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Pentecoastal Elites
Feb 27, 2007

500excf type r posted:

It's whipped so there's a lot of air

ah okay. that's still a shitload but not as completely ridiculous lol

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Mr Hootington
Jul 24, 2008

I'M HAVING A HOOT EATING CORNETTE THE LONG WAY

The peanuts aren't unlimited and in a bucket anymore?

FirstnameLastname
Jul 10, 2022

Weka posted:

I have really enjoyed your rant about the west African origins of hip hop but saying that is a direct continuation of the oldest natural form of music reminds me of nothing so much as those dudes who study an "uncontacted" hunter gatherer tribe in the Amazon whose ancestors were agriculturalists and use that to draw conclusions about societies in the paleolithic.

ppl aren't getting what i am saying with that

like im not talking about 21 savage and metro boomin im talking about people freestyling in a cypher, dudes rapping in jail slapping the table and thumping their chest for the drum (hella annoying if u ever been in jail) and the original form of live MCing like hip-hop wasn't a recorded genre as it started, it was a live one, where the MC is the most talented person on here the microphone, who has the best stories and knows everything that's going on and knows the crowd and how to entertain them how that is extremely similar to griot traditions like that's straight up what they do, it's basically being a bard

hip-hop is viewed as a young artform, both commonly and academically

that's often used to invalidate the genre all-around as an undeveloped or immature/childish/ignorant form of music "anyone could do" or that it's 'not real music' or whatever (noticeably more of a thing for hiphop than electronic, nobody will ever have an answer why)

hiphop has a set of core qualities that make it hip-hop, just like any other form of music

none of those qualities have anything that prevents them from having existed as far back into human history that you can go, except the thing allowed by recording equipment and synthesizers, like scratching and dj-screw-esque slowed & pitched down things but nothing happened in 1973 that made 6 dudes standing in a half circle freestyling possible, it already was and they already have been doing poo poo like that, it's just a thing people do, people do it all over.
that's why they already had stuff to record, rappers delight as the first real commercial hip-hop song almost all the bars in it were stolen from other dudes https://www.washingtonpost.com/ente...90481_story.htm the artform was already established, just not at the same scale, not with microphones and PAs, it hadn't been organized or had anyone recording stuff - but it sure came together really fast and that different regions all popped up with their own unique linguistic and stylistic variations that predate hip-hop: the south in hiphop didn't sound like the south right off the bat because of branding, it's because more qualities from griot practices were retained in areas of the south that can transfer into hip-hop very easily due to their proximity from one another as artforms, example the call-response chant stuff in three 6 mafia - that shits old, people like a good chant
i don't think it's a coincidence that they were so insanely commercially successful as they were, around the world. that poo poo resonates with people in a very popular way, it's stuff people have been doing

and none of those qualities in hiphop have anything that prevents them from having existed about as far back into human history that you can go

this is not true for most kinds of music. for most types of music people listen to, you can point to when it was first possible for people to do - instruments have only been standardized for like 200 years, modern notation is about a thousand years old, the oldest notation that's been found was from 1400 bc in iraq. there's a lot of group performances that just aren't doable without notation or an example, either not performable or not composable, baroque era stuff etc

those things can still be improvised by sufficiently skilled performers, but that's not something that can be transferred or replicated the way notation allows so you can't build a tradition past a generation or spreading in popularity the way music that survives does

keyboard instruments are about 900 years old, fretted instruments date to 1500 bc, valved horns, metal instruments, like the further you go back the pool of musical styles that can occur shrinks a lot, and pre- agriculture it's like, large very simple instrument ensembles (wooden/bone horns, drums, whistles, clacky things), smaller performances closer to basically jamming or improv, solo instrumental and vocal stuff
singing is obviously another thing that would've happened but there's not really a genre of 'singing' the way there is for speech, there's opera and acapella and whatever but singing can be anything from the lead in w musical to scatting or throatsinging, hip-hop vocals are speech, they're not tonal often they're delivered in someone's regular speaking register
hip-hop particularly has always had an emphasis on maintaining a chronological record and documentation that other genres do not have - you can know nothing at all about life in America in 1997 and if you listen to all the hip hop that came out that year you will know whose president major political events fashion what songs are hot what artists are hot, how the economy is doing, how people are growing up, how people are dealing with systemic societal issues or geopolitical events, who got killed or arrested, what status symbols & behaviors are the most impressive or something intimidating or desiredetc etc

That's not a thing in other genres, it's a thing with individual artists in other genres but it's not a core component the way it is in hip-hop and is in griot

that part would not fundamentally change much as you go back i don't think, because it hasn't changed much going forward, it's just stuff people like to do, I think that's why it's the most popular genre in the world now even though most places listening to hip-hop have zero direct cultural connection to griot traditions, the music still quickly becomes familiar because it's ultimately built on a pretty universal &:timeless set of human behaviors that just get expressed differently in other places
which is not true with most other genres of music, particularly commercially successful ones


im not saying the first music wss hiphop i am saying the things that are done in hiphop are probably closer to the earliest musical practices of humans than most kinds of music you hear

Ohtori Akio
Jul 15, 2022
im not reading all that

speng31b
May 8, 2010

Ohtori Akio posted:

im not reading all that

prove it

aw frig aw dang it
Jun 1, 2018


hiphop ftw

Ohtori Akio
Jul 15, 2022

the ignorance of my posts to come will serve as evidence enough

FirstnameLastname
Jul 10, 2022

Ohtori Akio posted:

im not reading all that

where'd u learn music history stuff btw

Ohtori Akio
Jul 15, 2022

FirstnameLastname posted:

where'd u learn music history stuff btw

was a special interest through high school and college. but i only care about melee fight now

post COVID
Mar 5, 2007

free college, free healthcare, free Shmurda


Ismail Serageldin asked me to 'explain hip hop' to him because i was a young American and said i liked it. he considers jazz to be the truest American artform and wanted to like hip hop but was too old.

fart simpson
Jul 2, 2005

DEATH TO AMERICA
:xickos:

ProfessorBooty
Jan 25, 2004

Amulet of the Dark

Hold on brb

Maya Fey
Jan 22, 2017


TRUE AMERICAN
Aug 6, 2011

Animal-Mother
Feb 14, 2012

RABBIT RABBIT
RABBIT RABBIT

FirstnameLastname posted:

ty
like im not holding a solid belief people were spitting bars 30,000 years ago, but

Ugg keep that club on me like tree have branch
Ugg so much flavor, it like Ugg invent Ranch

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

RadiRoot
Feb 3, 2007

photoshop or not its real in my heart

TRUE AMERICAN
Aug 6, 2011

Even demon crackers have culture

Justin Tyme posted:

u should go to the rodeo sometime op

Poor city slickers never been to a demolition derby

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007
we have tactically deployed the wienermobile

Dokapon Findom
Dec 5, 2022

But have you considered whether the child murdered by the driver of that truck was riding an oversized bike?!?! Children riding oversized bikes are the scourge of our roadways!!

RadiRoot posted:

we have lots of cultures :)



I like that the entire country is wearing a tiny top hat, and Puerto Rico swimming up to meet the continental states

mycomancy
Oct 16, 2016

Needs three more panels to finish the story. The last panel is just the first but with all the living things removed.

my bony fealty
Oct 1, 2008

burger

Megamissen
Jul 19, 2022

any post can be a kannapost
if you want it to be


:patriot:

TRUE AMERICAN
Aug 6, 2011

mycomancy posted:

Needs three more panels to finish the story. The last panel is just the first but with all the living things removed.

boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.

ELTON JOHN
Feb 17, 2014

051324
May 13, 2024
american/global culture has nosedived over the past 10 years

051324
May 13, 2024
deep retarded territory imo

ikanreed
Sep 25, 2009

I honestly I have no idea who cannibal[SIC] is and I do not know why I should know.

syq dude, just syq!
How did you make a totally empty thread title?

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Crazypoops
Jul 17, 2017



American culture is yogurt I think

Pepe Silvia Browne
Jan 1, 2007

fuckin a

AnimeIsTrash
Jun 30, 2018

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

Look at our escapist media fantasies. Super hero movies, top gun, Avatar

We yearn for the return of the unambiguous bad guy. We need problems that can be solved by the good guy (us) punching the bad guy in the teeth.
I don't think this is an accident. The MIC funds the poo poo out of our media and it's in their best interest that we jump at every shadow and that that shadow have a human face that waves a different flag than ours, even though the global box office now demands that the bad guy be from some invented eastern European country rather than Russia now.

Which is funny when you think that our other greatest creative movement (American romanticism) was explicitly about man overcoming nature rather than fellow man, which would be a far more fitting cultural narrative given how thoroughly we've hosed the world and should be focused on "conquering" those problems.


But that is to say I think our culture is explosions and black and white morality tales, echoes of either (winning) WW2 or the 1980s as the unattainable highwater marks of our society

Good Soldier Svejk posted:

so a slight variation on "first as a tragedy, then as a farce" in "first as a tragedy, then as a product"



Weka
May 5, 2019

That child totally had it coming. Nobody should be able to be out at dusk except cars.

very meta, op. your posting this image repeatedly is in itself an example of American culture

Corky Romanovsky
Oct 1, 2006

Soiled Meat
Scam phonecalls. Americans love that poo poo.

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tristeham
Jul 31, 2022

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