The 80's/90's Are Back

Have you noticed that hip hop is slowing down? Not in the ways of mass production, but in tempo. Between Drake's mixtape, Theophilus London's mixtape, Kanye's latest CD and others I can't think of right now, rappers are experimenting with the speed of the beat.

But just think about it. It's almost like music is going to extremes in hip hop. Either they really slowing it down, like The Cool Kids or speeding it up, like the hip hop/dance mixes that are coming from the Kid Sister/Amanda Blank/Diplo/Spank Rock/Pase Rock family.

I've been listening to a lot of 90's hip hop lately; Pete Rock, Tribe, old Common, Pharcyde, old Dilla, so I guess I've been listening to a slower type of hip hop as well. I have the tendency to listen to music that isn't being worn out on the radio. But with Kid Cudi, it's starting to wear thin. My goodness that song is everywhere. (The Crookers remix will forever remind me of driving around in Jill's jeep with its amazing system during this past summer...that moment right when that first big beat/synth drops...wow.)

But it seems like those same jazzy-loops, with their mid-tempo beats that infiltrated the brain's of the babies born in the 80's/grew up in the 90's, are starting to seep out.

Granted, Kanye takes it to a whole other level that's different and definitely out there, but for the most part, hip hop seems tired and is going into a different direction. Between Amanda Blank wearing leggings with off-the-shoulder shirts and all that gold and Theophilus having Whitney Houston's, "I'll Always Love You" on his mixtape, it's pretty apparent that hip hop is changing.


But in the end, isn't everything relative?

So I'll create my own world.
And keep listening to http://www.thehoodinternet.com/ where mashing up Phoenix and Jay-Z, while unconventional (but still amazing) still beat out today's radio hip hop any day.