***Official Breakfast Club Interview Thread***

[$tacy]

I like to categorize Yachty in a new subgenre of rap I've created in my mind, festival music. This festival audience (mostly suburb, non African americans) love the weird high terrible dudes. It's like to understand and like it u gotta pop pills.

 

[ohokalright]

I like to categorize Yachty in a new subgenre of rap I've created in my mind, called garbage. This garbage audience (mostly people that take bath salts) love the weird high terrible dudes. It's like to understand and like it u gotta pop bath salts and drop an anvil on your head looney tunes style several times before pressing play.

qft

 

[Peep Game]

Will's post and your edit are accurate really wished his producer just made instrumental albums, cause I'd actually buy those

 

[goldenface]

Some excerpts from an article Adika Butler wrote. I know a few on here are up on his blog.

FIRE & WATER: THE FUTURE OF POPULAR BLACK MUSIC IN THE "AQUARIAN" AGE

Some people feel that rap music, which is the defining art form of hip hop culture for so many,  is on life support because those who are currently identified as its most popular acts are not lyrical shoguns like Kool G. Rap, KRS One, or Rakim. What I honestly find most amusing about this critique is the fact that none of these younger artists, to my knowledge, have ever claimed to be rappers, much less be the reincarnation of any of the aforementioned lyrical greats.

They’re ASSUMED to be rappers because they are generally young Black men from urban areas who wear jewelry, display the same mannerisms, use similar slang, and favor forms of fashion comparable to your classic rapper.

My question to you, the reader, is do these elements necessarily make these young brothers rappers? Is curry chicken the same as curry goat because both are made with curry powder, salt, peppers and onions?  Yeah, these new guys you hear teenagers listening to are rhyming over music, but so was Bob Dylan  back in the 1960s. He isn’t a rapper though. Neither were The Last Poets. 

The INTENT  behind Dylan and the Poets’ music is different from Jay-Z’s or Mobb Deep’s. I’m not talking about the subject matter, either. I’m talking about the very markers that allow us to determine, beyond reasonable doubt, that the artist is highly efficient at what they do. In order to objectively determine whether or not someone is effective at what they do the INTENT  behind their actions must be crystal clear to you. You must know their established goal.

What are Desiigner’s intentions when he goes into the studio? You said to sound like Future? Haha. You’re too funny!!!  All jokes aside, The Last Poets said some fly ****, but they weren’t trying to RIDE THE BEAT  with their rhymes. A rapper is one who RIDES THE BEAT WITH THEIR SPOKEN WORDS AND TONAL INFLECTIONS.

But what do you call a recording artist who  fluidly rides the beat with vocalizations that are not exactly words? Is he still a rapper solely because his performance involves the use of skills that are applicable to rapping (such as bioglyphics, which are the hand gestures used as a guide to help get the lyrics out on beat), or is he something entirely new based on his intentions which clearly differs from a rapper’s?

Is jazz great Al Jarreau  wack because he didn’t “make sense” when he was scatting? Please watch the educational video below before you dis Kid Cudi or Young Thug about their preferred style of vocal delivery. The African mind sees similarities before differences.

Guys like Future, Fetty Wap, Young Thug, Desiigner and others boast about getting high, increasing their finances, and living lives of luxury as many rappers have. However, they’ve never directly aligned themselves with the code of the rap samurai who lives for the thrill of the battle while brooding over the wordplay in their verbose poetry.

When I listen to Future on “Maybach,” which is a great song, I hear an African American artist with a heavy southern drawl doing an incredible job of composing Jamaican dancehall music, which is the most unapologetically African of all the contemporary music genres of the western hemisphere. “**** Up Some Commas,” is African American dancehall with a dirty south slant on it. I like it.
 

The Jamaican dancehall deejay places a greater emphasis on feeling and vocal flow than cerebral wordplay. This is why when you look at all of the great rappers who are of Jamaican descent (Heavy D, Busta Rhymes, Notorious B.I.G., Slick Rick), they all have impeccable cadence. They grew up on classic dancehall. As a writer, I prefer rap music to dancehall in most instances. It gives me more inspiration for what I love to do.

No one in the history of dancehall is ******* with Nas orGhostface Killah  when it comes to utilizing the power of vivid words. At the same token, none of those classic rappers can shut down a dance or get women excited and moving like Shabba Ranks or Beenie Man can. I love what all of these artists bring to my ears. Variety is the spice of life.

The astrology Nazis keep telling us that we’re entering the Age of Aquarius, the age of the water bearer. Some of them will even crucify the young recording artists of today for plotting their own path and not trying to be the next Chuck D in skinny jeans. But what does the Age of Aquarius mean for the imminent future of Black popular music?

The self-righteous astrologers can’t tell you because they don’t really know. It means that your power as a recording artist to connect with millions of people will be based on your ability to touch their EMOTIONS  before stimulating their intellect. The majority of the human body is made of water. Your vocalizations must sacrifice some of the fiery verbiage of the cerebral cortex in order  to stir the water body of the masses through windshield wiper flows and melodic cadences.

 

[trynafeelmink]

This interview comes at the perfect time with this thread. This is an interview with a writer from billboard who wrote an article asking if Hot 97 is still the home of hip hop. I think it a very good delve into Hot 97's impact on modern day hiphop culture & they do have some interesting rebuttals

 

[quad]

I'm just tired of fake braids with colored tips and auto tune.

Also tired of all music sounding like it came from the South, I know the South is lit and been lit since forever but damn I sure do miss the east coast sounding like it came from the east coast.

Roger Troutman turning over in his grave.

 

[Original Playa Records]

I'm just tired of fake braids with colored tips and auto tune.

Also tired of all music sounding like it came from the South, I know the South is lit and been lit since forever but damn I sure do miss the east coast sounding like it came from the east coast.

Roger Troutman turning over in his grave.

I mean one solution is to not let these things exhaust you.

 

[quad]

I'm just tired of fake braids with colored tips and auto tune.

Also tired of all music sounding like it came from the South, I know the South is lit and been lit since forever but damn I sure do miss the east coast sounding like it came from the east coast.

Roger Troutman turning over in his grave.

I mean one solution is to not let these things exhaust you.

Oh naw I'm good homie, I can listen to a few of the newer artists but most of them I just can't relate to, lets just be thankful that we have many options to choose from.

 

[shoeking2102]

Ten years huh? Well this song was made this year, and if you can get through 6+ minutes of this, you can make it through anything

IMO this is awful. I've seen his name around obviously, but this is the very first time I've actually heard one of his songs. I caught the Uzi guy the other day too. Flat out dreadful music. But it is what it is. In this day and age, and with the music outlets that we as consumers have, it's not hard to avoid what you don't like and aren't interested in.

 

[shoeking2102]

When the Migos had to shoot it out with some ****** on the road and when they got tried in DC, was that part of entertainment process as well?

When one of these ****** get killed in similar fashions to the things they rap about, is that also part of the entertainment process?

When GS9 got them football numbers and Bobby rapped about some of the street stories in their songs...was that entertainment too?

Is it entertainment when ****** have to "check in" to different cities or they might get tried?

What other forms of entertainment do these things happen?

When Migos, and GS9, get caught up in their real life drama that bleeds through the music, that has nothing to do with me.

FOR ME, it's completely irrelevant. I don't care if what Bobby is saying is real or not. Hot ***** would be fire to me if what he was saying was legit or not. 

I don't know these guys, and I don't support violence of any kind. If you wanna talk about it on wax, then fine by me. At the end of the day, for me the music is always separated from real life and if the music bleeds into bobby's real life, the issue isn't what they're saying on wax, it's how they're handling themselves in their own environment.

Again, for me I love music. I listen to music 24/7. But real life is real life, and the two entities are entirely different. The real life crime in Bobby's life should be independent of the music and if it isn't then the issue is how they move in real life, not what they are saying and perpetuating on wax.

 

[shoeking2102]

 

[Magic33]

You not really in tune with music in 2016 if you believe this.

Yea the colored dread ****** are terrible but there are a TON of young great artists just now starting to get their footing in the wider music industry landscape.

There's much more out there than the mainstream and what's feed to you by corporations/"tastemakers".

Actually I am

The Vince Staples, Isaiah Rashad and Chance's aren't the norm.

Most of the dudes who are still being lyrical are late 20's and up. Drake and Kendrick are about to be 30 shortly.

What's mainstream is mostly garbage rap.

 

[neon coke]

just watched 30 seconds of yachty all in 

and to think , people thought yung la was bad 

 

 

[Peep Game]

just watched 30 seconds of yachty all in 

and to think , people thought yung la was bad   

Right ? There's a whole bunch of 1 hit wonders that could be flourishing right now with social media if rappers like him can amass 8+ million views on his videos

 

[flesh prince]

That black boy white boy tape with Dro wasn't no joke though

 

[slicknick951]

That black boy white boy tape with Dro wasn't no joke though

Zaytoven brought up yung la on a podcast and it immediately took me back to that mixtape.

It was before its time but also kinda right on time

Is he still rapping?

 

[awwsome]

That black boy white boy tape with Dro wasn't no joke though

Still a classic.

So ahead of its time.

 

[numbah1grimey]

Young LA was not bad. Dude knew how to craft songs, hooks, etc. there was a reason T.I. put him alongside Dro

 

[CJ616]

That black boy white boy tape with Dro wasn't no joke though

Lamborghini Leland was fire, as well.

 

[kingcurt1]

i been saying that yung la , jt money and roscoe .....hell even rich kids and travis porter should be much bigger than they are....they completely fell off after they changed the atl sound...now everyone running off what they were on

 

[law3001]

JT money

Haven't heard that name is a decade

 

[goldenface]

I think he meant J. Money.

JT Money is from a completely different era 

 

[awwsome]

i been saying that yung la , jt money and roscoe .....hell even rich kids and travis porter should be much bigger than they are....they completely fell off after they changed the atl sound...now everyone running off what they were on

Yea those dudes blew it, they fostered the whole sound of the next generation of ATL yet couldn't keep up with it.

 

[Arthur Shelby]

Offset Shawty & Lamborghini Leland :x

LA had it but was impatient and started getting arrogant No Reason for him to talk bad about T.I, and Grand Hustle when they was pushing him heavy

By time those odd videos drop of him getting face tats + the Duck video it was already over

 

[Peep Game]

JT Money