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/r/hhh, I have a road trip coming up with four friends who keep dissing on hip-hop. I have control of the radio for the first leg of the trip, so I've got about two hours to change their minds. Can y'all help me make a playlist to turn some haters into 'heads?

They think the genre is all four-on-the-floor uninteresting club bangers - which is apparently a bad thing, God only knows why - and I want to show them as much variety as I can while keeping it all nice and hooky. I'm already planning on leading with They Reminisce Over You, but past that I've only got a couple of ideas (Quiet Dog, Juicy, probably something electro-influenced like Mantronix's "Listen To The Bass of Get Stupid Fresh Part II") and a whole lotta nothing. Any advice?

EDIT: Thanks, folks. I've got plenty of material for a two-hour mixtape - you are all awesome, even if half of you rock so hard on Kanye's dick you're gonna wind up mpreg with Ass Yeezus.

Posted May 20, 2013, 7:06 AM UTC · edited

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Ravenstown6•

Play some death grips and drive 40 over the speed limit while yelling.

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HimynameisJUL•

WE HAVE A WINNER LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.

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[deleted]•

A few months ago, I went on a camping trip, and we listened to Death Grips in the woods at night, which was awesome.

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stevebeyten•

Keep calling your friends racists. White guilt will eventually force them to at least pretend to like it.

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brodog•

Play all your Kanye

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Ravenstown6•

http://i.imgur.com/6RLUV23.jpg

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cubedG•

Sidebar it!

Mods pls respond.

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[deleted]•

every picture that causes a lol does not need to be sidebar'd

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blindin1i•

PREACH

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JChoi95•

If your friends are white boys, play some Logic.

You can also just play the whole Good Kid M.A.A.D. City album or any Kanye album. While you're playing the albums, explain to them the stories of each song and the meaning of them, especially GKMC.

And with those Kanye albums, a lot of the people I know hate Kanye and think he's a douche. Try to present him as a humble guy. Especially in songs like Last Call, which should be pretty self explanatory. He explains his background and where he came from and how he became the genius he is. A lot of average people don't give him the credit he deserves.

"Killin y'all niggas on that lyrical shit/Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips."

Come on. That Kanye line is fucking crazy.

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CommanderMellander•

Hey dere, friendly neighborhood white guy here, am I the only one who finds Logic kind of annoying? just something about his music makes me want to smash him in one of those car crushers at the dump...

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FilthyBojangles•

He's boring as fuck, I just don't get the hype

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JChoi95•

LOL. But in all honesty, I think I can tolerate Logic over Odd Future. It's just personal preference, but it just tends to be a stereotype for white people to love Eminem, Logic, and Odd Future.

I have a love/hate relationship with each one of them unfortunately.

Edit: BRING FORTH THE DOWNVOTES. YOU KNOW THE STEREOTYPE EXISTS THOUGH. BUT NOT NECESSARILY TRUE FOR EVERY WHITE PERSON.

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CommanderMellander•

Fuck stereotypes... But I love OF

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[deleted]•

White guy here who loves OF, so I guess you're kinda right.

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onrust•

I went last summer on a roadtrip with non-hiphop fans and I also brought a hiphop CD with me, I noticed my friends liked the known songs the most e.g. Outkast with miss jackson and roses, eminem, 50 cent, stuff like that. You also have to pick some bangers (clique, asap rocky,..), you know just check the friday party anthem threads. & start your cd with still dré so they know what's up

to all the guys picking the songs with wild lyricism, if you're in the car with friends nobody pays attention to the lyrics unless they already know them

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charlie_bells_ghost•

I get what you are saying because I too have had the same sort of anecdotal evidence. But it is always mind boggling to me when people/my friends do not listen to lyrics, you need to pay attention to understand a song/story. Even when I listen to music that isn't of my genre, I still listen to the lyrics.

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charlie_bells_ghost•

go play in the freeway

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DatBasedGod•

Play The Roots album Undun.

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killiangray•

Definitely an album that screams "road trip"

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ChristopherJDorsch•

Bust out the MBDTF, that shit turned me from a hater into a head

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northenerinthesouth•

Yeah that level of art will get anyone into hiphop

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CommanderMellander•

I sent her a picture of my diiiiiiiiiiick

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Paclac•

MBDTF also got me into hip-hop (along with Man on the Moon). That seems to be pretty common on this sub, I wonder how many Yeezus has converted into believers.

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FarewellOrwell•

Your post sums me up as well.

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Dexthialist•

Common - Be ...always gets them turncloak.

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Q_TheRealness•

Yes! The whole album or even the great intro song. Both are nice.

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battlesmurf•

Waka Flocka??

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ShufflinEveryday•

Karma - Waka Flocka

Nonstop for two hours

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fiveorphans•

If you play that song for two hours straight someone is gonna catch their first offense.

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HughGErection•

Wit da homies

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[deleted]•

They better have good lawyers to get their backs

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igetthatreference•

AK LOVE THAT GAT GAT SOUND

Fuck I love waka

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ObieOne•

Why are people so determined to convert people into hip hop heads?

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GogglesVK•

It happens with every genre. Actually, it happens with just about everything in the world.

If there's something someone loves, they'll try to get you to like it too. Human nature.

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DeepRoot•

"Kindness for Weakness" - Dialated Peoples on the 20/20 album "Mr. Alladatshit" - Kidz in the Hall "The In Crowd Album"... well, that whole album, really "ADHD" - Kendrick Lamar "Section 80" "Aquemini" - OutKast on the album w/ the same name, that whole album is pretty good too

This should be a good start.

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taylor_•

I like to blast some Chief Keef to my friends who don't like hip-hop. They try to act like they don't like it, but they totally do.

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fiveorphans•

That's how Chief Keef fans start out.

1st listen: "This guy isn't even trying, you can't tell what the fuck he's saying!"

two weeks later: "DAMN I HATE BEIN SOBUH"

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JT96•

The same works for Riff Raff

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ilouiei•

illmatic

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JohnCanada•

white boys love Tech N9ne.

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Gryffonophenomenon•

Hell yeah they do

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FilthyBojangles•

This is too true

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mike--jones•

Mike jones still tippin while driving like an asshole for the whole 2 hours

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browntown54•

Rolling on my endo, GameCube Nintendo / five percent tint, so you can't see up in my window

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VaekTheWise•

Aesop Rock- "Daylight" and "None Shall Pass", Murs- "67 Cutlass" and "Badman", "Word Association" - 7L & Esoteric, Danger Doom is always good fun, "Lyrics To Go (remix)" - A Tribe Called Quest, "YGM" - Atmosphere, some of the classics I suppose like "It was a Good Day" -Ice Cube.

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BlimeyChaps•

While I don't really like many of those apart from Doom and ATCQ, it sucks that you're getting downvoted for posting "backpacker" music. I wouldn't expect this circlejerkery from HHH.

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FilthyBojangles•

Yeah I don't get it either, these songs a very accessible to those who don't listen to hip-hop, so it's not like he's answering the question wrong.

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VaekTheWise•

Ace Rock is what converted me. I listened to "None Shall Pass" when it was linked in his AMA. It stemmed off into the other Def Jux guys, and as it went on my tastes got more "Backpacker-y." That said, I do appreciate the acquired tastes of Danny, Riff and Lil B.

Never got into Yeezus though.

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Horned_Dolphin•

I just don't believe you.

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VaekTheWise•

Introduce the non-believers with cunning wordplay and beats they can move to, cannot jump them in with the Based God or Danny Brown right off the bat.

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MarvelousMitten83•

MF Doom x Madvillain!!!

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nickolaitis•

Might as well throw Four Tet over those two. One of my favorite hip hop albums: Madvillain

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Radiant_Ed•

Blu and exile's below the heavens can easily convert them! Done it with my fam and friends about 8 times. That soul shit does that.

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TMS93•

36 chambers.. if they don't like wu-tang than all hope is lost

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NerdfaceKillah•

Common, anything from living legends then break it down to the single members like murs - president, cyne, roots, de la, blue scholars, atmosphere - summertime.

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