Can't say that one stood out either. I liked the first song with the Ginuwine sample, Energy and the track where he's actually rapping (6:00 PM in NY...or something like that). The rest of the album was boring plodding production with simplistic dumbed down flows and lyrics. A real chore to listen to.
oh that's right - I forgot that Sprite are the vanguards of hip hop culture
It's a fukking commercial, b
breh, either you have the receipts or not. If the receipts are there obviously I'm going to agree with you.
let's not waste time on this back and forth. You got receipts? post them
at your paranoiaand drizzy drake already surpassed them
see - this is the problem. Y'all are easily influenced. A corporation puts up a couple billboards and all of a sudden, what they're saying is legit. Or worth paying attention to.
If you're a hip hop fan, and I am, and we both know it's ridiculous for Drake to be mentioned next to Nas and BIG, why sweat the billboard? That shyt's not aimed at you. It's not even about hip hop. It's about fukking Sprite. A fizzy drink. I could care less if your average Sprite drinker thinks Drake is up there with Rakim. They don't even know who the fukk Rakim is and don't care about the culture like that. Why would I sweat it?
I can't respect you after that...I just can't....
in every way possible, nas and rakim are like the little little homies compared to drake
weighs heavier in what sense?
I agree that maybe more people think Drake is the new Rakim. But they're not informed. Which is what this all boils down to.
Among informed folk, who gives a shyt?
Y'all are so concerned about what 'other people' outside hip hop culture think about hip hop. I grew up in the 90s. You think I give a fukk what some white mom in Arkansas thinks about Rakim? Obviously we should do our best to educate but I'm not tripping over the fact that hip hop at its greatest was never palatable to mainstream and the basic fact that Sprite want to sell Sprite, so they'll use whoever's hot right now to do it.
When Drake falls off, they'll get a new half-nikka (or cac, depending on just how dead hip hop is) to put up there with Ra and Nas
I don't really want to talk about this anymore. It's irrelevant to the thread, which is the fact that 10 Bands/0-100 > any song in DuckSnore's discog
This is a great point, but I think this is a losing battle. The public perception of hip hop is going to be dramatically different from what the core audience thinks and I don't think there is anything we can do about it. Unless cook and brook are willing to pay for billboards.
