Are you into current hiphop?

[NAF1138]

@thelurkinghorror

Lil Peep.

Yeah, I’m no huge expert, but Future and Odd Future are very very different

My favorite artist of the last 5 or so years is Danny Brown. He might not be everyone’s first impression winner but get past the bipolar crackhead persona which is both an act and reality.
Most of the Top Dawg Entertainment stuff is pretty good. Childish Gambino too, though last I heard he was going to stop music indefinitely.

Atrocity Exhibition is an amazing album. I agree, Danny Brown isn’t for everyone.

I get Ain’t it Funny running through my head a lot though.
The music video

[Les_Espaces_Du_Sommeil]

Here are the ones I’ve heard of. Apart from Rihanna and Eminem, I’d be completely unable to name any of their songs, although I may recognize a couple if I heard them.

Drake
Kendrick Lamar
The Weeknd
Bruno Mars
Rihanna
Eminem
Kanye West
Beyonce
DJ Khaled
Chris Brown

[Leaffan]

I have heard of:

Drake
Bruno Mars
Rihanna
Eminem
Kanye West
Beyonce

I do know a couple of Eminem songs because my kids listened to some of his music.

The rest, I would have no clue. Once upon a time I was totally up to date with music. I don’t listen to music often anymore, but when I do it’s the same stuff from 30-50 years ago.

[Deser2]

@eunoia

^^This.
Not entirely convinced it’s a growing old thing, rather than an indifference to manufactured pop, in whatever genre the particular beast of pop gets associated with.

For me, this is my problem with pop-music in any genre. It’s become too commercialized. They found a formula that works and now they might as well have a machine that manufactures these “artists” on an assembly line.

I’m gonna put my cranky old man hat on and tell the kids to get off my lawn here but back in the 60s, 70s 80s 90s I felt like more musicians were making art where now they’re making money. You don’t get the type of off the wall thinking and creation of non-cookie cutter music as much because the label is just concerned about churning out the next performer to sell half a million albums for 2 or 3 albums then they move on to the next.

[MrDibble]

I like Kendrick Lamar, I’m OK with Drake by himself as opposed to on tracks with the people I don’t like (see below), I wouldn’t class Rihanna or Beyonce as hip-hop but I like them well enough.

It’s weird that the OP list doesn’t seem to have Nicki Minaj, who I’m ambivalent to, or rather my response is highly variable to different songs.

I fucking hate trap and mumblerap so Future, Migos etc leave me cold.

Oh, I also hate … how to explain - it’s not a genre, exactly - but collectively, DJ Khaled, Rick Ross, French Montana, some others all give me the same (rapey) vibe and I have no time for them.

Chris Brown can DIAF, of course.

[MrDibble]

@Deser2

I’m gonna put my cranky old man hat on and tell the kids to get off my lawn here but back in the 60s, 70s 80s 90s I felt like more musicians were making art where now they’re making money.

Yeah, no. Not true. If anything, there’s more people making music now for the love of the art. You just won’t find them on TV. Since technology has freed artists from the studio system, there’s a lot more homemade stuff out there than ever before.

[Deser2]

@MrDibble

Yeah, no. Not true. If anything, there’s more people making music now for the love of the art. You just won’t find them on TV. Since technology has freed artists from the studio system, there’s a lot more homemade stuff out there than ever before.

I am strictly talking about “pop” music. There are definitely TONS of amazing talented and creative artists putting out incredible music. As far as the popular hiphop the OP was talking about (and rock, and R&B, and probably most genres) its all cookie cutter. Hell for years, record labels were just going out and finding someone with a “look” they wanted and then jammed them into whatever artist role they needed to fill. Once they discovered that auto-tune made that even easier, the flood gates opened.

Again, my comments in this thread are mostly focusing on the hip-pop sub-genre of hip hop. Look at my list above and you’ll see plenty of artists making art.

[eunoia]

@Deser2

I’m gonna put my cranky old man hat on and tell the kids to get off my lawn here but back in the 60s, 70s 80s 90s I felt like more musicians were making art where now they’re making money. You don’t get the type of off the wall thinking and creation of non-cookie cutter music as much because the label is just concerned about churning out the next performer to sell half a million albums for 2 or 3 albums then they move on to the next.

Even the cranky old man in me knows deep down that art and music gets better with each successive generation. I’m not a cranky old man because music isn’t as good as when I was younger, I’m a cranky old man because I know it’s out there and I’m not hearing it because I’m more and more dependent on iHeartCommunications and Spotify to expose me to new music while knowing it’s not their business to challenge people’s tastes with anything new. What I was really trying to get at is that a lot of the music that gets you to the Super Bowl halftime show still owes less to Kool Herc and Pebblee Poo and more to Pat Boone and Up With People.

[Just_Asking_Questions]

I’ve never heard OF most of those, and definitely have never heard any of it.

I regret losing touch with the popular culture, but if keeping in touch means liking that music, I’ll pass.

I have become my father. Wonder what he’d say.

[Oakminster]

I’ve heard of 5-6 of the listed performers. Couldn’t name a song by one of them if my life depended on it. Just isn’t my thing.

[Solanaceae]

Eh, I listen to some new music when I’m driving and commercials are playing on my go to classic rock stations. Otherwise I’ll bring my portable 8 track player (yes, really) and a few deep purple or steppenwolf tapes.

[Dinsdale]

Man, tried to watch some of the Grammys tonight (my wife likes award shows.) MAN, am I out of touch!

Good thing there are so many different types of music for different tastes.

[DorkVader]

I’ve probably heard every single artist on the Dinsdale’s list, but couldn’t tell you who is who except for the handful that were broke out as being known to her/him.
Hip hop and (sigh) death metal seem to be the dominant music of my mostly younger coworkers in the warehouse where I work.

I grew up on a diet of heavy metal, hard rock, disco and country in the 70’ and 80’s and slowly started losing interest in “what’s popular today” in the 90’s.
These days, I’ve developed a liking of Latin Ladies in pop music. But not enough to name any beyond Shakira. Something about the sensuousness and “sultry” feel of their voices. There are a few non-Latin Lady singers that have that same feel that I like also.