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
also, why do you post here? serious question
― 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
Tell us about trainers again
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
tell us about gays and feminism and transgenders again
― marcos, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
tell us about the our Zionist media again
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
tell us about how modern feminism has no purpose again
― marcos, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:09 (nine years ago) link
rolling minaj morons and charlie xcx fans 2015
― out here like a flopson (tpp), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
"Can't quite believe you just KO'd yourself like this so easily. I knew it would happen" ::masturbates furiously::
― un chill goon (some dude), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
RT do you post on any rap forums other than this one?
are you the martorialist trolling us?
― out here like a flopson (tpp), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
OK, shooting fish in a barrel time, I'll leave you all to get on with it.
― The World's Strangest Man 2014 (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
ilx ain't a rap forum... its a cRap forum
― and I explained the Bechdel Test to her (sleepingbag), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
charli xcx doesn't make pop music, she makes poop music
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
#StopTanuki2015
i believe in us
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/TheCoupCoverLarge.jpg
Imagine if Kendrick Lamar ever wrote anything as good as this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPr1JLoYLW4
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
life is hected
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
In that Coup picture the WTC represents ILX and Boots Riley is Raccoon Tanuki, blowing the whole place up with his truthbombs.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
RT where do you live in the UK?
― out here like a flopson (tpp), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
Realhiphopshire
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
lol
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
a land without gays or jews or women
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:21 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait i just realized this thread needs whiney g weingarten and blood sausage stat
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
honestly, ever since i heard that rea shdrusmmmesr shit everyone's going crazy for i am kinda 100% on board with teh raccoon
― and I explained the Bechdel Test to her (sleepingbag), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
http://assets.noisey.com/content-images/contentimage/25916/ukhiphop1.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Why is the young buck selling such who never had much, Tanuki? Is it because he is an evil muslim perhaps?
― longneck, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Makes me long for Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down? & other throw-downs? days. Popular and successful threads used to be more conscious back in the day.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:57 (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)
lol that song peaked outside the top 40 on the rap singles sales chart and was basically only known for its five-word chorus getting played a couple times over commercials on mtv that year. i guess the influence u refer to = having some white rockcrits wanking over how its marginal presence on the charts at the same time as common's supposedly revolutionary love song signaled the inevitable 'return' of explicitly activist rap as the dominant form of rap. except oops, that didn't happen, since instead we got ja rule/murder inc/blissed out thug love jams dominating the cultural sphere for the next couple of years. hint: if you are complaining about the lack of any explicitly conscious/activist rap (that you like or see as politically aware -- who cares about wimmen and gays and 'transgenders') in mass culture these days, maybe the conscious rap u revere so much wasn't actually that influential?
― dyl, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
the reason that dad prez song wouldn't exist now is because its content is thoroughly well-trodden and completely unexciting to anyone with a political conscience in 2014
― dyl, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
<3 charlie xcx
if we're counting the Coup, Can Ox & Dad Prez as successful group then why wouldn't Run the Jewels count?
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link