flizzy 999

8mo

1. Reminder there’s lofi hip hop that’s actually good and creative (Nujabes, Fat Jon, etc) and a lot of lofi hip hop producers genuinely want to just make pretty music.

2. I don’t see how 24 hours lofi hip hop videos on YouTube have someone affected hip hop as a whole? Seem like harmless background music? The only mainstream artist I can think of using them is XXXTENTACION and those songs were great.

3. Hip hop was gentrified decades ago. Taking you back 10 years and it was “trap music” (meaning bass music, EDM) and artists like Miley Cyrus twerking and using rap imagery. 20 years ago it was rappers acting like gangsters because of 50 Cent. I’m less familiar with what happened before that but as usual, these miserable 4chan nerds are ignorant and bullshitting.

EliminationofDrake

8mo

So I was reading a /mu/ thread of all things that was posted on KTT2:
https://ktt2.com/ktt2-featured-on-mu-discussing-rap-is-dead-32559466
And between the racist nonsense this reply stuck out to me:
"lo-fi hiphop was the warning sign of rap's impending death. lo-fi hiphop is the smooth jazz of rap music. it was over when that became popular"
This is a pretty interesting point and not one I'd heard before. Pages like 'Lo-fi hip-hop to study to' were a huge but understated part of gentrifying and marketing hip-hop to a wider audience.

Sponge2ChanBob

8mo

actually think its a callback to the origin of hiphop like... the sound of vinyl records and them getting worn down deteriorating in quality to give that dusty sound,

It's like an evolution but also signalling back to the beginning. i.e. some rap songs + the s*** earl does and a lot of those guys

just another subgenre which i think overall is good

notbrock

8mo

I wouldn’t classify the stuff Earl, Alchemist, Griselda, Roc, Bronson, Navy Blue or any of those guys do as “lofi hip hop”

It’s just hip hop

Same with all the old school guys like Pete Rock, Preemo, Q Tip, RZA, etc. or even guys like Dilla and Nujabes

I’m not sure what the actual definition of lofi hip hop is but this is what I consider it:

Very mellow chords and keys under a simple lofi drum loop. I understand all the guys I named have some beats with similar vibes but I don’t think making “lofi hip hop” was the intention

Chuckys Revenge

8mo

Will cry and b**** over something ye do or say to the point where you won’t even have his image on the site yet you guys will keep 4chan thread/topics up?

Not surprised, mate.