What's jank?
If You're Not Listening To K-Rino You Are SERIOUSLY Missing Out
- Thread starter The Ruler 09
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What's jank?
I respect your opinion cause you recognize he's dope, which in my opinion is pretty undeniable. But I do disagree with his music not being great, I think his music is GREAT, have you heard his more recent albums? Some amazing work and the beats are dope. I explained it to one dude before, he has been guilty in the past of using lackluster beats on some albums but even back in the day he had some ill beats. I'm not sure what you've heard but if you haven't heard everything I'd recommend checking it out again, or even skimming it to see how your feeling about the beats cause to me the brother is like in the top 3 of all time. If you've heard all his shyt and still feel that way, that's a preference and all good but if you haven't I couldn’t recommend high enough giving it a try.
Conceptually he is definitely incredibly dope too, he's had some of the best and well executed concepts I've ever heard.
He got a lot of albums lol, he's been in the game since late 80's. And now he releases like two albums per year, this year 3 I believe. I'd recommend you start with some of the albums I posted on the first page, any really, when you have some free time and see how you feel. You may become a fan. I haven't known about K-Rino since the 80's, I'm not old enough to, I heard one song which infact was posted on a Hip Hop board called Valley Of Decision and it was dope as fukk and I heard his Eminem diss and I felt that too. I liked his shyt but when I delved into his work and continued to listen it was like an "oh shyt" moment as I realized I was listening to one fo the greatest of all time. With the more work he's dropped he's steadily climbed up my GOAT list (and I know 1000's of rappers) and is now number 3 of all time, battling hard for number 2.
P.S: If you like Face that's another reason to check K's shyt, Face loves K's music, he rates him as the best rapper. They are also good friends from way back. Z-Ro also rates K as THE best rapper if you like Z-Ro's shyt. A lot of people fukk hard with K, even in a mainstream level.
See I would disagree with this bro. This sounds like something from someone who hasn't heard all of his music (which you freely admitted). K does do the lyrically crazy tracks BUT he also does very emotional tracks, political tracks, social tracks, street tracks, women tracks, conceptual tracks. I love Canibus and I would never say anything bad about Bis at all, but K-Rino has some other layers and depths that Bis chooses not to really go to a lot. I think they are completely different artists bar the fact they are lyrical. I haven't heard Bis do a snog quite like Holla At Me or Doin Bad or I'll See You and countless other K-Rino songs.
I would say K-Rino is a mixture of KRS-One, 2 Pac and Canibus. Infact he cites KRS-One as a major influence.
Trying to find some of the other Face videos talking about K.
DJ Premier bigged up up too. They've done a song together too.
Here's a few songs that dispel the myth he's all just overly complex lyrically.....
DaveyDave
Superstar
i just meant from a style point of view, in terms of concepts & songs, K Rino is better. i haven't heard ALL his music but i did listen to a lot of it up to Book Number 7 & i downloaded up to Alien Baby i think. it just gets repetitive to me but i def respect the skill
More proof....
I understand where your coming from, all I can suggest is check the latter albums...
From here to here at least cause that is far from repetitive to me, the opposite.
Yeah I love Face and Z-ro thats why its weird I never heard of this dude, also devin is one of my favs and I love goodie Kast Cool Breeze youngbloodz etc so Im down with the south shyt.
Props to you & DaveyDave for the info but Im still confused as to which is his best album that I should start with, just one. Preferably from the mid 90s.
DaveyDave
Superstar
personally i would start with Book Number 7 or Stories From The Black Book if you want a 90's one. i can prob find some links if you need
