Aug 25, 2019 How does Jay Z get away with average projects and still keep his spot at 1 or 2? He gets a pass more than most. Although I’m not a big fan so maybe I just don’t get it.
Aug 25, 2019 Reasonable Doubt Blueprint American Gangster Black Album WTT 5 classics. And 4-5 good to great albums plus countless of features he killed.
Aug 27, 2019 Name his last classic album? I’ll wait. Ya he used to be good.. his new s--- is weak. Right now Em > Jay
Aug 27, 2019 american gangster and watch the throne, 4:44 is also extremely good em hasn't dropped a classic in almost 20 years lol
Aug 27, 2019 pultizer aside: think about Control verse, brought rap back from its drugged r&b flirations. but also reinvigorated musicality in rap, gave guys like thundercat a bigger platform. but, and ive said this re: eminem before, you dont need a legion of followers to have a legacy lol. artists can be singular, artists can codify certain trends. i only post on this site for the bc 's---' takes lol
Aug 27, 2019 I wasn't saying kendrick doesn't have a legacy—he most certainly does. Just that as far as influence goes, Future essentially created today's mainstream hip-hop. I was mostly looking for responses from joeyp and timmy because they were discrediting future and i think a lot of people talk about kendrick in this light without having any real reasoning behind it. but good point about thundercat etc. ps all my hot takes are correct
Aug 27, 2019 i think u were saying kendrick wasnt influential, hasnt influenced anyone lol. to the extent we can measure such a thing... you have been proven incorrect! and ya, both things can be true: future can have his (r&b infused) lane, kendrick his. i dont get the impulse online to play zero sum and you know better than to pick on timmyt. he's special.
Aug 27, 2019 444 > But his last true classic imo is WTT yeah TES is a classic to me regardless of its bad aging but yeah thats also 17 years ago
Aug 27, 2019 This doesn’t even really do his discography justice, Dynasty and Vol. 3 are nothing if not classics. Even his weaker albums have some some legendary songs on them.
Aug 27, 2019 Yes I think future is the most influential rapper of the decade, but no that doesn't mean I don't think kendrick was influential at all. Was I downplaying it? Yeah, and you and sav brought up some good points that I didn't think of! Joey said he thought kendrick was the most influential which was why i said future was more influential.
Aug 27, 2019 Right, YG's style is nothing like kendrick's but that album structure was 100% inspired by Kendrick's. As @Papa Alpha Andy brought up (), influence can be marked by more than just style of rapping!
Aug 27, 2019 Oh I fully agree I was just listing essential classics. I think he doesn't have a bad album at all and like u said every album has some all time amazing songs
Aug 27, 2019 No doubt GKMC laid the foundation for an unabashedly old school west coast album like MKL to take off in the modern day, but YG was was running with that sound before Kendrick came along. MKL refined it and took it to the extreme, but you can hear the foundations for that sound forming on the first Just Re’d Up tape and that dropped a year before GKMC did.
Aug 27, 2019 INT. @Big Cuntry's Home - dusk The front door opens and BC ENTERS. He's late 20s, handsome but developing a working class potbelly. He's dressed like he works inside a mine, and carrying his empty lunch pail. BC sighs, exhausted. He hangs up his hat on a nearby coat rack. ENTER: BC's wife, mid twenties, Indian. She looks like Narsh in drag, a housewife's dress and apron. She dries her hand on a kitchen rag, as if she's just been cleaning. BC WIFE: Aw, Tay Tay. Dinner will be ready soon. How was your day, m'love? They kiss. BC: Oh, good. Papa Alpha dominated me again. Yes, I capitulated. No, I don't want to talk about it. Is that brisket I'm smelling? -END-
Aug 27, 2019 Idk YG was still on that 4Fingaz party and club s--- most of the time. There's a few sprinkles here and there though. I think some others did it better, I can't remember the names.
Aug 27, 2019 clearly you're still not over narsh rejecting your kiss also narsh is vegetarian he would never make brisket
