. <~~ And this dot here represents the genre of post-Donuts instrumental hip hop.
On this page they're separated by an inch or two, in the real world there's a gulf of a gazillion trillion bazillion miles in quality between the two.
(From 45 King's The Red The Black The Green 12"; 1988)
Presumably Lakim Shabazz rejected the Simply Dope Part 2 beat for his first album because Night Of The Living Baseheads had everybody shook to rhyme over The Grunt back in '88?
7 comments:
this whole single is hard
I never really understood instrumental hip hop albums seems like it defeats the purpose of listening to a rap song. Lord Finesse did put out a pretty good one last year but I'm pretty sure all the beats on it were one's he made in the 90's.
Something like Petestrumentals was basically "hey guys, here's a bunch of mediocre beats I made that nobody wanted to rap over + a couple of U.N songs to sweeten the blow of paying money for this shite".
Yeah I generally try to avoid accusing people of being disingenuous/just pretending to like music but I honestly don't see how ppl can get excited about instrumental rap.
I'm going to be the eye-roll-enducing buzzkill here and remind y'all that hip-hop was an instrumental music in its original form. I'm not going to get all four elements-y or claim that everything should always be preserved in its primordial stages or anything but I'll stick up for the legitimacy of instrumental hip-hop even though I don't listen to it (anymore), if for no other reason than I've had some very excellent moments of my life with some non-rapping rap in the background.
Depends what you mean by "instrumental Hip Hop:" instrumental versions/backing tracks, turntablist routines,Yo Sushi funky wallpaper/library beats or songs composed and intended to stand as instrumentals. Lately I've found myself buying more instrumentals/beattapes because there's too many rappers with nothing to say. I like beats by The Dopelgangaz but a little of their misogynist-Mobbdeep mutterings go a long way. If it was just the beats/deejaying, UK Hip Hop would be almost enjoyable. As it is, decent beats ruined by Jehst wannabes.
wait, how was original hip-hop instrumental? u mean like...dj's spinning breaks in the middle of songs with vocalists & shit? that people danced to? It was dance music, not instrumental trip hop
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