dead prez wrote:We obviously have very fucking different defintions of what constitutes charisma? Cause that guy was just rapping really fast, ofc he’s gonna have people cheering what do you expect?
He's not just rapping fast. It seems really hard to get that through the head of most people, I don't understand why- He's an incredibly intricate total-package rapper
capable of any style. He just prefers using double time flows along with it.
dead prez wrote:at least now I know you’re not just someone who has a fetish for technicality
no no I do. I fiend for it.
dead prez wrote:almost like he’s just shouting at you like some revolutionary leader.
He's primarily a revolutionary public speaker. The music comes 2nd.
dead prez wrote:Still lil wayne in Carta II and dedication II is more charismatic he embodied that hardened mob boss with a blasé persona perfectly in songs like hustler muzik and hit em up and really fit that mold.
I completely disagree, they felt very sloppy and poorly done (just went back and listened to hit em up since I forgot it) - I was going to link Tech's strangeulation verse but you restricted him from this part of the argument so I'll refrain. He is who I go to when looking for that though.
dead prez wrote:As for Tech N9ne, no, though I do have friends who used to be huge fans of him and showed me his songs all the time but don’t care for him at all anymore and find him almost juvenile.
damn that sucks, sorry to hear you came to that conclusion. check out strangeulation when you get a chance if you care maybe it'll budge your feelings a bit. fear and the calling seem right down your alley, especially given that his mother passed the week after fear happened.
dead prez wrote:Lil Wayne gives off that illusion cause of how insanely prolific he is
See I just don't hear him being prolific in the slightest. Never have, and I've listened to every major project. He comes off as your average run-of-the-mill gangster rapper who got inherited by the industry to do just that. It seems this is where we differ because you seem to hear something else.
dead prez wrote:He’s a sorta mad scientist with hip hop
What do you mean by this?
dead prez wrote:As for freestyling the verses, I never heard of that
found what i was referring to dead prez wrote:That might be why it might seem like he doesn’t care in that mixtape.
No I was saying it sounds like he doesn't care because it sounds like he doesn't care. It sounds like he walks up to the mic and lets whatever the hell he feels like fall out of his face and gives his engineer a thumbs up afterwards.
dead prez wrote:So once with a negative mindset, like I said not exactly objective, and I know I sound like a hypocrite for bashing Tech N9ne & Hopsin for that but at least I don’t try and act like the end all be all regarding them.
I don't try to act like that either.
dead prez wrote:Also lil wayne’s material preceding Carta II is vastly inferior to it.
I can get behind that.
dead prez wrote:Meaning that you shit on just about everything mainstream
Again this is just untrue. There are a lot of mainstream cats I thoroughly enjoy outside of Em. Yes, I'm into more underground artists but that's because there's more of them period.
dead prez wrote:but specifically crap on artists if they aren’t as technical or rap with as much multies as your favorites and dry to dress up your preferences in rap as the way to go. I mean come on man you bash just about every mainstream artist and even if you praise Eminem he’s as far as mainstream as can be (well prime anyway) but actually has charisma and skill. You also specifically put stock in how much multies a rapper can fit into a verse
This is just false man, I don't know how else to go about saying that. Yes, I prefer more technical skill over less, so my ear tends to drift more towards underground artists, but that doesn't mean I dislike mainstream artists because they aren't as technically proficient. I dislike artists that don't seem to put in any effort. And what catches my attention most is when I hear an artist do something that I know I could never do, hence why I praise tech so much for his skill in the flow department, I can rhyme my ass off and I have a plethora of styles, but the way that guy hears a beat and then places his syllables over it is always new and something I haven't heard before, in fact the only time I've ever caught him using the same flow twice is
here and
here. I don't even know where to start when it comes to that kind of thing, I can only rhyme and either spit faster or slower, I have no ability to come up with a flow that I haven't already heard so when somebody does that repeatedly they have a tendency to crawl into my favorite's list. I really don't like talking about myself that much but hopefully that gives you some perspective on where I'm coming from.
dead prez wrote:I have to get back on this but it was fairly recent, I swear to God I’m not making it up though.
I'm not saying you're wrong about me doing it I'm just asking what verse because if I was that passionate about it there was likely a reason.
dead prez wrote:Cause you didn’t just absolutely fucking SHARK tech n9ne/crooked I/ random generic multi syllabic rapper #44002.
no no you're right I completely bit them there, it was my first time on a beat and I had no idea what I was doing. no argument there. i'd link recent work but I doubt it'd make a difference.
dead prez wrote:Quit playing semantic games I laughed at comparing writtens to something actually performed
Again I don't know what the difference is, I'm not trying to play any games.
hahaha that was pretty cool at 1:30 word
dead prez wrote:Or making a song like Crazy
what of it?
Man all of those links feel
extremely generic, particularly the 3rd link he hardly says anything there, again it's like he walks up to the mic like "alright whatever happens happens and we're gonna go with that". It makes me lose respect for the guy even more I wish I could hear what it is you're hearing because I'm not impressed in the slightest. And it's not because he isn't multi stacking or incorporating any type of cosmic flows, it's because I feel disrespected as a listener when listening to that. They feel like those leaked Em tracks that were never supposed to see the light of day.
dead prez wrote:Didn’t you have a thread (granted a while back) meeting hopsin?
yeah back in 2010 on his raw tour. we were myspace friends before then and he wanted to meet up when he came down so it was pretty cool to me. I haven't heard from him since 2013 though he blew up hardcore.