"Bounce Rock Skate" was just reviewed on So Much Good Music
http://www.somuchgoodmusic.com/single-review-vintage-dope-bounce-rock-skate/
It’s funny how taste and trends work. When I first got into hip hop
(a very long time ago), it was all about the newest freshest shit. If
you were still bumping something from two months ago, you were stale.
There was this pride in having the latest joints. It also meant that the
evolution of the music happened faster. Like if you look at how hip hop
has evolved from say ’94 to now, the lifespan of a particular sound
style is way longer than it was from like, ’87-’94. If you loved a
particular sound like say, mid-eighties electro-sounding hip hop, you
had a small window to get it, cause pretty soon people wouldn’t be
making it anymore.
Now that hip hop is getting older, and has some history and
perspective, cats are able to go back, dig out those classic sounds and
make them work for the present day. Sometimes it works, sometimes it
doesn’t. No lie, a lot of early hip hop was garbage, simply because it
was still so new people weren’t very good at it yet. So if you suck now,
I’m giving you a pass just cause you say it’s a throwback.
Luckily Vintage Dope live up to their name with “Bounce Rock Skate.”
It’s a throwback to those Eighties beats and rhythms, electro funk and
bouncy bass, braggadocio and party records. Comprised of Olympia
producers and rhymers Dawhud (who got the seal of approval from DJ
Premier himself) and NW hip hop hustler Luvva J, Vintage Dope dig into
the past, bring it to 2014 and make is sound, well…dope.
Per their SoundCloud page:
“Vintage Dope’s self titled debut is an ode to DJs, DJ culture and
classic west coast production that is summer time theme music with the
windows rolled down. Simply put…’Cratebangin.’ No guests, no gimmicks,
just crates and lyrics.”
You can check out the whole project over on their SoundCloud page, hit them up on Twitter, and buy the project on Bandcamp.
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