Pet peeves from your favorite rappers

[jensyao]

i think a lot of pet peeves stem from the desperation of rappers held as commodities within their fukked up contracts and label issues/industry practices

it's unfortunate with 360 deals that rappers have to understand how to market themselves/go on tour as independents to not get screwed and not let ego get in the way of proper accounting and ways to turn profitable without the excessive overhead costs or get stuck in the hamster wheel

---

rappers who can drop dope freestyles that could be directly converted into a song but then when it comes to dropping an album, they invite some left field singer to feature, use autotune or can't construct a worthy chorus for shyt and do these lame ducky corny bars/beats aspiring for radio friendly hits and forget what they did on mixtapes and freestyles to let that raw talent show

rappers who don't reach out to youtube for up-and-coming fire beatmakers who have sample-less beats but still stick with the same industry names or rap on uninspired beats with the same rehashed samples and having to pay residuals indefinitely to whom they sampled

rappers who willingly let some overrated producers/directors/features blow thru their whole album budget, on top of having to pay extortion money as well as management overcharging/stealing money, and then they can't recoup the money so they get stuck on that label unable to change contracts or drop more music because of label control or initially signing bad contracts in general

 

[Black Excellence]

Wale feeling like he’s a tortured artist that gets no love from critics/fans leading to him being super safe with his music instead of just having fun with it like he used to.

Jay trying to flex his lyrical bandwidth instead of just flowing.

Nas jumping on all these faux boom bap experimental beats by Hit Boy & thinking they nice.
Also,

Producers that overproduce songs when they’re doing a big collab.

 

[Grizzly]

Mos Def - His style switched from staying on topic for all three verses to just doing word association for 32+ bars. There's no connectivity. Just aimless rhyming.

"Revolution mindset, Civil War violence
Asiatic pastors, abracadabra
Miles Davis Coltrane
Spaceship propane
Project buildings, Popcorn ceilings"

None of that shyt makes any sense. That's not even from Mos Def.. I wrote that. It's lazy word association/stream of consciousness and requires no effort. I was listening to 'The Ecstatic' like the shyt was tight until I realized he didn't actually say shyt the whole album. And I'm only critical of him like this because he dropped one of the greatest concept albums to me, "Black On Both Sides." Wish he would go back to his original style cause the shyt is perfect.

 

[HDKG_]

He not really one of my favs but I hate when Budden would say fukk like FLUCK

And as I’ve gotten older I’m also not a fan of all of rappers just rapping about how good and better they are at rapping than other rappers. That shyt bores me lol give me some content.

 

[DaveyDave]

Tech N9ne putting waaaaay too many songs on his albums. I'd love to hear a focused 10-12 songs album from Tech with Mayday on production

 

[Complexion]

So few of them are truly creative or take any artistic risks. Instead they recycle the same handful of topics album after album after album.

The character most rappers play is very one dimensional and they obviously push the pen into the safest lane they can instead of expanding the listeners horizon, dropping knowledge or even just being witty and irreverent in ways entertaining.

If you did a thematic pie chart of the most rappers catalogues you'd have around five themes revisited again and again. That, in essence, means they've only ever made five songs which is a waste of talent.

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

He not really one of my favs but I hate when Budden would say fukk like FLUCK

What is that?
15 years later and I still don't know

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

Little things your favorite rappers do that annoy you or make you shake your head laughing or whatever


When Kendrick shortens words or sentences to get the bar in. If you're familiar with his music and delivery you know what I'm talking about

He be like
"I am greatest all the time/no one living idolize/I am mentioned all the guys/ yall are victim father time"




Some examples

"You wanna be remembered that delivered the message that considered the blessing of everyone"

"Almost ran my front bumper into Corvette"

"I'm animal for analysts"
"Show you MFs I'm not to play with"

Just noticed how other rappers fall into this

This line came to mind (don't ask me how)

Tyler - "polluting air with chemicals and dirt"

It's a petty peeve but it always makes me hit the

 

[Ed MOTHERFUCKING G]

Love e40…some of them albums is too damn long lol

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

Lol prime weezy and his in the building bars

We in The building, you nikkas get evicted
We In The building, you cant enter the lobby
We In The building, throw you off the fukkin roof
We in the building, all these nikkas is my tenants
We in the building, bytch I drew the blueprints
We in the building, y'all nikkas up in tents
We In The building, you can't get past the doorman
We in the building, my bellhop a bad bytch
We In the building, all these suites no cavities

 

[A Pimp Named Slickback]

We in The building, you nikkas get evicted
We In The building, you cant enter the lobby
We In The building, throw you off the fukkin roof
We in the building, all these nikkas is my tenants
We in the building, bytch I drew the blueprints
We in the building, y'all nikkas up in tents
We In The building, you can't get past the doorman
We in the building, my bellhop a bad bytch
We In the building, all these suites no cavities

If yall in the building, then we are intruders

 

[7th Letter Specialist]

If yall in the building, then we are intruders

Oh shyt. Not the Martian raps. The "I'm from a different planet" raps

 

[H. Selassie]

Cam’ron’s mixing & mastering being god awful for about a decade up until Killa Season 2. I also would like to see him rap over more soulful production like Jim Jones & Smoke DZA.

Dom Kennedy not going to a bigger platform. I’ve never seen someone with so many songs/projects that could have been mainstream hits stay at his level of notoriety. Generated interest from Interscope and MMG once, has more Hit-Boy collaborations than anyone not named Nas…not sure what the issue is. I could understand the financial ROI may be better in the underground but he should at least be as big as Curren$y or Larry June.


Big K.R.I.T not expanding his music & branding beyond “Country cousin/Grandma’s porch” content. Man can rap, produce, and sing but has essentially been on the hamster wheel since his first project because of his refusal to let go of his country boy stories/“they don’t wanna hear me” shoulder chip.

I’ve listened to alot of Curren$y joints and thought “if he at least TRIED on this hook to harmonize or be a little catchy, this would be next level”.

 

[BulletProof]

Some of these are your fault for being fans of wack rappers.

 

[Yehuda]

Mos Def - His style switched from staying on topic for all three verses to just doing word association for 32+ bars. There's no connectivity. Just aimless rhyming.

"Revolution mindset, Civil War violence
Asiatic pastors, abracadabra
Miles Davis Coltrane
Spaceship propane
Project buildings, Popcorn ceilings"

We in the building, bytch I drew the blueprints

This is hard, not even gonna lie.