stubby43
aka Phil is a 25.42 year old boy, has been a member since December 22, 2006, has scored 3,809 submissions, giving an average score of 2.65, helping 191 designs get printed.
I've been on a bit of a hip hop/rap (to be honest I dont know the titles) kick at the moment and theres a hell of a lot of stuff out there with good beats and witty lyrics but most of the stuff I've found are about how awesome they are/how rich and how many girls want to sleep with them.
Dont get me wrong thats not exactly a bad thing but is there anything out there thats a little bit deeper?
I'm pretty obsessed with Watsky right now especially his song color lines which is basically a debate between him (an upper middle class white kid) vs Catch (a black rapper) discussing wether he should be rapping or not
Catch
All you gotta do is get past the guilt
We ain't living in a house that master built
If you understand that, tell your people what you know
Because one of em got enough money to pay back what you owe
George
Yes, My great grands had land, had slaves
I guess I pressed this record off the bank he made
But I want independance, past the declaration
but one down ass white boy can't pay for reparations
What else should I be listening to because Watsky's basically the only underground person I know and I discovered him thanks to his mega popular youtube video where he raps really fast, my knowledge of rap and hip hop is mainly chart stuff and I want to broaden my horizons.
I usually dont pay attention to the actual lyrics... for me, the voice whether it be singing/screaming or raping, is just another sound that adds or takes away from the rest of the song.
I love Dizzee rascal but my fave will always be the ting tings cover, just jack has a couple of really good songs but never really followed him. I do like the fact there both distinctly English we used to have a big problem where our acts would try to sound american and it didnt work.
Kidz in the Hall have some good lyrics. Same goes for Lupe Fiasco.
Not so much positive lyrics all the time, but they do tell some sort of story and some of the lines are witty.
They talk about guns/violence/sex/themselves a lot but the rhymes/word usage is fantastic, at least i think so. They also dont rely on a chorus every 10 seconds.
What do you mean by intelligent lyrics, exactly?
I mean, I know when something isn't intelligent, but what is it that you are looking for that you consider intelligent? Because I consider Gold Digger and 99 Problems pretty intelligent.
i find social satire as intelligence...therefore i will alsways listen to deltron 3030...sci fi beats with sci fi lyrics talking about a futuristic world using tons of modern day metaphors.
I think Eminem has the best lyrics of any rapper, did something entirely different with rap in the types of characters he creates, and a vulnerable honesty.
Kid Cudi sometimes, but he's so slick I don't really believe him.
Tyler The Creator, Earl Sweatshirt, and other OFWGKTA guys have some awesome raps. Definitely intelligent, and doing something different with it, again doing something slightly cruel and brutal and "inappropriate", but it's awesome.
Yeah, man. Thankfully, they've been breaking out and getting more and more attention, so hopefully they'll get boatloads of money while still offering albums for free.
They got a record deal with Sony, but not in the usual way. Sony is giving them their own record label and Odd Future signed themselves, which is pretty fucking awesome.
And Phil, basically every rapper people consider great have intelligent lyrics. While I haven't explored the genre as much as I've wanted, I notice that rap is unlike other genres in that it can appeal to the mainstream without losing interest or intelligence. I think it's great when the public is given music that music snobs consider top quality.
Man I didnt even get close to listening to all of this stuff, I've been trying to get applications done, I'm a bad procasinator (or really good at it) and I cant listen to music when I'm working.
Clouddead are amazing.. The "Clouddead" called album.
If you want fun and inteligent but french rap you have to listen to "L'atelier" the album is called "Buffet des anciens eleves" . I've been listening to it 1000 times!
Sole on anticon is really good too. The album "selling live water".
Tell me here if you love it! Have a good listening!
Mike my problem is that all the artists I'm talking about, I havent really listened to anything other than the singles, I dont know maybe I'm just lazy but I never really listen to albums anymore.
One of the things I do find interesting though is that there seems to be a sort of perfect blend between indie music and rap, one of my favourite songs is Chiddy Bang - Opposite Of Adults
a remix of mgmt kids, so perfect, it also has some really clever lyrics, like
Rock band show you how the guitar feel
And I could care less how y'all feel
and
And Xaphoon, thank you for the crack
But I play a Ron Burgundy I anchor on the track like that
Apr 29 '11 by
martiandrivein on Apr 29 '11 at 3:58pm
