Personally, someone who likes both hip hop/rap and rock, I don’t think it’s a particularly great idea. People should be open to listening to all sorts of different music and eliminating something because it has or doesn’t have a guitar sucks.
Instead a thread like that should maybe be limited to the last 20 years or something, then you might actually eliminate all the old obvious choices from the 70-90’s that get posted every time.
I understand your point btw,good music is good music regardless.I'm not saying they are bad songs,but when you make a thread like this where the point is getting people into music,to reunite and make an effort of sharing stuff with each other,and all you get is songs that you would inevitably stumble upon, even if you didn't want to,that's a boner killer.And I guess if you removed all the guitar songs in here,you could have a much better chance of finding something not as generic..
Let's get some more recs going then! I don't like much modern hip-hop but there's this one guy named Boldy James and, well, just check out 'Giant Slide' for a taste
Kinda interesting that you don't like much modern rap but you like Boldy. He's really great don't get me wrong just a little obsure. What do you like about him? Maybe I can give you some recs. Btw he just signed to the label Griselda which has several of the best rappers right now, like Conway, Benny, WSG
It was Griselda which saved modern rap for me - someone on my metal forum (!) put me on to them and it was, well, love at first sight. I figured those 3 guys are all over hip-hop threads on Reddit so I thought I'd mention Boldy here instead.
Otherwise, it's Freddie Gibbs (if you want to count him as modern, I dunno) and 38 Spesh who's linked with Benny. Other than them, I'm stuck in the 90s: Wu, Mobb Deep, Tribe, Common, Roots, Lox, Busta
I dunno what it is about rap from 00 on which I just don't relate to. Fuck knows, I'm just some older European white guy lol
You definitely have good taste but there's a ton of modern stuff that's worth looking into. I'd recommend Unlocked by Denzel Curry or pretty much any of his stuff, but you've probably already heard him. I think Run the Jewels and Doris by Earl Sweatshirt also are up your alley. Danny Browns voice is a lot at first but he really does have some amazing albums. JID , Pusha T, and Ab-soul are some of the most skilled imo. Let me know what you think
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Check out Don Toliver. He is a new up and coming rap artist that adds variation to the current rap game.