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posted Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:39:46 PM just curious
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Dan Fielding
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posted Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:43:33 PM group-Fat Boys, got me into wrap, also met them in 1989 artist-Masta Ace, iono I just dig his shit nohomo
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avenue_monk
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:25:57 AM de la soul. consistently doing it their way since 87.
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all caps
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:44:42 AM Co-Sign Feta
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Texas_Underground1
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:50:47 AM group.cunninlynguists cause they're dope as fuck..and they're consistent and their shit never gets old to me.
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BackToTheOldSchool
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:56:29 AM puts
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clockworx
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 1:18:37 AM Favorite Group of all time - Wu-Tang
Favorite Group currently - Doppelgangaz
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Vasopressin
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:36:53 AM the doppelgangaz is pretty dope.
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ThE_RiZZA
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:48:29 AM deep puddle dynamics used to be my favorite rap group..they were so nuts at that time in my life. they have a very strange album haha.
probably gonna go with Pete Rock and CL Smooth. they are the best. CL has the best lyrics and flow
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putitonbigl
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 3:45:17 AM Wu-tang no question for group. Their style is so fresh, so much talent rhyming on the dopest grimey beats. Hard to pick 1 mc, there's probably 10 mcs who could be that on any given day. Hard to go past nas even though I pretty much never listen to him anymore.
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llou
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:31:40 AM Heltah skeltah
Reks
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Daedric
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:32:15 AM Kool G Rap rhymestyle is one of the most influential MC like Eminem Big Pun Big L Chino XL Canibus Jay Z Pharoahe Monch ...
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Kool Kenneth
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 10:37:50 AM
a redder shade of neck on a whiter shade of pale
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la coka nyc
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 11:22:46 AM Mos def is prob my all around fav MC.
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P8NTBALL
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:24:41 PM So incredibly hard to pinpoint one artist or group...
Wu-Tang: Changed the game, 9 unique MCs, made me think about musical composition/sampling differently
or
People Under The Stairs: Producer MCs lend to their own cohesiveness, relaxing music I can listen to intently or have in the background, Thes One & Double K embody the old school persona of hip-hop (HAVING FUN!)
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POP KILL
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:34:29 PM Ultramagnetic MC's..
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Jacked
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:48:51 PM Ghostface...the best emcee from the greatest group of all time, one of the most unique, great lyricists, so much emotion, great story teller, longevity and consistency, best ear for beats
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Maffmatics (Admin)
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 1:22:17 PM Ice T or Tim Dog
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celestial clockwork
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:15:26 PM Wu-Tang - grew up listening to them, sounds stupid but they shaped my views on life in certain ways and made me the man i am today. Well they at least got me in to hiphop in general which certainly shaped me (no homo)
Nas - Greatest emcee ever
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llou
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 2:22:27 PM Okay, favourite current emcee is Reks.
Favourite of all time...that's tough, prodigy in his prime probably. Dude was dope.
Heltah skeltah are my favourite group, but boot camp as a group of individuals were doper, for me, than wu tang.
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hh
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 4:07:07 PM Project Blowed/Heavyweights/Good Life or whatever you want to call them. Because they are the most progressive and talented pure artists I've ever heard in hiphop. They were made out of competition and performance in a situation where you had to be dope and original or you just didn't make it. Kinda like Trojan warriors, you prove yourself or you die. They created a community designed to breed the very best artists possible and ONLY those artists get to move on to record deals or recording careers AFTER they have proven themselves in front of the top peers and fans in the area. Their format and styles have influenced countless amounts of hiphop artists around the world and they played a big part in the reemergence of creativity and independence in hiphop everywhere, including NY.
Besides them, I'd say my favorites are Public Enemy, Ruthless Records Posse, Scarface and KRS-One for their quality, originality and consistency.
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korleone
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 5:23:38 PM group: Wu-Tang... style, lyrics, anything you want you got it from this group... main stream, complexity, word play, mafioso, grimey, WHATEVER
solo current: Lupe... dude is just SICK! man... his entendres are unparalleled, word play is krazy... content, DOPE... militant/gritty while still remaining main stream enough to be recognized and still have a message
solo all time: NAS... awl man... where to begin... simply put, the best to ever do it. Albums, longevity, song concepts, rhyme scheme, patterns, lyrics, content, word play, grit... *takes breathe* dude just can't be matched over a career's span. you couldn't plan a better rap career than this for an MC!
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Ali_HHA
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 6:56:15 PM Wu Tang Killa Beez , they realy have a sick rhyme on their own classic shits ... but i like many hiphop groups like A Tribe Called Quest & in underground also like madvillian , atmosphere , JMT & etc .
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CHEEN-GOAN
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:30:28 PM group nwa.. best rap group of all time.. not atcq and wu..anyways as far as fav artist,..i'm not sure
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hh
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:53:36 PM I'd agree w/ CHEEN-GOAN on that...mentioned them in my post too.
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CHEEN-GOAN
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 8:53:34 PM i guess i should break down why nwa is the best group all time 4 those that need more time to learn before they start to hate nwa-dre, ren, ice cube , eazy e, dj yella nwa has 2 classics solo lps, dre has 2 classics (kronik and 2001)eazy has 1 classic n 1 near classic(eazy doez it,and lp where he disses dre)ice cube has 2 to 3 classics(AMERIKKAZ MOST, death certificate, predator...mc rens albums are dope overall but not classics.. what makes a group /artist dope however is the different artist they established once they themselves are good dr dr-snoop dogg, warren g, the dogg pound...lbc krew,the doveshack, da five footaz eazy e-bone thugs, above the law,pimp house playaz ice cube-da lynch mob, mack 10, kam, WC between those sub artist, theres atleat 10 more classics with a lot of dope material following.. how can i forget about eminem??
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hh
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posted Thursday, June 21, 2012 9:36:30 PM To expand on that..the Ruthless Family goes way beyond what you just mentioned which is part of why I consider them so great. The D.O.C., Del, Kokane, JJ Fad & Michelle (lol), plus they worked with a lot of artists from the pre-Good Life days, I wouldn't consider WC since he was already well established with Low Profile before he ever did a thing with Cube, (By the way, it's Penthouse Players Click)...but that's a few more major ones.
The other main thing about them is they came up on their own and did what they wanted to do without following what anyone else said. They did it so well that the entire industry was turned upside down and began to follow the trend that they created with style AND the way the business was done. They are the ones who really popularized the independent scene that we have now. Groups like Wu, Rap-A-Lot, No Limit and all the independent crews out now would not be where they are now without following what the Ruthless Posse did before all of them.
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Maffmatics (Admin)
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 7:56:48 AM Oh I didn't explain my fav rappers choices.
Ice T because he got me into hip hop. LGBNAF was the greatest thing I had ever heard as a child. T was also good at building images in my mind which no other music had done before. Music was no longer about just a nice tune, I was really listening to lyrics and trying to understand.
Tim Dog because while NWA was doap shit I was blasted by this big ass ngr who didn't give a shit about west coast gangsters. Dude was calling all bloods and crips dumb mother fuckers on tracks and not giving a fuck. It was like this one dude had single handedly knocked the west coast on its ass. It was totally believable that Tim Dog could get thrown in a ring with NWA and whoop the shit out of all of them without breaking a sweat. Penicillin On Wax is still one of the greatest albums ever for me and gets a lot of play.
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luke perry
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 11:36:32 AM hootie & the blowfish
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Maffmatics (Admin)
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 2:38:34 PM I own a hootie and the blowfish cd irl
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hh
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 2:45:42 PM Totally agree with Maffmatics about Ice-T too...his lyrics blew me away when I first heard him and was the main reason I started listening to more and more West Coast Hiphop and less East Coast. He completely outshined Rakim, G Rap and everyone else on the Colors soundtrack to me and it was the beginning of intelligent, street gangster shit.
I wasn't so convinced by Tim Dog and he sounded like a bitter hater to me who was just butthurt that the West Coast took all their shine by that point.
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luke perry
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 2:49:35 PM lol Tim Dog wasent a bitter hater. he didnt give a fuck about Compton. he just figured out a clever gimmick and ran with it.
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hh
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 2:54:46 PM LOL, I'm just saying he sounded like one to me...and yeah, he came up with a gimmick to talk shit about one of the most successful groups at the time, who came out after he did and surpassed anything he ever did business wise. Trying to boost his rep and sales by using a gimmick that would not last. Tim Dog was dope but just lost in the mix and if he could have made a name for himself purely off his skills, he would have. Just saying.
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luke perry
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 3:11:51 PM stop it
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Maffmatics (Admin)
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 3:16:40 PM Tim Dog was smart and released an album that represented a common opinion on the east coast.
Penicillin on Wax was hard as fkin nails, Fuck Compton is still one of the best diss tracks ever. It was a straight up no fucking around assault on the west coasts gangster rap. Something very few rappers would have dared to record.
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Maffmatics (Admin)
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 3:18:35 PM ^i wrote that wiki page
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hh
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 4:02:22 PM Yeah, I'm not saying Tim Dog wasn't dope but I think if he was a lot doper, he wouldn't have to resort to doing that to get attention, along with the rest of the bitter EC MC's who wanted to complain instead of step their game up. Beefs are cool and funny for a minute but I like it better when it's established artists around the same level going at it, not someone who is more unknown trying to make a name for himself off mentioning other people who are more successful. Part of why I lost interest in a lot of EC acts was because they seemed like they were more interested in not progressing and just saying they are the best all day because they come from NY but not doing anything to prove it. It wasn't until groups like Organized Konfusion, BCC, Artifacts and shit like that came out that the EC started stepping up again and a big part of that was because they listened to what the WC was doing and took it to their own level and style, which is a good thing to me. FWIW, I thought Common's, The Bitch In yoo was a much better diss track than Fuck Compton.
Also, to bring back the other topic before I was discussing, Props to Luke Skyyywalker and Too Short for also paving the way for artists to be more independent.
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garfeild
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 6:52:12 PM group - de la
mc - mos def
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CHEEN-GOAN
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 8:36:47 PM tim dog was a hater 'fuck compton' is only a real famous diss track cuz its the 1st time an east coast n*gga on wax dissed the west..hook is wack, beat was horrible..it sounded like a out dated beat from that region and at that time..this is why the east had no love 4 the west..because 90% of the records in the west from the late 80s til all the whole 90s dont sound outdated..that shit sounded so dope then like it does now..not only that, gangsta rap only had 1 style of production that n*ggas just ran with and were making consten bangers 4 YEEAAARRRS...thats y the east hated on us..west coast>>east all day
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CHEEN-GOAN
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 9:41:16 PM speakin of tim dog..i seent that n*gga on tv this week and the report was on him shiestin' 2 white bitches..it was on nbc..he gangsta 4 dat tho..i was actually surprised he is still makin moves..thank god 4 hip hop
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samutahjazz
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posted Friday, June 22, 2012 11:39:58 PM favorite arist is doc dre... way too many classics under his belt n the albums he produces never sound old... i can listen to n*ggaz4life and no one can do it better on repeat....
favorite group would have to be the entire dpgc and also above the law. niether of them ever really dissapoint me.
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culturesclothing
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posted Saturday, June 23, 2012 1:00:47 AM My favorite group right now is probably CYNE. They are just consistently dope and Cise Starr is one of Hip-Hop's most underrated MCs. I also love Giant Panda, Panacea, Blue Scholars, Common Market, Ugly Duckling, Zion I, Cunninlynguists, P.U.T.S...and of course the classics like Tribe, Digable Planets, etc.
As for my favorite MC, it's hard to say who that is currently. Lupe lost that title with me when he did Lasers...although I do believe that he has the ability to put out another dope album. I still love Canibus, but I'm just not sure where his head is at right now and I'm extremely disappointed from the current events (the effort...not losing the battle). I love Blu, Elzhi, Mos Def, Black Thought, Pharoahe Monch, Q-Tip, Has-Lo, Homeboy Sandman, Median, etc. I dunno man it's hard for me to say...
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orien
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posted Saturday, June 23, 2012 3:01:50 AM blinky stop posting that nonsense shit about qwel. he doesnt do anything as an mc that wasnt done before he ever touched a mic.
the fact you even listen to that faggot is enough reason for you to late term abort yourself.
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Maffmatics (Admin)
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posted Saturday, June 23, 2012 7:52:34 AM "if he was a lot doper, he wouldn't have to resort to doing that to get attention"
Tim Dog was on tracks with Ultramagnetic MC's before his album release. You dont need much more attention than that.
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thurston (Admin)
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posted Sunday, June 24, 2012 10:57:36 PM people use to label them as nerdy poetic type cats, but the Roots have grown so much! one of my fav groups ever
artist wise! I love common! b/c he's dope and so soulful! His album Like Water For Chocolate had some of the illest jams and shit to just vibe out to...think i'll smoke up to A Film Called Pimp tonight
interesting read for the guys you mentioned. I'll be back to this thread on my day off and peep some of the artist mentioned...some of em I never heard.
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XFactor
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posted Sunday, June 24, 2012 11:07:21 PM Public Enemy.
The sounds were on another level. Didn't even sound like rap at the time when Fear of a Black Planet hit.
Pro-black militant message that was soundly based in reality and history.
Combination of Chuck and Flav was some next level shit.
The name, the logo, the live show, the recording career.
So many great songs and two classic albums and a third great one.
Favorite by far.
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hh
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posted Monday, June 25, 2012 5:55:44 PM Tim Dog was on tracks with Ultramagnetic MC's before his album release. You dont need much more attention than that.
Yeah, I know, which is why I said what I did...He's the one who thought he needed to use that to get attention since he did it, not me...
Anyways, yeah PE is definitely one of the greatest of all time to me and why I mentioned them first, right after PB (who have been around almost as long and still get better, which is another reason why I chose them). Then Ruthless, where Cube, Dre, Above The Law, etc come in.
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Skof
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posted Monday, June 25, 2012 6:03:29 PM De La Soul.
Most consistent group of all time; multiple great albums, great beats, great live and I like the shit they talk about more than anyone else.
Nas/Kool G Rap/The Roots close 2nd's.
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the weatherman (Admin)
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posted Monday, June 25, 2012 6:13:22 PM group: wu tang
so many classics, so many timeless joints....every mc in the group held their own at one point or another. shit, even u-god had his moments. just tons of fuckin dopeness.
honorable mention groups: outkast, nwa
mc: ghostface
amazing voice, lyrics, flow, stories, content, everything....one of a kind.
honorable mention mc's: del, eminem, scarface, ras kass
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FakeToothTomE
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posted Wednesday, June 27, 2012 3:15:02 AM DITC & WUTANG JUST COZ.
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white kid from da burbs
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posted Wednesday, June 27, 2012 3:44:54 AM Orien I find it fucking stupid how you out of all people don't appreciate Qwel's lyricism, I bet you haven't even heard majority of his catalog. You can't judge him off his Typical Cats discography. '
You have said in the past you yourself is a lyricist and you wanted to be a fkn journalist. I bet you don't even listen to Qwel to make a stupid ass comment like that. If you seriously think he isn't one of the most original lyricist ever, then idk what to tell you.
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white kid from da burbs
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posted Wednesday, June 27, 2012 3:46:07 AM You (probably the most educated and intelligent n*gga on this site) don't appreciate his shit? You need to listen.
posted Wednesday, June 20, 2012 11:39:46 PM 
