Official Hip Hop/Rap Music Thread

[BlueNGold]

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First you defend Man of Steel, now you're excited about a Drake and Future tour. Quick, to the ignore list!

I'm mostly excited because it seems we either never get any good concerts here or I end up missing out on them. It's not like I'm the biggest Drake fan either but I like enough of his music to warrant going to this.

Future is just straight trash aside from 1 or 2 decent hooks he's had on songs. Would have been nice to have someone else in his spot.

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[TheShizNo1]

My boy likes Yeezus. Said it's different and has a lot of techno and party beats which he's in to. I know I'm maturing in life because it took everything for me not to call him a ****ing idiot.

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[Watson]

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I know I'm behind but I'm on my first listen of Yeezus.



"Keep it 300 like the Romans", Yeezy? Do you really. Do you REALLY keep it 300 like the Romans, West?

"In a French *** restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants."

At what point are we going to start worrying about this dude's mental health?

[BlueNGold]

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I know I'm behind but I'm on my first listen of Yeezus.



"Keep it 300 like the Romans", Yeezy? Do you really. Do you REALLY keep it 300 like the Romans, West?

"In a French *** restaurant, hurry up with my damn croissants."

At what point are we going to start worrying about this dude's mental health?

We missed that point when he knocked up Kim.

[kingkilla56]

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Kim K stay ruining careers.

[Fly3]

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I posted this like two days ago. Are people doing this on purpose? Seems like people always re-post songs that I already have.

It had 4 likes when I posted it. Lol, Savemoney has really blown up. Chance must have posted this on his Twitter.

[Chrisksaint]

I posted this like two days ago. Are people doing this on purpose? Seems like people always re-post songs that I already have.

It had 4 likes when I posted it. Lol, Savemoney has really blown up. Chance must have posted this on his Twitter.

You may be on ignore by a majority of people

[TheShizNo1]

You may be on ignore by a majority of people

And you go and quote him.

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[DukeC]

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FLATBUSH, Beastcoast movement.

[ProfessaPackMan]

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Oh, and y'all already know how I feel about the GOAT putting out a new album. Felt like T.I. in the Blurred Lines Video when I heard the word album said during Samsung's halftime commercial.




Only negative was no Just Blaze in that room full of producers. It's been over 10 years since these two blessed us with the magic they create together. Bull****.

Felt like T.I eh?

I would've figured more like this:


Just messing with you my man lol

Kim K stay ruining careers.

Ray J, Reggie, Miles and Kris think otherwise.

Unless you're talking about post-Kim for those guys in which I agree.

[BlueNGold]

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Kanye May Be A God, But Is Drake The New King?

The most blatant demonstration of this came on 2011's summer smash “I’m On One,” when Drake rapped, “They say the throne is for the taking, watch me take it,” as the rollout for Kanye West and Jay-Z's collaborative album, Watch The Throne (Roc-A-Fella/Roc Nation/Def Jam) was in full swing. A few months prior, Drake had rapped, “My favorite rappers either lost or they ain’t alive.” On Watch The Throne’s “Otis,” Kanye responded, “****** talking real reckless, stuntmen / I adopted these ******.”

Later that year, Drake addressed the jab, telling Complex, “I’m sure people took it that way and that’s good, man. That’s great. Wake the **** up. I hope it makes you go harder. I hope it makes you get mad at me and write a song with me in mind. I hope Kanye’s verse on ‘Otis’ was with that in mind.”

In 2013, it feels like Drake is still riffing on that, rapping about competitors’ albums selling poorly, and how “those ****s would have popped if [he] was willing to help”—a statement that feels targeted and deliberately aimed at Kanye West with the wide sales margin Take Care (Young Money/Cash Money/Republic) has over Watch The Throne in mind.

The falloff of their friendship can’t be because of Drake’s short-lived beefs with G.O.O.D. Music artists Common and Pusha T, because Kanye still praises Lil Wayne despite Wayne’s conflicts with Pusha. Instead, if there’s a moment to pinpoint, it seems like everything changed after Kanye dropped Drake from “All of the Lights,” despite adding 11 other featured guests. Maybe by that time, Kanye had grown averse to Drake being “influenced” by him and started to consider it biting.

Around the same time that Drake was dropped from “All of the Lights,” his longtime collaborator Noah “40” Shebib told Vibe, “’Ye cursed me out one day about jacking his sound.” 40 also said he “can’t even be mad” at Kanye for that lashing because 808s & Heartbreak (G.O.O.D./Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam, 2008) was the last album he listened to before working Drake’s So Far Gone (Young Money/Cash Money/Universal, 2010) and it did inspire the sound of that project. Another one of Drake’s frequent producers, Boi-1da, took to Twitter after that story surfaced and bashed Kanye for “talking about stealing swag, when he’s made a career out of sampling records.”

A few months later, Drake appeared indifferent towards the minor controversy. He was gracious, telling MTV in December of 2010, he would “always have something positive to say" about Kanye West. "I feel like we can co-exist," he elaborated, “I might be the only one that feels that way, though."

By the next month—when Kanye West and Jay-Z announced Watch The Throne—Drake was less polite, accusing them of stealing the idea from him and Lil Wayne, who had previously revealed plans to release a collaborative album.

“There’s two other rappers coming out with an album together. I don’t know where they got that idea,” he sarcastically told Tim Westwood during a January 2011 interview. By the next year, he was sending thinly-veiled shots like “All you got is some years on me, man, **** you and your time difference” on French Montana’s “Pop That.”

I already know what some of the reactions to that article title are going to be . I just found the details of the underlying Kanye/Drake rivalry interesting.

[Cyros]

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Taking this back to high school

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[BlueNGold]

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Taking this back to high school

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Even though this isn't technically his song, mid-2000's T.I. had hits for days.

[trobinson97]

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Taking this back to high school

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Geez you were in high school when this came out?

Makes me feel kinda

[Cyros]

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Even though this isn't technically his song, mid-2000's T.I. had hits for days.

Mid 2000s feels like it was a pretty good time for music.

Geez you were in high school when this came out?

Makes me feel kinda

Does it make you feel any better to say I was a senior?