Hip hop mod/Official Hip Hop thread

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  1. TrustyPatches

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    Kendrick had a famously bad freestyle once and he can rap his ass off
     
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  2. Professor Moriarty

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    I think the vast majority of rappers write so much material that they’ve committed to memory that a freestyle isn’t a pure freestyle. I think the really great ones can turn memorized bars into an evolving flow for their current situation. I also think there’s just dem dudes that can flow at a drop of a hat.
     
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  3. TC

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    My white cousin went to jail and said Rage Against the Machine lyrics helped him earn respect in "freestyle" battles
     
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  4. Professor Moriarty

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    The first YouTube quote got me good
     
  5. TrustyPatches

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    Fantano said on his review of the song that on drakes next album he should purchase all the beats, write his raps then throw them in the garbage and let Freddie rap
     
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  6. Professor Moriarty

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    Big KRIT rapping over Drake’s Hype beat is one of my favorite things.
     
  7. cal

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    there are maybe 4 legit known freestyle rappers
     
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  8. TrustyPatches

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    How are we labeling freestyle rappers? Jigga claims to freestyle his rhymes but I don’t buy it. Songs are far to structured most of the time but there does seem to be cohesion lacking in his raps that Nas definitely has. I buy that Lil Wayne does because most of his shit makes absolutely no sense.

    Ghostface says he freestyles his way through supreme clientele and that’s hilarious when you consider how people regard that album
     
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  9. mc415

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    I can think about 20 legit freestylers off the top of my head, granted they come from my era

    which lead me to the Hieroglyphic Crew vs Hobo Junction On the Wake up Show w/Sway in 1994 still the most epic freestyle I ever heard and most talked about in Bay Area history, got heated that guns were pulled
     
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  10. TC

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    I read about his process and it’s pretty much stringing together mini freestyles. Get faded af, go to studio, put on beat, zone out. When you come up with a couple of lines, stand up and say them in the mic. Repeat ad infinitum to string together verses
     
  11. TC

    TC Peter, 53, from Toxteth
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    The real freestyle guys are the ones that can play off your outfit etc right?
     
  12. TrustyPatches

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    Makes sense. He’s made a career (and even an argument as an all timer) out of rapping absolute bullshit then hitting you with a haymaker of a one liner
     
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  13. Professor Moriarty

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    The generational gap between my little brother and me in regards to Lil Wayne is comically absurd.
     
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  14. fucktx

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    The fact that 95% of new rappers sound like playboi carti makes me want to kill myself
     
  15. TrustyPatches

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    Southern nerds are always tryna prop him up as that southern representative in the hip hop elite…

    I’m always like: dudes, Scarface, Bun B, TI, THREE STACKS AND BIG BOI.. they’re standing RIGHT THERE
     
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  16. TrustyPatches

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    Hell I’d take KRIT in a heartbeat over Wayne
     
  17. *DIESEL*

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    Not a huge Wayne guy, but Carter I, Carter II, and Dedication - No Ceilings mixtape Wayne were top fucking tier. Carter II was a nearly flawless album that brought real lyricism back to mainstream hip hop following the 50 Cent era.
     
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  18. TrustyPatches

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    Idk about real lyricism but he definitely has a dope flow and delivery
     
  19. *DIESEL*

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    Maybe. Although he was spitting pretty hard on a lot of those joints too. But I do love that era of Wayne. Everything outside of that has been trash though and he did usher in a huge generation of really shitty rappers, so I get the hate.
     
  20. cal

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    yeah you have a guy like supernat that can have stuff passed up to the stage through the crowd and give 4-8 bars off the top and then grab the next object and so on and so on for 10-15 minutes easily

    most admit that they have certain words or phrases they fall back on to buy some time when they get lost though
     
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  21. hood b. goode

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    freestyling is to rapping / making music as 1 on 1 hoops is to the nba

    its nice to have but not part of commercial success
     
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  22. cal

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    more like dunkers

    you’re watching thinking goddamn that’s incredible, but this is the only place it’ll ever work

    juice is my favorite freestyler (definitely biased ‘cause i was around him throughout my teens) and he’s only made maybe 3 songs i’ve ever liked
     
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  23. TC

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    Freestyling is the Globetrotters
     
  24. TAS

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  25. TAS

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    Smoked so many blunts full of trash weed to this back in high school

     
  26. Andy Reocho

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  27. PAHokie

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    That stretch was elite. Then he did too much lean and lost his mind.
     
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  28. TrustyPatches

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    I feel like this may be decent lol

     
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  29. Capstone 88

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    So TI responded to the accusations. I guess a new album is coming?

     
  30. TrustyPatches

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  32. TrustyPatches

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    Tryna listen to this Injury Reserve album based on its critical reception but I just don’t like critics I guess
     
  33. joe-

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    ooh man

     
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  34. fucktx

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  35. TrustyPatches

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    I think HWH8 is my album of the year.
     
  36. C-Pay

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  37. TC

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    Let's see a top 5 or top 10 when you have a chance
     
  38. TrustyPatches

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    HWH8- Westside Gunn
    Bo Jackson EP- Boldy James and The Alchemist
    KD2- Nas and Hit Boy
    Vince Staples- Vince Staples
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    The House Is Burning- Isaiah Rashad
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    All The Brilliant Things- Skyzoo
    La Maquina- Conway
    The Plugs I Met 2- Benny The Butcher and Harry Fraud


    Top 3 are certified. Rest are interchangeable. Tyler had a good album as well that I just don’t go back to
     
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  39. TC

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    I've only heard Nas and Vince Staples of those so far. Thanks for the recs :thumb:
     
  40. TrustyPatches

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    Last year was an incredible year for rap music. This year has been way down
     
  41. TC

    TC Peter, 53, from Toxteth
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    I find myself "growing out of it" a little bit, because I'm not about slanging and fucking bitches anymore at the moment. But interest can be cyclical like that. I've had big periods before of going all hip hop, no hip hop etc.

    I am definitely not saying I want an album of dad rap from Chance The Rapper because no one except Boo MFer! wants that
     
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  42. TrustyPatches

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    I just find that the stories and pictures painted within rap music continues to be interesting for me. I don’t look at it as slanging as much as I see it as surviving and it’s not so much fucking bitches as it is getting laid. I still listen for the new shit that reminds me of the old shit but I keep an ear out for anything interesting
     
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  43. Boo MFer!

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  44. TrustyPatches

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    From what I understand, Devin The Dude had an incredible album this year as well that I’ve yet to listen to. May get on that today and report back. I was a huge fan of his growing up
     
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  45. mc415

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    was always on my pre party playlist in college
     
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  46. TrustyPatches

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    See what I could pull was a must when I hit the clubs

     
  47. joe-

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    proud to have been on isaiah rashad since the cilvia mixtape days
     
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  48. mtsucalico85

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    Nothing has topped the McKinley Dixon album yet for me this year.
     
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  49. mc415

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    that was the song !!!
     
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  50. JohnLocke

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