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Wario Lemieux said:
Relevant to my interests: If you guys absolutely had to drop 2, maybe 3 songs from The Black Album, which would you pick? And if you honestly can't imagine any of them being gone, tell me. It'll help a lot.

I don't hate any songs from The Black Album, but Allure didn't really do much for me. Some people say Justify My Thug, but I actually like that one aside from the hook.
 

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Wario Lemieux said:
Relevant to my interests: If you guys absolutely had to drop 2, maybe 3 songs from The Black Album, which would you pick? And if you honestly can't imagine any of them being gone, tell me. It'll help a lot.

'Change Clothes' and 'Moment of Clarity' are both pretty pointless. The world would have been better off if "If skills sold, truth be told/I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli" never happened.
 

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Tony Bagels said:
Wario Lemieux said:
Relevant to my interests: If you guys absolutely had to drop 2, maybe 3 songs from The Black Album, which would you pick? And if you honestly can't imagine any of them being gone, tell me. It'll help a lot.

'Change Clothes' and 'Moment of Clarity' are both pretty pointless. The world would have been better off if "If skills sold, truth be told/I'd probably be lyrically Talib Kweli" never happened.

"Change Clothes" and "Justify your Thug".
 

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My question turned out to just be an opinion question, I guess. I was gonna remix The Black Album, got four songs in and then found Blueprint a capellas. That was what I wanted to do anyway, so I'm doing it instead. I'm in even more over my head now, but whatever. Also, they don't have "Breathe Easy (Lyrical Exercise)"! The fuck? It's the only song missing. They even have the goddamn Girls Girls Girls remix.
 

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lolz just saw the Fallon video. Felicia Day's tiny "Wolf!" when he's all up in her face is fantastic. These guys are hilarious.
 
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I think anyone who wants to be a rapper wants to do shit like that. At least I know I do!

Haha Mos Def is hilarious. SWAG AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. He's done some stuff with Chappelle. He's a funny dude.
 

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We need to re-do the GOAT tournament so we can include FRED THE GODSON

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Fred The Godson - Flawless Victory
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Fred The Godson "The Best" featuring Remo The Hitmaker

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looks like dat nigga had gigantism with that fucked up head then someone took a bat to the side of it
 
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That video is seriously fucking amazing. Eminem's verses on that song show why the tournament here is now wack as fuck.
 

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Dre's roided out forehead is just hard to look away from. Geez. I'm going to hit the gym. I will be damned if I am fatter than Dr. Dre.
 

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You know what. Nevermind. I didn't take the time to see who said it. Seriously, nevermind.
 

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I'm going to respond anyway.

Things wrong with that song (in my eyes):

(1) The beat is schlocky AOR-baiting garbage. I'd say "I can't believe how far Dre has fallen as a producer", but he didn't even make the beat. Who the fuck has ever asked for a Dr. Dre song where he raps over someone else's beat?

(2) Eminem, who used to have one of the most versatile and elastic flows in the business, sounds exactly the same on this song as he does on everything else he's rapped on in the last 12 months.

(3) Dre's verse is possibly the most obvious example of ghostwriting in history.
 

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Only good part about that song is that it confirms that the "I'm out the closet, I been lyin my ass off/All this time, me and Dre been fuckin with hats off!" line on "My Dad's Gone Crazy" wasn't a joke.
 

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I wish Dr. Dre would just drop Detox and ride off into the sunset forever. 2001 is probably one of the most influential albums of my high school years, but I stopped caring about Detox in 2003 and I sure as fuck don't want to hear Dre's now corporate sterilized beats blasting over the radio in 2011.
 

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I think I have a new favorite website

We are supposed to listen to Pill because he wears “wife-beaters” as a matter of comfort, not to be ironi-cal. Also, he “explicates the psychologically debilitating d-boy experience, setting his ruggedly introspective corner rhymes against the backdrop of the panoptical necocon police state in the greater Atlanta metro area.”

Basically, Pill has a fanbase that thinks he makes no kind of fucking sense and they like him for that.

DasCoolio if you are a tween I guess. I mean, back in a simpler time I was a huge fan of Foo-Shniggins. I only listened to their tape while high speed dubbing it. So I couldn’t understand one fucking thing those googily race moppets said.

But now we live in serious times. Rappers should be making as much as sense as possible, to as many people as possible. Unfortunately, Pill is hard to follow. Take for instance his use of the passive voice:

“a handgun is risen when it’s all about the digits”

Son, WTFxLOL. Seriously, WTFxLOL. A handgun is risen? You watch too much Pulp Fiction you nonsense-spewing leviticus grammar having jabberwocky flocky fuck?

How’s this for a line:

“ho checker, you can call me scantron pimpin”

U mean a tool of automated assessment? The man is frankly a threat to rational discourse. Peep this video if you don’t believe me. Around 2:35 he mentions something about rappers “hiding in the basement/ redecorate their wardrobe and go and get a facelift.” Not only doesn’t that rhyme in any dialect of American English, it’s utter flapdoodle, akh.

I have no idea what this motherfucker is ever talking about, and you shouldn’t either. Twitcott this balderdash until he starts talking sense or you might find yourself rubbing elbows with Aysop Roc aficianados in a too-mildewy-to-be-hip old man’s bar in outer Queens, yo.
 
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