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.

Comrade Punski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB_M9qsqpZM

He does PERFECT Greg Nice and Smooth B impressions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6Ns-cChlDA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDnVDjleWSo

It was YEARS before I found out that was Ace doing Biz. Absolute classic.

As for the Biz doll, Ego Trip managed to get a hold of it:
https://egotripland-blog-blog.tumblr.com/image/134397863802

That was spot on.

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.

Amazing.

Biggie using BONE's flow on "Notorious Thugs."

Mariah Carey with a melodic version of BONE's flow on "Breakdown"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EInMASNQOU0

you can hear rakim's voice doing them bars

because this is when "biting" became okay

>because this is when "biting" became okay
>

Anti-gentrification, cheap alcohol & trying to look pretty in our twilight posting years (c) Big Reg
http://Tupreme.com

He had the connection to Hula and Fingers, the Chicago production team that made the beat.

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.

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.

I'd listen to a version where it really was just Monch and not Diddy pretending to be Monch.

...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!!!!!

Exactly my thinking. Puff don't five a fuuuuuuuck. Also, Puff doesn't really mis-step. He comes off very intentional.

werd.

>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.

That was a big rap hit though.

I would bet that most of those buying Press Play in 2006 were not watching the Simon Says video on Rap City in ‘99 though.

That was one album I literally refused to listen to.

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.

"Switch": https://youtu.be/jJPmHQQhGc0

He does a lots of different impresions, most of them pretty quick. But they're entertaining:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuAetZIG0mg&t=3s

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.

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).

He dropped a new album last year, but I keep forgetting to check it. Called Jungle Jim


The concept seemed kinda...corny.

>He dropped a new album last year, but I keep forgetting to
>check it. Called Jungle Jim
>
>
>The concept seemed kinda...corny.

The *title* sounds corny as hell haha but I'm not sure what it means.

Glad he's still around, at least.

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...

Got to say this sounds corny to me now.


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

I think it was on Grey Hairs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU_Ez9qv80M

Pusha using Slick Rick's flow on the "Black America Again" remix is one of my more memorable favs....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyu1toM4yGY


he rode that shit lovely and pulled it off pretty well.

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.

Channeling Sadat X on "I Got a Right Ta"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OmOAbIJ17M

And then doing a Biggie impression on "Announcement":

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouUsHaAmfbM

Pharrell produced both.

that Announcement joint was AWFUL, though, man.

Just didn’t sound quite right to me.

But it grew on me and now it's actually one of my favorites from that album.

And it's kinda a microcosm of the entire album as well - jarring at first but grew on me quickly.

I remember the first time I listened to Jimi Was a Rock Star...it was so chaotic, I turned it off.

>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.

One of the worst experiences I've ever had popping in a new album.......I still cant beleive he put this shit out

Cause yea - I don't even acknowledge that album exists most of the time.

But I like Dre's voice as a rapper, so I'm partial.

One of my favorites is his song with Tyler,The Creator where Game decides to rap like an Odd Future member.

(shoutout to Tyler making fun of Game's name dropping in his verse too)

https://youtu.be/gODGcVSzh1U

He executed Biggie's flow damn near flawlessly on this.
Off of his 'Fahrenheit 1 15 (The Truth Is Among Us)' mixtape from 2005.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=br-g_vxCjwg

matter of fact Your Old Droog's first tape was blatantly Nas too off course

Can't nobody tell me dat wasn't Rakim's flow.

Will did a great job emulatin the God!


https://youtu.be/Kr0tTbTbmVA

just saw this was already posted.

Nas wrote that and I think it's one of Will's best songs, but then again I could never think of Nas recording that song.

the song, off the album of the same name.

Will even shouts out “Nas Escobar” in that song. No writing credits listed for Nas in that one though, so it may have just been Will being influenced?

http://youtu.be/VDbUBN99xvc

Also hear Nas in “Chasing Forever”(one of Will’s best songs IMO), which he co-wrote.

http://youtu.be/tgKCJnB9518

Ironically, Big Willie Style sounds more like a Nas flow than Chasing Forever to me.

on this track "Big Willie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0izyAZKOGI

but I can't remember who the heck it was

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa_YVcq3Xzc


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"Everyone has a plan until you punch them in the face. Then they don't have a plan anymore." (c) Mike Tyson

"what's a leader if he isn't reluctant"

http://youtu.be/xkU9oVGr1KE

That song fucking sucks btw. lol

I came in here to say this, too.

Ruck was going to do an EP using different rappers' flows as an homage.
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