(OT) Who's your favorite Gangsta Rapper

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 4:57 pm

Adonis, if you had been on the east coast in the late 90's you would have felt it. There was a crazy vibe. You could hear some of the underground stuff actually bubble up to the mainstream and catch radio airplay. I actually heard J-live's "braggin writes" on hot 97. and there was so much stuff coming out that was really really sick. It's still out there, i'm sure, but the energy isn't as intense. And as much as i like the production on current mainstream stuff, i have to disagree with you on the flow. I really think that a lot of these guys who get to use the hottest beats ever made can't fucking rap at all. And the thing is no one really cares anyway.

but whatever.

And just for the record, Meth is terrible in comparison to ghost or rae, i mean, he's funny, but his flow is not really all that.

.lm.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 6:36 pm

I was in as much touch as I could've been (out here on the west coast) with East Coast hip hop in the early 90's - mid 90's

but admittedly I grew up on west coast rap - DJ Quick, E-40, Too-Short, Tha Alkoholics, Del (I never liked him though) and the Hieroglyphics's (who I did like) I used to love the pharcyde etc etc

but when snoop dropped jaws dropped - he was gangster smooth...deep cover soundtrack was it?

all

good stuff

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:17 pm

i hear ya man.

It was hard to be in touch with the west coast out here unless it was snoop or pac.

but, yeah, skater types knew hiroglyphics and del and pharcyde, they had x-over appeal for sure. And i liked those records. Really like tha liks, mostly because of sick sick sick madlib production. and i'm a huge e-40 fan. love that cat. But that was unusual out here, hardly anybody listened to e-40 on the east. shit that's still true.

anyways, all good stuff.

.lm.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:32 pm

but then around 1992 mayre three I got way into Guru, Group Home, Jeru, Redman, The Beatnuts, Common Sense, Common and that one guy who used to kick it with him Redman <--> grrr I can't remember (not method man but he was in Redmans crew)

Remember Jazzmatazz - we actually put that on at dinner parties

lets not forget some of the original east pimps EPMD <-- that shit was dope

how did we hear about music back in the day without the internet? curious

oh yeah, MTV when they actually showed videos

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:33 pm

leisuremuffin wrote:but, yeah, skater types knew hiroglyphics and del and pharcyde, they had x-over appeal for sure. And i liked those records. Really like tha liks, mostly because of sick sick sick madlib production. and i'm a huge e-40 fan. love that cat. But that was unusual out here, hardly anybody listened to e-40 on the east. shit that's still true.

don't forget Freestyle Fellowship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6zH6uMyU9c

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:33 pm

eric sermon of epmd?

keith murray?

was there someone else in def squad?

and how did we hear about music before the internet? remember record stores? Yeah. those were good. and college radio. and talking to people. I was both a record store clerk and a college radio dj (although i wasn't in college, imma drop out, yo) so you can guess what kind of music dork i am.

.lm.

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 7:35 pm

KEITH MURRAY!!! <-- I was a big fan of him

ThrowAway · Post by **ThrowAway** » Tue Jan 15, 2008 11:34 pm

mdk wrote:[
termanalogy can rap. jeezy cant.

can you explain that?

I told 'em straight drop this and ziplock that
Right on my waistline is where I kept that strap (yeeeeah)
I remember nights I didn't remember nights (nights)
I damn near went crazy, had to get it right (that's right)
Now I'm ya favorite rapper's favorite rapper (ay)
Now I'm ya favorite trapper's favorite trapper (ha ha)
The absolute truth, yeah I'm no joke
Who me, I emerge from the crack smoked (yeah)
In the hearts of those who grind with O's (O's)
They feel my pain, they at my shows (jeah)
That's why I got this glass pot and this triple beam (what)
I tell 'em Money Talks like Charlie Sheen (ay)

My brains pulse through my veins, man I can't understand it
Infatuation with the birds, I watch Animal Planet (ha ha)
My life's a motion picture in Dolby Digital (ay)
Tree raiser and the scale it was digital
Calculate my every step, I'm a mathematician
Make them pigeons disappear, I'm a damn magician (yeeeeeah)
A .40 cal, rubberbands, and a shoebox (jeah)
Run through a hundred grand watching Matlock (ay)
Got it by the truckload, like the bread people (jeah)
I got a Sixth Sense, I stack dead people (that's right)
I'm talking Grants and Jacksons
Swear it took a whole hour just to count the Jacksons (ay)

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Wed Jan 16, 2008 1:05 am

my favorite Jeezy verse right now

I'm from...da hood, da slums
There's money out here, we just tryin to get some
Cool like Dre
nigga
A like K
When ya talk about me you better watch what ya say
Don't ever keep dem thangs where ya lay
Cuz dem pussy ass niggas show da folks where ya stay
Ya thought he was ya dawg, said he was a G
Sounds like anotha co defendant to me
Niggas move sloppy and I really don't like it
Fuck around and get everybody indited
Saw dis shit commin, you woulda thought I was a psychic
Fuck around go dead broke tryin to fight it

from Birdmans 100 million

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:11 pm

B.G. of the original Hot Boys on Cash Money is blowing up right now as far as gangsta rappers are concerned

check out his new video

http://youtube.com/watch?v=GfLDPeXeMPg

apfEID · Post by **apfEID** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 10:25 pm

ain't read the thread but just want to chime in and say THE GETO BOYS!

Totally ridiculous, offensive and angry as hell.

hangar17 · Post by **hangar17** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:16 am

i like company flow

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:18 am

Just updated my myspace page

click the skull thing below

I put that new B.G. "for a minute" video up there...

autodidactic · Post by **autodidactic** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 1:25 am

djadonis206 wrote:right now Rick Ross and Birdman are doing it for me

The singles they have out are weak compared to the full length cd's

Plies blew it and Lil Boosie is aight - the first track on his album is pretty slammin

While Jeezy's album is old (so is ricks ross's who's got a new one coming out this feb) that album is pretty off the hook

"....Jeezy like ta drank / jeezy like ta smoke / Jeezy like to mix his arm and hammer wit his coke"

I've been blessed to come up off some of gangsta raps best so I'm sprung...Im moving to Dade county

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Who's the best gangsta rapper?......

Why Celine Dion of course

http://youtube.com/watch?v=rX1HMIiMvTc

STRATEGY_510 · Post by **STRATEGY_510** » Wed Jan 30, 2008 3:55 am

leisuremuffin wrote:eric sermon of epmd?

keith murray?

was there someone else in def squad?

.lm.

K-Solo and Das EFX

STRATEGY

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