"Keep It Real" vs. "Keep It Real"

Keep It Real

  • Jamal

    Votes: 11 91.7%
  • Miilkbone

    Votes: 1 8.3%

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Awesome Wells

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Both beats are dope.

Only one song is classic though. And that's Jamal's joint.

When Miilkbone dropped, they would only play the instrumental on underground radio. The beat became a thing because other MC's would rhyme over it, and that's how the song grew legs at the time. But the consensus was always that Miilkbone was trash and lucked up with getting a dope beat. Then after mad rappers used the beat for freestyles, L and Hov hopped on it on WKCR, and the rest is history. I was recording the show live that night, and remember being like "Everyone is rhyming on this same beat".

I still play Jamal's whole album, and I play the L and Hov freestyle. I literally never played a Miilkbone track a day in my life and repeated it, lol.
 

Yehuda

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Both beats are dope.

Only one song is classic though. And that's Jamal's joint.

When Miilkbone dropped, they would only play the instrumental on underground radio. The beat became a thing because other MC's would rhyme over it, and that's how the song grew legs at the time. But the consensus was always that Miilkbone was trash and lucked up with getting a dope beat. Then after mad rappers used the beat for freestyles, L and Hov hopped on it on WKCR, and the rest is history. I was recording the show live that night, and remember being like "Everyone is rhyming on this same beat".

I still play Jamal's whole album, and I play the L and Hov freestyle. I literally never played a Miilkbone track a day in my life and repeated it, lol.

I hear you. I like Miilkbone's joint and I think his instrumental goes harder but Jamal's is the better song — lyrically both ain't really saying shyt, though.
 

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I ain't gonna say Jamal easily, even though he's still the answer. "It's Philly's finest, behind this doing damage..."

Milkbone was a worse rapper, but it still made a great track, and the hook is better. But Mally G's was just better, Ribbon in the Sky sample, grimey Philly bars. The irony is that Milkbone's gained more traction because of the instrumental being rhymed over, while Mally G's came and went.
 
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