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DRAKE DISSING JAY-Z?! 👀 This is what happened back in 2014, when Drake went at Jay-Z saying Jay had “too many” art references on his albums. Jay-Z hopped on Soulja Boy’s “We Made It” track and destroyed Drake with a crazy freestyle. Let’s see if Hov will bring the sport back 👀

Nas and AZ taking it back to 1994 and perform the record Life’s a Bitch on jimmy fallon the tonight show 🔥🎶🎶

@thewriterme Add this to my backyard for an in-law suite. Home value ⬆️

Isn’t this just adorable? Great use of a tiny space.

@Spike19621 Costco doesn’t Sell Lab Grown Meat. Stop gaslighting people

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Mia Khalifa spoke out with intense emotion after deadly strikes hit her home country of Lebanon this week, calling the U.S. and Israel terrorist nations.

Now this Lebanese-American pornstar Mia khalifa is crying after seeing Israel bombing lebanon despite the ceasefire. With her crocodile tears she says "My onlyfans tax dollars are funding bombs against my own country Lebanon" 🤡😭

👥 Westside Gunn, Stove God Cooks 📀 Michelle Records 🗓️ April 3rd ‼️ x.com/SteezMedia47/s…

this unreleased Stove God x Westside Gunn

Rick Ross, Big Sean & Kanye West - Sanctified [Extended]

Different reactions of husbands in the labor room during their wife's childbirth 😂😂😂 A Thread

John Blaze · Fat Joe, Nas, Big Pun, Jadakiss, Raekwon · 1998

Dame Dash, Kanye West, Young Chris, Beanie Sigel, Cam’ron & Twista - Champions

Kanye West | Heard ‘Em Say (feat. Adam Levine)

The streets are calling. New Orleans artist Flagboy Giz channels the spirit of Mardi Gras Indian tradition with a powerful performance of ‘We Outside’. Watch the full show: colors.lnk.to/flagboygiz

Prodigy (of Mobb Deep) – “Keep It Thoro” The word “genius” is thrown around a lot these days. As far as hyperbole goes, the word “genius” is most often used by fans to describe artists that are slightly above average. Worse than the misuse of the word “genius” is the *misapplication* of the word “genius”. You see, genius is often infers “complexity”. But the spectrum of genius also includes “simplicity”. And it is here, in this range of genius, that we find Prodigy (of Mobb Deep), one of the greatest rappers in the history of hip hop/rap music. There’s dimensions to Prodigy’s genius. First, there’s his use of the *talk-rhyme* style. Of all of the rhyme styles, talk-rhyme — the rhyme style in which the rapper sounds more like he’s talking than rapping — is the most difficult rhyme style to pull off. Some rhyme styles give you cover. They mask your defaults and inabilities. They wear down the listener’s ear, giving off a mix of blandness cosplaying as rhyme skill. With the speed-rhyme style, where rhymes are delivered deliberately in a speedy (fast) manner, you can hide. With the miracle lyrical rhyme style, where large groups of words are jumbled together, giving the false impression of rhyme skills, you can hide. With the talk-rhyme style, you can’t hide. Talk-rhyme relies on less words. It’s powered more by the voice, and the realness of the life lived behind the voice. Talk-rhyme is also a technical marvel. Of all hip hop/rap’s rhyme styles, it’s the one that exhibits the highest level of breath control. And this is baked into the style. With the talk-rhyme style, you don’t hear the *gulps* of breathing between lines; you don’t hear a rapper catching his breath between transitions. This is one reason why the talk-rhyme style is the epitome of breath control. Prodigy, one of only a handful of talk-rhymers, was a master of the talk-rhyme style. Not just because he made one of the most difficult rhyme styles look easy, but because he was deceptively simple with his rhymes. Much of Prodigy’s genius lied in his poetry and timing: “Ayo, … I break bread… ribs… hundred dollar bills… … Peel on Ducatis… and other four wheels/ write a book full of medicine and generate mils” There’s a deadpan, life-or-death quality to Prodigy’s rhymes. This too was part of his genius… Now, as for the “Keep It Thoro” beat. “Keep It Thoro” is an absolutely menacing audio composite. Aside from Prodigy’s heavy New York slang-laced phrasings and deadpan life-confident delivery, it’s the beatwork of Alchemist that also makes this song so defiantly hard. The core groove is built around a dusty, lounge-act piano sample that jabs the exact same tone — in 1/8ths — for a count of seven times before there’s a change in the phrase: A loose note kicks off moments before the sample loops back to itself. For the bass parts, Alchemist doesn’t go with a conventional bass line. Instead, he uses just three bass sound-stabs to anchor the groove. Two of the three bass-stabs are simply low- and high-pitched versions of the same exact sound stab; the third bass-stab, which Alchemist uses to slide into one of the others, has a slick, boom texture to it. Some beatmakers might not (at first) understand Alchemist’s arrangement of higher tones with lower ones, but the reality is this technique of clashing textures and levels is one of the most fundamental mainstays of the beatmaking tradition. So on “Keep It Thoro,” Alchemist is acutely aware of the fact that it’s the repetitive nature of the sampled piano phrase that actually makes the bass parts sound even more pronounced; which, in turn, gives the overall track a “booming” sonic impression. A genius beat for a genius rhyme…

@WESTSIDEGUNN @Saucony You ever left a tip so big you F*Ck waitress, Who that ninja in that big ass bracelet….

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