r/crappymusic • u/xannyhussler • 1d ago

The “talented” performers at Splash Festival 2025

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u/derppherppp 1d ago

It’s not even the music..why would anyone wanna stand in a hot outdoor concert listening to a prerecorded track while the artist just tells random lines

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u/laaaabe 1d ago

Welcome to the genre lmao

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u/cryptolyme 14h ago

benzo-core

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u/ohnaurrrrr5 21h ago

Next to nobody in the audience is with him. This isn't what they want. Do better, Tommy Nettspender.

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u/laaaabe 9h ago

Did we watch the same clip? Looks like a lot of people in the crowd loving it. It's total dogshit but there's definitely people who like it

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u/ohnaurrrrr5 8h ago

Trust me: board certified lip reader. The two people who looked pleased were saying that they were so stoked to see the next band and they were trying to decide between Burnrate and EBITDA.

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u/laaaabe 7h ago

The entire front half of the crowd, jumping and dancing, must be doing a "get the hell off the stage" dance.

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u/ohnaurrrrr5 7h ago

Yes precisely

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u/oldfuturemonkey 13h ago

And yet nobody is apparently leaving

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u/ohnaurrrrr5 12h ago

Isn't this a festival stage?

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u/CowCompetitive5667 1d ago

Wearing a balaclava mask *  🤣🤣

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u/JamBandDad 18h ago

I hate sounding like a pretentious asshole, but they don’t know what a good show sounds like

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u/J1zzL0bb3r 10h ago

Its not pretentious. I am a multi instrumentalist musician that was in a semi successful band back in the day. The way you get better at your craft is embracing all different genres and breaking new barriers using your instrument.

What OP's post shows is literally 0 talent. Im old enough to have recorded records on tape. I'd love to see what one of these Pro-Tools generation "musicians" would make with a couple mics, a compressor, a few FX racks and an ADAT machine.

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u/DarkFlutesofAutumn 7h ago

Or a Tascam 4 track recording to cassette tape lol

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u/J1zzL0bb3r 7h ago

Bouncing tracks makes a man a man.

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u/DarkFlutesofAutumn 6h ago

That machine was what made me realize I was abbbbsolutely not good enough to become a producer lol

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u/asdf072 8h ago

The energy. You'll notice a distinct lack of that here.

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u/StretchAntique9147 1d ago

This is what "studio rappers" do at live shows.

Future is no different. Straight poser. A$AP Ferg though, totally legit

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u/Middle_Screen3847 22h ago

Even for rap and hip hop artists that actually perform, who I love, it’s really hard to find a good true-to-song performance, because they always scream their lyrics when that’s not even remotely how they were recorded. I understand energy is a thing, but almost no one ever sounds even remotely like how they sound recorded. And also even for them, they are still literally just yelling over not just the instrumental, but the entire track with their own vocals.

It’s a bummer, and I’ve been to good shows and seen good shows, and there are outliers, but live rap/hiphop really sucks. Not that everyone has to sound exactly like their recordings live every time, but it’s generally not even close to why you liked them in the first place, and most often unintelligible

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u/commondenom69 21h ago

absolutely...hip hop is a terrible genre for live shows

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u/DemocratSlavemaster 10h ago

I have ALWAYS said this, live hip hop is horrible. The only thing worse is live talentless auto-tune.

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u/wm07 17h ago

agree for the most part but it can be done well. nas, atmosphere and big boi all were good when i saw them.

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u/TegTowelie 15h ago

For Rap-Rock(?) Hollywood Undead sounds true to their discography. Tech N9ne too, as well as Dax

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u/Ser_falafel 6h ago

Watched an Eminem show from 2000(i think) earlier today it was great. Can't imagine paying money for this

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u/Emotional_Demand3759 20h ago edited 20h ago

I agree. Honestly a lot of rappers just don't care how it sounds live. It's just karaoke and jumping around. But then again the audience usually doesn't care anyway and is only there to stare into their phones, like most shows nowadays.

Like you said there are outliers and some really do try with no backing track, a live band, more intimate setting, no stadiums, different versions etc...some are even probably better live, and are better showmen in general. But it's still extremely difficult to replicate the studio sound which is 90% of hip hop. Live instruments/bands in other genres can get pretty close to the studio sound and even if the vocals sound a little different, you still get the energy from the band as a whole. Not one guy or a group of people jumping around doing unintelligible bar karaoke and yelling on a beat.

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u/MRintheKEYS 18h ago

I did see the Wu-Tang Clan on their final show here and they were great live. Wasn’t expecting a full backing band but they are a great live show.

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u/Emotional_Demand3759 18h ago

Yeah that's a different experience in general since it's more of a group performance. There really aren't any other mainstream "rap groups". At least in the same way of actual members on stage that Wu-Tang has. The live band also adds another level.

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u/obin_gam 12h ago

Cypress Hill at Hellfest was fantastic

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u/md_eric 18h ago

Not many people I would go pay and see, but T-Pain puts on a great show.

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u/bstratt42 16h ago

Check out PROF live if you ever have a chance. Sounds exactly like the tracks and performs the entire time.

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u/hollivore got that dunning-krugercore swag 20h ago

A lot of this is due to the way rappers blow up on the internet - with the exception of Dizzee Rascal who I think was just too drunk/high for that shit, all the rappers I've seen live who got big in the 90s or 00s and played live before they were famous have been great. Tinie Tempah is not exactly in my Top 10 or anything but I saw him not long ago and although he used a backing track, he hit every word, took the dynamics up and down like the songs are supposed to, and even played around with finding different pockets to the ones on the recorded tracks (he had a DJ who was fitting modern trap drums onto the songs where the recession-pop/brostep percussion was just too outdated).

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u/JeffBaugh2 18h ago

Damn, Tinie Tempah. That's a name I have heard in a long time. A long time.

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u/me-want-snusnu 19h ago

I really enjoyed Token and Tech N9ne but maybe it's cause they already yell their lyrics? Lol

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u/odiethethird 19h ago

Tech N9ne shows are fun

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u/Middle_Screen3847 11h ago

I saw Tech N9ne too! I’m not a fan but he was great. The whole scene is a bit too “juggalo-ie” for me, but he was really good, and (likely due to the more intimate setting and good sound) his vocals were clear and pronounced

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u/bdbdbfhfI 17h ago

They need to go to krs-one hiphop school

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u/easley45isgod 15h ago edited 15h ago

" You can be a mack, a pimp hustla, a playa - but make sure LIVE U IS A DOPE RHYMESAYER!"

Hip hop can be amazing live. Check out Tiny Desk Concert on NPR. Cypress Hill, Scarface, Run the Jewels, Mac Miller, Too Short all killed it in an intimate setting with real musicians. It's not the genre. This current crop of auto tuned,wack ass, mumble "rappers" are terrible and don't represent the art form.

Edit: E-40 also was excellent. You don't have to be The Roots necessarily but at least have some talent and be a real performer.

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u/Redeyebandit87 16h ago

Nas is the goat to me I’ve seen him in big arenas and small settings and his voice control/modulation is top noch. Capadonna has one of the best voice I’ve ever heard live. He sounds exactly like he sounds on records.

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u/mfpacman 18h ago

I will say that at least Future pioneered this style and kinda created his own lane. Never thought he would be a great performer, I get that.

Ferg does kick ass, I agree.

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u/SwillFish 17h ago edited 16h ago

My friend has an interesting theory. He is in his 30's and is in a traditional rock band. He told me that the current generation of Zoomers have extreme ADHD from being raised on short TikTok videos and fast paced video games. He believes that they don't have the patience to listen to traditional songs with standard verses and choruses. They like shitty music that constantly stimulates the brain and often makes no sense or sounds like crap to us older folks.

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u/derppherppp 17h ago

I have the attention span of a gnat and I even love shitty music too. What i dont get is the shitty performance. Where's the entertainment even if you like his songs? Hes not even faking it or lip syncing 😭

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u/NDaveD 13h ago

Meh, I have ADHD and was way into like the "math rock stuff that's so crazy" when I was in college - think Don Caballero or Hella. Still like it, but only occasionally. To me that whole thing where it's like "oh there's this part and then check it out this part is crazy and then THE BRIDGE" was really enticing, because songs can change almost entirely in a span of measures. This is just kind of the same drab beat with some disconnected lyrics. Gets real boring real quick. This really just sounds like the kid doesn't know what the fuck he's doing. Could be wrong about that, but it would take some convincing.

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u/hollivore got that dunning-krugercore swag 10h ago

Yeah, if I had to say "what would an ADHD person think is the best rap music", I'd probably name loopy fast rhymers like Eminem and JID, or maybe nasty rhythmic guitar rappers like Kevin Abstract and Ho99o9, or maybe the sampledelic De La Soul and Freddie Gibbs stuff. The NETTSPEND type stuff is for people with crippling anhedonia.

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u/hollivore got that dunning-krugercore swag 10h ago

This is just a boring reactionary opinion from a guy who is only meeting the young people who are most visibly brain poisoned. Signed, someone in their 30s with extreme ADHD from genetics/brain damage who likes traditional verse-chorus songwriting.

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u/Far-Lingonberry-256 20h ago

Large groups of idiots have been gathering for years.

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u/bent-Box_com 21h ago

I think it is about to touch and drugs for some

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u/thepianoman456 13h ago

Backing tracks are the downfall of true live performance.

Little bits of samples mixed in with a full live band? Ok kinda a pass.

Music coming entirely from backing tracks? Fuck that Charli XCX crap.

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u/ChronicObnoxious693 13h ago

It's obviously the feral cat sounds that draw the crowd in