Hip Hop/Rap Fanatics Unite!

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picked up some CD's at yard sales today...


2Pac - Tupac Ressurection
50 Cent - The Massacre
Busta Rhymes - When Disaster Strikes
Cypress Hill - Skull & Bones
Fabolous - Real Talk
G-Unit - Beg For Mercy
Paperboy - The Nine Yards (ha!)

[MC Rex Rexler]

Man... how did I forget how good Missy Elliott is? She had some of the best videos ever too. Maybe even better than Busta's.

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so I'm all about this Iggy Azalea album. Good stuff.

[smoogyvonsmoogy]

I bet if you go up to anybody into rap and asked them who the best of all time is, you'd get the typical answers: 2Pac, Biggie, Wu-Tang, Public Enemy, Kendrick, and others. But, in the end, there can only be one, and the all-time king of the rap game is Viper, with his seminal 2008 album You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack. This masterpiece features such hits as 'I'm that S-West Blood', 'Parlayin', 'I Ball for Gunshots', 'I'm Rich Already 4 Life (Too Late to Hate)', 'That Baller Out Your Best Side,' and, of course, the title track 'You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack'. Bow down before your new rap god.

[flex wood]

Just got off the phone with my lawyer, the title of that album is now going to be on my tombstone and a DNR will go into effect if I say the phrase in a hospital.

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anyone doubting Iggy Azalea needs to check this track:



seriously surprised me, but one of my favorite albums this year.

[Razzmatazz]

anyone doubting Iggy Azalea needs to check this track:



seriously surprised me, but one of my favorite albums this year.

I don't think many are doubting Iggy's ability to spit bars, but I just can't get past the put-on accent. As a Brit, hearing her say "I'm the realest" in "Fancy" makes me cringe having seen countless emcees rightfully savaged for trying to sound American. It also pushes the message (even more so) that if you don't sound American, you're not going to sell records to the insular American audience. Which as a non-American, spits in the face of all the dope English/Australian/New Zealand hip hop artists.

[TSTR]

I bet if you go up to anybody into rap and asked them who the best of all time is, you'd get the typical answers: 2Pac, Biggie, Wu-Tang, Public Enemy, Kendrick, and others. But, in the end, there can only be one, and the all-time king of the rap game is Viper, with his seminal 2008 album You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack. This masterpiece features such hits as 'I'm that S-West Blood', 'Parlayin', 'I Ball for Gunshots', 'I'm Rich Already 4 Life (Too Late to Hate)', 'That Baller Out Your Best Side,' and, of course, the title track 'You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack'. Bow down before your new rap god.

This is the best album I have ever heard.

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anyone doubting Iggy Azalea needs to check this track:



seriously surprised me, but one of my favorite albums this year.

I don't think many are doubting Iggy's ability to spit bars, but I just can't get past the put-on accent. As a Brit, hearing her say "I'm the realest" in "Fancy" makes me cringe having seen countless emcees rightfully savaged for trying to sound American. It also pushes the message (even more so) that if you don't sound American, you're not going to sell records to the insular American audience. Which as a non-American, spits in the face of all the dope English/Australian/New Zealand hip hop artists.

really, it bothers you? I don't know. I guess in my head it sounds like "I listen to a lot of Southern hip hop, so this is how it sounds." Almost homage. Like how Billy Joe Armstrong takes on an accent when he sings. I imagine growing up on Sex Pistols and Stiff Little Fingers does that to a kid writing punk songs.

Maybe you're overthinking it or maybe I'm underthinking it. Either way, I really do love the album.