Cube23 wrote:EminemBase wrote:All the collabs bar Jaden, 50 and Lloyd sound good... so many collabs again though. I'm still waiting for every rapper in the fucking genre to get out of the habit of having 100 other people on their albums now... nobody has the balls to craft a full solo album now.
When I read the first part, of those first names, I thought "oh okay, not so bad" but then the second part about him also hoping to collab with all those, it's like... jesus, that's enough!
I wish rappers now would focus more on creating compelling content and less on who's gonna be on the track with them. They need every other hook and verse done for them. Sigh.
Some artists don't have the ability to make compelling and hypnotizing hooks. If Game did half of his abums hooks, I'd shoot myself. Same with Jadakiss.
Yeah but Cudi certainly does!
He's one of the best hookmakers to come out of modern hip-hop in a while.
And there's really not an excuse for it, it's like... most are not compelling hookmakers because I don't think they try. It's just easier to slap a name or a popstar on it instead. But the hook is a huge part of the song... or at least it should be. Where as now it's just a vaguely related sung melody.
Rappers should be creative with hooks... sigh. Sick of complaining, fuck it, whatever will be will be. It's just frustrating seeing talented rappers like B.o.B for example, PLASTERING their albums with hooks and features when they of all, don't need it. Everything is watered down, down, down.