But he's not in the Top 5 in your sig...
Canibus was always overrated
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oO J Smooth Oo
All Star
I need to update it
I think Rip The Jacker, Mic Club, C of Tranquility and maybe For Whom The Bell Tolls might be the only albums I like from dude. With RTJ being really good and the rest slightly above average.
Bis has the ability to drop incredible verses, but the music rarely hits like it should
Bis has the ability to drop incredible verses, but the music rarely hits like it should
Heavy_Handz
Superstar
“Had a spark when you started but now you just garbage” 
DrHackenbush
Happy wars/sad love songs
Canibus in 98 >
Beasts from the east still one of the GOAT guest verses ever
Beasts from the east still one of the GOAT guest verses ever
Greenhornet
A God Among Kings
honestly canibus might be my favorite rapper of all time
if you go back in his discog... and have any sense of IQ or appreciation for lyrics
all the shyt he was saying was decades ahead of time, and most of the shyt came true.
its funny because in the same vein, Prodigy spoke on the secret society shyt way before everyone... but he was overshadowed by his style and genre of music too
but Canibus has so many real classics... maybe in an underground sense... its not music that an average person is going to absorb at all
Fait Accompli ended up happening during the pandemic... alot of his first shyt explained why and what would happen in the world. Melatonin Magick was ahead of its time concept wise, with the space stuff and government curtain shyt. For Whom the Bell Tolls spoke directly on alot of that shyt too
Poet Laurete Infinity is still one of the best written hiphop songs of all time
a 5 track ... 10 minute song, where each of the 5 songs can be interchanged with whatever timestamp you have on the other 4 songs
so at minute 5:20 ... you can take the rhyme from song 3 and change it with 5:20 of song 1 and it still rhymes but changes the whole meaning of the bar
Its like one dude said in here, its not a matter of him being actually bad in people's eyes... he just didnt have a solid producer... not a beat maker but an actual creative director .
If he had a Prince Paul or a RZA, his career would have been more digestible to average people. His content and level of IQ and technicality would never lend itself to a pop audience. Its actually a wonder that Wyclef even got him on a mainstream level as far as he did if we are keeping it 100 here.
He should have been made to work on his own projects and have the projects held.... and treated like a Jay Electronica figure, where nobody knew about him or saw him for the most part. To be honest it feels terrible when people shyt on Canibus, because he did exactly what he wanted at a high level... and he delivered for the people who actually mattered. He was never going to be what the average rap fan wanted... he couldnt just do high level battle rhymes randomly across a whole CD on throwaway DMX beats to make you happy. I'll take the thought provoking, esoteric, conspiracy Canibus over that 2 year window anyday.
if you go back in his discog... and have any sense of IQ or appreciation for lyrics
all the shyt he was saying was decades ahead of time, and most of the shyt came true.
its funny because in the same vein, Prodigy spoke on the secret society shyt way before everyone... but he was overshadowed by his style and genre of music too
but Canibus has so many real classics... maybe in an underground sense... its not music that an average person is going to absorb at all
Fait Accompli ended up happening during the pandemic... alot of his first shyt explained why and what would happen in the world. Melatonin Magick was ahead of its time concept wise, with the space stuff and government curtain shyt. For Whom the Bell Tolls spoke directly on alot of that shyt too
Poet Laurete Infinity is still one of the best written hiphop songs of all time
a 5 track ... 10 minute song, where each of the 5 songs can be interchanged with whatever timestamp you have on the other 4 songs
so at minute 5:20 ... you can take the rhyme from song 3 and change it with 5:20 of song 1 and it still rhymes but changes the whole meaning of the bar
Its like one dude said in here, its not a matter of him being actually bad in people's eyes... he just didnt have a solid producer... not a beat maker but an actual creative director .
If he had a Prince Paul or a RZA, his career would have been more digestible to average people. His content and level of IQ and technicality would never lend itself to a pop audience. Its actually a wonder that Wyclef even got him on a mainstream level as far as he did if we are keeping it 100 here.
He should have been made to work on his own projects and have the projects held.... and treated like a Jay Electronica figure, where nobody knew about him or saw him for the most part. To be honest it feels terrible when people shyt on Canibus, because he did exactly what he wanted at a high level... and he delivered for the people who actually mattered. He was never going to be what the average rap fan wanted... he couldnt just do high level battle rhymes randomly across a whole CD on throwaway DMX beats to make you happy. I'll take the thought provoking, esoteric, conspiracy Canibus over that 2 year window anyday.
oO J Smooth Oo
All Star
My man get its. His music has aged incredibly well now to me .
Whips-n-Chains
Chi
Lyrically he was nice af
Always thought he was corny, didn’t like his voice. Always sounded like he was trying to do a sticky fingaz impression. His ear for beats was nonexistent, but he was caught in the late 90s time period were all the beats were pretty trash…where every producer moved away from samples and tried to sound more futuristic.
This site all the way back to the sohh days was always overhyping Bis. Just not an artist that I find dope outside of lyricism
Always thought he was corny, didn’t like his voice. Always sounded like he was trying to do a sticky fingaz impression. His ear for beats was nonexistent, but he was caught in the late 90s time period were all the beats were pretty trash…where every producer moved away from samples and tried to sound more futuristic.
This site all the way back to the sohh days was always overhyping Bis. Just not an artist that I find dope outside of lyricism
That’s a man comfortable with his sexuality right there lol
En Sabah Nur
The First
The second part is the only true part. LL actually helped his career because the first album went gold on the strength of the beef and 2nd Round KO being the first single. If it wasn't for that song what else is there on "Can-I-Bus" that could have drawn attention and anticipation? That album was the biggest rap fumble of all time