Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

[addict4sneakers]

Open Letter is cool. The first half of the album is forgettable. We will see if I get through the rest

 

[youngthundercat]

There is a best and he is the goat.

He’s alive and well and he’s not the best just bc he said he was.

There’s a clear answer to the conversation of whos the goat in hiphop. “Fans” will just continue to deny what’s OBVIOUS until he has one foot in the grave.

Yikes.

 

[tay1]

When you listen to a couple tracks and then "turn it off and listen to the rest tomorrow" you know it's boo boo

Nah, it was 1am

 

[numbah1grimey]

Noyaaaaaaa

 

[$tacy]

The real NO album we been waiting on dropped, how that gates sound?

 

[numbah1grimey]

Wayne is this version of Sly Stone...

 

[HOU$TON]

 

[a blinkin]

Gates delivered.

One subjective criticism is that it’s 18 tracks of just him; no features. I’m not a fan of artists doing that. A feature here and there breaks up any monotonous feeling a person gets when they listen to an album. A featured verse, a chorus, something.

But I understand why he’d take this approach since this is his first full length project after being locked up.

Outside of that throne in my side, the joint goes. A couple skippable tracks, but that’s to be expected when you have 18 songs. On my first 3 listens I’m impressed and I’m standing by the whole “Gates is in the top 3 acts out right now” thing.

Cats sitting through an hour of C5 might as well give Gates a full listen. Willing to bet they’d enjoy it.

 

[HOU$TON]

Gates hard

 

[Figured it out]

C5 is good to me , rock with 15/22 of the tracks.

Can’t be broken , Mona Lisa and let it all work out my top 3.

Him talking about the attempted suicide over the sampha loop

 

[str8drop]

When you listen to a couple tracks and then "turn it off and listen to the rest tomorrow" you know it's boo boo

 

[tay1]

That kodak song was mid. Dude is just lazy in the booth now

 

[kingfoamnyc]

That kodak song was mid. Dude is just lazy in the booth now

His career at this point coincides with his body composition

 

[str8drop]

This Gangin II is a disappointment

And how to they label make money off them with all the samples they use? I swear I heard a Marvin Gaye sample on here

Empire kinda let _’s do whatever sometimes lol

Jay Worthy (LNDN DRGS) be rapping over whole *** soul/funk songs with minimal transformation. Literally just a looped portion of the song with like 1 sound added in

The truth is they really just coming for the Kanye's etc. Major _'s. A lot of other ppl just slip by. Unless you just end up with a hit or something but at that point its kinda a good problem to have in a way.

 

[goledensilence]

So can we say that Birdman was doing Wayne a favor by keeping the Carter 5 locked away?

 

[str8drop]

I'm not counting Kodak out yet man, Keef went through basically the same **** and stumbled on a whole new sound in the process. A sound that inspired a whole generation of young _'s up under him like Carti etc

 

[Hahahaha]

Baby didn’t want to drop it cause he knew it wasn’t gonna sell and he knew it would be a bad look for them

 

[tay1]

I'm not counting Kodak out yet man, Keef went through basically the same **** and stumbled on a whole new sound in the process. A sound that inspired a whole generation of young _'s up under him like Carti etc

Kodak has one more chance. I haven't forgotten those tracks he dropped before he went to jail. **** was nothing but lockjaw

 

[Figured it out]

Niketalk and twitter are literally always polar opposites lol ..... Always

 

[Figured it out]

Mans been eating good

 

[goledensilence]

Instantly pushed skip on the first 7 tracks.
Mona Lisa is worth listening to thanks to Kendrick Lamar.

 

[wavycrocket]

Mans been eating good

Back to his natural state

 

[harlemtothebronx]

lil wayne album review **** is trash

No ********, I appreciate this. I’m still gonna suffer through it tonight, but this kept me entertained at work this morning, and now I won’t go into it expecting anything. Knew son was washed when he was out here with the baldie/dreads combo.

 

[danger style]

Wu-Tanf Forver is highkey dope, but can someone take off Logics verse?

 

[doxen5703]

Mans been eating good

I think it’s so weird when dudes be online talking about other men’s body. Not you, but that tweet fam really took his time to add images and ****. **** is wild.