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unclebengi wrote:I can only base all of this on my own perspective. Conway and Westside are completely different as rappers, artists, whatever way you want to look at it. Westside was doing his thing for over a year solid and getting a decent buzz with a largely derivative rap style. I never heard Conway's name mentioned until fall of 2015. I largely ignored Westside to this point because despite a great ear for beats and nailing an aesthetic, he's average as fuck as a rapper.

As soon as I saw a couple Conway videos though from his Reject 2 album as well as his first Shade 45 freestyle I was hooked (as were a LOT of other heads). Conway is a technician with the bars and has been amazingly consistent with each and every verse over the last year and a half. The partnership with Westside works perfect because Westside is like a 2017 Puffy. He's made great marketing decisions from the start and capitalized on CONWAY's buzz (not his own) in way that I haven't seen before in that particular lane of gangster rap.

I don't care if I ever hear another Westside verse again, but he's been great for Conway and rap in general really just for giving guys like Conway and Mach-Hommy a true platform. He's a had a plan from the start and stuck to it and Conway has rapped his ass off from the second he got his chance.

My main point in all this is they don't deserve to be lumped in together as a group or with past New York groups like Mobb Deep. Westside Gunn is not a good rapper, Conway is an amazing one.

unclebengi wrote:Yeah, I don't think I've heard a bad beat yet, he's ALC jr. in my book

Versive wrote:Little known tape produced by him, with a totally different style of rapping: https://thricethird.bandcamp.com/album/ ... -the-queen" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Philaflava wrote:I don't know how anyone could choose WSG over Conway at this point. Conway is Prodigy and WSG is like Big Twins.

unclebengi wrote:These appearances are always impressive from Conway, but he really goes IN the last couple verses here, something to see for sure-

step one wrote:

unclebengi wrote:These appearances are always impressive from Conway, but he really goes IN the last couple verses here, something to see for sure-

Dudes have rapping like this for 20 years. I'm still not getting the excitement around it - is it people that never really checked for thugged out NY street rap who are all over it? Can't see what he's bringing to the table that you can't find on a thousand other mixtapes from the last 2 decades.

I mean, it's alright and everything but Eminem may aswell have signed Grafh, Cormega or Ali Vegas.

step one wrote:

unclebengi wrote:These appearances are always impressive from Conway, but he really goes IN the last couple verses here, something to see for sure-

Dudes have rapping like this for 20 years. I'm still not getting the excitement around it - is it people that never really checked for thugged out NY street rap who are all over it? Can't see what he's bringing to the table that you can't find on a thousand other mixtapes from the last 2 decades.

I mean, it's alright and everything but Eminem may aswell have signed Grafh, Cormega or Ali Vegas.

Sebastion Shaw wrote: New generation. I mean people who didn't grow up on Nas or Ghost now have Droog and Bronson.

These cats are actually rapping. It's new to a lot of people in this generation. Actually rapping. Not mumble, marble, garble mouths saying "yeah" or "uh" 30 times in a song.

EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:
btw. i recently heard an interview and it turns out dude's face is really like that, he had a stroke or something.

EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote: rappers these days are more technically able than 90s rappers imo. it's harder to do a young thug vocal performance than raekwon. .

step one wrote:

EMCEE DARTH MALEK wrote:
btw. i recently heard an interview and it turns out dude's face is really like that, he had a stroke or something.

so before that you thought he was pretending or something ?