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[Kwandilibro]

This song amused me. But Game did it to himself, being a stripper and all.

 

I would post a different one with a funny video, but I'm not supposed to.

[gamesguru]

In my opinion the first Game Ova diss track was good, some good lines, but there was a lot a filler. The second diss record by Yukmouth was just plain terrible though, just a bunch of ''im better than you nigga" bullsh*t. I guess the video was a nice touch, although I look at lyrics when it comes to beef, and I Got Million On It took the cake. I'm probably saying that as a Game-stan though.

 

Although Yukmouth bringing Eminem into the equation was a stupid move, luckily Eminem didn't catch wind, well not to my knowledge. Also, still haven't seen anybody prove that Game was a stripper. However I must admit Game seemed to be in the wrong for a few of these beefs (including the Yukmouth one), mainly because he had to represent G-Unit at the time, so Game was just following in 50's shadow.

 

 

 

 

When Master P took your name and your ice cream van/

Made 500 million, that's your homie though/

Took your man hood, gave your sh*t to Lil' Romeo/

This nigga, 5 foot 2, talkin' that big sh*t/

You got 5 On It? That money went to Chris Hicks/

 

A little part of me wants a Game V Jay-Z beef (full on, not the subliminal stuff). Say what you want, but I think it would be dope. Although, Game has been releasing rubbish nowadays. So I'd say Jay, if it happened.

[Kwandilibro]

 

In my opinion the first Game Ova diss track was good, some good lines, but there was a lot a filler.  The second diss record by Yukmouth was just plain terrible though, just a bunch of  ''im better than you nigga" bullsh*t. I guess the video was a nice touch, although I look at lyrics when it comes to beef, and I Got Million On It took the cake. I'm probably saying that as a Game-stan though.

 

Although Yukmouth bringing Eminem into the equation was a stupid move, luckily Eminem didn't catch wind, well not to my knowledge. Also, still haven't seen anybody prove that Game was a stripper. However I must admit Game seemed to be in the wrong for a few of these beefs (including the Yukmouth one), mainly because he had to represent G-Unit at the time, so Game was just following in 50's shadow.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You a bitch, how you call your self the Ice Cream Man/

When Master P took your name and your ice cream van/

Made 500 million, that's your homie though/

Took your man hood, gave your sh*t to Lil' Romeo/

This nigga, 5 foot 2, talkin' that big sh*t/

You got 5 On It? That money went to Chris Hicks/

 

 

 

 

A little part of me wants a Game V Jay-Z beef (full on, not the subliminal stuff). Say what you want, but I think it would be dope. Although, Game has been releasing rubbish nowadays. So I'd say Jay, if it happened.

Well, Yuk brought up the tongue ring quite a few times, but come on. A gangster with a tongue ring? That's just gay.

 

And I recall seeing a picture of Game as a stripper(He had boxers on). Forgot where I saw it.

 

Either way, Game was in the wrong. He has as much street credibilty as Plies at this point, except for his Compton upbringing and older brother, Big Fase 100. Other LA rappers mentioned numerous times that Game was unknown in the streets, unlike his brother. And these were true LA gang members. Not to mention the fact that Game was, again, a stripper, and he had a tongue ring. I think "A Change of Heart" just topped it all off. Young Buck used this against him too. And to add insult to injury, Game tends to always take the submissive role in beefs. He'll diss, but challenge him to a fight, and he backs down.

 

I also thought I'd point outGame's tattoo of Eazy E. What kind of man gets another man's face tattooed on him? Worse than Birdman.

 

Now, I won't lie, Game's lyrics and songs overall are pretty good, and his 50 Cent written songs were amazing(gee, I wonder why).

 

But that's just disrespectful, going on "I got 5 on It"'s beat to diss Yuk. That song is a classic.

 

Now, although Game is proven to be fake, he would wreck Jay Z in abeef, since Jay's new sh*t is mostly pop crap. Back in the day though, you couldn't touch Jay. Now he fell off.

 

And yes, the first Game Ova was better. The second one was just funny to watch.

 

Edit: Here's where I saw that picture.

 

Edited August 16, 2010 by Kwandilibro

[gamesguru]

Yeah that picture has been circulated and been brought up during the G-Unit/Game beef, it's a fake edited image used on a G-Unit mixtape. If memory serves, I think Game's mother might of owned a strip club, but she was a Hoover Crip too, so swings and roundabouts. Although the Change Of Heart episode and lack of Tattoos until his career started are indeed huge blows to his credibility.

 

He was brought up in Compton and was influenced to a degree at least. Actually watching documentations on Game's past actually brings up a few keys points that actually supports his street credibility. Not so much 'gang-banging' per say, but the situations his been in and been put through. I think Game was a lot better before and after 50, musically (again, 50 Cent hasn't proved he wrote anything). Doctor's Advocate sh*ts on The Documentary. His mixtape career is even better, well except his last two tapes...

 

As for the whole submissive physicality thing, it's extremely rare for a rapper not to be. In all honesty, the majority of rappers just 'front' because they can, regardless of who they are and where they are from. Every rapper has dirt in their past too. You've just got to find it. The beat is dope in that Game diss track, but lyrically, there was nothing there. Sounded like a typical average 50 Cent song. If he didn't mention Game at the start, I could have been fooled to thinking otherwise.

[Kwandilibro]

How could Game's mother be a Crip, but Big Fase and game were Piru?

 

Anyway, I think game f*cked hiself big time. His Compton upbringing could have made him a superstar with no dirt, but he had to be on Change of Heart. Then he got a tongue ring. And then the million tattoos(a clear indicator of a bitch nigga/phony in rap, clarified by Birdman, Officer Ricky, and Lil Wayne). But his worst move was beefing with 50.

 

I won't lie, 50 is falling off without a doubt. His best days were Power of the Dollar and Get Rich or Die Tryin. But regarding street credibility, him and Jeezy are as close to real gangsters as they come. So, because of this impending fact, and the fact that he's either the richest or second richest rapper, 50 can basically sh*t on anybody he ones, minus the legends and a few other respectable guys. But Game, he had no business beefing with 50. Because as showed with Rick Ross, he always brings out some nasty dirt. The stripper thing, the fact that he's unknown to Compton street gangs, and probably other things; all stuff 50 can and did use against Game. Had he stayed with G Unit, he probably would have went nowhere(Like Tony Yayo and Lloyd Banks), but he would have kept his street credibility. Now, since he beefed with 50, he's regarded as a bitch with nice rhymes.

 

About the physical thing, these newer rappers seem more hesitant to fight and things, but the older gangster rappers(and west coast rappers), fighting and even gunplay iasn't that bad. Guys like C Murder, who was arrested for as his name states, murder; Pimp C(who before death threatened a man with a gun for whatever reason); Flesh N Bone(who threatened a guy with an AK-47; and other older or more gangster rappers really don't mind fighting and even shooting. Some people say they're just stuck in a ghetto mentality, but whatever. But these newer rappers, they back off from even the slightest physical altercation. I believe it was Yukmouth who challenged Game to a fight, and he backed down, instead inviting him to rap onstage with another rapper. Then he made a diss track the next day. Why couldn't he just fight him? What happened to the big, bad, killer Game?

 

And no, I didn't think that 50 Cent diss track was all that good. I posted it for the picture. Because like Lil Wayne, 50 Cent has very typical rhymes in most of his songs, that lyrically are pretty average and very common for 50. Nothing special, IMO.

[EduardKoeleJuck]

Interesting that you bring up the subject. In the newest XXL Magazine issue (the one with Shyne/Jeezy on the cover), there's an article about the realness and street credibility of rappers. It's pretty interesting, but dissapointing too. XXL made a selection of [according to them] "real" rappers (Shawty Lo, Jim Jones, Crooked I, Jay Rock, Pastor Troy, Scarface, Tony Yayo, Black Rob, Birdman, Saigon, Raekwon, Freddie Foxxx and Styles P), and they were ask to comment on street cred nowadays. You can easily notice who are the less "gangsta" rappers (Shawty Lo), but overall they all say the same: it's not important anymore (as it used to be).

 

 

Just because you're putting in work don't make you a good muthaf*ckin' artist now.

You might be a hell of an assassin. [...] That don't make you a capable rapper...

You look at some niggas that grew up in my neighborhood that are bonafide muthaf*ckin' hustlers, and that's all they gonna ever be.

This game ain't for everybody. [...] It's not because they ain't real.

They realer than a muthaf*cka.

 

 

[back in the day,] you couldn't be a MC without having a certain kind of clientele in the streets before you emerged in the game. You had to have both world.

Nowadays you got cats that never had that full-fledged co-sign in they communities before they came out, and [still have] been succesfull.

You know [...] to me, it's always important to have your city in your corner.

 

 

The thing about G-Unit is that, when we started, we rhymed about things that other niggas in the streets could relate to. [...]

Now you got guys like Rick Ross. The guy was a C.O..

I think, a couple of years ago, he would've been finished off, being a C.O..

But now people are like, "f*ck it, he got good music, so we don't care."

Edited August 17, 2010 by EduardKoeleJuck

[stinomontana]

well i always thought game left g unit cause 50 wanted him to start beef with nas and fat joe

game was one of the best rappers we had since the death of hiphop

 

[Kippers]

I'm bumping so much Yelawolf on my iPod right now it's crazy. I'm really liking his flows. He doesn't really look like a rapper. When Bizarre/D12 first started giving him props I thought he was a rockstar who would just be doing drums in hip hop instrumentals like Travis Barker. Even the songs he's talking about cars are actually quite good to listen to (Take note Ross!); mainly for the beats:

 

(I also have that green shirt. Woo! that makes me officially cool)

 

 

How he managed to pull a track with Reakwon I have no idea:

 

 

 

Personal fav so far:

 

 

[Evj]

Russian rap. Maybe not everybody of you will like it but i still love russian music because of my descent.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClU2jQiFsE4&NR=1

[gamesguru]

50 Cent although quite humorous in rivalries, see the recent 'clowning' of Shyne, isn't lyrically as inclined so at times he has to resort to such tactics. Rick Ross was lyrically superior until Llyod Banks drop 'Officer Down' which is amazing. However Game (in both respects) had G-Unit beat. You had the Summer Jam freestyle, 300 Bars, 2 diss Mixtapes, G-Unot 'campaign' and the Stop Snitchin' Stop Lyin' DVD. If you think 50 Cent was calling Game out, watch that that documentary on YouTube, a lot of piss taking and 'dirt'.

 

Also Yelawolf is dope.

Haven't heard much his work though.

Edited August 17, 2010 by gamesguru

[Evj]

About 50 and game,

true gamesguru, 50 cent is just a popstar and the game is real.50cent is hollywood the game is compton.

"You cant play the game only with 50 cent."

[Kwandilibro]

Interesting that you bring up the subject. In the newest XXL Magazine issue (the one with Shyne/Jeezy on the cover), there's an article about the realness and street credibility of rappers. It's pretty interesting, but dissapointing too. XXL made a selection of [according to them] "real" rappers (Shawty Lo, Jim Jones, Crooked I, Jay Rock, Pastor Troy, Scarface, Tony Yayo, Black Rob, Birdman, Saigon, Raekwon, Freddie Foxxx and Styles P), and they were ask to comment on street cred nowadays. You can easily notice who are the less "gangsta" rappers (Shawty Lo), but overall they all say the same: it's not important anymore (as it used to be).

 

 

Just because you're putting in work don't make you a good muthaf*ckin' artist now.

You might be a hell of an assassin. [...] That don't make you a capable rapper...

You look at some niggas that grew up in my neighborhood that are bonafide muthaf*ckin' hustlers, and that's all they gonna ever be.

This game ain't for everybody. [...] It's not because they ain't real.

They realer than a muthaf*cka.

 

 

[back in the day,] you couldn't be a MC without having a certain kind of clientele in the streets before you emerged in the game. You had to have both world.

Nowadays you got cats that never had that full-fledged co-sign in they communities before they came out, and [still have] been succesfull.

You know [...] to me, it's always important to have your city in your corner.

 

 

The thing about G-Unit is that, when we started, we rhymed about things that other niggas in the streets could relate to. [...]

Now you got guys like Rick Ross. The guy was a C.O..

I think, a couple of years ago, he would've been finished off, being a C.O..

But now people are like, "f*ck it, he got good music, so we don't care."

Nah, dude. Shawty Lo was a huge drug dealer in Bankhead before being a rapper. Most of the rappers in 1017 Brick Squad(Gucci Mane's crew) were drug dealers at some point. Mainly involved with the Bloods.

 

@gamesguru, It seems to me that 50 Cent only talks loads of sh*t because he's so disgustingly rich, he really has nothing else to do. Lyrically, he was great at one point. But now, he's really average. Game, on the other hand, has much better lyrics, but his street credibility is seriously lacking. Of course, Game isn't as bad off as Rick Ross the cop or Plies the Pussy Monster, but his Compton upbringing seems to be the only thing saving his street cred.

 

But, it seems today that street credibility isn't as important as good lyrics anymore. Which pisses me off in a way, because a rapper should have both IMO. But like Scarface stated, some guys aren't built for rap. They could sell all the drugs in the world, but that doesn't make them a good rapper. And like Yayo said, it's gotten to the point where it doesn't matter much anymore. Now guys like Rick Ross, who has as much street cred as a pair of swimming trunks, can suddenly be excused from his bullsh*ttery, for the simple fact that "his music is nice"(IMO only his beats are nice. His lyrics fell off years ago).

 

I mean, at this point, Big Meech could step into the booth and start rapping, and it wouldn't mean sh*t, because his lyrics wouldn't be good. On the other hand, guys like Drake, who supposedly has amazing lyrics and magical flow, can come out of being a f*cking teen actor and become this huge sensation. Which seems to be the case with a lot of these new tight pants rappers, as I like to call them.

 

What the hell is going on with rap these days?

[TaylorJ]

Tech N9ne explains his process, dope! -

 

 

[gamesguru]

Not having a 'street credibility' is no bad thing. Because it is Hip-Hop all of a sudden, an artist has to have some sort of background that surrounds the likes of criminal activity, the ghetto, gun crime, etc? Why should Hip-Hop be any different from any other culture or group where these things are frowned upon and regulated. Don't get me wrong, Hip-Hop was founded in the Bronx, so there was always the side in which artists used these points to express themselves and to also put an understanding and have a way of obtaining freedom from the 'struggle'. I don't think any of these rappers would ever condole these lifestyles they have lived. They don't choose the lifestyle because it's cool or considered okay within the culture, but because they are forced and persuaded into it.

 

Hip-Hop and any art form allows these guys and girls to express that, to get away from it. Some artists talk about the hood, gang-banging and the like. A lot of the time it's fabricated without any meaning or purpose to it. This I don't like, street credibility or not. It's okay to talk about it. Like I said, it has contributed to Hip-Hop and many understand the lifestyles portrayed, so using Hip-Hop to picture these environments is no different from any other form expression. I don't think there is necessarily a problem with someone talking about drug dealing for example, even though they may have never taking, sold or distributed drugs; but there's got to be a reason for it. You can't just condole it, but if it was a fictional story with a moral for instance, then okay. I wrote stories similar, from a different point of view I necessarily have never experienced, but that doesn't mean I don't acknowledge and have an understanding of it.

 

The reason there is less artists from these 'depraved' and poor backgrounds is because the music industry as a whole has become extremely accessible. I mean I rap, I want to become a successful artist. But I'm an average working-class white guy. All of sudden that disallows me to be apart of the culture and contribute to it? I don't carry guns, hang out with gangs or commit crimes. But I should be able to express myself and be apart of Hip-Hop as much has the next person. Some of the best artists in the industry aren't even from a poor up-bringing or from urban areas where crime is high for multiple reasons. Lupe Fiasco, The Cool Kids, Kanye West, etc. Like you said, many artists portray lifestyles that they don't actually live. But it's not they have no credibility that worries me, it's people who think it's okay to have these lifestyles portrayed in the first place as long as you have the creditability. Rapping about killing is one thing, but fabricating it and supporting it is another matter. I'll have to disagree with you there. I think what artists say and encourage is more important than their pasts.

Edited August 17, 2010 by gamesguru

[EduardKoeleJuck]

 

Interesting that you bring up the subject. In the newest XXL Magazine issue (the one with Shyne/Jeezy on the cover), there's an article about the realness and street credibility of rappers. It's pretty interesting, but dissapointing too. XXL made a selection of [according to them] "real" rappers (Shawty Lo, Jim Jones, Crooked I, Jay Rock, Pastor Troy, Scarface, Tony Yayo, Black Rob, Birdman, Saigon, Raekwon, Freddie Foxxx and Styles P), and they were ask to comment on street cred nowadays. You can easily notice who are the less "gangsta" rappers (Shawty Lo), but overall they all say the same: it's not important anymore (as it used to be).

 

 

Just because you're putting in work don't make you a good muthaf*ckin' artist now.

You might be a hell of an assassin. [...] That don't make you a capable rapper...

You look at some niggas that grew up in my neighborhood that are bonafide muthaf*ckin' hustlers, and that's all they gonna ever be.

This game ain't for everybody. [...] It's not because they ain't real.

They realer than a muthaf*cka.

 

 

[back in the day,] you couldn't be a MC without having a certain kind of clientele in the streets before you emerged in the game. You had to have both world.

Nowadays you got cats that never had that full-fledged co-sign in they communities before they came out, and [still have] been succesfull.

You know [...] to me, it's always important to have your city in your corner.

 

 

The thing about G-Unit is that, when we started, we rhymed about things that other niggas in the streets could relate to. [...]

Now you got guys like Rick Ross. The guy was a C.O..

I think, a couple of years ago, he would've been finished off, being a C.O..

But now people are like, "f*ck it, he got good music, so we don't care."

Nah, dude. Shawty Lo was a huge drug dealer in Bankhead before being a rapper. Most of the rappers in 1017 Brick Squad(Gucci Mane's crew) were drug dealers at some point. Mainly involved with the Bloods.

Nah dude, I meant like, he didn't care that other rappers did not have that street credibility. I agree, I shouldn't have said gangsta. I'll quote him right now:

 

 

[...] I'm an artist that lives what I do. But the deal is, [for] a lot of artists, it's entertainment. So I would never knock a hustler. [...] You got some of the best artists in the world say stuff in they music that they don't do. But people still listen to it and buy it, 'cause that's what they wanna hear. I used to think it wasn't okay, but, you know, you can never knock a hustler. [...]

 

I just don't like how he approves of being fake. And I hate his voice too.

 

@gamesguru: I'm not saying people that aren't gangsta can't be rappers, not at all. I want to rap too and I'm a white boy from the suburbs. What I'm trying to say is, don't be fake. I mean, Rick Ross is just like you and me, only black. And because he is black, he says that he's a drug kingpin? It's just bullsh*t. He is literally living a lie, a life that doesn't exist. In his head at least.

Edited August 17, 2010 by EduardKoeleJuck

[gamesguru]

My post was actually aimed at Kwandilibro. But you bringing in Rick Ross has made me ponder something. All because he was a Correctional Facilities Officer (?), that's necessarily a bad thing. Don't get me wrong, it put a sadistic twist on him seeing he encapsulates the mafioso, drug-dealing lifestyle. But the way I saw it was is that people overlooked the fact that he was called out as a liar, instead people just looked at being a man of the law and moving into 'Hip-Hop' as a negative. I think law enforcers get a over-saturated bad press in Hip-Hop. The majority are just average guys like you and me, just protecting our safety. I see that as a good thing. Like I said, anybody has the right to express themselves, irregardless of their past.

 

Well unless it's in the ironic circumstance where you're some sort of murderer or rapist, but you get what I mean.

[Cheat]

Yes. I see what you are sayin'.

You don't need to be from the projects. You don't need to deal drugs.

But if you don't, then keep an honest approach and do not claim that, a lot of rappers have ended up losing their rep and position in the game, just because they claimed they were thuggin' but they weren't thuggin'.

 

And these guys, Scarface, Chef, Yayo, that's where they come from, the ghetto.

They got the rights to say whatever they say about new guys, to me, O.G's can do that, but they're intelligent enough to understand not to put guys down because of that, and that's where the difference between an OG and a 12-year old internet-OG is.

 

Also, what Raekwon said, "to me, it's always important to have your city in your corner".

That's a good point, because a lot of artists may come from the Bridge, but they may not be the hustlers.

And they shouldn't say "I'm a hustler because I'm from Queensbrige", but they could always get they rep from keeping Queens on they back, know what I'm saying?

 

There ain't no thing such as half-way crooks. There's just real with no street background, and real with street background.

[Kwandilibro]

 

Not having a 'street credibility' is no bad thing. Because it is Hip-Hop all of a sudden, an artist has to have some sort of background that surrounds the likes of criminal activity, the ghetto, gun crime, etc? Why should Hip-Hop be any different from any other culture or group where these things are frowned upon and regulated. Don't get me wrong, Hip-Hop was founded in the Bronx, so there was always the side in which artists used these points to express themselves and to also put an understanding and have a way of obtaining freedom from the 'struggle'. I don't think any of these rappers would ever condole these lifestyles they have lived. They don't choose the lifestyle because it's cool or considered okay within the culture, but because they are forced and persuaded into it.

 

Hip-Hop and any art form allows these guys and girls to express that, to get away from it. Some artists talk about the hood, gang-banging and the like. A lot of the time it's fabricated without any meaning or purpose to it. This I don't like, street credibility or not. It's okay to talk about it. Like I said, it has contributed to Hip-Hop and many understand the lifestyles portrayed, so using Hip-Hop to picture these environments is no different from any other form expression. I don't think there is necessarily a problem with someone talking about drug dealing for example, even though they may have never taking, sold or distributed drugs; but there's got to be a reason for it. You can't just condole it, but if it was a fictional story with a moral for instance, then okay. I wrote stories similar, from a different point of view I necessarily have never experienced, but that doesn't mean I don't acknowledge and have an understanding of it.

 

The reason there is less artists from these 'depraved' and poor backgrounds is because the music industry as a whole has become extremely accessible. I mean I rap, I want to become a successful artist. But I'm an average working-class white guy. All of sudden that disallows me to be apart of the culture and contribute to it? I don't carry guns, hang out with gangs or commit crimes. But I should be able to express myself and be apart of Hip-Hop as much has the next person. Some of the best artists in the industry aren't even from a poor up-bringing or from urban areas where crime is high for multiple reasons. Lupe Fiasco, The Cool Kids, Kanye West, etc. Like you said, many artists portray lifestyles that they don't actually live. But it's not they have no credibility that worries me, it's people who think it's okay to have these lifestyles portrayed in the first place as long as you have the creditability. Rapping about killing is one thing, but fabricating it and supporting it is another matter. I'll have to disagree with you there. I think what artists say and encourage is more important than their pasts.

Hell, I don't think every rapper has to be a gangsta. But I do think that rappers need to stop the sh*t and be real for once. Let's take Rick Ross for example. Rick Ross should have stayed his fat ass as a corrections officer. But instead, he tried to come into the rap game acting like he was some big drug dealer. He even had the audacity to use Freeway Ricky Ross's name. But then, he got exposed. And look at the fool he's making of himself. He continues making songs about being a drug kingpin, when he's not.

 

I also don't think rappers should dwell on being a gangster throughout their whole career(although for a lot of rappers, they would be kind of strange without their gangsta image). I think guys like 50 Cent are really overdoing it. I know he was a drug dealer, but the dude sits in his mansion in Connecticut talking about how he's going to come and shoot people with Mac 11s. And it's no wonder people are getting tired of 50. I think T.I. seems to be on the right track, expanding into other fields of rap.

 

I also never siad I hate all new rappers, even the ones who aren't thugs. Personally, I just find gangsta music more interesting. But I don't hate these new rappers. Now guys like Drake, he bothers me. I never see how he's as good as people say. But J Cole, to me, that guy is f*cking amazing. None of the gimmicks or bullsh*ttery of these new rappers, droning on and on about love or smoking weed. But instead, true lyrical ability.

 

Now, of course, I won't push that by saying I like all new rappers. Dudes like Roscoe Dash, Souljah Boy, and half of the sh*t coming out of Atlanta right now, they're terrible. Now lyrical ability, the only survive off a small fanbase who like their instrumentals. But Souljah Boy, he disgraces me the most. He goes from dancing around like a f*cking clown, to all the sudden rapping with Bun B(and Birdman, a failure in progress) or Brick Squad. What the f*ck is that? Stay in your own damn field!

 

My point being, if you're going to be a rapper, be yourself. Don't try to be Mr. Lovemaster, don't try to be a hustler, a trapper, a gangbanger. Do yo thang, nigga.

[Ats.]

 

Souljah Boy

Don't get them mixed up. Soulja Boy is the one who sucks and does his dancing thing, and Souljah Boy is some other dude. I think he even sued Soulja Boy for using his name.

Edited August 17, 2010 by Ats.

[radltzx]

Russian hip hop at it's finest.

 

 

[gamesguru]

 

Speaking of J.Cole:

 

J.Cole is my favorite artist right now. Amazing lyrically talent. Not only that, but he produces his own stuff. Which is good in itself, but he is a damn good producer whilst is at it; he could even be that alone and still have a great reputation in Hip-Hop. I've been avoiding all the leaks, because I don't know if they're from the album or not, the one above is from the Lime Light Exclusives mixtape however.

 

 

Also for those that didn't know, there is a Deluxe Edition of Raekwon's Only Built For Cuban Linx Pt II, which has a bunch of new remixes. It's only on iTunes unfortunately. Otherwise I would've bought a CD of it. Speaking of CDs, I'm gonna pre-order myself Mood Muzik 4, signed, just like with the Bar Exam 3.

 

 

[Kwandilibro]

This song convinced me that all new age rappers aren't cocksucking fa**ots.

 

 

Edited August 18, 2010 by Kwandilibro

[EduardKoeleJuck]

Yeah, almost all sh*t by J. Cole is hot. He's really good, I hope he won't sell-out like game and Jay did.

 

You guys know Big K.R.I.T.? He sent me a friend invite on YouTube a year ago, but I never really paid attention to his music. Now all of a sudden he's blowing up. This new song is pretty nice, that Emilio Rojas dude performs well too. Also nice video.

 

 

 

 

Newest Huey, it's good too:

 

 

Edited August 18, 2010 by EduardKoeleJuck

[Kippers]

I don't know if Trey Songz really falls under the hip hop catagory (wiki says no), but he collabs with a lot of them so it's close enough. (Can you tell I don't listen to him?) I'm liking his Lemonade Freestyle...

 

 

 

 

Although, I like Yelawolf's Lemonade Freestyle better:

 

 

Edited August 18, 2010 by kippers.

[JoshGTAfreak]

What do people think of B.o.B? I personally like him. His album is brilliant. It is nice and diverse and has some good guest appearances. I don't usually listen to hip hop or rap so i don't know much about it, but i think B.o.B could hold the future of hip hop.

[Kippers]

I really like The Adventures of Bobby Ray. One of very few commercially successful albums that i've agreed with in the past 12 months. It's not all rap; 'Ghost in The Machine' is my favourite non-rap (Unless you can count that as slow rap?) song on there. He has a great voice when rapping and singing and it's matched with fantastic collabs - Bruno Mars - and also on songs like 'Magic' with Rivers Cuomo and 'The Kids' featuring Janelle Monáe on the choruses.

 

In fact, the songs I dislike are the ones featuring T.I and Lupe Fiasco. (I Bet and Pass My Shades) I think it's quite a deep album if you take those 2 songs out, so personally I think they ruin the flow of the album.

 

 

It feels fresh and it feels new.

Edited August 18, 2010 by kippers.

[gamesguru]

Ghost In The Machine is my favourite track from the album, I love the chilling piano at the start. The song actually leaked ages ago, but nobody seemed to pay attention. It leaked along with Hey Mr.Bobby, and I didn't really like it then for some strange reason. You don't like Past My Shades, that's one of my favourite tracks on there. I agree with Bet I, rubbish in my opinion.

 

 

Yeah, almost all sh*t by J. Cole is hot.

 

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New Kanye West snippet: Link

Kanye is also doing a collaboration with Raekwon, and hopefully (for him) Justin Beiber. Raekwon is going into the studio for it today, I just hope when it comes to Beiber that he gets lost.

 

Also Eminem is number one again and has gone Double Platinum: Link

[flitcroft101]

Still no news on Liquid Swords 2? I hope it comes this year.

[Kippers]

Also Eminem is number one again and has gone Double Platinum: Link

Hell yes!

 

 

Ghost In The Machine is my most played track off the album. You're right, the piano is really chilling. Just a brilliant song.

[Zook]

So what do you rap fans think of icp boondox anybody killa i think there all freaks

 

I like public enemy slick rick and run dmc.

 

Edited August 19, 2010 by manbearpigy