Queequeg wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 3:23 pm
PeterC wrote: ↑Wed Dec 09, 2020 9:50 am
It's not the 1980s anymore, and I think with the benefit of hindsight, it's ok to say that the Beastie Boys really weren't very good
Paul's Boutique is a great. You might need to regress into a teenage boy to appreciate it, but its dope. License to Ill... well I was in 7th grade when that came out and fighting for your right to party sounded like a great thing to me at the time. I can't listen to most of that album anymore.
But if you really want to get real, 80s rap in general was a joke, some of it literally just for laughs. Rap didn't become real art until the late 80s early 90s with groups like
Tribe Called Quest. Tribe took it to a different level.
Maybe it's a one of these things that you can only really appreciate at that age. I did try listening to License to Ill again, and it's the sort of thing that sounded great at the time and now you just cringe. But it's hard to judge these things. It did sound pretty great at the time.
But on '80s rap - I'm going to have to politely disagree. You had Run DMC's first album, Ice-T's Power, LL Cool J's two best albums, Big Daddy Kane, the Jungle Brothers, Public Enemy's Nation of Millions, Eazy-E's first album (financed entirely by pharmaceutical distribution, allegedly), even things like the Jungle Brothers and De La Soul. It was less polished and not as well produced as the 1990s, sure, but the 80s were a pretty crazy decade and there wasn't yet big money in rap music. But it was not a bad decade.