The Rap/Hip-Hop Thread

[Byron The Bulb]

Rappers compare themselves to Republicans all the time as a way of bragging about how rich they are. Like, I don't think Bun B calling himself "Big Dick Cheney" was necessarily an endorsement of the Bush Administration's foreign policy agenda. Anyway, the song itself is hot as heck

Mercy (Young Money Remix)- Lil Wayne ft. Nicki Minaj & Tyga

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

She's received death threats for it.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Nicki Minaj fell off

 

[Perfxion]

That track made me long for Big Sean. Wow, that was all over the place and bad. Plus does Nicki have some kind of split personality disorder where she hears 3 different beats at once and switches from flowing on beat to whatever lala land she is in?

 

[Byron The Bulb]

That's why she's great.

 

[KOAB]

lol that's why she used to be great

 

[still fly]

She was never great or on to begin with.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

She was, and still is. Haters gon' hate tho, I suppose.

I Am Your Leader (Explicit)

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

She had potential but blew it by taking advice from Wayne

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

She was never great or on to begin with.

Truth.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

So 2 Chainz is called such because he always wears 2 chains?

We have hit the wall when it comes to rap names, haven't we?

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

He used to be called Tity Boi. Even his grandma calls him that.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

Yeesh. Hip-Hop has a history of ridiculous names, but 2 Chainz is somehow worse than souljaboytellem.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

just what his concerts needed, a mosh pit

Travis Barker feat. Yelawolf - Push Emhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0_zsmhKr7c

 

[MFer]

Cruel Summer out on Tuesday:

Kanye West - Clique ft. Big Sean & Jay-Z (Explicit)

 

[Byron The Bulb]

Wack.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

T.I. - Trap Back Jumping [CDQ/LYRICS]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wxJdJNJWrs

TI worked himself back to form

 

[MFer]

Catching 106 & Park for the first time in months (and before that, years). I just can't get into this shit anymore. MTV bailed on the music countdown shows years ago; BET should follow suit. Rosci still fine though.

And now it's reportedly going to end next week. I haven't watched BET in general in forever; more people (mainly the young kids) are gonna jump ship once 106 & Park goes off the air.

 

[KOAB]

I don't even know how BET still exists.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

I don't even know how BET still exists.

The sole purpose of its existence is to give old white conservatives a reason to be pissed off.

WHERES MY WET??

Without a BET, what are these guys going to complain about

 

[KOAB]

I don't even think BET plays those late at night music videos anymore that featured nothing but fat asses clapping while some nigga with a grill and a du rag rapping in front of the fat asses clapping with terrible lighting in a video that looked like it was made for a few hundred bucks.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

They don't. BET switches to Christian programming at about 4 a.m. They air Gospel shows all day Sundays.

 

[still fly]

I don't even think BET plays those late at night music videos anymore that featured nothing but fat asses clapping while some nigga with a grill and a du rag rapping in front of the fat asses clapping with terrible lighting in a video that looked like it was made for a few hundred bucks.

BET Uncut was like my childhood brah.

 

[still fly]

Catching 106 & Park for the first time in months (and before that, years). I just can't get into this shit anymore. MTV bailed on the music countdown shows years ago; BET should follow suit. Rosci still fine though.

And now it's reportedly going to end next week. I haven't watched BET in general in forever; more people (mainly the young kids) are gonna jump ship once 106 & Park goes off the air.

I was actually watching 106 & Park the other day. Kind of saddened about this news.

 

[Mr. S£im Citrus]

I have recently re-discovered Asheru.

Asheru & Blue Black- Think About

 

[MFer]

http://hiphop365.com/?p=17827

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

How much did they sign her for?

 

[MFer]

$1 million with Sony. Waiting too long after Gucci Gucci killed her, but even then, the numbers shouldn't be that pathetically low.

Then again, Nelly Furtado's new album only sold 6,000 copies. And she's a former platinum-selling artist!

 

[Incandenza]

You could probably find lower first-week sales for a major-label artist, but you'd likely have to go back before people began caring about tracking these things.

Still, even in this day and age, that's pretty bad!

 

[BUTT]

There was a singer on MCA, Carly Hennessey, whose album was produced by Gregg Alexander of the New Radicals, and it sold like 300 copies. But she wasn't on MTV or anything.

Still, this just proves me right:

Byron's endorsement is quickly becoming a commercial kiss of death.