Rap About Nothing: Hip Hop Chat Thread

s0lefunk said:
My views on The Love Below are heavily influenced by the utter disappointment I felt at the time listening to it when it dropped. I was not expecting a project with almost zero rapping. Once I got passed that I rocked with Spread, Prototype, She Lives in my Lap, and Vibrate. I wasn't a big fan of Hey Ya and Roses but they are smash singles so add those into the mix. Then maybe there are another 2-3 other 'love it or hate it' type tracks. We talking at best 10 good-great songs out of 21...

I'm not telling anyone to change how they feel about that album or 3K. I'm just saying that was when I learned not to trust dude in the studio by himself :lol:
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It definitely wasn't expected.

I'm not huge on reading. But I love a good story. And that's what The Love Below is to me. A good story told through amazing musical ability.

There is literally only 1 song I may skip and it's Love and War. Everything else is a good song at minimum to an amazing musical accomplishment.

I can't stress how much I love the album.
 
JRaW’d said:
Lets be clear, THEY are the reason that album is the highest selling hiphop album of all time and its not a coincidence it had nothing to do with actual hiphop @ all…
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That's not the main reason why, though I wont act like that wasn't a factor.

It was a double album. That sale for that album counted twice toward albums sold. 3 of the top 5 albums are double albums. One is from a white guy. And the other is another GOAT album.

I'm gonna toss TLB in my GOAT album category.
 
boba85 said:
eh
he had that one beat
where everyone sounded better on it
than him
it was a just blaze beat
that "cmon baby"
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Just co-signed for you, said you had a classic
Now he got no time for you, wrote you off on taxes
 
JRaW’d said:
The whites was ON the love below.
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Is that a negative? Love Below is a funk/R&B album. Be clear those 2 genres are blacker than hip hop. It's easier for white people to duplicate hip hop (especially the popular sound today) than R&B or funk music. Let's be honest black people tend to throw funk and R&B away. Call it outta style or "old music".
 
Magic33 said:
That's a good one, Sai and Papoose

Danger of signing to a bad label, You had Just Blaze production and had appearances on a hot show. Plus the album was actually good.

Papoose got a check and still is relevant almost 20 years later, even though I never really cared for him
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Papoose dropped his debut like 8 years after he was supposed to and it sounded just like it.
 
I had to go back and listen to 56 Nights.

That ain’t even Future beat tape. Wayne just be saying **** :lol:
 
Man you couldn’t tell 17 yr old me that Plies wasn’t that *****. My boys was wasn’t rockin’ with him though, mostly cause one of my boys was from Baton Rogue and had everybody tapped in with Boosie.



“Put me anywhere I’m the realest ***** in the room” :smokin
 
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