What up readers, browsers, skimmers, perusers, even the strippers... (Jesus walks for them). You are now tuned in to yet another blog site and I am yet another blogger, but I’m typically referred to as 2Track. For the sake of this blog however you can call me biased, closed minded, even prejudice. Let me explain:
I like hip hop. Like, exclusively. And While that already sounds pretty closed minded, I havent even begun to explain the extent of what I mean. I love hardcore (and soulful) sample-based, hard drum havin, beats with dope emcees on em. I don’t like joints with synthesized drum-kits and techno synths, I don’t like pussy r&b songs and I’m not a fan of reggaton. I don’t like Country, I don’t like classical, rock, dub, 2-step, bachata, soca, etc. I don’t like any of those genres when they’re not funneled through hip hop. I like hardcore sample-based hip-hop. And that’s it. No exceptions and I refuse to feel guilty about it. Disclaimer: I’m fully aware that sample based hip-hop is comprised of samples from other genres of music, but critical readers should also be aware that enjoying a hip-hop beat that contains samples of another genre is clearly not the same as enjoying another genre of music. I’m not getting ready to listen to Blondie, but run a a blondie song through Nottz’s asr-10 & let him do his thing with it and I’ll probably love it. Hell, any genre of music is incredibly interesting when its fresh off of James Yancey’s Mpc 60 but prior, not so much. Sure I can enjoy a song from another genre that somebody sampled but only in retrospect and that’s usually because I’m appreciating how it was used. I love hard and soulful beats and dope emceeing and there are no exceptions. There is no other genre of music I kinda like or listen to on occasion (Excluding soul, everybody loves soul music. In fact if you don’t love soul music your probably a racist, don’t ask how I arrived at that diagnosis just accept it on some ‘house’ sh*t). Apparently this makes me closed minded. Which brings me to the point of this blog (I promise I have one.) Why? Why does “liking what I like, and not liking what I don’t” have a negative connotation. You’d be surprised at the reactions I get when I tell people I don’t like other genres of music. You would’ve thought I said “The Pope aint sh*t”. If you were in a restaurant and the waiter asked you if you would like A1 Sauce with your steak and you said you don’t like A1 sauce he probably wouldn’t assume you were an uncultured, closed minded idiot. He would simply write your preference down on paper and keep it movin. Such as some of you judgmental preference dictators should do. Let people like (or dislike) what they choose. And if that just so happens to be disproportionately skewed towards one genre then so be it. In fact, I would make the argument that anybody with taste that specific is very in touch with what they enjoy. Why should they be berated for knowing exactly what they like. “Open minded” listeners don’t get a bad wrap for being sporadic. How can you just like every damn thing? These preference sluts will actually try to guilt you into liking something your not even interested in. I spent like 4 days trying to figure out why I’m supposed to like regeaton. I can pretty much promise you that I’m not gonna like that sh*t. Until Premo and Just Blaze decide to do an album with Daddy Yankee, I won’t be able to tell you what any of his joints sound like.
Being labeled “eclectic” is about as difficult as being labeled “Promiscuous” and just as synonymous. All you have to do is be indifferent. To be 100% with you, I’m sure I own more records than all these emo-fruits parading their “obscure taste” like it was hard to acquire. Difference is, I got plans for this vinyl that surpass simply hanging it on my wall, or bragging about owning it for the sake of being labeled eclectic. F.O.H.
