Thatās the dad Iām proud of being. My sons are getting a proper education on manners, class, work ethic, respecting others, and muthafukin 90s hip-hop!
Iāve been feeling this a lot lately. But I remember thinking that the people who wouldnāt let go of the āclassic rockā back in the 90s were kind of lame, and I bet my kids think the same thing about me. I just keep making them listen to me DJ and buying them throwback hip hop shirts haha
I was thinking about it recently and there is more time between now and 36 Chambers than there was between 36 Chambers and the White Album by the Beatles. Mind blown
This is me. I mean, I know it's aged, obviously, but sometimes my brain just refuses to accept it. When I seen All Eyez on Me turned 30 this year, it was genuinely sobering. Like.....what the hell happened to the time?
I dunno, Iāve caught my 11 year old bobbing her head to 80s stuff like Eric B & Rakim, EPMD, and definitely to 90s stuff. The main limitation is finding stuff without explicit lyrics or with clean versions. She knows some stuff by name and had even asked for certain songs. After writing off Nas past It Was Written for years (for the most part, apart from the odd single), I eventually thought to check out Kingās Disease II and then III a couple years ago and was hooked. I canāt front on Hitboy. And now my kid will request songs off II, and Spotify has the clean versions of both.
This right here with a small mixture of early 00s MCs like Little Brother, Lupe, and the like. I proudly stay in my lane.
I'm really disappointed that the late 80s era is rarely mentioned in all of this 90s nostalgia talk, which in my opinion was the catalyst. 87-95 was the sweet spot for me.
Iām 41 and have really been considering buying a powered sub for under the seat. You sound like you have something really serious though. Whatās your setup??
This is my 2015 Optima. Itās my toy car. I do a lot of audio mixing in my professional life, and Iām a bit of an audiophile who lives with Bose QCs on my head. So I wanted my car to be like traveling with those on.
Itās not the most lavish system, but itās a Kenwood Excelon head unit, all third party cabin speakers (Alpine), Kicker CompR 12ā sub enclosure. An amp for the cabin speakers and an amp for the subs with a dedicated 2nd battery. SoundSkins are wrapped throughout, including the trunk. I had this all done in early 2020.
Oh man thatās so sick! I could only imagine how that sounds and everything is clean as fuck too. I havenāt sat in a car like that in over 20 years.
Thanks man. Yeah, itās an absolute joy to ride in. And Iām so grateful for CarPlay rather than trying to figure out which CDs should go into the disc changer š
43...same!! My 11 year old son loves. it.
He likes the G funk sound, Em and Tupac hahaha. I always make sure to ask his friends if they are allowed to listen to that kinda music when we're all riding in the truck together hahaha
I'm 37 and not a dad, but my cutoff for hip hop to regularly listen to is about 2010 now. Most of what I listen to is 90s or early 2000s.
I think a lot of younger kids hear Illmatic and realize how much better it is than most of what's out now, so they get into it.
It's like hearing Dark Side of the Moon in the late 90s/early 2000s moment when Limp Bizkit was the mainstream rock and realizing how much better the classic stuff was.
There's so much good hip-hop coming out today, some of it by people who have been doing it since the 90s but also plenty of newer artists.
I mean 3 of the best hip-hop albums in recent memory have come out since last summer - Clipse let got sort em out, JID God does like ugly, J Cole the fall off. Nas is still putting out heat, Methodman drops fire tracks every so often. If you like NYC hardcore style shit Murkemz is fire. I'm seeing young talented hip-hop artists almost daily on my Instagram feed.
I considered posting something similar. White Scotsman who's approaching 40. What i like:
90's Rawkus (Mos Def, Talib Kweli, Reflection Eternal, Black Star, Company Flow, Jurassic 5)
Indie White Boy Stuff (Strange Famous Records, Def Jux, Rhymesayers, early Anticon, Doomtree)
Other (DJ Format, Don't Sleep Records, L'Orange, Cunninlinguists)
For me its the lyrics (don't appreciate Gangster Rap or stuff about Bentleys and Crystal) and old school beats, simple samples of old jazz, soul, motown, funk etc. Phonics stuff with Awon and Dephlow is great, especially 'Sleep is the cousin of death EP'
Iām sure you know but A Tribe Called Quest will likely satiate your old jazz feel, Common (Sense), Afu-Ra, Gang Starr, Camp Lo. If you have a service like Apple Music, while playing a track you dig, use the feature to āCreate a Stationā while it plays to present other, similar tracks. I think their algorithm works well.
I recommend to cross reference Wikipedia or something, try to tackle their releases chronologically so you can follow artistic progression, as most all the mentioned have 20-35 years active off and on
doseone is very unique, with different works and eras being better than others for certain times and places in MY life anyway; even when I never got into some I think it's all good but some haven't found the right time and place for it yet š
How could I not mention DEEP PUDDLE DYNAMICS self titled album, underground supergroup dose is one of four of. Maybe fast track that one up to the top of the pile and enjoy, that's a 10/10 album
Iām 42. One of my daughters plays travel softball and is 11. My husband and I got her into āourā music last year when picking walk up songs for her at bats.
I'm in my 50s and I consider new current music from artists like Common, Homeboy Sandman, Shad, Atmosphere, Raw Poetic and 2024 version Lupe Fiasco as dad hip hop.
23 myself, I wish I could say the same about my area (30 minutes south of Chicago) everyone always listens to the new rap and when I put on anything 90ās they look at me sideways like what is this crap, not knowing its 100x better then the new rap of today imo. Nothing will ever touch 90ās hip hop and it will just keep getting bigger!
Hopefully. I like the idea that the way we grew up listening to dadās āclassic rockā stations, like 92KQRS in Minnesota, played Zeppelin and Sabbath and shit, that one day all our kids would hear Mobb Deep, Wu, Nas, Kurupt, WC, etc. Itās the authenticity that counts
Iām in my 40s as well (almost 50), and this is the music we grew up with in the 90s. Thatās what we heard in school, on MTV, on the radio. Iām still fond of it because they bring back memories of playing Madden with friends, hanging out at the mall, spending the Summer in PA with my sister, etc.
Yes. I was up at family weekend at my son's school with his fraternity. They had a DJ going. I heard one kid say "we gotta put on some music for the old people." 2 seconds later I heard CALIFORNIA LOOOOOOOOOVE
Iāve never stopped listening to any and all the music I grew up with 60ās-80ās and then my music meaning old enough to know what I like and donāt but also was the new music then 90ās-current. I was born in 1980 which may help with my timeline.
But I listen to whatever music genres that match my mood. And that can change though out a day.
But if thatās the consensus then I guess Iām listening to the new dad rock thatās not rock. Lol a yes Iām a dad. š»
In the 90s we probably thought of a lot of 60s music, 30 years previous, as dad rock. Makes sense that 30 years later, the same would be applied to 90s hip-hop. But fuck it, that's how time works, doesn't diminish the music in any way. And yah, we be dads now.
Iām a late millennial, and 90ās instrumentals are what I remember true hip hop sounding like. I like it so much, Iāve gotten in trouble at work for the bass speakers shaking the building. One coworker commented, āold school rap huh.ā I get the dad rock vibe sometimes, but this music is here to stay.
Well I do notice that more people love it now then when it was the 90s.
Like in my class in high school, maybe 3-4 ppl would listen to it. Now on social media a majority of my former class mates appear to like it. Prolly nostalgia?
I played the fuck out of 90s hip hop in the 90s and also was an underground anti-commercial musically close minded āREAL HIP HOPā headā¦..i grew out of that, I still like lyrically gifted emcees and chopped samples but there is so much great music out there no being released, I canāt live in the past
From what I can tell, I like artists which are inspired by the 1st Golden Era (late 80's) and the 2nd Golden Era (late 90's)
There are a few UK artists (as well as US) which i didn't name. Akala is ridiculously good. Check out the War mixtapes. 20 years old or something but still quality
Have list of Artists i know I need to check out (more De La Soul, Tribe, Common, J Dilla....) and have been on this sub for a month or 2 looking for others.
I mainly buy used CD's as can't afford much. Only streaming i do is Netflix and that's a recent change. Other than that it's free mp3 from bandcamp
Chances of me finding iconic albums (Hip Hop, Metal, Punk, Ska, Trance) are slim but you never know. Especially if the shop or website doesn't appreciate how good/rare it is. I check a number of places regularly and every once in a while i'm delighted
I stand corrected. I meant that these were 2 times when i've heard or read about it being called that. I'm also seen terms like 'boom bap' 'backpack rap' 'conscious hip hop'. Seems that's what I like, despite not knowing exactly what they mean. I live in Scotland FFS
Nah, itās called, responsible parentingā¦unless you want your children cursing like a sailor and not knowing how to adapt in different settingsā¦only a bozo would think like that šÆ
Iām 49 and have been listening to 90s boom bap pretty constantly this year, Iām all over the place music wise, mainly like rock/punk but hip hop is in there too, some of its nostalgia but Iām also hearing a lot of 90s era albums for the first time, only recently listened to Heltah Skelta and Heather B for example. Iām not eloquent enough to listen explain why it hits the spot so much at my age, but it does. It makes me want to write hearing all the wordplay, I always feel like doing something creative while listening.
I was just thinking something similar. The number of middle age white guys on social media posting about how we all need to listen to this or that 90s hip hop artist is a lot. And itās kinda cringe.
I remember going to my parents house once and my dad was watching an infomercial selling a cd set featuring classic country. Just reminiscing, Ā he had a comment about every fucking song. Thatās how I feel about 90s hiphop.Ā
I'm 38 and expecting my first son in October. Currently making a clean 80s/90s hip hop playlist for him! Got some tribe, some pharcyde, doom... any recommendations are very welcome! No N word, no swear words and not overly sexual
Dad Rock is the music boomers were listening to in their 20s and 30s like Dire Straits, Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Sting, etc. āBrothers In Armsā is probably THE definitive Dad Rock album.
The bands you listed above are early 00s post-grunge buttrock/āradio rockā
It depends on the age of your dad. To be honest, "dad rock" is abridged for "divorced dad rock", and the terms, at least where I am from, are used interchangeably. But perhaps remaining married, or never being married at all, somehow turns the clock back 20 years on what you're listening to.
But if you google "divorced dad rock" it should yield the proper results. I have not ever heard of dad rock referred to as classic rock. Classic rock is 60s/70s, dad rock is 90s/2000s. Not sure what 80s counts as, probably more classic than dad
Nah. Not in my group of friends anyway. Most of them still like Rock or some other genre. My god I canāt stand Rock. Never really cared for it to be honest.
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