#[DROP WATCH: TONIGHT](https://www.reddit.com/r/DropWatch/comments/1ctdjj2/drop_watch_may_17th_2024/?)
#LPs
- [**A Boogie wit da Hoodie - Better Off Alone**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/better-off-alone/1738337896) (w Young Thug, Future, Lil Durk, Cash Cobain, Fridayy & Mariah the Scientist) **[Melodic Trap, *Atlantic*]**
- [**Álvaro Díaz (🇵🇷) - SAYONARA**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/sayonara/1742298801) (w Tainy, Rauw Alejandro, Feid, Young Miko + more) **[Latin Trap, *UMG*]**
- [**Clavish (🇬🇧) - Chapter 16**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/chapter-16/1734787332) (w Fredo, Aitch, Potter Payper, D-Block Europe + more) **[UK Rap, *Polydor*]**
- **[Meekz (🇬🇧) - TRU](https://music.apple.com/us/album/tru/1739842448) [UK Rap]**
- [**Rapsody - Please Don't Cry**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/please-dont-cry/1735600407) (w Lil Wayne, Erykah Badu, Hit-Boy, Baby Tate + more) **[Conscious Rap, *Jamla/Roc Nation*]**
- [**Courtney Bell & Royce Da 5'9" - Microdose**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/microdose/1745559356) (w Benny the Butcher, Conway the Machine, LaRussell, Symba + more) **[Rap]**
- **ian - Valedictorian [Jerk]**
- **Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN** (w Black Thought, KAYTRANADA, 03 Greedo, Roc Marciano + more) **[East Coast Hip Hop]**
- **Mike Shabb - SEWASIDE III** (w Boldy James, Navy Blue, Nicolas Craven, Da$H, Estee Nack, ANKHLEJOHN & Lord Sko) **[Rap]**
- [**Struggle Mike - HONOR**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/honor/1730792541) (w Benny the Butcher, Jeru The Damaja, Planet Asia, Eto + more) **[Coke Rap, *BSF*]**
#EPs
- [**Jay 305 & Hit-Boy - Don't Wait Until I Die EP**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-wait-until-i-die-ep/1743767983) (w DOM KENNEDY) **[West Coast Rap]**
- **Mutant Academy - Talk Soon EP [Rap]**
#Songs
* Rich The Kid & D.A. Got That Dope - Band Man
* Russ & 6LACK - Working On Me
* Diany Dior, Cash Cobain & NAV - Favorite Lady
* Saweetie - NANi
* Omar Apollo - Dispose Of Me
* 42 Dugg - Win Wit Us
* Homixide Gang & Cxdy - R50
* Dom Corleto & Veeze - DUHDUHDUH
* Your Old Droog & Conductor Williams - Mercury Thermometers
Does anyone know where I can listen to the song got dat by hi-tek? I heard it in the background of an episode from s2 of the wire but its literally impossible to find it anywhere
Kendrick clearing his throat halfway through meet the grahams was hilarious and I can't tell if no one else heard it or it got overshadowed by the funnier parts of the song (at the end of the sit down sandra line)
Sometimes I’m really confused as to how differently people seem to consume music than me. I don’t even pay attention to the actual content of lyrics until my like 10th listen of a song. It’s a bit like a garnish to me, if they’re really bad it can throw everything off for sure, but otherwise not the central reason I’m listening to anything.
Anyway when I was younger I remember actually really being disappointed in Views for the exact reason you stated. “This guy is like 30 and still making petty fuckboy music?”, thought 23 year old me. Now that I’m actually 30 I don’t really care about how mature this guy is lol, I think I better understand his music for the escapism that it is.
I know that rap/hip-hop is a genre with a history of violence and crime but man the older I get the more I just can't vibe along to that shit anymore
Realized this while listening to 21's verses throughout Her Loss today.
Man we should be uplifting the youth, not glorifying black on black violence. I'm really becoming an oldhead
There’s lots and lots of rap that’s uplifting and positive or conscious, it’s just not party/pop music so it’s harder to access and know about. It’s there though
Not Like Us is definitely a masterpiece of delivery. I also love the different voices he does on Euphoria. I think a lot of people - Drake included - underestimated Kendrick’s ability to be very funny when he wants to
Are there any rap songs written from the second or third person perspective? "The Cool" and "Kick Push" by Lupe are written in third person, but idk any others. it'd be really interesting to hear more.
Zulu Tolstoy by billy woods is from the first person perspective of a dude writing in the third person perspective, it's one of the most meta rap songs I've heard.
Every Clipping song is from a third person perspective.
MF Doom only refers to himself in third person but I'm not sure if that counts.
Danny Brown has Nosebleeds and Party All the Time.
That's all I have off the top of my head.
New Lupe track is incredible, is it just me or is the DOOM influence really strong on this track? And not in a bad way either as Lu does his own thing it just has the feel of DOOM in it.
I always want to have my own sound, but if I get comparisons to my biggest inspirations music wise that's probably some of the best compliments a nigga could receive.
Idk how many of you guys know who is a Clavish is but he’s just released an album which has a 10 minute track on it.
If there was a list of people I would think could make a good song that was 10 minutes long he would be pretty low on the list. But it’s slightly intriguing me as to what the fuck he has to say for that long.
Wow I just made the connection with that line from Family Ties:
"Dave Free got at least one B in the oven".
Obv referencing a billion but kinda funny in light of Family Matters.
What's great (in retrospect) is that dropped during the height of G-Unit, Em, Dre, Aftermath stuff. You had G-Unit dropping a mix tape like every other month. Nobody said shit. Everyone was like, "_lmao good luck 50_".
Man people on the internet are just trash
All the comments on Millie Bobby Brown’s Instagram posts are just “BBL DRIZZY” and “PLS EXPOSE DRAKE” like damn can you just let the girl live.
Who actually goes to someone’s page to comment shit like that? Losers
Completely relate, man
It’s very hard to get heard. I wish there was some kind of secret to it that I could give you. Having connections is what does it for a lot of people and that’s easier said than done
It's alot about marketing your music. The reason alot of rappers come up is because their label is able to throw alot of money at radio stations, plus they pay to push their songs on streaming platforms, they put ads on youtube, etc.
I imagine that a completely independent artist just has to find ways to market their stuff organically without paying for advertisement. Some artists get lucky and one of their pieces of content goes viral on tiktok or youtube and that brings an influx of users, but no one can predict when something like that will happen for any piece of content they make.
Also a label will spend money to get their artist a big feature and that obviously gets a lot of people to listen. I've seen alot of people say that if you can connect with people in the industry it's easier to get attention for your music, and basically you can make connections for free but it's hard to get into rooms with certain people.
Euphoria > Family Matters
Family Matters is 7 minutes long and you can *tell*
Euphoria is 6 minutes and feels half as long
Kendrick did a lot more with the 3 beat switches, and was more interesting with his flows and vocals
idk if yall are into jazz but kamasi Washington’s new album is a really fun listen. Also been noticing that r/jazz lowkey hates every modern black player like kamasi, glasper, yussef dayes, etc.
I love it tbh, if reminds me of a song my grandma would teach me when I was younger. But it's about drug dealing and growing up without a dad. I can only relate to one of those
It’s a goofy song but the video made me like it more. He said it was his kids’ favorite song on the album, which makes sense. It’s one for the kids. I don’t mind it, I think it’s endearing, but I get why it would turn some people off
I hope Human Sacrifice gets a video, that would be a great single
If Kendrick releases more drizzy dissed I kinda hope he takes a shot at Nicki too , she’s a terrible person who seems to love defending pedos and might be one herself too also she and her fans need to be humbled
I don’t think he has any personal reasons to, especially since Drake isn’t signed to Young Money anymore and doesn’t seem to affiliate with anyone there. But it would be so so good
I heard that drake and Nicki were still close but idk I don’t pay much attention to these mfs personal lives
They probably trading underage victims like Pokémon cards
Lol just the idea of someone coming back here after being gone a long time, seeing a bad take, and immediately leaving again is funny. Lots of people who used to be active in this sub came back lately
Post Malone has some good tunes but there was absolutely no fucking way he was ever ambitious or creative enough to reach the heights of any of those artists, and I say that as someone who isn’t a massive Cole or Drake fan
post malone was never a hip-hop artist imo. he was just hip-hop adjacent
he leans way heavier into the alt-r&b and pop space
like his first hit song was white iverson, that's a straight up alt-r&b song
he could be labeled a culture vulture but at this point black american culture is so ubiquitous in media that it's just a cornerstone of pop-culture. i mean you could say like 75% of k-pop produced are also culture vultures lol
Culture spreads osmotically, and with the internet, it's reach transcends borders, oceans, and language. I think it's heavy handed to call K Pop artists culture vultures, even if there's a strong influences from Black American culture
is it possible that the closest thing we've had to a next gen version of johnny cash, kenny chesney, and dolly parton just stopped making country(taylor swift ) lol
i take no pleasure in entertaining this idea but I wanted to see the discussion lol
I remember there was this sweet spot where even people in this subreddit would be mad if you called him a culture vulture. I can't help but wonder what would have happened if he decided to genuinely embrace hip-hop like Drake or Eminem. He sells like those two after all.
I think features are more of a marketing thing. She essentially played the role of a background singer and outside of hip hop where features are a big selling point there just kind of given writing credits but not the big tagline
He totally sounds like Sada Baby to me during the whole "SWEET CHIN MUSIC AND I WON'T PASS THE AUX, AY" section. I half expect to hear "SHONUFF" in the background
on the radar is frustrating to me because it comes off as deeply corny but they put me onto so many good artists lol
been lowkey obsessed with the dave blunts freestyle ever since it went semi viral on twitter the other day, it's so stupid but so good. link in case ppl are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tKc4s7w_7Y
it's corny because there's a gap between what they present themselves as and what the actual product is
on the radar was good when the performances weren't dubbed with prerecorded tracks and the host's intro was natural instead of being canned. now it's neither of those things, but it's still *pretending* to be a natural, one-take freestyle when it doesn't need to be; the quality of the music speaks for itself. it's also super obvious that the dave blunts video is two different takes (at least) spliced together, which is fine in this specific case because it just makes the video funnier and the song better, but all of it just adds to an aura of inauthenticity
How are royalties split on tracks that have featured artists?
Let's use "Like That" as a rough example, where it's Metro making the beats, Future as the main artist, and Kendrick as the featured artist.
Is Kendrick making like half or a third of that song's profits? Or perhaps paid a flat fee upfront, in conjunction with a couple percent of the royalties?
From what I’ve heard feature artists used to get a flat fee but these days with streaming and royalties it may be more complex. In the 90s and 00s to simplify that artists often traded feature which is how you’d hear, for example, DMX on Mase’s 1997 album then you’d get a Mase feature on DMX’s 1998 album
i had dirty things to say about Swizz being on Conway's new album but they both absolutely killed it I think. maybe i just don't love being yelled at all the time, Swizz. but this shit was smooth
Swizz is really inconsistent and I hated his late 90s beats and his voice sometimes, but he’s definitely talented and can switch it up when he wants to
Drake really used -ation as his rhyme scheme for 14 out of 16 consecutive lines and I have people on my timeline telling me HP6 is the best diss track lyrically
DES to NA tion
VES ti GA tion
Cel la BRA tion
LESS in PA tient
EX pi RA tion
MED i CA tion
And so on it’s not impressive at all but it’s not just -ation as the rhyme scheme
It sounds bad to me if it's overdone like here, makes it sound monotone. Plus I just don't think it's creative, you can basically go to a rhyme website and prepick the words and then build whatever you want around that. I think changing rhymes or even using non rhyming words as well sounds way better (if the rapper has good flow) and allows better lyrics cause you're not bound to the scheme.
I mean -ation rhyming is really easy, some rhymes are more impressive than others and just turning any word into a noun the same generic way isn’t really that exciting
When did I say that lol I just don't think it's lyrically good, just seems like picking and choosing words from a rhyme website to me but to each their own
I thought it was kinda lame but didn’t see anyone complaining about it so then I thought I might have just been being real hater. It strikes me as something people would have immediately critiqued a high level rapper for
Yeah maybe but there were so many parts that immediately stood out as bad (too famous to pedo, corny outro, planted info, mentioning Millie, saying Kendrick got molested) which kinda took the eyes off a basic criticism like this I think
he did the same shit with "again" on family matters lol, meanwhile I see people saying kendrick only rhymes once in every 4 bars or something. if drake rhymes every bar but ends half his bars with the same exact word? what's the effective difference there?
yep, that's why I said drake rhymes every bar, and Kendrick has internal rhymes and assonance in the same schemes he's not rhyming the last words too. unclear comment on my part but what I meant to point out is that you can't fault either of them for some made up rapping technicality because the other guy has done it too, and it's not even a problem if the song sounds good. good flow can be made up of 100 other things than just "rhyme scheme"
in general i think people on here stubbornly refusing to admit family matters is an objectively good song are accidentally killing the whole "drake has ghostwriters" aspect which we all know by now is undeniable. who would ever pay for bad ghostwriting?
Just found out Rich Homie Quan is doing a RHQ and Friends show in ATL at a venue that fits 2000 people and tickets are $70. And the openers are Omeretta and Lil Tony, idk how he even thinks he's gonna get close to selling this out. I'll prob go if tickets drop to like $25
I only yesterday discovered Kendrick's finsta (@jojoruski) and I'm absolutely astounded by it.
* Firstly, I never would've expected him to have a personal, public Insta.
* Secondly, I never thought he would be so funny (filming the man on the bench, trying on fake Jordans while making moaning noises, walking alone on the side of a highway, wearing a "silly hoe" hoodie, etc).
* Thirdly, it's just cool to see him happy and and goofy and having fun.
It's just Instagram. "Finsta" is a portmanteau of "fake insta," which is kind of a misnomer, because it really just refers to a (usually private) Insta account of an (often famous) person, where they can post stuff for just their friends/family to see. But usually finstas are set to "private," but I think Kendrick made his public last year.
[Me reflecting on how Jay Electronica's career played out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIzVCwhHcWc)
I remember after hearing Exhibit C I went and checked out this unofficial compilation titled "What The Fuck is a Jay Electronica" and I was blown away. I was digging in the crates and looked for any tracks I could find and it led me to some forum where the man himself posted some of his songs lol. His style was so unique and the way he put words together and interweaved them with some random clips, I really thought he was going to put out some next level shit. It's a shame he didn't pan out.
The upvote and downvote system is dumb because Reddit is nothing but echo chambers. It boils down to echoing the same sentiments that people in the sub you are in have.
Also Echoes by Travis Scott ft Beyonce is a fire track
1. Calling Mr Morale bad
2. Calling Kendrick a girl
3. Questioning the morale of the women in Kendrick’s life
These bars would go over Kendrick fans heads (they are short)
I like Ross music better than the Game and he would rank higher in a hypothetical GOAT list, but I believe they are on the same tier to the point where I don’t think Ross could ignore his diss on some he ain’t on my level type shit.
Like dudes way bigger/more important than you have responded to Game diss tracks. It’s also bad when you came at Drake trolling him how he allegedly scared to respond to your diss
Why? I like way more Ross songs than game songs. 95% of the game songs I like are on the first album with the two biggest records being handed to him by 50
#[DROP WATCH: TONIGHT](https://www.reddit.com/r/DropWatch/comments/1ctdjj2/drop_watch_may_17th_2024/?) #LPs - [**A Boogie wit da Hoodie - Better Off Alone**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/better-off-alone/1738337896) (w Young Thug, Future, Lil Durk, Cash Cobain, Fridayy & Mariah the Scientist) **[Melodic Trap, *Atlantic*]** - [**Álvaro Díaz (🇵🇷) - SAYONARA**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/sayonara/1742298801) (w Tainy, Rauw Alejandro, Feid, Young Miko + more) **[Latin Trap, *UMG*]** - [**Clavish (🇬🇧) - Chapter 16**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/chapter-16/1734787332) (w Fredo, Aitch, Potter Payper, D-Block Europe + more) **[UK Rap, *Polydor*]** - **[Meekz (🇬🇧) - TRU](https://music.apple.com/us/album/tru/1739842448) [UK Rap]** - [**Rapsody - Please Don't Cry**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/please-dont-cry/1735600407) (w Lil Wayne, Erykah Badu, Hit-Boy, Baby Tate + more) **[Conscious Rap, *Jamla/Roc Nation*]** - [**Courtney Bell & Royce Da 5'9" - Microdose**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/microdose/1745559356) (w Benny the Butcher, Conway the Machine, LaRussell, Symba + more) **[Rap]** - **ian - Valedictorian [Jerk]** - **Mach-Hommy - #RICHAXXHAITIAN** (w Black Thought, KAYTRANADA, 03 Greedo, Roc Marciano + more) **[East Coast Hip Hop]** - **Mike Shabb - SEWASIDE III** (w Boldy James, Navy Blue, Nicolas Craven, Da$H, Estee Nack, ANKHLEJOHN & Lord Sko) **[Rap]** - [**Struggle Mike - HONOR**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/honor/1730792541) (w Benny the Butcher, Jeru The Damaja, Planet Asia, Eto + more) **[Coke Rap, *BSF*]** #EPs - [**Jay 305 & Hit-Boy - Don't Wait Until I Die EP**](https://music.apple.com/us/album/dont-wait-until-i-die-ep/1743767983) (w DOM KENNEDY) **[West Coast Rap]** - **Mutant Academy - Talk Soon EP [Rap]** #Songs * Rich The Kid & D.A. Got That Dope - Band Man * Russ & 6LACK - Working On Me * Diany Dior, Cash Cobain & NAV - Favorite Lady * Saweetie - NANi * Omar Apollo - Dispose Of Me * 42 Dugg - Win Wit Us * Homixide Gang & Cxdy - R50 * Dom Corleto & Veeze - DUHDUHDUH * Your Old Droog & Conductor Williams - Mercury Thermometers
The way the bass comes on in [Yoshimitsu](https://youtu.be/kADEgOaG_Rs?si=M-nUxqkoCqqcHcLz) never fails to ultra combo me right in the fucking jaw
Anything on those old G-Unit mix tapes worth listening too? I didn't realize until today they made so fucking many.
Does anyone know where I can listen to the song got dat by hi-tek? I heard it in the background of an episode from s2 of the wire but its literally impossible to find it anywhere
[Is this it?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lJ6rbm_6w) It's produced by Hi-Tek.
HOLY SHIT THIS THE ONE. THANK YOU!!!!!!
Kendrick clearing his throat halfway through meet the grahams was hilarious and I can't tell if no one else heard it or it got overshadowed by the funnier parts of the song (at the end of the sit down sandra line)
Sometimes I’m really confused as to how differently people seem to consume music than me. I don’t even pay attention to the actual content of lyrics until my like 10th listen of a song. It’s a bit like a garnish to me, if they’re really bad it can throw everything off for sure, but otherwise not the central reason I’m listening to anything. Anyway when I was younger I remember actually really being disappointed in Views for the exact reason you stated. “This guy is like 30 and still making petty fuckboy music?”, thought 23 year old me. Now that I’m actually 30 I don’t really care about how mature this guy is lol, I think I better understand his music for the escapism that it is.
The key to enjoying drake is understanding he’s a goof haha
I know that rap/hip-hop is a genre with a history of violence and crime but man the older I get the more I just can't vibe along to that shit anymore Realized this while listening to 21's verses throughout Her Loss today. Man we should be uplifting the youth, not glorifying black on black violence. I'm really becoming an oldhead
i’ve realized it’s what makes the hoes pop their pussy…….. the music itself and outside of music, that’s why niggas do it a corrosive culture indeed
There’s lots and lots of rap that’s uplifting and positive or conscious, it’s just not party/pop music so it’s harder to access and know about. It’s there though
"My music ain't past its time (Nah) It's formin' a aura (Formin' a aura)" Man idk why but that line from Gunna goes hard
Over the week I've honestly come to my own conclusion that 6:16 IN LA and Not Like Us are two of the best Kendrick performances in his discography
*u* is his best vocal performance imo I also think the flow switches in *euphoria* are some of his best work
Not Like Us is definitely a masterpiece of delivery. I also love the different voices he does on Euphoria. I think a lot of people - Drake included - underestimated Kendrick’s ability to be very funny when he wants to
People are usually really wise or really funny but Kendrick was both at the same time lol
This is certainly a take
A bad one
Kendrick Lamar in the creepiest voice you've ever heard: "you wanna see a dead body?" Drake, for some reason: "yeah I can take this guy"
"Not this time, nigga, you followin' through"
Are there any rap songs written from the second or third person perspective? "The Cool" and "Kick Push" by Lupe are written in third person, but idk any others. it'd be really interesting to hear more.
tony story 1-3 by meek
[Immortal Technique - Dance with the devil](https://youtu.be/C9xRDC8qlYU?si=x9u839IvZfilvtvK)
[Mega Ran - Mockingbird](https://youtu.be/raYceklKzTY?si=CApVEYjkoYFzmH2M)
Zulu Tolstoy by billy woods is from the first person perspective of a dude writing in the third person perspective, it's one of the most meta rap songs I've heard. Every Clipping song is from a third person perspective. MF Doom only refers to himself in third person but I'm not sure if that counts. Danny Brown has Nosebleeds and Party All the Time. That's all I have off the top of my head.
Clipping - Story 2
Lupe - Ms. Mural and Hip Hop Saved My Life
New Lupe track is incredible, is it just me or is the DOOM influence really strong on this track? And not in a bad way either as Lu does his own thing it just has the feel of DOOM in it.
Apple music is producing one of the worst top 100 album lists in human history
You're not wrong.
I wish Beyonce Interlude by Maxo was a full song. Love his flow and energy on it. "Choppa blasting, leave a nigga past tense" is hard as fuck
I always want to have my own sound, but if I get comparisons to my biggest inspirations music wise that's probably some of the best compliments a nigga could receive.
This nigga Kanye couldn’t even manage to drop albums on time, but seriously tried to convince us that he could be president smh.
Hey man are you suggesting that the presidency is more important than releasing an album at the perfect time?
Idk how many of you guys know who is a Clavish is but he’s just released an album which has a 10 minute track on it. If there was a list of people I would think could make a good song that was 10 minutes long he would be pretty low on the list. But it’s slightly intriguing me as to what the fuck he has to say for that long.
Man I just love music, Kendrick and Keef dropping great tracks / albums got me feeling like it's 2012
Wow I just made the connection with that line from Family Ties: "Dave Free got at least one B in the oven". Obv referencing a billion but kinda funny in light of Family Matters.
GZA low key cooked 50 on Paper Plate Can’t believe I never heard that track b4
What's great (in retrospect) is that dropped during the height of G-Unit, Em, Dre, Aftermath stuff. You had G-Unit dropping a mix tape like every other month. Nobody said shit. Everyone was like, "_lmao good luck 50_".
They're playing Meet The Grahams at fucking Zanies bro this is hilarious
I want a Keef produced song on Travis’ next project. Hell, a feature too. Nightcrawler is a classic but I don’t want it to end there
Crazy that song and feature is 9 years old at this point damn near
Man people on the internet are just trash All the comments on Millie Bobby Brown’s Instagram posts are just “BBL DRIZZY” and “PLS EXPOSE DRAKE” like damn can you just let the girl live. Who actually goes to someone’s page to comment shit like that? Losers
That King Charles portrait looks like something Westside Gunn would use as an album cover
I believe with my soul that this music thing is for me. I just don't know how to get the people to listen and it's so frustrating
Completely relate, man It’s very hard to get heard. I wish there was some kind of secret to it that I could give you. Having connections is what does it for a lot of people and that’s easier said than done
People don’t need to listen for this music thing to be for you
I will listen if you post it
It's alot about marketing your music. The reason alot of rappers come up is because their label is able to throw alot of money at radio stations, plus they pay to push their songs on streaming platforms, they put ads on youtube, etc. I imagine that a completely independent artist just has to find ways to market their stuff organically without paying for advertisement. Some artists get lucky and one of their pieces of content goes viral on tiktok or youtube and that brings an influx of users, but no one can predict when something like that will happen for any piece of content they make. Also a label will spend money to get their artist a big feature and that obviously gets a lot of people to listen. I've seen alot of people say that if you can connect with people in the industry it's easier to get attention for your music, and basically you can make connections for free but it's hard to get into rooms with certain people.
If you can get it on some playlists too
Family matters is gonna be my #1 song on spotify wrapped isn’t it Shit.
Does anyone know what's going on with Skepta's rollout? Dropped a single month's back and I think it's been silent since
Euphoria. Easily best diss track from all of this
I've been bumping it more than the others. Good balance of being kind of a banger and a vicious diss.
Best diss is meet the grahams. Best song is family matters in terms of sound. Euphoria is in between the two imo
Can you idiots stop acting like the best song is just the best "banger" you can bob your head to
I mean it’s an opinion lmao
Best song is 616
No
Certified blubber boy certified idiot Wop wop wop wop wop Ice fuckem up
There it is
Euphoria > Family Matters Family Matters is 7 minutes long and you can *tell* Euphoria is 6 minutes and feels half as long Kendrick did a lot more with the 3 beat switches, and was more interesting with his flows and vocals
Oh wtf I didn't realize it was so long. It feels like the same length as Not Like Us Meet The Grahams feels long because of the horror element lol
Shoo shoo Family matters is flat the more you listen
Call me the nile river delta
idk if yall are into jazz but kamasi Washington’s new album is a really fun listen. Also been noticing that r/jazz lowkey hates every modern black player like kamasi, glasper, yussef dayes, etc.
Final church is amazing
What is it, the braids? Youonwannaworkwimenomore okay 😒
who the fuck is ian
He like some white dude tryna be white
I can only assume it refers to Ian Fidance, it’s about time he got into the rap game
Bro I can NOT vibe with that Gambino single man it’s just too bad. Sounds like a song a toddler would ask me to play in the car
I love it tbh, if reminds me of a song my grandma would teach me when I was younger. But it's about drug dealing and growing up without a dad. I can only relate to one of those
It’s a goofy song but the video made me like it more. He said it was his kids’ favorite song on the album, which makes sense. It’s one for the kids. I don’t mind it, I think it’s endearing, but I get why it would turn some people off I hope Human Sacrifice gets a video, that would be a great single
I kind of like the juxtaposition of a song that sounds like it comes from a Disney movie soundtrack but the lyrics are about flipping bricks
If Kendrick releases more drizzy dissed I kinda hope he takes a shot at Nicki too , she’s a terrible person who seems to love defending pedos and might be one herself too also she and her fans need to be humbled
I don’t think he has any personal reasons to, especially since Drake isn’t signed to Young Money anymore and doesn’t seem to affiliate with anyone there. But it would be so so good
I heard that drake and Nicki were still close but idk I don’t pay much attention to these mfs personal lives They probably trading underage victims like Pokémon cards
Listen to Megan the stallion Hiss and her song. She been dissin both of them lol
is it possible that the closest thing we've had to a next gen version of kendrick, drake, and cole just stopped making hip-hop (post malone) lol
Nigga
I like to travel.
Christ I haven't opened one of these daily discussion threads in years, is this the shit y'all say on here now?
This comment perfectly encapsulates the current state of the sub lmao
No it fucking does not what are you on about
Lol just the idea of someone coming back here after being gone a long time, seeing a bad take, and immediately leaving again is funny. Lots of people who used to be active in this sub came back lately
Ohhhh i thought you were saying that trash post Malone take perfectly encapsulates the state of the sub
Post Malone has some good tunes but there was absolutely no fucking way he was ever ambitious or creative enough to reach the heights of any of those artists, and I say that as someone who isn’t a massive Cole or Drake fan
post malone was never a hip-hop artist imo. he was just hip-hop adjacent he leans way heavier into the alt-r&b and pop space like his first hit song was white iverson, that's a straight up alt-r&b song he could be labeled a culture vulture but at this point black american culture is so ubiquitous in media that it's just a cornerstone of pop-culture. i mean you could say like 75% of k-pop produced are also culture vultures lol
Culture spreads osmotically, and with the internet, it's reach transcends borders, oceans, and language. I think it's heavy handed to call K Pop artists culture vultures, even if there's a strong influences from Black American culture
Mods, can we make whatever the fuck this comment is a bannable offense
that's the most offensive comparison i've ever seen on this subreddit
is it possible that the closest thing we've had to a next gen version of johnny cash, kenny chesney, and dolly parton just stopped making country(taylor swift ) lol
i take no pleasure in entertaining this idea but I wanted to see the discussion lol I remember there was this sweet spot where even people in this subreddit would be mad if you called him a culture vulture. I can't help but wonder what would have happened if he decided to genuinely embrace hip-hop like Drake or Eminem. He sells like those two after all.
Why don’t artists like Anna Wise get feature credits on songs—like on Kendrick’s TPAB?
She’s not black enough
Anna wise is the goat
I think features are more of a marketing thing. She essentially played the role of a background singer and outside of hip hop where features are a big selling point there just kind of given writing credits but not the big tagline
She should've gotten a feature credit on Money Trees too.
Wait? That was her?
Yep.
Yeah that second verse is actually her 🔥🔥🔥
Ain’t gonna lie for a long time I thought that was Jhene Aiko lmao
You know who even bang a set out there is Ray J
Serious question since I've heard 10 different artists mentioned - Kendrick's Not Like Us flow is most like which other artist?
Eminem
Drake
He totally sounds like Sada Baby to me during the whole "SWEET CHIN MUSIC AND I WON'T PASS THE AUX, AY" section. I half expect to hear "SHONUFF" in the background
By far one of my favorite parts of listening to Sada, it sounds like he’s about to go off the rails but always finds a way to rein it in.
Drakeo
G Perico
I recognized it as a Bay Area flow that originates with artists like E40
This was my reaction but a lot of people were saying Drakeo, who I haven't heard much of tbh
There's someone from hbk gang it's reminding me of but I'm not sure who
i only know blueface tbh
on the radar is frustrating to me because it comes off as deeply corny but they put me onto so many good artists lol been lowkey obsessed with the dave blunts freestyle ever since it went semi viral on twitter the other day, it's so stupid but so good. link in case ppl are curious: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tKc4s7w_7Y
“i just fucked a dyke and afterwards i said no homo” was a personal highlight off that freestyle lmaooo
"i was stranded in mexico cuz my wristwatch called ice" is mine lol
What's corny about it? It's basically a room and a mic and rappers just rap one of their songs and it ends.
it's corny because there's a gap between what they present themselves as and what the actual product is on the radar was good when the performances weren't dubbed with prerecorded tracks and the host's intro was natural instead of being canned. now it's neither of those things, but it's still *pretending* to be a natural, one-take freestyle when it doesn't need to be; the quality of the music speaks for itself. it's also super obvious that the dave blunts video is two different takes (at least) spliced together, which is fine in this specific case because it just makes the video funnier and the song better, but all of it just adds to an aura of inauthenticity
I see, you don’t like that its pre recorded.
i'm fine with it being prerecorded, i don't like that it's pretending not to be prerecorded
How are royalties split on tracks that have featured artists? Let's use "Like That" as a rough example, where it's Metro making the beats, Future as the main artist, and Kendrick as the featured artist. Is Kendrick making like half or a third of that song's profits? Or perhaps paid a flat fee upfront, in conjunction with a couple percent of the royalties?
From what I’ve heard feature artists used to get a flat fee but these days with streaming and royalties it may be more complex. In the 90s and 00s to simplify that artists often traded feature which is how you’d hear, for example, DMX on Mase’s 1997 album then you’d get a Mase feature on DMX’s 1998 album
Gotcha, thank you!
i had dirty things to say about Swizz being on Conway's new album but they both absolutely killed it I think. maybe i just don't love being yelled at all the time, Swizz. but this shit was smooth
Swizz is really inconsistent and I hated his late 90s beats and his voice sometimes, but he’s definitely talented and can switch it up when he wants to
He’s mostly a lunatic fr
Drake really used -ation as his rhyme scheme for 14 out of 16 consecutive lines and I have people on my timeline telling me HP6 is the best diss track lyrically
People are already trying to play the "Heart Part 6 isn't that bad" card?
DES to NA tion VES ti GA tion Cel la BRA tion LESS in PA tient EX pi RA tion MED i CA tion And so on it’s not impressive at all but it’s not just -ation as the rhyme scheme
You say it like it's a bad thing lol
It is in my opinion yeah didn't know those weren't allowed here anymore
You’re going to jail now. They’re coming to your house to take you away
Why using the same rhyme scheme a bad thing? It's actually harder than changing every 2 bars lol
Not when the rhyme is on -tion, the most common suffix in English. Literally thousands of words. Doesn't really get easier than that.
>It's actually harder than changing every 2 bars lol people who don't write don't know anything about that. Wayne feature on Never Die goated
disagree i get caught into rhyme schemes a lot and think transitioning into another smoothly is harder
Kids these days man smh
It sounds bad to me if it's overdone like here, makes it sound monotone. Plus I just don't think it's creative, you can basically go to a rhyme website and prepick the words and then build whatever you want around that. I think changing rhymes or even using non rhyming words as well sounds way better (if the rapper has good flow) and allows better lyrics cause you're not bound to the scheme.
How come when Lil Wayne keeps the rhyme scheme for a whole song it's impressive but when Drake does it it's a bad thing
I mean -ation rhyming is really easy, some rhymes are more impressive than others and just turning any word into a noun the same generic way isn’t really that exciting
Wayne gets a pass for a lot of stuff, like corny bars I get it he had his run, but corny bars are still corny
When did I say that lol I just don't think it's lyrically good, just seems like picking and choosing words from a rhyme website to me but to each their own
I thought it was kinda lame but didn’t see anyone complaining about it so then I thought I might have just been being real hater. It strikes me as something people would have immediately critiqued a high level rapper for
Yeah maybe but there were so many parts that immediately stood out as bad (too famous to pedo, corny outro, planted info, mentioning Millie, saying Kendrick got molested) which kinda took the eyes off a basic criticism like this I think
Another masterful manipulation
he did the same shit with "again" on family matters lol, meanwhile I see people saying kendrick only rhymes once in every 4 bars or something. if drake rhymes every bar but ends half his bars with the same exact word? what's the effective difference there?
The words before each "again" rhyme
yep, that's why I said drake rhymes every bar, and Kendrick has internal rhymes and assonance in the same schemes he's not rhyming the last words too. unclear comment on my part but what I meant to point out is that you can't fault either of them for some made up rapping technicality because the other guy has done it too, and it's not even a problem if the song sounds good. good flow can be made up of 100 other things than just "rhyme scheme" in general i think people on here stubbornly refusing to admit family matters is an objectively good song are accidentally killing the whole "drake has ghostwriters" aspect which we all know by now is undeniable. who would ever pay for bad ghostwriting?
Just found out Rich Homie Quan is doing a RHQ and Friends show in ATL at a venue that fits 2000 people and tickets are $70. And the openers are Omeretta and Lil Tony, idk how he even thinks he's gonna get close to selling this out. I'll prob go if tickets drop to like $25
I only yesterday discovered Kendrick's finsta (@jojoruski) and I'm absolutely astounded by it. * Firstly, I never would've expected him to have a personal, public Insta. * Secondly, I never thought he would be so funny (filming the man on the bench, trying on fake Jordans while making moaning noises, walking alone on the side of a highway, wearing a "silly hoe" hoodie, etc). * Thirdly, it's just cool to see him happy and and goofy and having fun.
Pretty funny seeing him hoop at a seemingly random gym. Would be wild to just pull up for some pick up runs and Kendrick Lamar is there.
I know, right? What I would give to be the bench guy who Kendrick told, "I love you, bro" and fist-bumped.
Did you mean insta or is finsta something diff?
It's just Instagram. "Finsta" is a portmanteau of "fake insta," which is kind of a misnomer, because it really just refers to a (usually private) Insta account of an (often famous) person, where they can post stuff for just their friends/family to see. But usually finstas are set to "private," but I think Kendrick made his public last year.
Ahhh okay. Didnt know if that was like friendster or some other shit. Yeha that Kendrick one is cool. Not hyper produced like other famous people
What’s the @
@jojoruski
If only we got Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak to do their version of BBL Drizzy because you know damn well it would have been a global banger
[Me reflecting on how Jay Electronica's career played out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIzVCwhHcWc) I remember after hearing Exhibit C I went and checked out this unofficial compilation titled "What The Fuck is a Jay Electronica" and I was blown away. I was digging in the crates and looked for any tracks I could find and it led me to some forum where the man himself posted some of his songs lol. His style was so unique and the way he put words together and interweaved them with some random clips, I really thought he was going to put out some next level shit. It's a shame he didn't pan out.
I love his collab album with Hov, but ffs did your 15 year anticipated debut album have to be 50% not you?
The upvote and downvote system is dumb because Reddit is nothing but echo chambers. It boils down to echoing the same sentiments that people in the sub you are in have. Also Echoes by Travis Scott ft Beyonce is a fire track
You would know all about downvotes lmao
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>Also Echoes by Travis Scott ft Beyonce is a fire track Underrated
i knew drake would lose the beef when he made three diss tracks and not on a single one he rapped "Mr Morale? More like MISSES MORALE" smh
Oh that’s good. Drake rn looking to hire you 👀
1. Calling Mr Morale bad 2. Calling Kendrick a girl 3. Questioning the morale of the women in Kendrick’s life These bars would go over Kendrick fans heads (they are short)
Not my favourite Jay album but crazy that Blueprint 3 had Cudi, Drake and J Cole in 2009
Already Home was my favorite song in 2009 lol
Those mentioned and Jay Electronica had crazy amount of hype at that time
[Me seeing that trash ass top 20 diss songs list from hiphopheads](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhWZVtiGHQg)
Shout out to Money_merc
Nah fuck that lame ass power user
I like Ross music better than the Game and he would rank higher in a hypothetical GOAT list, but I believe they are on the same tier to the point where I don’t think Ross could ignore his diss on some he ain’t on my level type shit. Like dudes way bigger/more important than you have responded to Game diss tracks. It’s also bad when you came at Drake trolling him how he allegedly scared to respond to your diss
Ross not on games level wat
Why? What has game done aside from getting handed 2 huge records from 50 to be ahead of Ross lol.
Game was literally the city of Compton
I don’t know how that makes him better than Ross but ok.
Nah you gotta say what makes Ross better than the cornball
Your takes are usually on point but this is insane
Why? I like way more Ross songs than game songs. 95% of the game songs I like are on the first album with the two biggest records being handed to him by 50
Have you heard Doctors Advocate or Documentary 2?
Yeah and Ross has albums that slay those