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Food, Clothes, Medicine: The Indie Rap Thread
jungleroomx
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Indie Rap
n.
The new thing. Indie has long since been the comfort and scorn of music snobs, and the attaching of said label immediately brings to mind several qualities; Unusual song structure, "talent" vs "emotion", pretentiousness (good or bad), overwrought or overthought, different take on a current musical scene, etc. Needless to say, it's gotten a bad rap (Ah ha!) and now indie rock and all its coffee house, scenester glory is now joined by a relative newcomer to the music industry: Indie rap.
So what the fuck is it? What separates these artists from other hip hop artists? There's a different kind of rap?
The answer to these questions is pretty easy, as it's just as comparable to radio rock and underground rock. Indie rappers tend to focus on "musical" or "forward thinking" tunes as opposed to aiming for the cheap seats with club bangers and catchy choruses. Aesop Rock peppers his tunes with almost undecipherable lyrical passages and attaches them to discordant, analog-ridden crunch backing music that sometimes barely resembles a straight boom blap beat. MF Doom's lyrical approach is playful, his music generally lighthearted, but with some slight avant-garde flair. Cubbiebear is a Baltimore MC that is pushing the very outer limits of what hip hop is, his songs almost Jackson Pollock-like in their construction.
In general, these artists prefer to push the boundaries of hip hop with their twisted music, but also acknowledge the roots and main purpose of hip hop before it became a juggernaut industry: To inform, to educate, and to inspire. And in most cases, these artists main intent is to uphold the original intent of hiphop while at the same time expanding the very boundaries of what an 808 kick drum and one man with a microphone can do.
I'd post videos, but half the fun of this genre is digging up these gems yourself. If you want a grasp of the range this kind of music offers, I'd suggest two songs:
"None Shall Pass" by Aesop Rock.
"Punch Pretty Ladies for Fun" by Cubbiebear (the EP is free to download online)
How relevant is this music? You can hear strains of it in the commercially huge Lil Wayne and Kanye West already, and as rap progresses as an art form I see these artists fueling the fire that eventually burns away the commercial shlock that surrounds the vast majority of the music.
n.
- Any number of underground hip hop artists
- A movement in rap culture that is equatable to the punk movement of the 1970's in response to rock
The new thing. Indie has long since been the comfort and scorn of music snobs, and the attaching of said label immediately brings to mind several qualities; Unusual song structure, "talent" vs "emotion", pretentiousness (good or bad), overwrought or overthought, different take on a current musical scene, etc. Needless to say, it's gotten a bad rap (Ah ha!) and now indie rock and all its coffee house, scenester glory is now joined by a relative newcomer to the music industry: Indie rap.
So what the fuck is it? What separates these artists from other hip hop artists? There's a different kind of rap?
The answer to these questions is pretty easy, as it's just as comparable to radio rock and underground rock. Indie rappers tend to focus on "musical" or "forward thinking" tunes as opposed to aiming for the cheap seats with club bangers and catchy choruses. Aesop Rock peppers his tunes with almost undecipherable lyrical passages and attaches them to discordant, analog-ridden crunch backing music that sometimes barely resembles a straight boom blap beat. MF Doom's lyrical approach is playful, his music generally lighthearted, but with some slight avant-garde flair. Cubbiebear is a Baltimore MC that is pushing the very outer limits of what hip hop is, his songs almost Jackson Pollock-like in their construction.
In general, these artists prefer to push the boundaries of hip hop with their twisted music, but also acknowledge the roots and main purpose of hip hop before it became a juggernaut industry: To inform, to educate, and to inspire. And in most cases, these artists main intent is to uphold the original intent of hiphop while at the same time expanding the very boundaries of what an 808 kick drum and one man with a microphone can do.
I'd post videos, but half the fun of this genre is digging up these gems yourself. If you want a grasp of the range this kind of music offers, I'd suggest two songs:
"None Shall Pass" by Aesop Rock.
"Punch Pretty Ladies for Fun" by Cubbiebear (the EP is free to download online)
How relevant is this music? You can hear strains of it in the commercially huge Lil Wayne and Kanye West already, and as rap progresses as an art form I see these artists fueling the fire that eventually burns away the commercial shlock that surrounds the vast majority of the music.
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