#classic rap

[possible-streetwear]

EPMD

[internetgreatesthits]

Pick One

1990s Hip Hop

2010s Hip Hop

Voting ended onAug 28, 2025

[curatethewav]

Tupac Shakur and Yafeu “Yaki Kadafi” Fula on 183rd St and Creston Ave in the Bronx (1986)

[ja-phnix]

I'll never wholeheartedly agree with the argument that "Heavy Metal is just Surf Rock with distortion," but I can't in good faith say the people who do argue that have no point to their argument. What I *will* stand on my 3 legs over the Bass line being what makes or breaks either subgenre.

Like... you can't tell me Joe Jackson's "Got The Time" from '79 isn't a Surf Rock banger. If you did, you'd be right, The Search Engine says its New Wave, but that bassline has ready to move to Santa Monica and shred waves with the Grunge Bros.

Crank up the distortion or stab your speaker with a knife (how they actually invented distortion in the 50s lmao), give the drummer a 2nd kick petal and 3rd speedball, and make sure you rush every goddamn downbeat (because its metal af to rush the downbeat, your band director can fight me over it), and suddenly its a B-side on an Anthrax album 10+ years later.

Having their top song on streaming apps be a cover is kinda rough, especially for a member of the big 4 of Thrash Metal, but it does show how their sound was a huge inflection point for all genres of music, especially with their collaboration w/ Public Enemy being as influential as it was to the Nu Metal movement of the 00s.

You know what Public Enemy and Joe Jackson have in common?

They knew how to write a good fuckin' bassline.

[theweightofdivinity]

The classics always ease my mind. There’s a calm in hearing real words, real beats, something that cuts through the noise and brings me back to myself.

[trumpetnista]

[ohyeslawd]

[jrat226]

For this hot takes blog imma count down the top 6 most annoying music fan bases

1. Swifties (I don't have to explain)

2. Eminem stans (omg we get it he was good back in the day please STFU we get it he's a legend we understand admit he's washed up a lil and move on get the dick out your mouth)

3. Army (BTS fans) (you people are some of the most annoying people to ever exist, all their songs sound the same, y'all act like they're the best thing ever when there are several kpop grounds better than them

4. Kanye West fans (yes he's influenced a lot of people but at the end of the day, he's a semi solid rapper who hasn't made a good album in a solid 5 or 6 years, he's washed and y'all need to accept it, also supporting a man that said "slavery was a choice" and "hitler was right"... Get help

5. Kendrick Lamar fan boys (as of recently y'all won't shut up, yes he's amazing give it a break, You're making me hate him more than he hates drake just chill please, and not every line has to be a quadrupole entendre, so please shut it)

6. Any boom bap/ 90 rapper old heads and kids (for the old heads yes, they we're great for their time and changed the game forever, and we're thankful, but stop acting like they didn't talk about the same shit today's rappers do, they talked about gangs, drugs and bitches too, where do you think today's rappers got it from, your favorites laid the ground work, and beats and styles change over time, stop acting like lyrical is dead, you're just to lazy to look for it and bitch about what's on the radio, and as for the literal infants glazing tupac, stfu, you weren't alive, continue watching dora bro)