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@9thwonder
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2 years
It’s up. The @9thwonder “Charles Douthit” @KDTrey5 15 will available 9.15.22 …designed by yours truly, a kid from Midway, NC …….
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For all of you think sampling, is stealing.... Let’s visit first, literature...
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we ARE NOT gonna diminish the genius of Pete Rock, Havoc,Marley Marl, DJ Premier, Dr. Dre, DJ Quik, Madlib, DILLA, Alchemist, Kanye West, Just Blaze, the RZA, Large Pro, Nottz, Khrysis, Diamond, Buckwild or ANY of my brothers have done in this. You think it’s easy? You do it.
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Dear FL Studio Users, and anybody who make beats on a computer… Keep going. Signed, The kid who they told not to make beats on a computer.
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To all of my young sample choppers out there. Do NOT let ANYONE, come in OUR House (Hip-Hop), a genre that has influenced EVERYTHING, and tell us how to cook our food. NO ONE. I don’t care WHAT they say, or play.
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Dear new generation. Adulting is not the move. Be a kid FOREVER….lol
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Jesus God. What is happening to us….
@SomaKazima
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Cut the cameras, DEADASS
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Y’all KEEP chopping. KEEP sampling. KEEP passing the soul continuum down to the next generation. We are the perfect vessels for it. Hip-Hop was the vessel for the 70s to pass to the 90s, now the 90s to now……keep being the bridge.
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Wait.. So the producers of “Stayin’ Alive” by the BEES GEES, LOOPED THE DRUMS and the GUITAR??!?? Like a sampler!!!!??!?.. Man don’t talk ever talk about us looping ANYTHING....again...
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@solomonmissouri One of the most impressing threads…EVER
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One the greatest rap songs of ALL-TIME
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Music is not even a study of the actual music anymore.... It’s really a study of the people who consume it.
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It’s crazy. We are really samples songs with samples IN them already. Sampling samples that contain samples. Lol
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This day and time… It’s NEVER the music. The music can be as good as anyone else’s… People like the person who’s making the music, more than the music itself… Only a few of us, are truly LISTENING. Rest of y’all are just double tapping images. Ahh, so goes the game.
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We cannot continue to let people who know nothing about this culture be the critics of it…. No way. No how…
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1 year
@sportingnews Did everyone hear what the reporter ASKED her?????? He didn’t ask about the game…he asked about what SHE thought coaches and colleagues saying HER team is a bunch of bullies. I repeat. The reporter asked HER what SHE thought about coaches/colleagues her team BULLIES.
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@9thwonder
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So sampling...is stealing.... Everyone gather ‘round.....
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I’m glad I grew up when I GREW UP!!!!
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Man that halftime show was INSANE
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@9thwonder
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Ask him. LOL
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あなたのものではない
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@Drake if you and @9thwonder could just....u kno👉🏾👈🏾🥺
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Hip-Hop is 48 years old. You love rock music? We invented that too… lol
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@phillyroll @Osirinbelt @NFL @drdre @SnoopDogg @Eminem @maryjblige @kendricklamar @pepsi @RocNation @NBCSports low standard music fans.....it's that simple, it is like letting a last place team make the playoffs. Inverse relationship between success and talent apparently in music for the last 10 plus years
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Usher Raymond… Starting from the beginning, to the end… In Black History Month.. Gave us 80 plus years of black achievement from Josephine Baker to whole ass Skating Rinks to Rock n Roll to Black College Bands to The Divine 9….to Hip-Hop and Dance…. In 15 Minutes
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Man. Much success to everybody when they win… However. Can we stop comparing folks to MICHAEL JACKSON man?? MICHAEL. JACKSON fam? Please?
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If it’s gonna be a thing where we take man made metrics and say who’s better, cool. But if we are gonna start to break down the techniques of actually rapping… Content, story telling, originality, and all those things in the present day most people don’t count….
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We just can’t be that bored. LOL. There is no comparison to Michael Jackson. We will never see that again. Everyone was IN a the house bruh when Thriller was on. IN a the house. I mean, STOP EVERYTHING you are doing and run IN the house.
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The run that Wu-Tang had from 1993 to 1997......man...what a run... and what a time.... Enter The Wu-Tang Tical Return of the 36 Chambers Only Built For Cuban Linx Liquid Swords IronMan Wu-Tang Forever !!!!!!!
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But when Lil Wayne said… “I shoot you in the arm, leg, leg, arm, head”…..a great number of y’all missed that…. I guess that’s Peace God music too….lol
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@9thwonder
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4 years ago today...I was “The Closer”. @kendricklamar “DAMN”. DUCKWORTH Produced by @9thwonder
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I have. It’s dope. Watch it
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@9thwonder 9th have you seen this!?
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This is still funny, even when I watch it myself. LOL.
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ramadan kyrie
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never let anyone downplay u for sampling. // 💾
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AJ GRIFFIN JR IS A DOG!!!!!!!!!!!! @DukeMBB
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Go To a record store and pick out 3 different records from 3 different parts of the store and put them all in the same key (with no key finder) and make a NY State Of Mind, a Shook Ones…, a Nag Champa, a Fancy Clown. You can’t. Even with all of your musical knowledge .
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Say what now?
@DojaNews
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. @DojaCat talks about plans to release a double album consisting of a Pop-Rap side and a Hip-Hop side. 👀
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You walking, fucking sample.
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Dear @hulu Please….. Put “The Legacy Of J Dilla” on the FRONT page of the app. People are having a hard time finding it. Thank you.
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It’s amazing how we base cultural relevancy on industry constructs. Lol
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Even the ones on here that you Think didn’t sample, REPLAYED A SAMPLE. LOL. Name 5 albums that’s deemed to Be a classic that contains NO SAMPLES……..
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18 years ago I stepped into Baseline Studios, NYC…with an @IBM Thinkpad and FL Studio 4. This is how that turned out… Jay-Z “Threat” Produced by @9thwonder The Black Album 11/14/2003 #ThanksHov
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The ILLIAD and The ODYSSEY, two works that samples from each other. A ton of 18th and 19th century literature takes the sample liberty, taking earlier works, to create new works, time after time, century after century.....even to the point that our movies are all, samples
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Every time I see this I cry in laughter 😭😭😭
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@9thwonder 🤣🤣
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Sittin’ in the studio thinking... It’s an honor to serve this culture of ours... #HipHop
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This is flame. If you ever wanna know what the 90s felt like….some of it was a rhyme style like this over beats like this…..
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Munch with this production is kinda wavy
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Heartbroken 💔 #Dave @WeAreDeLaSoul
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Yo @_harriscole I need this mp3 for my car…..
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ice spice - munch ✨
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Define. “Better Rapper”….
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Yasiin Bey(Mos Def) says Drake's music is pop and is compatible with shopping at Target. (🎥 The Cutting Room Floor)
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Woooooow
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wu-tang forever
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Listen.
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Reading…. Is Fundamental.
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Miss me with the idea of stealing.....know that when the NY public school systems in the early 70s took arts programming out of public schools, that black and brown people did exactly what we always do...make something out of nothing....
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Learn, go read and research about probably your whole fucking existence is bits and pieces of some shit you saw, heard, or mimicked..
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We are taught, not to cry, at very very young age. To suck it up, to be a man. Call it patriarchal. Call it hyper masculinity, but also know that is our reality as kids. Shouts to my council of brothers. We talk everyday, BTW.
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There is no such thing as a safe space for men.
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Aye man. AYE… When @Drake RAPS? Good Lord.
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LOL what?? On the list of EPMD songs…this is EASILY song number 30. NO one listens to this song ona regular basis…and I concur… you wasn’t outside…
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Samples and bits and pieces of earlier works. Ray Charles...”I Got A Woman”, was a complete take from a song recorded in the 1920s...a “loop” if you will. Thousands of COLLAGES hanging in thousands of museums across the globe, are made from different mediums...
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Don’t let some of these beatmakers get you confused on who are the real Aliens are out here flipping records. Change chord progression and replaying whole bass lines. Chopping it to make sense so a band can replay the chord progression YOU chopped. Vitamin D is an Alien.
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In short...our whole culture is a sample, our government, our buildings, holidays, our way of life....we spend our day saying slang and using terms that were NOT create by any of us, but saying it like it’s ours....
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Can someone for the life of me point out Mos Defs “peace god raps”…. Turns on Ms FAT BOOTY
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@TopherPatt I agree with you. Drake is a better rapper than alot of people but because he isn’t rapping “peace god” raps, they don’t take it seriously
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Throwback and obscure 90s rap groups/acts that had some jams. I’ll start…… The Mystidious Misfits
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Man, To be in elementary or middle school with @souljaboy “Crank Dat”…dropped I bet was of mammoth proportions……I know the lunchroom was on FIRE….
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Even if you are a student, sitting in a classroom, studying to become a teacher OR producer, or a player that becomes a coach, a vast portion of your ideology, your thought process, and your instruction is derived from “loop”, that you were taught, but reformed.
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@tallhomeyvita PHARRELL will tell you. Ask him who he was trying to meet day in and day out sitting outside of Jive Records. Q-Tip. And Pharrell is Super Duper Alien….like next Galaxy Alien…
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Ok since sampling...is stealing... Let me give the lecture on sampling, repetition with a difference....and literally license......
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Folks really try to make our culture inferior, while stealing from it, daily.
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@tallhomeyvita We know who the Aliens are in this. The Super Saiyans. The Chosen Ones. You better study those. Q-Tip? King of the Aliens….Marley Marl, The Damn Zeus of the Aliens…y’all got this sampling thing REALLY confused. You cannot judge it by modern day sampling…
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JESUS 1960’s MOTOWN IS UNDEFEATED.
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“Peace God” music is crazy…. The LAST group that really spoke of the 5 Percent on a CONSTANT basis is Wu-Tang Clan…. Digable Planets made mention to it… But the ONES was BRAND NUBIAN… They are probably THE ONES…. And that was 30 years ago….
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Not the point. All of us have songs with NO samples….everybody on this list. Take sampling out of hip-hop, what do we have left?
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@9thwonder Scott Storch and Mannie Fresh have made classic records that don’t contain samples. Cherry picking the ones where they sampled isn’t proving any points lol. They are not dependent on samples in order to make music. “Lean back”- no samples, “Ha” no samples.
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We made our own instruments, we created our own bands, we did exactly what people NOT our color has been doing for generations....making creations and calling it theirs...
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Listen. This Wu-Tang Saga on Hulu… Is like watching a Marvel Origin Story… So many clues and Easter eggs… “Watch Your Step Kids”….
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GOOOOOOOOO
@DukeMBB
Duke Men’s Basketball
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𝙏𝙬𝙤 𝙗𝙡𝙪𝙚𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙣𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙪𝙨𝙚𝙙 #HereComesDuke
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YOU will be the uncle/aunt in the party defending 40 year old Drake to a bunch of 18-24 years…so give it a few years…and get your arguments ready….old head…. lol
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I just noticed something…. They Reminisce Over You is 30 years old…. Released as a single April 2, 1992. #Timeless
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Define “backpack”… If we are gonna do this….lets have a REAL convo about what that word is, who called it that, who made that term up, and how people just say it to categorize rappers.
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kevikev
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@9thwonder First, love your production, legend! Second, Mos Def's music tends to be a bit more backpack/boom bat esque than Drake's. When music is in that lane, it is deemed by backpackers and those who gatekeep the genre as more substantive than mainstream/popular rap.
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It’s also wild how many people don’t actually listen to lyrics, either. They take an “aesthetic” of a person and place them in a box
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African Am**ican Idol
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@9thwonder It’s wild how many Black folks are disconnected from true hiphop culture these days
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P.S. Read Ulysses.....wit’ it’s looping ass....
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Reformed, or texts and content explicated, to introduce that information to a new generation....it’s called “repetition with a difference”....
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To be real, The most Afrocentric/enlightened/political time as far as SUBJECT matter is concerned we had in hip-hop really only lasted about 5 to 6 years in abundance, starting with Public Enemyx, KRS, and Jungle Brothers in 88….
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Thank God for rapping in the POCKET #Jadakiss !!!!!
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A producer/beatmaker’s work is only judged by what artists pick from them… Read that again.
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Duckworth is trending today🙏🏾
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If you listen to @tallhomeyvita ’s chop of “Between the Sheets”…..it’s a master class of chord progression. Some of y’all aren’t READY to have a conversation about sample flipping. …
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This is a fact Scudowski. To be real...it was worse.
@joescudda
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Never forget, while y’all spending all that money on studio time for the gram picture, Little Brother recorded “The Listening” in what was basically this. Have fun!
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But last year everybody wanna “50 years of the culture….” Blah blah blah… Oh we love the culture…blah blah… Just say you like famous people. lol. And they wanna throw “old” in there…lol. Man go ‘head”…
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@9thwonder You know they gonna go straight to numbers big dawg smh
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Because heaven forbid, nobody wants to be “of the culture” right..? And …everybody wants to say “well the old head…blah blah blah…” What’s funny is….Drake is knocking on the door of FORTY….so guess what kids… Your favorite rapper will also be…the old head…
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Listen. People ask me who I would want to work with. And I’ve tried this several times…. I really. Really. REALLY Want to do 7 songs with…. AZ. @quietAZmoney … Can someone PLEASE make this happen. Just. Seven. Songs.
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Washed up is crazy when this “nigga” has been in MOVIES. Like MOVIE MOVIES. lol
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@9thwonder Put it like this. Drake could do what that washed up nigga does but that washed up nigga can and could never do what Drake does
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And even tho you are playing an instrument, you are sampling the SOUNDS that came out of that instrument. I played instruments. We didn’t create the sound out of instruments, we can only rearrange them as we see fit.
@self_B_tru
Self B Tru
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@9thwonder Scott Storch and Mannie Fresh have made classic records that don’t contain samples. Cherry picking the ones where they sampled isn’t proving any points lol. They are not dependent on samples in order to make music. “Lean back”- no samples, “Ha” no samples.
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The Closer.
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Like…… Who did @RollingStone ask about this rap album list?
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Man. Janet Jackson’s “Rhythm Nation Tour” in 1990, still holds the record for the most successful debut tour, in history. 131 shows. 2 million people pulled up. Man. What a time to be alive.
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What? Lol
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The song Mathematics is NOT about the Supreme Math that the.. Man nevermind, I don’t teach until next week.
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Mathematics
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Don’t ask me nothing about Donda Vs. CLB, none of that…y’all can debate that all day….some of y’all got favorite teams…I get it…and no one can make you hate your team…. I’m in the press box watching players..I coach sometimes…you know…
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Since OutKast’s SouthernPlayalistic debut in 1994.. Top 10 Southern Rap songs of all time. Yep, that’s a hard one…
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Throughout all of the awards, the hit singles, plaques..etc… My heart belongs to the underground…
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Or. Anybody. Who. Makes. Beats. On. A. Computer.
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