Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pools
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it is dead man it will be back once all the wannna bes are gone ganster rap will be back ...i hope
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Check out Ab-Soul, Danny Brown, Lupe Fiasco, Kendrick Lamar, and others. Lyricism is still around, it's just being overshadowed by mainstream "trap" and dirty south rap. =/
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meh, some good stuff is out there. J. Cole for example. we got to wait to see Em's new album before we judge his place. Slaughterhouse is good too. Kanye West too. DMX is gonna be dropping some new stuff. it goes on
Edit: plus, we got Hopsin and Tech nine
i like all those you mentioned cept ab-soul... not that hes not nice on the mic its just hes always so disapointed in you you know? like you let him down right before he wrote the record...
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Kendrick, Nas, and a few others I cant think of at the moment are still holding it down. Groups like YMCMB and MMG are just pissing me off. I miss the days where rappers were independent and killing the media with sick lyrics. Nowadays everyones in groups and have writers. Im not saying they lack talent, but I just think they should just shine on there own.
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if you gonna just live in the past like that, dickriding them, its no wonder you think rap sucksWTF dude? **** that shit, 2Pac and Biggie all day son
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Ab-soul's life has been rough dude lol. Listen to Book of Soul and you'll pretty much understand why he's 'so disappointed' lol.
Nah, it's just mainly that's what they grew up with and what prolly got them into music. They know more about that music then the current music out and therefore feel like they can relate to it. Plus, they're probably around the same age as those artists so the things they were talking about probably was the same things they went through back then, I dunno though.
Nah, it's just hip-hop is always evolving and changing, whether for the better or worse it yet to be seen. Like back in 2004-2006, the Hip-hop game was revolving around what they call Snap Muzik. Ya kno, D4L, Dem Franchise Boyz, Soulja Boy, etc. All the Dancing music and whatnot. Now, we're practically living in the so-called Swag Era of music, where lyrics are moreso based on people swag, money, and other materialistic things like that. And going the independent route is getting harder because now people always want a team to back them and easier promotion, marketing etc (#TeamBreezy, #TeamMinaj, #MMG, all that other shit).
Btw, K.Dot is part of Black Hippy with Ab-soul, ScHoolboy Q, and Jay Rock.