Frownland

In the interest of preventing JWB from being an internet forum victim

I'm going with Slick Rick on this one. I like the funkiness of Too Short's beat more than Slick's for the most part, but his flow and lyricism doesn't hold a flamethrower to Rick's.

Rick - 2
Short - 0

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DwnWthVwls

He doesn't like clever wordplay or anything, I don't think he's liked a single rec I threw at him. Picky as fuck. He just wants to hear about shit he's never been through and can't relate with.

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John Wilkes Booth

**** are you talking about vowels?

DwnWthVwls

How picky you are about hiphop. Meant to post this in the other thread where you and Frown were arguing or whatever. Whoops.

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John Wilkes Booth

i don't think i'm picky... more like i'm not obsessed with the same internet based hip hop subcultures that you are

i like most hip hop from 90 or so onwards... in fact i dare say i like more hip hop than anyone else on this forum

DwnWthVwls

I listen to everything from 80s to present. I rec you "White Lines" and you say, "eh, it's okay, I can appreciate it, but not something I'd really listen to on my own". I rec you La the Darkman, "it's boring, can you tell me the good songs?"... I get it if you don't like my underground whiteboy rap and prefer more traditional golden era stuff, but if you don't go beyond mainstream hippop there isn't much modern music that captures the essence of (imo) quality lyrics, diverse flows, and interesting beats from that time. I love the classics but I wanna hear new things too.

Also, there's no way you listen to a wider variety hiphop than I do.

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Frownland

I listen to so much hip hop that half of it isn't even considered hip hop.

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John Wilkes Booth

i didn't dislike la the darkman... i just said it was underwhelming

keep in mind this is an album that you told me was up there with cuban linx/liquid swords/etc

but yea you like more old school **** and more nerdcore rap than i do. i like 90's rap and some late 80's stuff but i'm not really into that ancient sounding b boy ****

but you can't appreciate a good majority of mainstream rap from 2000 onward, and you completely ignore/dismiss all trap oriented rap music

so yea i say i listen to at least as wide a variety as you... except the **** i like is better

DwnWthVwls

idk maybe I just love it so much cause of nostalgia. I had just about everyone wu, wu affiliate, and solo album prior to ~02, and that is easily in my top 5. As far as the other point, the amount of variety (sylistically/subject material) covered in my "nerdcore" is vastly greater than anything from the last 10-15 years and trap music. That shit is all the same with different voices. I've tried getting into it I just don't see what there is to appreciate. I've never once said I don't like the production, it's just the content that's awful. I've even said I like a lot of that stuff given the right scenario (party/club), but I refuse to give most of them credit as good writers and lyricists.

I'm down for suggestions if you think my latter point is ignorant.

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Micco

I'm more Hip-Hop than anyone here! I run an Instagram page called @HipHopLand and I have my own logo! Only I listen to the real Hip-Hop and not that Hip-Pop! Lil' Wayne is wack and Tupac is for life!!

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