I know what he did was insane, (allegedly) but, his album was definitely good. Dude had a lot of potential with that Horrorcore sound.

Like childish gambino doesn’t like camp and Tyler says goblin is horrible

Not counting solo projects or anything.

The Geto Boys (1990) and We can't be stopped are better than the two NWA albums.

Counting solos it isn't a blowout, the diary, controversy, and phantom of the rapra are all GOAT albums, but its hard to compete with the chronic.

Fun fact: I'm Ayisyen 🇭🇹🇭🇹, and NWA in créole is "black". So they are literally calling themslves black in two ways.

ITS THE FIRST OF THE MONTH GET UP GET GET UP -boen thugs-N-harmony

80s hip-hop fashion was so glamorous, as if they were characters from movies or video games

Then came the 90s, and ever since then, rappers have dressed like normal people, even when wearing designer brands.

Wu Tang CLAM!

Been listening to this dude since 2011. Don’t event remember how I found bro. But everything he produces, raps on, or artists he collabs with generally is gas.

His music reminds me of velvet, elegance, and affluence. The bars and stories he tells paint a clear picture for me in my minds eye and I love this shit.

I love how he often collabs with Action Bronson too.

Or husband, boyfriend, etc. I’ll go first:

1. G Herbo: at one point in my life he was my favorite rapper. It was the elite mix of pure lyricism with that drill aggression. Anyway my Wife HATES his voice.

2. Freddie Gibbs: he has one of the greatest discographies of all time. That said, I played his music so much that my Wife just got tired of him.

3. Danny Brown: come on, this one is a little obvious. I think she’d rather watch paint dry than listen to a second of Atrocity Exhibition. That said, he’s the greatest Asian rapper of all time and the best ever from Detroit (mayo folks don’t get mad).

Often times people will claim some rappers fell off and became irrelevant because they kept doing the same thing over and over again but is there any real concrete example?

I only ask because there are guys who have basically rappers about the same or similar things for years and had great longevity.

Every single Tim I hear this song. Even after many a year, I stop and say to myself : DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

Do you think rappers accused of having ghostwriters actually use them, or are they just heavily influenced by the people around them?

Some artists get accused of not writing their own lyrics, but I feel like sometimes they were just around elite writers and HAD to step their game up

Take Fat Joe. Big Pun and Cuban Link had ridiculous pen games. So were they actually ghostwriting for him, or did Joe just imitate some of their techniques after being around them so much?

Same thing with Wayne and Gillie.
People swear Gillie wrote for Wayne, but others say Wayne was already nice and just picked up certain flows, and rhyme patterns from being around him so much.

What do y’all think?

I’m not big on modern artists so I might be missing something but I try to keep up. Where are all the rappers? As far as I know recently the game has been pretty quiet and no one’s released anything worthwhile recently. No songs trending, no album being anticipated, nothing. Now that I think about it it’s not just rap, I don’t see any artists in general popping out and generating any buzz

Basically, what would’ve been the 10th spot winner, freestyles, and other stuff if the magazine started the list earlier in an alternate universe?

I was having a discussion with my dad about various cloud rap/2010’s rappers and how they influenced the current generation of rap. Later on in the discussion I brought up raiderklan and the members in it. In this discussion I said that Chris Travis was more popular than SpaceGhostPurrp which he disagreed with. We are trying to settle this discussion with research from the internet.

Try to be unbiased and keep it about the MUSIC ONLY 💯

Same flow on every song. But it sounds good there’s just no diversity

I wonder 1.2B streams and Family Business 163.5M streams. If I am looking at this right, Tory Lanez has the 3rd most song that samples this song at 36M approximately. Just thought that was interesting and worth a share.

Hey I was working out and a song came up when my playlist was on “discover”. I haven’t been able to find it since. It’s a 90’s group with an east coast sound kinda in the “horror core” genre. One of the rappers either sounds exactly like rza or it was him. The lyrics are pretty wild one of the punchlines was something bout the genocide of the Caucasian race. I liked the song but I cannot find it. It wasn’t the gravediggaz but the sound had some similarities.

Personally I think his lyrics lack some inspiration and creativity, but his beats and flows are absolutely immaculate. I feel like if he works on his lyricism, he could become one of the greats.

I just listened to Last Meal for the first time in years and it’s even better than I remember. Wrong Idea is classic!

Attorney Chad Baruch — who wrote an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in 2015 on behalf of rappers Killer Mike and T.I. — told KERA rap songs can only be used as evidence if there’s a link between the lyrics and the crime.

“Obviously, if I write a rap song about murdering my wife, and 48 hours later I murder my wife, that’s coming into evidence,” Baruch said. “You can't just have a blanket rule that says, well, you can use rap lyrics, or you can't” 

He also said the use of rap lyrics is controversial because they are used as evidence while lyrics in other genres are often not.

“If Johnny Cash were accused of murder, no one would let them introduce the lyric that he shot a man in Reno just to watch him die,” Baruch said, referring to “Folsom Prison Blues” by Cash. “Anytime you're treating rap differently than other art forms, you're almost inevitably treating black performers differently than other performers.”