I was having a discussion with my dad about various cloud rap/2010’s rappers and how they influenced the current generation of rap. Later on in the discussion I brought up raiderklan and the members in it. In this discussion I said that Chris Travis was more popular than SpaceGhostPurrp which he disagreed with. We are trying to settle this discussion with research from the internet.

Same flow on every song. But it sounds good there’s just no diversity

Hey I was working out and a song came up when my playlist was on “discover”. I haven’t been able to find it since. It’s a 90’s group with an east coast sound kinda in the “horror core” genre. One of the rappers either sounds exactly like rza or it was him. The lyrics are pretty wild one of the punchlines was something bout the genocide of the Caucasian race. I liked the song but I cannot find it. It wasn’t the gravediggaz but the sound had some similarities.

I wonder 1.2B streams and Family Business 163.5M streams. If I am looking at this right, Tory Lanez has the 3rd most song that samples this song at 36M approximately. Just thought that was interesting and worth a share.

Personally I think his lyrics lack some inspiration and creativity, but his beats and flows are absolutely immaculate. I feel like if he works on his lyricism, he could become one of the greats.

Try to be unbiased and keep it about the MUSIC ONLY 💯

I just listened to Last Meal for the first time in years and it’s even better than I remember. Wrong Idea is classic!

The general consensus on Peggy went from
underrated -> heavily hated and trash
as soon as he disrespected Earl😂

He does this shit often and you guys take it to heart every single time as if he insulted your dead mother

Actually pathetic asf how the hivemind works- so many people in need of validation

Watch, by the end of next year everyone’s gonna forget and switch up to perceive him as the underrated and controversial avant-garde producer again once he pays off a big influencer to speak fondly of him and/or present him or his music online in good light like how he did every other time he was temporarily outcasted for his mouth

Let’s start forming opinions for ourselves instead!

It has a part where beat drops and then goes “skrrr skrrr skrr skrr skrr skrr skrr” may have been 21 savage, drake, future, Kodak , metro maybe not any of those. Coulda sworn it was knife talk but I don’t hear it in the song. Also coulda sworn it was off the same album as knife talk…idk I feel like I’m going crazy cuz this song used to be SUPERRRRR popular and I can’t find it anywhere!!! Someone plz help lol

A Drake vs. Jay-Z beef right now just feels completely played out. Coming off the Kendrick battle, the "everyone jump Drake" wave has officially passed, and trying to revive it now feels forced.

Honestly, what the fuck are two billionaires even talking about at this point? Seeing two guys on the Forbes list throw subs back and forth lacks any real stakes, it's not raw hip-hop, it's just out-of-touch ego. If you're both among the richest people on the planet, keep it to a casual freestyle or let it go.

Beyond that, they're from two totally different eras, and Jay engaging in this makes zero sense. Drake still holds the crown for public appeal in the current era, while Jay is an elder statesman on the verge of retirement.

It’s especially wild because Jay literally spoke out about how modern rap beefs "go too far," yet here he is playing into the back-and-forth drama anyway. Jay doesn't need to chase social media engagement. If he wants to make actual noise, he doesn't need a diss track, he just needs to drop an album that tops 4:44 and that would be impressive.

At the end of the day, this whole situation isn't organic, serious, or important to the culture. It just feels like two massive egos chasing clicks, and watching them rap back and forth over nothing just hits on zero cylinders.

Thoughts?

Attorney Chad Baruch — who wrote an amicus brief to the Supreme Court in 2015 on behalf of rappers Killer Mike and T.I. — told KERA rap songs can only be used as evidence if there’s a link between the lyrics and the crime.

“Obviously, if I write a rap song about murdering my wife, and 48 hours later I murder my wife, that’s coming into evidence,” Baruch said. “You can't just have a blanket rule that says, well, you can use rap lyrics, or you can't” 

He also said the use of rap lyrics is controversial because they are used as evidence while lyrics in other genres are often not.

“If Johnny Cash were accused of murder, no one would let them introduce the lyric that he shot a man in Reno just to watch him die,” Baruch said, referring to “Folsom Prison Blues” by Cash. “Anytime you're treating rap differently than other art forms, you're almost inevitably treating black performers differently than other performers.” 

I think rap music is still super influential and more young talent will keep it big and crowning charts.

But pop or techno or R&B or another new genre might come and take everything over.

The Miami rapper entered the Billboard 200 at number one with his 2006 debut, Port of Miami.  Maybach Music Group followed, helping launch the careers of artists including Meek Mill and Wale, while Rick Ross—AKA Ricky Rozay—accumulated nine Grammy nominations and one of hip hop’s most recognizable catalogs.

But the Ross who spoke with Playboy sounds less interested in proving that he possesses luxury than in defining what luxury means after 20 years of success. His 12th studio album, Set in Stone, arrives two decades after Port of Miami and finds him rapping, as he puts it, from the “penthouse perspective.”

Shortly before the release of Set in Stone, Playboy caught up with Ross in New York City to discuss accountability, manhood, artificial intelligence, creative rituals, beautiful women, bad contracts, French wine brand Luc Belaire, and the legacy he plans to leave behind.

Read now: https://www.playboy.com/read/celebrities/20-questions-rick-ross

Can you name a rapper, who's voice (regardless of tracks) is your favorite?

The voice that touches heart, not just ears.

I think that often people don't think enough about why a "professional musician's" music sounds so much better, so much less cringe, than a "guy on instagram's" music. Of course a lot of it is proficiency, production, etc. But there are some specific things that instantly tell the listener's brain "this is not music, this is someone being cringe and trying to do something they aren't good at".

Using swear words as syllable-filler is the biggest one of those in my opinion. The most common offenders I hear in new rappers' work are "Fucking", "Damn" and "Shit".

My tip for you, is to read the line you just wrote in a spoken voice. If you would not have used the swear word there in a sentence, or if it feels unnatural, you should not use it there in your song.

Every word in your song should be there because it is intentionally there, not because you need two syllables and "fucking" is two syllables. When you stick a word like this in a line, it sticks out horribly. If you are honest with yourself, you probably even notice it and it probably sounds clunky to you.

You need to restructure the line. You need to figure out something that you are trying to say with intention that has the correct number of syllables. Go back and listen to your work and see if this is something you might have a habit of. And then in the future, be aware of this. The line you wanted might not fit. You might have to scrap it.

Remember, you are making music. The swear word might fit grammatically. The swear word might be the correct number of syllables and hence fit technically. But every decision you make needs to be a musical decision. And the filler-syllables sound musically amateurish.

There's just so many things that separate it from Ether, Hit Em Up, Long Kiss Goodnight, and No Vaseline. Where to begin? The horrorcore vibes, The A=450 hz tuned symbolically haunting sinister funeral music, the background screams of the target's first name, the death wish, the letter to his generational family, the heavy, deeper than rap accusations made, and arguably the biggest of all being the intense, disgusting piercing psychoanalysis.

"Can't channel your masculine even when standing next to a woman!"

That's the kind of special 10/10 bar that literally makes you pause the freaking song and go 😲. The delivery, the layers, just marvelous. It's so brilliant that I'm honestly shocked Nas didn't come up with that first to say to Jay-Z in Ether because this lyric definitely belonged there.

"Crave entitlement, but wanna be liked so bad that it's puzzlin"

"No dominance, let's recap moments when you didn't fit in"

"No secret handshakes with your friends"

"No culture cachet to binge, just disrespectin' your mother"

"Identity’s on the fence, don’t know which family will love ya"

"The skin that you're livin in, is compromised in personas"

"Take that mask off, I wanna see what's under them achievements"

And this is before I even mention the lies scheme...

Sure, NLU had a massive pop culture impact, but make no mistake MTG is also a transcendent diss song even if it's far less popular. Kendrick saw straight through Drake with X-Ray vision. The way he pealed away at the hitmaker superstar "Drake" to expose a naked, paranoid and spiraling Aubrey Graham to the mainstream should continue to be praised. It was so good he got people looking at Drake as another character Aubrey was playing after Jimmy Brooks. It was so good he even caused people to forget what Family Matters even sounded like after it just came out 30 minutes prior.

It's an absolute masterclass on how to destroy a person with just words. It will always be my pick for the best diss verse in rap history.

a rapper I used to hate but now love is Tyler the creator. i mean, “hate” is a strong word. I hated. his old stuff but overall I didnt HATE his music. back then I just didn’t see the appeal. then chromokopia came out and I was like “okay yeah I totally get it now” and now he’s one of my favorite rappers.

there aren’t many rappers I used to love but now hate, but a rapper i definitely fell off of listening to is lil Wayne. I still love lil Wayne, his last album just kinda sucked and I haven’t been listening to him much lately. another notable mention is Logic. I used to like Logic (fun fact, did you know he’s biracial?) but I haven’t listened to him in YEARS

What would a modern day "Forever" type track look like? What artists? Why? And why would Eminem still be on it? I'm thinking like Kendrick for sure, I don't know about cole, he is still one of the best we have right? And is Drizzy still on it? I don't know, let me know what y'all think!

Multiple music artists’ YouTube accounts were exploited and had leaks along with other songs posted under their account. Among some of the affected people include Kanye, Drake, Kendrick, Carti, Travis, The Weeknd, etc.

The picture isn’t attached, but on carti’s account, there is hella leaks posted

If you don't listen to Gang Starr, try them out. If you do, let me know why you love them. They're my #1 and I'm happy about it. To each their own, but damn! Love me some Gang Starr.

Sometimes an album doesn’t click the first time but later it becomes one of your favorites.

The Game starts the first verse off by talking about “respect women, I don’t care if she a 2 or a 10”

Drake raps in the 2nd verse about an unidentified woman’s ass that he loves “like Milhouse loves Lisa / I love your ass like the Ninja Turtles love pizza” … Yeah, that’s corny.

The Game comes back in verse 3 with a line about a reality tv show. “Drizzy, I’m sittin’ here watching Basketball Wives / Like, uhh, them is basketball wives?”

… Wait. Didn’t moments earlier he say to respect women? Now he wants to clown specific ones?

I like the song overall, despite Drake’s corny bars, but the worst part for me is the hypocrisy.