eminem?
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
xp i don't buy that. jay-z, eminem, snoop, cube, doc?
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, eminem/snoop/cube were all strong voices too, obviously, but their personas heavily overlapped with Dre's in a way that Kendrick's doesn't. They all have their quirks, but there are a lot of interchangeable verses among the four of them. Kendrick is a real outlier
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of put the fault on kendrick for writing dre something so obviously in his own voice tho.
yeah, this is kind of true, but I give him a pass since I like the verse well enough anyway
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
i dont think kendrick is an outlier, its just a new voice'forgot about dre' is super obviously a bunch of em verses in like every way, we just give it a pass cuz we heard it a bunch & its a dope song
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i don't know how you could consider kendrick's flow more distinctive than now "eminem" dre's verse in forgot about dre was
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, maybe it's just that i didn't realize he didn't write his own raps at the time, but dre sounds way more "himself" on the chronic and 2001 to me.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
totally agree; the ghost verses on "Forgot About Dre" were all angry and defensive, so they played on the popular image of Dre in a way that was believable enough
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
it must have been hard for eminem to channel than angry and defensive vibe dre wanted
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
for me it's less about the content than the rhythms
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
some spin on the ball here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwamhuY6Yy8
― Reg, Monday, 13 August 2012 14:07 (twelve years ago) link
i like this guy's stuff.
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Monday, 13 August 2012 14:39 (twelve years ago) link
This guy is the new Nas
Take that as you will
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:34 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6krHJGimets
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
i really like him. take that as you will.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:55 (twelve years ago) link
Doing a track with Lady Gaga apparently
― Number None, Thursday, 16 August 2012 09:10 (twelve years ago) link
i'm actually looking fwd to that quite a lot, doesn't seem like a natural fit
― lex pretend, Thursday, 16 August 2012 09:25 (twelve years ago) link
i like him too. i also like nas
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:34 PM Bookmark
This could mean practically anything.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 16 August 2012 10:01 (twelve years ago) link
ie maybe he is literally writing the songs on the new nas record
― very sexual album (schlump), Thursday, 16 August 2012 11:01 (twelve years ago) link
i dont see how that could mean practically anything; he holds a very specific place in hip hop
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:13 (twelve years ago) link
so specific, in fact, that calling anyone else "the new Nas" is utterly meaningless
― some dude, Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:17 (twelve years ago) link
well, you can take it as you will.. you must guess at D-40's own appraisal. and if you guess wrong, BAM in the dunk tank you go
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol seriously
― some dude, Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:33 (twelve years ago) link
i dont really see what's so hard to understand about that parallel
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
who's putting anyone in the dunk tank?
i mean, it seems evident to me Kendrick is a really talented rapper who's talent is so uncontroversial that he becomes a stand-in for 'quality rap' -- focus on skill above all, dry rap style, this kind of focus on purity of rap as a technical skill
you guys really cant figure that shit out on your own?
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
track in the OP = the new biddybiddybop
― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
Section 80 was a lot weirder than that description suggests. Not too mention stuff like Cartoon & Cereal
― Number None, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTsKXc3Cixg
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
haha Nas is about 2 billion times weirder than kendrick
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
"Not too mention" christ
― Number None, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
matt otm
i assumed deej's post was a comedy copy&paste due to the capital letters. guess not :/
― ticagrelor rotini (k3vin k.), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
kendrick and his pals are kinda the kinder gentler odd future in a way. your mom would like kendrick! but he's got the goods! and he is totally interesting to listen to. you want to hear what he has to say. and in that way he is nas-like definitely.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
it's to the point now where it makes it hard for me to listen to nas...am i'm one of the boring ones that thinks illmatic will always be the greatest hip hop LP ever....but yeah he's got such a heavy vibe of just being fucking nuts now, he weirds me out....and it's not in this like Lil' B/Kool Keith way where their persona is being kooky (B) or insane (KK) but there are always like 25 throwaway o_O lines on any Nas album (if not more) where you're like what the fuck are you on dude?
like some dude pointed out on twitter the weird "b3stiality p0rn" reference that comes out of nowhere on the new album
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
haha you're overstating it a little but that creeping strangeness and oversharing is part of what imo makes post-Illmatic Nas continue to be worth listening to
― some dude, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
yeah maybe!
i like the new one pretty much
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
omg google upper mississippi sh@kedown and find bestiality porn
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Lol
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:26 (twelve years ago) link
i attribute those weird nas throwaway lines less to weirdness per se and more to a certain tone-deafness about how to say things, which is obviously an odd thing to say about a rapper, but i finished his latest album feeling vaguely sorry for him
― lex pretend, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:34 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's otm about Nas' tonedeafness.
My point earlier is there are so many different points of Nas' history and facets of his character that have come and gone that "the new Nas" without any other explication is pretty much a Rorschach Test.
― Vagelis (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know if there's an elegant way to say women love it when you fart in your face because you are psychic
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:53 (twelve years ago) link
― Vagelis (The Reverend), Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:20 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
im thinking more in critical reception & less in music although probably musical presentation
― protected by kl0pper. stand back (D-40), Monday, 20 August 2012 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
more like "the new Jay Electronica" or "the new Lupe Fiasco" -- the new Nas is just a meaningless torch to get passed around the way rock critics used to crown a new Dylan every couple years
― some dude, Monday, 20 August 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
hes certainly made better songs than either of those dudes
― protected by kl0pper. stand back (D-40), Monday, 20 August 2012 07:49 (twelve years ago) link
(which, to not contradict myself, is why people have responded to him in a way that feels closer to nas than the others)
nah his career so far is v similar to Jay Electronica, scarcity of material aside
― some dude, Monday, 20 August 2012 11:36 (twelve years ago) link
Sort of - but if you look into it TDE and Kendrick have tons of material, more charisma, and maybe even release dates.
― BMICHAEL, Monday, 20 August 2012 22:10 (twelve years ago) link
i don't feel very compelled to look into it since "The Recipe" and "Swimming Pools" make him seem less charismatic than Nas
― some dude, Monday, 20 August 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
this is so stupid
― a hoy hoy heat (J0rdan S.), Monday, 20 August 2012 23:06 (twelve years ago) link
it makes me sad that this means so much to lil wayne. he could sell out the superdome whenever he wants. there was no similar outcry when maroon 5 was chosen as the headliner in atlanta … the idea that the super bowl halftime show is some coronation for hometown heroes has as lagoon says no basis in reality
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 14 September 2024 20:37 (three weeks ago) link
unfortunately for wayne when he should have been headlining the super bowl the NFL was still in its post-JT/janet phase of treating mainstream pop culture like the plague & thus was booking i.e. tom petty, the who etc
― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 14 September 2024 20:39 (three weeks ago) link
Wayne and Harry Connick in a Super Bowl Doritos commercial
― bratwurst autumn (Eazy), Saturday, 14 September 2024 20:58 (three weeks ago) link
Sad thing is if it weren’t for rap politics and beefs, having Wayne do a bit would be a natural move. But seems unlikely under the circumstances.
― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 14 September 2024 21:42 (three weeks ago) link
It surprises me that people still think of Wayne as a huge artist. I haven’t really paid attention to him since before Kendrick’s career began.
― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Saturday, 14 September 2024 21:44 (three weeks ago) link
He’s huge to NOLA, nobody’d be mentioning him if the game was somewhere else.
― Blitz Primary (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 14 September 2024 21:58 (three weeks ago) link
I feel like Kendrick, especially earlier, owed a lot to Wayne in terms of his phrasing and eccentric vocalizations. I’ll bet he brings him onstage at the end of the show as a surprise guest.
― treeship 2, Saturday, 14 September 2024 22:57 (three weeks ago) link
Da Drought 3 still rules
― treeship 2, Saturday, 14 September 2024 22:58 (three weeks ago) link
treeship 2 otm- i think kendrick brings wayne out for a feature. to pay tribute and to get another shot at drake (sentiment along the lines of, "even the people that put you on have realized their fuck up").
― interstellar anthropologist+music philosopher, (Austin), Saturday, 14 September 2024 23:36 (three weeks ago) link
Trombone Shorty's band will play Not Like Us and it'll be great.
― alpine static, Sunday, 15 September 2024 07:23 (three weeks ago) link
Trombone Shorty, Wayne, Juvenile & Mannie, eyehategod
― papal hotwife (milo z), Sunday, 15 September 2024 07:38 (three weeks ago) link
Phil Anselmo
― There’s a Monster in my Vance (President Keyes), Sunday, 15 September 2024 13:31 (three weeks ago) link