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GAF-Hop |OT8| Let Blackace Down
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Rastafarian42
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Just blaze said he has his album on his phone. He also said in the Breakfast Club interview Exhibit C wouldn't have come out unless he had leaked it.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Its crazy listening to Liquid Swords and hearing Killah Priests BIBLE song at the end, then listening to him putting out dope shit 18 years later
Been thinking about this a bit today, why didn't K.R.I.T. blow up?
- Very consistent
- Decent debut album
- Decent debut single
- Son can spit doe
- Son also got jamz
Basically, I don't get how Wale is still on but this dude isn't. Did the GaGa single really do that much for him?
Does KRIT just not have a core fanbase? Is Def Jam really to blame? Is his appeal really that stunted by his accent? Combination thereof? My brother wouldn't even listen to a single song from him once he started rapping.
- Very consistent
- Decent debut album
- Decent debut single
- Son can spit doe
- Son also got jamz
Basically, I don't get how Wale is still on but this dude isn't. Did the GaGa single really do that much for him?
Does KRIT just not have a core fanbase? Is Def Jam really to blame? Is his appeal really that stunted by his accent? Combination thereof? My brother wouldn't even listen to a single song from him once he started rapping.
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I'll type up a few reasons why in a bit, but I will say that GaGa single was a complete flop and had nothing to do with Wale still being in the industry.
It was his verse off Waka's No Hands and dropping a mixtape around the same time that song blew up is what gave him a 2nd chance.
It was his verse off Waka's No Hands and dropping a mixtape around the same time that song blew up is what gave him a 2nd chance.
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Def Jam.
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CountBlack
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Sounds so gooood ahh
I would like to see Krit blow up. Maybe he will eventually.
I've been listening to Macklemore for a long time and seen him struggling to get to 100K followers on twitter and barely selling out the smallest venues in Toronto.. then one good single and you're on top of the world lol.
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I just think they really had no clue what to do with Krit. There really wasn't anybody at the time who was as big as him with the retro rap. The closest that comes to it is Joey Badass and he isn't signed to a major label. You know the only song I ever heard of Krit on the radio in both TN and TX is Country Shit? What's even worse is that places like Houston I hear them play old school shit ALL THE TIME? Seems completely odd to me.
Oh and Def Jam really failed on letting KRIT release Good 2gether on his last mixtape. I wouldn't mind driving to work in the morning and hearing that song on the radio. It's such a feel good track. They also should be trying to capitalize off his name even being mentioned in that Kendrick verse.
Oh and Def Jam really failed on letting KRIT release Good 2gether on his last mixtape. I wouldn't mind driving to work in the morning and hearing that song on the radio. It's such a feel good track. They also should be trying to capitalize off his name even being mentioned in that Kendrick verse.
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1) He's unattractive (to these girls in 2013; the chocolate brother is handsome enough to me pause) and thus struggles with the female demographic
2) His music sounds rather dated compared to traditional mainstream music
3) He's not a good songwriter. I like KRIT but he has struggled with choruses since he appeared on the scene. Every now and then he hits the jackpot - ie Country Shit or Multi Till The Sun Die - only to waste it on a mixtape.
4) He's hamstrung by heavily sample based production. His first album sucked largely due to being unable to clear samples. This leads to his mixtapes having a variety of songs that should be on his album (most recently Good 2Getha, arguably a top 5 song of this year).
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I know exactly what part you're talking about haha. That shit caught me off guard.
Caska tho...been thinking about making a troll thread about being attracted to animated characters.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
If 1Train didn't let him blow up, then nothing short of selling way they hell out will do anything for KRIT.
I think the single isn't the problem for sure. He's had way too many jams that have the *potential* to appeal to a large fanbase. they just won't. They just won't. He's got some cap that prevents him from blowing up.
I don't think his jams being on mixtapes instead of albums changes anything either, there's been ton of big dogs today that have blown up off of mixtapes and word of mouth. The (for lack of better words) substance is there, the appeal just isn't. If that makes sense.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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How Good 2Gether wasn't a single was criminal. Shit would be a real summer jam and Def Jam dropped the ball. KRIT shouldn't be on a major
PhoenixDark
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I maintain that if he released Good 2getha as a single with say...Kelly Rowland or Ciara on the hook instead of an American Idol reject he'd have something. He makes bad, Nas-esque decisions with his shit IMO. Obviously a lot of it has to do with sample clearance but there are ways to get around that (by reworking the track).
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I will keep hopes until his 2nd album drop. Him working with Rick Ross, Mike Will, going on tour with Macklemore and other stuff(like the Spike Lee video). Hopefully it does better than the first
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KRIT flopping really showed that "building a fanbase" really means "getting women to buy your shit." KRIT has a fanbase, the problem is that it's a bunch of male hip hop heads and hipsters.
CountBlack
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What are some good tracks to listen with Rainy Mood?
I've partnered it up with Nujabes most of the time and that was always a good listen.
Listening to it with Banana Clip Theory, and it goes fairly well with the jazzy beat.
Just seen that Amber Rose twerk video..
I've partnered it up with Nujabes most of the time and that was always a good listen.
Listening to it with Banana Clip Theory, and it goes fairly well with the jazzy beat.
Just seen that Amber Rose twerk video..
KRIT would fit in reeeeal nice in MMG. They've shown they can work multiple lanes and still sell.
I mean shit, it's not like gunplay is ever going to put an album out.
What are some good tracks to listen with Rainy Mood?
I've partnered it up with Nujabes most of the time and that was always a good listen.
Listening to it with Banana Clip Theory, and it goes fairly well with the jazzy beat.
Just seen that Amber Rose twerk video..
Rainy Mood and Nujabes... I know what I'm doing for the rest of the night
Gyakuten Meets Jazz Soul (Turnabout Jazz Soul). It's like Jazz versions of the Ace Attorney soundtracks. Damn good. Think someone on GAF made a thread about it or something with Rainy Mood and I've listened to it ever since.What are some good tracks to listen with Rainy Mood?
I've partnered it up with Nujabes most of the time and that was always a good listen.
Listening to it with Banana Clip Theory, and it goes fairly well with the jazzy beat.
Just seen that Amber Rose twerk video..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMnrl0tmd3k
no kidding...
I have some research to do...
-bitches dont like him
-repetitive subject matter
-starting to sound samey
He should have stayed on the Wuz Here path; everything after was too feely and self conscious. And that's fine when you combine it with the simp J. Cole shit and overall present yourself as a pussy, but KRIT doesn't.
Yep, don't think KRIT has it in him to make a Roll Up or something. Wiz was smart as hell to follow up Black and Yellow with that.
IrishNinja
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by the way - enjoy the show, man! and yeah it was pretty crazy there, i think the drummer blew manson on stage at the end of the set, which a like 15/16 year old ninja was not ready for. i tried spinning that into a thing with the chick that brought me, who laughed it off like "you're so crazy" which turns into "haha yeah... (you totally should tho)"
the what now
damn, so what, we're basically waiting for dude to get drunk enough to just say fuggit and drop his shit already? this is lookin like an inside joke thing
+1 strongly
eh i love dude but i dunno, esha might be right about him not wanting that cole lane...i have no idea how he'd fit in with MMG tho
hahaha...i recall the manga being less...sublte at parts
wasn't this true of a lotta def jam dudes though? i mean even in the day when people bought discs
my man
Net_Wrecker
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I wanna thank everyone that brought up The Night's Gambit again earlier. Finally gave me the push I needed to listen to it.
The whole "psychological sophisticated gangsta grit" type descriptors are accurate. Really good album with a really dark atmosphere. I feel like I'm listening to it in the wrong season, though. This is gonna get heavy play when the temperature starts dropping.
The whole "psychological sophisticated gangsta grit" type descriptors are accurate. Really good album with a really dark atmosphere. I feel like I'm listening to it in the wrong season, though. This is gonna get heavy play when the temperature starts dropping.
Yeah, once school and stress and come into play and everything dies, I'm gonna do some brooding to that album fo sho
I'll also attribute KRIT's commercial stagnancy to his overall failure to pick a lane. He could have ended up as a trap artist or a conscious/social justice guy. But above all, I (and I think most of you) assumed he would beeline for what DominoKid once called the "HBCU" demographic; the black rap consumers who shun trap and buy stuff like Kenneth, Drake, J. Cole, Wale, etc.... And he chose not to. Instead, he makes this awkward half thumping half thinking hybrid that has no mass appeal. And his music isn't good enough to transcend all of that shit like say, a young Kanye West.
So here he is. He probably still doesn't get it either.
So here he is. He probably still doesn't get it either.
It's not as approachable. Better? Yes.
Pusha got so royally fucked. I mean he's probably eating really well but first Ye pushes him aside and is like "hey listen I need to drop this shit right now," then Sean comes and does the same, next thing you'll know Push's album is going to be moved aside to make room for D'Banj's debut and a GLC EP.
XiaNaphryz
LATIN, MATRIPEDICABUS, DO YOU SPEAK IT
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Pusha fucked himself up when he rap these lines
Never mind me, 'Ye have fun
If the cops ask, that's my gun
Never mind me, 'Ye have fun
If the cops ask, that's my gun
CountBlack
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I can't help but laugh every time I listen to that song.
You got Ye talking about his cronies taking the charge for him, CyHi punking Big Sean (I love that verse), and then you got Pusha talking about... being Pusha in G.O.O.D. haha
IrishNinja
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man after shyne got shyne'd on why would anyone talk about taking a charge for anyone ever
is he secretly set or some shit? i mean damn
is he secretly set or some shit? i mean damn
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