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kthxbliz

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Anyone had time to check KD2? It’s a big step up on KD1 for me. Not the biggest fan of Hit-Boy but the relationship between him and Nas has clearly matured. The track with Lauryn Hill  is nice. There’s an Em and EPMD feature also.
 

 

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Chewylegs

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On 13/08/2021 at 12:30, kthxbliz said:

Anyone had time to check KD2? It’s a big step up on KD1 for me. Not the biggest fan of Hit-Boy but the relationship between him and Nas has clearly matured. The track with Lauryn Hill  is nice. There’s an Em and EPMD feature also.
 

 

Thanks for the heads up on this, just listening now.  

 

In general, it's a bit hit and miss for me, some good tracks some not so good.  Doesn't matter how many times I hear it, auto tune ruins tracks for me, I'm too old (set in my ways!) for that shit!

Lauryn Hill track, EPMD, Death Row East and a couple of others are nice though.  

 

Good to hear Nas, been a long time.

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Agree with you both wholeheartedly. Although once the dust settled I was left with a Nas album which had 5-6 tracks I’d return to the and the rest I didn’t care much for. Maybe that’s objectively a failure, but it ended up exceeding my admittedly low expectations. 
 

i enjoyed Death Row East, Rare, Store Run, Moments, Nobody and Nas Is Good. Overall, I was surprised with what HitBoy gave us with these tracks. 
 

Far from my favourite project of the year (what a year it’s been!) but noteworthy nonetheless. 

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My son walked up to the band at a park while we were on holiday this week and they very kindly let him get involved…

The band Fellowship of Groove were tremendous guys - and that mix of Afrobeat and rap worked out brilliantly. 
Obvs I’m biased, but given no prep, his first time on stage, and never having even met the band, it’s pretty awesome….

 

https://www.instagram.com/p/CTJzpR3qi5-/?utm_medium=copy_link

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kthxbliz

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6 hours ago, Mr. Gerbik said:

Ok how about this dope track

 

 

That was awesome. Obviously there’s some old-school heavyweights on there, but in terms of cadence and tempo, yeah spot on. Thanks for that!

 

I’ve been really busy recently throwing myself into a second age of music discovery, much like the one that rllmuk ignited in me back in 2005 or whenever it was. Back then, just like now, it was largely driven by a discontent and dissatisfaction with mainstream music. I’m totally open to anything new and fresh that you can recommend. Ideally, I don’t want trap beats and excessive overt Autotune, but anything else is fair game.

 

So far this year, I’ve listened to 160+ fresh albums that dropped this year, and yet you managed to throw me a track I’d totally missed. Which is why I fucking love this place and soooo yearn for it be like the good old days. This place was a hotbed of excitement and enthusiasm for music, without you guys, I’d never have become a long-term hip-hop fan.

 

I’m trying to give something back but unfortunately my posts in here get very little engagement. 
 

 

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Mr. Gerbik

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14 hours ago, kthxbliz said:

So far this year, I’ve listened to 160+ fresh albums that dropped this year, and yet you managed to throw me a track I’d totally missed

You're welcome, I tried to choose a track that most people don't know, but you never know, you know? Glad you like it also.

14 hours ago, kthxbliz said:

Ideally, I don’t want trap beats and excessive overt Autotune, but anything else is fair game.

Oh yeah, same here. And given the average age of this forum, I suspect we're not the only ones.

 

14 hours ago, kthxbliz said:

Which is why I fucking love this place and soooo yearn for it be like the good old days. This place was a hotbed of excitement and enthusiasm for music, without you guys, I’d never have become a long-term hip-hop fan.

 

I’m trying to give something back but unfortunately my posts in here get very little engagement. 

I try to listen to as much as possible but sometimes the thread has moved on two pages and I can't be arsed and skip to the last few posts. I rarely react directly, however. I'm not really good at putting into words why I like certain music or why a specific track is dope - just that it sounds good to me. And whenever I don't like a track, I'd rather not go out of my way to shit on someone else's preferences. So usually I just post my own favourite tracks without meaningful comment.

 

I do remember this thread being way more lively. Fuck, we even had a monthly thread! Now there's a handful of us left and everyone is posting their own specific tastes. Which isn't a bad thing btw, my tastes overlap with two or three people in here but for example I love reading @Calashnikov's enthusiastic and insightful posts about shit I would otherwise NEVER have listened to.

 

Fuck it, maybe we can spruce things up again by making it more personal and do something different. You telling us about how you became a fan for life gave me the idea.

 

I was already listening to the odd commercial rap track as a kid around ten years old, but otherwise I didn't have a favourite genre. It wasn't until I bought a Spider-Man comic that included a cassette tape as a freebie that I found my genre. On that cassette were mostly pop and rock songs, except this ONE track halfway through the B-side:

 

 

This track blew my mind!! Holy shit! I spent an entire summer holiday blasting this track out of my cheap boom box, rewinding every time it ended. Nonstop. THIS track made me a hip hop head.

 

From Beastie Boys onwards I discovered the likes of KRS, Public Enemy, EPMD, etc etc. I was lucky that I grew up in Amsterdam which had MTV on the cable even in the eighties. (Another big advantage was that every American hip hop artist wanted to come to Amsterdam to perform more than any other place outside of the USA lol, I remember B-Real putting a call out on a local radio station for anyone listening if they see Sen Dog - tell him to come to the studio. He was last seen in the red light district) Anyway, back then what we had on the cable was just USA MTV until at some point it became a mix of US and UK (shout out Most Wanted). Which meant I could watch YO! MTV Raps. That show was everything to me, watched each episode religiously and every time I discovered a dope new act, I made note of the name and went to a record store the very next day to check out their album

 

Another factor that made me a fan for life is that Dutch hip hop started becoming a thing in the underground towards the end of the 80s. Before then, rapping in Dutch was not done, it was seen as lame. A joke. But a group called the Osdorp Posse started making quality Dutch hip hop and it became an underground sensation. And it all happened in Amsterdam. Radio and TV didn't want anything to do with it, but more and more Dutch hip hop acts started appearing. It was all underground AS FUCK. First in Amsterdam, but it quickly spread out. It was amazing to see that happening as a teen and it played a large part in shaping me into the person I am today (have the tats to prove it).

 

 

Since the late 90s rapping in Dutch is common over here and a genre unto itself. But I was there man, at the very start.

 

Anyway, as USA rap became more commercial  I was leaning more and more towards the rawness of the Dutch scene. Until Funcrusher Plus happened. Blew my mind, I never knew hip hop could sound like that. It was magical. There was underground in America too! Now I knew to look for it. What was shown on MTV was mostly not my cuppa at this point.

 

One of the very first English tracks I knew every single word to.

 

Along the way I also became a huge Kool Keith fan. So when I joined rllmuk in 2005 I chose the name Mr. Gerbik:

 

 

On my very first day here someone PMed me "there's a horse in the hospital" and I knew I was in the right place. Back then I was very shy about posting in English, moreso in the hip hop thread filled with people having meaningful deep thoughts about music. So I just lurked here for years until I finally worked up the courage to post something. Probably "FUCK KANYE" hahaha, no no just kidding. No idea what I first posted.

 

Anyway I'm still here because hip hop is my biggest passion. Bigger than games even. Listening to hip hop is what got me through some really hard moments in life. 

 

 

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