Kooley High – “Kooley Is High” Video
AUDIO By TC on August 8, 2009 at 1:09 pm
Directed By Napoleon Wright III
Brand new visual by the clique who hails from N. Carolina: Kooley High. The track is produced by Dela. Remember him?
You can check out the rest of their music, mixtapes, merchandise and apparel at www.kooleyhigh.com
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My problem with Hip Hop/Rap can be explained through this song.
This is a group that obviously has some talent, however. This group and many other acts need to realize they’re not doing anything new. This sound is so “been there, done that.” This is why I’m starting to believe Hip Hop/Rap is starting to die. It’s not that the quality of the music is bad, is just that it’s not new. This is not the ’90’s!
I understand that it’s difficult to come into the game and try to push a genre forward and come with your own sound, but. This is not a way to do it. The evolution of this genre is starting to slow down/almost go backwards. I love Hip Hop from the ’80’s, I love Hip Hop from the ’90’s. But this is 2009. A message to all new acts try making music that fits the time you’re currently in. Thank you.
Fucking DOPE. Video, beats, vocals, all bangin’. Good to see these kids shine without 9th Wonder.
[Dilla x Weezy x DutchMasta] http://vimeo.com/5610093
@Barry Washington, rap music is the urban language of the 80s and the 90s, just like blues, soul and jazz was a pivotal voice during their respected halcyon days during the 20th Century.
It’s basically like this, we flipped the James Brown, Roy Ayers, Grover Washington, Motown, Barry Manilow, Roberta Flack, Issac Hayes, Jazz, Soul, Rock, Pop and whatever whatever, crates, it’s all been done.
There’s only so far you can push the envelope before an ideology becomes exhausted.
Like you can’t expect some disco group to step out now and sound as fresh Earth, Wind & Fire or The Bee Gees.
It’s like a certain timescape and mindscape, you capture it, like lightening in a bottle, but after that it can’t be replicated.
There is still some freshness out there like Jay Electronica and that dude NOVEL, but not that many.
@Pawzilla
So then with that said, do you think it’s possible that Hip Hop/Rap is the new disco? I’ve thought about that before and it scares me that it’s possible. Look at genres like Rock or R&B, they’ve managed to re-invent their genre for over decades. Hip Hop/Rap has been around since ‘79, and in around ‘05 I would say that Hip Hop/Rap starting to stop completely with a new sound that’s quality music.
My problem with Hip Hop/Rap isn’t the record execs or even the rappers, it’s really the fans. I feel the fans are of Hip Hop/Rap are more critical than any other fan (I could be wrong). The minute a rapper decides to make a “pop” record, then forget it a good portion of people view them as fake. Then when people do the opposite and stay “underground” and have that “underground sound” then another major portion says “to hell with them, they’re not making music that I can feel.” And both sides have their respectable arguments.
The only rappers I feel are still making “new music” that is appealing to would be: Jay, Kanye, Wayne, Lupe, ‘Kast, and maybe some others. They’re the only acts I feel that can have a balance of mainstream appeal while still staying true to their fans/”the underground”.
In fact, I feel Kanye is the greatest thing that’s happen to rap in the last decade. People on the internets tend to hate on ‘Ye but I think it’s unfair/jealous hate (at least looking at him in an artist standpoint . . not him as a person). Kanye (excluding 808’s . . which i liked btw) has been one of the few mainstream acts to incorporate what some of the pioneers did and yet have his own twist on things that sounds fresh. (I chose him over Lupe just because Kanye is a rapper + producer . . don’t get wrong I love Lupe). I think Kanye has made great hits, great albums, has a great flow and has been great so far with being able to have a new sound on each album.
Hopefully this new breed of “Freshmen” can add some new flavor to the game. (I actually think B.O.B. is the best out of the freshmen as far as being creative with style/sound.) I’ve got my eye on J. Cole, B.O.B. and Gibbs to hopefully push past the dilemma that this genre is suffering.
@Barry Washington, I would say this much, I think Hip Hop as a whole has very much enjoyed it’s halcyon days in terms of quality and quantity. Like with a lot of art forms, there comes a certain segment within it’s lifecycle where the standards are very high indeed, after which point such landmarks are seldom witnessed or achieved.
Hip Hop fans can be very fickle indeed, you just have to go back a fews ago when Jay Z dropped D.O.A. and you had more than enough people on here saying oh how Jay-Z is getting old, he needs a hair cut, how he is flogging the same horse again etc etc.
Then lo and behold when the cover art for The Blueprint 3 dropped, opinions were reversed again. Like oh Jay-Z and Kanye West, yeah they gonna do it again.
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again the people who are still holding this whole thing up and bearing the torch is a certain cluster of the ‘old guard’ like Jay Z, NAS, Kanye West, Wu Tang, OutKast, Eminem etc.
Nowadays we take things for granted, it’s like we are putting a portion of our pay packet or pocket money aside to go to the record store and purchase a CD that we have been looking forward to.
Music making equipment and programmes have become much cheaper, you don’t even need a label anymore, you just upload it and boom you could potentially become the next big thing. The issue with this is that way too many people doing it, the market becomes saturated and the quality suffers.
People got their hard drives stuffed with tons of music, but have they even bothered to listening of any of that stuff properly, or they just sifted through it?
However, all this said, Hip Hop thrived back in the day courtesy of hot singles and remixes, and I think this is still the way forward, they might not cop your album, but you blow them away with a hot track, remix and video and who knows what’s next?
Also, I don’t mean to sound like a hater or nothing, but you can’t manufacture the next big hip hop phenomenon, look how they groomed Drake, all that money and industry muscle they pumped into him (no inuendo implied) yet he has barely made an impact outside of the USA.
Yall need some CliffNotes for those comments. Anyways the instrumental is from “Stakes Is High”, it was on Atmosphere Airlines.
kanye rules…free max b
@Rome..yeah .. caught that Stakes is High beat right away…the artwork for their mixtape seems to be similar to to De La’s
Damn, look at this long ass book of a discussion between yall. It’s just music. Kooley is dope and everytime they play around here they pack the house. I like the video and that beat is amazing. Nothing wrong with a bit of 90s sound in the mix, so long as you sound modern, which they do. so chiiiiilllll. If i hear one more person say hip hop is dead im gonna… um… sit here and e-thug it out about how they should shut the fuck up.
I was gonna read the comments…but then I got high.
80’s 90’s hip-hop dont matter cause its still sound good to me. what, I cant listen to some oldschool jazz because its 2009?