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@Ford4D
@GanjaNYC Board Member•Film/Record Producer•Mastering Engineer•Web Designer•Director•1st AD•Art Dir.•Manager @KidHyphen•Sheik/Zelda Main•Oil Painter•OPEN MiC DJ
NYC Katılım Temmuz 2009
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@djkdchip @_Skeeze @Watson3172 36 Chambers, Tical, Dirty Version, Cuban Linx, Liquid Swords, Ironman, Forever was 7 classics in a row.
If you're refusing to count "solo" albums (produced by and with the greater group), then EPMD, Gang Starr, & Mobb Deep each had runs of similar quality levels across 4 albums
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@_Skeeze @Watson3172 Ok, I’ll bite, who do you think had a better 4-album run in the 90’s?
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The Best 4 album run in the decade of the 90s was by Reggie Noble from Brick City.
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@mieowkaa Chrollo is clearly emotionally numbed due to violent childhood trauma (a common theme in Hunter x Hunter).
Look at Kurapika.
Look at Gon in Chapter 1 and how that near death experience at 8 causes him to be excited risking his life & to develop reckless self-destructive habits.
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chrollo gets mischaracterized because people take his villain act at face value. he presents himself as a detached, thrill-seeking thief but his real motives are rooted in meteor city’s harsh ideology, asserting agency through transgression, not arbitrary impulses or greed. +
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@7WdSolja @Chrisjo16893668 @_XAmount2 @HipHopforever99 @Nas What a lot of ppl don't know is that NaS wrote the rhymes for I Gave You Power LONG before he recorded them to a Premo beat.
Ask Lord Digga of The Bluez Brothers (1 More Chance, Everyday Struggle). NaS rapped those bars over his beat, but they lost touch when NaS changed lawyers
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@Chrisjo16893668 @_XAmount2 @HipHopforever99 @Nas 1 song is about the horror a stray bullet can cause. The other is about the life cycle of a gun! Two totally different concepts! One is taking an object and perceiving the destruction! The other is taking an object and giving it a soul a mind thoughts emotions totally different!
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Rakim was around when jay z had that weak flow
De La soul was around when Common sense had that cartoonish flow
Grap was around when mobb deep dropped their first album .
@Nas had to drop Illmatic for his peers to step their game up . All you History revisionists ain’t shit.
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@7WdSolja @_XAmount2 @Chrisjo16893668 @HipHopforever99 @Nas You're right about G Rapp, but you're arguing w/ ppl who don't rap, so they don't get it
NaS gets disproportionately compared to Rakim VS his other influences because of 5%isms, lyrical content, & their similar "storylines" in terms of their massive impacts when each came out.
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@_XAmount2 @Chrisjo16893668 @HipHopforever99 @Nas Oh I definitely Don’t Disagree That Rakim Influenced But If We Talking Multi’s and Rhyme Patterns I’d Say He Leaned More Kool G Than Rakim! But By The Time It Was Written Dropped He Was Absolutely Him! There Isn’t A Better Pinned Or Rapped Album IMO. An Nas Sounded Like NoOne ATP
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EPMD on they 4th hiphop classic in a row released arguably the greatest posse cut of alltime HEADBANGER @TonyDaDome
Strictly 4 My X’ers@Lizzs_Lockeroom
🗣️Roll with the Hit Squad.. down with the headbanger 🔥 Happy Birthday, Parrish Smith #EPMD
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@kingfreeces What my friend always tells me is that HxH doesn't have a pre-set ending like One Piece. It's supposed to be Togashi's personal artistic playground, & it's in his contract they can't make him finish
His plan was always to keep going forever. He'll write an ending when he retires
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this probably was the way togashi turned down everyone asking him to let someone else draw his manga
Even though it’s unlikely for him to complete it at the rate things are going, he just won’t change his mind. I get why morena might be his favourite 😭
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@ividboy @kingfreeces What he was actually traumatized by was his publisher forced him to rush & wrap up YuYu Hakusho early because the massively popular hit anime was catching up w/ him.
If you've ever read it, you can tell almost the exact moment where it happens. All this build up abandoned! Smh
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@kingfreeces Bro was so traumatized by the 1999 anime proposed original ending that he said "never let anyone cook again"
reddit.com/r/HunterXHunte…
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@bibiiking11 We're getting about a volume's worth every year and change. So if the Chinera Ant Arc's narrative structure is any indication, this current arc should wrap up in the next 4-8 years (depending on where he goes with it).
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Making me want to break out my vinyl of "That's How It Is (It's Like That)", which is like the OG version of "It's Like That (My Big Brother") w/ a different chorus, no K-Solo, & extra DOPE verses from Doc.
And anybody saying Doc is overrated can't rap lol. If u get ill u know!!
Thee Boom Bap Hip Hop/Vinyl Historian #🇺🇸ADOS@Watson3172
This app is wild. I’ve seen some crazy takes about Redman..I’ve seen him be called “ overrated “ I have seen a person say when I wanna laugh I listen to doc……well this is the real Redman a super dead nice MC.
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@Ford4D I consider the original a holy grail hiphop collectors item
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@Zayy_doee @Cheamane Go listen to Pusha T then.
He always says Biggie is his favorite rapper.
They just have very different voices.
But in a lot of songs, Push is def doing a Biggie
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@Cheamane I just wish mfs would copy biggie flow more his flow was actually one the best
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2Pac has the most borrowed flow in hip-hop history and it's not close.
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@vem73846 @iamphella @WhiteDontCare23 The conversation had shifted to eras, and I was talking about how Royce & Joe Budden were from the era before Lupe.
A lot changed in those 3-5 years!
We weren't talking about their ages anymore, that was more a jumping off point.
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@Ford4D @iamphella @WhiteDontCare23 And Joe only like 2 years older than Lupe (Joe was born in 1980, Lupe was born in 82)
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@noahsiskaamari @iamphella Absolutely. NaS for sure. About the only person who WASN'T influenced by NaS then was Guru (on purpose).
I'd never heard Em credit Outkast as an inspiration (besides putting Andre 3000 on his list after Redman, Jay-Z, Pac, & Biggie). But I'm not a huge Em fan so I wouldn't know.
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@Ford4D @iamphella Ik but it’s the fact that he credits Nas and Outkast as inspiration ykwim?
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@noahsiskaamari @iamphella Em was rapping (& trying to make it as a rapper) for MAD years.
Infinite is just the relatively recent shit that was good enough to remember (/ independently did OK, a lot of copies circulated & thus were uploaded).
There is some meh stuff from WAY back that sounds super dated.
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@iamphella I feel like Eminem being older than Nas and 3 stacks doesn’t sit right either
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@nf_d00m @iamphella Nah, I doubt it. Lupe got a HUGE push from Atlantic Records. People don't realize it after the fact but his buzz was a combination of organic fans and getting a TON of press and reach to generate word of mouth all over the industry and the Hip Hop community.
Lupe was HUGE in 06!
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@iamphella they are, lupe probably would be bigger if he had waited a bit for the blog era
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@iamphella @WhiteDontCare23 Royce & Budden came from the era right before Lupe tho. They'd been "didn't pop off like he should have" status for YEARS by the time ppl REALLY listened to Lupe.
Royce was known from the GTA 3 soundtrack in 2001 (& collabs w/ early Em)
Pump It Up was 2003, 2 Fast 2 Furious era
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@WhiteDontCare23 Doesn't seem like it but it is. I associate Lupe with like Royce Da 5'9, Budden, Stack Bundles, etc.
But age wise he's in Cole's bracket
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Everyone should have somebody who loves them like Aklo loves Cody <3
(It'd be a much kinder world)
Brotherhood | Aklo@NotAklo
I got up from my setup to hug Cody and told him, “Cody don’t get upset. A lot of people here who want to see you win. Stop it. You’re still going to win.” I didn’t say this as motivation, but just as a matter of fact.
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The G-Funk synth whistle is one of my favourite sounds in hip-hop.
Here's my podium off the top of my head, but there are hundreds of other contenders. What are yours?
🏅 Above The Law, "Black Superman"
🥈 Mad CJ Mac, "Come And Take A Ride"
🥉 Ice Cube, "You Know How We Do It"
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