#music Hopsin

[myownuniversech]

[nervous-ari]

Here's my Recap (the YT Music equivalent to Spotify Wrapped)

ngl I think it's a bit of a missed opportunity that it doesn't use the "my year as an album cover" as the image for your recap playlist

[dippedanddripped]

Hopsin - Origin Story (feat. The Future Kingz)

[flowers-in-my-urethra]

“I put a porno on 'cause my life ain't awesome, man

Jack off, go to sleep, wake up, jack off again

Then repeat the cycle”

-Hopsin

[aloneforeverwithoutyou]

NF - LOST ft. Hopsin

[shadowdemon-gd]

BRO HOPSIN DROPPED

[byrdsfly]

Alight let's try and make this post a bit better since it's different every time I see it and always somehow worse:

Alphabet Aerobics by Blackalicious

Good Day by Nappy Roots

Opposite of Adults by Chiddy Bang

Lose Yourself by Eminem

Ms. Jackson by Outkast

Yesterday by Atmosphere

fuck killing a victorian child by making them listen to hyperpop all you gotta do is make a white tumblr user listen to rap

[lilygoat]

Hopsin - ILL Mind of Hopsin 8

[trumpvance2024]

[sunfriedginger]

[dippedanddripped]

Hopsin - BE11A CIAO

[shenarilends]

Follow the beat of your own drum.

Watch "Dax - "YourWorthIt.org" ft. Hopsin (Official Music Video)" on YouTube

[weaselle]

let's talk racist algorithms

i have a weird relationship with music for reasons i won't get into, but as an example, despite loving music, i have not been able to make myself listen to music on purpose in about 6 months. Music is weird for me. BUT I DO LOVE IT

I'm a poet, if i'm really feeling myself i'd even say i'm a word-smith, so rap has a really special place in my heart

The first rap artists i heard and bought an album from them on tape cassette and would listen to all the time were Snoop Dogg, McHammer, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince (that's Will Smith for you young ones) De La Soul, and Vanilla Ice

This was 7th and 8th grade. Rap was the new rock, the kids were going wild for it, and because my school let students select the lunchtime PA music, Vanilla Ice was played at lunch almost every day at school.

We had zero black students at that school.

(I still remember the exact day Vanilla Ice stopped being popular at school, but that's about the severe homophobia of the time and a different story)

Now let's come back to today. When I listen to music it's often on Youtube, or Pandora. And i noticed a problem with these platforms pretty early on.

See, I had taken a big break from rap. Like i said, i have a weird relationship to music i don't have time to get into, but i didn't pay much attention to what was happening in rap for a long time. I'd had a friend who was excited to get me to geek out over Eminem with her a few times, and i went through a phase where i was in love with Digable Planets (high key recommend if you like an indie feel with a smooth jazz sound and east coast vibes)... I had a secret love for that one verse by Left Eye in Don't Go Chasing Waterfalls, could sing every word of Shoop, and i adored every Missy Elliot song that i heard on the radio. And that was about it. As a lyricist myself, the one that stuck in my head the most from this time was eminem, because lyricism is his whole thing.

I don't go to concerts. I don't buy albums. I tend to like specific songs more than specific artists. I know, i know, but that's not the point. When i can listen to music without it fucking me up mentally, I listen to music on Youtube and Pandora

And lyricism is my main attraction to rap, so when i came back to it on Youtube I put in Eminem first.

And right away, Youtube started recommending other rappers to me. And very quickly, i discovered that i was being recommended mostly white rappers.

I really like Hopsin, I went through a Dumbfounddead phase, i was into Dax for a minute, i like Domo Wilson, the J. Cole songs i like I REALLY like, I'm obsessed with Snow tha Product, I love the first Janelle Monae album i heard, i still fangirl over Missy Elliot, it's no surprise i like Joyner Lucas...

All of these i discovered and listened to via Youtube.

But because i like eminem, because I had a phase where i enjoyed a couple indie artists like Watsky, Wax, and Dan Bull, and because my depressed ass was drawn to NF and now a little Ren, when Youtube recommends rap artists to me, 90% of the algorithm recommendations are white artists. White men, specifically.

I had a similar problem with Pandora.

I actually had to create a special Pandora station that i seeded with three black artists and then ONLY liked non-white artists AND disliked every white artists that came up, just to get a station that wouldn't turn itself into a white rap channel.

It makes me furious, because i don' want to care about who is a white artist and who is a black artist!!!! I just want to listen to music that i like!!! But these bullshit music platforms make me have to care a lot about who is white and who is black just to not be pushed into racist music tastes and i fucking hate it.

And, if i'm being super honest, one reason i really hate it is because i know i probably really do have some internal racist tendencies when it comes to music, because i was raised white in america, and i really resent having to fight these fucking algorithms instead of, idk, being helped by them. I need to be able to look at my feed and assess it for my own unacknowledged racism... like, if there was no algorithm, and i looked at my music history and saw all white artists, i could be like, OH. I need to look in the mirror about this. But instead i have to play this weird tug-a-war with the platform about it and i can't tell what's my own deficiency and what is being forced on me. But SOME of it is being forced on me.

I mean for fucks sake, Snow tha Product does half her lyrics in spanish and the algorithm sees me love her and STILL recommends mostly white men. Hundreds of hours of listening to her, and zero spanish artist recommendations. Its infuriating.

Anyway, if you're curating your music tastes mostly online, and you start with white artists at all, then you really really gotta work to not fall deep into the bias.

And if that's what's happening with the music, how much more insidious must the social commentary content bias be

[sols-wild-ride]

Bad Music Bracket Round 2

Starting after this round, we will be doing two rounds at the same time just so the bracket can move quicker, and it will be like this in the future, except for once we reach the top 4.

This week's match up is Happy Ending by Hopsin vs Mi Bebito Fiu Fiu by Tito Silva. Oh god this match up.

Panel opinions below the cut.

Sol's Choice - Happy Ending

Happy Ending is so much worse. Hopsin has the horrible fate of being influenced by Eminem, and being the corny run off that entails. The blatant Asian racism is so much, and it comes from someone who is an insufferable bastard. As weird as Mi Bebito Fiu Fiu is, it being in another language and not knowing the political context salvages it for me. Meanwhile, Hopsin raps about getting two kinds of "jobs" while fetishizing Asian women.

Joe's Choice - Happy Ending

Mi Benito Fiu Fiu is a cheesy romance song with cheesy Spanish lyrics and fun but simple production that fits right in with a song you’d hear on the radio or in a mall, and its melody structure blatantly being a repurposing of the song “Thank You” by Dido isn’t helping it stand out. The worst that can be said of that song is that it is corny and unexciting, which is high praise compared to what can be said of “Happy Ending”. The music is not that interesting aside from the constant switching to an awkward sounding modified voice to represent the women speaking in the song, but the lyrics are truly awful. They are crude and juvenile, but worse is that every line is a gleeful description of a sexual encounter with language that is wildly misogynistic and racist, delivered with no shame or reservation. The entire song feels like hearing the unhinged rambling or tasteless remarks of the family member you are ashamed to be related to at a family reunion, set to a bargain bin beat. 

Adam's Choice - Happy Ending

Happy Ending is a concept so bad for a song that I don’t ever want to listen to it, so it wins by default.

[yt-playlists]

What is the worst thing about driving a compact SUV vs a Sedan? : whatcarshouldIbuy

Content you can switch your brain off to at mums: Mrwhosetheboss (coolest tech gadget showcases)

frenchy, sam pilgrim, nate z great, kurt kaz, westen champlin, isacc butterfield, top notch idiots (the fucking pranks are insane such fun to watch them be retards)), uncommon sense, MODEST PELICAN, soft white underbelly, susu jpg, sweet anita, communitychannel, nigahiga, shameless, psyched substance (irl talks)

Ok lets make a playlist for mums house now:

Watch shameless. Its true entertainment. Lost is simply not as riveting as shameless. Then watch the other movie with seth rogen in it. Number 2.

To feel at home on youtube: westen champlin, kurt kaz (best travel on youtube) , maximbady (funniest accent skits), whistlin deisel

Theres also comedians: frenchy, isacc butterfield live shows, matt rife,

If you want slower logical doco type stuff play "not just bikes. " on yt.

The more fun stories on youtube:

Finally music: acoustic covers of 80s songs. And if youre feeling naughty drake and hopsin music videos? Also nikki minaj,