Official Hip Hop/Rap Music Thread

[BlueNGold]

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100% truth being spoken in this clip IMO. Elliott has been receiving some backlash for it. Your thoughts?

Don't know why there would be backlash. He's definitely right on everything he touched on in that video.

And Instagram That Hoe? Just SMFH.

[illwill10]

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"Spitta
#liveinconcert is still fighting with the legal beagles.. Wiz got cabin fever 2 for da taylors and I'm on the stove for da lifers we good"

I am surprised that it is taking this long for it to be cleared. I think it had been like 2 months.

[Yeah...THAT Guy]

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Really interesting interview with K'naan regarding his new album (the bold is the interviewer, regular print is K'naan):

http://www.mtviggy.com/interviews/knaan-talks-about-the-trouble-with-recording-in-l-a-and-the-politics-of-the-heart/

For me, the album that you just made has all the hallmarks of a huge pop album. It has these gigantic hooks. Was that a goal and did you enlist a team and work toward that or is that just the album that you ended up making?
No, it’s not the album I ended up making. It’s the album that ended up being the one that’s coming out. Albums go through such a process, especially when you are working in a system that is based on the music business and what happens is, I wrote about 70 some odd songs during the process of creating this record. So, what you’re experiencing on this album is choices, not really only mine. I wouldn’t be able to tell you this is totally just my vision. It has a lot to do with what the record company wants to promote and kind of a balancing act of trying to be mindful of what I feel like needs to be out there. So, I would say it’s kind of a half, half record.
That’s really interesting. It sounds like the goal was to make the biggest pop album you could that would still be you.
That’s what it sounds like? It’s not. That wasn’t my goal. I can write those songs. I’m made that way. Melody is my thing. I can write hooks like that. But it’s funny, it’s just production. It’s how it works. You can write a simple love story into a film and shoot it. And then you can edit it in such a way that it becomes something that it is not or something that appeals to that masses. That’s the gloss you can sense on the record trying to have big songs.
But really I don’t that that’s the vision. I set out to write songs that can be experienced in two ways. From the stage, I can reach a large audience and you learn from being on stage how much a song reaches, what extent of the crowd a song can reach. I write in a way that can reach most of the audience, but I also wanted to have truly intimate moments as well, many intimate moments, more so than the big moments.
There are certainly both kinds of moments on the album. It’s extremely varied.
I hope so. I really hope so. I just don’t know that I accomplished what I set out to accomplish.
You called the song “The Seed” punk rock reggae.
That’s how I hear it.
Do you feel like you are making music with fewer limits than before?
Do you know this film The Five Obstructions by the Danish director?
By Lars Von Trier? I heard about it. I haven’t watched it.
He reaches out to his favorite director of all time and says I want you to remake my favorite film five different ways, but he says remake it with this obstruction. The obstruction has to be to do it in black and white. Then he says your second obstruction is remake it but it has to be a silent film. And he does it. And Lars is watching this entire thing and it’s always good, but the fifth obstruction is no obstruction and that he can’t make.
That can be overwhelming. Did you set yourself the fifth obstruction?
This has been an experience in which the things that were available to me weren’t available to me on other records, like big studios and talent and all of that. So, I didn’t have those kinds of limitations. On the other side, I had the limitation of working in a system and that is the limitation of observation. As soon as something creative is being observed it changes.
What did you discover in that process?
I should never record in L.A. It’s an industry town. And recording in L.A., it’s like everything is complicit in some way. Because everyone touches a song it comes through the same studios, the same players, the same set of people.

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Overall, the new CD definitely has more poppish songs to it. People are already referring to it as K'naan's Lasers.

But the standout songs in my opinion:
The Wall
The Seed
Nothing To Lose (Feat. Nas)
Simple
Bulletproof Pride (Feat. Bono from U2)
Hurt Me Tomorrow

I still like the majority of the album, even the poppier songs, but I'll like just about anything K'naan puts out.

Edit: It's kind of amazing though. It's blatantly obvious which songs were basically just produced by K'naan and which were produced by Ryan Tedder or the guy from Foster The People and stuff.

[justblaze09]

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this fool really did it.

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[DukeC]

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this fool really did it.

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Well....

Too bad they didn't show any clips of him playing .

[LetThatBoyCook]

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this fool really did it.

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National BASED Association

[Jumpman232]

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[Chrisksaint]

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"Spitta
#liveinconcert is still fighting with the legal beagles.. Wiz got cabin fever 2 for da taylors and I'm on the stove for da lifers we good"

I am surprised that it is taking this long for it to be cleared. I think it had been like 2 months.

Can't wait really starting to get in Currensy, he is definitely the better NO rapper then another certain guy

[Jumpman232]

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[Buckeye]

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What's everyone's opinion on Cabin Fever?

[DieHardYankee26]

What's everyone's opinion on Cabin Fever?

Personally, it's alright. It's Wiz I guess. It's definitely something to smoke to, and I won't turn the songs off because I hate them or anything, but I doubt after this week I'll be searching for any of them by name like I do songs from Kush and OJ or Taylor Allerdice. If any of them do get to that level, it'll be one of the songs with Juicy J. I'm a big Juicy J fan, basically grew up with Three Six

[Jumpman232]

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What's everyone's opinion on Cabin Fever?

I liked it, every song was cool to me. Except the first song, don't know what was going through Wiz's head on that one. Liked that Juicy had a handful of features this go around. Like DieHard I'm also a big Juicy/triple 6 fan considering that's alot of what you heard was around my parts of town.

[bigfnjoe96]

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PE just dropped another album... "The Evil Empire of Everything"

So in that honor I leave you this

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[Buckeye]

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Anybody have any new artists I can give a listen, nothing to main stream?

[BlueNGold]

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Anybody have any new artists I can give a listen, nothing to main stream?

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