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Originally Posted by Bytor Peltor
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Dude, I can't fucking STAND odd future ( I think they are almost a bad movie caricature of LA rap and their music is pure negativity) however I am REALLY digging this! thanks for posting that link, much like with TREE bytor has introduced me to perhaps the only two contemporary rappers that can catch fame on my iPod. By they way, this sound IS 100% that dark, almost gothic west coast beats epitomed by rappers like Luniz or E-40's Element of Surprise. I dig that shit most of all! Dr Dooom First Come First Served just might be my all-time favorite rap album, and its as dark as they come. I do like that odd future are a bunch of south central skaters, and I admit, by harsh judging of them is based on a limited sample size, but I checked out their earlier shit and totally didn't like it. It felt like it was forcing a gangsta or ruff sound. I checked out some more recent shit and it seems more realistic as to who those cats are. This earl sweatshirt is EXACTLY what I expect from skateboard hip hop from South Central. I go to church 2-4 days a week in South Central, and I take the bus/train so I ain't just passing through. I'm walking up and down the hood, I know all kinds of folks in all kinds of spots in the hood, I still love it. One of the best parts of the hood is the advent of skateshops and skateboarding around post-2005. When I was skating in middle and high school, simply put, dudez in the hood didn't skate. Gangsters in particular were hostile to skateboarding. So there weren't kids in the hood skating, and there weren't skateshop. The first skateshop to open up in the hood was on Compton BLVD and MLK in 2005. Since then, there are skate shops all over the hood, and now I see so many kids skating in the hood its fucking epic. I lOVE it. Its such a radical shift to how it was when I was growing up. These kids aren't posers either, they're fucking kick ass skating! There are even city-made skate parks in Compton and South LA now, reflecting the growing demand. Best of all, gangstas be giving props to skaters now, no longer diss. I think Odd Future properly reflect that change