Hip-Hop: The Low Point

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Thank you for the clarification. Otherwise I'd wonder why Joei keeps you around the house.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

c'mon, everybody's talking about mediocre rap not true LOW points. Low points are fun...

B-Rock & The Bizz - Baby Daddy (the 12" has an acapella version that defies all conventional notions of flow, rhythm or coherence. basically ghetto autism.)

World Class Wrecking Cru's "Wrapped in Romance" (pre-NWA luuurve rap w/ Dre!)

― fritz, Tuesday, 11 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

this has been bothering me for a few days now, how did dan ever get exposure to icp beyond the two albums everyone knows that apparently 'suck ass'? is this a case of the worst college roommate ever?

― ethan, Saturday, 15 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

One of my friends from high school picked up _Riddle Box_ in '95 and played it for me. I laffed and laffed. I made a point of picking up their "Tunnel Of Love" EP when it came out and laffed even more. I then grabbed _Ringmaster_ and was amazed that, in addition to making me laff, the music was slammin'. I then decided that since I had disposable income and I'd liked what I heard so far, I'd go ahed and get the rest of their back catalogue. Search: _Ringmaster_, "Beverly Kills" EP. Destroy: _The Amazing Jeckel Brothers_. Please.

― Dan Perry, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Ethan was such a nice young man until he started talking to that foul- mouthed Scarth boy. But you should still all listen to him, especially now he's writing for hip-hop bible Pitchfork.

MotelHell - are you HeyBuddy?? That would be awesome!

― Tom, Sunday, 16 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"MyBabyDaddy" was my number one single for 1997. "The Rain" was number five. Astoundingly great for low points, I'd say.

― Frank Kogan, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

"My Baby Daddy" is one of the greatest songs ever recorded in terms of sheer crassness. That song became a party anthem for my circle of friends.

― Dan Perry, Monday, 17 September 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

three years pass...

GLORY DAYS MY ASS

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:45 (eighteen years ago) link

This is sort of like a first season Simpsons episode.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:46 (eighteen years ago) link

If not a Tracy Ullman skit

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:47 (eighteen years ago) link

hahahahaha!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 18:54 (eighteen years ago) link

hahahah miccio otm

― deej.., Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:29 (eighteen years ago) link

I'm always unnerved by these revived threads that start on Sept. 9 or 10, 2001, drop out for a few days, and return on Sept. 15 or 16.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:38 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost through the years - I don't really care about anything else he's done, but Ma$e has the best verse on "Mo' Money Mo' Problems"

― milozauckerman (miloaukerman), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link

nah not really! uhghh im fucked up tho look at all the misused big words and 'ironic' 'quotes' to show how ppl are dumb, i cant even make a good argument for ma$e!!

― 2, Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

also its fresh clothes not french clothes

― 2, Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link

french clothes can be pretty fresh though.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

xpost The Ma$e argument has me completely cracking up. I never thought I'd see someone defend him.

And "Crossroads" a low point? Nah, man.

― Candicissima (candicissima), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:43 (eighteen years ago) link

i love ma$e but that argument is possibly the dumbest anybody ever made on ilm

― 2, Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:45 (eighteen years ago) link

Muse Sick in Hour Mess-Age by Public Enemy=Low point. This group showed a complete lack of balls with this album.
Chuck does a "wiggity-wiggity" a la Das Efx somewhere in there.

― p.j. (Henry), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:48 (eighteen years ago) link

I think the track I have the biggest problem with is going to be "Whoomp There It Is". I mean, what the fuck? There what is?

-- Ally (garance8...), September 9th, 2001.

http://i.timeinc.net/instyle/read/yearbook/popup/images/yb_1a_180902.jpg http://i.timeinc.net/instyle/read/yearbook/popup/images/yb_1b_180902.jpg

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:50 (eighteen years ago) link

it's hardly the dumbest thing posted in the first half of this thread, ethan.

― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:51 (eighteen years ago) link

and i'd still take that over the post-apocalyptic wasteland teeming with mutants and halfwits we have now.

― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:52 (eighteen years ago) link

well duh, Simpsons Season 1 >>>>>> Simpsons Season 26

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

well played

― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:53 (eighteen years ago) link

Thanks, Bart.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 23 July 2005 19:58 (eighteen years ago) link

well duh, Simpsons Season 1 >>>>>> Simpsons Season 26

This is actually quite an accurate analogy.

― deej.., Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:00 (eighteen years ago) link

I just love seeing 2's pre-gnomic style, with the punctuation, and the capitalization, and the admitting he knows about the world & other styles and whatnot

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link

yeah me tryna write like assholes on ilx is so much better

― 2, Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

after about a year of that bullshit i realized i didnt give a fuck and never spelled shit out again

― 2, Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

and look again theres no caps haha

― 2, Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:08 (eighteen years ago) link

I've lurked on this site for nearly four years, mainly because it was energizing, entertaining, funny and a great learning experience. ("why do all these British dudes like Britney Spears so much?" was the question that haunted me.) It wasn't until recently that I had the courage to post here...but now all the Old People just rag on "nu ILM" rather than make it great like it "used to be."

Get one D&D.

― p.j. (Henry), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:10 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, dude who's lurked on this site for 4 years!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

2 there is a happy medium between "writing like assholes on ilx" and totally declining/refusing to engage your God-given talent for writing clear, insightful criticism y'know

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:34 (eighteen years ago) link

I mean if I had your gift for a phrase I'd've turned that shit into cold hard cash, like, years ago

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:35 (eighteen years ago) link

also, p.j., if you've been lurking that long, then you know that people have been bitching about the old days since somewhere in the middle of week two

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:36 (eighteen years ago) link

Go to new answers, "Hip-Hop: The Low Point", Christ here we go again, who the hell's started that... oh.

― Tom (Groke), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:47 (eighteen years ago) link

That's one hell of a glass house you had there, Banana.

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:52 (eighteen years ago) link

Weird that people posted on this thread on Sept.11, 2001.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link

uhh... they didn't

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:57 (eighteen years ago) link

you sure about that?

― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 23 July 2005 20:59 (eighteen years ago) link

That's one hell of a glass house you had there, Banana.

I got a whole block full of 'em!

― Banana Nutrament (ghostface), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:02 (eighteen years ago) link

who me strongo?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:10 (eighteen years ago) link

Lowest point of hip hop? Anything that "2 Pac", "Puff Daddy" (I like to call him Poof Daddy) or "Jay Z" ever did. All that bling bling crap is just gay. And why do they have these stupid names anyway? They should stick to robbing people in the "ghetto", at least then the only time you'd see them on TV would be World's Dumbest Criminals and that got cancelled seasons ago.

― Acer Murray, Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link

i can't even tell who's trolling anymore...

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:12 (eighteen years ago) link

50 Cent
Black Eyed Peas
Jay Z vs. Linkin Park ??

― fandango (fandango), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:29 (eighteen years ago) link

El-P
Sage Francis

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:37 (eighteen years ago) link

ok, dude who's lurked on this site for 4 years!

Because I was shy, and because I mistakenly believed that the internet was no place for real writing, or the style of writing I thought I was proficient at. And I think I said something about John Oates that was, ahem, misconstrued. I DO NOT LOVE JOHN OATES THAT WAY!

― p.j. (Henry), Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:38 (eighteen years ago) link

cex

― strng hlkngtn, Saturday, 23 July 2005 21:44 (eighteen years ago) link

THE LOW POINT OF HIP-HOP

― miccio (miccio), Saturday, 23 July 2005 22:26 (eighteen years ago) link

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