Crank Dat needs to be cranked up higher than 6th place.

just reading this post made me think i was hearing HOT 99.5 in my head

the Soulja boy song really gets on my nerves
as if the others don’t, but his more so

Same Girl is hilarious
as is any song with R. Kelly in it
the fact that he takes himself seriously when he writes this stuff has a WTF quality beyond what Weird Al can comprehend, just awesome
i’m still looking for someone to see R. Kelly with me just for the “shock and awe” factor, man can sing but seriously? what he’s singing about? priceless

my 3 favorite r&b/hip hop “good” jams of the year:
Mary J. Blige: Be Without You
(yes a ballad, but it still makes you groove, there’s a reason she’s finally getting Grammys)
Timbaland and Keri Hilson: The Way I Are
(the beat is infectious and the production is amazing)
T.I. Why You Wanna
(i do not tire of this song, must be the hook)

Will, feel free to play the last two open my arrival at Bliss
Abby, well done

Oh and Lily, that hook in “Why You Wanna”= http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaIGPlfH_rs

You’ve probably heard me play this 1,000x

Will, always on top of the education
he is awesome, can’t deny that
but seriously, In the Closet?
man gots to be crazy

I’m a Flirt is my anthem, btw
“damn 28’s” is the most hilarious line

and i’ve been a Mary J fan since middle school
ever since “Real Love”, gotta bust a move to that song
and “Not Gon’ Cry”
yeah i would slow dance that jam in music camp
YES I SAID IT

seriously Will, you need to have an old skool jams night
and who does that I Miss You song that’s in my head ALL THE TIME, is it Klymaxx, got to be 80’s slow jam, so good

Watch My Feet was THE jam of 07! Besides Fritz and Chris Richards, are we the only people who read BYT who also listen to hip hop???

i’m thinking someone needs to start a hip hop column on BYT a la “Yo MTV Raps”

Will, i’m looking in your general direction ;-)

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Lily, but I’m a dj not a journalist.

Abby, I’m looking in your general direction (although I don’t know which direction that might be…) Seeing as Cale is a pretty lax editor, said writer might be able to do as she (I mean he or she) pleazes…. Ahem.

Oh, and I’m still sad only 3 people responded to this post besides the author.

Yes, Klymaxx “I Miss You” http://youtube.com/watch?v=z55cQEe38TM
I can’t stand that song.

Lily, “Meeting In The Ladies Room” is 8,000x better.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t6A4LbAZ0pg
(Beware, this video will seriously hurt your eyes.)

fair ’nuff
i was going to check out Napoleon Friday night, but i had to get to Baltimore
next time i’m free for Napoleon or Saint Ex., i’ll be there

yeah i saw the Richmond gig
he’s also playing in Hampton, son
the 757 holds it down
too bad it’s Sunday January 13th
hard to make a gig 3 hours away with work the next day

This post totally stole my thunder too, since I’m working on a Top Ten 2007 Songs That Made Me Lose My Shit On Tha Flo. But thats gonna have Canadians on it and stuff.

Oh, this too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVMfmC5BBFE

Hell yes, Pedro, that Cassidy joint is the jam. If Michael didn’t hate on this thread I’d worry there was something wrong with it. Arcane, Unklejam sounds like Scissor Sisters. Annunciate? How’s this: You Catch Me At Yo Local Party
Yes I Crank It Everyday
Clear? Right.
Seriously go back and investigate Abby’s list and the other recs folks put forward! Hahahahaha.

Wow, you can make out two whole lines. Awesome. Haha. (I didn’t mean that I couldn’t tell what he was saying, by the way, just that all of the slurring is pretty grating.)

And Unklejam has way more soul than Scissor Sisters ever will. (Not that I have any issue with Scissor Sisters.)

I have checked out a lot of the others, and for the most part they don’t do a lot for me. Soulja Boy is the only one that I really actively dislike, though. Though Hurricane Chris would probably be annoying if I ever actually had to hear it again.

Michael, hateration was so last year
j/k it’s always in season

i forgot that 50 Cent song, it’s alright
but if we’re taking Kanye, Flash Lights is so much better
glad Atlanta’s spinning the heck out of it
DC hasn’t fully caught on yet

might have to leave the swing dance at Glen Echo early with all this talk, otherwise i’ll be at Bliss by 12:30 at the latest

I’m djing at Wonderland Thursday night and this thread has made me think about year end wrap up… I’ll probably play just about every song mentioned here.

And now I rant about why I fucking hate (most) Hip Hop.

Let’s take Mr. Khaled for example. In his, uh, “song,” “I’m so Hood” Mr. Khaled talks about :

” Let The AK Hit Em’
Tough Niggas Get Fucked Up
And Put On Ice For The Rest Of They Life”

and

“Piss Test Me All You Want, Ima Smoke When I’m Ready
Pants Hangin Off Me Now Cause My Pistol Heavy ”

Tough words. Yet:

“Born of Arabic parents in New Orleans, DJ Khaled was the middle of three children. His love for music showed at age 14 and that one factor alone led him to follow the straight path to radio success. His style as a deejay was to throw parties on college radio; people started hearing him and liking what they heard and they swept him over to Mixx 96 and 99 Jamz.”

Well Mr. Khaled, it doesn’t sound like you’re popping AKs into anyone, nor are your pants hanging low for any reason other than you bought them far too big because you’re following ghetto fashion.

Do you even know what a Kalishnikov rifle is Mr. Khaled? have you held one? You claim so but I bet you have never seen one other than the fake plastic ones that production companies rent out for use in other videos by fake-assed wanna be rap bitches. The real one fires a 7.62 x 39mm round at a velocity of 710 meters per second. It will put a hole in someone the size of a grapefruit. It’s not pretty.

See, Mr. Khaled? I’m a smart guy. I know you’re a fake pussy poser and if faced with any real struggles you’d bitch out. I know you’re just talking big in your lyrics because you’re taking advantage of the ignorant who are surrounded by crack smoking mothers and ass-rapers who touch kids when they baby momma is passed out, and people who’d just as soon shoot others as look at them and it’s these impressionable kids who look up to musicians (between that and sports figures they have no real role models that are celebrated) and they don’t understand that you are a fake ass punk. Instead they believe you. They believe you led this ghetto hood life and that you used your experiences to shape your music and your lyrics. And they believe if they shoot some folk, or get shot at, or commit some crimes, sell some drugs, steal a bit and make a thug-name for themselves then hell, all they have to do then is put their experiences in lyrical form and they can be rich like you with all the 28s and Maybachs their bank accounts can handle.

See Mr. Khaled, I spent a couple years mentoring kids like this, the ones who look up to you as a thug bitch who made it. All from broken homes, all so fucked up the regular school system wouldn’t take them and so they were sent to a camp where they lived with other kids like themselves and where the staff tried (usually successfully, at least until they graduated) to teach them that bitch punks like yourself didn’t live any thug life and make it out on the merits of singing songs about how hood you were, but who were, instead, hard working businessmen who were taking advantage of sheer ignorance. So potent is your drug that most refused to believe.

So when you’re out there promoting shooting someone who looks at you cross eyed, or putting someone who happens to walk in front of your project on ice for trespassing, and you know it’s a joke, many people think that’s the way it should be. And they emulate the fake-assed life you never led.

See I’ve been punched by these kids who were influenced by cockholsters like yourself. I’ve been kicked, spit on, cursed at, and I’ve had to chase some of them through the woods in the middle of the night lest they get lost and die of hypothermia. And I kept going back because I refused to let one life I came in contact with be lost to some fake assed mythos of “street culture” that a punk fucking sell-out bitch like yourself promoted to a 12 year old with no real role models other than the ones peddled in CD form on the streets.

So fuck you, Mr. Khaled and your wannabe thug-life promoting ass. Your kind peddles a far worse drug than any corner rock slinger.

P.S.

Bitch.

Oh my god Michael, I might throw in a couple of hip hop tracks amongst . . . well, everything else! You never hear any hip hop at Bliss!

I played the Timbaland at MetaPop last weekend, you didn’t seem all that offended by it. And I promise, no Lady Sovereign this time.

Pedro I’ll buy you a Christmas present solely for missing the point entirely. I mean if the target were Antarctica you just dropped a bomb on Venice.

Until you’ve spent most of your waking hours around kids who truly believe in their heart of hearts that they can be thugs and get paid for it by turning into rap artists then you won’t fully comprehend the damage shit like this does.

But why I singled out DK Kahlid in particular is because he’s faking it. But he doesn’t care how many kids try to emulate his fake antics and die (and they do) as long as he’s cashing checks.

Arcane: Perhaps true. I just happened to have heard the one in particular and have a familiarity with it.

To expand on my comments to Pedro: When did I say that the goal was to be middle class and work in a cube? There are millions of other options. Hell be a hip-hop artist but tap into some real creativity, not copying a lifestyle that you only know about from other hip-hop music. When did I say anything about prejudice? I just re-read my own comments (in the off chance I said something I was completely unaware of) and I didn’t see those points anywhere.

My point was fake assed people creating a fake image that they know sells records. Dylan is making money off his rambling anti-establishment folk-singer persona (and anyone hawking Cadillacs ain’t anti-establishment), but then again, anyone emulating a folk singer isn’t going to pop a cap in anyone’s ass for looking at they rims wrong. What the DJ is doing is making up songs about a lifestyle that is literally killing and destroying an entire generation and entire neighborhoods. Hell if he’d actually lived it and wrote about it it would be one thing, but he has made the conscious decision to write songs about killing people because he KNOWS IT WILL MAKE HIM RICH. And he would have to be a fucking moron to not think that people emulate the fake thug lifestyle portrayed in a lot of hip-hop music (since you can’t pay attention well notice I said “a lot of” and not “all”). This makes him culpable in my book.

But hey, as long as some (mostly) white kids can shake their asses to it in a club on occasion it’s just all fun and games isn’t it?

Michael, I don’t think anyone would say there isn’t a problem with violence in this country. There are however a hell of lot of things to project your anger at for fanning the flames, like this guy for example:
http://www.pensitoreview.com/images/photo-george-bush-finger.jpg
Blaming violence on art, music, literature, video games or whatever is something I don’t buy.

Look where it got these guys:
http://www.historyplace.com/worldwar2/ww2-pix/book-burn.jpg

Will I’m not for banning anything, ever. (Especially porn).

But as I’ve said, I’ve worked first hand (24 hour shifts) with kids who…well I’ve described that already.

But I will call a bitch a bitch when it’s warranted, and a college DJ turned Top 40 DJ talking about how hard core he is with an AK is definitely a bitch. Why not write songs about that? Oh yeah, it would take more than just emulating other songs about other thugs living a life he knows nothing about. And then peddling it to sell records, because no matter how you feel about whether what does or does not further violence, you can’t ignore that he is peddling a thug life to sell records. A thug life he never led.

I didn’t condemn all of hip hop based on that one track. I know a lot of hip-hop isn’t about thug violence. I condemn most of hip hop based on the fact that what little music is present is lazy, unstimulating, and copy-cat. It’s shallow and ridiculous and just beats for the sake of beats.

I just don’t like most of it. I never have. Personal preference. It’s unimaginative and petty to me. There are some really good hip hop artists and lyricists and some hip hop songs I do like, but on the whole I could dismiss the entire genre and not really miss the few tracks I appreciate.

More clear?

“Ok, those are reasons that I can respect more. But it’s not what you said earlier.”

Read again. I only singled out DJ Kahled but premised my post by saying that my rant was going to be about why I hate “most hip-hop” Not all.

I also said I would listen to certain hip hop tracks and that I even like some of them (in the follow on post).

Eh, it’s not worth arguing the minor details here. But when you say you’re going to “rant about why I fucking hate (most) Hip Hop” and then you follow that with a discussion about the violence (whether you specifically talk about one song or not), it’s implied that the reason why you hate “most” hip hop is because of the violence in it. And I’m just saying, the violence isn’t necessarily part of “most” hip hop — that’s a stereotype. Saying that you don’t like most hip hop because you don’t like the music, though, is fair of course, because that’s totally subjective.