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Oh god, I just listened to it; he's like the Dane Cook of music.
 
Boston already has some legitimate rappers to its name. Edo G is a legend. I'm a fan of Guru from Gangstarr myself.

There are definitely others, but I'm not the right person to ask. I must say I find the Sam Adams thing kind of irksome, though. I have nothing against the dude himself, but it's annoying to see this minor media frenzy, with white kid bandwagon soon to follow, while the rest of the Boston hip hop scene remains in total obscurity. You'd think in this era of YouTube more people would seek out guys like Edo.
 
Currently? Wet.

Sunny and 70's this weekend though!
 
Man, the weather gets nice and this place just dies.
 
czsz said:
Oh god, I just listened to it; he's like the Dane Cook of music.
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Bravo. I just checked his stuff out recently as well and came to the same basic conclusion. But it is interesting to note that (finally?) white rappers are rapping about typically white stuff and not trying to go the "urban" route. This is potentially a big sea change in the way whites relate to rap. (Still, I'd much rather listen to Eminem over Asher Roth)

statler said:
Can I hate him because he uses auto-tune? This has become something of an unpardonable sin for me.
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News flash: just about any record with the slightest bit of commercial orientation from the past half-decade has a good amount of Auto-Tune on it.

I used to hate it, and now I merely dislike it. Considering I'm around it on an almost-daily basis, I'd go batshit insane if I still hated it. But I now see how it can be integrated into a song without being obnoxious.

The bigger problem is that once the fad of using Auto-Tune in a blatantly obvious way dies out (which it will), people will still be using it to imperceptibly correct pitchy vocals both in the studio and live . . . it's done to music what Photoshop has done to pictures: the realness of everything you see and hear is now always in question.

As for what I've been listening to lately, my favorites are:

Toro Y Moi (fav new artist)
Dam-Funk
Empire of the Sun
LCD Soundsystem
Neon Indian
The new Gorillaz album (soooooo hot)
Sa-Ra

and I just got the new Mos Def and Erykah Badu, but haven't had a chance to listen yet!
 
^ If you're looking for commercial rap that your girl can dance to, by all means bump it at the club. This does not represent Boston, underground hip hop, or even mainstream rap. It's just a white kid who CLAIMS he reps Boston. Nothing more. It's called trash from what I know/where I'm from. It's called trash from what I know/ ppl I know who know real Cali rap... etc NY, south (atl), south (tx).

Autotune is disco. Bottom line. Getthefuckouttahere with anything that says otherwise. You're an ant following the smallish colony if you listen to this. You're a homer if you like and listen to this. You have terrible taste if you like/listen to this. Period end of sentence, move on. End thread.
 
The only people who like regional rap are the people from that region (vast generalization, I know); if I listen to Talib Kweli in St. Louis, everyone thinks it's trash. Sam Adams does nationalized, super generic rap. The entire country likes it, and he drops "Boston" in each song. He does a better job of representing the city than Edo G. ever did.

I'm not trying to say he's some revolutionary underground rapper who will bring change to the industry, but he is a (white) rapper who comes from Massachusetts, and is blowing up. That's probably a first.
 
I heard that song when I was hangin' down the ball field in Hyde's park.
 
Kennedy Edo G and da Bulldogs were pretty big, and EVERYONE respected him. I think this was probably before you were born so maybe you shouldn't comment. And Talib isn't regional rap. Regional just means no one knows you and you probably suck.
 
suffolk83 said:
Autotune is disco. Bottom line. Getthefuckouttahere with anything that says otherwise.
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What?

T-Pain is disco? getthefuckouttahere

You're misunderstanding what I said, which is that AUTO-TUNE IS USED ON ALMOST ANYTHING. Just because it isn't there in an obvious way like T-Pain doesn't mean it isn't being used. There's a billion different settings for it, and most of the time it's used to seamlessly correct vocals, and you'd have to listen very, very closely to notice it, if you could notice it at all.

PS, Auto-Tune is hip hop (everyone on the radio), Auto-Tune is pop (Miley Cyrus), Auto-Tune is rock (Passion Pit, Ladyhawk)..... it's everywhere.
 
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