Did we ever get to the bottom of Ross' sudden improvement post-2008?

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It wasn't a jump in skills as much as a gradual climb. In Trilla, he was spitting :banderas:

I mean he actually kept up with Hov here...



He was flowing hard on joints like "This Me", "Boss", "We Shinin" and "Billionaire" too

Then he took it even further when Deeper Than Rap dropped​
 

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i was talking to my friend about this ...

he said that ross just got a different persona, he was feeling better about himself so he was writing better raps.. could make sense :ehh:
 

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Get the fukk out of here. Unless they helped him with his mic presence, you full of shyt. That nikkas flow is impeccable these days. His flow was weak as hell when he first emerged.

Yea. If was as easy as buying verses, Birdman and Diddy would be hot.

Ross' flow/breath control became more polished by DTR. By Teflon Don...it's night and day. That's him progressing as a rapper.



It's the same thing with The Game. Back in 2004, 2005, Game's flow was mad choppy. He stayed trying to fit alot of words into one line.

By LAX, his flow was perfect. Ironic considering that Documentary is his best album though.​
 

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He's dropped some dope music, and he really needs to enjoy his time right now, because history will not be good to him.
 

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I've always been more impressed with Wayne's improvement than Ross's. Wayne literally went from being the weak link in the Hot Boyz to killing the mixtape scene in the same decade :banderas:

Wayne was far from a weak link. Turk was the weak link. wayne had classic verses on Hot Boys "Get It How Live" album and BG's "It's All On U" album.

There was no weak link in the Hot Boy$. :stopitslime:
 

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he always was nice... if anything he was holding back for a minute... got lazy

then when they found out he was a C.O. and 50 start gettin at him he said F it let me get back on my grizzly

i first heard him on this joint with Trina... his flow was better back then

2:28mark


Damn, I had this DVD and watched this video more times than I should have and I do not remember him at all. My horny 12 year old mind must've just processed Trina.
 

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Wayne was far from a weak link. Turk was the weak link. wayne had classic verses on Hot Boys "Get It How Live" album and BG's "It's All On U" album.

it was mostly just females and kids that thought wayne was better than turk back then. the casual rap crowd.

wayne was always nice tho.

but those squad up tapes are mad overrated on here. nobody cared about them chits like that back then but tackheads. theres a reason why the original C1 was scrapped, and theres a reason why gillie clearly ghostwrote on a lot of the released version.
 
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IMO Ross came into the game as a bit of a Jeezy-clone. Rapping very slowly and shyt. I do think he dumbed it down at the start of his artist career.

By the time he got to Maybach Music 1/Luxury Tax he was starting to find his groove. His own lane. His own sound and perfecting his "image".

I do think the whole CO/50 thing pushed him to be better.

He sounds like a different person on Hustling compared to Mafia Music II. He sounds like 10 years older, his voice sounds much deeper and more confident. His flow is more loose and he comes in and out of the pocket with ease. I don't know if he was trying to sound like Trick Daddy or extra southern on Hustlin' but the change is night and day..
 
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