The Post-College White Indie Hipster's Hip Hop Library

Kanye West - all
The Roots - anything after Illadelph Halflife
Outkast - Stankonia or Speakerboxxx or whatever it's called
Missy Elliot - all
Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory
Black Star, Mos Def or Talib Kewli - random assortment
De La Soul - Is Dead

Am I missing anything? Maybe Eminem?

lmao @ the idea of a post-college white indie hipster listening to 'supa dupa fly'

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_Jp3CKb0Tf9c/S9tlGSEZHWI/AAAAAAAAInk/5YvX4BMucHc/33_1_3_christopher_r_weingarten_public_enemy.jpg

ROFL

J0rdan - I guess it depends on how old you are. I went to college 96-00, and every dude in a Sebadoh t-shirt I knew loved Missy.

well those ppl aren't 'post-college' anymore

unless by 'post-college' you mean "any white person that is older than 22"

anyway

'the black album' is a landmark work for this demo

xp That's pretty much what I mean, except I mean 'any white person who says they like hip-hop but wouldn't know Fat Joe from Fats Domino that is older than 22.'

http://charliesgames123.webs.com/photos/Album-1/i%20like%20where%20this%20thread%20is%20going.jpg

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

that thing white ppl do when they disparage 'white ppl'

now is when we need whiney to drown a terrible thread

sure we can post the twitters up in here

I went to college 96-00

you dont say

scene 1. "I wish white people would pay more attention to rap!"
scene 2. *furiously throwing out kanye and jay z cds"

lets talk about jurassic 5 itt

that sad, sad thing white ppl do when they disparage 'white ppl'

Man! Those imaginary people have such bad taste in music!

Kanye West - all well, Late Registration, anyway
Outkast - up to but not including Idlewild
Missy Elliot - all singles more than albums
Tribe Called Quest - up through Midnight Marauders
De La Soul - up through Stakes
Public Enemy - Nation of Millions

^ fuiud

at one time, Bizarre Ride II The Pharcyde would have gone on this imaginary bad whiteman's playlist...

shit, Public Enemy up through Apocalypse 91

N*E*R*D

Missy albums are dope fuiud

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9qYF9DZPdw

i work with a bunch of post-collegiate white dudes and the hip hop we listen to the most at work--

any/all ghostface
too short 1st lp
the mind of mannie fresh
raekwon - only built 4 cuban linx
doggy style
any/all geto boys

Sorry. This is a result of an argument with a non-imaginary friend of mine who constantly cites his love for hip-hop despite the fact that he only buys hip-hop albums that get reviewed on Pitchfork.

Ian, you sound like you work with post-collegiate white dudes who grew up actually watching Video Music Box.

actually now that i think abt it, only about half of my co-workers are college graduates.

a non-imaginary friend of mine who constantly cites his love for hip-hop despite the fact that he only buys hip-hop albums that get reviewed on Pitchfork

On one hand, there's nothing wrong with having a limited interest in a genre and taking recommendations on the music from a place where you take recommendations on other music too, BUT on the other hand he's constantly citing his LOVE of hip-hop when everyone knows his interest is limited and that makes him a twat.

what a dick your friend is for enjoying music that he enjoys

you'd've thought Pussy Galore's "White People" wd've been on Youtube wouldn't you?

Seems I've touched a nerve with some of the Everlast fans here on ILX.

some of the most knowledgable ilx rap heads write rap reviews for Pitchfork - you have a weird axe to grind with zero basis in reality

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iHYKoSu62WY

but do keep up the "I, a white guy, like to pontificate about whiteness" routine, it's in no way more ancient than fucking space

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

no idea what that shit sounds like btw, worst name ever

idk with the song title "burning" it gets a vibe - I'm not going to listen to it either, mind

xp Depends on your definition of 'knowledgable rap heads,' I guess.

You're right, though, I posted this thread because I hate white people. So lame.

john, everyone knows that fake rap head are snatching up the gunplay mixtape in droves bcuz of that pfork review

WHOOPS, SORRY

a mod can edit that post

This thread is just the latest in a long line of lol whites don't get real rap threads. Boring again.

Brothers don't typically jam out to Mercyful Fate either, but no one makes threads about that.

I have trolled D-40 so hard he hates my guts now but anybody who says dude doesn't know his rap backwards and forwards is posing hard

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxkoSbbGxB8

You're right, though, I posted this thread because I hate white people. So lame.

lol yeah if anybody had said anything remotely like that, it would be, lucky for us you just imagined it

on a less trolling the troll tip, the premise of this thread ignores that even strawmen white indie nerds usually have positive biases towards regional rap -- kids from my high school that aren't "into" rap still fuck w/ trick daddy & when i went to school in missouri all those kids were genuine fans of nelly & st lunatics & various other st louis rap singles

lol this dude made a thread on ilx about how his friend is a lame

must be a good 'friend'

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

I used to be really into them, but Digable Planets just seem soooo contrived, now that I've discovered Guru.

lol guys i get most of my new rap knowledge from d4vid dr4ke, p4k writer this is totally a thread for me

yeah cos also you're white iirc

What is intellectual white trash tho

I guess I meant the perception of hipsters as others you possess a lesser understanding of culture/music/whatever than yourself.

i love scenesters who are all loleriffic loudmouth skeptical about shit like religion and psychics and shit but dont think twice about irrigating their nose with a pot or drinking lemon juice for 10 days.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, April 24, 2008 10:54 AM (6 years ago)

If hipsters could fly this airport would smell like kimchi

So "pretentious white trash", OK

I guess I meant the perception of hipsters as others you possess a lesser understanding of culture/music/whatever than yourself.

― Darin, Friday, April 25, 2014 8:47 PM (7 minutes ago)

but no! i understood (perhaps incorrectly?) that hipsters were generally thought to be a category of people obsessed with being trendy, thus one step ahead of mass culture. at the same time, forming an identifiable culture in themselves.

they might be sneered at from inside (whiney style, like superhipster condescending to the anticon-listening habits of second-rate sheeple), or from outside (and here the term becomes more or less synonymous w/ "metrosexual" ["city folk", "college boy", "latte-sipping coastal elite" or w/e)).

but definitely not "white trash", which presumes evaluation from a position of presumed class superiority.

Pretentious/smart welldressed cool white ppl, this is a horrifying thing indeed

I mean "white trash" in terms of serving the same functionality in bettering one's internal sense of self

but definitely not "white trash", which presumes evaluation from a position of presumed class superiority.

no, I think people DEFINITELY use the term in this regards

at least as a way of distancing themselves from herd mentality that they recognize

I dunno... I'm tired and should go to bed.

Hating hipsters is about hating yourself. It's the final moment of the counterculture, when it recognizes itself as an even more entrenched, even more egregious exemplar of the consumerism it claimed to critique. Anti-hipster rhetoric, nine times out of ten, is an intimate recognition of hypocrisy. But it's also the repression of this recognition, making it doubly hypocritical. Perhaps.

― très hip (Treeship), Friday, April 25, 2014 8:33 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

did you ever get stuck thinking in the back of your head, maybe just a feeling or a sense about something that you couldn't put your finger on and then one day someone is like "baloney sandwich" and you're like "FUCK, i've been trying to remember baloney sandwiches without even realizing it for MONTHS then along comes this motherfucker and now it's so clear i can't believe it!"

you are that motherfucker in this moment.

hipsters dont even exist anymore fyi

― Lamp, Friday, August 10, 2012 12:17 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

no, I think people DEFINITELY use the term in this regards

at least as a way of distancing themselves from herd mentality that they recognize

― Darin, Friday, April 25, 2014 11:01 PM (35 minutes ago)

yeah, but i was talking less abt distinctions in general than hierarchies in particular. "white trash" not only separates the self from the other, it assigns that other a much lower rank in a (presumably formal) social hierarchy. one uses this term not only to distinguish & demean, but to assert superior station. it's punching down.

i don't think "hipster" works that way. it's often nearly the opposite: a way to put down those we think are putting on airs, flaunting or trying to claim (albeit less formally) elevated status. this why is the term carries implication of pretention and elitism. it punches up.

not neccessarily tho. superhipster's self-hating usage punches down at fellow hipsters with supposedly shitty game (and treesh OTM about the semiotics here).

Thing is there isn't actually any other viable option, so what're you supposed to do? Stop listening to music/engaging w/any art, give up on all ppl, dress badly, die, what?

I want an ironic baloney sandwich now.

Hipsters, to me, always were people who, rather than just being into esoteric or hip stuff, used their knowledge of said stuff as a weapon or a status step stool. This thread made me remember a hipster at a party back in the late 90s who tried to use his possession of a Jurassic 5 ep as a trump card in the who-here-has-the-best-taste-in-hip-hop game.

Thing is there isn't actually any other viable option, so what're you supposed to do? Stop listening to music/engaging w/any art, give up on all ppl, dress badly, die, what?

have u considered normcore

Did anyone esle use "scenester" back when "hipster" wasn't a thing? Like in the 00s?

As far back at 1996. It was slightly teasing but not at all insulting -- like a "scenester" wasn't just somebody who went to a lot of rock shows, it was someone who sort of compulsively went to ALL the rock shows. Sometimes they wore gas station worker shirts with names embroidered on the front that they bought at a vintage store. As I recall, "hipster," in 1996, was a weird antique word which you would no more use seriously than you would "groovy" or "square."

Thing is there isn't actually any other viable option, so what're you supposed to do? Stop listening to music/engaging w/any art, give up on all ppl, dress badly, die, what?

― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Saturday, April 26, 2014 5:12 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the alternative is revolution.

Beginning how/where treesh

the whole point of the concept of "hipsterism" is that you can't win. nobody who cares about this would want to be the kind of person who would never be mistaken for a hipster. the crisis isn't that you don't want to be seen as "pretentious" by people insecure enough to accuse others of being pretentious; nobody really cares about that. it is that you cannot evade becoming just another demographic to be marketed to. alt is not an alternative.

this is the first time i encountered "hipster" in the contemporary sense. i was in highschool in the suburbs when I read that site, so as far as I knew the concept was around forever. http://www.suck.com/daily/99/03/05/

I rememeber reading somewhere where Norman Mailer called all American youth 'hipster-lite'

poser/poseur was such an insult when i was a teen.

i feel like that was still part of fugazi's appeal, as late as the mid-90s, that they were absolutely not posers?

i had a friend who tied his flannel shirt around his waist and i think later when i tried to do that i was called out as a poser : /

i feel like we had this discussion (re: posers and the 90s) on some hipster-related metal thread a few years ago

http://www.richardrbmarcus.com/Harry%20The%20Hipster%20Gibson%20Ovaltine%20In%20Benzadrine.jpg

treesh i did download a couple of anticon lps back in the day but i dont remember them at all
in terms of dorkrap i preferred shit like king geedorah

Le1f's first album is p good for geek anticon type stuff. LJ loves it!

(Also its my top 3 for the decade)

gucci mane would be in this hypothetical person's library if he lurked on ilm circa 2009-2011

So which hipsters aren't indie, srs q

the ones who don't like music at all. off the top of my head i am thinking nabokov and ai weiwei.

kid cudi pulled one of the biggest crowds at Coachella 2014

Whats he got that Outkast aint got?!

night terrors

the song "pursuit of happiness" perfectly filled a niche left vacant when frat guys at my college got tired of "i feel like dying." those are the guys who really understand what it feels like to exhaust your brain's pleasure centers with drugs. hipsters don't ever follow their bliss to terrifying places the way lil wayne and kid cudi do.

Oh sure they do, yr being wacky

at my college there were these frat dudes and sorority girls who would actually look way older than their chronological age by the time they graduated. this kind of hard living was unheard of among the kids who lived in peace house or farm house.

What abt in robot house

Yr suggesting "hipsters" in this sense're the "yuppies" of today? OK

we didn't have a robot house. my point is that kid cudi isn't big among people who care about seeming cool or ahead of the curve. he is big among people who identify with his melancholic hedonism. ditto gucci mane except for his fans on ilm, who rep for his formal ingenuity i think.

Yeah well a lot of those ppl feed into the mainsream hipster world and keep them cool or whatever, tho it's hartd to think you don't know that

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cshFS_7AaCA

That title promised me some Lil'B to thread.

how's he doing these days? still three mixtapes a day and a latter-day twitter teen cult to maintain?

i feel like i gotta standup for pseudointellectual white trash here. i come from a long line of pseudointellectual white trash on my dad's side, and none of us would ever be mistaken for "hipsters" before very, very recently. just another way star wars ruined everything, i guess.

i could see how some people might get pissed off at the music i listen to 'cuz i can relate to el p better than i can relate to killer mike. like, whatever hip-hop's essential purpose is "sampling mike ratledge organ solos" probably isn't part of it. at the same time yes i'm too damn old to care.

You'd admit to being pseudo-intellectual white trash before admitting to being a hipster?

big fan of that rushomancy post tbh