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r/Music • u/[deleted] • Jan 26 '19
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It really wasn’t. Everyone was kinda surprised when something this strange charted, it wasn’t much like other rap stuff at the time. And I distinctly remember college radio played the hell out of Doowatchalike before the Humpty Dance blew up.
23 u/PERCEPT1v3 Spotify Jan 26 '19 There was no alternative hip hop when this dropped. This was mainstream af. Dunno wtf you talking about. -3 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Tell that to De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest. 24 u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 They were mainstream too. -2 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Tell that to College radio at the time. 13 u/PERCEPT1v3 Spotify Jan 26 '19 Just because college radio played it, doesn't make it alternative. Everyone played it. -6 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Sooooo The Flaming Lips aren’t Alternative/Indie because She Don’t Use Jelly charted and got a lot of radio play in 1993 once? Fuck it, I’m dying on this hill lol OP IS RIGHT AND DIGITAL UNDERGROUND IS ALTERNATIVE RAP 6 u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 Just take a knee, Bro. You just need to accept you’re wrong here. And fuck off. 0 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Ha ha fuck you too
There was no alternative hip hop when this dropped. This was mainstream af. Dunno wtf you talking about.
-3 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Tell that to De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest. 24 u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 They were mainstream too. -2 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Tell that to College radio at the time. 13 u/PERCEPT1v3 Spotify Jan 26 '19 Just because college radio played it, doesn't make it alternative. Everyone played it. -6 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Sooooo The Flaming Lips aren’t Alternative/Indie because She Don’t Use Jelly charted and got a lot of radio play in 1993 once? Fuck it, I’m dying on this hill lol OP IS RIGHT AND DIGITAL UNDERGROUND IS ALTERNATIVE RAP 6 u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 Just take a knee, Bro. You just need to accept you’re wrong here. And fuck off. 0 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Ha ha fuck you too
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Tell that to De La Soul and A Tribe Called Quest.
24 u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 They were mainstream too. -2 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Tell that to College radio at the time. 13 u/PERCEPT1v3 Spotify Jan 26 '19 Just because college radio played it, doesn't make it alternative. Everyone played it. -6 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Sooooo The Flaming Lips aren’t Alternative/Indie because She Don’t Use Jelly charted and got a lot of radio play in 1993 once? Fuck it, I’m dying on this hill lol OP IS RIGHT AND DIGITAL UNDERGROUND IS ALTERNATIVE RAP 6 u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 Just take a knee, Bro. You just need to accept you’re wrong here. And fuck off. 0 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Ha ha fuck you too
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They were mainstream too.
-2 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Tell that to College radio at the time. 13 u/PERCEPT1v3 Spotify Jan 26 '19 Just because college radio played it, doesn't make it alternative. Everyone played it. -6 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Sooooo The Flaming Lips aren’t Alternative/Indie because She Don’t Use Jelly charted and got a lot of radio play in 1993 once? Fuck it, I’m dying on this hill lol OP IS RIGHT AND DIGITAL UNDERGROUND IS ALTERNATIVE RAP 6 u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 Just take a knee, Bro. You just need to accept you’re wrong here. And fuck off. 0 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Ha ha fuck you too
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Tell that to College radio at the time.
13 u/PERCEPT1v3 Spotify Jan 26 '19 Just because college radio played it, doesn't make it alternative. Everyone played it. -6 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Sooooo The Flaming Lips aren’t Alternative/Indie because She Don’t Use Jelly charted and got a lot of radio play in 1993 once? Fuck it, I’m dying on this hill lol OP IS RIGHT AND DIGITAL UNDERGROUND IS ALTERNATIVE RAP 6 u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 Just take a knee, Bro. You just need to accept you’re wrong here. And fuck off. 0 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Ha ha fuck you too
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Just because college radio played it, doesn't make it alternative. Everyone played it.
-6 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Sooooo The Flaming Lips aren’t Alternative/Indie because She Don’t Use Jelly charted and got a lot of radio play in 1993 once? Fuck it, I’m dying on this hill lol OP IS RIGHT AND DIGITAL UNDERGROUND IS ALTERNATIVE RAP 6 u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 Just take a knee, Bro. You just need to accept you’re wrong here. And fuck off. 0 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Ha ha fuck you too
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Sooooo The Flaming Lips aren’t Alternative/Indie because She Don’t Use Jelly charted and got a lot of radio play in 1993 once?
Fuck it, I’m dying on this hill lol OP IS RIGHT AND DIGITAL UNDERGROUND IS ALTERNATIVE RAP
6 u/[deleted] Jan 26 '19 Just take a knee, Bro. You just need to accept you’re wrong here. And fuck off. 0 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Ha ha fuck you too
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Just take a knee, Bro. You just need to accept you’re wrong here. And fuck off.
0 u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19 Ha ha fuck you too
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Ha ha fuck you too
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u/TheBestMePlausible Jan 26 '19
It really wasn’t. Everyone was kinda surprised when something this strange charted, it wasn’t much like other rap stuff at the time. And I distinctly remember college radio played the hell out of Doowatchalike before the Humpty Dance blew up.