What is the perception of "HYPHY" outside the Bay Area?

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Seeking objective opinions about the world's reaction (or lack thereof) to HYPHY music/culture. Folks around here are under the impression that they're at the epicenter of the next big thing. I will at least attest to the truth-in-advertising aspect: "stupid", "dumb" and "retarded". But who knows, maybe kids around the globe are feeling it. (???!) Quotable & anecdotal posts are appreciated.

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I keep seeing that term bandied about... what is it?

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/1178/thebayareagun6yx.jpg

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Is it backpacky?

― Pier Paolo Semolina (noodle vague), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hyphy

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

GHOST RIDE THE WHIP BITCHZ

― trees (treesessplode), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Could you upload a sample track or two?

― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

mpls is too drunk to have an opinion.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

for the uninitiated:
HYPHY finally gets it's own thread

― Bobby Peru (Bobby Peru), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

PPL KALL THAT HYPE MUSIC ROUND HERE, YOURE ALWAYS ON MY MIND E-40, EXCEPT YOU SOUND LIKE YR ON SAVED BY THE BELL???? WACCENTS ASIDE, ITS JUST A LABEL FOR A WACK ASS STYLE OF DANCE BEAT THAT IS AN OBV CRAB AT GENRE CREATIONISM, WHICH YOU MUST BE AN A AND R TO ACHIEVE, BT REALLY YOU HAVE TO FLOW WITH THE EVOLUTION. DOESNT HYPHY SEEM CONTRIVED????? WACK ASS 2 STEP BEATS INFUSED WITH K JUICE MOST OF THEM SOUND LIKE REJECTED CIARA SONGS??? AKSHULLY I AM JUST JUDGING OFF THAT T SHIRTS BLUE JEANS AND NIKES

― GHOSTRIDER (pete38), Saturday, 26 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

sometimes my roomie and i just sit on youtube and watch suburban kids ghost riding their whips.. i don't really know the music outside of the GRTW track, though.

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Saturday, 26 August 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

that "got my Vans on, but they look like sneakers" song was hyphy right?

if "hyphy" means "slick mainstream production + rapping about awesome stupid shit that used to be the domain of backpackers", then doesn't it necessarily follow that it is the greatest thing ever?

― bernard snow (sixteen sergeants), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

I know E-40's like Mr. Hyphy now, but what's "Federal" considered?

― treechewer (Maximillions), Saturday, 26 August 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

it's just rap to me...

...shit by any other name still stinks

doesn't seem like they're saying anything new...

― pollywog (pollywog), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Marissa.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's pretty shitty to my ears. Like backpack shit gone undercover or something.

― jimnaseum - formalist rigour! (jimnaseum), Saturday, 26 August 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

I love hyphy. I don't know all the ins and outs of everything, but what I've heard just completely hits my spot.

― Rodn y Greene (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 27 August 2006 06:04 (nineteen years ago)

fagit

― Sally Forth (pete38), Sunday, 27 August 2006 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

You know, your multiple personality disorder isn't fooling anyone. It still says "pete38" by each of your posts. Posing as a woman to call people "fagit". Death by irony.

― Rodn y Greene (R. J. Greene), Sunday, 27 August 2006 06:34 (nineteen years ago)

you know i love you baby

― psycho pete (pete38), Sunday, 27 August 2006 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

i mean legitly i thought the notion of hyphy hitting your spot was at least some form of faggotry, which i have little to qualm with

― psycho pete (pete38), Sunday, 27 August 2006 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, i agree with the message, but they have vocal inflections that are dichotometrically homosecshewal, which i can totally sympathize with, being a gay-adjescent

― psycho pete (pete38), Sunday, 27 August 2006 06:37 (nineteen years ago)

but at least they don't hit my spot. when i go for gay in hiphop i dig the hardest-core, least gay spectacle to get off on, thereby increasing my chances to get killed whilst jacking

― psycho pete (pete38), Sunday, 27 August 2006 06:38 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, who doesnt masturbate to kandinky with a backround of paul barman mached up with the copy of bg's living legend that skips on track 15 on your car stereo and starting with like 6 on your black friend's cd player?

― psycho pete (pete38), Sunday, 27 August 2006 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

mais quel con

― blunt (blunt), Sunday, 27 August 2006 10:08 (nineteen years ago)

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