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GAF-Hop |OT4| At that Das EFX concert, I riggity realized that I liggity love you
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The 8th I think. I can't wait.
No marketing, undershipped, no single... Cudi's big time.
white girls
Not exactly a flop. Not exactly huge numbers either. Cudi's probably happy.
I still haven't given it a listen. After hearing that track that was posted here a while back I lost all interest.
Edit: What the fuck, listening to some tracks off the album on Youtube. This shit is absolute garbage. What the fuck Cudi.
I still haven't given it a listen. After hearing that track that was posted here a while back I lost all interest.
Edit: What the fuck, listening to some tracks off the album on Youtube. This shit is absolute garbage. What the fuck Cudi.
The Return of
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yeah, he didn't even do a video for it right? haha, that is kind of fucked up. Considering all that, that's good sales man.
I know all the KRIT talk is pretty much done, and I've already said that I like the tape, but
Can't stop listening to it now.
both these posts nail it. Yesterday afternoon when I downloaded the mixtape and was listening to it in my room, just sitting there, it was good. But that's all it was, good. Nothing super special. Last night some shit happened to really close friend of mine that resulted with me being woken up by a call from a sobbing her at 3AM. I woke up with it still on my mind, and decided to play the tape in my car while I drove to school and thought about it, and Krit just clicked with me. Just the different mindset made the tape go from good to awesome for me.
Can't stop listening to it now.
That's an awesome story. Glad to hear that you're enjoying it. I feel the same, don't know how people could be disappointed with it or call it average. It's sounds just like his past two tapes to me, but even more soulful and i dig it.
Listening to WZRD for the first time now. God help me.
Pinko Marx
Banned
So lets discuss some real shit here.
I was riding around, listening to the radio the other day (yeah, I know), and a segment came up between songs featuring Snoop and talking about what he thinks Hip-Hop would be like today if Pac and Biggie were still alive.
Yeah, I know, this is a bit of a tired subject but I'm interested in hearing what GAF-Hop thinks.
Would shit be way different if Pac and Biggie never died?
Snoop says that their deaths were pretty much meant to happen, that it had to happen as a message. He also said that if they were still on that murder murder kill kill shit things wouldn't be much different, but if they had changed their message over to love (something they both were doing towards the end of the lives) that Hip-Hop would be incredibly different.
I was riding around, listening to the radio the other day (yeah, I know), and a segment came up between songs featuring Snoop and talking about what he thinks Hip-Hop would be like today if Pac and Biggie were still alive.
Yeah, I know, this is a bit of a tired subject but I'm interested in hearing what GAF-Hop thinks.
Would shit be way different if Pac and Biggie never died?
Snoop says that their deaths were pretty much meant to happen, that it had to happen as a message. He also said that if they were still on that murder murder kill kill shit things wouldn't be much different, but if they had changed their message over to love (something they both were doing towards the end of the lives) that Hip-Hop would be incredibly different.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Also the fact that there has been like no studio releases....
Pac is a wild card. I think he really had a chance of by a catalyst for social change. Biggie would have dropped more great CDs and possibly dropped into mild obscurity with the changing times. Now Puffy, where would he be, that's a good one.
I can't even speculate on Pac not dying because it's such a wildcard on more than just a musical level, but Big being alive wouldn't have really steered hip hop any differently I don't think. Maybe some of the beef wouldn't have been so popular. But man....Watch the Throne with BIG, Ye and Jay? That shit would be cray. 2pac fucking with TDE? feed me that in an IV.
Glass Rebel
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Pretty loaded question. I'd say the game would be much more lyrical and maybe not as club-focused. Other than than, I really don't know. Pac would have gone to Hollywood for good either way.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Neither were really changing their message much... If they squashed their beef and released an album together that would have changed the rap world... If they lived the stupid coast beef would have continued..
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Pac to sign with YMCM
I think the violent aspect of hip hop came from rapping not being fully established as a career. There was much more active involvement with gangs at that time, and there's danger that comes along with that, you still see it in the super-underground elements of hip hop though. I think Pac and Biggie changed their messages because they realized that they could rise above that influence.
As far as their careers, I have full confidence that they would be in the same boat as Nas/ Jay-Z. It's impossible for someone to have a perfect career, and everyone would be bitching and pining for their "old sound" just like they do with the rappers we still have.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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I was expecting weak ass numbers due to his weak ass label only shipping a weak ass 55k.
Guess he looks kinda silly after his weak ass Twitter rant now, huh?
Big living prevents Jay-Z from ever rising to the heights of popularity that he did. Big puts out a good junior effort, the rest of his discography ends up being middling, and then he moves into a sort of relationship with Bad Boy that Wayne and Birdman are in now. He tries branching out into business and fashion stuff with puffy. they do OK.
Pac moves into activism and movies from music slowly but surely. stuns the hip hop world by coming out as the worlds first openly gay rapper. The game of the early 2000's is changed forever.
Pac moves into activism and movies from music slowly but surely. stuns the hip hop world by coming out as the worlds first openly gay rapper. The game of the early 2000's is changed forever.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Big living prevents Jay-Z from ever rising to the heights of popularity that he did. Big puts out a good junior effort, the rest of his discography ends up being middling, and then he moves into a sort of relationship with Bad Boy that Wayne and Birdman are in now. He tries branching out into business and fashion stuff with puffy. they do OK.
Pac moves into activism and movies from music slowly but surely. stuns the hip hop world by coming out as the worlds first openly gay rapper. The game of the early 2000's is changed forever.
It's like a joke but not funny..
Pinko Marx
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Personally I don't think the game would be TOO different, but its fun to think about.
Big probably would have eventually realize Puff was a fucking leech, and the same for Pac and Suge. Then who knows wtf would have happened.
Big probably would have eventually realize Puff was a fucking leech, and the same for Pac and Suge. Then who knows wtf would have happened.
Jokes aside, i think it really would be pretty different. Beefs would continue to be very aggressive, Jay-Z would have been a completely different character, the east and west coast may have maintained a strong rivalry well into the 00s(leaving less space for the midwest and south), and both guys would have continued to sell like gangbusters. Big's time in the limelight was real short, and pac still had some gas in him as well. The game would be completely different IMO. Especially that shitty period in the mid 00s.
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
shou.... should i "booo" ?
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
I think Puffy actually paid Big at least..
And the only thing that was good about the deaths of Pac and Biggie was that the Outlawz and Jr Maifia stopped getting airplay..
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
Big living prevents Jay-Z from ever rising to the heights of popularity that he did. Big puts out a good junior effort, the rest of his discography ends up being middling, and then he moves into a sort of relationship with Bad Boy that Wayne and Birdman are in now. He tries branching out into business and fashion stuff with puffy. they do OK.
Pac moves into activism and movies from music slowly but surely. stuns the hip hop world by coming out as the worlds first openly gay rapper. The game of the early 2000's is changed forever.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Glass Rebel
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Big living prevents Jay-Z from ever rising to the heights of popularity that he did. Big puts out a good junior effort, the rest of his discography ends up being middling, and then he moves into a sort of relationship with Bad Boy that Wayne and Birdman are in now. He tries branching out into business and fashion stuff with puffy. they do OK.
Pac moves into activism and movies from music slowly but surely. stuns the hip hop world by coming out as the worlds first openly gay rapper. The game of the early 2000's is changed forever.
So if Pac lived... PD would have killed himself? What a twist.
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
My mind is blanking right now, what are you saying?
Pinko Marx
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New OddFuture: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdpKPSjQ37Y
soul creator
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wait what?
*finds http://liluglymane.bandcamp.com/album/thug-isolation *
*looks at track title, album art, artist name, and price*
fucking lol
might download later
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
3 straight albums that are great from one artist.
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
well krit was here was a mixtape so its not three straight albums
jcole? (come up, warm up, FNL)
kid cudi? ( mixtape, MOTM(1&&2))
The Weeknd.
Pol_Pothead
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Some new Roc Marciano which I don't know whether it will be on Marcberg Reloaded or not but is quite nice still.
Roc Marciano - Poltergeist
Roc Marciano - Poltergeist
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
i feel ashamed for not remembering this.
Pinko Marx
Banned
Little Brother - The Listening, The Minstrel Show, GetBack
Curren$y - PT1 & 2 then Covert Coup
Cudi, no (wasn't a fan of MOTM 2), but I would agree with Cole.
That's a good one too, but I was thinking more Hip Hop.
Curren$y definitely had a sub-par tape or two in between the Pilot Talks and Covert Coupe; Return to the Winner's circle, I think.
Thursday may be my fav. It's either that or EoS.
Pinko Marx
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I'm not counting mixtapes. Mixtapes are for artists to fuck around and/or promote upcoming albums.
Or gain a buzz then sell out once they're signed.
Ken Masters
Banned
Like the new Big KRIT album but he has some of the most elementary hooks I've ever heard
But then Covert Coupe doesn't count. Keeping the game to all releases gets rid of that headache.
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
well there are people who thought MOTM2 was better than one. i for one liked 2 (not more than 1) so cudi yes in genreal, but no for you.
you shut your whore mouth.
not gonna lie. i am fine with that. as long as he cand ride a good beat, i am fine. i am not much of a southeren buff so my opinion doesn't really matter.
K.R.I.T.'s latest hasn't sunk in with me yet.
If I were to review it right now (only listened to it once), I'd say The Alarm is aptly named because it does a good job at waking you up from all the slumber that comes before it. One spin in and it's the only standout track. I feel like each new release from K.R.I.T. has less memorable tracks.
If I were to review it right now (only listened to it once), I'd say The Alarm is aptly named because it does a good job at waking you up from all the slumber that comes before it. One spin in and it's the only standout track. I feel like each new release from K.R.I.T. has less memorable tracks.
Pinko Marx
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Covert Coup was an EP that was supposed to get a retail release but the sample didn't clear or someshit.
But fine.
The Weeknd sucks. Its just 90s R&B with whatever you call Drake songs.
I definitely see your point though. Like you said, in one corner you have the artists that do mess around/experiment on free tapes, but in the other corner you have the ones that say to just call their tapes albums, 'since they're of deserved quality' or something like that. The whole classification's gotten messy.
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