EminemBase wrote:JamaicanPattlez wrote:EminemBase wrote:How do any of them have the audacity to call rap thesedays trash or imply they're above it when they're fucking adhering to the unwritten rules of wack and putting out stuff like this.
None of their rapping in the song was particularly bad but, the concept and overall song... really?
They have nothing to say. Nobody has anything to fucking say these days. Nobody has the balls or creativity to come up with original or daring concepts, it's all much the same, even these guys now.
People say 'it's just the singles' but the singles are what need to connect publicly to drive the sales. It shouldn't be a routine song that aims for broad appeal in the hope of connecting on obvious merits, it's a chance to trick the market and do something unheard of, wasted... again.
There hasn't been a "Stan" since "Stan". Rappers are so uncreative now.
I think it's because most people aren't willing to break barriers or take the risk. It seems like the new thing is to talk about how mainstream music is wack and talk about how redundant it is to talk about bitches weed and money, yet talking about how redundant it is, is redundant in itself. EVERYONE wants to be the "Savior of Hip Hop" nowadays, when in my opinion, they should stop focusing on saving Hip Hop, and focus more on what they can bring to the table. That's why I've been on my Kanye shit for the past 5 months now.
Yup. Kanye is one of the only major rappers right now truly taking risks and digging deep.
I've been on a Ye trip for a long time now too. Everybody else is too predictable.
This is the exact reason why I love Yelawolf, Big K.R.I.T., Dom Kennedy, and the Black Hippy (Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, Schoolboy Q, & Jay Rock if you didn't know) movement so much. J Cole is a good emcee too, but he dropped the soap on his debut, apparently he's going back to his original sound and innovating it for his second album after the label forced him to do mainstream oriented songs for his debut. That being said, his debut was pretty fucking amazing, it just doesn't compare to his older shit. Anyway, I'm not feeling Kanye's newer shit. "Mercy" and "I Don't Like (Remix)" don't do it for me, however I do like "New God Flow." He still hasn't topped "Late Registration" in my opinion, however.