Total Posts: 2307 Member Since: 2000 Location: Delaware
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 1:38:08 PM is it wordplay?
beats?
imagination?
realness?
something you can relate to?
something funny?
shocking?
what really REALLY makes you love a record i need to know
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LiquidDo$e
Total Posts: 11318 Member Since: 2004 Location: Me and Broke Niggas we Don't get Along!
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 1:45:38 PM Mic Presence, creative style and energy.....and not just screaming in your face energy a good harnessed directed energy.
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Rev ain't Wright
Total Posts: 6978 Member Since: 2008 Location: pro-obama raps are wack
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 1:47:06 PM shit that makes my head nod without thinking about it
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hiero909123
Total Posts: 410 Member Since: 2006
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 2:20:30 PM ^^^this
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Texas_Underground1
Total Posts: 1766 Member Since: 2012 Location: jet life
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 2:29:52 PM wat do$e said
and some bangin beats too..
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Total Posts: 7219 Member Since: 2005 Location: Go steal the fuckin shoes and buy the damn music
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 3:21:11 PM All of the above (from the OP). I can appreciate anything that just sounds good but to have longevity and replay value to me, it needs to have lyrics or beats that insight thought, either through the topic they are discussing, the patterns or style or anything else. Some of my favorites are songs that I can hear and understand more and more things that I didn't notice before, almost everytime I hear it again. It doesn't even have to be complicated wordplay if there are layers to the meanings depending on the choice of words that you can hear clearly, but just not get unless you are in a certain mindset. I also appreciate it when a lyricist can "ride a beat" and change style or tone to suit the track better instead of using the same style and tone on anything and everything they do. The voice is basically just another layer or layers to the finished track and it needs to be a part of the "music". Some of my other favorites are progressive tracks that have a lot of changes in them, like classical music, that might have several different moods or styles contained within a single song. A lot of my favorites, I didn't know I would like before I heard them because I just never heard anything like them before but they just click to me when I do hear them.
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Gentle Jones
Total Posts: 2307 Member Since: 2000 Location: Delaware
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 3:54:17 PM i try to understand but alot of times i am just doing the best i know. i mean sometimes i think i did it just right, but you can never tell what someone else will say
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Feta Discharge
Total Posts: 3298 Member Since: 2009
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 4:06:34 PM vinyl crackle
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Texas_Underground1
Total Posts: 1766 Member Since: 2012 Location: jet life
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 4:31:55 PM dude just get some club beats with lots of bass and get soulja boy or lil b on it and you'll be on mtv b4 u know it.
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Fallout"von
Total Posts: 23 Member Since: 2012 Location: Idaho
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 5:21:31 PM This sound like ah marketing scheme To please the masses just keep It real and don't make belive sellin Drugz is all fun and games and don't Steal rhymes that's what I think
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Texas_Underground1
Total Posts: 1766 Member Since: 2012 Location: jet life
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 5:21:43 PM ^ word up.
too bad thats not the reality
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Gentle Jones
Total Posts: 2307 Member Since: 2000 Location: Delaware
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 5:39:07 PM i never steal
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Fallout"von
Total Posts: 23 Member Since: 2012 Location: Idaho
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 5:58:43 PM Good boy now go kill it
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Gentle Jones
Total Posts: 2307 Member Since: 2000 Location: Delaware
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 6:06:42 PM fallout its no scheme, actually i think alot of cats here have similar taste to mine, when a chef cooks he wants to make something delicious
these fellas are teasing about lil b and club bangers
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samutahjazz
Total Posts: 8120 Member Since: 2007 Location: Little Diomede Island, sippin on cactus cooler.
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 11:54:01 PM for me honestly its kinda an either or thing. ill listen to nas and scarface , royce, eminem cause of the shit they say mostly, but i love albums by dj quik, daz, snoop even tho they say the same shit over and over andover. it cant sound homemade tho, gottsta have a lil production quality
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lord akuna
Total Posts: 1813 Member Since: 2005 Location: VANCITY
posted Saturday, June 23, 2012 11:58:15 AM Talk trap rap sh*t be real grab the gat type sh*t
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semeone
Total Posts: 1024 Member Since: 2010
posted Sunday, June 24, 2012 7:44:44 AM shit that makes my head nod without thinking about it
posted Friday, June 22, 2012 1:38:08 PM 
