Feb 21, 2017 I'm gonna have to say gayboiclique they made it allowed to say gay stuff and get away with it
Feb 21, 2017 Without Graduation, No Chance the rapper, Without 808 no drake, without MDTF no Kenrdick, Without Yeezus no XXXTENANCION etc.
Feb 21, 2017 Tbh, Little Bars been an innovator since "The Pack" days. Whether I like his music or not is irrelevant. Just calling it like I see it objectively. Lil Yachty. Soulja Boy. All these people became successfully either a year or a decade after "Vans" dropped. Not even just Lil Yachty and Soulja Boy. But also plenty others I can't think of right now.
Feb 21, 2017 he's definitely not. in some ways that's a testament to how technically impressive his early stuff was: he didn't inspire many successful imitators because his style was hard to pull off. think about it, none of his production ended up shaping or pushing rap at all, and there were no serious stylistic changes he started or furthered. the wave of commercially successful white rappers who came after him had far more in common with asher roth than with eminem.
Feb 21, 2017 Can't forget Lil Wayne for people like Future, Young Thug, Migos, Wiz Khalifa, Lil Uzi Vert, etc. (Wayne was the first commercial rapper who'd be kind of like The Rick James of Hip-Hop. Except he was tatted like a mural and smoked on stage and in videos posted up during the infancy of The Digital Age. That Rockstar Hip-Hop Takeover Lifestyle. He's kind of a hybrid martyr who lived past his prime.)
Feb 21, 2017 Kool G Rap if you credit him with sparking the mafioso mindset. Really tied bravado to the materialism and self-insert type of stuff.
Feb 21, 2017 Yeah. I kinda wanna blame Wayne for Rich The Kid, Playboi Carti, Famous Dex, and all the other n----s who look exactly the same. Except Chief Keef expanded on that externalization, glorification, and sensationalism of the young, short-dreadloc'd savage aesthetic.
Feb 21, 2017 Probably more of a Death Grips descendant, honestly. But not even. And I probably never heard a song from those guys, but I hear they kinda did what Kanye tried to do with Yeezus.
Feb 21, 2017 As far as making the whole genre as big and the world interested on it... without joking: Em, without him the rap will be like 1/5 as popular,, I bet most sxn80 members got intoduced to it by him and the influence doesn't always = the sound J Cole and Kendrick say they r influeneced by him but sound nothing as him.... his music impowered them to be who they are
