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Hip Hop is too focused on its legends? What about Rock and The Beatles/Pink Floyd/Nirvana What about Classical music and Mozart/Beethoven What about Jazz and Louis Armstrong/Charlie Parker That's just universal, people cling to the past too much.
Like he said. It not necessarily a bad thing. Though its bad when they cling too much to the past to the point where the genre can't progress any forward
Wooowwww that nostalgia’d me so hard it uncovered trauma in my childhood seriously fuck that mission. too young for that level of stress im gonna go to bed for a while
Missy Elliot is underrated as hell. During her prime, if you look at her hits, its ashame that she is never put in the convo of Greatest Female rappers of all time.
thats because she was a great hitmaker, not an amazing lyricist. she was funny and witty and intelligent, but her rhymes werent as hard as lauryn hills' or even nickis' most of the time. so... despite that, I agree with your comment. UNDERRATED as FUCC, especially given that she co-wrote tons of songs by aaliyah and others.
She's number 2 in my books(that means she "da shit")lol.... only second to Lauryn Hill. Rhapsody could close in on that number 2 spot if her career keeps going in a positive direction, which I think it will.
Melon, we hear you talk about music all of the time due to your channel being a music reviewing channel, but what of your favourite movies or tv shows? I'm sure your fans would be interested in knowing them
Not really, I wouldn't be interested in it, unless his knowledge about movies or tv shows is at the same level as his knowledge about music. If people only stick to what they know, the whole world will be a better place.
0:20 People hate ye for his quirky antics 2:34 Radiohead is just elaborate moaning 2:44 Soundgarden is the truest grunge band 3:39 New Order is better than Joy Division 3:45 Hip-Hop is too obsessed with it's legends 4:50 Megadeth is the weakest of the Big 4; Anthrax is the most underappreciated 5:02 KPOP has passionate dancers 7:24 "We all would'nt be here without cum" is Kayne's best lyric 7:31 Brockhampton made the wrong decision removing Ameer 10:17 Greta Van Fleet is hurting rock
Henry VE Nah bruh shrek 3 is Youngest Head Nigga in Charge cause that shit is passable cause its the legends shrek and Kendrick. But its lowkey wack if it was a movie or album by different people. Shrek 3D is damn. Its one of the shortest/movies albums in the collection. It isnt as dense as tpab story wise but its definitely still really good and makes up for it with awrsome effects like 3d and bangers. Oh and 3D is an acronym for Kendricks THIRD album (3) And the tiltle which is DAMN (D) 3+D =Third (album) Damn
Just saw Greta Van Fleet the other day in Toronto. I liked their album but wasn't expecting much other than a hokey Zeppelin tribute show. But honestly I was truly BLOWN away by their performance! I have not seen a band so invested in their instrumental performance in a long time all while having so much fun. They were kick ass! Although I do agree I would enjoy a future sound that strays away from such a direct Zeppelin influence, I really see this band having the ability to reinvigorate the rock and roll/guitar rock genre.
really TAD, mudhoney, melvins, and pixies are the definitive grunge bands. soundgarden were pioneers in the sound starting in like 1983, long before their commercial success
In a band trust is paramount. It's heartbreaking to see a group like Brockhampton go through losing a member but at the same time i think something this harrowing will bring them even closer together.
I think if you recommended a book every once in awhile (like when you are struggling to explain the entire development of grunge rock in 11 seconds) it'd be neat George Lucas??
What I found amusing was that reading the review you'd have come off with the impression that they'd give it a ~4 but then they roll out a 7.1 - total disconnect between the rating and the justification.
"...and how quickly people are ready to just shut out of their lives anybody who doesn't 100% align with their point of view." Yeah, there's a word for people like that, they're called bigots. Let's all be cognizant of that and do our best to not join their ranks.
hip hop is in a unique place when it comes to respecting older artists bc back when it was growing a new artist needed established artists blessings to come up. almost every artist that wanted to be a part of hip hop in the 90s had to drop a really solid project (which is why the golden era had so many classic debuts). when new artists who are cut from a different cloth from established artists blow up nowadays, older artist feel the fabric of rap unraveling, and feel that as a genre, hip hop is losing its way. whether they're right or not is up for debate, all genres have to change with the times, but it is a reason it's such a massive and influential genre rn. (this isn't any type of statement on the quality of music today).
I'd like to think the future of rock is to a certain extent, stuff like Alabama Shakes, Fitz and the Tantrums, maybe Hiatus Kaiyote, Nathaniel Ratlife and the Night Sweats. These artists have a lot of soul and jazz and other elements...but good rock music builds off of many influences and styles.
i would like to offer a counterpoint to the last tweet, the one about greta van fleet. were their success to inherently mean all rock bands would start to sound exactly like them, that would hurt rock music. but to see a band with an old sound make it big, that adds another kind of sound to the table, alongside all the other sounds you hear in contemporary rock music or contemporary acts of other genres that inspire the changing sound of rock. what greta van fleet's success could mean is that elements of older music could become common again, and coincide with the elements of rock music that are changing into something "new". they'll definitely be an influence to bands of the future if they continue to gain fans so rapidly, but for most of those bands, there's no way they'll be the only influence. there really is nothing new under the sun, only fresher, less common combinations of what we've already had. plus, there's a chance that as they go on, they'll have an idea of how to make it new and make it their own, or other artists and producers they'll work with will figure out a new idea to add to it. maybe what rock needs to get out of its rut is to borrow from the past in small doses, and then add to that by borrowing from what else is being offered on the table today. i don't want greta van fleet to sound so 20th century for their entire run, but i do want to see them branch out and try something new in the future, and see how they'll influence listeners of a wider variety of music. i can't be 100% sure any of this is exactly what will happen within the next several years, but i think there's a very good chance that this will ring through to an extent.
Slayer is by far the best band of the big four as far as thrash is concerned. They were the only band who consistently released great album after great album and never lost their original intensity. Even their slight nu-metal phase with Diabolus and GHUA still kicked ass and it wasn't all that different from their original style. Repentless gets a lot of unnecessary hate too for not having their original guitarist or bassist but in my opinion hearing new ideas from new musicians is kind of refreshing. In the context of the "big four", Metallica is the worst. They're not at all a bad band, but they stopped being thrash almost 30 years ago. If the black album was their last album, they would definitely be the best of the big four. But Everything post-black album is such a huge departure from their old sound that it almost disqualifies them from being considered thrash in the first place. Hardwired is awesome though
Love Kanye for the music, if we boycotted every great artist from your view just because of their opinion, pop culture would b complete sterile of creativity and differentiation.
Ye really won me back over after listening to Yeezus and TLOP. I will always love Ye as a person, but musically I'm glad I can fully enjoy a Ye album again. I'm ready to see what's up with Kids See Ghosts.
Cornell was a better singer and songwriter than Staley. And outside of Soundgarden he had orher awesome projects such as Temple of the Dog and Audioslave with more great music
I wish you would have gone about with more of a formatted response via the Greta Van Fleet stuff. I'm a big rock/blues guy through the 50's - present. Just wanted to hear more of an actual response. I understand why that wasn't the case though. Luv ya, melon.
Also, CRS is the greatest band that never was. Pharrell Williams, Lupe Fiasco and Kanye West plus a curated album based on only samples from Thom Yorke and Radiohead with his blessing!? That sounds like a banger to me.
Brockhampton was right to kick out Ameer. He was good, but by no means the only talent (or even the best) in the group. Ppl really need to stop flipping shit about this.
