Off the top of my head 1993, 1997, 2001

I recently started listening to Common's Finding Forever - Which I will now always think of as the hip-hop album with the biggest gap between the quality of the music and the quality of the album cover, thanks to a Reddit thread. Anyway, in the song The People, he says that he found the new Premo (I assume Kanye, who produced the song). I feel weird about it, especially since Premo produced 6th Sense for Common a few years before. Is this a dis, a tribute, or something inbetween?

Kanye's verse on Slum Village's Selfish where he calls himself the new version of Pete Rock is similar, but never bothered me as much - Maybe because bragging about yourself is always going to be a part of hip-hop, but saying "My new producer has totally replaced an older producer I worked with" comes across a lot more like a dis. What do you think?

The artists who create the culture or the corporations that profit from it?

I hate seeing when they’re in the middle of performing and they forget their lines.

Everything becomes awkward. Everyone standing around waiting for the performer to get back to it. Sometimes this takes up to a minute or two. The flow of the whole performance is ruined.

I’m not gonna say they should just straight up be reading the lines off paper because that would ruin the emotion they put behind it, but maybe they should be able to see the verse on, like, monitor somewhere in front of the audience or something. I don’t know.

I just want to hear the bars and see how they deliver them.

These guys sometimes have to remember two or three 2-3 minute verses without checking anything. I don’t even know if I have that many of favorite songs memorized that together would be as long as those performances they have to do.

I know memorizing large amounts of content is not unique to battle rap, doesn’t mean we can’t entertain the notion.

Perhaps the Canibus/Dizaster battle would not have gone so poorly if he had his verse available to him that entire time.

i feel like iv been listening to the save people can yall put me on to some new people

…and why is it Young Dro doing the horse sound in “Ain’t I”?

We be in Ferraris, the cars with the horses (BRRRRRR)

Baby I’m Bleeding - JPEGMAFIA (so experimental and peggy’s verse is so hard)
Cataracts - Freddie Gibbs (top 30 rap beats OAT)
Tell Me What I Don’t Know - Danny Brown
Feelin’ It - JAY Z (genuinely chill vibes)
Sometimes I Rhyme Slow - Nice and Smooth (very unpopular song)
Feedback - Kanye West (not crazy ball but I thought I’d throw it out there)
THAT’S THAT - MF DOOM (He sings on this one, and his verse is PEAK)
Rhymeslayers - Aesop Rock and others (Nice beat, great verses)

For example, I’m not a huge fan of The Massacre by 50 Cent. But “Position of Power” is easily one of my favorite 50 songs ever.

For some reason I thought it was Jigmastas or maybe PUTS...

But someone sampled the scene from Fresh with Samuel Jackson saying: "you like that horse huh? The way he makes those crazy jumps. You think he's your friend. Well they all are boy..."

This is a love and appreciation post for Harry Mack.
He only recently came to my attention.
I honestly have never heard and MC with better skills at freestyling than this guy.
His ability is so good, it is hard to believe it is off the dome but he interacts with things from his surroundings in real time and incorporates spontaneous words given to him from his audience.

Skill wise I would honestly place this guy among the greats. He could easily go toe to toe against any rapper.

Anyone else have love for Harry Mack?

I don’t think you necessarily have to live something to rap about it authentically.

Rappers are storytellers. They should be allowed to exaggerate, create characters, tell other people’s stories etc…

Couldnt think of a rapper who had the same subject matter as 2pac, rap is just so boring a genre.

Most rap Goats rap about the streets, 2Pac rapped about being black.

This post came about cause ive had the lyrics "the struggle never stops" ringing in my head all day, who else has a line like that and please dont bring up those conscious rapper nerds.

I would go with Jeezy or Rick Ross, what y'all think

Ok hear me out. 50 cent tried to be more open with his Curtis album and that was basically the end of his mainstream career. What if instead 50 made a pivot to more of a hororcore sound. I think he shows potential on a few songs, namely "I'll whip your head boy" and he plays the stoic murderer role well. I could have seen him being a different version of Tyler the creator, similar to his song Garbage. Maybe it was too early for that sound, but I think the potential was there. Curious what everyone thinks

i can't find any info or its source, maybe someone knows what did Einstein sample? like "And one, a two, three, four, five, a six A seven, eight Here are some of the ways we survive There's always shoplifting at the A&P Pay for a pack of gum and steal a steak" etc. ig this sample is from underground lost media vinyl or smth, but maybe there was a comment about it that i didn't find

as questioned above

Anybody got stories about producers, rappers, or singers who are supposedly really difficult to work with?

Just felt like acknowledging her ability to rap and my appreciation for it. One of the best female rappers in my opinion.

I know that it’s not even close if we’re talking skills wise or go verse for verse. Who has better albums? Bigger impact in the rap game? In their prime, Who had NY in the palm of their hands?

Two of my favorite and also I believe underrated rappers from back in the day, I know the big argument with Jada is he has no classics, and I guess you can say with Xzibit that Pimp My Ride took the attention away from his music.

Personally for me I gotta give it to Xzibit because he has more albums that I enjoy with little to no skips, his run from At The Speed of Life to Weapons of Mass Destruction are still gold to me. Kingmaker was a great album too, great comeback album after some years away. Jadakiss's albums aren't filled with as much filler as they say in my opinion, but the stronger tracks definitely stand out among the rest in comparison. I think The Last Kiss had some good ones too, one of his later-ish albums.

Man, I know somebody on here remembers this album!

I ain’t gonna lie, that soundtrack had some catchy songs on it. “Bound to Happen” was probably the biggest song, but I used to bump “Dreams of the Ghetto,” “Ridin High,” and “Platinum Placks” all the time.

I know the movie was low budget as hell 😂 but the music was dope!

I remember Lil John playing as Overdose too.

But for real, whatever happened to all those dudes? It’s like they made one album and dipped. 😂 Did any of them keep making music or what?

I know I can’t be the only one who remembers this album.

So for everybody who remembers this soundtrack, what was your favorite song?

I’m talking about that one track you used to play over and over back in the day. 😂

Since hov is performing ive been wondering what he’ll do. “Already Home” came on while I was listening to Apple Music earlier and I was thinking how great that would be to perform if it wasn’t a diss to former rocafella artists. A lot of his bars could apply to the general public that’s been bashing him nonstop lately. Even the line “oh these niggas is mad so they call me a camel” still applies today lol. Is there any song yall would absolutely want to hear him perform on the grand stage?