also, why do you post here? serious question
― marcos, Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:07 (nine years ago) link
Had too much swag, needed to shed some
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:17 (nine years ago) link
if RT is not a sock I'm kind of stoked for his presence here, real old school ilx troll feel
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:31 (nine years ago) link
no he needs to go, check him out on the Charlie Hebdo thread and then hit FP
― some kind of terrible IDM with guitars (sleeve), Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:34 (nine years ago) link
yr exercise in pointing out that the most popular rappers of today are rarely explicitly political is pretty useless considering that if you were to apply the same test to the most popular rappers of the supposedly halcyon days u refer to in yr first post, they would still fail the test. w/ 2-3 exceptions depending on how permissive u wanna be, the artists listed in the op were not among the most successful rap artists of their day.
― dyl, Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Some of this concious stuff doesn't age that well, even at the time I used to wince at the KRS One tracks where he tries to chat like a ragga mc from the Yard. In recent times old lags like Juicy J and Gangsta Boo have released far better albums than anything from that era imo. At least in this era twats like Brand Nubians are recognised for what they are - completely fucking worthless hateful arseholes.
― xelab, Wednesday, January 7, 2015 8:05 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
eh some of the ignorant shit doesnt age well either, i do kind of think conscious rap gets a bad rap these days
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:42 (nine years ago) link
This thread has given us a gif of a raccoon with a jet pack if nothing else, so my morning is made.
― Losing swag by the second (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 8 January 2015 15:57 (nine years ago) link
leave it to ILX posters to start talking about... feminism and gay rights and transgenders. This is hilarious. Why do I even post here with you saps. I'm losing swag by the second with you lames.
So, are you going to take accountability for this incredibly wrongheaded and generally fucked up statement?
― ed.b, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:13 (nine years ago) link
do you even have to ask
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
― ed.b,
lmao
yr exercise in pointing out that the most popular rappers of today are rarely explicitly political is pretty useless considering that if you were to apply the same test to the most popular rappers of the supposedly halcyon days u refer to in yr first post, they would still fail the test. w/ 2-3 exceptions depending on how permissive u wanna be, the artists listed in the op were not among the most successful rap artists of their day.― dyl,
― dyl,
Dumb shit said by Nikki Minaj and Charlie XCX fans in this thread #4080
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:10 (nine years ago) link
Oh no, he's back
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:12 (nine years ago) link
Explain.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:19 (nine years ago) link
Or was your use of bold text supposed to be self-evident?
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
"Charli XCX fan" is not perhaps the damning insult that RT, judging from the number of times he's used it, believes it to be.
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF1GudpHqeg
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:21 (nine years ago) link
:)
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:22 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qc1N5vjvMFw
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:23 (nine years ago) link
xxp-taking out the more underground acts
these were all some of the most successful and popular rap artists of their time. Dyl talking shit only a Charlie and Minaj fan capable of.
KRS,Slick RickNWA,P.E,Mos,
Wu,Kast,Pac,
Nas,Dead Prez,
Tribe,De La,
Brand Nubian,Furious 5,Kane,
Jungle Bros,
Goodie Mob,
Gang Starr,
Fugees
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
;)
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:24 (nine years ago) link
(dad prez left in for that one song, that blew up majorly while being hugely political, that song wouldn't exist now)
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
what's your first language, Raccoon?
― lettered and hapful (symsymsym), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
there is tons of new underground positive stuff. most of it is terrible. just listen to illmatic again!
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:26 (nine years ago) link
― Re-Make/Re-Model,
haha, oh yes it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BO72qcXvakE
^awful music, objectively
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:27 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziX5dzRvzbU
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
RT: where does that list come from? And how are you judging success there? I'm just curious about your methods ;)
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3jberLd7B4
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:29 (nine years ago) link
:}
Lex, Some Dude, Dyl, all you guys, you probably never even heard of most of the rappers in first post.
tell me more about this "Nas," o wise one
― un chill goon (some dude), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:30 (nine years ago) link
Wu-Tang: I've heard of him, he sings about karate!
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:31 (nine years ago) link
"tell me more about this "Nas," o wise one
― un chill goon (some dude),"
He wears a kufi, that Jim Jones said would "smack off his fuckin head"
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:33 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pL3Lq6OvXxU
― scott seward, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
:}}))888
racoon can you answer my questions
raccoon how old are you? serious question
― marcos, Thursday, January 8, 2015 10:07 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― marcos, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:38 (nine years ago) link
lol @ the idea of Wu as political rap, they're like one step above coast-to-coast FM
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:43 (nine years ago) link
*AM, sorry. it's too early
RT deluded about the commercial success of his listed rap acts, and about their "political" content (Wu? Slick Rick? gtfo). I pointed out that P.E.'s "Fight the Power" is probably the peak commercial success of an explicitly political rap act, and that didn't even place on the Billboard pop chart.
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:45 (nine years ago) link
as opposed to multiple people who have been cited so far who are among the biggest selling and critically acclaimed rap acts around
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:46 (nine years ago) link
BDP never cracked the top 40, for example
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:47 (nine years ago) link
RT, you might find some artists that fit the profile you're describing here:
rolling CORP low bar just to appear hip to teens thread 2015
― the farakhan of gg (DJP), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
I can maybe see finding it amusing watching this loser shit himself in public (or pretend to, which isn't better) but trying to actually have a discussion is like
what the fuck are you guys doing
― bife claro (wins), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
De La Soul had one hit single (with zero political/conscious content). Jungle Bros had zero.
xp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
Kids say the darndest things
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:50 (nine years ago) link
― Οὖτις,
― Οὖτις
You've said some dumb shit but this takes the biscuit. Lol @ you conflating success and influence with pure commercial gains. Ironic. Wu were platinum by the way.
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:52 (nine years ago) link
with the protest song "cash rules everything around me"
― un chill goon (some dude), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:54 (nine years ago) link
― un chill goon (some dude),
OH WOW you really jus went FULL DUMBASS with that shit you fucking Charlie XCX moron
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:55 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa9LNPwZIGA
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
RT aren't you banned yet?
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:57 (nine years ago) link
with the protest song "cash rules everything around me"― un chill goon (some dude),
Can't quite believe you just KO'd yourself like this so easily. I knew it would happen you've been saying some pretty dumb shit even for a Minaj and Charlie XCX fan but this just proves you KNOW JACK SHIT of what you're talking about
You clearly have no idea about that song past the hook that you completely and hilariously misunderstood
Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan, next time you try to mock, make sure you know wtf you're talking about.
It's been 22 long hard years and still strugglinSurvival got me buggin, but I'm alive on arrivalI peep at the shape of the streetsAnd stay awake to the ways of the world cause shit is deepA man with a dream with plans to make C.R.E.A.M.Which failed; I went to jail at the age of 15A young buck sellin drugs and such who never had muchTrying to get a clutch at what I could not touchThe court played me short, now I face incarcerationPacin', going up state's my destinationHandcuffed in back of a bus, 40 of usLife as a shorty shouldn't be so roughBut as the world turns I learned life is HellLiving in the world, no different from a cellEveryday I escape from Jakes givin chase, sellin baseSmokin bones in the staircaseThough I don't know why I chose to smoke sessI guess that's the time when I'm not depressedBut I'm still depressed, and I ask what's it worth?Ready to give up so I seek the Old EarthWho explained working hard may help you maintainto learn to overcome the heartaches and painWe got stickup kids, corrupt cops, and crack rocksand stray shots, all on the block that stays hotLeave it up to me while I be living proofTo kick the truth to the young black youthBut shorty's running wild, smokin sess, drinkin beerAnd ain't trying to hear what I'm kickin in his earNeglected for now, but yo, it gots to be acceptedThat what? That life is hected
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 17:58 (nine years ago) link
at least I'm getting some display name suggestions out of this
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:00 (nine years ago) link
hahahahaa this is TOO GOOD what a freaking idiot "some dude"
This is what I'm talking about I'm dealing with Minaj morons here who have zero freaking clue about any of hip hop history acts even in the basic level.
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:01 (nine years ago) link