"Your favorite song where the rapper uses another rapper's flow"
Whether it's stated or not. Homeboy Sandman is one of my favorite rappers of life...been on a kick this week, listening to nothing but his stuff. This is one of my faves. He nails it.
<-- Dave Thomas knows what's up... __________________________
Jay: Look here homie, any nigga can get a hit record. This here is about respect. Game: Like Gladys Knight. Jay: Aretha Franklin. Game: Word, I like her too. Jay: Nigga...
Though Thought didn’t just imitate their flow, he imitated the voices and deliveries too. I remember some thought Kane and G Rap were actually featured on the song.
9. "Do Puffy and Dre joints where they flow like the writer count?" In response to Reply # 0 Wed Apr-10-19 07:56 PM by DJR
Because those Puffy songs that Pharoahe Monch wrote are pretty funny to me, hearing Puff try to rap like Pharoahe. http://youtu.be/MVSc3JRjc8k And I can’t not hear Jay-Z on Still D.R.E. Like, I can HEAR Jay’s voice rapping that whole song in my head.
11. "Yikes - Diddy really went for the whole aesthetic there didn't he lol" In response to Reply # 9 Wed Apr-10-19 09:16 PM by Brew
I mean he may as well have been rapping thru a Pharoahe Monch vocoder.
I know it's weird but I never did, and still don't, hear Jay in "Still DRE" which I'm thankful for. Frankly I think Dre's voice is so good that I never really found it to be blatantly obvious who was writing for him. The early Eminem years were the closest he ever came to sounding like his ghostwriter but even then the strength of his rapping voice got me past that.
Speaking of Eminem, I just recently started picking up on just how closely Eminem's flow in his early years mimicked Masta Ace's. I realized it when I revisited a bunch of Masta Ace stuff early last year, and during that time I heard a few Slim Shady LP songs and it hit me. To his credit Em always showed a ton of love to Masta Ace and I think to this day cites him as one of his all time favorite MCs so I consider it a sign of respect, especially considering that he switched up his flow right away on his subsequent albums.
Dj Joey Joe Member since Sep 01st 2007 13770 posts
Wed Apr-10-19 11:14 PM
14. "I Remember When That Album "Play" Came Out..." In response to Reply # 9
...I got a promo copy of the cd, and was reading the credits and was shocked when I saw Pharoahe Monch's name on it, so when I got home to listen to it, and was shocked how Puffy just went and copied/ mimicked Pharoahe's entire flow word for word, I was like c'mon you suppose to spit it with your flow not the person who wrote it; but knowing Puffy he's so use to spitting like Biggie & Mase that when he started to hire others he just said fuck it, everybody knows I don't write my own shit, ha ha ha ha ha!!!!!
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
25. "That Puffy song is pretty brazen." In response to Reply # 9
>Because those Puffy songs that Pharoahe Monch wrote are >pretty funny to me, hearing Puff try to rap like Pharoahe. >http://youtu.be/MVSc3JRjc8k
How big a hit was Simon Says? I ask because I wonder if it's possible the typical Puffy fan would have no clue who Pharoahe Monch was despite the fact Simon Says dropped well before that Press Play album did.
"Sean sparks like John Starks, nah, Sean ball like John Wall" - Rest In Power Forever Sean Price.
Dj Joey Joe Member since Sep 01st 2007 13770 posts
Wed Apr-10-19 11:06 PM
13. "Torae "Switch" Produced by Black Milk" In response to Reply # 0
When I first heard this I was going bananas (heard it on Dj Eclipse's Halftime Show on WNYU) and I had to hear it again, then later Torae came out with a video for it, dude killed it, when it did the 2Pac flow, I busted out laughing, plus the beat was by one of my favorite producers Black Milk was perfect.
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
Part 2 isn't NEARLY as good. In fact, I'd say it borders on bad. The beat is slow and plodding, and he leans ***too*** heavy on the impressions. I can't even find it on YouTube.
19. "Man I loved Last Emp." In response to Reply # 17
I feel like we had this discussion before but whatever happened to him ?
You're right re: Secret Wars I vs. II. The 2nd version was unnecessary (although I obviously understand why he'd want to try and recreate the magic and hype he had w/the first one).
23. "honestly I don't even remember" In response to Reply # 22
All I know is I've been hoping for a comeback for some time, and when I finally read it was happening I got hyped.
then I read about the concept (I think he plays a character or something) and the no-name producer (which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but...sometimes it is lol) and my excitement went down.
Then last year had so many incredible releases I never got around to it.
I still need to check it, it just keeps falling down the list- which I never thought I'd say.
Now if Diverse ever drops something new I'm probably calling off sick that day...
29. "Oh shit - never noticed that." In response to Reply # 28
That's dope. I was about to ask if that was intentional or if he ever mentioned that he did it on purpose but then I heard the "Hey young world ..." line and, yep. Haha.
>I remember the first time I listened to Jimi Was a Rock >Star...it was so chaotic, I turned it off.
Honestly I still don't really *like* Jimi Was a Rock Star all that much but I tolerate it now. I used to skip it. It's the only song on that album that just doesn't sound anything at all like a Common song to me. I listen to Common for MCing, not a bunch of producers and singers making a tribute.
"You can take an African out of Africa, but you can't take Africa out of the African" Afro-Americana/Afro-Caribbana/Afro-Latino unite. We are ALL Black!
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