HAHA.

“Maybe this the album you listen to in your car
When you driving home late at night
Really questioning every god, religion, Kanye, bitches”

Yup! Sounds about right.

“In my Feelings” is the shittest ass song I’ve ever heard. Rather hear “Photograph” by Nickelback.

I tried hard with Lil Wayne. Some of the music's ok but I just can't stand his style of rapping. The number of artists he's influenced only makes it worse.

True, and true. But some of the mixtapes from his golden period are essential, as is The Carter III. Everything else is good at best. Even Carter II is not a must-have in my book, and certainly nothing since III.

Just before this new style dropped I worked for a rap label and the genre did feel like it was in a bit of a rut at that time. I was mostly listening to stuff like Cage, RA the Rugged Man, Necro, Jedi Mind Tricks, the Eastern Conf. Records stuff, while Eminem was still probably the big name in the mainstream, maybe even 50 Cent, so I can see why Lil Wayne was seen as a breath of fresh air, and he obviously was, but something about it just never chimed with me.

Then, later, when I started hearing stuff like Lil Xan, Pump, Uzi Vert, I was just ...

Hmm. I’m not sure I see the relationship between golden era Wayne and those artists, but I never worked for a rap label, so maybe I’m dumb.

All I know is that for a few years, Lil Wayne tore up the mainstream, and released a series of mixtapes that are better than a lot of the albums you hear from the VERY short list of other rappers who have seen that level of success (like, 1-million-actual-albums-sold-in-a-week-week-level success... eg Kanye, Drake deepening on your definition of “albums sold,” and maybe 2pac and Biggie, can’t remember. Maybe Jay once or twice, without the assistance of companies buying 1 million “equivalent units” in streaming exclusivity to cheat the system).

Anywho, I’m not a Wayne Stan (god I hate that word), but for a while he was pretty much king shit.

I watched an interview with Lil Xan last night and I don't think I've ever felt so old.

Yandhi 29/9. https://www.instagram.com/p/Bn2lMvuh...n-by=kanyewest

Are you ready, Sev?

No one of those new rappers are original. Lil Pump is a Gucci Mane clone, Lil Uzi Vert is a poor man's Lil Wayne, 6ix9ine took his style from Stitches..

Lil Xan is mainly known as the kid who got bullied for saying he doesn't enjoy 2Pac's music.

2Pac's "music" sux too.

What's the general thinking about 6ix9ine? I watched some of his interviews, etc, after the Xan one, and heard some tracks, too. I quite liked a couple of them but didn't know what to make of him personally. I mean, if it's all real I can't see him lasting out the year.

I have no earthly idea what’s going on, to be honest.

He's a real life troll. He got a kick out of calling rappers with street credibility like YG and Chief Keef posers and harmless and mocked their current lack of relevancy/commercial success. He pays gang members to walk with him wherever he goes and protect him.

I think he’s got some domestic violence shit going on.

Seems like a possible Yeezus sequel..

Sequel albums are usually shit though.

If these are the unused tracks from the original draw-up of Yeezus, then I’m down. Always wanted to hear them.

I don’t know what to make of this flurry of Kanye activity. He’s never made more than two albums in a 12-Month period, so partnof me is worried that quality will be sacrificed.

As I’ve said countless times now, I want that motherfucker to make his “Abbey Road” and then possibly peace out from the emcee/banner artist game and focus on just producing.

Unless there’s a ton of unexplored potential and another decade of weird, wild, wonderful shit bubbling in that brain of his. Hell, maybe this is his second renaissance. But that kind of thing usually doesn’t happen. Usually artists just stop being good before they quit.

I still love Ye and Kids See Ghosts is freaking amazing, though.

Lol.

Kinda. Sometimes. Honestly I’m not a huge fan. Beats were usually pretty tepid and one-dimensional. Rhymes were decent, in terms of technical ability and sklll, but the older I get the less I care for his aggressive style. Sounds like a rapist.

Oh, wait. He was a rapist. Dude raped a stripper.

Yeah, not a huge fan, frankly. Always preferred Biggie, who was also a giant piece of fucking shit.

Anyone believe/care about The Carter V possibly coming out finally?

Not me, really.

Kinda.


I hope it'll be decent.

So.. new Lupe album is fucking amazing. AMAZING.

Easily better than Tetsuo & Youth. Jesus.

Better than Tetsuo? Eat shit.
I’ll give it a listen.

So maybe “Yahndi” AND Kanye x Chance “Good Ass Job” AND maybe WTT2 (?) all motherfucking coming this year?!

Yahndi, whatever that is, apparently next Friday.

Not sure whether to be stoked or horrified.

have not heard new Lupe LP

Louder,

I have DRPGAS WAVE a quick listen yesterday and I’m sorry... I have to disagree with the assertion that it’s better than Tetsuo & Youth.

I like it, it’s good, it slaps, good stuff, but sonically it is a less nuanced thing. More direct rappity rap from what I can tell. Don’t care for the extended Spanish monologues and sound bytes. Nothing against Spanish, but I find it distracting. Also not sure how I feel about Lupe affecting a Jamaican accent. Feels a bit weird.

Gotta listen more, of course, but yeah... it’s defijitely not bad, but I don’t see myself returning to it much.

Fact I put “Mural” on after like five songs and was digging that significantly more.

"Alan Forever", "King Nas" and "Imagine", to name a few, really captivated me. Tetsuo was good but I wasn't really moved by the music or Lupe's rapping.

I don’t think rapping is or ever has been Lupe’s strength.
He’s like ... well, honestly, he’s almost like a Kanye figure (broken record here, I know) from another dimension. With less obnoxious behavior and less interesting music. His discography and the path of his music oddly mimics Kanye’s in a lot of ways, except where things worked for Ye, they didn’t work for Lupe.

Basically he’s Food & Liquor, The Cool and Tetsuo for me. Those are the only Lupe albums I need.

There’s a snippet out from Carter V. Something about pistols. It’s a snoozer. Stopped it halfway through.

Carter V drops this Friday guys


https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_c...&v=pKWrzGKZoaQ

I thought it was dropping Thursday

Yahndi is (allegedly) dropping Friday

Nobody GAFs about Carter V

Young moolah babyyyyy let's goooo

Really? No.. Lupe is more like a Kendrick/Nas figure. He's all about concepts, storytelling and technical rapping. :rolleyes:

I'm actually pretty excited. He's been working on this one for 6 years..

Disagree.
He’s about doing a variety of sonic shit, and leaning into a variety of sounds and he kinda sucks at technical rapping.

Also, Kendrick and Nas are alike now?

Pssssh

He.. sucks? Whoa. You don't think his verse on "Touch the Sky" was incredible?

Man, Lupe fans are all about trying to decipher his lyrics and concepts. He was the past decade's Kendrick, albeit not as acclaimed or successful.. his first two albums are considered classics and Kendrick was probably influenced by him to an extent.

Food & Liquor 2 was pretty shit musically, almost like an audiobook. He finally stepped up his production on Tetsuo but his lyrics were still super dense and stuff. Drogas Wave is his most balanced effort in my opinion. Still has strange concepts that'll take months to fully digest but the music itself is just really fucking good.

And yes Nas and Kendrick are comparable in terms of being skilled, "conscious" rappers and lyricists. They both aim for that "best rapper" spot, while someone like Kanye is more about creating amazing, enjoyable music.

I don't know how one can listen to Hurt Me Soul, Alan Forever or King Nas (which has nothing to do with Nas at all by the way) yet not hear how great Lupe is at rapping.. unlike Eminem, he makes his complex rhyme schemes sound so effortless too..

Ehh... not saying he’s bad, but I don’t think technical rapping is one of his strengths, nor something he’s perceived to be particularly good at by many.

He’s a so-so lyricist too.

Not hating. I like him. There’s more to making hip-hop music than R-A-Ping.

He was not the last decade’s Kendrick.

When I say technical rapping I’m taking about what Eminem and Kendrick do well — which involves not only the ability to drop bars, but to you with language and rhyme schemes and experiment with meter, all with clever lines and expertly executed raps.

I don’t think Lupe does this. Maybe I’m wrong?

He definitely does man. That's pretty much his main thing.

Not hearing it. Sorry.

He can rap, but he’s no Kendrick. And lyrically, he’s meh.

But I like him. Don’t get me wrong.

“Don’t Stop” and all.

there is more to the "culture" of Hip Hop that RAPPING, but the Yin/Yang of Hip Hop is RAPPER/DJ. Rapping is the sole reason Hip Hop managed to tie in break boys, club/party DJ's, street culture, and graffitti culture into what is now called HIP HOP


There is very very very little more to Hip Hop THAN RAPPING. RAPPING IS EVERYTHING.