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GAF-Hop |OT14| The 6 God is Five Writers, And One False Idol

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ViewtifulJC

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Ray Wonder said:
I was hoping for a lot more Drake gifs in here.
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Koozek

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Drake on top of his game. Still evolving, even after 6 years.

Do you think he will be mentioned in GOAT lists in 10 years like Pac, Jay, Nas, etc., though? I somehow still doubt it. Don't know why, but it doesn't feel like he's even seen as a rapper mainly and more like an "artist", especially if he continues having more and more mainstream hits like Hold On or Hotline where he's only singing on. However I wouldn't consider him a worldstar yet. His only remotely mainstream and worldwide hit - I'm talking "even your mum knows and hums the song when it comes on the radio in Germany" mainstream - was Hold On. I doubt anybody knows Hotline Bling over here yet. Maybe a few months or maybe even half a year later than in the US, as usual, lol.
 
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Kreed

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Koozek said:
Drake on top of his game. Still evolving, even after 6 years.

Do you think he will be mentioned in GOAT lists in 10 years like Pac, Jay, Nas, etc., though? I somehow still doubt it. Don't know why, but it doesn't feel like he's even seen as a rapper mainly and more like an "artist", especially if he continues having more and more mainstream hits like Hold On or Hotline where he's only singing on. However I wouldn't consider him a worldstar yet. His only remotely mainstream and worldwide hit - I'm talking "even your mum knows and hums the song when it comes on the radio in Germany" mainstream - was Hold On. I doubt anybody knows Hotline Bling over here yet. Maybe a few months or maybe even half a year later than in the US, as usual, lol.
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I don't think young hip hop fans will be making GOAT lists in 10 years, or at least not with the same criteria you're mentioning.
 
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Koozek

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Kreed said:
I don't think young hip hop fans will be making GOAT lists in 10 years, or at least not with the same criteria you're mentioning.
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Yeah, probably. In our dust era lyricism was the main thing. Now it's probably "swag" for the lack of a better word. And I don't even have a problem with that, honestly. I'm also listening to rap in a different way nowadays.
Young Thug GOAT -
not even joking
 
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DominoKid

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Koozek said:
Drake on top of his game. Still evolving, even after 6 years.

Do you think he will be mentioned in GOAT lists in 10 years like Pac, Jay, Nas, etc., though? I somehow still doubt it. Don't know why, but it doesn't feel like he's even seen as a rapper mainly and more like an "artist", especially if he continues having more and more mainstream hits like Hold On or Hotline where he's only singing on. However I wouldn't consider him a worldstar yet. His only remotely mainstream and worldwide hit - I'm talking "even your mum knows and hums the song when it comes on the radio in Germany" mainstream - was Hold On. I doubt anybody knows Hotline Bling over here yet. Maybe a few months or maybe even half a year later than in the US, as usual, lol.
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Drake is worldwide breh. He sell out everywhere.
 
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Koozek

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DominoKid said:
Drake is worldwide breh. He sell out everywhere.
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But, as I said, I'm talking mainstream mainstream outside of the rap/urban scene of younger cats. My friends' moms will know Kanye (recently less for his music, though) or Eminem, but Drake? Nah. NWTS, IYRTITL and WATTBA had zero mainstream presence outside of the US/CA. Trap doesn't work on the radio here. You need Rihanna as a feature to have a hit (see Jay-Z, Kanye and Eminem, who are the only US rappers in Germany that went Top 10 in the last ten years or so (!)).
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DJ Khaled is pure bliss:
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WanderingWind

Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Germans listen to schlager though, so using them as a metric for anything is well..

Esch, help a dude out with that one CAC face will ya?
 
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Nibel

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Of course he will be mentioned in GOAT lists because there's an entire generation growing up with him now; and if true or not: everyone will decide this for themselves which is why GOAT lists are trash anyway and useless in an age where everybody can speak out loud (I see it more as a meme)

I still think that Drake lacks a proper 'classic' album. Take Care was close, but not quite there. 6God/Fraud-Drake might be the one who will do it if he stays in the 0-100 lane
 
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Kastrioti

Persecution Complex
On an Outkast TIP today

Outkast - Gangsta Shit

[Big Boi]
Some of that uh, LTD Lincoln Town Car
Some of that El Dorado funk, know what I'm talking about
Gangsta Shit, you know, lay back, cool out, yeah
You know we keep it crunk around here, A-town style
Getting head on the highways yeah, but this what I wanna know

[Hook]
Do you really wanna know about some gangsta shit
Do you really wanna know about some gangsta shit
Do you really wanna know about some gangsta shit
Outkast, Goodie Mob and the Dungeon click
Do you really wanna know about some gangsta shit
Do you really wanna know about some gangsta shit
Do you really wanna know about some gangsta shit
Dirty South nigga we straight gangsta pimps

[Big Boi]
O-U-T-K-A-S-T,O-N-P,G-O-O-D-I-E, so fresh so clean
Back with Stankona, Dungeon Family
Pearl Cadillac on dics adn vogues, flip flops, t-shirts and Dickies
It's the return of Billy Ocean, Cuervo is my drink
Stank, stank means you got the funkiest, dopest heat on the street
Three G ski, Slimm, Big Boi and ths is C B-O-N-E
If you need some back-up find Jerome,
ya girl gonna give you grief at home
Just tell these hoez wanna be on the same team that she's layin on
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[Andre 3000]
Outkas wit a K, yeah them niggaz are hard
Harder than a nigga trying to impress God
We'll pull your're whole deck, fuck pulling your card
And still take my guitar and take a walk in the park
Any play the sweetest melody the street ever heard
Now bitches sucking on my nouns and I'm eating their verbs
Get full, and niggaz, niggaz,
pop, pop, lock, lock to the, to the beat, beat
As if pitbulls went out of style, made a vow to myself
If it's for the wealth i'll stop, well put i like this
It's like me selling some dope because my girlfriend wants to shop
Wrong reason, whatever the season, hey winter, spring, summer or fall
I dont stall, slow drag wit your brain against the wall
Yeah, nigga naw, we learn to the side don't fall
All y'all fuck boys, tuck toys inside your pants
Just to pull it out, point it at the ground and make a nigga wanna dance
Now what that be for, you're on that reefer and on that Tupac
In front of them oooh wops, trying to show out, that's the hoe route
Talking loud talking bout that's gangsta shit
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*Phew*

The GOAT(s)??? Some unbelievable ish and this is Stankonia we're not even getting into ATLiens or Aquemimi
 
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Eos

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GKMC is better than RTD and that is a top 5 album for me
I consider Kendrick better than pac and big
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GKMC > RTD > TPAB > LAD > Pac's discography
 
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overcast

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Man, Drake looking like me in the club brehs. I can relate to this.
WanderingWind said:
I, for one, am glad rappers are reaching out more and more to my people with moves we can actually perform. It all began with Fat Joe. These are his misbegotten, barely rhythmic children.
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Don't forget Drake is half Jewish. They like you to think otherwise shiftyeyesemoji.jpg
Psychological Intellect said:
Kendrick is already better than biggie
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Not even gonna lie, as somebody who grew up on biggie.. it's close.
 
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Koozek

Member
Kastrioti said:
On an Outkast TIP today

Outkast - Gangsta Shit

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*Phew*

The GOAT(s)??? Some unbelievable ish and this is Stankonia we're not even getting into ATLiens or Aquemimi
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Stankonia Top 3 Outkast.
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WanderingWind said:
Germans listen to schlager though, so using them as a metric for anything is well..

Esch, help a dude out with that one CAC face will ya?
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And that's exactly why they're the perfect metric for true worldwide stardom. If you have several hits in Germany as an US-rapper you really made it past the horrendous charts here. US-Rap died after the G-Unit era, not joking. Only Kanye got relatively big, though, he's only known for his scandals and as Kardashian's husband in the last few years. Okay, FourFiveSeconds charted for a while. Eminem and Jay-Z (through Rihanna/Alicia Keys Pop-features) stayed relevant. It's only those 3.
 
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PhoenixDark

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Esch said:
Too much of a fraud. Nelly and Ma$e sold a lot of records too.
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At this point he can't be compared to Nelly. At this point it's safe to say no rapper has done what Drake has done; his dominance of the charts is unparalleled. Even his throwaways are hits, even his "street" singles are hits. He's comfortably going platinum in an era where album sales are depleted.

He's right on the wave of the mainstream as well as hip hop audiences brehs. Safe to say he's already a legend at this point, and tbh I really don't see how he won't be dominating 2-3 years from now as well. Who is gonna stop him?

I think he's an average rapper at best but we live in an era where people don't care whether people were COs, write their own rhymes, etc. It doesn't matter to people.
 
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Snuggles

erotic butter maelstrom
Drake's nearly universal appeal is rare. He's got fans in almost every demographic aside from dustheads who don't really count anyways.
 
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overcast

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Stolen from the Hotline Bling thread in OT. But Drake responded to the criticism of him stealing the track Cha Cha:
“You know, like in Jamaica, you’ll have a riddim and it’s like, everyone has to do a song on that,” Drake said. “Imagine that in rap, or imagine that in R&B. Imagine if we got one beat and every single person—me, this guy, this guy, all these guys—had to do a song on that one beat. So sometimes I’ll pick a beat that’s a bit, like, sunnier, I guess is the word you used, than usual, and I just try my hand at it. And that’s kind of what ‘Hotline Bling’ was. And I loved it. It’s cool. I’ve been excited by that sort of creative process.”
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“You know, like in Jamaica, you’ll have a riddim
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RIDDIM
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Fucking hell.
 
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Koozek

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Brehs. I really, really don't mean this ironically, but Young Thug is one of the best rappers ever when it comes to riding beats. He's basically the Abella Anderson of rap.
 
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T Dollarz

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Eos said:
GKMC is better than RTD and that is a top 5 album for me
I consider Kendrick better than pac and big
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GKMC > RTD > TPAB > LAD > Pac's discography
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Ready to Die > GKMC > TPaB > All Eyez on Me > Section. 80 > Don Killuminati > Me Against the World
 
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