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.
