[QUOTE="Colt45fool"]I'd much rather listen to a tape from the 00s than the 90s honestly.
That production kills it for me. So outdated. Some of those tapes are timeless [Common's Resurrection for example] but a good portion I can't **** with any more.Â
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1990-1993, yes. But 94 and on sound far from outdated. They sound relevent to their era, but they're not boring by a longshot. Maybe you're talking about production with some boom bap drums and a guitar funk riff looped over and over, and if that's so then I agree with you in terms of that style being outdated.Even some 94-96 stuff sounds really dated man. 97-99 doesn't as much but I don't like having to think about the "era" and hoping it sounds better...living in hope and whatnot. 00-now still sounds relevant as hell..like you could put beats on from '00 and it could have been made in '11....production in hip hop has come such a long way in the last 15 years that really 90s rap almost sounds kind of irrelevant today.Thing abou rap today and rap in the 90s is that, as with all things, things just get better. Movies from the 30s don't have the cinemotagraphy or basic special effects that something from the 00s has. Of course, some movies stand the test of time and are inherently better than newer movies but I don't think it's out of the question to say that as the ability of movies has progressed, so has the quality. I'd argue the same can be said for music, television and the like.Â
Again, that's not to say all new stuff is better than old stuff, but that is to say that new stuff has the chance to build off old stuff based on basic foundations. When I make my favorite albums ever list, most of them will be from the last 20 years, even though my iPod dates back to the early 1900s. That's not because I'm a huge rap fan so I'm only down with 'golden era' rap, that's because the progressions in music has made it possible for me to love newer music as opposed to older stuff [in ALL genres.] I think most people look at old music for nostalgic purposes, and "putting themselves in the time period" to understand. That's good and fine and I do it too on occasion....but it doesn't make the record better than records inspired by it.
Putting yourself "in the era" only has one purpose, and that's to appreciate the music for what it was at the time. That doesn't mean that records inspired by *insert landmark record here* aren't better [see: My Bloody Valentine's "Loveless," a landmark record, in comparison to the much overlooked Slowdive's "Souvlaki." Souvlaki is not a land mark record by any means, but a much, much better record imo based on the foundations set in "Loveless."] Â
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