Good music is good music regardless of age. The issue here is they only want to make music for a niche market, and are too stuck in their own way to see the bigger picture. Just one verse from a Nikki or a Meg or a Cardi would elevate them.I like Conway's album and some Griselda shyt but this basically gets to a point I've been making for awhile. A handful of old heads gassed these guys up by LYING that they sound like 90s rap when in reality it doesn't. What noteworthy rapper in the 90s was predominantly rapping over drumless loops or super low tempo/slow drums and low bpm samples? Keep it a buck: nobody is fukking with that shyt outside of a handful of people. Conway's album sold less than 8k first week.
Let's get in a time machine and go back to 97. What was on DJ Clue tapes? A mixture of street shyt, boom bap r&b, and what we might consider pop rap. You'd hear TONY, Hypnotize, and the unreleased All About The Benjamins within a 20 minute span. You know what you weren't hearing? Joyless slow ass drums. For as depressed as DMX was, the shyt the radio played was up tempo as fukk lol. Now let's head to the Tunnel. You know what you're hearing? Phone Tap. Incarcerated Scarfaces. Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Can See. Mo Money Mo Problems. Big Momma Thang. Again you aren't hearing low bpm shyt there either.
These guys gotta reckon with the fact that they're 40 plus dressing like teenagers because they never had money until a couple years ago, and they make music you can't even play in a car by yourself because it doesn't bang. Not the drums, not the bass, nothing.
Funk Flex responds to Conway the Machine
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would it?
They've gotten verses from one of the biggest artists in the world...and it really hasn't gotten them any bigger mainstream success. (let's set aside the bytching and moaning for a moment about shady)
While a Meg and Nicki are a little more current/relevant, I doubt a verse from either would really elevate them like that.
They're both right. Flex is 100 with everything he said about Conway and Griselda, but they're right that Flex gatekeeps and is definitely on some payola shyt (always has been).
StackorStarve
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I agree with both of them. Griselda doesn’t make typical radio friendly songs and the way the radio works they wouldn’t get spins regardless of who the DJ is. Complaining about it won’t get him anywhere.
Flex is a cornball though and a known hater. Hot 97 plays the same 12 songs over and over again like every other radio station and it has nothing to do with what people want to hear. The DJ plays songs the program director hand picked which 9 out of 10 times are from artists whose label paid for placements. Thats the whole reason people moved away from radio. Kay Slay is the only NY DJ that played whoever/whatever he wanted and that’s why people respected him. Hot 97 been trash for over a decade now.
Flex is a cornball though and a known hater. Hot 97 plays the same 12 songs over and over again like every other radio station and it has nothing to do with what people want to hear. The DJ plays songs the program director hand picked which 9 out of 10 times are from artists whose label paid for placements. Thats the whole reason people moved away from radio. Kay Slay is the only NY DJ that played whoever/whatever he wanted and that’s why people respected him. Hot 97 been trash for over a decade now.
Negro Caesar
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Conway and Westside always crying about some shyt. I fukk with them nikkas heavy but they gotta cut that shyt out.
Well Conway track with Eminem was his biggest stream on Spotify, however I believe the comments about Eminem’s fans and about Eminem had a bigger impact on his career..
While a Meg and Nicki are a little more current/relevant, I doubt a verse from either would really elevate them like that.
I disagree. With a different subject matter, and one of the females i mentions in the track, it opens them up to the attention of a new target audience. Considering Benny and Westside Gunn are managed by Roc, I’m really surprised that Megan hasn’t been on a track with either yet.
still hurts man.
did that Benny x Drake ever drop?
That might be the best way to gauge how it'd boost them
BK The Great
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You didn’t see the 3 page thread on this?
Funk Flex responds to Conway the Machine
Yes this is where I think Conway's anger stems from more than anything. They still feel a way about it. Flex was never a fan of Griselda. He only had them on because so many fans was telling him he needs to have them on, he did it. But I don't think their style really is what Flex is into...
Didn’t see it at first
Griselda got like 2000 songs and not one hit.
BK The Great
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First off, fukk radio that shyt is all controlled by labels and to gas people on what’s “good music” supposed to sound like when it’s not. Second, Conway should just go on a run, branch out and jump on features and get his viewership up more. Then he wouldn’t have a problem.
