U know u a loser when nikkas on the sidelines like
"damm that aint fair lets help bro!"
"damm that aint fair lets help bro!"
Lupe Fiasco - SLR3 (Royce Diss)
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I feel like after that rant by Lupe Royce won't release anything
As a big fan of a Joe I don’t think I know what happened to him at def jam
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You could've told me that was Swizz in that screenshot and I would've believed you..
Jay literally just writes his rhymes in his head.
It's actually not hard at all. I taught myself to do it in high school. It's just rigorous memory training
Our brains are incredible devices but we realize this less and less as technology does more for us.
We outsource our brains to technology (Google is a perfect example) and our memory/cognition muscles atrophy
The more you work those mental muscles the easier shyt gets. I have no doubt that for at least 25 years Jay doesn't actually have to "memorize" anything now. Any rhyme he crafts is automatically committed to memory if he so chooses. It's like a jump shot or riding a bike
Jay has inspired a lot of rappers to do the same. Z-ro explained crafting verses during workouts. Every set he'd memorize 4 bars. TI didn't write his rhymes down for some of his best music earlier in his career
I'm actually surprised Lupe ain't committed to the technique by now
But yea exercise your mind brehs. That shyt pays off
My question is, when we gone stop fronting as hip hop fans and gone head and give Alchemist the crown?
I know we been holding off forever because he's a white boy.
A white boy from Beverly Hills at that......
But, at some point, we're going to have to stop collectively frontin on duke and give Alch the crown so he can come out the basement and shave.
He did it.
There's none higher at this point in my opinion.
I could never put Alc over DJ Paul and Juicy J but he's UP there. I wouldn't flinch at anybody calling him top 5
Def the GOAT white boy in hip hop
I love 3-6, and I'm a big champion for them getting their proper respects.
I think they deserve credit for creating the blueprint for all of mainstream hip hop over the last decade or so.
But when I sit back and start thinking beat for beat, song for song, longevity and all that, I have to put Alc over them.
Unlike every producer that came before him and even most that came after him, he never fell off.
Ever.
He's continued to elevate his craft and influence steadily over the past 25 years at a rate that no other hip hop producer has ever done in my opinion.
Sit down and really pay attention to his work from this....
to this....
to this....
to this....
to this....
Hate it or Love it, that white boy is the GOAT hip hop producer, and as time goes on he's gonna start lappin nikkas.
Give him his props.
He most definitely earned every one.
KFBF
Superstar
To me this is doper than all of his rappity rap shyt because it doesn't seem like he's performing as "Joe budden the mc" like it does with the slaughterhouse shyt. He's just rapping. But im probably in the minority.
I did that shyt naturally because I always hated my handwriting. So I would just build it line by line, rehearse it up to that point and lock that shyt in. So on and so forth. It ain't rocket science but what makes someone like Jay amazing is how much he can build, lock in, retain and recite.
Like I could do that with a verse or two at a time. This nikka could build whole songs out while doing other shyt just out of the convince of not wanting to stop and write down stuff.
I ain't mad at none of that
My bias stems from
1. I'm from the south. I NEED my drums
2. I see Paul and Juice DNA in more shyt than nikkas will ever realize. It goes beyond hip hop. Them nikkas change the entire sound of music worldwide and the tentacles are ubiquitous at this point.
I thought about this the other day while watching Tenet and marvelling at the score which was obviously inspired by trap aesthetics and Travis Scott. Them nikkas DNA is everywhere
I also think there ain't a soul on earth that samples voices better than DJ Paul. Paul and Juice style of chopping voices is the only style I've really seen widely emulated. Them nikkas turn vocal samples into instruments and fukkin magical chants
. Alc and Kanye are up there but when it comes to vocal chops Paul is the GOAT100% agree on Alc's consistency tho.
I also think Alc EXCELS at creating an atmosphere. That's why I'll listen to anything once I find out its fully produced by Alc. I Seriously think he should find a way to score films
And Russian Roulette is a masterpiece and a criminally slept on album
easily on of my most played albums of the last decade
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Bringing it back to rigorous training tho. I think the full extent of Jay's technique can be reversed engineered
One thing that always sticks out to me about Jay is this story he tells about how him and Jaz would sit down with a box of cereal and rap ALL fukking day
Based on certain anecdotes from Jay it ain't hard to believe that this nikka is mentally rapping all the time
His brain is a Google doc
Also Jay's raw memorization method ain't even accounting for actual deliberate memory techniques like mnemonics
The possibilities
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