small venues and they rank among my favorite shows, and I've seen a lot of live music. I consider Blazing Arrow a desert island album.)
KMD
Pete Rock & C. L. Smooth (great show)
The Avalanches
Camp Lo
Jurassic 5
Ugly Duckling
Eyedea (RIP other GoAT)
cLOUDDEAD (and most of the Anticon Collective)
and to your counterpoint, Bad Brains put on a hell of a show back in the day, too)
Damn that took longer than anticipated. Miss live music so much right now. Guess I'll watch Die Hard again now.
I think you left out Blackstar.
I left out a lot; that took like an hour! And I know this might ruffle some feathers, but I like Mos' acting and poetry more than his flow. Like some of Talib's stuff, but nothing I've heard I'm really passionate about. Thank God I'll never run out of good music and movies to consume in my lifetime.
Dude! I was working in a record store when 3 Years... came out. That got so much play in store.
It's recockulous how effectively idealogical subversion works. It's wrong to condemn only certain acts of violence; Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, beloved icons erased; the many people ITT who never saw color, myself included, are somehow bad because of it. I never 100% aligned with any political party, but I'd be proud to call myself a "registered Anti-Communist," were such a party founded.
Main-stream media has radicalized me more than /pol/. Sorry, not sorry. If you're conscious enough to pick up on the propaganda and the hypocrisy once you've been alerted to it, your ass is getting radicalized right-quick.
Oh my goodness, I used-to want to help everyone. 20 years ago.
Are you me? I've said something very close to this sentiment here before. Gave up looking, but the first two sentences in the second paragraph of this post will do. Basically, it was that once I noticed the 'ganda, I began to see more and more of it everywhere, à la the sunglasses in John Carpenter's They Live. In fact it's been downright clumsy and heavy-handed last few years, likely far more. I'm sure I'd be labeled a "reactionary" by many these days, but I still hold the same core values that were "liberal" about that long ago. Shit, Ron Paul was "cool" in the 90s!
CHECK. YOUR. PRIVILEGE. BIGOT.
How did this go sideways? Also, how is this conversation taking place on the most bigoted website ever?