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What made you a stan?

Started by Nav Bhatia, Apr 14, 2015, in Music Add to Reading List

  1. Bojack
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    Bojack

    Apr 14, 2015
    Lose yourself video back when I was 12
     
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  2. Nav Bhatia
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    Nav Bhatia Bitch, be humble

    Apr 14, 2015
    Moved this, really wanna hear from the day 1 kendrick stans @Term-X
     
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  3. Meero
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    Meero Ay ay ay

    Apr 14, 2015
    I started stanning Kendrick when i heard Control on youtube
     
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  4. Term-X
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    Term-X relevant.

    Apr 14, 2015
    It was only when I came across animosity on forums like Cole Nation when saying Kendrick would blow up and be bigger than Cole, that I became a stan. Sometimes you just get a hunch, around 2011 the guys on that board felt it was inconceivable that he would eclipse Cole, and through debating it.. my support became stronger I guess. :idk:

    Low key had Overly Dedicated, Barbed Wire was the only track that had any real spins then though, fast forward to HiiPower, Kendrick became 'the one' in my eyes, had all his unreleased s--- etc. When it came to who would be leaders of the new school, Cole never had the same x-factor.. Drake had too many of his elements. The market needed a Kendrick Lamar, a rappers rapper who could go full circle without selling out.

    Kendrick has literally no peers now.
     
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  5. KLD3816
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    KLD3816 Love yourz.

    Apr 14, 2015
    In 2007, the beginning of my senior year in college, I stumbled upon Cole (don't know how). He dropped the come up. The rest is history. I could relate to a lot of the s--- he was talking about. The warm up solidified my stannery! Haven't looked back since. He spits real s---. #coleworld
     
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  6. CSW
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    CSW Member 3461

    Apr 14, 2015
    I thought if eminem could become successful by being offensive yet bitingly insightful maybe I could too. clearly I was mistaken
     
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  7. Fire Squad
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    Fire Squad Boss Don Biggavel

    Apr 14, 2015
    How about Rocky since it seems we are the biggest stans of him on here (unless I'm missing someone lol)?

    That 1st time listen of LiveLoveA$AP>>>
     
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  8. Meero
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    Meero Ay ay ay

    Apr 14, 2015
    I started stanning Rocky when i heard his verse in Hands On The Wheel :allears:
     
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  9. J.T.
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    J.T.

    Apr 14, 2015
    I started stanning J. Cole after FNL. My cousin put me on to his music and the first song I heard was 'Problems' thought that song was ok. Then I discovered TWU and I thought his music was pretty good, but when I heard FNL I became a stan. I was just a teenager mad at my dad and s---. When I heard 'Enchanted' that s--- really resonated with me. His music is so relatable it almost felt like he knew my life story. FNL was the only thing I listened everyday for a few months. Ever since then I've been following him.
     
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  10. Nav Bhatia
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    Nav Bhatia Bitch, be humble

    Apr 14, 2015
    lmao i remember having wars with you back in the day on who would be bigger/better :laff: Both cole and kendrick are pretty huge now though, but kendrick like you said went full circle with zero compromise
     
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    krowned

    Apr 14, 2015
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  12. Kold
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    Apr 14, 2015
    Heard about him in between The Warm Up and FNL era. First song I heard was We On and I knew he had some potential. FNL came out and I thought it was dope but didn't really dive into the project.

    Heard The Return of Simba (seems like yesterday) and I knew it was over from that day forward. Re-listened to FNL and TWU and knew he was the one.
    Personally, he started off as just mostly entertainment. I just liked his music because I thought it was dope. Nowadays its on a way more personal level. His music are just conversations in which he happens to be rhyming. His ability to identify with the common man is as great as any one in the game because yes he is one of us, he just happens to rap good. For some people thats boring, for me its the type of candor and straightforward depiction of reality that establishes a connection that is moving and inspiring. Even if I can't relate with a song like Crunch Time for example, I feel the pain and desperation. With songs like the Intro off FHD, I feel the pain because he's speaking about me and to me.

    I always hear that he's the middle ground between Kendrick and Drake, which is definitely has some truth to it but it doesn't tell the whole story. In comparison he might speak on similar topics, but provides a completely different tone and perspective as seen by Untitled/Be Free, u/Intro, i/Love Yourz. The same reason Breakdown and It Won't Be Long are nothing like You and the 6 and Look What You've Done.

    There is no one like Cole in the game despite what others try to tell you. It's the reason his fan base is so big without any hit singles. Thats the reason I've been playing Intro/January 28th almost every day since December.

    And to think the Hypnotist is just getting started :biz:
     
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  13. Boos
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    Boos Nova Nation

    Apr 14, 2015
    Was a Kanye fan before, but when I saw the yeezus tour I became a stan. The show was insane. Ended up seeing it again on the second leg.
     
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  14. krowned
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    krowned

    Apr 14, 2015
    Naw that man said himself he compromised on GKMC :stephena:
     
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  15. Term-X
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    Term-X relevant.

    Apr 14, 2015
    Nah, the man is just being modest, in reality, 'given what usually happens with major label debuts', there were no compromises. If by any logic Kendrick sold out, wtf do you call Sideline Story..

    Perspective.
     
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  16. Oldboy
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    Oldboy

    Apr 14, 2015
    my name is was t-ts
     
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  17. Esco
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    Esco

    Apr 14, 2015
    Back in 2009, around late July, I seen MTV post a "Top Mixtapes of 2009(so far)" article read it and seen Drake listed and other artist who I can't think of right now, but I scrolled threw the comment section and seen Cole's name/ The Warm Up kept popping up :hmmmmm:. I go to HipHopDx and looked up his mixtape, listened to the Intro, Welcome, and first part of Can I Live then stopped was like :weebey:oh s--- lemme go download it and listen to it properly. I was blown away man, I researched this n----- tryna find more music by him, straight stalking 2dopeboyz.com for some new Cole. Then in August '09 he dropped "Back to the Topic freestyle" and that's what sold me along with "Show Me Something" I remember lurking JColeFanPage before JCN, I know @ODB, some dude named African who had the "exclusive" s---, they used act a fool in the chat box lol. Man Cole transitioned me from my favorite rapper of the early 2000's to my favorite rapper of the 2010's. At that time I was still a big 50 fan, always on Thisis50.com in straight denial about him falling off back then, I struggled filling in that void but the lightskin Jesus came out of nowhere and saved me fam:rejoice:
     
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  18. krowned
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    krowned

    Apr 14, 2015
    Kendrick's a genius. He was able to adjust to the game in a way that Cole couldn't which is why he still managed to drop a classic.

    I'll be the first to tell you that Cole compromised his music like s--- with CW:SS. Kendrick compromised as well though. He even said that TPAB would be his debut album. He may not "played the game" as hard as Cole, but he still knew what he was doing.
     
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  19. aquaberryares
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    aquaberryares one time I made sex

    Apr 14, 2015
    Why is compromising a negative if the music is just as good as (or better than) if he hadn't 'compromised'?
     
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  20. Mike Tyson
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    Mike Tyson big cuntry's alias

    Apr 14, 2015
    Kendrick
    I was in NY in the summer of 2011. Kendrick dropped Section.80 so I just said f--- it and bought it off my phone. I had my first listen on the plane back home to Edmonton. Track 2 comes on and he says:

    I wrote this record while thirty thousand feet in the air :lupe5:
    Stewardess complimenting me on my nappy hair :thankful:
    If I can f--- her in front of all of these passengers :fif:
    They'll probably think I'm a terrorist, eat my asparagus :mjcry:

    Lmao, anyways I got through the whole album and it was a wrap. I loved OD, but this joint cemented it for me.

    Drake
    I was a fan since I heard SFG, but I never started stanning this n----- till Take Care. I know that album isn't a bonafide classic given tracks like Make Me Proud, but I can listen to that joint in any order - backwards, forward, sideways etc. for as many times as I want. s--- never gets old. I probably have like 5,000 spins since it dropped in 2011, dead a---. No exaggeration, I spent 5000 hours of my life listening to one album lol.
     
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