Hip Hop discussion

[Leif 6,006]

Whoever figures out which song this Kendrick Lamar line is from (before his 2 albums) wins a prize: "It's rude to ask a woman her age but in this day & age it's a necessity; 15 year old girls acting and looking 23."

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

Kendrick Lamar "Feels Good" To Be Named "Hottest MC" By MTV

I know MTV is no longer the same, and a mainstream channel/entity but i found it surprising they acknowledged him. I was pretty sure it was gonna be 2 chainz at number one. And rick ross at 2 but they moved 2 chainz to number 2. (round of applause) and stuck K-Dot at top. He's getting the recognition not only lyrically but also on the mainstream level. Hopefully this shows that people like Joey Bada$$, B.I.G K.R.I.T, etc. etc. that they don;t have to dumb-down their music.

http://www.mtv.com/videos/news/886380/kendrick-lamar-strived-to-get-on-hottest-mcs-list.jhtml#id=1702689

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/news/id.23129/title.kendrick-lamar-feels-good-to-be-named-hottest-mc-by-mtv

[Leif 6,006]

The opening lines of this (The first 4 or so bars) are amongst my fav opening lines of all time for some reason. I just can't put my finger on why exactly.

[TacticalBlues 2,817]

16 years since the death of Biggie.

[Amblève. 4,995]

Weed is becoming increasingly irrelevant in rap, now the likes of Kendrick Lamar (GOAT), J. Cole, Lupe Fiasco & Tyler The creator etc don't smoke.

It's all about Hookah now!

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I don't see anything positive about hookahs either. But that's just my opinion.

[Blue-in-me-Veins 4,067]

Jay Rock. Next best artist out of the Black Hippy group IMO. Hopefully K-Dot can help get him some exposure because his music is just soooooo nice. Loved his album "Take Me Home". Had an argument with my pal the other day and i was tellin him not only is Jay Rock the 2nd best but the next artist to most likely break out. His music is amazing to "bump to", for those teens (including myself I admit) that love those hard-knocking beats but he still has a lyricism to his songs.

[Leif 6,006]

Just met Devlin since he's staying near my house tonight. He looks like he wears lipstick. Heh.

[Leif 6,006]

Enjoy these guys before they blow up. Canadian duo. The freshest shit I've heard in years, bar Kendrick. They're not 'rappers' as such - it's like 1 rapper & 1 singer I believe; and it's electronic-hip-pop I guess you could call it. But no doubt they'll be big, even if it's just as 1-hit wonders.

http://theairplaneboys.com/

[Leif 6,006]

Cool fact for the day: I once split a weed brownie with Damian Marley at an MF DOOM concert in Glasgow. Cool beans.

[Leif 6,006]

He's so relaxing.

[Leif 6,006]

EXCLUSIVEEEE!!!!! Should be on all the hip-hop blogs soon:

Edit: All gone. heh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Pyqt3_pQH_0

[bababoom 4,478]

If Lowkey was American he would be waaaay more famous, it's a shame, such a great rapper.

[Leif 6,006]

https://soundcloud.com/itzleif/unstoppable-alternate-feat-so

Started working on this when I was 15 (almost 3 years ago now.) I got the following artists below to feature on the track. I decided to scrap the whole thing though due to despising the chorus after a while and the feature on the first verse being a complete and utter cock. Only now these few years later have I decided to return to it and completely remodel it:

The guy on the chorus (who also does this chorus for some big UK artists):

The feature on the 1st verse:

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https://soundcloud.com/itzleif/unstoppable-original-unmixed

And this is the ORIGINAL version which is unmixed, as you can tell, and has a chorus which isn't even really audible! I actually prefer this version though. I was going for something along the lines of Chipmunk - Beast with this track, and this guy captured it better. (I'm looking to re-do this chorus with a brand new singer and mix it properly. If you know any singers, hit me up!!!) This is some of his singing below:

YES, THIS IS WHAT YOUNG BUCK WAS GOING TO FEATURE ON AFTER LEAVING G-UNIT. HEH.

[Term-X 7,891]

I'd imagine a lot of rappers are going to be coming back to Timbaland, after his masterful production on Justin's 20/20 experience..

[The Skipper 20,609]

How good is Jay Z's remix to BDKMV though? Wow!