lets be real, camp lo was talking str8 gibberish, they were the original mumble rappers

[mrken12]

Camp Lo disrespect? What happened to this section?

 

[rantanamo]

always thought they was dope. great at what people think make great rappers, yet they have their own thing. I never thought of their slang as a language per se, but like one like is the language and the rest is for atmosphere created by the obscure references within the lyrics. Its not that hard to know what each song is talking about or even what's happening. Great and original. To me aint that different fundamentally from what Raekwon does but they are admittedly like comic book heroes in a lot of their songs as opposed to trying to tell some real life stories.





this shyt is dope as hell

 

[Originalman]

Confuse lyricism with abc, 1 2 3 simpleton raps brehs.

 

[Jack Trippa 3z company ho]

Camp lo to me, their first album anyways, was great production and wack rappers

Dudes sounded homo on the mic. I remember one track dude just kept saying "camp lo what" over and over, it was like a loud whisper with a homo accent

 

[The Devil's Advocate]

nikkas don't know shyt about poetry, metaphors and lyricism anymore. I mean really, I will break the shyt down for you.

But breh you can't see what they talking about here?

geechu talking bout being high, stunting on hoes, flashing guns and money with the swag of harry belafonte, as he robs your ass

[Geechi Suede]
Introducing phantom of the dark, walk through my heaven
With levitation from reefers, drenching divas in E7
Showboating with Rugers, flash vines, Belafonte vigor
Let's skate for what this worth as we confiscate your figures


Cheeba talking about riding around high, in African garb, in a 1954 whip, chasing jewelers, pulling off heist, then hitting the whore house to trick off and punching fake nikkas in the eye

[Sonny Cheeba]
Casanova Brown levitating jiggy in dashikis
A la hotta car, fifty-four, chasing diamond runners
Headed ice bound, the big chilla diamond convention
Harlem Buck Strut, freezing world heist, Hollywood
Madame Butterfly, let me in your house of pleasure
From the knuckle swat, shadowboxers catching black-eyed blues



Could they have said it like "yea yea I'm fly and flashy, slap a nikka, the cops will never catch me".

Sure. But then they be every other rapper with a boring flow and no bars

 

[CoryMack]

Y'all nikkaz in here ack'n like some experts and these were the first funny style nikkaz that weirded out Joe Claire right on rap city of all people.

Thread is on point and their whole funny style shyt was the original sus.

Y'all nikkaz need to stop with the everybody was cool from that era shyt.
As anyone who saw that episode of rap city and supposed were in the know boycotted and I boycotted and never listened to that shyt as a matter of fact and still don't.

nikkaz were the original sus nikkaz.


Art Barr

I'm from that era though I don't remember that episode. I do remember when joe left Eminem laying on the floor of that store though. Now that was a classic episode, you could tell joe wasn't feeling dude at all.

But I liked camp lo. They weren't popular down here but I liked em. Cooley High, Black Connection, Swing, I liked all that shyt.

They just added to the diversity of the era. Solid group. Held their own in probably the most competitive era we've had in rap. Lotta these dudes today couldn't have come out back then and made an impact.

 

[NormanConnors]

I understood all of it

Exactly isn't hard to figure out if you understand the 70's era. They are vivid writers. They say stuff cats are saying now but just flipped it in a different way. Cats like Jay Z lifted heavy from them. They were the first to coin the term "lit" also over 20 years ago

 

[NormanConnors]

Confuse dudes spitting slang with dudes who can't spit at all bruhs

Close thread

 

[NormanConnors]

I remember seeing them work. Every line is crafted and all the slang is well thought out. It's not gibberish.

Yep so crafted that Cheeba only writes when it's time to record/hit the studio, you won't find a lot of material from him out there.

 

[Edub]

Camp lo came up through an era where groups like fu-schnikens and Das EFX were prominent not being completely understood all the time on the MIC (even though what was being said made sense if you read the lyrics sheet)......they made sense but having to be analyzed lyrically in that era was a GOOD thing .....it meant thought was being put into it and it made fans decipher something. I never took the time to decipher to much of camp lo's joints but the songs were so dope (first album) I never felt the need to.....



Wouldn't call it gibberish tho....just made to decipher

 

[TripleAgent]

Sparkle Or Luchini OR Coolie High>>>>>>>> these young struggle rappers existence

 

[Danie84]

Did you just skim thru Uptown Saturday Night

 

[Rekkapryde]

you better than this @DrX

 

[Deltron]

you must be deaf or a fukking retard if you believe what you typed

 

[Monoblock]

Sonny Cheeba flow so butter. Loved him on this Avalanches track