The Hip Hop/Rap Thread

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sweetre15 said:
I dont know if y'all like talking about Old School stuff much but what do y'all think of this Biggie Smalls Interview from back in the day: http://tinyurl.com/d7stwer

and would an interview of this kind even by tolerated in this point in the game?
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I don't think much has changed really. As long as you're at the top you can pretty much say anything you want and it's that way now and it's that way in just about everything in life.

You can't be on the come up and say **** like that but if you're Kanye, Nas, Jay Z, any Wu member, etc coming out with an interview like that people would listen not hate. Hell you can even say that early on in your career but you best back it up and spit fire.
 
just saw (most of) the movie Full Clip.. it was straight to video some years ago. Starring Busta Rhymes, Xzibit, Spliff Starr, Prodigy of Mobb Deep, Tiny Lister, and Wyclef (as a fourth-wall breaking narrator). The late Bubba Smith also has a role, as does Saturday Night Live alumna Ellen Cleghorne.

The film is a loose remake of the early 1970s film Bucktown, a Fred Williamson/Pam Grier film.

Here, Joshua Pope (Rhymes) is a retired green beret (!), coming back to his old Alabama hometown where his father, a hotel/apartment owner, recently died. He finds out that the entire town is being victimized by a protection racket run by the local police. He calls in some former army pals turned mercs (Xzibit, Prodigy, Starr, Lister), and they help him run out the crooked cops, rather violently-- but then Pope's pals figure they might as well take over where the crooked cops left off, since that's where the money is..

curiously, almost all scenes are cut with a left-to-right wipe, and many frequently feature comic-book-still transitions..
 
Scrandy Randy said:
I don't think much has changed really. As long as you're at the top you can pretty much say anything you want and it's that way now and it's that way in just about everything in life.

You can't be on the come up and say **** like that but if you're Kanye, Nas, Jay Z, any Wu member, etc coming out with an interview like that people would listen not hate. Hell you can even say that early on in your career but you best back it up and spit fire.
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What's funny is at that time Biggie was on his second year in the mainstream and he said what he wanted to say...for instance, who else would ever say hilarious stuff like this when they are still a freshman in the game:
E-40: No rating! Zero! I don’t **** with duke at all. At all.


KRS-One: KRS-One?? Naahhh…I don’t like KRS no more ’cause he just think
he’s too dope. He let his ego take over his **** and that’s what brings
him down. When he was like that (shouts “Blow it to yourself”), when he was
like that, then he was a ten but now, ‘I am Hip Hop’!!! Eat a dick *****.
Eat a muthaphukkin dick!




R.A. The Rugged One: The white boy??!! The one that I did the jam with???
That’s who you talkin’ about? Two…might be a three, I did the song, they
paid me a lot of money, that’s why I did it. The beat was knockin’.




Sir Mix-a-lot: Nothing! I love his coats. I would love to be in the game
like how that ***** get in the game. I wanna be just as large as those
fools but get busy, cut the ******** **** saying…I got millions but
God damn that ***** get on the mic it’s just something terrible dog. I
just wanna get busy on the mic more than anything. The little ***** game
the niggs play with the girls, man! A ***** just throw some *****es in
they **** and they just sit there, like from the “Tootsie Roll” **** to
the “Whoot! There it is!” It’s the same ****. You get trapped up
with these hoes. That **** ain’t got nothing to do with hip hop. Nothing!
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Anyone buy Big K.R.I.T's Live From The Underground?
 
Also anyone going see Something From Nothing:The Art of Rap tomorrow?
 
If it opens around my way I'll definitely check it out, though maybe not tomorrow.
 
Anyone hear the new XV? Aaah Real Monsters. Dope track. Can't wait to hear his mixtape dropping today.
 
CrypticOne said:
Anyone hear the new XV? Aaah Real Monsters. Dope track. Can't wait to hear his mixtape dropping today.
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Love the mixtape. XV is one of my favorites. He, Kendrick Lamar, Freddie Gibbs, Meek Mill, and Wale are my favorite right now.

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Meek Mill dropped Dreamchasers 2 a couple weeks back and it is incredible.
 
MrWayne said:
MF Doom > ftw
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Doom built a good reputation around '04-'05, then started squandering with concert antics (employing doubles like Saddam Hussein) and false promises, where's that DOOM/Ghostface album?
 
Man that New God Flow is amazing! I thought Kanye was putting out some so so stuff with Mercy but this has erased any doubts I had about Cruel Summer being another classic!

Nas is on that Illmatic style, Oh yes!!
 
Loving new Lupe Fiasco stuff like B**** Bad from his upcoming Food & Liquor 2 album.

MF Doom produced really good Joey Bada$$ 1999 mixtape.

Been listening to SpaceGhostPurpp album too.

Hip Hop is getting good again.
 
Odd Future's Frank Ocean comes out of the closet:

Whoever you are. Wherever you are… I’m starting to think we’re a lot alike. Human beings spinning on blackness. All wanting to be seen, touched, heard, paid attention to. My loved ones are everything to me here. In the last year or 3 I’ve screamed at my creator, screamed at clouds in the sky, for some explanation. Mercy maybe. For peace of mind to rain like manna somehow. 4 summers ago, I met somebody. I was 19 years old. He was too. We spent that summer, and the summer after, together. Everyday almost. And on the days we were together, time would glide. Most of the day I’d see him, and his smile. I’d hear his conversation and his silence…until it was time to sleep. Sleep I would often share with him. By the time I realized I was in love, it was malignant. It was hopeless. There was no escaping, no negotiating to the women I had been with, the ones I cared for and thought I was in love with. I reminisced about the sentimental songs I enjoyed when I was a teenager. The ones I played when I experienced a girlfriend too quickly. Imagine being thrown from a plane. I wasn’t in a plane though. I was in a Nissan Maxima, the same car I packed up with bags and drove to Los Angeles in. I sat there and told my friend how I felt. I wept as the words left my mouth. I grieved for then. Knowing I could never take them back for myself. He patted my back. He said kind things. He did his best, but he wouldn’t admit the same. He had to go back inside soon. It was late and his girlfriend was waiting for him upstairs. He wouldn’t tell the truth about his feelings for me for another 3 years. I felt like I’d only imagined reciprocity for years. Now imagine being thrown from a cliff. No, I wasn’t on a cliff. I was still in my car telling myself it was gonna be find and to take deep breaths. I took the breaths and carried on. I kept up a peculiar friendship with him because I couldn’t imagine keeping up my life without him. I struggled to master myself and my emotions. I wasn’t always successful.

The dance went on. I kept the rhythm for several summers after. It’s winter now. I’m typing this on a plane back to Los Angeles from New Orleans. I flew home for another marred Christmas. I have a windowseat. It’s December 27, 2011. By now I’ve written two albums. This being the second. I wrote to keep myself busy and sane. I wanted to create worlds that were rosier than mine. I tried to channel overwhelming emotions. I’m surprise at how far all of it has taken me. Before writing this I’d told some people my story. I’m sure these people kept me alive, kept me safe. Sincerely, these are the folks I wanna thank from the floor of my heart. Everyone of you knows who you are. Great humans, probably angels. I don’t know what happens now. And that’s alrite. I don’t have any secrets I need kept anymore. There’s probably some small **** still, but you know what I mean. I was never alone, as much as it felt like it. As much as I still do sometimes. I never was. I don’t think I ever could be. Thanks. To my first love, I’m grateful for you. Grateful that even thought it wasn’t what I hoped for and even thought it was never enough, it was. Some things never are. And we were. I won’t forget you. I won’t forget the summer. I’ll remember who I was when I met you. I’ll remember who you were and how we’ve both changed and stayed the same. I’ve never had more respect for life and living than I have right now. Maybe it takes a near death experience to feel alive. Thanks. To my mother. You raised me strong. I know I’m only brave because you were first. So thank you. All of you. For everything good. I feel like a free man. If I listen closely, I can hear the sky falling too.

- Frank
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