SONGS EVERYONE LOVED......

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Yo when this song came out I knew Rap music was doomed. What a travesty. The fact that people actually like this and he sounds like a kid in special ed....

 

[SoberMindedMuzk]

Yo when this song came out I knew Rap music was doomed. What a travesty. The fact that people actually like this and he sounds like a kid in special ed....

Oh boy.

 

[Pug]

I can barely understand anything he's saying in that video. Truly awful, no talent, just riding the cash money wave....

 

[SoberMindedMuzk]

This song was alright to me. I understand him clearly, but I'm a black guy raised in Texas....next to Louisiana, where Juvy was based at the time. Before it became a nation wide hit, it was a hit in south,a monster in the clubs, as well as a lot of his songs.

This is where we get into the old school East coast elitism that was going on back then. Talent to the east back then meant bars, but they didn't say bars...it was flow, or spit or lyrics.
People from Louisiana, black and white, have a distinct way of talking...something of a mixture of country and French. Way different from even their Texas neighbors. So add that to the black regional slang...and I can see how it can be kinda hard to get. For outsiders to really get it, you would have had to go see those songs being played in Louisiana and Texas clubs at the time. As a matter of fact, I think around the time Juvy came out, allowing a 2 year window before and after, so within that 5 year period is when rap became focused on making club hits. Before , artist would say they need a hit, or a cross over song on the album, or a song for the ladies. All that encompassed a new term....club banger. There were of course songs that were so big that they did well in clubs, but weren't really club songs. For example Jay Zs' "You Don't Know" was incredible in the club, but that was definitely not a club song.



Said all that to say, I've seen enough to know that somethings that it seems like the masses love, it's not my cup of tea, but I'm careful with labeling something or someone void of talent. That's why I labeled the thread like I did...I recognize things that others love...but it just didn't resonate with me. Plenty of things....The Hangover movies, olive loaf,Worldststar, reality TV, K2,a lot of the backpack rap of the 90s....

Anyway, here's a Juvenile song that I loved....and yall prolly won't ...but thats coo.

 

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No doubt I'm sure it was a huge hit in the south, the main thing that blew my mind with the "Ha" single was his actual voice. It was just so odd. Honestly, I thought it was something like an SNL skit at the time.

 

[Pug]

Ya, I think the southern scene had its own thing going, which is cool, but some stuff I could never understand/like. But music is purely subjective as you say, so I respect that.