This is going to be the summer that dubstep exploded

[snufkin]

my god I never thought joker could sound so generic, but with an LA MC over it completely loses it's magic.

[tobo]

really not very good.
especially the joker one, you should warn people before making them listen to that abomination.

[lukah]

For me, it just seems like these tracks were made to stand as music on their own. By putting the actual track right down in the mix and having someone rap over the top isn't really doing them anywhere near enough justice. That Joker track was kinda painful, just because all I really wanted was to hear Play Doe!
Maybe it's because I know these songs, so it might grow on me if original beats are made for this, but at the moment I'm not really feeling it.

would you say the same thing if their flows actually vibed with the music instead of ran a muck with da riddim??

I'd be interested to hear something like that. But Hip-hop's vocals are generally loud, drowning out everything else. But then again, I don't listen to a massive amount of Hip-hop, so I can't fully judge it. Just seems to me that if it's just going to over power the tunes rather than compliment then, it's not a great fusion.

[sigbowls]

is there a robot that can rap and sound good?

[Wolverine]

Reminds me of cant cook wont cook,

Cant work and wont work, end of.

[human?]

i mean, hip hop used to be just about the funk, rythms, and instrumentals...

Did it? Surely the name "hip hop" itself comes from MC chat?

If you regard Kool Herc as the "creator" of hip hop, then hip hop was originally about looping breakbeats from funk, soul and rock tunes. I heard it said before that he used to call the method of playing a break and then playing it again on the second deck "hip hopping on the turn tables" (now people tend to call it cutting breaks if they are older or juggling if they are younger).

So you could say it was originally an instrumental thing. That period didn't last for long though - MCs started emerging very soon after Herc started djing in this way.

nah, the very first party @ 1520 sedgwick, Coke La Rock was on the mic...





again, that MURS is straight up the truth... sick sick sick tune... makin underground raw shit in full effect!!