Hip-hop & rap your girlfriend/wife/boyfriend/husband/spouse/partner/etc. likes

"rap your girlfriend/wife likes" could be a fun thread

― JaySeanLilWayne (some dude), Wednesday, March 9, 2011 8:49 PM (Yesterday)

i think the last time my wife and i discussed rap in any detail was like 5 years ago...i think she liked Nelly and "Gold Digger"

my wife loves Bone Thugs-N-Harmony

whiney does yr gf like any rap?

― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Wednesday, March 9, 2011 7:59 PM (Yesterday)

She certainly doesn't DISLIKE it, and always enjoys when I play Waka/E40/RocMarci around the house, but if she's gonna put on a record it's usually gonna be Oneida or afrobeat or Mulatu Astatke or Arthur Russell

― gawka flocka flamewar (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 9, 2011 8:29 PM (Yesterday)

She likes Strong Arm Steady and OutKast and Yelawolf tho

― gawka flocka flamewar (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, March 9, 2011 8:31 PM (Yesterday)

thank you ilxor for starting this much needed thread

my wife loves "gold digger" also -- her fav kanye song

My wife hates Kanye with a passion. She really likes TI, Q-tip and Kellis

my wife likes all OutKast, all Missy Elliott, Kanye and Jay-Z's bigger hits, and some UGK (though when she forgets their name, she calls them "that Southern rap duo that's not as good as OutKast")

My Fault - Eminem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYws8biwOYc

some Eminem

various old school party type shit (like it takes 2, push it, stuff like that)

dessa

bubba sparxxx (LOVES deliverance so much, would imagine it's her fav rap album by a mile, maybe one of her fav albums of all time)

some outkast

not a big rap fan in general.

oh and unknown prophets but they are local and i play bass for their live band

Kool Keith
Outkast
Beastie Boys
Ice Cube
Missy Elliot
MIA
Cypress Hill
2 Live Crew
Digital Underground
Cee-Lo
Tribe
De La
Pharcyde

mostly late 80s/90s stuff obviously. I'm pretty sure she would rank Kool Keith as her all-time favorite MC

pretty sure a woman walked out of the store today cuz we were playing 'big booty hoes'

i mean

what woman wouldnt love to hear this while shopping for records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtH6-7rj_TU

My wife likes more rap than I do. Mostly random songs. She listens to a lot of KDAY and finds things she likes. She asked me to track down Mack 10 Foe Life: The Best of Mack 10. Very unlikely I would have sought that out on my own.

my girlfriend likes biggie & nas but i dunno what else, she just has those on her itunes

although lol she did tell me she used to be into this but is embarrassed abt it now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wooG9jQyK4w

My wife really only like Kanye and T.I. for newer rappers, but she loves pretty much everything that came out between like '92 and '95.

xpost 2 whiney-- we didn't just put on that track out of the blue, we'd been listening to the whole album

girlfriend likes biggie from what i'd call a slight distance, thinks jay-z's "heart of the city" is "gorgeous" but doesn't like kanye much, looooooves jurassic 5.

My wife is probably more into hip hop than me. She just read Jay Z's book. We both hated the latest Kanye, though.

lol @ this thread! and the underlying assumption that hip-hop is too much for girls or whatever.

nick, do you only post on ilm nowadays to say that you don't like the last kanye album

Occasionally I plug my blog too...

Feel like this is pretty representative:

Jay-Z, "Big Pimpin"
Ol' Dirty Bastard, "Got Your Money"
Notorious B.I.G., "Hypnotize"

N.A.S.A., Spirit of Apollo
The Knux, Remind Me in 3 Days
The Clipse, Hell Hath No Fury

Panjabi MC, "Mundian to Bach Ke"
Calle 13, "Atreve-te-te"

She also identifies with this puppy:
http://oi55.tinypic.com/2rm5qwi.jpg

lol @ this thread! and the underlying assumption that hip-hop is too much for girls or whatever.

― lex pretend, Friday, March 11, 2011 3:43 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

you noticed that the thread title says "boyfriend/husband/spouse/partner," right

Nah lex much prefers to jump to assumptions by picking out only a word or two from threads and posts.

sometimes i think some of the attitudes towards women in some of the songs named in this thread are pretty much appalling

Eminem, ICP & Cypress hill.

My wife love "Move Bitch" by Ludicris a little too much

how is it possible to love that song too much!

Crystal Castles, N-Dubz, Passion Pit, um... oh yeah Pendulum..

how is it possible to love that song too much!

If you come to Boston sometime, I'll arrange something where you are a passenger in the car while she's driving and you will begin to see why.

haha, beautiful - hearing my gf sing it to herself warms my heart

i think that sounds like loving the song in exactly the right way :D

(it is often my mental soundtrack to occasions where i find myself behind slow-moving commuters as well)

i think of Mystikal's verse a lot, more when i'm arguing with people ("I'm not bitter, I don't give a fuck!") than when i'm driving.

i think dan will appreciate this particular use of "move bitch"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr-Pz94IJ3s

i think that sounds like loving the song in exactly the right way :D

haha on paper yes, but you've met my wife; I am not sure if you are prepared for the swearing ball of incandescent fury she transforms into when ppl do stupid things in front of her on the road

(keep in mind it is hilarious; don't get me wrong!)

xp: haaaaaa

I am not sure if you are prepared for the swearing ball of incandescent fury she transforms into when ppl do stupid things in front of her on the road

Is your wife relted to my wife? I've heard more new swear word combinations when riding with my wife than I did over four summers doing road construction.

"related"

i think i'd be most likely to join in with the incandescence

hahaha

My wife likes Luda pretty much across the board, as well as Mystikal's hits, DMX, Eminem's big hits (esp. "Lose Yourself", which was her hype song for grad school opera scene performances), Salt & Pepa, Queen Latifah and assorted Kanye.

(At heart she is a Mariah/Celine girl tho)

I also get to hear a lot of lil jon "yay-yuh!"s & that 50cent line about "come give me a hug". her taste is p broad & a little mysterious to me though, even though rap is one of the things we overlap on most. theres maybe a slight emphasis on big glossy party rap - tinchy/jay z/kid cudi/dizzee/kanye - but she's got a lot of classic 80s-00s albums too. likes a lot of rnb too & is prob as big a dream fan as anyone on ilx. eh, that's v incomplete, I can't dissect it really, she just has great taste & is a babe.

you noticed that the thread title says "boyfriend/husband/spouse/partner," right

sure are a lotta posts abt ppl's male sig others itt

I can't speak for any of the other straight guys in relationships, but I know that my life would be significantly different and a lot more confusing if I was posting about a male SO ITT

lex was directly referring to the 'assumptions' implied by the premise of the thread, though. obviously most of the posters itt are male, and more broadly rap fans on this board (and arguably in general) are largely male, but the thread isn't explicitly based on any kind of exclusion of anyone else.

can we not

aesthetics are tied to that sort of stuff shakey

i also think its interesting & helps inform the way in which we talk abt things

retitle thread 'my world of female rap fans'

okay that did make me chuckle

deej has this weird thing where he always talks about how rap was percieved in his high school.

I do think, though, that getting onto deej for discussing listener demographics at this point is akin to getting onto Ned for not holding lyrics as a primary motivator behind liking a song or getting onto me for being impressed with technical precision in singers; we've all been around here long enough to have a handle on many posters' perspectives/value hierarchies wrt music, so can we take a bunch of that stuff as given and not devolve into meta conversations about "why do you think this way?" unless that's the topic of the thread?

thats the same joke tpp or shakey or someone made when jhoshea dared to suggest that most of odd future's fanbase was male & that might keep them from crossing over which imo was an interesting -- arguable altho otm i think -- point

I think deej went to the school in De La's "Me Myself and I" video

deej has this weird thing where he always talks about how rap was percieved in his high school.

― gawka flocka flamewar (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, March 11, 2011 2:26 PM (59 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

whiney has this weird thing where he tries to catalog all of deej's 'weird things'

so I guess the answer to my question is "no"

oh god please

― ullr saves (gbx), Friday, March 11, 2011 2:19 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

can we not

― ullr saves (gbx), Friday, March 11, 2011 2:20 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark

I think deej has the right intention w/ paying attention to this tho, and I really appreciate his posts even when I find them frustrating or w/e

hey guys, yr all being mad paranoid about stuff devolving into beef right now, can we try to relax

whiney has this weird thing where he tries to catalog all of deej's 'weird things'

i lol'd

and then i lol'd again

is there something wrong w/ caring about or finding demographics of this stuff interesting? its not like i only like stuff that is popular or vice versa, i just think its helpful to think thru our understanding of who likes stuff bcuz a lot of that goes unexamined, both by myself & other around here. & fwiw like dan said im not gonna suddenly stop caring about this stuff so

this thread IS demographics! what do ppl who date/marry ilx posters like in rap music?

no, i actually think it's p interesting!

is there something wrong w/ caring about or finding demographics of this stuff interesting?

lol that question is an entire thread IMO

lets explore the important demographic truths lurking within a msg board of 90% white, college-educated music dorks killing time at their office jobs

^^^^this shit, though

the primary wife demographic im interested in hearing from is curvaceous colombians tbh

XD

literally stifling lols in the office

is there something wrong w/ caring about or finding demographics of this stuff interesting?

lol that question is an entire thread IMO

my short answer is "yes" but whatevs I'll let it go

My wife would probably listen to whatever I put on, provided that it wasn't OTT misogynist or rapey. But we usually have the kids in the car when we're out driving, so I don't even bother with any rap that's not on the radio. I remember she went on a "Bedrock" kick when it was new.

I'm so sorry

Naw. it was cute.

...NERMAL

yeah rap in the car is pretty much out when we're carting around my kid. that's just the way it is, I'd prefer not to have to explain the complex racial and gender politics involved to a 3 yo

would just like to state for the record that i am in fact both racist and sexist

duly noted

tbh i think id be weirded out if my girl was really into young jeezy or something

Now I can't remember if my wife actually liked "Oochie Wally" or if she was humoring me

anyone who doesnt like oochie wally is dead to me obv

the bodyguard's verse was pretty good iirc

Rap CDs my gf owns: The Pharcyde, Atmosphere, um Lauryn Hill.

I left a copy of the Blueprint in her car and she played it a lot for a while. She put Lil' Wayne's Ms. Officer on a mix that was otherwise straight r&b and electro pop iirc.

Tolerates smooth yet gangsta Bay stuff I play at home.

Hates Waka. Hates Gucci. If I ever give her crap about something she's playing, she comes back with, "Dude, you listen to a guy with a fucking ice cream cone tattooed on his face."

g/f otm

sonned by gf in irl beef

tell me that you replied by shrugging and going 's'gucci'

I replied by singing Lemonade.

http://www.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/565506_o.gif

tbh i think id be weirded out if my girl was really into young jeezy or something

― deej, Friday, March 11, 2011 2:31 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

why?

would make listening to the song "White Girl" very awkward

I was gonna SB everybody on this thread but Whiney made me laugh so hard I let most of you off.

would make listening to the song "White Girl" very awkward

― some dude, Friday, March 11, 2011 10:27 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nah my gf is a mexican- hoosian-american

BTW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8qjdUXBexA

my wife loves E-40's White Girl, which is a little... incongrous. otoh it is an awesome song.

ex-gf liked most of the same things I did — wu-tang, busta rhymes, hyphy, chart rap (she listened to the local hip-hop stations way more than me, actually, and was usually a couple weeks ahead of me on trends in that area), lil b... probably would've dug ofwgkta but I hadn't started listening to them yet when we broke up.

things I remember her being particularly into:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vi__dpsPv7o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mPtu09htRU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGpkSQTSI2o

likes waka and gucci too. and hates drake at least as much as I do, maybe more