The Clipse get so over hyped on here. And I'm high and feeling analytical so here's a hate on the Clipse thread.
I don't like the Clipse. Maybe a good verse or song here and there but usually they just sound so fake and forced. Not to mention they have an affinity for cheesy disco sounding beats.
Take these lyrics as an example of why the Clipse suck
It'd be one thing if they were trying to kick knowledge. Maybe if they were talking about some intellectual shyt they could get away with using all these cerebral metaphors but almost every song is about selling drugs. They use all this brainy wordplay to compensate for real creativity. "Maybe if we use a bunch of multisyllable rhymes and deep metaphors nobody will notice all our verses are basically the same!"
fukk the Clipse!
I don't like the Clipse. Maybe a good verse or song here and there but usually they just sound so fake and forced. Not to mention they have an affinity for cheesy disco sounding beats.
Take these lyrics as an example of why the Clipse suck
Technically these are crafty lyrics. But it just seems so efforted. Like Pusha put on his thinking cap and sat at a desk and strained brainstorming Ray Charles metaphors before he came up with this. Good lyrics should seem effortless. Every rapper has used a Ray Charles metaphor. Its like Pusha thought that if he took the Ray Charles cliche and came up with the most complex double entendre'd metaphorical Ray Charles lyric possible, it would make him the best rapper ever. It doesn't...its just trying too hard.You nikkas seeing nothing on the Zenith like Ray
Black hand white keys ya'll seen this I’m Ray
It'd be one thing if they were trying to kick knowledge. Maybe if they were talking about some intellectual shyt they could get away with using all these cerebral metaphors but almost every song is about selling drugs. They use all this brainy wordplay to compensate for real creativity. "Maybe if we use a bunch of multisyllable rhymes and deep metaphors nobody will notice all our verses are basically the same!"
fukk the Clipse!