Lil Wayne's verse on Tyler, the Creator's new album is tight as feck man.
Was going through that KRS One vs Nelly 'beef' again. What was KRS thinking? 
Not a Young Thug fan but Barter 6 slaps.
Still can't understand him though.
Still can't understand him though.
I was listening to 36 Chambers before and couldn't help but hear "shame on negrito" in my mind
His raps can mean whatever the hell you want them to mean, honestly though he's not that hard to understand when you listen to him long enough. There's something missing from the Barter 6 (it might be Rich Homie Quan), can't put my finger on it, it's very circumspect for Thugger, if you like this you should go and listen to Rich Gang, Tha Tour Pt.1.
I'll give it a shot. It's easy enough listening.
Could hardly understand a word that was said.
Any love for UK Hip Hop here?
They're older now but Akalas Fire In The Booths are amazing, especially the first one.
They're older now but Akalas Fire In The Booths are amazing, especially the first one.
This video. Cole, you absolute genius
How many people on here have actually gone through that rapping phase? like actually writing down your own lyrics and spitting at some point in your life, probably even recording songs?
I rap in my head all the time, I nearly recorded a mixtape a few years ago for the feck of it but I never got round to it. Back in Secondary School when we were 12-13 we used to do these Grime cyphers where someone would play the latest beats on their Sony Ericsson and everyone would do their thing, in retrospect it was utterly awful even if it was very enjoyable.
There used to be forum rap battles in here IIRC.
Briefly did spoken word. The scene is pretentious as feck so I stopped it.
Just confirmed my suspicions.
Big Rube from the Dungeon Family inspired me to get into the scene. It's beautiful stuff when pulled off right. That occurs once in a blue moon though. If ever the phrase "fake deep" makes it into the dictionary, slap the pic of a spoken word event below the word and be done with it
Thanks for posting that. Was quite an interesting debate. Just checked out some of their reviews too. I see Kendrick gave them a mention after the 2PAC (2 Pimp a Caterpillar) reference.
How would you rate 50 cent's career? he seems to be the only person to have played every single role in Hip Hop and been in every position in Hip Hop...
Underdog
Superstar
Villain
Hater
Irrelevant
Mixtape legend
CEO
KingMaker etc
Underdog
Superstar
Villain
Hater
Irrelevant
Mixtape legend
CEO
KingMaker etc
Like this ish: Isaiah Rashad, 'Brad Jordan'
I started rapping at 14 and even did a few tracks with my cousin and my best friend in high school. I always wrote poetry, plays and I danced and acted a lot from a young age. Creative genius haha. Of course i've worked on tracks in studios and continue to do so. I don't rap now
This is such a dope album.
King maker?
I definitely think there is a before/after for hip-hop with 50 cent. Trendsetter with the mixtape game. GRODT is one of the best gangster rap albums ever, and it rejuvenated a weak NY rap scene. Killed off Ja Rule. Also one of the first rappers to have a global impact. Love his business moves with Vitamin Water and SMS Audio, targeting corporations instead of individuals wrt the latter. And I fecks with his new TV series.
Also, Raekwon's FILA is a dope release, I agree.
King maker?
I definitely think there is a before/after for hip-hop with 50 cent. Trendsetter with the mixtape game. GRODT is one of the best gangster rap albums ever, and it rejuvenated a weak NY rap scene. Killed off Ja Rule. Also one of the first rappers to have a global impact. Love his business moves with Vitamin Water and SMS Audio, targeting corporations instead of individuals wrt the latter. And I fecks with his new TV series.
Also, Raekwon's FILA is a dope release, I agree.
Maybe KingMaker was a bit of a stretch, but Banks,Buck and to an extent Game all had Classic or near classic albums
I agree with Game and Banks, to a much lesser extent (Banks never had national appeal, but he was huge in NY).
at Buck tho, although I'd be willing to reconsider.I agree with Game and Banks, to a much lesser extent (Banks never had national appeal, but he was huge in NY).
Probably a little biased as Buck was my favourite in G-Unit, but i thought Straight Outta Cashville was pretty dope, probably a classic in the south.The Tony Yayo hype was legendary though, 50 had us believing he had the next best thing coming out of jail in Yayo.
Was reading an article earlier about upcoming rappers in the US and on the list was none other than...Skepta. What's that all about?
Skepta makes repackaged Grime for fashionistas and Americans now.
He'd be considered as upcoming in the US as he hasn't broken into the market, Tinie Tempah was treated the same way when he was promoting his song with 2 chainz, it happened to Chip as well.
Heck even Fashawn (an American rapper) who had an album out in 2009 is still being branded as a 'new' artist.
Rolling with Drake,Asap and Ian Connor too.
Crazy. There's many more talented arists from the UK that I think would have fared well over there. Someone like Akala, does he even put out music anymore? Was one of my favourite artists growing up but I've not heard anything for a long time.
Yeah I just listened to one track with him and some American artist which used an old Rolldeep beat which I think may have been off one of the Sidewinder mixtapes or something like that.
Anybody rate Yelawolf's Love Story album? Just having a listen now. Quite an eclectic sound throughout, not sure what to make of it.
I don't think Akala would have made it in America.
I think he just released something, not sure. Skepta's good, well he was, but right now he's pretty much just pandering to a certain aesthetic rather than making music that needs to be made, he's had so many different phases of his career it's incredible. I mean he was roller skating around with Kano FFS before 'That's Not Me' came out and even then that's just a remake more or less of Wiley's 'Pies'. A cosign from Drake is probably the most powerful thing in rap music right now unfortunately.
I love it. Already listened to it about 4 times.
Where you born in England?