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hope that helps
Not really, no. It's a list of names, several of which have been mentioned already, two of them (Wu-Tang, Clouddead) even by the guy who was asking for other recommendations. And why would Outkast becoming popular make them less good in any way? What a strange concept.
I share Varriage's frustration that the same names keep coming up again and again. Not everyone in this thread is guilty of this, but still... Jurassic 5, you say? Really? Do people seriously still think (post Black Eyed Peas) that Jurassic 5 are in any way alternative, rather than conservative? You know, I like that first EP and even some of Quality Control, but J5 are unashamedly retro and mired in the past - even their name is a reference to this - and their shctick gets old (no pun intended) pretty fast. "Let's take it back to the good old days, when everything was lovely and old-fashioned and the music was proper old-fashioned good old music with no swearing and there was no crime and the locks to people's houses were made out of paper!" Woop-dee-fuckin' doo.
And people, I don't think mysticwreck will like the Dr Octagon album, as he explicitly asks for music in which the MC does NOT "talk about how great he is in a misogynistic fashion". That's Kool Keith in a nutshell - oh wait, he also throws in some surreal space-age shit, yeah, like almost every 'mainstream' MC you think you hate has done for the past five years or more. Again, the Dr Octagon record is not a bad album at all, but it might be the most overrated hip hop record ever made in certain circles.
Maybe the reason these same names coming up is that the whole concept of 'alternative' hip hop has been exploded in the last couple of years (finally, thank God). Like I said earlier, these dichotomies never worked and now (post Neptunes, post Timbaland, post Kanye) more and more people are aware of this. It's time to move on. |
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