I think in this line he must mean PCP, not coke, either way Wu used to shower in the stuff before breakfast. Then later on Ghost would have half of NY's rappers swinging from his arms in the Tunnel. And they wouldn't rap about it either.
"Kendrick is not even hardcore about his drug use. He is a big old lightweight. what a noob"
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:21 (ten years ago) link
#listeningtohollyhunterforsolong
― longneck, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:25 (ten years ago) link
Not really because I've always liked new hip hop, I like the ones who do something different, creative. I just don't like Kendrick, or I should he's ok, I just don't like the hype, the hyperbole over an average dude, same like Frank Ocean. Kendrick and Frank are 2 dudes pitchfork gave 9.5 and chose as doing so to pin their business on them. These are 2 young debut artists who we're going to hype and back as a guarentee of interest on our site in the future. It's all business I'm just talking about surprised when people buy into it.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:26 (ten years ago) link
#listeningtohowardhughesforsolong
― longneck, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:28 (ten years ago) link
#listeningtotravisscöttforsolong
― longneck, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:29 (ten years ago) link
#listeningtoraccoontanukiforsolong
― longneck, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:30 (ten years ago) link
I love Gibbs, Young Thug, Kanye, Future, Keef even Drake. These dudes sound different and deserve praise. I don't need to compare a Keef to a Ghostface verse or an 3000 verse because he's doing something totally different. But I can put up the arrival of 'Bang' and 'I don't like' to something similar in effect that Protect Ya Neck had on the industry and genre when we talk about rawness and the context of its arrival and kind of shock value. I can talk about Wayne mixtapes influence and A Milli verse as a lynchpin of influence style on 100s of rappers verses after it, etc etc. Kendrick hasn't *done* anything.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:36 (ten years ago) link
https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3901/15146220570_295b3c847b.jpg
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:38 (ten years ago) link
Can't believe I only rated Kendrick because I was subconsciously buying into Pitchfork's brand-building. Thanks Raccoon!
― Re-Make/Re-Model, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
anytime man.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
Finally, a hh expert in our midst.
― longneck, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:10 (ten years ago) link
"Drick really had no effect on hh" is a thing that will be said often.
― some dude, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
better thread title than the current for sure
― Spottie, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
Think we have a new name for next year's rolling hh thread
― 龜, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:23 (ten years ago) link
i would ask you to define 'effect', but if youre saying that GKMC might just be too anamalous a modern hip hop album to really have much demonstrable impact on the genre as a whole, then yeah, ok... but comparing kendrick to keef or wu-tang even seems a bit mismatched - hes just not that kind of rapper.
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:32 (ten years ago) link
*anomalous
― StillAdvance, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:33 (ten years ago) link
Scaface life lyrics can work if you're, say Biggie, with the character, force of personality, verbal technique, voice etc. Ken simply doesn't.
Skaface, a ska tribute to Geto Boys
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:36 (ten years ago) link
if "effect" = "influence" we're gonna be here for a very long time
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
oh we're stuck here for life, might as well debate whether someone is right to feel kendrick lamar fails to live up to the legacy of the wu or wtfever
― da croupier, Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
i am down with "Rolling No Effect on hh 2015"
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 September 2014 18:20 (ten years ago) link
drickken lamar
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 25 September 2014 01:22 (ten years ago) link
can we not debate the word 'effect' or turn it into a meme when it was only used by me in a parody post and not Lil Tanuki or anyone else with any seriousness
― some dude, Thursday, 25 September 2014 01:26 (ten years ago) link
dricky graham
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 25 September 2014 01:27 (ten years ago) link
Chance is definitely influenced by Kendrick. I'd say Big Sean too, probably others I'm not thinking of. Obviously his fellow Black Hippies to varying extents.
― bobby shmorbius (The Reverend), Thursday, 25 September 2014 01:27 (ten years ago) link
kendrick lamar's scarface lifestyle fantasies def not convincing for me either
i actually kinda think chance isn't all that influenced by kendrick. but kendrick is very obviously influential. that mediocre g-eazy record is like kendrick/drake/big sean soup
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 25 September 2014 01:29 (ten years ago) link
y'all hear the new endri song
― linda cardellini (zachlyon), Thursday, 25 September 2014 01:29 (ten years ago) link
fav rapper? probably rick lamar
so, one week later, what do you guys think of it? I think it's pretty solid, not getting tons of replay but i look forward to hearing it on radio
― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:19 (ten years ago) link
eh
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:21 (ten years ago) link
doesnt really mix the Bass Ale with the Guinness Stout.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:22 (ten years ago) link
I like it when I hear it on the radio. some of the voices he chooses still sound ill-advised to me but overall the song works.
― some dude, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 21:59 (ten years ago) link
yeah I wonder if the voices have lost their novelty for me
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 22:08 (ten years ago) link
better in principle than practice
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 October 2014 03:47 (ten years ago) link
i went from "ha, corny but not that bad" to outright hatred approaching "happy" levels within about 5 listens
― lex pretend, Thursday, 2 October 2014 10:37 (ten years ago) link
not a fan of rappers who change their voice to rap.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 2 October 2014 10:46 (ten years ago) link
here's my rap voice
this is another reason he sucks. great rappers have already interesting voices, which is why they sound good. nas, 3000, prodigy, biggie, ghost, ugk, g rap, rah digga, lil kim, slick rick, jigga, snoop, common, to project pat to bone thugs to jeezy to wayne to whomever don't need to put on a all new rap voice. Kanye got away with it through force of personality although it took a long time for people to stop saying he shouldn't be rapping.
im not hating on drick for changing his voice it might be his thing but question is why does he do it? Madlib went Quasimoto becuase obviously he knows his voice isn't a rap voice.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 2 October 2014 10:52 (ten years ago) link
Sadat X.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 2 October 2014 10:53 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/gCi60.gif
― Greer, Thursday, 2 October 2014 13:52 (ten years ago) link
omg i need that shirt
― dyl, Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:17 (ten years ago) link
It's gonna be embarrassing when Talib Kweli reveals in an interview that he tried to join in on ILX but kept getting mocked and rejected.
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:34 (ten years ago) link
tempted by a "Racoon Talkweli" dn tbh
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 October 2014 16:48 (ten years ago) link
i forgot its not cool anymore to care about stuff i feel like an idiot now.
― Raccoon Tanuki, Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:12 (ten years ago) link
i thought you were arguing you DIDNT care about this
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 2 October 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
i like talib kweli
― u2 removal machine (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
I do too! That's what will make the reveal sting.
― 💪😈⚠️ (DJP), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
#peteypabloisracoontanukigoodrapperbadposter
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 October 2014 19:38 (ten years ago) link
i know you want dih drick
― some dude, Thursday, 2 October 2014 20:07 (ten years ago) link
haha
― goon kabuki (The Reverend), Thursday, 2 October 2014 21:11 (ten years ago) link