Dec 10, 2014 btw @Narsh this forum is different then vbulletin..your mentions dont work if its inside a quote (which they are in your case) just copy paste the mentions...dont put them on quote box..it wont mention anybody that way
Dec 10, 2014 this is just verses though, and the first 2 are pretty d--- great. @Koolo the main reason is that this is just a list of a my favorites, and it changes every now and then. last time i made the list i think the 2nd verse was in my top 10. now it's my top15/ 20. but now that you're making me question myself, idk. there's so much to love about the first two verses on that song
Dec 10, 2014 I know it'll probably not be the one you'll choose (rightfully so), but MAAD City's final verse is so f---ing dope! The effects in his voice fit perfectly for this closing verse. Ofc the whole song is brilliant, but yeah, had to post this. His previous verses are so powerful though, I'd guess that if you only choose one from the song, it'd be the 2nd.
Dec 10, 2014 11. Cartoons & Cereal (2nd verse) Just like Sing About Me…'s 2nd verse (and probably a bunch of others I've either overlooked, or, simply, wasn't feeling the day I wrote this particular list), this verse, at one point, was in my top 10. It's arguably better than the first verse, on one of, if not, the, greatest piece of music ever produced by Kendrick Lamar (Duckworth (lol) ). Coming equipped with a powerful Gunplay verse (I could do a whole write up on that itself), an incessantly menacing beat interlaced with haunting vocal samples, and the strength of these two artists, made it pretty easy for this song to sneak into my top five. I just had to find it first, since it isn't, and probably never will be, on a project. Which is a shame. But on to the point - the 2nd verse. Coming off the tail a phenomenal first verse, an earth-shattering hook, the intensity is off - but only barely. I never even really noticed or cared about it till I had to do this write up. If anything, the drop in aggression is to create room for the storytelling: "House lick went down perfect Two shots to the head he deserved it I overheard it hit my bed with a bowl and remote control Dark Wing Duck lost service Mama said I'd better duck, she's nervous Drama all up in the cut, hit the curtains" Not only is the imagery vivid, and made doubly menacing by the stark atmosphere, it's unflinchingly clever. Even while lost in that traumatizing memory, reliving it for the sake of this track, his writing is lucid. "Dark Wing Duck lost service/Mama said I'd better duck, she's nervous" >>>>>>>> After that he gets into an undeniably groove: "I mean don't intervene with no gun machine This block stay jerking, the feds stay lurkin'" The looped vocal samples in the background, along with the more prevalent ad-libs towards the end, add a surreal atmosphere for this incredible verse on this flawless track. Mentions: @Olorin @swr @Radeem @KingKendrick @Meero @Enigma @Lord Flacko @Koolo @Hasman @Tripstarr @Lubo @Besky @KvB
Dec 10, 2014 "Tell a story I'll never grow to 25/ not to worry every warrior will come and see euphoria/ and that's a covenant I put on every tribe" >>> How the h--- did this not make it to a project!?
Dec 10, 2014 Just f---ing make your stupid list, put it in the first f---ing post, and move the f--- on.
Dec 12, 2014 Any suggestions on Gunplay mixtapes/ablums? Not much to say about the verse after @Narsh's post other than I expected this kinda higher. 2 shots to the head he deserved it, till the end is godlike
Dec 12, 2014 Haven't checked out any of his actual projects, so if anyone has any suggestions I'll take em too lol "Drama all up in the cut hit the curtains" Edit: just saw @sindy 's post. Thanks!
Dec 12, 2014 I listened to it earlier, it's on datpiff. The beats were good and I caught a few cool rhymes, can't say anything more before I listen again because I was playing dota at the time
Dec 14, 2014 10. Look Out For Detox Ironically hilarious title aside, Look Out For Detox is an unflinching statement from a younger K Dot. Around the time he was handed the torch from Uncle Snoop and Dre, and placed on the path we seem him continue to blaze down to this day, Kendrick still felt as if he had a lot to prove. The same kid who said he would break the wrist of Dre or anyone else that tried to give him a handout, was now being placed on a pedestal and chauffeured into the mainstream rap game as nothing short of being the new king/savior/messiah. But, as we know, none of this got to Kendrick's head. He went on to drop the phenomenal Section .80 and followed that up with one of the best studio debuts in recent history. All this to say that the fire and drive exhibited by the artist since his breakthrough, has been accumulating since the days of Sherane - fueled by everything from his teenage angst, to his disillusionment as an adult. From his vows to never succumb to the city that stole his friends, to his vows to his friends to never turn his back on the city that raised them, Kendrick has been perpetually in a state of seeking a platform for his narrative. And then Dre lets him create a promotional track for Detox. And this happens: "Water in the pot, flow crack rocklike Bam Bam n----- Have two grams n----- pay up or blam blam n----- Had a black Camry,bumpin' Dipset, Killa Cam n----- I had been around n----s, killas, pimps You ain’t been around s--- but your momma and your b---- Shoved off the porch when I was like six Uncle Bobby got the house raided back in 9-6 Kick in the door K9's all in the kitchen way before I even heard of Mike Vick" Then this: "I fear no opponent A demon come near and I might throw a spear at the omen You looking at the 2010 Romans Empire,Hiiipower HP,in ya face like HD And I spit like a HK I’mma shot like a H3, H-U-B-C-I-T-Y, A-B and Y-G Problem and Hootie n----- Tell the government come s---t me, n----- Cause I’m going out with a fist raised And a fist full of money give it to a fifth grade Drink a fifth of Hennessy and then take another fade With a democratic politician from CA They don’t wanna see a B-L-A-C-K Making some scratch like a hall of fame DJ Give us some free J’s put us in PJ’s Now we in the county jail calling for a three-way" And then, because those two sections weren't batshit crazy enough, he becomes possessed, spits this, and then ends up rambling/freestyling (continuing to call Q an ugly f---er :cry: ) before cutting the track off: "And you rap n----s looking funny tryna talk back and s--- Like he back that s--- Acting like you real or something n----- ain't popped no steel, ain't popped no Calico Go pop some pills or something You trying real hard to appeal to someone I’m being myself, my BFF is a BM-dub With your BM in it and your stash box glove" Riding the Childish Gambino produced beat ("You Know Me" off Culdesac) with the intensity of, well, someone recently entitled the king of the west coast, Kendrick puts on a f---ing clinic. From wordplay ("BFF is a BM-dub, with your BM in it" or "With a democratic politician from CA/They don’t wanna see a B-L-A-C-K/Making some scratch like a hall of fame DJ/Give us some free J’s put us in PJ’s" or "With the prototype with a godly protocol/You an amateur, they wanna pro to call" etc etc), to flow (not only does it get better as the track builds up, there are many moments throughout, such as "and a medicine a doctor gave a n----- won't help/I’m at the limit where I be amazing myself," that simply roll off the tongue way too easily for Kendrick). Content ("go pop some pills or something," house raids, "Uncle Bobby,") to delivery (he's in a f---ing trance, man), everything about this track is extraordinary. I r---d the replay button when I first heard of this, and couldn't believe how long ago it was made. But anyways, enough of my rambling, enjoy the track . Mentions: @Olorin @swr @Radeem @Meero @Enigma @Koolo @Hasman @Tripstarr @Lubo @Besky @KvB
