Jin 106 Park Freestyle King (Did you think jin was dope?)

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He had some good punchlines. His aura and song writing skills were not on par of a superstar. Especially at that time. The streets was about to be dipset painted
 

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I think he could of been very marketable with the right push he would of filled a great demographic but I'm personally not that into freestyle/battle rap...
 

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I remember being a kid in the park and his street team was giving out DVD's of his battles on 106 and that Learn Chinese video :skip:
 
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Serius was always one of the better dudes up at Fight Klub.

What cats don't get, is that delivery and personality are what's most important in battles. If you're in there trying to focus on rhyme schemes and being super lyrical, you're gonna lose. You need to bring humor and some showmanship to the table. That's what gets the crowd hype.
 

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He was one of the few freestyle rappers that could actually make a decent song. ......

He had a joint with Kanye that was suppose to be a single, but I think there were some Label conflicts which is bogus b/c that song could've been a hit.

He had bars though,

but Being Asian on BET, especially at that time, he HAD no choice but to come with it.
 

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I thought he was a novelty and had no real shot at making it in rap.:yeshrug:
 

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I thought Jin was fukkin incredible! I was definitely a fan.

I remember watching this shyt live. Before they started I'm like: 'who's this random Chinese guy? the fukk is he doing here'. :stopitslime: Then dude started with "With a name like Hassan you should join The Taliban, because that's the only way you'll get Flex to drop a bomb" I was :damn: :damn: :damn: There's nothing greater than unexpected fire. The type that really hits you in your soul.

By the end of Jin's verse, I was :deadmanny: He had Hassan so shook.



In some ways, Jin didn't have enough talent to make actual songs (I remember that album being straight up garbage). And he's said that he didn't really soak up game when he had the chance. Dude had Just Blaze, Kanye (got one of Ye's top 5 all-time beats) and yet the songs came out half-ass. On another hand, there was definite racism involved. When he came out with "Learn Chinese", I remember hip hop fans being offended like "how he dare he say that". It's always funny watching who gets to culture vulture. A White dude can come into hip hop, not know a thing about the artform and completely vulture his way through... and some of us will be cool with that. But an Asian cat gets scrutinized more.

I haven't watched the Serious Jones/Jin battle in several years. I remember thinking that, aside from some very etherous lines from Serious, Jin actually won the battle. Serious came with the borderline-slurs and it was corny. It was obviously pre-written and this is before that whole pre-written, no-beat style took off. At the time, coming to a freestyle with pre-written rhymes was corny. Funny how things change.
 
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Serius Jones damn near pushed this dude to suicide.

Jin was nice, particularly with the freestyles, but he got that extra boost that Black people love to give to non-Black perpetrators of our art.
 
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