Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

[ahat]

New Spesh been out





YOU WAS LOOKIN FOR A PLUG, MY PLUG WAS LOOKIN FOR ME

Spesh a ****in villain b

 

[$tacy]

Jewmane my favorite sidekick of all time

 

[Peep Game]

Doe boy really paved his own lil way. Thug on his old Gucci **** and getting his guys in position. Gotit and slimelife not even signed to him but rep YSL hard like dudes used to do bricksquad back then. Everybody ain’t meant to be the boss man tho, look at jeezy.

Game and Jeezy are the worst A&R dudes around. Jeezy lucked into YG at least.

 

[2163O1baller90]

doe boy getting features from future and meek now so well what he does ..but i feel like he should be alot bigger than what he is right now..he can easily start his own label and put on artists from Cleveland/ Ohio in general..scooter and casino already **** with hella people in Cleveland..then on top of that he can easily collab with people like mgk and get his fan base as well

 

[str8drop]

This is why someone needs to do some type of documentary or acknowledgement of all the influences of this current wave before this **** inevitably switches

start from wayne, go to future, keef, thug, key! (a moment like this where people really know how much he influenced *****s would change his career), gleesh, etc.

i aint know *****s ****ed with reeselaflare tho this was my **** in HS. smh. 130k views 6 years later i wonder why he never blew

Reese Laflare and Key! are actually both on that new Dreamville compilation and Fader just did a lil mini doc on Key’s influence so the timing of this convo is funny



What happens with a lot of these real underground influencer type dudes tho is that they’re artists, but not really entertainers. Their brand is their brand and that’s it basically. They’re not really reaching for mainstream love, antics etc. Some of these _’s like Keef are straight up introverts when they not around they _’s and just seemingly don’t really give a **** about being famous at all as long as they can still eat lol

So you get this situation where a lot of these dudes fans are just other rappers and industry ppl basically Your favorite rappers rapper. Everybody will know about them except the fans cause rappers don’t need antics or marketing to find you and dont care if you got 10 views or 10 million views, they just know good music and recognize talent.

With that said, some of these _’s would prolly prefer you NOT get bigger because then they can just borrow a lil swag here and there unnoticed, so they just support you behind the scenes It’s interesting to get around artists and see what THEY listening to. A lot of songwriters go through something similar

Edit:

As far as Reese, he not really charismatic/marketable on a wide scale, he’s a important player tho. Him and Key! were kinda the bridge between the trap _’s and the hipsters cause they moved around in both worlds. That’s how that template was created. Key nem had Carti tryna run in houses during the week and performing at hipster bars on the weekends

Reese brought Uzi into the scene when he came to ATL from Philly in late 2013 and basically let him run with some swag took him around introduced him etc , they were both messing with Cannon at the time. That’s when Uzi picked up “his” signature Yeah flow (aka the Key! Flow)

Thats a big part of how Uzi and Carti became the "Elite" of the new gen tho, they didn't have to wait around and discover all this **** off IG and SoundCloud. They got a lot of the swag early, in real time, directly from the source and just took it to the next level/blended it with some other stuff

 

[harlemtothebronx]

Spesh dropping something tomorrow?

 

[str8drop]

doe boy getting features from future and meek now so well what he does ..but i feel like he should be alot bigger than what he is right now..he can easily start his own label and put on artists from Cleveland/ Ohio in general..scooter and casino already **** with hella people in Cleveland..then on top of that he can easily collab with people like mgk and get his fan base as well

Man that Ohio to ATL pipeline been running for a cool lil min

 

[6pac]

Reese Laflare and Key! are actually both on that new Dreamville compilation and Fader just did a lil mini doc on Key’s influence so the timing of this convo is funny



What happens with a lot of these real underground influencer type dudes tho is that they’re artists, but not really entertainers. Their brand is their brand and that’s it basically. They’re not really reaching for mainstream love, antics etc. Some of these _’s like Keef are straight up introverts when they not around they _’s and just seemingly don’t really give a **** about being famous at all as long as they can still eat lol

So you get this situation where a lot of these dudes fans are just other rappers and industry ppl basically Your favorite rappers rapper. Everybody will know about them except the fans cause rappers don’t need antics or marketing to find you and dont care if you got 10 views or 10 million views, they just know good music and recognize talent.

With that said, some of these _’s would prolly prefer you NOT get bigger because then they can just borrow a lil swag here and there unnoticed, so they just support you behind the scenes It’s interesting to get around artists and see what THEY listening to. A lot of songwriters go through something similar

Edit:

As far as Reese, he not really charismatic/marketable on a wide scale, he’s a important player tho. Him and Key! were kinda the bridge between the trap _’s and the hipsters cause they moved around in both worlds. That’s how that template was created. Key nem had Carti tryna run in houses during the week and performing at hipster bars on the weekends

Reese brought Uzi into the scene when he came to ATL from Philly in late 2013 and basically let him run with some swag took him around introduced him etc , they were both messing with Cannon at the time. That’s when Uzi picked up “his” signature Yeah flow (aka the Key! Flow)

Thats a big part of how Uzi and Carti became the "Elite" of the new gen tho, they didn't have to wait around and discover all this **** off IG and SoundCloud. They got a lot of the swag early, in real time, directly from the source and just took it to the next level/blended it with some other stuff

damn.

and see people barely even know the music influence so let alone all that. i remember thinking this was random af.



and that **** about rappers being all your fans gotta be the craziest dynamic ever. especially if its someone like drake lol who could subconsciously just be putting **** from music hes been listening to in his music and make a worldwide hit.

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Kinda feel like this would've been Nip if he was still here.

 

[frshstunna]

Game and Jeezy are the worst A&R dudes around. Jeezy lucked into YG at least.

Jeezy was plugged in with the Detroit cats and still couldnt do anything wit em ...They went off, did their own thing and got a nice lil lane now

 

[6pac]

Hov probably woulda had both them ******.

If you think about the fact that Roc (Jay?) coulda had Drake, Ye and Wayne all signed? Under separate situations, "empires"? He coulda had the rap Yankees. Then that probably means people like Nicki, Sean, Tyga, etc.

Wonder if he tryna do that now.

 

[debso]

hov needs to hurry up and sign benny.

 

[2163O1baller90]

rasheeda is sexy as hell to me

 

[$tacy]

Jeezy was plugged in with the Detroit cats and still couldnt do anything wit em ...They went off, did their own thing and got a nice lil lane now

Heard dude don’t be paying ******

 

[HankHill]

Carti started off as a Keef clone though.

 

[wavycrocket]

this is huge..im calling it now dreamchasers is about to be the hottest label in the game

meek needs to tap into the talent in baltimore before the city blows up mainstream

Wrong time for Skola to get booked . Meek already hip to the scene here.

And Meek is the new Gucci when it comes to “ear” for what’s really POPPING.

He gon be in tune. This is major.

 

[sdja619]

We getting that super-duper flow?
Big Sean comin thru with bars

 

[HankHill]

How did I miss lil baby paying Gunna to write his raps?

 

[kingfoamnyc]

 

[geno90221]

F Keffe D!

 

[Ricky D]

Of all the new cats out, I'm really ****in with Yella Beezy

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Man's just admitted to killing Pac

 

[SC kid]

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[6pac]

Kendrick really got a Quentin out here





Just imagine you heard this as a demo for DAMN

 

[kingfoamnyc]

Keef D a slimy bastard 100%. You could just tell by his body language and that egregious smirk he got. Straight 1090 type ***** for real