these dudes are insulting Hell on Earth
Dude you are creating a straw man.Possibly.
But my main point is I vaguely knew who A-Trak was prior to Ye, solely because I was a fan of a few underground acts in the 90's.
But if you look at the second half of the 90's....Wu, BONE, Outkast, DMX, Master P....I mean....you know who was making noise.
Meanwhile A-Trak was hanging out with Non-Phixion and Peanutbutter Wolf.
The funny thing is I don't even mean to diss A-Trak, but it's funny how this hip-hop shyt only matters if it props up an artist people stan. Like when Premiere said Drake was a great lyricist. They couldn't make that thread fast enough. Did they mention Premiere prior to that? fukk no. Did they make a thread after the ghostwriting shyt, when Premiere said Drake is Milli Vanilli if he don't write his own shyt? Of course not.
It's more about how disingenuous people are, than A-Trak or even DJing specifically.
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Nope. Not at all. I would describe the beats on Drakes album as plodding and boring. That album is a real chore to listen to. Hell on Earth is wall to wall classic production. I didn't find the Drake album dark either.
drake aint listening to no damn mobb deep.
ALL WERE SAYING IS THAT THE PRODUCTION WAS PROBABLY INSPIRED BY MOBB DEEP.
SAME WAY HIS RNB TRACKS ARE INSPIRED BY 90s TIMBERLAND.
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Who knows. Just spur of the moment.
I thought it was all about WATTBA considering that's the heading title, and he goes on to talk about Metro Boomin (who wasn't on IYRTITL)
that dark cinematic sound that was kinda popular in 90s hip hop was mostly the result of RZA. and Havoc. I'm not saying it's a 1-1 translation but most of the new cats going after that sound have some RZA/Hav in them. It's kinda impossible for them to not have it.
I listened to the first two minutes of that sky fall song. It didn't remind me of 90s Hav or RZA at all.
A-trak BEEN hiphop from the start
except metro sucks dumb plebThis sounds ridiculous until you realize that Metro Boomin (arguably the dopest 'trap' producer ever) makes the most gutter-sounding dark trap.
A-Kak has a point but as usual, weak-ass hip hop journalism won't ask him to clarify what he means. They know him putting "Drake" in the same sentence as "Mobb Deep" is clickbait so it's best to leave it vague and stimulate fake outrage.
Why Mobb Deep and not 3-6 Mafia or even Live.Love.ASAP (as I said before, let's not pretend like Drake wasn't inspired by the dark hard shyt that Yams/Rocky were doing)
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