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Originally Posted by rebeccagotcursedout
there's a lot to digest here. I sometimes only hear bits and pieces of suggestions people post here. but still interesting and staying in touch with whats what.
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Really, I think way too much of the talking is done by the same three-four of us. Other commenters slip in opinions and criticisms from time to time, but I rarely see a solid recomendation from a non-regular. So I don't honestly think it's that much to digest.
Yet I know there are tons of people on this board who could be dropping bombs on the rest of us constantly. For some reason, they just don't usually do so. It's been years now, and the main café fam hasn't really expanded at all.
I think we miss a lot of good up-and-comers who are still playing the self-release game, and whose mixtapes and ep's would tear the roof off the place if there was a more active interest in looking out for fresh talent here in the café.
I think we also tend to have the collectio attwntion span of a hummingbird.
For proof of this, just look at that new Cannibal Ox record that dropped recently. I think ALL of this thread's frequenters would have called The Cold Vein one of their top 10 or 20 albums ever back when these threads started, and I think we all would have listed Cannibal Ox as an act that we were straight-up, foaming at the mouth desperate to hear from again. Like... up there with MBV, Aphex Twin, GY!BE and all the other notoriously "new old boys."
Yet they just came out with Blade of the Ronin like- a month ago, and we haven't even really talked about it at all.
Same thing happened when Deltron finally returned. Years of OMG OMG OMG, then the album drops and nobody says shit! Yeah, it was a bit of a let down, but it deserved more conversation time than it received.
I wish we talked more about older hip hop, because it's really hard to talk about new releases without focusing on the 3 or so that are the most highly anticipated.... This usually means Kanye, or Drake, or Ghostface, etc. This year Kendrick has been an obvious and expected attention devourer, but I still care about CanOx's legacy! I still care about Del! I want to talk about more genuinely new, exciting shit, and I want to talk more about what the world of rap was like when we were growing up, and how our have adapted to changing tastes and changing eras.
But honestly if you think this is a hard thread to digest, stop reading and start listening and participating more. This goes for all y'all.