Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

better thread title than the current for sure

Think we have a new name for next year's rolling hh thread

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.

*anomalous

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

if "effect" = "influence" we're gonna be here for a very long time

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

i am down with "Rolling No Effect on hh 2015"

drickken lamar

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

dricky graham

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.

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

y'all hear the new endri song

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

eh

doesnt really mix the Bass Ale with the Guinness Stout.

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.

yeah I wonder if the voices have lost their novelty for me

better in principle than practice

i went from "ha, corny but not that bad" to outright hatred approaching "happy" levels within about 5 listens

not a fan of rappers who change their voice to rap.

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.

Sadat X.

http://i.imgur.com/gCi60.gif

omg i need that shirt

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.

tempted by a "Racoon Talkweli" dn tbh

i forgot its not cool anymore to care about stuff i feel like an idiot now.

i thought you were arguing you DIDNT care about this

i like talib kweli

I do too! That's what will make the reveal sting.

#peteypabloisracoontanukigoodrapperbadposter

i know you want dih drick

haha

I was on a Rawkus bender a few days back.

posting for dn posterity

"i debuted at #19 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay, which is a really unusually high debut for that format

Congrats, some dude. I'm happy you're doing so well.

lol

hmm from what i saw it was being added to even more rhythmic stations than HH ones ...

don't see it anywhere on the Rhythmic Top 40 chart yet. don't really have any stations in that format that i know of in my area, whereas i listen to 3 rap/R&B stations and i've heard "i" on all of them in the past week.

seems to be getting a little bit of play at pop stations too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aShfolR6w8

Eh, I'm not seeing the whole voice change point. This track seems more like an extension of something from Section 80.

I've also liked this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5yb2H7Fqi8

http://instagram.com/p/vAPN8OjvPb

the discussion upthread was not about his voice on "I" being a change from earlier material, just that he generally does rap in several voices that differ from each other and his speaking voice.