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[average.dave]

Myspace is just like walking down the street. Most people you see on it are pretty lame. It has the potential to be something important but, it's too much like television. Very few people go on it scouring for new and exciting things, and very few people are contributing anything worthwhile. One night i went on there trying to find some good new hip-hop or even gangsta rap for that matter, and everybody just sounds predictable. It's like there's this unwritten rule that at least one of your 4 songs has to be gay as fuck, so that the majority of americans (which are gay as fuck) will relate and enjoy it. The rest just seem to be fitting some kind of demographic.

Myspace should be incredibley awesome, but it's just not. ..........unless you think
"i've just been, you know working, and going to school, and you know......hey let's get drunk some time", is awesome.

This doesn't mean that there is no dope shit to be found on myspace. Good shit, is good shit regardless of where you find it.

 

[BabyHughie]

Myspace should be incredibley awesome, but it's just not. ..........unless you think
"i've just been, you know working, and going to school, and you know......hey let's get drunk some time", is awesome.

AMEN!

 

[Guest]

WHoa...

check this guy out...name is Copywrite

http://www.myspace.com/odotrecords ... pretty cool ish

word "high exhaulted" is a great cd.

check out eastern conference all stars vol 1,2,3,4, dope shit there including copy

 

[Guest]

Jaco, in an interview I read the new JMT is supposed to be their darkest yet.. which track did you hear? i wouldnt take this single track you heard as an indication of how the other tracks will be..

yea copywrite has some nice stuff

 

[Guest]

Just from the Copywrite myspace page itself, the songs on there...especially the first 2, are tight. I love how he just completely sputters out and stopps rapping mid spittage a couple times. Reminds me of Jay-Z...

Also how he raps Like Twista, and I see the eminem influence for sure.

He's got so much variety in his rap, its hella entertaining to listen to him... Plus his beats, and just the overall timing of the beats is so creative.

That was just my first impression after listening to one song of his... The Slow Down song shows how he plays with the beats...and the spaces... I love how he just comes in a few times ... like DROPS in...

Anyways, I've really gotten into hip-hop again recently. A friend let me borrow Benefit and Atmosphere...among others...and I really like the diversity... its not all about gangsta rap...which is what I grew up listening to mainly.

 

[Guest]

word "high exhaulted" is a great cd.

check out eastern conference all stars vol 1,2,3,4, dope shit there including copy

whats eastern conference all stars? Just the name of a CD?

 

[Guest]

i personally dont like atmosphere.. but benefit is the classic whiteboi imo

 

[Guest]

lol... I don't really like Benefit ALL that much...he just is so different from everything else I've heard. I also don't like Atmosphere either... I don't know what it is about him, but sometimes I just want to say "Shut the fuck up" when I'm listening to him on my mp3 player. Ha

 

[Irishslappop]

i just bought I wish my brother george was here by del. by far one of my favorite rap ablums of all time.

 

[Mr. Nevermind]

Empty Pockets from new Mexico is pretty decent. Has exhibit on his CD. Good guy, i used to do " business " with him back in the 90's. Lets just say from waht i know of him, his pockets arent that empty. Lots of green









Nevermind

 

[SalParadise]

I'll get in on this, if thats cool with y'all...

About 6 or 7 years ago, I was starting to get disillusioned with music in general when an old college roommate turned on some Atmosphere. Now I know that not everyone is a fan of their's, and thats cool, but Atmosphere, and Slug in particular, is the style of music that I fell in love with. Soon, people like Aesop Rock and Brother Ali found their way into my constant rotation - I'm hooked on Rhymesayers, what can I say? I also listen to a lot of Talib Kweli and Mos Def (not to mention Blackstar!), Eyedea, J5, Grayskul, Handsome Boy Modeling School, FELT, P.O.S., Murs (and Living Legends), and I still rock some Fugees...the list goes on, but I won't bore you anymore. I'm sure all of these names have found their way into this conversation already. I noticed some people baggin' on MySpace finds, but I think I've found an exception to this rule. Some cat named Imagin Able is supposed to be putting out an album this month I hear, produced by Eyedea. I like his style, and I think that if you appreciate any of the people I talked about, you might like it too. Peace.

 

[BabyHughie]

hell yeah Sal I like what you got goin on man.

Slug is largely responsible for making me into the hip hop fan I am today.

 

[BabyHughie]

i personally dont like atmosphere.. but benefit is the classic whiteboi imo

new shit is shit. the old shit is classic. Around the time god loves ugly dropped it seemed like slug ran out of shit to write about. So he started just writing about hoes.

overcast and lucy for eps are two of the best albums around though.

Not to mentions slugs MANY cameos. Oh and all the headshots tapes and sad clown bad dubs.

Slug got down in his hay day.

 

[Guest]

wasup you should all check out

siah and yesha da poed - the visualz ep

one of my favorites

 

[BabyHughie]

some a dat dope ish

some a dat dope ish

www.wefunkradio.com

 

[Holdin']

Yeah new Atmosphere blows. The old shit is mediocre at best I'd say. Too much filler.

 

[BabyHughie]

Yeah new Atmosphere blows. The old shit is mediocre at best I'd say. Too much filler.

see Id say your a fool. Overcast has ZERO filler. Lucy Ford has a few filler tracks. It goes down hill fast after Lucy Ford EPs.

you know what they say tho, one mans trash, another mans treasure.

 

[Holdin']

Yeah bro, I'm not knockin' anyone that likes atmosphere. I can see why people would be down, but I just can't feel it like I do most.

It's been a while since I've actually listened, and my taste has changed a bit since I have. Maybe I'll get some tracks later...

Anything off of Overcast? Tell me some good ones...



Edit: I ain't no fool though

 

[BabyHughie]

Yeah bro, I'm not knockin' anyone that likes atmosphere. I can see why people would be down, but I just can't feel it like I do most.

It's been a while since I've actually listened, and my taste has changed a bit since I have. Maybe I'll get some tracks later...

Anything off of Overcast? Tell me some good ones...



Edit: I ain't no fool though

Well like I said I dig every track on overcast(its the shit that got me on hiphop), but some standouts...

430 AM
1597
Adjust
Sound is Vibration
Multiples
Scapegoat
Ode to the Modern Man
Caved In
The Outernet

On lucy ford EPs my favorites would be

Party for the fight to write
The Women with the Tattooed Hands
It Goes
Guns and Cigarettes

A couple other atmosphere bangaz that aren't on any LPs

Gods Bathroom Floor
Abusing the Rib
Running with Scissors

A couple dope cameos by Slug

Ill be Ok by Aesop Rock
Day Grows Old by Sage Francis
Fallen by Vakill
Forget Me by Eyedea
Orphanage Freestyle

 

[bronxburnout]

Old school still rules

Old school still rules

All I know is that most of the stuff coming out now is not hip-hop. It's just a couple of homothugs trying to use rhyme to make a dollar! Hip-hop is a culture that represents many things(taggin,be-bop,breakin and rhyming cause we couldn't sing), one thing it was never meant to do was glorify the misfortunes of the hood. I've been listing to hip-hop since the late 70's and early 80's back in the day when cool herc used to take out his turn tables and tape deck and hook them up to the lamp post for power and everybody who thought they had rhyming skills would get on the mic. The only way to hear hip-hop then was on tapes. They would rap about our hardship and about helping each others, they would never sell thier shame! The game is to be sold not told, how are you going to claim that you're a big time criminal and then tell everbody your crimes!!! Then when kids hear this they don't realize that most of these HOMOTHUGS are posers and that the real ganster are the one running the record company. KRS-1, RAKIM, CHUCK-D,Kool-G-Rap,AJ, Big Daddy Kane, AZ,Kool Moe Dee, Kurtis Blow just to name a few, these guys had a diffrent path for hip-hop. It's a shame that hip-hop has been raped by the industry, insemenated by commercialisam and has given birth to this new era of wanna be GANGSTER RAPPER/CULTURE.