Thankfully for 50 year old me, it was almost all pre internet days.
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I am so thankful for this that if I were religious it would be my yearly thanksgiving prayer.
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Without going into detail, younger / poorer me ended up working the VIP area of the goth club in Waikiki for free admission and drinks all night.
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A surprisingly large percentage of GenX would be either unemployable or incarcerated if the TikTok Panopticon had existed back then.
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A friend / ex of mine got remarried a couple of years ago and I flew back home for it. We were hanging out at the end of the night after some beverages, her 12 year old was there. Stories started to become a bit more PG-13 and she had to shut me up when we all started going down the checklist of did you do XXXX, because a lot of that checklist got checked by her.
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I basically just have to lie to GenZ coworkers at this point. Past conversations like “What did you like to do in high school?” got derailed when the answer was basically “Well the easiest way to describe it is clubbing.”
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For me it was: hitchhiking/trecking, clubbing/girls, books & martial arts.
I have to explain to the “younger generation” that books is like Tiktok with words on paper that form actual sentences as part of thoughts that are longer than 30 seconds. But I have lost them by the 5th word of that statement 
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Can you post that checklist, for my reference?
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They are probably about as serious as every other musician in every other genre of music. If anything, I’d say they are more likely to be aware of and intentionally cultivating an absurd persona.
I mentioned MF Doom earlier. He literally crafted his persona around a comic book villain and has a whole album about Food.
You say that like it’s a bad thing…
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That seems to be a recurring rap theme anyway, as I have no other explanation for rappers often referring to eating the cat of their girlfriends
I have pondered about your statement and I changed my mind - it’s a good thing!
Though, German “Schlager” Singers don’t shoot each other. Only thing I like about that genre!
Last night I was doing a lot of playing along to sort of Trip Hop, EDM stuff. Glass Animals, Massive Attack, stuff like that.
Lots of fun busting out the fretless bass with those lines. Melodically simple lines, but the rhythms are interesting, and a lot of opportunity to play around with micro–tonality.
It presented a very interesting challenge that was the complete opposite from the usual speed/technicality thing people too often focus on.
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What is micro tonality?
For the song I’m currently practicing (an original song by one of my park punk chicks) I cannot use my fretless, as the bass needs to sound “sequenced”…
But yes, playing different genres of hiphop is a challenge. I really have a lot of fun doing that, not only cause of the mostly silly lyrics, but also cause they often use either great sampled bass lines … or a bass synth pattern like I know it from electro (possibly what you would call EDM).
Most German rap is produced like slow & simple techno with stupid singing/rapping.
The notes between the notes. All the pitches outside the standardized 12 notes of Western music. The ones that fall in between the frets on the neck, or between the keys on a keyboard, but that you can play on an un-fretted neck, or with a voice, or on a trombone.
All the fun with vibrato of making “Wub Wub Wub” sounds purely by hand, and then sliding very intentionally between pitches. Playing with when to slide between tones, or when to jump using fingering.
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Love outcast and Andre3000! They have so many great songs, Prototype is one of my faves along with Rosa Parks, ATLiens and Aquemini.
I like a lot of lyrical hip hop and great story telling, especially albums with a theme. I love Deltron 3030 and all the MFDOOM colabs like Czarface, Madlib, Quasimodo, Danger doom, Madvilliany.
I don’t know if I’ve played any song more than Rappcats pt 3 
Nope.
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And then there’s Kool Keith.
“Earth People… I was born on Jupiter.”
Oh and of course MC Chris, MC Hawking, and all the other Nerdcore.
I recently learned that Chap Hop is a thing.
So story behind Pete & Bas is that their grandsons were in a struggling rap group. The olds didn’t get it. The youngs helped them get it. Now the youngs write bars for the olds.
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