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@Intilleque @darth_wager @OVODocket @editspamsz Right. I spoke quickly but the “you didn’t get a coin” line was false. As serch says, Nas did get paid.

@RyanFanselow @darth_wager @OVODocket @editspamsz Jay Z did pay Serchlite publishing. You guys just come on here and talk nonsense. MC Serch literally confirmed that a few years ago. Serch just passed the money to Nas because they had a deal, but Jay most certainly dealt with Serchlite.

“did cole foul idk why you still pretending” has to be the most random bar in the beef 😭

@OVODocket @editspamsz Finally it’s just well known that battle rappers make stuff up. It’s the whole joke of this thehardtimes.net/culture/battle…

@OVODocket @editspamsz I also think the “No Vaseline” line is pretty similar to the “A-Minor line” (no surprise, Cube was a huge influence in Kendrick). They’re sex accusations that hit because they are funny. Not because they are true.

@darth_wager @OVODocket @editspamsz Pac almost certainly didn’t actually sleep with Faith. Jay didn’t actually pay Serchlite publishing. Battle rappers are famous for making stuff up. It’s the whole joke of this piece thehardtimes.net/culture/battle…

@RyanFanselow @OVODocket @editspamsz That's the best example you have So what did Pac lie about in Hit Em Up Hov in Takeover Nas in Ether Also grammatically lie =/= exaggerating, embellish, hyperbolic. Thanks for playing.

@OVODocket @editspamsz Do you guys even listen to rap? Hyperbole is a central part of the art. Like no one really thought Jerry Heller and Eazy-E were having lubrication-free sex when Cube said it on “No Vaseline”

@editspamsz Everyone should’ve known Kendrick Lamar was a pathological liar making up nonsense when he said “since 2009, I had this b-tch jumpin”. Which 2009? Because it’s damn sure not the 2009 So Far Gone came out.

@GlydeW15 @Drect A thousand times this. People forget how good Blazing Arrow was

@Drect It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back Paid in Full Straight Outta Compton The Low End Theory Buhloon Mindstate Blazing Arrow Stress: The Extinction Agenda Things Fall Apart

Is it fair to call these the Consensus Top 10 Rap Albums? Illmatic Life After Death All Eyez on Me Reasonable Doubt Get Rich or Die Tryin’ Chronic 2001 Aquemini 36 Chambers My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy Marshall Mathers LP What’s missing?

@TonyDaDome Undying love is so underrated. The way he weaves visual details in the story (the slowing fan). It blew my mind in 1998

A few NAS stories: Part 1 I-I Gave You Power 2-Shootouts 3-Suspect 4-Small World 5-Undying Love 6-Fetus 7-Doo Rags 8-One Love 9-Rewind 10-Blaze A 50 11-2nd Childhood 12-Get Down 13-Sekou Story 14-Poppa Was a Playa 15-Based On True Events P.1 16- Blue Benz P. 2 coming 👑🔥👊🏽

@TPCarney I also find the view you gesture at here: mid-decade gerrymanders are bad but post-census gerrymanders are fine incoherent. Why not take one consistent attitude toward all gerrymanders?

1) My interlocutors are conflating gerrymandering with mid-decade redistricting. 2) I have repeatedly and publicly criticized Republicans for both gerrymandering and for mid-decade redistricting. 3) I am curious if any of my critics, all of whom support Dems' mid-decade gerrymander in Virginia and California, ever criticized Dem gerrymanders. 4) It's not surprising that liberals would have more faith in a *National Gerrymandering Ban* than conservatives would. They have more faith in federal laws to do what they claim to do. That's why they're libs.

@TPCarney I think this is the standard view among dems: gerrymandering should be banned but if it’s legal, then Democrats would be fools to disarm unilaterally.

@NilesGApol This is a good way to think about general elections but blue state primary voters are a special breed that follows politics closely.

This whole “Schumer is scared of a primary from AOC” is ridiculous. Not a single voter in this country is gonna remember 2025 in 2028

@YourOldDroog Q-tip

Which producer do you wanna see me lock in with

@mattyglesias Always love a good material conditional joke

@TonyDaDome No. The beats are great but very of their time. 50 can write a hook but some of those verses are embarrassing. It’s repetitive. I wish they’d do a semi-instrumental version with just the chorus vocals.

Sales & impact aside: Is GRODT a Top 20 Greatest Rap Album of All Time to you? I’m only talking about THE MUSIC. 🎤🎼💿👑

@TonyDaDome Boldy James has already put out 8 albums this year and we're only halfway done. I think almost anyone who has listened to all 8 would agree with me on this

@TonyDaDome I'd never say a person who puts out 1 album/year is releasing too much music but some MCs putting out multiple projects a year should picking the 2 or 3 best off each project and making that their album

In Hip Hop we say someone released TOO MUCH music? I’ve never heard that in other genres. I don’t care if an MC releases an album every year. That’s his damn job.

@100YearsAgoLive So you’re saying that failing to punish people who partake in a coup can end badly

Hitler was sentenced to a very lenient five years in prison for leading a 1923 coup attempt. He served around 10 months. He made his whole prison term something of a publicity stunt aimed at gaining sympathy for his Nazi Party.

Political agitator Adolf Hitler publishes his autobiography, Mein Kampf, which he wrote in prison last year.

@scottlincicome There must be higher travel and equipment costs. Do the guests pay their own travel expenses?

See:

Mind-blowing figures, especially when you consider that the hands-down best interview/talk show going right now costs a mere $216.01 per episode to make.

@DJRTistic I also think Lyrics Born “I changed my mind” deserves mention as a happy break up song

What’s the happiest break up song? The Whispers “And the beat goes on?” Usher “You don’t have to call?” Maze “Before I let go?”