Vinyl Me Please Rap & Hip Hop

tonythegamer said:
but bar-kays is still a pretty decent classics record. skee-lo aint that lol
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Eh. Bar-Kays is fine but it's clearly a cheap license. Nobody is bashing down Stax's door to license the Bar-Kays 3rd or 4th best studio album. I'm sure it will sound great but I'd hardly say it needs a remaster/repress over tons of other albums. It's yet another album that can be purchased for under $10 as an OG press. I know that shouldn't be the definition of whether or not an album needs the reissue treatment, but we keep getting these dollar bin type albums from classics track and it's kinda disappointing...
 
VMP might be running on fumes


they are shipping much more exclusives with 1000 copies to make more money of the license, they are doing lackluster R&HH and bargain bin classics because they spent way too much money on getting essentials that will wow people into a 3 month sub. i am certain that BVSC and spiritualized cost a TON of money to get the exclusive rights to a pressing of. probably the same with dashboard confessional and coming the future, stankonia.. so they need just something that doesn't cost a lot of money to produce so it would be low risk low reward
 
supahypeag said:
I don’t mind a more underground or artsy artist I might not be aware of from around that time. I’m far from a RHH expert, and turning me onto something new and different is fun. So I don’t NEED something epic.

just something not corny
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tbh that would be fucking awesome... get some obscure artists that from the new jazzrap scene like slauson malone or billy woods/armand hammer
 
supahypeag said:
I don’t mind a more underground or artsy artist I might not be aware of from around that time. I’m far from a RHH expert, and turning me onto something new and different is fun. So I don’t NEED something epic.

just something not corny
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Agreed, I saw someone mention Aceyalone in a Reddit thread I think and I listened to him for the first time and I was blown away... Something like that would be awesome
 
NathanRicaud said:
I liked New Order from late 2018! Bizarre Love Triangle was a glamorous, sparkly, evocative, dizzying song I always loved, but never paid attention to who it was! Here's a story of me and my music taste and how it got shaped!

I never would've thought that I'd like any punk music in general. When I was 12 years old, that's when I really went out of my way to enjoy music. I loved Justin Timberlake, Ashanti, Ciara, Usher, T-Pain, Trey Songz, Alicia Keys, Dwele, Kanye West, Omarion, Ne-Yo, Amerie, Chris Brown etc. I also loved a lot of hip-hop too, but mainly 90's hip-hop and also rappers like Mos Def, Common, Lupe Fiasco, 50 Cent, Clipse etc

I was always an R&B/Hip-Hop/Urban music kind of guy! I liked all kinds of hip-hop and R&B. I really loved neo-soul music too when I was in high-school! I loved D'Angelo, Maxwell, Erykah Badu, Sadé, R. Kelly, Lauryn Hill, Lucy Pearl, Floetry, Musiq Soulchild, Bilal but also really loved Ginuwine, Aaliyah, Playa, Tweet, Timbaland too.

The other genre I also loved whilst being in High school was Disco & Funk. Because of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, I absolutely loved that West End Records, funky, groovy, summery kind of funk! Couldn't get enough of artists like Rick James, Teena Marie, Cameo, Slave etc and also just dug so deep into disco/funk - Don Blackman's self-titled was a fave of mine! And I loved P-Funk, Soul and New Jack Swing too!

Then from memory, it all changed when I started listening to The Weeknd's 2011 mixtapes (which would have been when I was around 19 years old in 2013). I really liked that trip-hop/R&B kind of sound. Then I got into trip-hop, so Portishead, Tricky, Morcheeba etc and my first album that really introduced me into music that wasn't 'black' music, was FKA Twigs LP1 in 2014! I still liked my Britney Spears' "Blackout" and M.I.A. "Kala" etc, but LP1 was the album which opened up my mind so much! I then got into similar artists like James Blake, Sango, SBTRKT, Burial, Grimes and before you know it, I was anticipating upcoming albums from Kero Kero Bonito, Blood Orange, Kelela, SOPHIE, Tory Y Moi, Neon Indian, Tame Impala, Sevdaliza, Clarence Clarity etc

Then when I joined VMP, I was introduced into 'indie' music! And in July, 2018 @Joe Mac introduced me to Kate Bush! I remember because I swapped Mitksi's Be The Cowboy for Fiona Apple's Tidal at that time, which felt like a big change in terms of my music direction/music taste! I fell deeply in love with the Fiona Apple pick and really loved Kate Bush ( I was obsessed with her album 'The Dreaming')! Then Tom Waits, Talking Heads, New Order were artists/groups I liked. Then Joe introduced me to The Smiths! Then after I appreciated The Smiths, I liked The Cure, David Bowie and similar music acts.

With rock, I think the first album was PJ Harvey's Rid Of Me. Joe also introduced me to PJ Harvey! Is This Desire? is one of my favourite albums of the 90's now! In general though, I was already slowly warming up to rock because of VMP's ROTM's, like Arctic Monkeys. In addition, I enjoyed indie rock acts such as Tame Impala, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, MGMT etc, but PJ Harvey was the one who really made me get into acts from Radiohead to Jimi Hendrix to now Pink Floyd and Joy Division! VMP doing exclusives of Slowdive's Pygmalion, Sleater-Kinney's The Woods, Broken Social Scene etc also helped increase my music taste and love for indie/alternative rock!

I pre-ordered the upcoming IDLES album! I loved that track Kenny Beats worked on; Grounds! That's a funky banger! I also picked up Jeff Rosenstock's latest album too (have that on pre-order as well). So, I'm really warming up to punk music! Cannot wait for the upcoming Spiritualized ROTM

VMP Classics really opened me up towards Blues too! Whilst I always loved jazz, funk and soul, I never liked Blues. I love Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Albert King, Buddy Guy and really enjoy the blues influence on the John Mayer & The White Stripes ROTM's! Loved Ali Farka Touré as well which is Blues, and can't wait for that exclusive, which is an album I would've never loved around a year or two ago!

I've always enjoyed world music, reggae, afro-beat, salsa, latin and VMP and this forum has helped me discover heaps! I feel like in the last two years, my music taste has expanded so much! it's unbelievable and I'm so grateful for that

So yeah, that briefly sums up how my music taste has formed! Sexy music, so Marvin Gaye, Minnie Riperton, D'Angelo, Maxwell, Leon Ware, Prince and just sexy jams like Between The Sheets by Isley Brothers or All Night Long by Mary Jane Girls is my absolute favourite! And jazz rap, so acts like Digable Planets, Madvillain, Tribe Called Quest, Bahamadia, The Roots, Freestyle Fellowship and Guru's debut - Jazzmatazz!
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One time when I was 12 I was knocked unconscious while playing with some friends in a park after school. When I came to i was freaking out cause it felt like I was out for a long time and I thought maybe I didn't make it home in time for dinner.

While I was unconscious I dreamt and the soundtrack was Bizarre Love Triangle, but the Frente version. It probably played 1,000 times on a loop on my dream.

My friends said I hit the ground and immediately popped back up. That basically no time went by.
 
NathanRicaud said:
No, I haven’t! I find him intriguing though because I see the album cover of “Pony” everywhere and he has an interesting style! I never checked him out because he came under the “country” category! I’m going to check him out very soon though! Thanks for the recommendation! I’ll let you know what I think! ☺
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I dont think youd like Pony. And I love it.
 
MikeH said:
This song fucks tho

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I grew up going to St. Lunatics shows. Friends of mine are in the Country Grammer video. Almost every car driving by a teen that i rode in in high school had that St. Lunatics EP in it. I know people who played rec league baseball on a team with Nelly and Murphy Lee.

Country Grammer came out as i was graduating high school. When it was on the radio I was like, "way to support the hometown kid!" In August I moved to NM for college. My first day there I wandered off campus to a record store near by and when I walked in the front door the back wall was the Hip Hop section and there was a floor to ceiling Country Grammer poster and i popped and said, "holy shit, homeboy's made it!" Hed probably had already sold like 2 million copies by then but I hadn't noticed cause I just thought it was local town love.
 
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JonnyH said:
I grew up going to St. Lunatics shows. Friends of mine are in the Country Grammer video. Almost every car driving by a teen that i rode in in high school had that St. Lunatics EP in it. I know people who played red league baseball on a team with Nelly and Murphy Lee.

Country Grammer came out as i was graduating high school. When it was on the radio I was like, "way to support the hometown kid!" In August I moved to NM for college. My first day there I wandered off campus to a record store near by and when I walked in the front door the back wall was the Hip Hop section and there was a floor to ceiling Country Grammer poster and i popped and said, "holy shit, homeboy's made it!" Hed probably had already sold like 2 million copies by then but I hadn't noticed cause I just thought it was local town love.
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Omg, that’s so cool! That’s gangsta as! I’m so jealous; sounds like awesome memories! That’s so cool that you had friends in the Country Grammar video! I had no idea you grew up with friends who loved hip-hop! 😃
 
NathanRicaud said:
I listened to the album and I didn’t enjoy it. I did like the track “Old River” and “Dead of Night” though! Overall though, I found the rest of the material bland and in general, I’m not a fan of Orville Peck’s vocals. I will definitely check out his next album release in the future though!
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How about some country disco??

 
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