30M who grew up and heavily identified with rap music. Jesse Welles clearly has bars. I’ve like a wide variety of music but Jesse Welles is probably the furthest away from my deep rooted tastes.
I came for the political shit but stayed for the blues and the fact that homie can spit.
Mainly punk and metal for me, but I guess Jesse is pretty punk at the roots.
kind of. I listen to a lot of genres, before jesse I was getting into reggae and starting to like a few rap songs for the first time, but jesse is the first folk singer I experienced fully. Now I listen folk as my main genre..already have found a few folk singers in yt that I like, but I wonder If I'll ever grow past this genre as I did with reggae.
Jesse is a rapper just over a guitar instead of a beat. Listen to Red
Mostly metal, goth, electronica for me. Was surprised I liked Jesse's stuff like Cancer, Fat etc so much because folk and country has never been my thing.
I listen to mostly musicals, and folk metal like Eluveitie, The Hu, and Bloodywood. I did used to listen to a lot of Peter Paul and Mary and Woody Guthrie with my grandparents when I was a kid though.
Are you familiar with Harry Mack? His and Jesse's music are so different, but they are wordsmiths. I go back and forth between them because they are both so clever, prolific, and just consistently unbelievable.
Harry Mack is the best freestyler I've ever heard. I don't know how his brain thinks that fast
He and Jesse both just seem so kind and compassionate as well.
love de la soul
I’m big into progressive house and trance, and psychedelic electronic music. Anywhere from supreme wookery to earning my European visa on music taste alone.
Completely different from Jesse’s formulaic folkrock tunes.
My other favorite band is Primus (or the hundred Les Claypool offshoots). They’re pretty wildly different from Jesse.
PRMIUS SUCKS!
Primus sucks indeed.
I* forgot somehow
I like a lot of stuff, but I wouldn't doubt if most of what I like overlaps with the man himself. But I do like a good bit of (usually older) rap and metal too, which might be outside of his wheelhouse but might not. I know he has praised KGLW plenty, but I'm not sure what he feels about their metal output, which might be my favorite side of them.
*For a more specific answer, I kind of idolized Three 6 Mafia when I was a kid. Made a lot of remixes, some with my own music. Made the music and "produced" a few original songs for some kids I went to school with when I was 16-17. Started playing guitar at 17-18 and kind of grew out of rap music by the time DJ Paul and Juicy J won their Oscar, but I've been letting it back into my rotation the past few years.
I'm curious what songs of his you see as the blues, or maybe you just mean his lamentations in general.
The only one off the top of my head I'd call blues exactly would be It's a Gamble Enough, but I bet there's others I'm not thinking of too.
From like 10 years old until my early 20s I was heavy into hiphop.
I wouldn’t describe his music as blues but there’s definitely a lot of blues aspects to it.
This Age and I'm Going Down come to mind for blues, but he has elements of it in a lot of songs - check out Horcrux, for example, and Deja Vu. Love that in his music.
I listen to all kinds of music, including some hip hop. I bet you would dig Big Wax if you're not already familiar, very witty.
Wax, like wax and herbal t, wax with the late EOM?
Used to be one of my favorite rappers.
That's the one. Love him
Punk, grunge, and prog metal for me. I’ve got some rap in there occasionally
I'm the reverse with Ren. Jesse is more the norm of my taste.
I listen to a lot of different music, but I mainly listen to punk, some grunge, 90s and early 00s rap, and some classic country (Johnny Cash, Waylon, Roger Miller, Merle Haggard, etc).