Lupe Fiasco and Talib Kweli

GT, problem with Lupe atm is that he doesn't know how to entertain. While his lyrical and creative talents are great. His abilities as an entertainer are horrible. His music videos are low budget and lack anything that would make someone over the age of 7 watch them over and over. Kick push was good. But all the others sucked:p

He's young in his career though. Perhaps he'll come up

Jay-z has some great one liners but his verses don't hold. Immortal Technique is great lyrically but he doesnt paint pictures as well as say Nas and the GZA. My faves are Rae and Ghostface because of their wit and their wordplay. All rappers have different styles, so its hard to really say who is the best lyrically.
But you should all listen to 'Liquid Swords' by the GZA, itll change your life

lol Lupo, he stole half of his lyrics from biggie on that album. It's ok to take the concept of something from someone or to borrow a few lines. But Jay-Z bites everything!

I could imagine if he was like kanye west and sampled songs. But you don't sample a person's lyric book front to back and call yourself the best rapper alive lol

Decimus yo/ iga dis/ iga dat/ my style is phat iga yo!/ yo-yo-yo what you speakin fo'?/ is the politics forum all dried up some mo'?
yo-yo-yo..i gotta go..wit meh igas to da sto'/ if i wuz puffin up some blunt i'd pass it to you you say "no"?
Cool
smoke a Kool
Cool as the wind breaze
in the end D's nutz ain't squirtin in deeeez, cause i'm movin in 3's.
3rd i soo fly jesus might kiss you upon ur brain piece...
and bring peace to your thoughts if u ain't caught in the ignorent
warzone that hav yo igas ackin so ignorent..
and indigent to the present state you refer.
no reefer no Kools? Glad you're not playin the fool- or are you?
how's a person supposed to tell?
when u post stuff "Swell", but what u be sayin's "What the Hell; who hurt you?"
Wasn't m3 yo-yo-y0!!!:D
watch ur grip and your brain slip's the same bits yo igas lick wit insane licks/ and new tricks....?/ ain't nuttin 2 m3.
So i wonder when you speak "Who the fk r u spose 2 B D?
you feel m3?
no?
so what? i'm spose to lay down and die? in that case fk u 2 and here's some igs for ur I's double/ no trouble/ i hate to ack up/ so i suggest as your kind may be u you bring some back up iga.
i mean brain cells afore you talk all that trash/ for someone i know is smart- "yo "Y" u be ack like an azz?"
not necessary/ there's gotta be more to you/ but if you gone stay wit that other ish "iga eye C right through U"
y0
yo-yo-yo....

Whos heard the new Wu, 8 diagrams. Its more sombre, but its growing on me

"The Heart Gently Weeps" is a great track!

Yeah, they're tight.  I grew up in Baltimore, so Philly rap was all over the place.  I actually remember them boys from back in like 98-99

One of the DJ Kayslay: StreetSweeper albums has a fella named Jazzy J, i believe, whom Jay Z bit all his beginnings from before the spotlights lit'em up. Jazz was a hustler in jail whom Hova looked up to. Early on he bit all he could from him. Now this Kayslay album with Jazzy J dis ripped Ho. it contained an extreme amount of Jay Z samples played vs the artists he bit from. Don't get m3 wrong i like Jay's music and business genius, but yes, he took the munching thing too far in chomping entire verses and paying for lines/ masters/ etc, to make a buck. it worked. he milked it. but it is for Nas's originality/ innovation/ and pure soul- mixed with his complex yet simple verses plus subject matter i give him the "still at it king crown" in lyrics. Rakim Allah whom forever changed rap into what it is i must give the "all time legend crown". he is still a driving influence to the art and to artists in terms of raw metaphors, presence, MC'n, and single handed "Microphone Fiend" murder. to this day we "Follow the Leader", dreaming to be "Paid in Full".

today i like Weezy, Papoose, Snoop, and 50, although my youngins tell m3 Fiddy Cent has ghost writers.
WU? dmn. their entire albums are metaphors.

btw anyone 'bout to break a demo? i have a friend with some stuff in space ya'd b hard pressed to vs....Speakin of which...i should make time again for the lab.

and yeah- where are we all at? atm i'm in the USA, NY- Syracuse area. Of stuff posted about m3 that's an Ark of Truth :)

itll com like suffication and devastaion so youll turn me up like ya favorite radio station, my beats will knock down doors so frown not son when i stick yo whores, the black and white ones should be nicknamed s'mores by the time im done wit em so that means ive had my fun wit em/ im about to elope from here once im done sellin dope, my lyrics got yo mom sayin " i cant cope" you at the end of the rope

probably sounds bad, just typed it out comeing right from my head, if you could here the beat with it, it would probably sound better

Rakim is a legend, no doubt about it, one of teh best flows in hip hop. Charizma and Peanut butter wolf i think couldve been the next Eric B & Rakim.

Oh shit... okay gringo, what you know bout some Screw?!  SShiiiiitt....   And in all reality, unless you are a diverse individual, you're not going to fully understand todays hip hop anyway.   There is so much culture that you wont understand unless you've experienced it.  Rich Boy is a prime example of someone people would call "commercial rap", though he raps a lot on political subjects.  From black on black crime, Police brutality, the war in Iraq, to gang violence, he hits the subjects that matter, but with his southern lingo it is difficult for people to really understand what he says, so it's classified as "pop-rap" because of the beats.