Hip-Hop Thread Genre • Page 1131

im not gonna lie i think the beat on like that is horrible

 

and type shit is by far the best song here if you cut out travis scott corny ass

 

His last album went #1 with 222k first week sales. Curious to see what this one does. He’s kinda got the Drake effect where as long as it doesn’t differ too much from his safe space, it can do great without being great.

 

Naw, he holds his own on it and on Cinderella.

Type Shit really shines tho cus of Carti

 

I can’t get behind his whole thing but yeah Carti is amazing on it

 

at first I was confused by deep voice carti but now I love it

 

I honestly think Future has been very consistent for most of his career, I always know what I'm going to get when I listen to his projects and I always get it and enjoy it. He'll never be one of my favorite rappers or anything but he's super fun to listen to, this new one included

Metro production never hurts though, he's the best in the genre by far imo (mainstream trap)

 

I do wonder if this Kendrick verse is gonna spark something or if they'll let it kind of simmer. I doubt Drake wants to directly challenge Kendrick at this point, I could see him just continuing to throw subliminals out. I get the impression Cole was kinda just collateral damage here, Kendrick and Drake have been rumored to have beef for years

Hope this is the start of Kendrick participating in hip-hop more like he used to lol

 

I agree his other recent albums didn’t get much love but they were still good. This one just seems a little more tapped-in to me. And like others said the production is stellar. I also feel like there’s a bit less filler/more consistent vibe on this one.

 

Idc hoe much I like people making fun of Drake, the Kendrick verse is once again unlistenable to me lol I’m sorry

 

Wild take

 

The Eminem-ification continues

 

New Cakes da Killa is pretty great

 

He's like Eminem, he's so good at rapping that regular rapping is increasingly boring to him, so he has to start using annoying voices and cadences to keep it interesting for himself

 

But like Eminem got his mainstream success using funny voices not his regular rapping voice. Whatever that means

 

I'd also have to listen again but I didn't think he used a weird voice/cadance on that "Like That" feature?

 

He’s definitely emoting a lot or whatever you wanna call it

 

he does it reminded me of his nosetalgia verse which is also great I think he employs weird voices much better than Eminem does

 

Also shades of his really be smoking n drinking verse

 

had me tearing up fr on first listen

 

Nothing wrong with weird voices or cadences in rap. I enjoy the vocal experiments. The Eminem comparison mostly doesn’t work bc Eminem’s lyrics suck

 

I didn’t say that. I said I don’t like it when he does it (and provided a theory on why I think he does it).

 

that's fair. I enjoy it, but I can see how it might sound contrived. at the same time, I don't get the impression he's "bored" of rapping.

thinking about it, it's an interesting, complex idea when you measure contrivance vs sincerity with art. I think there's no way of telling what's being "performed" and what's "authentic" to an artist. there are levels of expression and it probably comes down to the audience and whether they can suspend their disbelief and go along with the artist's ride. maybe it goes somewhere strange/foreign but somehow winds up feeling "true" in another way.