When did you start losing interest in Hip Hop and start listening to other genres?
 

I'm asking this question in light of Lil Wayne recently saying he's bored with hip hop and is now leaning toward rock. I'd have to say for me personally the beginning of the end started with Nelly and that E.I mess, he sorta gave birth to lyrical lunacy. And before anybody brings him up I know Greg Nice never made much sense, but at least Smooth B was standing right beside him, with some what more sane lyrics. :bringit:

He is'nt going to make it in the rock industry... He wants to TOP all industries, but in all reality he will never have as much success as the rolling stones.

Is this thread serious?

Also, Ice-T is the only one that trancsends the two genres well.

I know I'm gonna regret saying that as soon as someone points out someone I forgot.

vanilla ice...

Agreed this thread is a joke, as is Lil Wayne. :beer:

Reading is fundamental
 

Ahh let's try this again, the question wasn't about Lil Wayne, it's "talking slow" when did you start losing interest in hip hop and start listening to other genres?

OOOHHHHHH. Thanks for that.

Its impossible to lose interest if you truly enjoy the genre. Losing interest just means your to lazy to go find new bands.

If he's bored of hip hop then it's because it's filled with no talent fucks like him.

We already have enough terrible rock acts , we don't need anymore.

Well hip-hop wasn't my starting point with music, I came into it when I was already very well-versed in other genres and I've never particularly lost interest in it. So I guess I can't really relate to your question.

:nono:

Anyway, I'm at my peak of interest probably, and I doubt I'll ever lose interest.

I'm gonna have to agree with you about being too lazy to find new material. I think at some point you get used to what's in the mainstream and you don't seek out new talent.

OP , I think you are taking what he says too literally. I think he meant that he's bored with the current state of traditional hip hop....so he's trying his hand at alternative hip hop I would say.

Hip hop is constantly evolving and he wants to be part of the new generation that helps to push hip hop to it's limits where it dips into other genres and mixes them together.

I've noticed lately that alot of Hip Hop and R&B are relying heavily on dance/house music. That's like the "in" fade right now. I don't see it as a negative thing it's just something that's different and people are trying it out. I like this hip hop/dance music fusion.

I've always like Hip Hop/Rock fusion but only a few can pull it off well. I know i'm going to get bashed for saying this but Linkin' Park is one of them. To name a few others....Hollywood Undead, Limp Bizkit(I know I know shame on me), Saliva, P.O.D. and there are some more just can't think of them off the top of my head. People that aren't open minded and only like rock or only like hip hop can't appreciate those bands

I must be doing this wrong, I lost interest in other genres and started listening to more hip hop.

Jesus, that sound horrible... just the thought of hearing Lil Wayne's take on rock makes me cringe.

Same here, well I'm not really sure if it was losing interest as much as it was expanding my horizon.

I know what you mean. To phrase it better, I've found an interest in hip hop, but I haven't lost my interest in everything else. I still listen to a variety of different music, but I've come to appreciate hip hop a lot more now than I did even a year ago.

That's pretty much how it was for me, although I still listen to other stuff. Besides Mastodon, though, Hip Hop's the only thing I still buy new stuff in.

lol i stopped listening to rap (even though i didnt listen to much of it) when i was like 16.. i mainly listened to 2pac and cypress hill.. to think of it, im gonna check them out again.

what about zac da la rocha???

in 8th grade when i realized wearing polo jeans and ecko shirts while listening to shyne and juvenile were too gangster for me. I then moved on to nu-metal and rock and slowly converted to metalcore. I now realize that metal is much better than rap.

The first second I was born

:stupid:

I've had a very brief rap phrase back when I was 12-13 years old with Eminem and ****, but I soon discovered better music.

I started listening to other genres after Ice Ice Baby came out. I heard that track and thought, wow, what a riff. So then I got into Queen and David Bowie, ditched hip-hop for good, and never looked back.

huh, for some reason i thought you younger than that. you should check out the stuff that came out from '91-'93, it was a revolutionary era in hip-hop and quite a bit of good stuff has come out since then.

i was into the so-called parent-baiting hip-hop around the turn of the millenium, I inherited a bunch of classic gangsta CDs (like the best of NWA, the Chronic etc) from a well-to-do mate who 'ditched' hip-hop and took up metal (?!). One of my favourite albums when it came out was 'the W'.
I moved out of that 'phase', only to come back to hip-hop several years ago via the older stuff (De La, Tribe etc), appreciating it in ways I hadn't before - lyrically, philosophically, blah di blah. So it's all good in the hood. I came full circle last year and re-acquired the Slim Shady and Marshall Mathers LPs having long since ditched the CDs. haha, They're really good.

I've never lost interest in Hip-Hop, though it did definitely help me get into other genres(especially reggae.)

I don't get this idea that hip hop is a kids starter kit to get him into real music, i still listen to rap more then any other genre.

Metal was the first music I started getting into. Then my mom used to listen to the Rap stations a lot, which got me into the scene, and this video game Def Jam: Fight for New York had a lot of rap on it along with the hood culture. It sounds weird but I picked up a lot of stuff from that game. But anyway, Dangerdoom was my first rap album I got big into, then it was either Lil Wayne or Ice Cube.

But that's how I started out.

Precisely

26 'n' counting.

I was sorta jesting since I got really into Biggie Smalls in the mid-nineties, and have loved the odd post '00 rap record (most notably Clipse - Hell Hath No Fury, and Prodigy - Return Of The Mac; oh, and Fishscale was pretty great too).

Curiosity makes me inquire further into the 91-93 stuff?

oh, haha.

besides the 'big three' (Arrested Development, A Tribe Called Quest & De la Soul) there were others which brought new breath into hip-hop. The Pharcyde's Bizarre Ride II is one of the coolest records of the era, and as for the late nineties revival i'd say Main Source doesn't get much rep but they were there as well.

^ listen to this cat

Same here.

I still mostly listen to hip-hop, not much new stuff, but there's so much old stuff.
I started listening to other music around the time when 50 Cent got really popular