Griselda - Dr. Bird's (Live on Fallon)

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Yeah. I mean you’d think this was Johnny Carson or some shyt lol. I would bet that somebody from Fallon’s crowd have at least heard a song from them before, if not they know about them now. How is this different than most rappers that have appeared on Fallon?
:yeshrug: IMO it’s different because of the subject matter and production. This wasn’t Drake or Kendrick up there. And it definitely wasn’t Migos.

This was 3 dudes dropping full 16 bar verses about drugs and guns (complete with the shoot ‘em up adlibs), over dusty boom-bap production, with no chorus. In 2020.

That type of hip-hop doesn’t get mainstream play anywhere these days.
 

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Niceeee.... always found it funny having white ppl in a late show audience sit thru rap performances like that tho... lol

:demonic::ufdup: dont u fukking take ur eyes off the stage john and Becky:merchant:

You found it funny that the #1 consumer of hip hop music, white people, would sit through rap performances of artists that white people support?
 

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Especially this. He really knows how to command a stage and has improved leaps and bounds.

yeah you can tell he’s a step ahead ... and it’s the subtleties that he’s beginning to master for live performances of the type of rap they do ... slight variations in intonation , emphasizing certain syllables, slight gestures to mirror the lyrics and convey and transfer mood ...


... some just naturally have that in them and others have to work at it more. He has more fluidity all the way around.
 

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Admirable that they've managed to keep their sound so authentically regional. I kind of missed that time in rap where regions had distinctive sounds and accents.


I just had that same convo last week on 2 different occasions. It started when ironically this cat in the barbershop was streaming music from his phone and it played:

Nelly's Air Force Ones
Young Jeezy Air Forces
then randomly UCB - Sexy Lady
Wale - Girls
Rare Essense - Overnight Scenario
Jay-z - Do It Again
Snoop Dogg Lay Low

I mentioned to one cat how I missed that regional sound and how I could venture into so many sets without it all sounding the same. Dude told me that half the artist sound like Future, Lil Wayne or Kevin Gates and the beats all are the same. This young cat jumped in the convo and basically called us old and that he couldn't imagine rap sounds being a regional thing.

Kids will never know how it felt to hear a NYC rapper over a West Coast beat or a Southern Rapper on a NYC beat and etc. Then it use to be so fun breaking down the sounds just in the South itself.

GA, FLA, TN, VA, LA, and TX all were putting out music that you could distinctly tell where in the South there were from just off beats.
Same with CA...you could tell SoCal music from the Bay Area music but it still was a West Coast vibe
Same with the Midwest, Tri-State and etc. Hell even the Dancehall music had it's on style that stood out.

Now...while a lot of the beats are nice...it's the same sound coming from every region with little variation from artist to artist.



But anyway..... should out to Griselda for keeping that gritty sound alive.
 

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yeah you can tell he’s a step ahead ... and it’s the subtleties that he’s beginning to master for live performances of the type of rap they do ... slight variations in intonation , emphasizing certain syllables, slight gestures to mirror the lyrics and convey and transfer mood ...


... some just naturally have that in them and others have to work at it more. He has more fluidity all the way around.
Yessir IMO it's on full display on that Tito's Back Vevo performance. Hell him and Benny both.
 
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