This is where the Lil B / Rocky hate comes from: traditionalists.
In some ways I'm a purist, but I also love innovation. As I've said here, I was the kid who grew up loving both Premo and Timbaland. Purity is about honest and interesting expression, not traditionalism.
Dudes like bboy rambler and Homotional will never get it. The greatest hip hop was never made for people like them. Lil B and Rocky are straight up some of the realest in modern rap, and unreal can't recognize real
No. You are the traditionalist except when it comes to these two.
You see them through rose colored lenses. Purity is clear and concise... Its not to be sullied with subversive affinity for your own personal favorite artists.
How can you regularly listen to Supreme Clientele and praise Rocky ?
Then sh!t on Kendrick....an avid story teller with more lyrical prowess than him.
Rocky is cool, I fukk with all my Harlem n!ggas but he's no Big L with wit, he's no Mase with suave bravado, no Cam with comedy ....
You love comparing other modern rappers to previous eras so where does Rocky stack up against these guys ?
And if he's the greatest, how does he stack up to the greatest in the 90s ?
In before mindless hyperbole about hows he's "innately alluring" and "visually appealing"