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@Balibz

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Recovering Hip Hop dork. half groovy, half dusty. minor 9th chord addict. Vieux con.

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I be tweetin dumb shit cause rap is dumb
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5 years
*rapper doesnt rap about guns and coke Rap fans: wow strong mf doom influence
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If the public's ear didnt become so trash, Kaytranada wouldve easily been the Pharrell of the last 10 years
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I love this cover/I hate this cover
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Still cant get over this
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We really got a Jay Electronica and Jay-Z album. A full album. This actually happened. Feels like a fever dream.
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22 days
JT Tha Bigga Figga random facts -fought 2pac and Richie Rich on stage in 91 -fought Mac Dre in the 90s -retrieved Nas stolen chain -worked on Master P - The Ghettos Tryin To Kill Me -taught Zaytoven how to make beats in 99 (he's from the bay) -signed The Game in 2002 (1/2)
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3 years
Migos prolly think roc marciano is an italian designer
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1 year
Nicholas Craven after looping the first 4 bars of a 1968 soul record
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3 years
Funk is the secret sauce. It made soul, jazz, hip hop, house, reggae, rock and a bunch of other genres better.
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4 months
Flirting vs harassement
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25 days
Interscope/in the scope bars like it's 2002
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@Balibz
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4 years
Rap twitter fr faut apprendre à ignorer l'opinion de mecs avec cette coiffure
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2 years
I feel like I havent heard a rapper drinkin a beer in 25 years
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4 months
Saying Umi Says, the song that sounds like an obscure jazz fusion jam session, is a pop song is probably the silliest take of this whole debate
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17 days
No skips. 3rd best album of 1990. Track 2 to 5 is an all-time run. Banger after banger. BASSLINES. Meaningful. Aged well.
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4 months
Qui se rappelle quand les ricains ont decouvert serane et ont donné plus d'amour qu'à n'importe quel rappeur dans l'histoire du rap fr, meme ceux qui vivent a miami 😂
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@Balibz
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2 years
Pourquoi Loveni fait de la musique comme un noir et Ichon comme un blanc
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3 years
GTA should get a honorary hip hop contribution award, so many young ppl heard classics for the first time playing that game, its beautiful
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4 years
So... all this time it was Lyrics Born on the Endtroducing cover... wow. Wooow.
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Why is this pic so funny 😭
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@Balibz
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3 years
How come andre 3000 and mos def dont want us man
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2 years
E-Swift said he made the first 2 Alkaholiks albums with a sp-12 he borrowed from Dr. Dre and never gave back
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3 years
This is how white rappers feel about white rappers
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-taught Daz Dillinger and Juvenile how to go independant doing collab albums with them -had a collab tape with Kevin Gates in 2011 -worked with Young Thug, Migos and 21 before they blew up (he's Figg Panamera) -shot hood movies since 2000 -built water wells in 3 african countries
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2 years
Why dont underground rap crews make collective albums anymore? I cant even think of one other than griselda - wwcd
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Just heard roc marciano - emeralds, it's been years, I forgot this is one of the most perfect rap songs ever concieved. Never thought this before but it's clearly his best song to me now.
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4 years
Wish rappers said "taken from madlib" instead of "produced by madlib"
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5 years
Damn i found the top 50 template 1. Jay-Z 2. Nas 3. 4. 5. 6. Rakim 7. Black Thought 8. Pusha T 9. Andre 3000 10. 11. Some Wu dude 12. Scarface 13. 14. Dead rapper 15. Kendrick 16. J Cole 17. 18. Wayne 19. Other 80s rapper 20. 21. 22. Mos Def 23. 24. Westcoast dude 25. T.I.
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3 years
When a new rapper is not rapping offbeat i assume he's at least 29yo
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8 months
The coi leray/busta song is good -1st of all, NO FUCKIN TRAP HI HATS over the sample -she's actually flowin, tight pocket, no baby cadence -which makes the back n forth with busta seamless -she sounds like and young adult, not a 8yo -that beat has been public domain for 35 years
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3 years
Mood since last year
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5 years
Dmx would've kicked you in the chest 3 years ago
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accidentally went into dmx’s artist transport bus thinking it’s mine. ended up taking a picture. the legend!
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Theres a quiet Big KRIT agenda that simply refuses to die after all these years, lowkey admirable.
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6 years
I miss boom bap anthems like simon says, ante up, made you look, sound of da police, wu tang clan aint nutin ta fuck wit, ... loud riot shit
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5 years
@typeannoyed Never heard anybody sounding so soft while being this mad
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4 years
E-40 got better bars in his casual convos than most rappers whole albums
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2 years
But instead he gotta settle for IDK smh
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6 years
Imagine a producer's album where the rappers are not credited
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5 years
Writers be takin 2 long ass paragraphs just to eloquently describe how the entrance of the building they about to interview somebody in looks like
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4 years
Mach be like "flip u like schfritzenhüebersteisen" You be like "oooh which 17th century philosopher is this" Turns out it's just some austrian machine gun
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3 years
The dusty beatmaker to groovy house producer pipeline is underrated
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5 years
Hey guys, I'm like one of the 7 venomous villain fans on the planet, you really don't need to tell me what doom raps about, please save your tweet. Theres already been 39 tweets worded exactly the same.
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3 years
Nobody truly complains about a loop havin no drums IF the loop is fire. IF.
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2 years
5 gorgeous jazz guitar samples ATCQ - Push It Along Common - Invocation The Roots - What They Do Quasimoto - Low Class Conspiracy Q-Tip - Let's Ride
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4 years
Some rap fans will call some 80s albums with 4 dope songs, one clumsy dj cut and a cheesy house remix the best albums ever made, same with trap fans with mixtapes with the same song cloned 18 times but god forbid you say a 97-99 album with 13 fire songs out of 16 is dope.
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4 years
Is Larry David the only universally liked white dude left?
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7 years
Wow, Suga Free was at the Nuthin But A G Thang video shoot
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3 years
You think you found the rarest obscure sample on youtube and check the comments and its been used by wiz khalifa and joey badass smh
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3 years
Yo the lox really changed the nature of verzuz lmao no more respectful celebration shit, straight roastin
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4 years
So we takin travis scott off our top 5 lyricists?
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6 years
Best shouting voices in rap Redman Method Man Juelz Santana Daz Dillinger KRS One Greg Nice Too Short Gunplay Master P Dark Lo Freeway Rah Digga Busta Rhymes ODB Ludacris DMC Chuck D Willie D Onyx M.O.P. Ghostface Superb T-Mo Goodie 2pac Rick Ross
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We gettin a new Dre album thanks to his wife demanding 1.9 million a month+lawyer fees
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5 years
Rap videos used to end with "to be continued..." but you never saw the next part
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4 years
Roc marci shouldnt take his sunglasses off during interviews and only answer questions by whispering in some fine girl's ear that repeats it out loud
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If you start like "Hip Hop is in a great space because billy woods..." you already lost the argument. The fact that you have to dig so deep means hip hop is a wasteland. Nerd-hop is a niche inside a niche, wake up please.
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Hit-Boy makes wedding reception beats
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Tray Deee doesnt know Run The Jewels but knows "el-p from company flow" 😂 thats rare
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4 years
Rappers dont know who to please so they put 808s on samples and both trap fans and dusty fans get mad
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6 years
Masta Ace has had multiple sclerosis for almost 20 years and been outworking every rapper out. He's 51. Touring. Worldwide. Give them flowers.
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When I find out that a white rap-adjacent producer made a more "personal" project and it has indie rock vibes, I feel like scooby doo unmasking a villain
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Les Grünt c'est cruel, t'écoutes les albums après et l'excitation redescend sec
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3 years
Sorry to break it to you but every album comes and goes now
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Def Jam bosses kept sayin "Warren G saved the label in 94", "DMX saved the label in 98" and "Ja Rule saved the label in 2000" and I really wanna understand how the biggest label with 70% of the biggest names (3 generations), at a time rap sells the most, was constantly in deficit
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2 years
Reminder that doja cat used iman omari, mndsgn and evil needle beats in 2014.
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6 years
Life def not that good
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I want a "wu tang watches the wu tang show" show
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Rappers talk about death so much that when they die it almost feels like they were ready for it. But when a rapper full of life, love and fun like biz or shock g dies, it hits very different
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5 years
Madlib has never heard 65% of the songs with a (prod. Madlib) on the internet
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Producers should flip whole movies. Imagine a star wars with flylo beats instead
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Beatmaker twitter has the best understanding of music but never bother talking or debating about it, only some "fire, bro" and "this crazy!" while the rest of borderline tone deaf rap fans go to war everyday over opinions
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2 years
Technically, this is the best beat tape ever
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3 years
White writers, dunkin on old eastcoast rap in favor of new southern rap is not the noble liberal uprising you think it is, you're not stickin it to the man, you are the man. You keep hammering the foundations from your white horse, you are not saving or protecting shit.
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My opinion on lil nas x is that i dont have one. You should try. You'll feel lighter
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The fact yall cancel yall fave songs because some brad and some tanner likes them too is the most hypebeast shit ever lol
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Almost forgot I was gonna post this
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My fave not-that-obvious chemistry in Wu is Ghostface+RZA. They dont always get along but they gave us Tearz, Marvel, Nutmeg, The Grain... some of my fave Wu joints
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Being a real hip hop fan is not memorizing wikipedia pages, its recognizing random dudes from rappers entourages in the background of videos, interviews, battles, etc without ever knowing their names or why they are there in the 1st place
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2 years
Excellente pochette, avouons le
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We should all slander Andre 3000 instead of giving him flowers he dont want, so he comes back with a vengeance
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3 years
Last night I fell asleep to the Bone Thugs - It's All Mo Thug hook on loop, slept like a baby. Might do this every night
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J Prince be like "yea I have a great relationship with this rapper, nothin but love, i remember one time something something extortion something something and ima leave at that but we are friends *soft chuckle*"
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Boldy mentioned MC Breed as an influence, growin up in Michigan. And Slum Village. Partially explains the unbothered coolness.
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Kurupt said he used to go to the good life cafe and p.e.a.c.e. from freestyle fellowship was his favorite rapper
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Mase told Diddy "You aint no architect, you just a nigga who knows how to market death"
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2 years
Nobody in Indiana fucks with freddie gibbs apparently 😂
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I like when rappers tell me they got more money than me, it lets me bootleg their shit guilt-free
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5 years
Bring back official remixes where the sample is flipped differently
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7 years
Great rappers/producers you wont find in these lists J-Zone Denaun Porter Oddisee Black Milk Outkast Daz Ant Banks Oh No Godfather Don Juju
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4 years
Too Short rhymes be 91% pimpin, 9% acute social commentary
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Ya pas QUE Jul et la zumba dans les styles français, ya aussi -Pone/FF, samples 80s à 100bpm -pianos et violons pour chialer un jour de pluie (pas mobb deep qui est plus sombre) -electro geek (Para One, Tacteel, Nikkfurie,...) -samples arabes (Mafia K'1 Fry, 45scientific, IAM)
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TDE was kinda built like an RPG, the short hero with special powers and no personality (kendrick), the cool/fun character (schoolboy), the tall quiet goon (jay rock) and the weirdo wizard (ab soul)
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My black rob and g dep stash (100+ joints unsorted)
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Killah Priest is a mythological creature
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