WYCLEF STILL BEST RAPPER SINCE KRS-ONE

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WHO THE FUCK IS MURS??

― KILLA .40 (pete38), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 01:59 (nineteen years ago)

There are two things wrong with this thread's premise.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

maybe he's only heard those two.

― GOD PUNCH TO HAWKWIND (yournullfame), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:10 (nineteen years ago)

Wyclef is without question the best rapper ever who can sing in 4 languages and play a respectable guitar solo with his teeth. His rapping is also underrated.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

But not as much as his production, or his vision, or his persona

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

Wyclef is without question the best rapper ever who can sing in 4 languages and play a respectable guitar solo with his teeth. His rapping is also underrated.

-- gabbneb (gabbne...), August 7th, 2006 11:16 PM. (gabbneb) (later) - do the names PRINCE or JERRY REED mean anything to you?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wacklef

― =[[ (eman), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:25 (nineteen years ago)

the carnival > the black album

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

ok not really

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

prince's black album > lamonte young's black album > jay-z's black album > the carnival > metallica's black album

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

ILM hip hop threads R.I.P. '06

― =[[ (eman), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

haha "'06"

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

you really like jay-z's black album more than the carnival?

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

i don't even think i've heard the carnival since my sophmore year of college.

i did have to hear "the ecleftic" last year :-(

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

at gunpoint?

― =[[ (eman), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

"PARTYMAN"?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

well, at work

so kinda

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

hey PARTYMAN, can you explain to me why wyclef jean isn't house music?

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

SOMEONE BEEP ME 911

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

=[[ i still owe you massive reviews of your incredible CD although it's sort of old news by now and i kind of missed my window :(

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

that was weaker than Weaklef. try again

― =[[ (eman), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 02:56 (nineteen years ago)

i saw the video for "revolution" by arrested development at blockbuster today. that was the jam.

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 03:23 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, the first half of carnival is pretty good, too!! "apocalypse" / "guantanamera" both pretty good in world-music-type-rap-my-55-y.o.-dad-likes-style, "bubblegoose" / "to all the girls" go down nice in pharcyde-or-digable-planets-summery-second-album style, "anything can happen" / "year of the dragon" is as good as classic fugees or "miseducation of lauryn hill", and, uh, "stayin alive".

anything else is pretty lame and too many skits but hey! 7 good tracks ain't bad for a northeast rap album in the 00s!!

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Carnival = very much classic,

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

do the names PRINCE or JERRY REED mean anything to you?

i have heard of this PRINCE. he is quite possibly the worst rapper in the world. (and what are the four languages he can sing in?)

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 04:00 (nineteen years ago)

you know i was joking the first time or two about the hating-your-parents thing, but it's really starting to look like it's true

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

MARK MCGRATH STILL BEST ROCK N ROLLER SINCE STING

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

But actually, Jabba Jabba or whatever is pretty OTM about The Carnival, it's a great record, I think very much overlooked now although at the time it was getting praise out the wazoo. "Anything Can Happen," yes! And I actually kind of like a lot of the non-rap, summer jam-band festival stuff on there, "Yele" and "Gunpowder" and "Jaspora." Really, cut out ALL the skits and reshuffle the tracks and people would be namechecking it all the time, it has a ton of quality material. Wyclef can tell a good story in rhyme, and even if he's short on the zingers he occasionally will drop some little phrase that paints a big picture. "I drive into Jersey to escape the terror."

Search also: "Cheated (Rock Remix)" which isn't a remix at all but a completely different song, Wyclef doing some sort of classic rock pastiche. It succeeds both as parody and as song.

Oh, and "Gone Til November"!

― Doctor Casino (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

i never had carnival, but i feel like i knew most of the tracks. i always liked "street jeopardy" haha, and i had a skate video that used "apocalypse" very effectively in the opening sequence (slo-mo, b&w)

― poortheatre (poortheatre), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

For every good song Wyclef puts out, he'll go and do something stupid like produce an album for Tom Jones. A graph showing his career goodness would be very uneven indeed.

― Rowlando for the kidz (Sam Rowlands), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 10:28 (nineteen years ago)

i love that 911 song w/Mary J.

too bad he had to ruin canibus's career : (

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

because canibus really wanted to do it himself.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

haha whoa i had forgotten about this album
'so you can tell by the way i roll shorty
i'm a ladies man
a business man
condoes down the shore multimillion pension plan
but it ain't in my plans to make moves without the fam.'

haha i can't believe i still remember that

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

For every good song Wyclef puts out, he'll go and do something stupid like produce an album for Tom Jones.

he's good BECAUSE he does stupid stuff like that

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Sang Fezi" never, ever gets old.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I was at this party a few weeks back and somehow the song he does with Handsome Boy Modeling School got stuck on repeat and nobody noticed for like 45 minutes.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Bubblegoose was the shit for the same reason Nappy Heads remix was the shit ---- Salaam Remi.

Same for Bush Babees Remeber We remix. This track still smokes and stands head and shoulders above their catalog.

Pras was the best rapper since Lucas with the Lid Off

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Radio DJ's are always pleased when the Fugees release a new song and Pras' verse is last, means they only have to cut out the last bit rather than mess around removing his verse if it's in the middle of the song.

― Rowlando for the kidz (Sam Rowlands), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

t/s: lucas w/ the lid off vs mc 900 ft jesus

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

t/s: mc 900 ft jesus vs. stereo mc's

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

lucas w/ the lid off was a song

― cutty (mcutt), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

humor was the joke

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

digable planets 2nd album > pharcyde > fugees > early mc 900 ft jesus > stereo mcs > late mc 900 ft jesus > digable planets 1st album > lucas > us3

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

t/s: spearhead vs me phi mi

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

t/s: outlaw "kickin jazz" vs kid frost "la raza"

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

la raza vs pick it up

dig plans 1st > pharcyde 2nd > any of that other grabage

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Lucas with the lid off we might as well call him. His shit was dope! OMG "Born", so so good. The cover of his first album was the gayest thing I've ever seen though.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

This is really lame but I can't remember who did the "sometimes I rhyme slow sometimes I rhyme QUICK" song all of a sudden.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/drd900/d911/d91146uf9fd.jpg
TO RAP MY WORLD AROUND YOU LOL

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

nice and smooth - "sometimes i rhyme slow"

― JABBA JABBA!! NIB NIB!! (vahid), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

john forte's line about eating mangos in trinidad w/attorneys is classic.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/n/i/niceandsmooth348397.jpg

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

check the spelling R-E-
F-U-G-E-
E get the CD from Sam Goody HEE HEE

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I can never be near Tavern on the Green w/o getting that stuck in my head

(x-postage)

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

god bless the day that my son's survive
we strive to teach the youth baby, and stay alive
STAYIN ALIIIIIIIIIVE

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

this is pretty much the only thing i'm gonna miss about ilm

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

inane troll question detourned for the purposes of humor: check
blount vs. gabneb roffles: check
lame nostalgia for crap: check
vahid spoutin insanity: check
john forte: check

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I keep screwing this up in my head with his verse on 'ghetto superstar'

"let my mind shine like a halo / p-p-politic with ghetto senators on the d-low!"

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

deej remembering whole verses from ghetto superstar: check

― PARTYMAN (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

You guys should really check out this new joint from this guy named Kardinal Offishall

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

: check

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://umusicimages.ca/mase/microsite/info2.jpg

check.

― M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

even the self-parodies are falling flat!

― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://www.wjzo.com/westside/images/wyclef.jpg

― LION OF JAH (nickalicious), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Wyclef's black?!

― Sir Dr. Rev. PappaWheelie Jr. II of The Third Kind (PappaWheelie 2), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wjzo.com/westside/images/wyclef.jpg
For a second there, I thought he had grown a dread goatee.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 10 August 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

Wyclef proves that you can get a gold star for effort if you're ambitious but not particularly talented. He's got his hands in a little bit of everything and sucks at all of it.

― Public Radio (public_radio), Thursday, 10 August 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

That performance of "If I Was President" on Chappelle's Show, C/D?
I say fucking cringeworthy.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Wyclef & Connor Oberst should tour in support of DEM PARTY 08.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that song is still probably better than "When The President Talks To God", but that Chappelle performance with all the contrived dread shaking and the cat-coughing-up-a-hairball-noise he keeps making, ugh.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 10 August 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Did you see Block Party? He does a version on an organ at a school with a bunch of kids, totally way better.

― the doaple gonger (nickalicious), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, not yet.
Does he still keep making that noise? I realize that the hairball/death rattle thing is something Bob Marley sorta did sometimes, but when 'clef (over)does it lacks any subtlety and seems like a pointless affectation. Drives me nuts.

― Marmot (marmotwolof), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

I thought his version of "Fortunate Son" was pretty good.

― max (maxreax), Thursday, 10 August 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

What does Wyclef do that doesn't seem pointless or affected?

― marcos lopez (mucho), Thursday, 10 August 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

SORRY AMON

'welcome to the east' ft sizzla / uncle murder / mavado

http://www.zshare.net/audio/455096921015aa/

'king & queen' ft shakira

http://www.zshare.net/audio/4571549e72da5c/

BUT CLEF IS OKAY

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 11:09 (eighteen years ago)

lol john forte

i have the 12 of his auspicious collabo with london elektricity somewhere

― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 October 2007 11:10 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

john forte's line about eating mangos in trinidad w/attorneys is classic.

-- M@tt He1geson: Real Name, No Gimmicks (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, August 9, 2006 1:34 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Link

otm

― The Reverend, Monday, 14 January 2008 08:59 (seventeen years ago)

OMG LUKAS WIF DA LID ORFF

― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Tuesday, 15 January 2008 00:46 (seventeen years ago)

three years pass...

still loooooove this verse on "Year of the Dragon":

Late at night, the light was bright on the ave
I went to pick up cash from my cousin, little Kev
He told me Joe had a dream until he got steamed
His wife became a fiend, fuckin' little Rahim
Damn...drugs will make you do terrible things
He told me when he get out, he's murderin' by any means
The day came; I saw him on the train
He pulled his gun and aimed, and started firin' like a son of Cain
I saw civilians, runnin' for they life
Like the devil, on Judgment Night, runnin' from Christ
"Ice and amaretto, please," as I fell to my knees
Bein' shot by Ferguson the vigilante.

― Doctor Casino, Friday, 11 February 2011 01:52 (fourteen years ago)

one month passes...

BreakingNews Breaking News
Wyclef Jean is treated and released from hospital in Haiti after being shot in hand Sat. night - hip-hop star via NBC News
25 minutes ago

― ice cr?m, Sunday, 20 March 2011 12:57 (fourteen years ago)

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