These are my exact reasons.
America has no culture, yet he's performing in the birthplace of America's original artform, Jazz, whose DNA is in hip-hop.
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These are my exact reasons.
America has no culture, yet he's performing in the birthplace of America's original artform, Jazz, whose DNA is in hip-hop.
Joe nickels? Budden finances?
or did the dude tweeting not have enough common sense to Google a picture of common?
You could go a little further and say that hip hop's DNA has blues in it, something we created. Hell,we can go further than blues and say that slave hymns are inside of hip hop's DNA.
I just don't understand this attempt to discredit Black Americans that created hip hop....
You could go a little further and say that hip hop's DNA has blues in it, something we created. Hell,we can go further than blues and say that slave hymns are inside of hip hop's DNA.
I just don't understand this attempt to discredit Black Americans that created hip hop....
I used Jazz because he was in New Orleans and he previously claimed that America has no culture.
I wasn't attempting to give a history lesson on Black music.
#1 Me Against the World
#2 2pacalypse Now
#3 All Eyes (should have been 12 tracks)
co-sign the Foxy >>> Lil Kim
2pacalypse now >>>> Me against the
world
Lil Wayne is overrated...
Killa Cam is top 15 and one of the most "entertaining" rappers of all time..
Group Homes "Living Proof" is a classic album
Twista and Devin the dude are criminally underrated.
Cappadonnas "The pillage" was the last great Non ghostface related Wu-Tang Album
2pacalypse now >>>> Me against the
world
Lil Wayne is overrated...
Killa Cam is top 15 and one of the most "entertaining" rappers of all time..
Group Homes "Living Proof" is a classic album
Twista and Devin the dude are criminally underrated.
Cappadonnas "The pillage" was the last great Non ghostface related Wu-Tang Album
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Everything except Foxy (I love you Inga but...)
I had no idea this was an unpopular opinion about Ghostface. However, I will exclude Raekwon the Chef. They duo'ed excellently every time.
I agree with this wholeheartedly. I definitely had his rap way different than Pac in my youth. Gave the whole album a listen the last three years straight and believe it or not...it's still a masterpiece. Biggie's upside was just as big as Tupac's. I didn't realize it until I saw his documentary.
TD Jakes can preach and I don't care for preachers in that way. Crefloe, yeah, you right...
And that he had a personality "disorder" and/or social anxiety. We forget how young we were watching them make million dollar decisions at our same age...it's wild when you look back.
This shows you the difference between being gifted/talented and judging someone off of this fake ass U.S. Education system.
Nore finished the 7th grade and made a life for himself out of NYC. I will always have mad love and respect for that cat.
I definitely disagree. If you ask a Clan Member, or even Ghostface himself, they will say Inspectah Deck and Gza are the best lyricist. They have said it many times in interviews.
Ghostface has been the most active, nobody who has studied all the members catalog, will say Ghostface is the best lyricist in the Wu. He may be the best or most consistent overall artist, but not the best lyricist.
Ghostface is my favorite artist in the Wu, but I can't say he is the best lyricist, and I know his catalog better than most, check my posts.
Gza has the third or fourth best vocab in hip hop history. Its documented.
Rappers, sorted by the size of their vocabulary
The number of unique lyrics used within artists’ first 35,000 lyrics
pudding.cool
Twista and Devin are definitely 2 of my favs
I know it sounds crazy but I feel like EVERY SINGLE Big Sean verse is going at Kendrick.
I cannot be the only one.
I swear bgol gave me this idea a l9ng time ago.
I cannot be the only one.
I swear bgol gave me this idea a l9ng time ago.
I've said this before I also felt the sane with Kendrick intially
Fam, you can’t say something like that & not follow up. This Boots from the Coup, probably the angriest lead MC since Chick D.
did Kendrick surpass Ice Cube in murdering rappers in diss tracks??
LIST YOUR TOP 5 RAP BEEF/DISS TRACK
LIST YOUR TOP 5 RAP BEEF/DISS TRACK
Interesting
Kendrick Lamar dominates over Drake at the 2024 BET Hip Hop Awards
The beef between the two hip-hop stars seemed to reach a point of no return after Lamar released his diss track "Not Like Us."
www.today.com
This is NOT what Kendrick wanted or intended. And this continued bludgeoning of Drake will not benefit ANYONE in the end.
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Agree.
1) Me Against the World
2) The Don Kilkuminati
3) All Eyez on Me
All Eyez on Me dragged on too long. Had a ton of heat and wouldn’t been an insane 14 track single disc but since double albums were a thing then, the double disc was how it was released. The first disc on its own was a fucking BEAST.
In fairness, it was one of the better double albums of that era. Not quite Wu-Tang Forever territory, but it and Life After Death were one tier below that level.
Brother, beautiful breakdown. They not ready to be objective. Listening to albums is a way of life.First it's all subjective
In this thread we had a hip hop seasoned veteran try to disparate Ready to Die as not classic (I fixed that sh*t)
So there's that.
If we are truly being serious like when I was taking advanced literature courses
Whether you personally liked a work or not - there are standard undisputed facts of what a masterwork is.
Illmatic. Is a classic.
Reasonable Doubt
Death Certificate
Ready to Die
OBFCL
Pick your Outkast album.
Redman also has the rare 3 classics in a row.
A classic hip hop album is the perfect combination of production style sequencing length vibe execution cohesiveness and delivery
Nas made you feel what it was like to be a smart kid trapped in the projects
Jay made you feel like a hustler with a conscience
Biggie showed you depression guilt sex crime and urban life as a young black male misunderstood
Cube? Come on he STILL telling the Compton story on wax perfectly even in adulthood
Outkast showed you the ATL life and worldview and emotions never tackled in that way with that sound
Wu Tang slang Shaolin Mafia bong bong
But Busta in a weird way has similar discography as Drake.
He has hits that 15 20 25 year vets don't have. Timeless transformative genre and Era defining pop hits. You cannot dismiss that
Their CAREERS are classics their songs, performances, guest appearances, videos EVERYTHING.
But the traditional The Source 5 mic classic?
Probably not.
But the closest is Diaster to me.
I would need to do a deep dive to be sure.
We should have had enough pride, yes I agree with you, to host our very own Hip Hop Awards from the inception...because we shoulda known they was gonna come looking for it and that way we would not have even been looking at the Grammy's as something to aspire to.
Listen. The mystical. The magic. The arcane. It's deathly and lively real...
I wager you 2 Chainz, Big Boi, or Killa Mike for that spot.
And I love T.I.P. However, Pretty Girls Like Trap Music is the album that started to create separation from every...other...A...rapper, outside of Dré.
Word on the street, and I didn't say it: individuals in P.S.C. own camp say that Young Dro is a better rapper than T.I.P. so there's that.
I say that just to show how many angles and tentacles this conversation has depending on what and who you know.
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I heard not one...single...lie. He nailed it.
Have you not heard the freestyle, My God? That ALONE!
Lil John was never "just one of many artists." He was presented to us, in the city, as a bonafide producer. Then we talk about his other pluses.
Master P, however, is very underrated in his importance to hip hop. If you gonna capitalize in capitalism, he was proactive and more artists should have built on his model because the system ain't gon' let you get 'em twice.
The transparency and directness of it all is impressive and refreshing.
Revolutionairies can never outrun the assassination. Rapping was a gift. Being a revolutionary was a calling. Do the knowledge. Dear Mama doc.
I completely missed this. I haven't fcked with K-Dot since, I think, before his first album. I was just telling Bae, I figured out why I don't care for J. Cole or K. Dot: their sound. Lyrics, storytelling, delivery, excellent. The sounds of their voices just aren't appetizing to my ear. It may indeed be my loss.
I have yet to listen to a full KRS ONE album. Please understand, I have given him his flowers while alive. I just have never been compelled to stream his work fom start to finish and I know I am missing jewels. I need to do it this month.
On it's face, there is nothing out of place in this response until the very last line.
However, there is no generation gap. We are not in some war torn country where a generation has been decimated.
Let's face the music: Gen X hip hop consumers did not turn their intelligence into awareness to have enough courage to stand on what was good about Hip Hop, knowing it was going to be commercialized, and not developing a system of education for our children to consume rap going forward. And now we'ere here. We gotta own that.
Yes, every era had music that was less than desirable, however, the commercialization is at a fever pitch for something that was never really developed for mass consumption.
I will say this: for someone who stopped purchasing music right before the turn of the century, streaming for new artists/groups/sounds is a GODDESSSEND!
When you are great, you create, perform, and provide both. As the old folks used to say, "Everybody ain't able." And that's okay!
@BigATLslim
Wonderful argument
And co sign I've said many times before Bulls made me appreciate K Dot because that voice... I couldn't understand what he was saying.
Dre and them are truly nit like us because it took years for me to get it.
Cole too. He was boring as f**k for years but it was the Hov co sign that forced me to stick with him.
Wonderful argument
And co sign I've said many times before Bulls made me appreciate K Dot because that voice... I couldn't understand what he was saying.
Dre and them are truly nit like us because it took years for me to get it.
Cole too. He was boring as f**k for years but it was the Hov co sign that forced me to stick with him.
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Since this is the unpopular opinions thread i wonder if i have the right to disagree with this.