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Topic: Hip Hop.........where is the good stuff

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Wuz up fellow digital spinners....

I was going thru the urban r&b top 40 countdown and playing samples of the top 40 songs and realized there is really not any
good Hip Hop music to buy. They either sound all the same or way to ghetto. Do some of you feel the same or am I just
starting to show my age. I am a busy mobile DJ with a lot of graduation parties comming up and I don't like a lot of whats
on the Urban top40. I know I need to buy the stuff to stay current but how do you buy stuff you don't like. Just venting
what do you all think ?

Peace
Musicman
 
发表时间 Tue 22 Apr 08 @ 11:42 am
As far as music style goes, thats the very reason I don't do school parties anymore. Pop has finally died down ( good or bad ) but for dances it's a bad thing. I personally don't feel confirtable playing some tracks even though it sound great in the clubs.
 

Most music that gets produced is for sales 1st, its quanity over quality. If you get paid to DJ then you must play what is requested or what is asked of you to perform.

Leave your personal music tastes at the door.
 
I agree with you but sometimes it's a fine line of whats acceptable. They may give you the OK for this song but another song migh be out of line. One school may be OK with things but the next is not. We can only ask for so much detail. Maybe I'm just out of practice with youth dances all together.
 
Yea, for personal listening HIP HOP is not winning me over now-a-days. Most of it is over produced crap. And most content is less than appealing. I like the good ole days when they found creative ways to be dirty without sounding dirty. Now they just say F**K, hell I can do that. What ever happened to some good ole party music to shake yo ass to?
But... if they pay you gotta play.
 

I started a thread about two weeks ago saying exactly the same thing (but about the general charts), actually everyone I know is saying the same thing right now, the charts are at an all time low, especially when listening from a DJ'ing background, because club-suitable material is just not there, and if it is the quality is much lower than it was just 1-2 years ago.

It seems like producers are running out of ideas, most tracks are a remix of a remix, even a Timberlake and Madonna team-up didn't result in anything decent.
 
If there is no clean edit, it does not get played, even in the club. If they don't like it, hire someone else. Other than that, I can play the bullshit. I just keep sniffing the dollar bills I'm getting paid, so I don't have to put up with the bad smell.

 
A Man and His Music wrote :
I just keep sniffing the dollar bills I'm getting paid, so I don't have to put up with the bad smell.


OH!!! It was to cover the bad smell...not what I thought at all.......
 
Thinking about it, the only way to encourage change is to voice your opinions to the people that matter, a song is only judged by the chart position, and to get a song into the charts you've only got to sell a few thousand copies, it doesn't take much from the media to achieve this, basically they throw it in your face and do anything they can in a few seconds to leave you thinking the word "cool", and that's all most songs are anyway, a sales pitch saying "buy me" (especially Hip Hop), there's no musical arrangement going on in that "all you've got is 4 minutes" yes 4 minutes to talk bollocks "tick tock tick tock", the difference is you're getting paid, if it had nothing to do with you, you wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

I think this is just evidence that people are so easily lead, and so keen to be "in the club" of the cool, sheep in need of Sheppard’s, if there are no good Sheppard’s then anyone will do, who am I to complain? A sheep who's best served with mint sauce, and they clone those too.
 
TearEmUp wrote :
A Man and His Music wrote :
I just keep sniffing the dollar bills I'm getting paid, so I don't have to put up with the bad smell.


OH!!! It was to cover the bad smell...not what I thought at all.......


That was the 80s, 87 to be exact. These are crisp new bills, you know, like a new car smell. I got one of those too. In my new car, sniffing new money. Listening to the Strobe station on Sirius.
 
There's still plenty of good artists around, it's just not usualy top 40 stuff, The Roots, Mos Def, Nas, just to name a few. Hell, KRS One is still puttin out tracks. None of it stuff I ever get requested, but still songs I enjoy listening to. I'm pretty easy to please though, I just enjoy music in general & if I can stand the Electric Slide I can handle anything..lol;^]
 
AHHH!!!! just listened to LL Cool J... dissing, battling, telling how great he is with out demoralizing. Great flow with catchy hooks. Bring back the old school ways. I know thats not going to happen.
 
Ladies Love Cool J, he gets those earrings Jinglin' Baby!

Quite possibly my all-time favorite; funny, creative, sexy, not filthy, dancable, fierce battle raps, always has a tight DJ.
Saw him last summer at a local music festival, GREAT SHOW!
 
we've been waiting an waiting for "the next big thing" in music and for awhile i thought we were going to get some luck with pitbull, timbaland, and flo rida... but now i'm not so sure.
bring back the mid 90's booty shakin'. something with the one thing lacking in the crap they have us playing these days: ENERGY!
besides that it was always one of the most fun things to do - watch a bunch of 18-25 white girls try to shake it like they had ghetto booty.

watch it backfire and suddenly classical music gets popular in clubs.

"you got that new joint from beethoven?"
 
Yo DJ, you got the new joint from Lil Bach? Wha, wha
That french horn section is in the hizouse..
 
No I don't but the new Vi-Va-Ldi is the fur real shiznit..talk about putting sound right....
 
word. rock me one time rachmaninoff.
 
Falco can make a come back.
 


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