― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 04:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 12 September 2003 08:13 (twenty-two years ago)
stevem, despite what most people will tell you, 'it was written' and 'god's son' are the best nas albums lyrcially, if you want hungry classic queens crack music then 'illmatic' is better but a bit too jazzy. i actually think 'lifestyles ov da poor and dangerous' has better mcing and better beats.
i think nas is better than jay z because i have a feeling i'd get on better with him in real life, i love jay z but i think he'd do my head in after while.
ok i have a question who is better proof vs royce the 5'9"?
― sean g, Friday, 12 September 2003 13:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Qoolout, Friday, 12 September 2003 16:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 17:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 17:45 (twenty-two years ago)
But since we talking about 50, I gots to go with Chris Rock. All you hear about 50 is "he got shot 9 times!" hows the record? "HE GOT SHOT 9 TIMES!". Yeah some of the tracks are tight, but most of that is down to production, and yeah he puts down (a few) hot lines but it aint a great album. As for him being hardcore, well, the spits are hardcore, the way he does it aint. If you want hardcore, go with DMX.
But to leave on a high note, heres a little from my man Dizzee Rascal. 19 year old kid from London who just won the Mercury music prize which is a pretty big deal over here.
"more destructive and troublesome than ever/i'll PROBABLY be doing this PROBABLY forever/fellas wanna stop me they'll PROBABLY come together/its PROBABLE they'll stop me/PROBABLY - never"
I'm out like... part 1, part 2 and part 3...
Peace
― 3:16, Friday, 12 September 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:25 (twenty-two years ago)
his new single is a lot more fun if you imagine him yelling "I LOVE DIIICK" instead of the actual chorus. and the video supplants what is usually his overt homoeroticism with ALL OUT GAY PORN ORGY.
― Adrian (Adrian Langston), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:35 (twenty-two years ago)
1) He basically (w/songs like Rikers Island, Streets of New York, and Talk Like Sex) was the first hardcore gangsta NYC MC.
2) His tragically underrated Live and Let Die (even though it supposedly got butchered in the final release thanx to Ice-T's cop killa) is really the first NYC record to incoporate some of the West Coast sound and gangsta attitude...Bascially, the same thing Biggie did with Ready to Die but 2 years before Biggie came out
3) His flow, voice, lyrics, everything are damn near perfect
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:39 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 18:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 September 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)
http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/the_greatest/65574/episode_wildcard.jhtml?wildcard=/shows/dynamic/includes/wildcards/the_greatest/50hip_hop/1_50_aux.jhtml&event_id=864597
look for yourself....Salt n Pepa is in the top 10, that's all I'll say (and Arrested Development made the fucking list!)
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 September 2003 20:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― Adrian (Adrian Langston), Friday, 12 September 2003 20:45 (twenty-two years ago)
50 Cent isn't trying to sound hard.
I love everything I've heard by Foxy (which is two songs, maybe).
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 12 September 2003 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 12 September 2003 20:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 21:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― trife (simon_tr), Friday, 12 September 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 12 September 2003 21:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Friday, 12 September 2003 21:29 (twenty-two years ago)
1. Run-D.M.C.
2. Public Enemy
3. 2Pac
4. The Notorious B.I.G.
5. LL Cool J
6. Eminem
7. Dr. Dre
8. Grandmaster Flash
9. Salt-N-Pepa
10. Jay-Z
11. Beastie Boys
12. Wu-Tang Clan
13. NWA
14. P. Diddy
15. Missy Elliott
16. Ice-T
17. Fugees / Lauryn Hill
18. Afrika Bambaattaa
19. Nas
20. Eric B & Rakim
21. Outkast
22. KRS-One
23. DMX
24. Queen Latifah
25. Snoop Dogg
26. Ice Cube
27. A Tribe Called Quest
28. Busta Rhymes
29. Nelly
30. Will Smith / D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh
31. Naughty By Nature
32. Cypress Hill
33. De La Soul
34. Lil' Kim
35. Big Daddy Kane
36. Master P
37. The Roots
38. Biz Markie
39. Ja Rule
40. Gang Starr
41. MC Lyte
42. Kurtis Blow
43. Coolio
44. MC Hammer
45. Heavy D. & The Boyz
46. Eve
47. Arrested Development
48. Kool Moe Dee
49. Tone Loc
50. Sugarhill Gang
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 September 2003 22:45 (twenty-two years ago)
I think when I say that an MC is "real" I really mean "I like his music" and when I say an MC is fake I really mean "I don't like his music" Also, when it comes down to it, who cares if it's so real it's beyond fake or whatever, as long as it's good?
― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 September 2003 22:48 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:27 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)
Sorry if what I wrote is a bit schematic, or glib; I'm trying to be concise. Anyway, the paradox is profound, and it's not going to disappear, because it has strong causes and deep roots. A Jewish poet enslaved in Babylon wrote "For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song/And they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying/'Sing us one of the songs of Zion'/But how can we sing the Lord's song/In a strange land?" So anyone who's made complicit in his own oppression (and few aren't) might feel that death is more honest than mirth, self-destruction more real than a song. "Let my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth." But in music the cliché is getting increasingly wrung dry. Eminem can still wrest great poetry out of it, but for most it's become a tired trope, albeit one that can still kill them. The term "hardcore" deserves to dodder off to its grave, whether it's punk, rave, hip-hop, or porn.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 13 September 2003 01:18 (twenty-two years ago)
Okay also on this real thing frank I think yr right that the "real" is a construct but the point is to grasp it not wish it away. Then you can play with it, coz see we GOTTA thing about the real otherwise what's the point of the music. DMX doesn't rock the thug image, but its like jess quipped he's emo. I mean he ties the "pain" of being an entertainer to the "pain" of hard streets like I love that "X put in years of work and its ALL FOR THE KIDS" line in X Gonna Give It To Ya.
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 13 September 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― todd burns (toddburns), Saturday, 13 September 2003 02:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 13 September 2003 02:43 (twenty-two years ago)
still i think that its sorta utopian to ask that we eliminiate "the real" from pop and its discourse. i mean it seems to be the only thing pop is about. i mean doesn't arguing about "real" map onto arguing about "real hip-hop" map onto arguing about GENRE boundaries which I thought we agreed was part of the vital life of music in the FIRST PLACE?
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 13 September 2003 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 13 September 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)
Which I wasn't suggesting that we do. Sorry Sterling, you're one of the brightest men on here, but I can't think of a more boring response to what I wrote than to decide that I'm saying that "the real" is a construct and that "the real" should be eliminated from pop and its discourse. O daughter of Babylon, who art to be destroyed; happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us. Happy shall he be that subjects you to interminable irrelevant talk about the real being a social construct.
― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Saturday, 13 September 2003 04:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― michael ward, Saturday, 13 September 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― Qoolout, Saturday, 13 September 2003 04:51 (twenty-two years ago)
― Al (sitcom), Saturday, 13 September 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 13 September 2003 10:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Myself, Tuesday, 16 September 2003 17:39 (twenty-two years ago)
All I got to say is I PUT Y'ALL NIGGAS UP ON JADAKISS!
I was gonna try and read everyone who posted, but I got bored so I'll go to three of the topics I saw...
Whoever said they wanted to spit, I say... SPIT! If you seen any of the earlier shit from Bob or even Squirrel Police, you can easily do better than that. In fact, watch me: "I'm a poet, bout to show it, don't you know it?" See? Thanks to Boob and Squirlplise, that's not the worse line spat!
Now, let's not even get to our favorite MCs! Dammit, my PERSONAL list would go 2Pac, Pimp C of UGK, Big Boi of Outkast, Andre "Ice Cold" 3000, and Juicy J of Three 6. But that's DA SOUTH in me. If I had to list the top five MCs UNBIASED it would go 2Pac, BIG, Eminem, Jay-Z, and Outkast. But tell the truth, A3K fucks it up on "Hey Ya!" You know you like it.
Finally, 50 Cent's album is nice. Like 3:16 (U Never Imagined This Evil Dilemma... my neezy), I agree it's at least 60% production - it's Dre, dammit - but 50 still be havin me rollin. He's nice, definitely nowhere near Pac or Big or even Jay-Z, and sellin like crazy. And simply, his album is just mad nice. Mad nice.
All right, I'm gone.
I'm out like part 1, 2, and... oops, my bad 3:16... Peace!
― Hillis 3000 (Hillis 3000), Friday, 19 September 2003 04:50 (twenty-two years ago)
'i don't like much rapexcept dmx becausehe's kind of a goth'
― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 19 September 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)
why is nas hanging jay-ziRapMad 3 days ago
because he won the beef after he dropped etherMCBobbyE in reply to iRapMad 3 days ago
― am0n, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 14:24 (thirteen years ago)
"Since Jay-Z would really let us hang him, we made this"
this dude is creepy as fuck
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 15:39 (thirteen years ago)
Nas to be on CNN tomorrow morning for Soledad Obrien's Starting Point...Nas to be a panelist on CNN tomorrow morning [6.13.12] for Soledad Obrien's Starting Point
Nas will get into all this tomorrow
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:25 (thirteen years ago)
rip jay z
― am0n, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:27 (thirteen years ago)
I wanted to comment on the historical resonance of a bunch of white dudes making an animatronic image of a famous black dude that they could program to realistically struggle and twitch as they hang him from a gallows pole but the fact that this was all commissioned by another famous black dude is melting my mind.
also m@tt OTM
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:49 (thirteen years ago)
At what point do you think, "y'know what? I don't think I need this particular paycheck this bad"?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 16:59 (thirteen years ago)
I think when you are watching the doc short played back and you realize you are the dude standing on the platform imitating the jerking movements of a black man struggling to keep from being lynched, you should have some regrets.
― Victory Chainsaw! (DJP), Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:00 (thirteen years ago)
http://img.youtube.com/vi/1YWYPaY5UUg/0.jpg
― am0n, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:12 (thirteen years ago)
g.o.a.t. eyes
― am0n, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:15 (thirteen years ago)
omg :55
― goole, Tuesday, 12 June 2012 17:20 (thirteen years ago)
the salad days of Qoolout and Hillis 3000
― a literal scarecrow on a quaint porch (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 October 2015 14:38 (ten years ago)