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This is a strange thread
Dudes in here are LITERALLY saying he loses points because they don’t like the way he dresses.
And again, kind of like the Joey B thing, for a site that I thought was about rap music, most of us don’t really like artists who pay homage or make the kind of rap music we like. Dude is spitting dope rhymes over dope beats- but not only is it not enough to get love, its not enough to avoid hate.
It’s incredible how much the blogs, Pitchfork, etc impact taste on here. You could do a serious study on groupthink in this place.
As for me, I’d consider myself a big fan of dude. He is very talented and getting better. The track that won me over was “I’m a Poor Man” but I can’t link it right now.
I slept at first because too but the tracks speak for themselves.
(Haven’t checked his instrumental albums. Well, I gave Thanks, Bro a spin and I liked it. **shrugs**)
I’ll say this though-
In order for Jonwayne to get love on the Lesson he has to do a few things-
***First, switch his flow up to sound like another great. Ghostface is taken. Maybe someone from the South?
***Add to the gimmick by getting a cooking show or some thing along those lines.
***He should try and get a show on MTV and be naked on the cover of his next album.
***Two words: trap beats. We like to pretend we like Madlib and similar production the Lesson, but give us trap beats. A lot of us like to think in a previous life we were drug kingpins. Gold grill wouldn’t hurt.
***Shock lyrics. You can rap about nonsense, but if you sprinkle it with jokes about rape and f*gs we will eat it up. (see: Style)
***He should try and fill his album up with “scatting” sounds that make him sound like a spaztic mental patient. We will call it “original”.
***Stop running with Zeroh, Jermiah Jae, etc. We don’t know who those dudes are because they haven’t been on Fallon. He should invest in a home studio so the really cool kids will come over. Odd Future, Black Hippy, etc. Have them all over your album, most of us judge based off association.
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