i love beastie boys, cypress hill nd some others.
beastie boys are jst immense tho [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-smile.gif[/img] new single (ch-check it out) is so good, had it playing on repeat for ages now lol
cant wait for them to tour this summer with new album release
Twista's album is alright, the first 2 songs are real good, and the ones produced by Kanye, but then it goes downhill from there. i live in florida now (i used to live in ma so im mostly into east coast rap) and all they play is this southern garbage, all they rap about is 24s, money, and hoes. i know they do in almost all rap but people like Kanye, Jay Z, Tupac etc etc always have almost all real lyrics on their albums except for a couple songs. i cant stand southern rap, it all sounds the same, and its too dam hot down here!
I liked some of big pun's lyrics it was ok
Yeah old songs seem to be better than the new songs that are coming out. I like that song P. Diddy dedicated to Biggie a long time ago called I'll Be Missing You. One of my favorite songs.
i don't know if i should make fun of the way you type [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-tongue.gif[/img]
nah, i love having original albums. makes me feel better, and more honest about liking the band/rapper/group/blah. my point was, there's much better hiphop than jay-z and (*shiver*) d12
well im not really into underground. i listen to mixtapes and all that, but i like to listen to people who have made it. im not saying theres people out there who werent good or even great, but to make it in the rap game you need to have the lyrics, the voice, and most of all the drive. D12 is a joke i dont like them no more they spend way to much time being funny instead of spitting real shit.
jay-z is the best. there can be no other.
Jay-Z is Lame-O ;-pOriginally posted by: chambers
jay-z is the best. there can be no other.
But seriously I am not into commercial rap more old school and underground.
And I forgot to mention I like early Beastie Boys specailly the album Paul's Boutique.
i like Jay Z, i mean really think about what he does, he doesnt even need to write he does his verse in one take right in the studio. but the black album was nothing compared to the blueprint 2
I may be part of a small crowd that starting to see rap as recycled crap TODAY. I must stress the word today because its much different than Run DMC or Kool and the Gang or Jurassic 5. MUCH DIFFERENT.
These days, its usually 3-4 guys comin out rapping on an individuals album. everysong on someone like Ludacris's album features mystikal or lil' john or someone of that nature. They rap about the same things, such as big bootys, bling, and hatas drinkin hatarade and recycled crap like that. While its ok to have 1 or 2 songs featuring another rapper/R&B artist, dont fill the whole CD with it.
Eminem raps with emotion. He tells a story when he raps. Sure it may be strongly violent, but at least it has heart, unlike 95% of rap these days. I understand that Eminem is a part of D12, but I dont like D12 nearly as much as I like Eminem, the solo rapper.
50 cent was decent, but the "I got shot 9 times" angle got old fast, then he came out with G-Unit. Great, more crap.
Some ignorant idiots may jump to the conclusion that I'm a racist, and that I like the white guy as opposed to all black guys. My main thing with RAP music is material, and Eminem has reinvented himself in each album.
Hopefully, I've opened a whole new can of worms to the discussion here. Not talking from an artist standpoint, but from an overall perspective.
rap was at its best in the 90's.
eminem is the single most wasted talent in the entire history of rap. he has the biggest audience and does NOTHING with it. he needs to take a leaf out of mos def's book. he could do a serious song and it would still sell millions. the last time he tried somtihg original was stan and isnt that the biggest selling em song?
i think its cool to write a song about people who are obsessed with you and kill their girlfriends for youOriginally posted by: chambers
eminem is the single most wasted talent in the entire history of rap. he has the biggest audience and does NOTHING with it. he needs to take a leaf out of mos def's book. he could do a serious song and it would still sell millions. the last time he tried somtihg original was stan and isnt that the biggest selling em song?
10/4/04 - 8/20/07
mutata, hes the most overated rapper of all time, hes not the best at anything, no flow, no style, no interesting lyrics, no amazing delivery heck his tunes are not even that good. basically being shot was the best thing that EVER happend to rap. that sounds harsh but it propelled it into a nothe rlevel in terms of world regocnition.
P.S i DO NOT mean that him dying was a good thing, i mean it was a good thing for rap.
if those words can come out of your mouth, then you don't even know what rap is. the thing about 2pac that made him so popular and great was not his actual rapping ability (i can say that others are better), but the way he delivered his lyrics in such a powerful way. hearing you say this kind of stuff makes me think that the 2pac songs you've heard of are: changes, cali love, and thug mansion.Originally posted by: chambers
mutata, hes the most overated rapper of all time, hes not the best at anything, no flow, no style, no interesting lyrics, no amazing delivery heck his tunes are not even that good. basically being shot was the best thing that EVER happend to rap. that sounds harsh but it propelled it into a nothe rlevel in terms of world regocnition.
P.S i DO NOT mean that him dying was a good thing, i mean it was a good thing for rap.
EDIT: chambers, tell me which albums you have. and nwa and 2pac were totally different generations man... nwa is the founder of gangster rap. you don't compare anyone with them. and no, he did not pretend to be a gangster... everyone else did and does, 2pac is as real as it gets.
yeah sure, ive got a few albums. the reason he was so good was because he pretended to be a gangster and did it with style. you compare him to a group like the NWA ( i know a bit unfair they were a group) and see who has the better or more hard hitting lyrics.
ive been listening to rap for a very VERY long time.
yeah thats what i mean, the first tim ei heard the song i was like hey this is good stuff. but other than that its all the same.
I think he was being sarcastic. Stan is just as bad as any other Eminem song.
i was turning it on its head. i never said it was cool. i said it was original. and it was. to be original it doesnt have to have an original story, just be told in an original way.
i must agree that Pac is easily one of the greatist rappers of all time, he is my favorite, just his voice, his lyrics, his style. im one of those huge Pac fans that wish he wasnt dead, and im glad he keeps coming out with new albums, shit i still listen to all his old stuff. i heard he has 2 more cds coming out, then theyre releasing a huge box set of all his albums. i also cant go with all this shit about rappers now not having street cred, this is obviously not true except for ja rule and some others, but everyone i listen to isnt frontin. (Jay Z, DMX, Nas, K West, Pac, BIG, to name a few)
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