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mashburned

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Nobody allowed. Y'all suck.

Idk what's happening in the game, really. If anybody is up to date on hot new hip hop I would like to know if anything worth hearing is popping off in the e-streets. I'm trying to think of recent rap events, and I can't, really.

Currensy and Alchemist released a project. I don't study Currensy or nothing, but this sounds like some of his best work. My favorite part was when Lil Wayne dropped in and got silly af. He tap danced all over this **** like the good ol days

Other than that I ain't heard nothing and I ain't really searched for it. Just hype after hype after hype that never seems to live up to potential.

I've learned some rap stuff recently:

Clipse pretty much ended because Malice thought he had aids...aside from the drug indictments throughout their crew. Malice thought he had aids, told his wife, **** got real, and basically he chose her over the rap game, and cleansed himself of the evils of that world. That's from his mouth via an exclusive interview with Combat Jack. There's a lot there that aint' talked about, imo. The situation is too weird. It's interesting as hell. They moved from Brooklyn to VA, wound up 2 houses away from young Timbaland who was already blown up at the time, and they ran into a young and hungry Pharrel who lived across town. Rest is history.

I learned a big reason rap changed was because Def Jam changed. Idk the exact dates, but basically the game got really gay and pop, and a lot of dudes attribute that to Def Jam changing hands and introducing a lot of white folk with no ears to the streets and no desire to represent the streets. I was getting a lot of this from a Redman interview. So, that's around the golden age of modern rap with Jay, DMX, Meth and Red, etc...then we know what happened after that. Redman said new people came in and shelved a Meth and Red project and started spending most of their marketing on the new pop rap ****.

I learned Eric Sermon is a lot more influential than I knew about. A lot of folks consider him the Dr Dre of the East. I had no clue he was on that sort of level. I got a lot of homework to do there. The most I really know about Eric Sermon came from late songs where he was actually featured, or he was shouting his name at the beginning...badass songs like





That's basically all I knew about Eric, really. Guess I need to keep digging...but it's weird how little respect he seems to get....but you could say that about a lot of folks...

Like DMX. GD Earl a fool, and really, his **** should be built for this new age of wild millennial ignorant idiots, imo. But he aint'. He's a punchline now, and that's f'd up. "I got blood on my hands and there's no remorse; I got blood on my dick cuz I f'd a corpse. Im a nasty motha, if you pass me, look me in the eyes; tell me to my f'n face that you ready to die" - when that **** hit my ears at like 11 years old WOOOOOOO. Man, people weren't saying that ****. Biggie told me about those mf'ers "who kidnap kids, f em in the ***, then throw em over the bridge" - well Earl is that dude kidnapping and f'n kids. He brought that other side that wasn't really poppin on that level of commercial rap. He overshadowed Jay Z during his historical run. It was incredible, and I feel like kids don't even know that. He was too real to deny. Not anybody can lyrically recreate a hostage situation where the robber, X, has the gun to dude's daughter telling him "What's it gonna be? I can either rape her while you watch, or you can give me the goods right now"...the way he told these stories and the visualizations that accompanied them was too ill. I haven't heard anybody do that like DMX. He was some kind of poet, and to get this **** played across commercial airways is something else....

Then Eminem kind of came along and did sort of the same thing in a way....just from a different perspective, a more cerebrally f'd perspective that was not from the streets.

Point is, it takes real talented mf'ers to talk about some sick n twisted **** like those two did and sell records like they're the damn Backstreet Boys, or something....Idk if they did backstreet numbers, or what those numbers even are, but they were the BSB of the rap world, which I assume makes significantly less than the Taylor Swifts and Kings of the pop world, but you get the point...

Some of my DMX favorites from Hell is Hot.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4tlf3Ag_lM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjD2yrW1bxE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwi_LuXYwSI

DMX was the most spiritual rapper I've ever heard, too, which is really ill. He was probably the first rapper I heard who really rapped both sides. He gave you the gritty uncut raw. He talked to Jesus and Satan in the same song. His struggles where real, and you felt them.

BarrySlice, if you read this, you've read too much. GTFO and come back once you've learned something.
 

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"What a Time to Be Alive" is a current guilty pleasure. I don't need a lecture Mash, it just is what it is.

I have to skip around the record because I can't stand Drake or Future singing. Or Drake or Future rapping, in most situations.

Metro Boomin though...nice little producer from what I've heard.

Best track on the record, :100points:. Honestly, Aubrey should've sat this one out.

 
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I have no idea what any of this means, but it's interesting nonetheless. 40 :fire: #Views


 

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No idea who that is. Looks like Moby?

Future does have a handful of badass songs. It all sounds the same but every now and then he makes a really catchy chorus. One of my favorites is

 

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Curious to see how 'Layers' (Royce da 5'9") is received when it drops next month. Check out "Tabernacle"

 

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I had retired from the rap game till Eminem brought me back. He's one of the few that are good. Rap today is nothing like the 90s by far the best era for the genre. These guys are dope.


 

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This guy has a bad *** Jeff Garcia jersey on and he's great!


This guy has pregnant chicks tworking and then he drowns them at the end. He's high as hell
 

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My major interest in rap ended during the Chronic/Doggystyle/Warren G era. Wore those tapes out (Doggystyle twice) and then kind of drifted away to R&B. I'd say the lady friend had a lot to do with that. Then, I woke up one day and suddenly every album had big shimmering gold block letters on it and a gold plated tank, for some reason, or Puff Daddy in the background saying 'Yeah' or 'Come on'. Not that I didn't enjoy the music, I just didn't buy any more albums. I'll still give it a listen now and again, but I'm not actively seeking out new stuff.

#old
 

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Stick Talk was probably my most played song of '15....still in gym rotation. That initial drop is :fire:

His albums are mostly terrible & monotonous, but yes, I can always find 2-3 I like. 'March Madness' goes too, and seems appropriate for this time of the year. [cheers]
 

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Idk know what he's saying all the time but that hook is killer

GOT THEM BAND BANDS RUN EM STRAIGHT THRU THE MACHINERY x5

*ratchet soundsssssss*

I really start shaking my dreads after the machinery part. If I shot people I would shoot them to that song.

Lol I tried to listen to Future on pandora and I reached my skip limit after 5 songs. Just so much garbage, but you make the same song long enough you're gonna hit the mark a few times....

Most of that garbage was drake related, tho. I know it's just an industry thing, and it'd be stupid to not get this easy money, but gd drake sucks and should never ever ever be paired up with fn future. Smh.

Idk much about this Problem dude, but I like his voice a lot. Like a better Nipsey Hustle or something. Plus I'm a sucker for his whaaaaaaa!!! adlibs.



Serious *** question: WHERE IS MUSTARD? that dude switched up and disappeared way quicker than even I predicted. Last I heard of him he was on some like Ciara **** on the radio. That's what happens to these dudes that make easy to replicate beats with little to no substance....Metroboomin next in line. Bye bye lil man. Your time was cool, but you better be adding some layers to your **** before people move on to the next quick sounds.
 

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Mustard. We'll be driving listening to SiriusXM and a song will come on. I'll tell the boys that it's one of his songs. The oldest one will say "No it's no ..." mustard on that beat ... Every time.

I hope he saved his money.
 
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Best songs posted so far are by Vanilla Ice and Froggy Fresh, that should tell you something - please post something better.

Listening to rappers demanding respect, quoting nursery rhymes, relying on other artist's work to carry their "songs" and/or blathering "nigga blah blah blah hoe blah Gat blah blah blah bust a cap in a nigga blah blah Benz blah hoe" laid down over the top of a terrible, unoriginal and repetitive "beat" just doesn't seem that interesting.
 

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That initial drop is :fire:

Please post more.

That last thread when some JayZ album or something like it was released - I don't don't remember anything you said, but I do remember your "takes" as being some of the most entertaining stuff I've read on the Paddock.
 

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Please post more.

That last thread when some JayZ album or something like it was released - I don't don't remember anything you said, but I do remember your "takes" as being some of the most entertaining stuff I've read on the Paddock.

Yes, the Watch The Throne album with Kanye and ...some form of Jay Z I don't recognize. Left as quickly as it came and not one damn song from that money grab holds up today.
 

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Problem is dope, and you gave me **** for recommending him in a previous rap thread, btw.

YG 4 Hunnid's first 2 songs off his next have been :fire:, btw. Not sure why you hate him so much, he's "gangsta rap" that you claim doesn't exist anymore. Plus, he makes 'fun' songs for the most part, which don't really exist out there anymore on the 'new' West Coast. He's a bit of a throwback to my favorite era, imo...






#WestCoastSirenAlert
 
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One of my favorites from '15, part of that crew.






I be getting Blue Face Hunnids outta redbonessssssssssssss :fire::fire::fire:
 

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YG don't do much. He had a hot song like last summer...or back with the mustard stuff. The Nipsey song was cool. Other than that, I don't see nothing that would make me want to listen to his average rapping *** repeatedly. He just ain't good at rapping. He might could make a good album if he had a big budget and it was 1995. But it ain't.

Where Schoolboy is? That's what I want. I'll listen to him. He's entertaining and talented. He has money behind him.
 

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False. His last album was dope, and 'Twist my Fingas' and 'I wanna Benz' are both :fire:

You're thinking of Freddie Gibbs, who's pretty much boring AF these days.
 

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That's what I said. 2 songs.

Freddie Gibbs can rap, mf'er. Any way you want it.

Besides that, I think YG and Freddie are somewhat similar in the sense that industry and mainstream ain't fn with em and they probably won't get to really showcase themselves on a big stage with big money.
 

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That's what I said. 2 songs.

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Lol, which are the first 2 songs released off his upcoming album.... What's your point?


Been bumping some 40 water a little bit myself lately...that old mob music is perfect for springtime windows-down driving.




:fire::fire::fire:


-RE: Gibbs. Indeed he can. The list of guys who can rap good, but struggle to make consistently good MUSIC/Songs is pretty long, however.
 
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Those songs came out a long time ago, didn't they?

*i have no idea how singles and things like that work today with the albums. Mf'ers promote singles like albums and then sell you a mixtape with those singles on it. It's so weird and I'm so old.

E-40 corny af, tbh, but he's cool.
 

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BarrySlice, if you read this, you've read too much. GTFO and come back once you've learned something.

Let me guess, when you were a kid, you walked to school up hill both ways, and a promise was a thing that actually meant something.

My apologies for preferring music that came out during my generation.

I'll get off your lawn now.
 

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Jay Electronica's Exhibit C is a masterpiece. Dude just doesn't come out with nearly enough music.



Lupe is one of the most underrated artists in the game. SLR 2 he rips 8 other rappers while mocking their style. Absolute :fire:.



Hopsin is another underground dude who is pretty weird but any of his Ill Mind Of Hopsin tracks are unreal.

 
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That's pretty dope. Who is Lupe Fiasco? Is he big overseas?

Can't tell if you're trolling. He's got 3 or 4 huge mainstream hits (The Show Goes On, Superstar, Battle Scars, etc.) He's faded over the last few years or so but he still releases music. It's all usually pretty good.
 
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