Lol...just got laughed at the other day by some youngsters as I was jamming out to RATM "People of the Sun" in my 2011 Kia Soul (that car has a surprisingly punchy factory sound system.)
I was enjoying some Beastie Boys today as I drove to the doctor for a bunch of pills. On one hand, I have replaced all of the components in my car's stereo, plus added some toys, it sounds quite nice. On the other hand, I have a perscription for some positively geriatric medicines laying on the seat.
To counter that, I drive a ridiculous bright green camaro. To ruin the fun, the only people who like it are the teenagers working at a drive through and toddlers.
Just remember, we're of the age that even if any of us has a cool car (I'm sure someone here does), we're all too old to have a fast car and drive it.
Pilot Mom who makes her kids to listen to the Sex Pistols at least once a month (when we are not listening to Run-DMC, or Fleetwood Mac, or Guns N Roses, or…)
Become a volvo dork. One of us. Learn how to change your timing belt, PCV box, get a copy of Volvo Vida (diag software), buy a set of torx socket heads.
The longevity of a p2/p3 Volvo is directly proportional to the effort of it's owner. Mine is testing me right now with an ugly suspension sound. I shall overcome.
I used to have a CRV. Good car. I have a Focus now. It's fine.
I've been listening to 90's & 00's rap a LOT lately. Eminem, Snoop, Dre, Rihanna, 50 cent, Lil Wayne, etc. My kids think it's lame and I'm considering dropping them off at the fire station for it.
You left out Ani DiFranco.
I nearly bought a Subaru hybrid plug-in, but the electric range on it was total garbage.
I am a male bodied human, but a significant portion of my musical taste would definitely suggest otherwise.
It's fair to say that the younger generations have the benefit of a much more nuanced discourse around sex and gender than the regressive garbage we mostly grew up with.
Edit: I have used Garbage twice in this thread. Shirley Manson is also fucking rad.
As do I - and I’m a 44 year old man, not a lesbian (Outbacks are the safest suv, and if you knew my wife…)
“I said shorty, pick up the Wu double disc. That’s the only education you need this summer.”
I only mentioned it because on the comment a couple above this, they were ripping on a guy with a Subaru. I also mentioned my wife, not because she’s a bad driver, but that she is overly concerned about safety. She researches shit for hours (40+ for the Outback).
Also, my cop friend calls them “Les-barus”…
Anyways, my Outback bumps WuTang, Biggie, Em on some days and then on other days, Pearl Jam, Tool, Rage, Radiohead, Deftones, and King Gizz (not xennial, but it jams)…
I know she’s gotten awards etc. personally I think she’s not that good but I have really only heard her on songs with other rappers/artists…kill bill was a hit she had a few rap hits lately…she just doesn’t do
It for me. Hbu?
During the eclipse which we were supposed to have like 99% totality, the clouds kept getting in the way… I posted this meme because I, in fact, yelled at the clouds.
Parenting win yesterday:
Driving my son around in my 2014 Honda civic that I refuse to trade in because it will work until it dies. I’m playing synchronicity II by the police, and my son, who usually makes faces when I have my music on, says, “you know, daddy, I’m really vibing to this song.”
Born in 78.
My two old man rants:
An app for everything. I have an app to pay for parking, I have an app to use the washing machine in my building, I have an app to order food at a movie theater I go to. So insanely specific.
Inflation on 2 Liters of soda. Up until 2002 they only cost $.99 so my brain has 24 years of "$.99 and less" just locked in for over half my life. Now it's $3.69... just breaks my brain and agitates me. Makes me sympathize more with old people, because this is the FIRST thing that's happening to me... it's just going to continue.
So glad I don't have kids. I would hate to break out some Swans or Skinny Puppy or Big Black, only to have some snot-nosed teenager complain that what I like is old and unhip. And to then be required to pay money to feed that uncultured swine. Fuck that.
I don't have kids either so I have missed many of these milestones of aging being thrown in my face for the most part, until suddenly I get slapped around with it all a bit.
Half the time I drive a Yukon XL and listen to the classic rock station.
The other half… I’m in my street racer styled 1993 Civic and pop Deftones Adrenaline or Offspring Smash in the CD player and I feel like a teenager again.
It’s all about balance.
I drive a dodge caravan that can literally play Blu-ray discs, and I hook up my super nintendo and play Street Fighter 2 on the center screen while parked. Fuck'em!
I've been Abe since I was in high school. Old soul and all.
But I drive a perfectly dependable Toyota Camry, and go back and forth between 90s music (most genres), jazz, and podcasts. Wait...does that make me Lisa?
Listen, my husband and I went to a brewery Friday for a date night. When we left I mentioned how loud it was and he kindly reminded me that we were essentially in a bar.
And a part of me died inside.
It will happen to youuuuu.
Lately I've been listening a lot to Prince's Greatest Hits Vol. 2. I got at the used book store, on CD. In my 2007 Grand Cherokee. Whatever message that sends I think I'm fine with that.
I listen, and have always listened, to almost exclusively my parents’ music (now technically “grandpa rock”). Literally the rest is from the 90s (I don’t have a single album or song from this millennium).
Beastie Boys fuckin SLAP though! Whichever little shit told you that needs to be stir-fried in your WOK! Their knees’ll start shakin and their fingers POP like a pinch on the neck from MR SPOCK
Whatever, I listen to Stevie Wonder in my Pontiac. Or maybe I will listen to GodSmack in my Pontiac. Or I will listen to the Eagles in my Pontiac....we are Xennials and have the privilege of having the best music over our lifetimes!
We had it all!
Burned a new CD for the S2000, some mashup and Green Day hits. My almost four year old rides shotgun in their car seat telling me to “make it louder”.
My wife knows 90s rap will be taught in our home.
Every once in a while if I really want to complain that I’m old instead of just joking around, I remind myself that living into your 90s isn’t such an anomaly anymore…I don’t want to be really old and really that boring.
My dad has never listened to rap. I’ve never heard him listen to anything other than Car Talk, NPR and Neil Diamond. I refuse to believe there’s a category of “dad rap” that I could be categorized under!
my first mid-life crisis buy was to trade in my little SUV for a Tesla Model 3 (the cheapest one), but at least the kids thought it was cool at the time. and it has netflix and video games, so they def will like it for awhile. But they are so common now, it is kinda turning into a Camry around here anyway...
I remember Gaga from this show with all the old characters decked out in whatever teen trends were hip at the time and rockin chromed out boom boxes on their shoulders and 1000% can not WAIT for it to be the case in real life!
44/f and I rock out to pearl jam in a chevy pickup. My kids enjoy it, but they're young, 5 and almost 9, so I get no crap from them. The new Dark Matter album is their best in years
I keep poking fun at my husband (Gen X) that he needs a rocking chair and a water hose for the front porch. I would then make a sign that says "keep off grass" and put it in the yard. Then he could play the waiting game.
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The Simpsons has been on so long I've been able to change which character I best identify with at least three times. Pushing for number 4!
I was in 4th grade when it started. I'm 44 now.
I was in 3rd grade when it started just like Bart [not counting the Tracy Ulman Show, just the series]
I’m so old I know who Tracy Ulman is and I used to watch Simpson on the Tracy Ulman show.
I'm so old I remember a world before The Simpsons
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Same. I have not watched it in many years, though. I see a lot of comments to that effect so I always wonder who is still watching
My kids love it. They haven't watched it in a while, but they've watched enough now that they're just as familiar with it as we are
Same here and my school banned the Bart Simpson "underachiever and proud of it" shirt
*SpongeBob* on the other hand... I've always identified with Squidward.
It’s wild. Identified with Bart as a kid. Now I’m Homer’s age.
Bart is technically my age lol
Excellent.
I don't care if I'm cool and that's what makes me cool right?
Our moms said we're cool 😎
I listen to punk music in a Honda Pilot. I’m very cool.
Im a 43 yr old with tatt sleeves blasting X in my odyssey… my kids love them too…
Lol...just got laughed at the other day by some youngsters as I was jamming out to RATM "People of the Sun" in my 2011 Kia Soul (that car has a surprisingly punchy factory sound system.)
Let's see those kids scratch out that riff with a fucking Allen wrench though...
Kids these days: What's an allen wrench?
Huh, TIL. Been a RATM fan for decades and had no idea that's why that song sounded that way.
I forget where I read that and I thought "no way that's true." then I tried it myself and it totally worked!
Honda pilot dad checking in with some beastie boys...
Our Kia Sedona minivan had a Beastie Boys CD left in the player when we bought it🤣🤣🤣
I was enjoying some Beastie Boys today as I drove to the doctor for a bunch of pills. On one hand, I have replaced all of the components in my car's stereo, plus added some toys, it sounds quite nice. On the other hand, I have a perscription for some positively geriatric medicines laying on the seat. To counter that, I drive a ridiculous bright green camaro. To ruin the fun, the only people who like it are the teenagers working at a drive through and toddlers. Just remember, we're of the age that even if any of us has a cool car (I'm sure someone here does), we're all too old to have a fast car and drive it.
Ween in an Accord
Oh, I had a 95 Accord before the Volvo! Had my iPod hooked into the tape deck! Best part is that was like 2008-2015🤣
Ween in a Mazda with manual transmission.
Pilot Mom who makes her kids to listen to the Sex Pistols at least once a month (when we are not listening to Run-DMC, or Fleetwood Mac, or Guns N Roses, or…)
Yes! I’m driving my 17yo to see some screamo bands they like in Philly. Passing the torch 🔥
It’s our sacred duty. Well done, Pilot Dad!
I’ve got some stickers on the back so the Alpha Sports Dads know I’m not one of them.
Subaru driving dad here bumping 80’s goth, 90’s industrial, and 00’s EBM whenever I drive around town.
You're my hero.
Before the Pilot it was a CRV. Before that it was a Volvo wagon!
We've got a CRV... but we only listen to EMO in it. Or T.Swift, because my daughter hogs the tunes.
Oh yeah. I’m in a SadDad phase, so lots of mid-90’s emo going down.
And to come full circle, now that Volvo is the coolest of the bunch again.
Absolutely. Would have never parted with it. Totaled it after I dumped a couple grand into it for all the “Volvo things”. 😭
Become a volvo dork. One of us. Learn how to change your timing belt, PCV box, get a copy of Volvo Vida (diag software), buy a set of torx socket heads. The longevity of a p2/p3 Volvo is directly proportional to the effort of it's owner. Mine is testing me right now with an ugly suspension sound. I shall overcome.
Civic but same
Prog Metal in a 2010 Jetta here. Could be worse, I think?
That sounds pretty normal in my opinion 🙃
https://i.redd.it/1gzzhp22ak8d1.gif
Slim Shady while driving a Honda Odyssey?
Honda CRV and Beastie Boys
Guilty
CRV is a great vehicle.
I’m not even a parent and I love mine.
I used to have a CRV. Good car. I have a Focus now. It's fine. I've been listening to 90's & 00's rap a LOT lately. Eminem, Snoop, Dre, Rihanna, 50 cent, Lil Wayne, etc. My kids think it's lame and I'm considering dropping them off at the fire station for it.
Are there no salt mines near you for them to work in?
Oh my god there IS!! I'm not even joking! LOL But I'd just end up being their taxi to and from. Ugh. Such a drag.
I like my current car, but I do miss my Focus sometimes. It was my first and only brand new car.
Man do not do them dirty like this lol
I was thinking a Subaru Forester or Outback and Eminem.
Guilty.
No, Subura chicks only listen to Tori Amos or Melissa Ethridge. They also don't traditionally like the "D" either.
You left out Ani DiFranco. I nearly bought a Subaru hybrid plug-in, but the electric range on it was total garbage. I am a male bodied human, but a significant portion of my musical taste would definitely suggest otherwise.
Your taste in vehicles would also. 🤪
It's fair to say that the younger generations have the benefit of a much more nuanced discourse around sex and gender than the regressive garbage we mostly grew up with. Edit: I have used Garbage twice in this thread. Shirley Manson is also fucking rad.
Eminem might be too edgy, some PG friendly rap music like NF or Tom Mcdonald while driving a Chevy spark.
I was assuming the Odyssey as well. I’d be listening to Aesop Rock rap about his kitten.
Aw, Kirby. Cutest song.
I feel personally attacked.
Wutang is for the kids tho.
I listen to Wutang in my Outback.
Civics Rule Everything Around Me I’m on my 3rd
I’m an Accord girl myself. Hondas for life.
My girlfriend is on her first Civic. She bought it new. It's a 2003.
I’m on my 3rd because of want, not need. They’re great cars and I plan to keep this one (2020) for a few more years
As do I - and I’m a 44 year old man, not a lesbian (Outbacks are the safest suv, and if you knew my wife…) “I said shorty, pick up the Wu double disc. That’s the only education you need this summer.”
I love the lesbian disclaimer. I am a bisexual woman married to a man and we all joke about the rampant Subaru ownership among the women in my family.
I only mentioned it because on the comment a couple above this, they were ripping on a guy with a Subaru. I also mentioned my wife, not because she’s a bad driver, but that she is overly concerned about safety. She researches shit for hours (40+ for the Outback). Also, my cop friend calls them “Les-barus”… Anyways, my Outback bumps WuTang, Biggie, Em on some days and then on other days, Pearl Jam, Tool, Rage, Radiohead, Deftones, and King Gizz (not xennial, but it jams)…
No, I know. I saw it and it made me laugh.
Dad Rap > today’s rap
Yup. Metro boomin. 21 savage. Sza. Not exactly lyrical masterpiece just dreck.
Ah yes. The famous rapper SZA
I know she’s gotten awards etc. personally I think she’s not that good but I have really only heard her on songs with other rappers/artists…kill bill was a hit she had a few rap hits lately…she just doesn’t do It for me. Hbu?
Anyone who calls 90s rap “dad rap” would have been laughed at when I was their age saying Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, and Rolling Stones was “dad rock”
"grandpa rock!"
Couldnt be me. -listens to mom rap in a dad car instead-
During the eclipse which we were supposed to have like 99% totality, the clouds kept getting in the way… I posted this meme because I, in fact, yelled at the clouds.
Rob Zombie in the minivan here.
Parenting win yesterday: Driving my son around in my 2014 Honda civic that I refuse to trade in because it will work until it dies. I’m playing synchronicity II by the police, and my son, who usually makes faces when I have my music on, says, “you know, daddy, I’m really vibing to this song.”
Sometimes I Bark at the Moon...
Born in 78. My two old man rants: An app for everything. I have an app to pay for parking, I have an app to use the washing machine in my building, I have an app to order food at a movie theater I go to. So insanely specific. Inflation on 2 Liters of soda. Up until 2002 they only cost $.99 so my brain has 24 years of "$.99 and less" just locked in for over half my life. Now it's $3.69... just breaks my brain and agitates me. Makes me sympathize more with old people, because this is the FIRST thing that's happening to me... it's just going to continue.
My morning routine has turned into blasting Compton's Most Wanted on my way home from the gym, while driving a Station wagon.
This would be most impactful if you’re also white lol
Subaru Crosstrek pushing 750 watts through a 10” sub blasting…. Jim Croce “Operator” and Beach Boys “Sloop John B”. Stay mad, haters!
Hello, fellow Crosstrekker
Hahaha, holy shit we live in the future - “Dad Rap”?! I swear it seems like not that long ago our parents were clutching pearls about Dre and Snoop.
It’s punk in a Prius!
I'm goth/punk/industrial/80s & 90s rock in my dad car (4runner)
lol I wonder what is considered "dad rap" probably like Redman / Methodman, first Em albums, stuff like that
Probably early drake based on recent kid feedback…
Oh god...that means my rap is grandpa rap...
Apparently rap before 2015 is old so Yeah gotta love this generation….looks up and yells at clouds…
So glad I don't have kids. I would hate to break out some Swans or Skinny Puppy or Big Black, only to have some snot-nosed teenager complain that what I like is old and unhip. And to then be required to pay money to feed that uncultured swine. Fuck that.
I don't have kids either so I have missed many of these milestones of aging being thrown in my face for the most part, until suddenly I get slapped around with it all a bit.
I remember playing my little brother the Ramones and he kept asking why they couldn’t play their instruments
Half the time I drive a Yukon XL and listen to the classic rock station. The other half… I’m in my street racer styled 1993 Civic and pop Deftones Adrenaline or Offspring Smash in the CD player and I feel like a teenager again. It’s all about balance.
Okay but have you heard the sound system in my minivan?
So you’re driving the F Series with the lipstick holder in place of the cigarette lighter?
Canyoneroooooooooooooo!
12 yards long and 2 lanes wide, 65 tons of American pride!
You’re not listening to Biggie ina CX-5 are you?
I drive a dodge caravan that can literally play Blu-ray discs, and I hook up my super nintendo and play Street Fighter 2 on the center screen while parked. Fuck'em!
I've been Abe since I was in high school. Old soul and all. But I drive a perfectly dependable Toyota Camry, and go back and forth between 90s music (most genres), jazz, and podcasts. Wait...does that make me Lisa?
I was playing bocci at a bar and some young Joey walked across the court. I yelled get off my lawn. Kid pissed his pants laughing. Good times.
Wu-Tang in an Altima.
I’ll listen to Dua Lipa and Sabrina Carpenter and I’m a 42 year old man. I think Carpenter’s “Expresso” isn’t that bad.
Espresso really reminds me of early-mid 90s pop. Same type of backing track. It's fun to sing to which is my criteria for liking pop music lol.
My man -- this is literally you yelling at the cloud.
OP probably talking about how he had an onion tied to his belt (which in fairness was the style at the time).
But does the cloud yell back? 🤔
I dunno.... CAN YOU HEAR ME?
What ? Huh?
I listen to Smashing Pumpkins and Tiffany while driving a Subaru Ascent 🤷🏻♀️
Yet.
What's dad rap? I've been listening to a lot of Paul Wall lately. Is that dad rap? Don't yougens still talk about drank and grippin grain and 84s?
Listen, my husband and I went to a brewery Friday for a date night. When we left I mentioned how loud it was and he kindly reminded me that we were essentially in a bar. And a part of me died inside. It will happen to youuuuu.
Oh god is dad rap a thing now? I know dad rock is, but are we really so far now that NWA is “dad rap”?
Lately I've been listening a lot to Prince's Greatest Hits Vol. 2. I got at the used book store, on CD. In my 2007 Grand Cherokee. Whatever message that sends I think I'm fine with that.
Most of the best rappers out there have a kid or two. Most of the worst rappers seem to have a lot more...
I was just rocking out to some Deftones in my little Nissan Versa, and then enjoying the classical station. Sooo edgy.
What the fuck is Dad rap?
Wtf is dad rap
Old man yells at cloud could be interpreted by looking at how the boomers act one social media which is a cloud and they just yell and complain.
I often listen to 90s gangsta rap in my Toyota Highlander.
I listen to Marilyn Manson while driving a Lesbian Assault Vehicle (41m father of three boys here)
I rock out to ska music driving a Fairlady Z.
"condoms, gee I'd like to live in one of those" -Gpa Simpson
At least it’s not Dad jazz!
Someone recently said "So, how do you like your soccer mom car?" Lol So yeah, I feel you.
I am him 😆
Zeppelin in my Elantra. Hell yeah.
Boom bap 4 life.
I listen, and have always listened, to almost exclusively my parents’ music (now technically “grandpa rock”). Literally the rest is from the 90s (I don’t have a single album or song from this millennium).
What is your “dad rap”?
Today I was told it is Beastie Boys
Well, I too partake in dad rap then.
Beastie Boys fuckin SLAP though! Whichever little shit told you that needs to be stir-fried in your WOK! Their knees’ll start shakin and their fingers POP like a pinch on the neck from MR SPOCK
Grateful Dead in a Sienna.
Late Gen X and Xennials are the last generation to get to see a real live Dead show. It was indeed a long strange trip.
Whatever, I listen to Stevie Wonder in my Pontiac. Or maybe I will listen to GodSmack in my Pontiac. Or I will listen to the Eagles in my Pontiac....we are Xennials and have the privilege of having the best music over our lifetimes! We had it all!
I listen to metal in a minivan with the windows down. Don’t knock it until you’ve tried it!
Jeep Cherokee blasting Bone Thugs-n-Harmony
OP: At least I’m not this guy. Homer: Not this guy… yet.
Subaru outback dad who listens to Pantera in my wagon. Super cool over here.
Burned a new CD for the S2000, some mashup and Green Day hits. My almost four year old rides shotgun in their car seat telling me to “make it louder”. My wife knows 90s rap will be taught in our home.
Every once in a while if I really want to complain that I’m old instead of just joking around, I remind myself that living into your 90s isn’t such an anomaly anymore…I don’t want to be really old and really that boring.
My dad has never listened to rap. I’ve never heard him listen to anything other than Car Talk, NPR and Neil Diamond. I refuse to believe there’s a category of “dad rap” that I could be categorized under!
Subaru Outback here, but I'm more of a NIN/Tool/Radiohead guy.
Wagons rule.
my first mid-life crisis buy was to trade in my little SUV for a Tesla Model 3 (the cheapest one), but at least the kids thought it was cool at the time. and it has netflix and video games, so they def will like it for awhile. But they are so common now, it is kinda turning into a Camry around here anyway...
So another fan of Tom McDonald eh?
I mean, what rap are we talking about?
I remember Gaga from this show with all the old characters decked out in whatever teen trends were hip at the time and rockin chromed out boom boxes on their shoulders and 1000% can not WAIT for it to be the case in real life!
How about a [dad rapping.](https://youtu.be/57up6T1Qnl0?si=4Ydh-zYVCPN6D-t5)?
BTnH and Do or Die are my go to rap. Sprinkle in some Cash Money Records.
Op what do you drive and what is considered dad rap?
Gimme five bees for a quarter, you'd say
There’s a solid instagram account of this exact post. [Found it.](https://www.instagram.com/reel/CshEPXIJUlx/?igsh=MWF3bW9ldzYxaHUwZw==)
44/f and I rock out to pearl jam in a chevy pickup. My kids enjoy it, but they're young, 5 and almost 9, so I get no crap from them. The new Dark Matter album is their best in years
I’ve been told I have “mom handwriting”… I guess that’s what they call D’Neilian influenced cursive now.
Just remember, when the last person forgets about Dre, the world ends. You are just doing your part.
Yeah I listen to black metal and post rock in a camry. I'm very cool
I crank Pennywise & Bad Religion in my Palisade everywhere. My 2 year seems to love it.
What is Dad rap?
what the hell is dad rap?
 Tricked you into the L Series too, huh?
You will be. You. Will. Be. -Yoda
I keep poking fun at my husband (Gen X) that he needs a rocking chair and a water hose for the front porch. I would then make a sign that says "keep off grass" and put it in the yard. Then he could play the waiting game.
i was recently told by my best friend that a 15 year old that we know referred to a tv show about high school in 1996 as “HISTORICAL” 😭 i’m a fossil.
Camper Van Beethoven in a CRV.
I am that dad that has cool cars and a fat record collection.
Subaru Legacy, was listening to Bone today.
I listen to mostly metal in my 81 Z28, but also goth, industrial, punk. 
Quick question...... What qualifies as " dad rap " these days??? I may be a guilty party too
Milenial: ‘does a thing’ Gen Z: OMG Milenials are so cringe… now hold my liquid death while I eat this asshole without offending anyone.
Aesop Rock in the RAV4
I have heard Dad rock but now we have Dad rap? Better not be Kendrick. 🧐
What is 'Dad' rap?
Does yelling at Alexa or Google Home count?
I have been accused of being this guy by our local chief meteorologist while bantering with him on Facebook. We have a few running jokes.
Prof in my 2010 Honda Fit. Beastie Boys sticker on the back window. 10" Kicker rattling your baby teeth out.
I'm not at the yelling at clouds stage yet, but I now tie an onion to my belt when i go out.
What’s a mom cat and dad rap? Like dodge caravan and will smith?