LiveFromShaolin
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blu is jcole on dust
BLU is what J.COLE wishes he could be
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Madvillain
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Cole wishes he had an ounce of the creativity, depth wit and ambition Blu has. Or he doesn't cuz his shyt Gold and Blu in label limbo (I forget the Warner story) and very few cats I know mess with dude.
But NoYork, BTH, J&J, Give Me My Flowers, all of the Soul Amazing tapes, HerFavColor, shyt even Jesus >>>>>> Cole's discography IMO
Like Give Me My Flowers - the first one we got was Blu's edition and the second was Exile's.
But NoYork, BTH, J&J, Give Me My Flowers, all of the Soul Amazing tapes, HerFavColor, shyt even Jesus >>>>>> Cole's discography IMO
Lo-fi is actually a "thing" now. Sounds dumb, but a lot of UG heads nh like it that way. It's a weird hipster trend with an audience. There might be something more sinister at play, but it's popular.
Like Give Me My Flowers - the first one we got was Blu's edition and the second was Exile's.
TrifeGod
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he is tho.
SummerNights
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Seriously thuogh, who is BLU? These niqqas need to get their weight up before you compare them to the major leaguers
J Cole ain't no major leaguers
he is the water boy
and blu is the dude that sweeps after the game is over
TrifeGod
Chasing The Dragon
Piff Perkins
Veteran
But there's a difference between the lo fi genre (usually indie rock or metal) and shyt that isn't even mixtape quality audibly. That's my problem with it. 36 Chambers is kind of lo fi if you think about it/play it in the whip, and isn't mastered perfectly. But it still sounds good. My problem with Blu is that dude is having his vocals sound horrible due to all that static or whatever, clipping, etc.
you got a DOOM avatar so you've heard some stuff that isn't mastered well, like his first album. But that shyt still sounds good, vocals are clean outside of on a couple tracks, etc.
As far as rapping, I wholly agree.
Post me a classic song/classic verse
ok.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irt5D6KiplE]Blu & Exile - Below the Heavens [Full album] - YouTube[/ame]
TrifeGod
Chasing The Dragon
I have that album.
You don't have to but I asked for a classic verse/song
but ill run it back maybe im missing something..probably not
Madvillain
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My problem with Blu is that dude is having his vocals sound horrible due to all that static or whatever, clipping, etc.
There was an article I read a few weeks back where Tyler was complaining about his mixing or something and it was kinda embracing all of that, and the return of lo-fi in ironic form. Gotta find it.
Maybe it's cuz I don't have great headphones, but I was cool with all his "lo-fi" shyt. The skill & vision is still there.
I do pretend UCLA never happened, though.
Post me a classic song/classic verse
Blu doesn't have the acclaim other rappers get, but is there really anything he can't do as an emcee? His adlib game, bars, storytelling, choruses, flows etc are all dope as fukk.
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Madvillain
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Post me a classic song/classic verse
In a sense... Cole should be here. Blu's more conventional work is sample-heavy, with a lot of everyman substance and religious undertones. Cole just bland, more surface-level and more "safe".
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Lol good for you CAC