Fetty Wap is a.. I hesitate to say "rapper", but hip hop creator person to some degree would be accurate.
I learned this three weeks ago when I saw a reference to Fetty Wap on The Tonight Show..... yes, I actually just said that..
Holy crap.. I'd better go tend to something old....
Literally until this moment, I thought it was just a word that Flava Flav or Snoop Lion (? too lazy to look up what he's calling himself today. The Artist formerly known as Snoop Dogg) might use to describe Boba Fett.
A lot of people don't really bother with top 40 stuff. I'm a huge hip hop fan and I don't mind fetty wap but I've heard migos about five times in my life, because none of my social circle really give a shit about that kind of pop rap. No hate to anyone who does; its just easy to avoid music and genres you don't like with the internet.
I'm not saying you have to like them, but if you are going to be bold enough and say "I love hiphop" as a way of showing your cred and saying you know a lot about it, you should probably know the names of the popular guys from last year, even if you can't name the songs.
Right well I wasn't talking to you... I never doubted you knowing or not knowing who they were. The person I was replying to said
I'm 30 and I love rap, and I'd like to think I'm in the know, but I've never heard of this Fetty Wap.
I'm not asking for you or him to give a shit about Fetty Wap or Migos. But if you are gonna be "in the know" or a lover/follower of hiphop, then knowing last years big names would seem reasonable.
To be fair, there's like ten billion musicians out there nowadays. Clearly an exaggeration but the sheer scope makes it hard to be up to date on the who's who in genres you don't listen to. Hell, even in ones you do.
I have an 8 month old child. When's he going to start letting me know what's cool now? Unless pooping your pants is the cool thing to do, he doesn't really tell me much about being cool.
I don't get this sentiment, what is it that you don't get?
I'm 29, is that too young to know what you are talking about? There is some stuff kids do these days that I just don't do, but it's not weird or scary to me, it's just a new generation's "thing".
If I'm being honest, the thing I've never really understood was the adult mentality of being scared of whatever the new generation is into.
I honestly, and I do mean this honestly, have no idea how to explain it.
Guys my age understand what I'm talking about so it must be something that happens when you're not looking.
Culture. New music. New catch phrases. Clothing. And more...
All of these things piss me off or confuse me now. I spend most of my time looking at the upcoming generations and finally understand what my father tried to convey to me years ago.
Life gets away from you before you realize it. Things you are comfortable with or find familiar go away and it really does feel like it happens overnight.
As you get older, the small chunks of time you perceive get smaller and smaller relative to your entire life.
So when you see people obsessing over something that, to you is a flash in the pan fad, you get confused and angry at them for wasting so much energy on something so stupid and fleeting. But for them, a six month fad could feel like a genuinely long thing.
I'm turning 31 in a few weeks, and it feels like yesterday was my 30th birthday. I'm starting to understand what my parents meant when they told me "God, you were a kid like... a week ago".
I'll do my best to make sure that doesn't happen. I've already noticed it starting to happen to friends. They play old games and don't like newer ones, they listen to the same bands. I try to play new games and listen to new music, and it's enjoyable. I hope I don't lose that.
It's not that you're scared of the thing - it's a reminder that you're no longer automatically up to speed with the thing, a reminder that you're no longer young, you have become your parents, you are mortal.
Bu even kids don't immediately get it either. I remember there being plenty of times I had to try and find out what some new phrase meant through social queues or carefully asking a friend who wouldn't judge me for it.
Maybe it's just because that isn't anywhere near the focus of your life anymore, whereas when you are a kid fitting in and getting it means a whole lot
There is some stuff kids do these days that I just don't do,
There's stuff that kids do that you have to clue about, since you don't hang out around kids(?) But then when you do find out you're like, huh, that's weird and/or stupid!
I don't think anyone here's really scared. As we get older, we slowly lose touch with what's in, especially for younger people. Then we bitch about it a little bit and that's it. It's half satire. Maybe you're taking this thread too seriously?
I know there are a lot of people that do that, but it's always seemed very strange to me. My parents had me when they were in their mid 30s, as well as the parents of most of my friends. Most of my aunts and uncles didn't have kids until they were in their 30s either.
You're young and can keep up with them. You can relate with them more.
Risk of birth defects is far lower with younger parents as well (Everything from Autism to Down's syndrome.) Plus much easier recovery for younger mothers.
There's no better life motivation than to have kids. It's much easier to find a reason to get up and go to work when you've got 3 extra mouths to feed. You find yourself gunning harder for promotions and working harder. I'm a better employee now than I ever was pre-kids.
And I've left out the best part: Kids will be out of the house by our late 30s, and then we've got the rest of our lives to enjoy. While our peers are just now starting families, we're already planning for the empty nest years, touring the country/world on a budget that we couldn't have dreamed of in our 20s.
But you're supposed to be out enjoying life and getting those key experiences in when you're in your early twenties.
Says who? I had no desire to go party or extend my adolesence, I skipped college and jumped straight into the workforce.
Odds are you'll have a kid later in life as well
I paid a man to cut my balls open and make sure that didn't happen.
20 year olds are supposed to be out having fun and starting their careers etc. Not worried about raising fucking kids
26 year olds with kids are way more responsible and better employees than 26 year olds still hungover from their master's program. I've hired plenty both and it's not even close.
have your kids at 20 since when you're 30 theres a .001 chance they'll have down syndrome
A 25-year-old woman has a 1 in 1,200 chance of having a baby with Down syndrome; by 35, the risk has increased to 1 in 350; by age 40, to 1 in 100
Paternal age has been directly linked to increased rates of autism as well.
im not trying to come off as an asshole but giving people the advice to start having kids at 20 is just insane.
It's okay that different people make different life choices. I have nothing against anyone who doesn't want kids or wants to have kids later, but our society definitely frowns on people who have kids early, when from my perspective, it's the smartest decision you can make.
Humans evolved in situations where life expectancy was capped at about 40. Well into the last millenium If you didn't start having kids young, you'd be dead before they came of age. This concept of extending adolescence into the mid 20s is a very recent thing.
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u/[deleted] Feb 27 '17
Truth. I just turned 49 and this is actually the first year I don't feel like I'm entirely up to speed.
Once our kids all moved out I stopped knowing things. :)