Pusha Terrance has not evolved at all as an mc
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TheDarceKnight
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This is crazy. The exact same people would hate on Push so damn hard too if he tried to rap about anything else. They'd say he should stay in his lane and stick to what he knows or whatever.
He can't win with some people either way. He's a master at drug raps. He should keep dropping short albums of that every few years with really unique production. That's a winning formula for him.
IMHO most (not all) of the people that critique Push for sticking to one subject matter just don't like him and it's the default talking point when trying to appear as if they're making an objective criticism.
95% of hip-hop heads don't want Push to do anything that he's not already doing (except maybe drop that album with Madlib).
He can't win with some people either way. He's a master at drug raps. He should keep dropping short albums of that every few years with really unique production. That's a winning formula for him.
IMHO most (not all) of the people that critique Push for sticking to one subject matter just don't like him and it's the default talking point when trying to appear as if they're making an objective criticism.
95% of hip-hop heads don't want Push to do anything that he's not already doing (except maybe drop that album with Madlib).
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Renegade47
Superstar
even before he changed his production choice to what it is now he still was pretty much talking about the same shyt.
I agree with you for the most part. Don’t think Nas really fits. You see his subject matter diversity throughout his career.
Eye Cue DA COLI GAWD
<--- Cleveland Browns winning that many, boi!
Them Neptunes beats were the third member of Clipse
without them these raps are
without them these raps are
murksiderock
Superstar
I can tell you when he and his brother first went mainstream, no one predicted a 20-year career for either of them. He's a huge success considering where he started and muhfukkas gotta give that up for him...
But we've made it to 2022 and the best versions of Pusha T were when he was Clipse/Re-Up Gang, circa 2002-08. I've yet to hear a track, and certainly not an album over the last 14 years, that matches the way he was rapping on Lord Willin--->We Got It 4 Cheap---->We Got It 4 Cheap Vol 2--->Hell Hath No Fury---->We Got It 4 Cheap Vol 3...
That's a 5-drop run of elite rapping from the Brothers Thornton and in a crew of nikkas who could all spit, Push routinely stood out. Getting with Kanye resuscitated his career abd I ain't mad at him for it, but he just isn't as dope a sitter as he was in the 00s...
We Got It 4 Cheap is one of the GOAT mixtape series ever. That's the brightest part of his legacy to me and its saying something considering the talent we've had drop tapes over the decades...
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
Em also has made basically no music that's as fun or as enjoyable to listenable to as Daytona, Hell Hath No Fury, or Lord Willin'.
If it's not broke don't fix it
Push is the type of dude that will do a 600 deep posse cut for some old ass DJ a few years from now rapping about coke, while the entire dope game move on to digital helmets and shyt
Push is the type of dude that will do a 600 deep posse cut for some old ass DJ a few years from now rapping about coke, while the entire dope game move on to digital helmets and shyt
TheDarceKnight
Veteran
Boldy's one of the rappers I listen to the most with the most slang and coded language that I don't understand. There's a lot of his bars where I get the vibe or feel of what he's saying, but I don't literally know what he's saying. For me it's part of the appeal though. I don't mind that I don't catch everything. Cuban Linx was that way when I was a kid. I didn't understand a lot of Rae and Ghost's slang until I got older and went out of my way to look it up.
I understand a lot more Push, Benny, and Conway drug bars.
Im saying they do have 50 y/o drug lords out here.
FunkDoc1112
Heavily Armed
Weed, hoes, cars, nutritional foods.
Stocks, investments, monogamy. Dude talks P, but doesn't really rap about actually pimpin em anymore though