What with the current influx of Molly Rap, Acid Rap, Loud Rap, Lean Rap, Yayo Rap, Bath Salts Rap and whatever the fuck else these characters are getting bent off, it seems like we’ve returned to the Slow Rap era that Cypress Hill heralded in the early nineties. Does that mean that we need to get twisted on the appropriate substance to fully enjoy much of this new rap? I’m pretty sure you need ingest heroic quantities of codeine to fully enjoy this new DOOM song with Clams Casino, “Bookends”:
Listening to rap while drunk or dusted has always been one of life’s simple pleasures, but I feel that something stronger may be required to fully immerse one self in current rap musics, which could be a problem for a “man of a certain age” who prefers hard liquor to any of these pill-popping antics. It was bad enough that Philly drum machine king Schoolly-D encourage me to smoke “cheeba cheeba” as a youth and King Tee practically forced me to consume beers as often as possible, but now I’m supposed to slam down Party Scene materials like I was one of the Russell Brothers?
Is this the new peer pressure? I used to dream of being an architect…or maybe that was Mobb Deep? Regardless, do we really have to relive that Trip-Hop era all over again? Hasn’t Ninja Tune and DJ Krush done enough damage already? Do I really want to feel like my brain is wrapped in cotton wool and I’m wading through molasses whenever I throw my headphones on? Or is some sort of yoga and meditation routine required to achieve a state of Zen-like readiness?
Clearly, the best option here is to blame the young people. A$AP Rocky and his gypsy garment wearing ilk have made it clear that by encouraging their listeners to get wasted enough via painfully slow, trippy beats, no one will bother to complain about the complete lack of anything interesting happening in the raps. How long is it before New Rap simply consists of a few randomly mumbled catchphrases and the MC just repeating “Last name _______, first name __________” over and over again? It’s worked out pretty well for that 2Chainz character. My point being – this is clearly some kind of conspiracy by the Illuminatti and the Hip-Hop Cops to turn all rap fans into brain-dead zombies so that they can steal our Twitter passwords and activate Skynet. Consider yourselves…warned!
I dunno that “Bookfiend” track is alright, at least the rapping is pretty fucking good.
^ Yeah but imagine it over a proper beat?
I dig Clams beats personally. Im just happy a real mc finally jumped on one of his beats..like P said..My drug music is therapeutic to the listener..
What a waste of a DOOM feature…beat is trash!!!
Is All New Rap Drug Music? http://t.co/w3cTpXT05f
Clearly the message here is it’s time to bring back PCP.
The best part of all the A$AP and APE$AP (copycat) music is the constant use of the slowed down retarded grunts and pointless “uuuhhhhhh”‘s. It sounds like a walrus is taking a shit to the track.
Is it a conspiracy theory that Rza’s beats changed when he quit dust? As a matter of (possible) fact, did that happen to his whole group? Does Nas rap different if he hasn’t partaken in the combustion of a brick of skunk? These are the questions that keep me awake at night. Not really.
Come on now, you cant hate on Dj Krush, Strictly Turntablized and Meiso are some excellent displays of instrumental hiphop. Ninja Tune released some really good shit as well, I mean Dj Vadim ffs. None should be placed on the same room as these molly ass cornballs.
*IN the same room..farkin phone..
@silent minority Its not a conspiracy but its true.
I dunno it seems to be cool to rap about drugs but I’m not sure kids are doing much more drugs. Rappers used to sound wasted early wu or mobb deep. Was just thinking last might Prodigy sounds drunk as on the infamous.
cypress hill and what the album were uptempo albums with dance singles…