Official Rap Thread (Reprise)

[tristy]

On 1/6/2020 at 3:23 AM, Benjamin said:

JESUS IS KING is truly gobshite, isn't it?

Follow God is about the only good song on it, but yeah. Surprisingly, it works pretty well if you insert each track after the ones on Yeezus (ex: On Sight into Every Hour). One of the songs has a perfection transition at the end into Monster from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, too.

But yeah it's pretty bad, and I have no interest in things like Sunday Service. Bad enough he's a Trump supporter, but now he's thinking about doing a tour with Joel Osteen? As the poet 50 Cent once said, "the fuck happened to you?".

[K]

@How The Cloud Stole Christ you following Wiley Vs Stormzy?

[tristy]

Life Is Good by Future & Drake fuckin' slaps.

[LittleDaniel]

 

[livid]

Have barely gotten through the Eminem album and I'm not sure how good it actually is yet but the production is definitely great. 

[MalaCloudy Black]

I'm looking at XXL's Freshman Class from 2019 and I don't recognize anybody. In fact, the last freshman class where I recognize anyone is from 2016. I'm so out of touch. 😢

[tristy]

4 hours ago, How The Cloud Stole Christ said:

I'm looking at XXL's Freshman Class from 2019 and I don't recognize anybody. In fact, the last freshman class where I recognize anyone is from 2016. I'm so out of touch. 😢

Megan Thee Stallion and DaBaby are the best ones out of that bunch, I'd say.

[Tyrone]

Tierra Whack is worth a listen, also

[LittleDaniel]

I also think Rico Nasty is fun and I haven't heard much from YBN Cordae but its been alright. Some of the people in the cyphers were just laughably bad though.

Lil Mosey manages to be absolutely awful while calling the beat trash, and YK Osiris just isn't my jam at all (and I've listened to this like ten times and still can't figure out what's going on at 2:10ish) but he at least makes up for it in the video because watching him watch DaBaby is great.

Also the new Lil Wayne has a couple good songs but overall I don't think I'm going to be listening to it that much, it definitely doesn't reach the highs of Carter V.

[tristy]

There's a reason DaBaby takes up more than half of that cypher video, because he's easily the most complete rapper out of all of them featured in that video. Megan should be as popular as Cardi B some day if she keeps at it - definitely deserved better than like 20 seconds in that video.

[MalaCloudy Black]

I know of Megan because of Hot Girl Summer and that's about it, but she seems pretty cool. The fact that she lists Pimp C and Three 6 Mafia as influences is a huge plus in my book. 

I listened to a DaBaby song a few weeks back (I think it was "Walker Texas Ranger") and I didn't care much for it. Looking at his discography on Wikipedia though, ooh, he did a remix of Truth Hurts..

[tristy]

I haven’t listened to DaBaby’s pre-2019 stuff to be honest, but KIRK is a fantastic album. Intro is a good song, but the entire album slaps.

[livid]

 

 

[FLiam]

This is beyond excellent. 

[tristy]

Pop Smoke, who just released Meet the Woo 2 last week and had it debut at #7 on the Billboard charts, was shot and killed during a home invasion this morning.

He was fucking 20.

[MalaCloudy Black]

Initially it was thought that Pop Smoke's murder was part of a botched robbery, but it seems now that the LAPD believe it was a targeted hit.

[Tyrone]

So, Jay Electronica finally dropped an album.

[LittleDaniel]

I really wanted to like the Jay Electronica album but all the NOI anti-semitism got to be too much tbh

I enjoyed Conway the Machine x The Alchemist:

And also this is just a fun video that just came out for a song off of Dreamville last year

 

[Tyrone]

Fred the Godson has passed away after fighting COVID-19

[MalaCloudy Black]