Oh man, the Wu is where my appreciation for rap/hip hop truly started. I’d put Tribe in there as well due to their flow, beats and lyrics, but hell…here’s a hot take: I’d consider Wu-Tang to basically be The Beatles of rap/hip hop. Especially earlier stuff including solo albums. So much versatility and creativity went into it. Sure they sampled a lot too but knew how to use it to the utmost effect.
I’d still take Seger over a band like Journey. Hell, I could go ten lifetimes without hearing bloody Don’t Stop Believing again. I mean Old Time Rock n’ Roll is up there too but not nearly as pompously anthemic.
I am of a similar mind. I try to keep it open mind and listen to all variety of types of music. I will say is that the only music I don't like, are the ones that are absurdly loud obnoxious to the 9th degree, nearly any song from the mainstream pop industry, or rap songs that constantly say the N word every 5 to 15 seconds. It's why I can't stand a lot of mainstream rap music from the mid 2000s, late 2000s, and most of the 2010s. The Indie crowd and those that put themselves out through YouTube or SoundCloud know and do better than whatever most of the mainstream is doing.
Plus you spell it with a K, and that got my attention right away.
My favorite (most hated) subset of this genre is "How will FOREIGNER react to being in a DIFFERENT COUNTRY?!?".
This video from 7 years ago is the best one. It's one of the originators that started this. It's sad that this channel basically doesn't do anything anymore, and the last upload is from 4 years ago. They're one of the better ones. With that said, most reaction videos I don't care for aside from a few. Gamology usually have some good stuff, but they kind of fallen into a trap of reactions that are not that good (some of the time), and where they don't give enough info to the reactor.
I’d throw Disney/Pixar animation movies in with MCU as far as having very broad appeal that kinda gets a free pass on heavy or even normal levels of critiquing.
That's not the issue, and I welcome a diversity of opinion. My and many other problems with film critics of today, and many back then, are they expect nearly every movie to cater to their specific "artistic tastes", or expect the movies to give them the Sun, the Earth, and the Moon. They expect a movie to be like something they like, and hate on it and others for doing their own thing. There's a reason not every piece of media should play follow-the-leader. If everyone did that, things would get stale, boring, and nothing would stand out from each others. It's why all of the Jason Bourne clones are shit, and why most people don't wanna go back to that style of shaky-cam/quick cut edit non-sense.
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