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So what's the consensus on the Drake & Future mixtape?

I have to admit it takes me a while to really get into Future, and even then I don't listen often.
Still cant get into Dirty Sprite 2.
 
vi1lain said:
So what's the consensus on the Drake & Future mixtape?

I have to admit it takes me a while to really get into Future, and even then I don't listen often.
Still cant get into Dirty Sprite 2.
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I fecks with it. It's a very good effort for an obviously rushed project. The standout tracks are great.

That 30 for 30 freestyle is napalm. The beat, Drake's verse, flow... jesus.
 
For the most part it sounds like Drake just jumped on existing Future songs and half the time he lazily mirrors Future's various flows, cadences and vocal tics. Then he put a solo song on the end and sounded good but really Drake has no part on songs called I'm The Plug really does he? It's a solid tape as Adex said, the standouts i.e. Diamonds Dancing, Plastic Bag, Jumpman and the solo songs, are all great but you can tell it was rushed. It was intended as a mixtape but labels couldn't refuse the chance to cash in.
 
Sounds like it has potential, I'll give it a few spins in the car.
 
adexkola said:
It really went all tits up for Rahmeek.
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I thought he could rise to the occasion but now I see no route back for Meek man, take a look at his Instagram comments FFS, he's about to be the first rapper ever to get blackballed for airing someone out. At this point all he can do is rap over mad Jahlil Beats beats but damn the kid fecked up real bad.
 
Meek's problem was that he didn't come prepared - he should have had a good diss track on ice ready to drop if/when Drake replied at least.

I don't know what he can do next, except lay low for the next few months, feature on a few tracks and put out a good mixtape next year.
But he's going to have to wait until the hype from VFT6 dies down i'd imagine, the last thing he wants to do is compete with Drake again.
 
Is this slim Jesus wave a thing?

I always figured i would become one of those old hip hop heads that complain about the current climate once we start seeing mainstream EDM rappers, but these new waves are cutting it close.
 
Hip-Hop Cash Kings 2015: The World's Highest-Paid Rap Acts
1. Diddy: $60 million
He rarely performs these days, but Diddy rakes in cash from the fruits of a reputation forged in music: TV network Revolt, clothing line Sean John, alkaline water brand Aquahydrate and Ciroc vodka, which brings in the bulk of his bucks. He’s also readying a new album, and enjoys being named No. 1. “You started learning how to count!” Diddy recently told FORBES.

2. Jay Z: $56 million
His 22 shows with Beyoncé boosted the multifaceted mogul's bottom line alongside moneymaking ventures like entertainment company Roc Nation and Armand de Brignac champagne. The impact of his new streaming service, Tidal remains to be seen. But regardless of its fate, he’s taken his business game to previously unimaginable heights

3. Drake: $39.5 million
The Canadian import clocks the highest Cash Kings finish of his young career, thanks mostly to earnings on the road, where he played 50 dates during our scoring period with a nightly average gross of nearly $1 million. Also padding Drake’s coffers: gold-certified surprise record If You're Reading This It's Too Late and endorsements for Sprite and Nike.

4. Dr. Dre: $33 million
Selling Beats earned him $620 million last year, the top annual payday of any musician, ever. Despite a year-over-year drop of more than half a billion dollars, Dre makes the list thanks to smaller checks from Apple and his production catalogue. He also exec-produced biopic Straight Outta Compton and released his long-awaited third studio album.

5. Pharrell: $32 million
The "Happy" singer is one of the more diversified performers on the list, clocking multimillion-dollar checks from touring, music and his role as a judge on The Voice. He also mingles his fashion sense with an entrepreneurial streak, as evidenced by his Billionaire Boys Club and Ice Cream clothing lines.

6. Eminem: $31 million
The Detroit native’s six shows on last summer's co-headlining Monster Tour with Rihanna averaged north of $5 million per show. Their pair of shows at Metlife Stadium grossed a total of $12.4 million, slightly more than Jay Z and Beyoncé tallied over two nights at the same venue

7. Kanye West: $22 million
He didn’t crack the top five on this list, but Kanye may have had the biggest year of any hip-hop cash king. Among his highlights were a memorable Grammy performance, a new Adidas shoe launch and an announcement of intention to run for president in 2020. Does he really intend to give new meaning to the term West Wing? With Kanye, one can never say never

8. Wiz Khalifa: $21.5 million
Pittsburgh’s best-known rapper may have relocated to “Pixburg” (Los Angeles) but he continues to keep his hometown on the rap map. This year is his best yet, thanks to his Furious 7 duet “See You Again” and incessant touring—plus accompanying sales of his weed-themed merch. “It’s part of my personality,” he told FORBES. “It wasn’t conscious at first, but then when I saw how far it was going and I was like, ‘Why not?’”

9. Nicki Minaj: $21 million
The world’s top-earning lady MC saw her earnings soar 50% over last year’s figure,mostly due to an uptick in touring. She also rakes in cash from endorsements with the likes of Pepsi and OPI—as well as her very own Myxx moscato, in which she holds a hefty equity stake and gets annual payouts as well.

10. Birdman: $18 million
The Cash Money chief continues his steady earnings pace, collecting a cut of his label’s eight-figure profits along with his brother and cofounder, Ronald “Slim”Williams. But there seems to be trouble brewing at hip-hop’s top record company, with a public—and allegedly violent—dispute with Lil Wayne, who recently released music through Jay Z’s Tidalstreaming

11. Pitbull: $17 million
Mr. International continues to live up to his nickname, playing 60 shows during our scoring period in countries ranging from Mexico to Japan to the United Kingdom to China. He also released Spanish-language album Dale in July; it peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Latin Albums chart.

12. Lil Wayne: $15 million
The diminutive rhymester’s tour bus got shot up earlier this year—by someone allegedly connected to his label boss —but that hasn’t stopped him from hitting the road hard, making millions on three dozen tour dates from coast to coast.

13. Kendrick Lamar: $12 million
New album To Pimpa Butterfly was a dense, jazz-inflected record that denied fans singalong hits, yet still sold 324,000 copies in its first week. Still, he didn’t top last year’s $9 million total by all that much, partly due to a hesitation to endorse products.Said Lamar: “All money ain’t good money.”

13. J. Cole: $11 million
The Born Sinner redeemed himself with a scorching surprise album, 2014 Forest Hills Drive, which debuted at No. 1 and sold 354,000 copies its first week. A budding mogul, Cole’s Dreamville imprint struck a distribution deal with Interscope Records. “It’s definitely a path that’s been made possible by the Dr. Dres and the Jay Zs,” hetold FORBES last year.

14. Snoop Dogg: $10 million
His Pharrell-produced new album Bush didn’t perform as well as hoped, debuting at No. 14 on the Billboard charts and selling 27,000 copies its opening week. But Snoop still earned double-digit millions on the strength of his touring schedule and brand endorsements.

16. Rick Ross: $9 million
The corpulent rapper doesn’t tour as much as some of his other peers, but continues to make the Cash Kings list on the strength of outside business ventures such as his Wingstop franchises, something he’s wanted to do for nearly a decade. “I began having those thoughts every time I pulled up to the restaurant,” he told FORBES last year. “Like, ‘Yo! This is something I need to do.’

17. Tech N9ne: $8.5 million
18. Ludacris: $8 million
19. T.I.: $6 million
20. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis: $5.5 million

http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackoma...-kings-2015-the-worlds-highest-paid-rap-acts/
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Roman Bellic said:
Is this slim Jesus wave a thing?

I always figured i would become one of those old hip hop heads that complain about the current climate once we start seeing mainstream EDM rappers, but these new waves are cutting it close.
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Lol it is not a thing really, it was like a test from someone on Twitter to see if they could make someone blow up through hype and show how fecking stupid everyone is on the internet and it worked:



I shit you not he posted that and I watched when it had 7,000 views.



And then you have this stupid fuccboi Post Malone wanting to make songs with him:

 
:lol:

Slim Jesus has 7 million views, wow, all the rap tastemakers are pretty much exclusively on internet forums nowadays.
 
ArmchairCritic said:
38 songs of name dropping and copying other people's flows? Yikes.
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Better that than listening to Canadian pop singer pretending to be a rapper who needed a ghostwriter and dickriding in order to become somewhat relevant or inbreds on autotunes.

But yea, out of 38 tracks I suppose that about 1/3 of it will be good. Rest will be spoiled by Canadian pop singer and autotuned inbreds.



Anyways, new track featuring Skrillex from Game, one that will be on the second CD apparently.
 
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Kostur said:
Better that than listening to Canadian pop singer pretending to be a rapper who needed a ghostwriter and dickriding in order to become somewhat relevant or inbreds on autotunes.

But yea, out of 38 tracks I suppose that about 1/3 of it will be good. Rest will be spoiled by Canadian pop singer and autotuned inbreds.



Anyways, new track featuring Skrillex from Game, one that will be on the second CD apparently.
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Yet when it came down to it Drake stepped up with Back 2 Back and Meek got showed up for the poor lyricist he is.

And people are still saying Drake can't rap :wenger:
 
adexkola said:
It's a retarded post.
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vi1lain said:
I agree that J.Cole is overrated, but this post isn't a great summary as to why.
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Does have a point though. J.Cole is the lovechild of the 90s and 00s hip hop and rnb, he is the perfect MC......on paper.

If there was ever a poster boy for hip hop, it would probably be Cole.

It is just unfortunate that it hasn't exactly translated into acknowledged greatness.
 
Andre 3000. Top 3 living rappers and he doesn't even like rapping. What have we done to deserve this?
 
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