unownunown wrote:snipelfritz wrote:madmax1012 wrote:i don't understand my fellow white people's obsession with Kid Cudi. everyone i know is like "eh i don't like rap, but ZOMG KID CUDI!!!!!!!!" and then i was like eh, maybe i'm missing something? so i gave him a listen and what a surprise, i am thoroughly confused about what all the commotion is about
This has been the story of me and any other rapper with a hipster following(i.e. Kanye, M.I.A., etc.). It still sounds like shit to me, but IMHO lyrics aren't really a part of music. Their auxiliary at best.
holy shit you guys.
i don't like kid cudi, but i'm not white. i have a lot of non-white friends who like him. my brother and some friends (all nonwhite) saw him when he came to cleveland. the show had a lot of non white people. in fact, considering the ratio of my white friends to my nonwhite friends who like cudi, i'd say i know more people of color who like him. although that's because most white people i know just don't like rap unless it's eminem
however calling kanye a hipster rapper is fucking stupid and ignorant of the fact that he is kind of a big deal. just because you don't like something doesn't make it hipster! kanye is one of the most mainstream rappers ever, seriously, THE MOST.
I don't think we ever said that only stereotypically white people listen to certain rappers. I can see how you read that, but I don't think either of us intended to say that. It's just that certain hip hop artists have a much greater following outside the hip hop community than others. You hardly hear hipsters talk about Immortal Technique yet he's the first rapper that has impressed me, a self-described hipster, with his rapping alone.
For me, it's always about the depth and creativity of the production of which I(note: I, as in entirely subjective opinion) see little in artists like Kanye West and such. They have a tendency to depend on samples more than use them like, say, Public Enemy, but I'm sure that's not true of every track, I just have never had any desire to listen to those(I did listen to all of Graduation and hated it from the very beginning, fucking ripping off Elton John and the Beegees from the very first second). Usually when I hear a song that uses samples poorly, I just want to listen to the original song, when it uses them well, I don't even recognize them./diatribe
Something positive/non-argumentative: I'm starting to fall in love with the scent of B.O.(at least my own) or at least I think that's what that smell is.
