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Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread
- Thread in 'Music' Thread starter Started by brivera716,
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Wayne didn’t start spiriting “goofy mixtape bars” til he went pop after loli pop.
He was already a decade in...and was known as a southern street rapper and member of the hot boyz before he went Pop.
Nobody was saying Wayne was “goofyl from 02-07. We gotta kill that RIGHT NOW.
Real talk...I’m sipping orange juice and rum right now
Close enough. Just sippin, waiting to geek to my guy Bobby Brown
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Wayne was not looked at as no southern street rapper back then.Wayne didn’t start spiriting “goofy mixtape bars” til he went pop after loli pop.
He was already a decade in...and was known as a southern street rapper and member of the hot boyz before he went Pop.
Nobody was saying Wayne was “goofyl from 02-07. We gotta kill that RIGHT NOW.
Real talk...I’m sipping orange juice and rum right now
Close enough. Just sippin, waiting to geek to my guy Bobby Brown
BG was. His music was always geared towards young and dumb ****. He was always a clever dude that just made nonsense sound good. That's why all these new rappers and new fans love him and are influenced by him.
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That’s your opinion of course. That’s the problem with debating music tho, we all here it differently and have different tastes and preferences. Everyone’s Top 10 is different for a reason.
I’d like to hear your explanation without looking at it subjectively tho. ie in terms of not only MC ability (writing, wordplay storytelling, flow and delivery, cadence, etc), but also cultural impact and impact on rap, classic albums, originality, relevance, sales and hits, etc.
Where exactly does Em land on your list? You named some great artists and Black Thought is in my top 10 too, but definitely not over Eminem considering his track record.
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Maximus know good and damn well he ain’t bending no corners listening to Eminem over Lil Wayne.
A lie don’t care who tell it.
Stop it bruh
A lie don’t care who tell it.
Stop it bruh
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Wayne was not looked at as no southern street rapper back then.
His music was always geared towards young and dumb ****. He was always a clever dude that just made nonsense sound good. That's why all these new rappers and new fans love him and are influenced by him.
By the time Wayne came into his own...BG wasn’t BG anymore. You talking bout mid-late 90s BG. I’m talking about Wayne circa Squad up, Dedication, Carter, Suffix etc era. He was 100% looked at as a street rapper (in the same vein as TI/Jeezy etc). Hence them supposed to be “Boyz in da Hood”.
The last 10 years of Wayne made some of y’all forget who and what he was in his prime.
Thing about Wayne is there are quite a few versions of him. From the time he was introduced with the hot boys...up until lollipop...he was in a different lane of a rapper...and wasn’t looked at as “goofy” until later in his career...and the height of his commercial success but lows of his musicality.
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Had anybody ever put serious thought into naming their top 5 dead or alive rappers? Dont even have to really rank but who do people feel are the overall 5 best to ever do it? (Counting groups too)
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I don't give a **** about cultural impact or relevance.
Because you guys constantly leave off people like Melle Mel, Chuck, Ice Cube, Rakim, KRS, Kane, LL on your list. In fact you act like the first 20 years of hip hop didn't even exist.
Then give Eminem bonus points for it as if he invented or stated something.
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no order
pac
nas
rakim
slick rick
gfk
EDIT: gotta put chuck d in there
probably slide gfk or rakim off to replace him
rbk93
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My favorite rappers are mostly based on influences probably.
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You mean they influenced you personally or the genre itself?
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If tracks like lose yourself , renegade, till I collapse, amityville, Stan, forgot about Dre
Didn’t age well for some of you, I don’t want to know what songs have aged well for y’all
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You’re an old school and underground type of guy, we get it. But it’s 2018 bro come up for some sunshine and get with the times.
What rappers have contributed to the game is only one part of the equation if you’re really trying to look at what really makes someone the best.
And KRS and Rakim are in my top 10 btw
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Shoutout to RALPH TRESVANT
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I don't know if age plays a factor, but I'm sure I heard or read somewhere that a younger human is more "malleable" and receptive to certain things.
Could have been the case for me, but for the wrong reasons.
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How old were you when you started listening to Eminem?
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Wayne has had a bit of a revival as of late. I’ve been bumpin his latest stuff a lot lately. He’s been on some snap s*** recently.
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Hernandez keeping that same energy
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Man I found this station on Sirius XM that plays 90s and 00s hip hop and rnb. They were bumping this the other night.
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Is this a revival?
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