Official Rap/Hip Hop Thread 2.0

Knicksfan20 · Post #261 » by **Knicksfan20** » Fri Feb 18, 2011 3:07 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waMaWKRxEFs&feature=related[/youtube]

barnett114 · Post #262 » by **barnett114** » Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:27 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhw8h1_62hI&feature=related[/youtube]

TheBluest · Post #263 » by **TheBluest** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 5:06 am

It was posted in this current 2.0 thread he posted his Album on his myspace page...Sai delivered. Incredible piece of work here.... although most of it probably was completed 5yrs ago as it exudes the sound. Talk is the project sat on the shelf for this period of time. Industry execs pulling janky moves only for them to come back to bite them in the butt to be proven wrong. I remember when Sai and Joey got into the beef some heads were trying to act like Sai wasn't lyrical. Now many are saying he dropped a classic. It will be interesting to see what his numbers show this coming week. Supposedly he's making noise on iTunes downloads

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8onyZjTzuA8[/youtube] The middle to end of this track is unbelievable Fav by far the best IMO. I do know for sure this joint is a classic. He better release a video to this

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ArfGK31w-g[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbNFk1XPOoo[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QI2qYRF165s[/youtube] Joey on the hook autotune how ironic

SmallBallPlsDie · Post #264 » by **SmallBallPlsDie** » Mon Feb 21, 2011 7:06 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsdLE_bgM3I[/youtube]

official video

NBA Fan 1234 · Post #265 » by **NBA Fan 1234** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:24 pm

Lupe - All Black Everything came out this morning...just listened to it for the first time...it's good (as expected from Lupe). LASERS is so soon!

TdoubleE · Post #266 » by **TdoubleE** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:29 pm

@Bluest: I started to DL that Saigon over the weekend. Dude is getting such major props on itunes reviews that I thought it was too good to be true. I think I'll have to cop this now.

Post #267 » by **j4remi** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 1:51 pm

Now Sai just needs to do numbers selling. If we're keeping it 100, this is a great thing for hip hop. Saigon got the same treatment a lot of my favorite emcees do, they put together an album the same style that got them signed in the first place...and then the label tells them to do something different. Saigon wouldn't pander and got shelved. This happens way to often, even with emcees that have hype (Papoose had a machine behind him and couldn't get release...Rakim wouldn't do what Aftermath wanted...Joey stayed shelved and tried to go indy. The list goes on). Saigon dropped an album that is getting huge hype and it COULD have been off a major with huge support and building on his Entourage appearance...FIVE YEARS AGO!

Label heads are stupid. Props to Sai.

P.S. Who the **** said Saigon isn't lyrical? LMAO, dude been had bars and concepts.

atribecalledrch · Post #268 » by **atribecalledrch** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 2:44 pm

Here's a nice piece on Premo and some of his most memorable beats.
http://www.complex.com/music/2011/02/dj ... c-records/

Post #269 » by **j4remi** » Tue Feb 22, 2011 3:22 pm

Big week in GT...BOLA battles beginning to drop and the GT division keeps dropping bombs. I'm watching battles all day and I'll be editing in the battles and my thoughts as I see 'em.

First up...Thesaurus vs Mac Lethal (two of the best freestyle battle emcees of the 2000+ era, like top 5). Review coming.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMojiIJVZvE&feature=player_embedded#at=439[/youtube]

Uhmm...All I wanna say is round two is going and the rebuttals are just INSANE...These dudes wrote one and a half rounds and just freestyle rebuttaled for half of each round...fitting in multi-syllabic rebuttals to open rounds, mid-bars and to close...So much respect for both after this and I was starting to lose a lot of love for Saurus...but He KILLED this by syncing freestyles in.

Round 1 - Mac Lethal
Round 2 - Saurus but holy ish at both coming so rebuttal heavy

Round 3 - I edge to Saurus but it's hella close. I just think Mac closed his round weaker.

Battle was impressive as hell to me, wow @ the rebuttal game. Diz vs QP is next.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tTE2JyUvv4k&feature=player_embedded[/youtube]

I'll give QP all the respect in the world for trying...but he was screwing up his bars which is just more proof that emcees should not take on more than they can handle. He already had to prepare for two battles and this looks like he just threw it in to do Lush and Diz a favor. He had fun with it and actually had a couple of nice bars, but that's bound to be his weakest performance at the event.

Diz just has stepped up his presence game a ton in recent battles. Even in the NY battle with Swave his presence played a big factor in him being the consensus winner. Unlimited rounds vs him is pretty brutal because he'll spit for hours if you let him and he freestyles effectively. Opened his bars up with freestyle punches here for instance. The whole thing leading to "that's my rebuttal for choking" was crazy bars but overall, this really wasn't up to par with some of his other battles. It was dope though when his bars were heavy they were REAL heavy...just that he missed more often with attacks than usual. I think he needs unlimited time to beat DNA though to keep it real.

Gimmick · Post #270 » by **Gimmick** » Wed Feb 23, 2011 4:02 am

Since the Melo trade it almost seems as if everything else doesn't exist lol

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzt9E6D2q5g[/youtube]]

atribecalledrch · Post #271 » by **atribecalledrch** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:04 am

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw[/youtube] Shyt is ashy and I love it.

Post #272 » by **Manhattan Project** » Thu Feb 24, 2011 6:44 pm

Tyler really doesn't do anything for me, surprised that whole group has such a following.

Recap post:
Rae-Ross-Ghost
http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2011/02/22/rae ... ce-killah/
Joell
http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2011/02/22/joe ... freestyle/
Atmosphere
http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2011/02/22/atm ... -for-show/
Apathy over Primo
http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2011/02/22/apa ... freestyle/
Saigon Bonus track
http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2011/02/22/sai ... -the-road/
Fat Joe-Raekwon
http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2011/02/22/fat ... f-raekwon/
Emilo Rojas
http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2011/02/22/emi ... azes-nodj/

Post #273 » by **Manhattan Project** » Fri Feb 25, 2011 8:25 pm

http://www.2dopeboyz.com/2011/02/25/med ... man-video/

Method Man Video inside look, nice.

Post #274 » by **Manhattan Project** » Tue Mar 1, 2011 12:58 am

The new Lupe CD is like 2010 KRS-One and 808's Kanye had a baby and this album was the product.

EchelonNYK · Post #275 » by **EchelonNYK** » Tue Mar 1, 2011 7:27 pm

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwMQB3phUDs[/youtube]

emo · Post #276 » by **emo** » Wed Mar 2, 2011 11:29 pm

JOEY!

Post #277 » by **j4remi** » Thu Mar 3, 2011 12:00 am

Stole this from the locked thread but it's dope

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2bAmeHWk4E&feature=player_embedded#at=42[/youtube]

can o peas · Post #278 » by **can o peas** » Thu Mar 3, 2011 12:14 am

http://hypnagogics.com/questo/#Eddie-Murphy

atribecalledrch · Post #279 » by **atribecalledrch** » Thu Mar 3, 2011 3:23 am

Manhattan Project wrote:Tyler really doesn't do anything for me, surprised that whole group has such a following.

That kid Earl is pretty nice for a youngun.

atribecalledrch · Post #280 » by **atribecalledrch** » Thu Mar 3, 2011 3:24 am

j4remi wrote:Stole this from the locked thread but it's dope

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2bAmeHWk4E&feature=player_embedded#at=42[/youtube]

IDK but Yellawolf is just a white Mystikal in this song.