Facetime:

Wu-Tang - never heard this one, big fan.  Would probably be described as a throwaway track but doesn't belong anywhere near the bin.  Lil Wayne, used to love this album but haven't heard it for ages.  I didn't even experience him getting shit, as this is the only one I bought, I just heard he dropped off while jumping sharks, so gave up and I don't think I've heard anything else outside of guest spots.  Genuinely good album though, and this is a good one.  No-one sounds quite like him, he just does his thing and the beat kinda sounds like it's just keeping pace.  Thumbs up for the 'the let the beat build bitch' bits.  U-God - I quite like it, but I don't think he's got anything special as an MC.  Really didn't like Heltah Skeltah.  Maybe they should've tried sampling The Beatles.  Whateva Man was fun, not great but video was amusing.  Top drawer method acting, especially from the nun.  Da Rockweiler was the better track imo.  2Pac - I'm clueless.  Gaping hole in my hip hop education, I reckon I only know 5 tracks.  Didn't recognise this one, impressed with the production, again - pretty sure that stood out last time someone posted a 2Pac track.  Very easy to like.

Edit: @Liveinadive put Changes on a curated thing, which was ridiculously good.

I’ve probably says this before, but I just don’t get 2Pac - there’s nothing I heard from him at the time that I liked, he was a triumph of marketing over content.

So with due consideration to my less mature and less open minded self that heard it all in the 90s, I went back to listen to some tracks over the last few weeks.

Nope. Still shockingly bad (and now horribly dated) production and very average flow with wafer thin lyrical content - easy listening rap for people who don’t really like rap (I suppose in that context he was ground breaking in that he truly commercialised the genre, turning it toward pop music).

Opinions are my own etc etc. But I still don’t get it.

I don’t rate Jay-Z either! Anyone who trademarks their children’s name against future profiteering is a cunt.

He's pretty well amazingly charismatic, and hawt as hell according to multiple sources I trust.

Strictly 4 my niggaz has aged in a lot of ways, but there's some bangers and lyrics. Title track is incredible.

As mentioned, me against the world is AMAZING. maybe rose coloured a little as it was my shit when it dropped, but I still pump tracks in my mega mix.

All eyez is basically deathrow being at the top, with all the signs the crash was coming.

Still some great stuff though.

But yeah, massively commercially successful and enjoyed by many a dumbcunt, as my man Tagedeasy Heezy would say.

Yep.

In other news I think Cardi's a bit charming.

Re: creative processes, here is one K West getting pwned quite hard:

Oh... Different Cardi.

I just think her voice is fun okay. It's a sad truth that all popping MCs are going to be accompanied by boring trap shit for at least 5 more years.

dynamiteReady wrote:

Nope. But I like the Leopard...

Jesus. That's some really bad rapping.

I'll get to that, but meanwhile, for a taste of wtf are the yoof listening too....


If you can stand it, watch the second half of the clip. I mean there's a lot to unpack here, the wrongness goes deep.

Facewon wrote:

I'll get to that, but meanwhile, for a taste of wtf are the yoof listening too.... If you can stand it, watch the second half of the clip. I mean there's a lot to unpack here, the wrongness goes deep.

Any way one hatchets it, juggalos are lot more fun than this.

Probably, I mean I just watched 3 minutes of his stuff from over the years, and it appears that he's basically aiming to be saints row the human.

Now, the issue is more the infrastructure behind him.

First time I've heard this:



"so much purple you can call me Harpo"



"How can I have faith in something that I just can't see, this is my example son listen very closely you can't see oxygen but you believe you can breath"

Tbf the last thing I expect from a crackhead gangbanger is scientific fact.