purified said:

If you are good at concealing laughter and contempt, you should ask a white person about �Real Hip Hop.�  They will quickly tell you about how they don�t listen to �Commercial Hip Hop� (aka music that black people actually enjoy), and that they much prefer �Classic Hip Hop.�

�I don�t listen to that commercial stuff. I�m more into the Real Hip Hop, you know?  KRS One, Del Tha Funkee Homosapien, De La Soul, Wu Tang, Tupac, Biggie, you know, The Old School.�

Calling this style of music �old school� is considered an especially apt name since the majority of people who listen to it did so while attending old schools such as Dartmouth, Bard, and Williams College.

What it all comes down to is that white people are convinced that if they were alive when this music was relevant that they would have been into it.  They would have been Alan Lomax or Rick Rubin.  Now the best they can hope for is to impress an older black person with their knowledge.

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Viveka said:

I listened to them all, for the most part.  My gripe really isn't so much with the lyrics as it is the predictable, repetitive and generally non adventurous nature of the music.  Those last two tracks you posted, the second was definitely better and almost interesting, if not for the way it's predictably sequenced out and never really goes anywhere.

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"Beats".  When someone says that I basically know how it's going to sound before I even hear it.  And it's always either a four or eight beat measure isn't it?  It's a "safe" form of music like "punk" or most electronic dance music.  You don't have to adapt your expectations or taste at all to get into it.

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