Wow, last time I listened to Street Sounds it was sure now a show that would have OME on it.

Versive wrote:Seriously, nobody cares about Yeshua's first verse in like a decade?

I was excited and wanted to care, but then I heard the song. He's not bad on it, but as a huge fan of Siah and Yesh it did nothing for me.

This is awesome. There's no way 90% of people on here don't hate it.

Townsquare took over a Comics site I enjoy- Comics Alliance - and seems to have given them a lot of freedom to do their thing. Might not be bad news for XXL content wise. I assume you have to serve fewer ad masters being online than in print.

5/10, but only felt confident in like 2 of those and the rest is just guessing.

Since I started buying CDs I never remember the track number for anything, after the first 5 or so listens it's just all on random.

I want to own that deck.

Song is awesome.

Agree on HMM/RTG fight.

Man it would be cool if a couple guys who really need attention could stop ruining threads started by artists who are active members of this community.

The next RTJ song that doesn't make me believe I have the power to run through walls and fight large people will be the first.

Copped, listened to about half before bed last night. Pretty damn great so far.

this is hip-hop, not world events, isn't it all trivial shit? Part of it is the "are you hip-hop" framing, which kinda implies more essential knowledge than random facts. I mean I know I'm not hip-hop, but it's not for want of knowing the z-list members of the Roots crew and novelty tracks from the...

7/20, but I had to guess to some degree on all but the most obvious two and only knew the Jr one 'cause of being here, could have super easily been way worse.

I don't think I appreciated how little attention I paid to production credits in the 90s.

6/20 here as well. Only a few questions I kinda felt bad about not knowing. It's a fun quiz, but most of this stuff is way more minutia than essential knowledge.

!!!!!

Nice cat raps.

Tweak Da Leak wrote:High Exhaulted still one of the better punchline albums to ever be put out.

I wouldn't go that far, but I'm always surprised by how much I tend to enjoy songs from it when they pop up. It's just so hard to separate that from and other public humiliations when the album is so full of ego.

Listening to this today and it's weird that Ardy slowrolled this supergroup with Imani from Pharcyde, Paul Wall and a guy who doesn't not growl like Mindbender.

"I’m just a guy who is trying to build myself from the ground up and make it in this industry. I am just a 21-year-old black guy from New York City with aspirations. My parents taught me at a young age that you can’t get nothing in this world if you don’t work for it. " Wherein "working for it" = ho...

I was actually super let down by Double or Nothing (it's more boring than bad), but I still think being half of EMPD is enough. That's well beyond weed carrier status.

We're just going to be OK with somebody calling Eric Sermon "not so great?"

That Smile joint is nice. Y'all should at least enable the ability for people to give you money for this if they want. You would have 5 Dids Dollars.

ETA- a few more songs in. I like this, and Ardy's work specifically, a lot.

Yeah- my whole issue with AD is his delivery (or lack thereof). Lyrically the verse is fine, but I don't have much patience for a guy who is deliberately bad at rapping.

I don't love AD's verse, but that gets like 10% of his fanbase (the ones that don't already check for Mike) to listen, that's worth it, right?

Album is really great.

It's also on the Dorner Vs Tookie complication, which is well worth your time.

Enjoying this a great deal so far. It's unfair how good Qualifiers is.

Speaking of Hot 97- what do people think of Rosenberg? I've been listening to his wrestling podcast and he seems like a pretty decent funny guy, but have no sense of how he's regarded in the hip-hop community at all.

I don't get why anybody doesn't just use bluetooth. Wires suck.

Spotify is a good way to get lazy/broke/picky people to give something a chance. I'd never be able to talk somebody into buying an album or streaming something off of somebody's site, but if they already consume all their music on spotify and you can just talk them into listening to something specif...

I was feeling somewhat stanish with the praise I'm heaping on the album and like, even just bumping the thread.

Feel pretty PRETTY normal right now.

I could give a shit how somebody can freestyle if they can write this good.

Tui's got some freestyles online, no idea if they're actually off the top, obv the first one turns into parts of Old Enough

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-xMP70bQCc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPjuHKfLPdo

Dunno if you've seen him live, but dude does have considerable stage presence.

Vox is a really great site. Great information presented clearly. What's your beef.