The Rap/Hip-Hop Thread

[Papacita]

50 probably put Beans up to this whole thing with the Jay diss. He's been trying to start something with Jay for a while now, plus he's got an album to promote.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

50's CD leaked today.

 

[CBright7831]

And he will go the way of Ma$e and MOP, and be off the label in less than a year!

I forgot Mobb Deep.

 

[FLAM]

Saw Ghostface last night. Wasn't the best show but it was pretty fun, and Ghost is hilarious when he talks between songs.

 

[KOAB]

After watching the music video... that Drake/Kanye/Wayne/Em collabo was supposed to be about LeBron James?

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I'm pretty sure it's being used in some movie that's coming out about LeBron. I don't think it was actually written about him, though. Regardless, it's a really bad song.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

Gucci Mane was sentenced to 12 months [6 months with good behavior] in prison on Thursday (November 12) for probation violation and taken away to prison in handcuffs, according to a rep from his label.

The sentence is a blow to Gucci’s career. The ATL rapper has a album coming out — The State Vs. Radrick Davis — on December 8 and is arguably at the height of his career; in terms of his sentence, he may be out of prison in six months. Last September, Gucci went to jail and served until March; he was sentenced to a year in prison for failing to fulfill his court-ordered 600 hours of community service, which had been mandated in 2005. – MTV



Not cool.

 

[Ripper]

Haven't gotten to listen to much music lately, but the Slaughterhouse CD hasn't left my car since it got in there. Although this new Lil Wayne mixtape is quite awesome...its sans autotune so that was enough for me to give it a listen and yeah...its pretty good stuff there.

 

[Cackling Co Pilot Kamala]

HOLD ON, GUYS!




I'M HAVING A RAP ATTACK!


Whodini - Magic's Wand HQ RARE VIDEO!!!!!
This thread needed more cheesy '80s hip hop videos.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

1997

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

2009

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.

Hm.

 

[Black Lushus]

I know I'm about 2 years late to the party, but Wu-Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams is pretty stinkin good. When did Masta Killa learn how to rap?

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

Hm.

That's what a show on MTV will do to you.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.


Beanie Sigel - How I Could Kill Jigga Man


It's onnnnnnnn mothafuckas!

 

[Perfxion]

Too bad Jay won't respond and what would be a funny beef would die out too quickly. Too Bad though. Also Fifty is dropping a track against Jay Z. Which means he must have a new album ready to flop.

 

[crandamaniac]

I know I'm about 2 years late to the party, but Wu-Tang Clan's 8 Diagrams is pretty stinkin good. When did Masta Killa learn how to rap?

Eh, I've always thought he's been good, certainly not the best MC in Wu-Tang, but still able to hold his own. His verse on 36 chambers was probably the best on the whole album.

 

[Black Lushus]

He's come a looooong way, it's pretty noticable here.

I noticed Ghostface is missing from the entire second half of the album...I guess he had some internal beef going on with RZA during the recording of the album, but I'm assuming they're cool at this point, this happened two years ago and all.

 

[FroGG_NeaL]

Yeah, Ghostface was mad because RZA wanted to take the group's sound more into My Heart Gently Weaps type shit. Ghostface and a couple other members disagreed. RZA actually owns The Wu-Tang Clan as it's founder. So they apparently kissed and made up earlier this year and Ghostface announced they were working on a new Wu album, and thier differences in opinion had been worked out.

 

[tonyjaymz03]

Lupe Fiasco's new mixtape is awesome.

 

[KOAB]

I've been listening to nothing but Genius and K.O.D. the last two weeks.

 

[CBright7831]

This is how out of the loop I am with rap/hip-hop - I just found out 50 Cent's album flopped.

 

[still fly]

His latest one flopped? Color me surprised.

 

[Black Lushus]

Well, I mean, he's just not that good, let's be honest here.

 

[still fly]

Oh for sure, but I haven't paid attention to 50 Cent since 2005. Always thought the masses loved everything he did, but no longer.

 

[Black Lushus]

I think I stopped paying attention way back after Get Rich or Die Trying...but you're right, the masses usually like shit.

 

[Czech]

Re: that Beanie Sigel youtube

Why do black people wear those jackets with all the NBA logos on them but not all of them are accurate? What are they called? Where does one buy them?

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

Re: that Beanie Sigel youtube

Why do black people wear those jackets with all the NBA logos on them but not all of them are accurate? What are they called? Where does one buy them?

I know the fitted hats are called "NBA All Over" and you can get the jackets at some "urban" clothing stores or online.

 

[CBright7831]

I think I stopped paying attention way back after Get Rich or Die Trying...but you're right, the masses usually like shit.

Same here. GRODT is the only 50 album that I own.

I will say that I enjoy that album a lot. 50 put everything he had into that album.

 

[CBright7831]

Here is the story:


For a man who has talked big about sales figures for much of his career, 50 Cent seems to have had a change of heart when it comes to his latest, Before I Self-Destruct. The rapper's fourth solo album had the lowest opening week of his career, bowing at #5 on 160,000 sales, trailing his next-smallest debut, 2007's Curtis, by more than 500,000 copies.

Self-Destruct did leak weeks before its release, causing a one-week push-up for the physical release and an even earlier release for the album's digital incarnation. And 50 doesn't appear to be sweating the sales dip.

"For myself, I'm asking myself, 'What did you expect, bro? Your fans got it when it was available, at the first available opportunity,' " he said in an interview on DJ Green Lantern's Sirius Satellite radio show earlier this week, before the numbers were official. "For me this album is a prequel — it's full circle. When the energy around a project is the way this is, you can't really feel like it's a failure. Like, I look at the numbers and am like, 'What is this?' I've already assessed that the album has been out a month before its actual release period [due to an online leak, and the album's early digital release due to the leak]. So when you got that, you go, 'Well, what did you actually expect?' "

In July of 2008, 50 predicted that Self-Destruct, then slated for a late 2008 release, would sell 1 million copies in its first week.

He has recently been in the midst of a publicity blitz that has included a rash of promotional appearances and attempts to start one of his traditional pre-release beefs with a major rap figure, in this case Jay-Z. Considering that his 2003 debut, Get Rich or Die Tryin' sold 872,000 and nabbed the #1 spot in its first week and the 2005 sequel, The Massacre smashed the charts with 1.5 million in sales for a second consecutive top debut, in a season filled with major releases from the likes of Lady Gaga, Adam Lambert, Rihanna, Lil Wayne, Susan Boyle and Beyoncé, Self-Destruct faces a tough market.

 

[Ed Wood Caulfield]

This is how out of the loop I am with rap/hip-hop - I just found out 50 Cent's album flopped.

Maybe he'll do what I've wanted him to do since 2003 and disappear into obscurity.

Honestly, though, he doesn't annoy me as much as he used to, and I liked "I Get Money", so that's one song of his that I actually like (I also liked "Hate It Or Love It" too, but that's more of a Game song, isn't it?).

Anyway, Lil' Wayne has taken 50's place as the world's most overexposed rapper.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

I've been listening to nothing but Genius and K.O.D. the last two weeks.

What do you think of K.O.D?