http://yourolddroog.bandcamp.com/album/it-wasnt-even-close

1. Gyros
2. RST (feat. DOOM and Mach-Hommy)
3. Tried By 13 (Vaclav Havel)
4. Bubble Hill
5. World’s About To End
6. Babushka
7. Funeral March (The Dirge) (feat. Mach-Hommy)
8. Devil Springs
9. Smores (feat. Lil Ugly Mane and Wiki)
10. Ugly Truth (HOMMO Mix)
11. Chasing Ghosts (feat. Roc Marciano)
12. Haunted House Beat (Not a House Beat)
13. 90 From The Line

the best DOOM's sounded in a lil bit to me

...probably the best of the "grimy slow bap" records thats out today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUGYqnXtB3Y

wish this made the album

I’ve read good things about this. Deciding if it’s worth checking out or not. I’m having trouble getting past my intro to him a few years ago.

Certainly by the time “Packs” dropped.

>Certainly by the time “Packs” dropped.

Its really like nothing else I ever heard

I mean, Bronson's Ghostface biting is pretty
bad too but even I've enjoyed a Bronson record
or two

This Droog shit is completely unlistenable

And LOL @ "that's his voice"

No, stop it


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"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

Off Mach and his buzz.

This shit used to be unacceptable.

Either way, it’s corny and the opposite of art.

And even if dude has pumped the breaks a little, he
got his buzz by dropping a tape where he literally
wanted people to think it was nas.

How are people ok with that?

If it wasnt for that, he’d be SoundCloud status.

Nah. Vulture status. And corny.

..what about the sleepy wu tang sounding beats? we let those slide ...i mean, theres some record execs who didnt sign Nas because they thought he sounded too much like Rakim ..silly right?

That said, Dude would sound better on some more up tempo shit..

He was the opener @ the PRhyme show I saw in Boston a few years back and his Nas biting floored me. He also just seemed super corny in general, beyond the Nas thing - like he was trying too hard to act swaggy or whatever. Everything about him and his entire act comes off as forced and unnatural. So even if he can rhyme I just can't/don't enjoy his music.

Plus his name is stupid.

The music this dude is making is tight. Even if you wanted to say his voice sounds like Nas, (it doesn't IMO since his last few releases) his music sounds NOTHING like Nas. Beats, subject matter, the artists he works with, structurally, I could go on.

This dude has been judged on everything other than the music that he makes since his intro (I also think it was sort of corny and that he wanted people to think he was Nas for a while). Let's move on.

If you genuinely don't like his raps (lol cuz everyone will give some detailed critique now like they haven't been screamin "he sound like nas!!!" exclusively for years) don't listen, but people are startin' to sound like strait haters- no reason for disliking other than personal crap, about a dude you don't know. "he's corny!", "That's not his real voice!", "He's a vulture!".

All I want to hear about is the beats or the rhymes. This is music people, not a popularity contest.

Don't care about any of that extra shit.

Dude just sounds exactly like Nas. I've heard every
argument. I understand his "lane is different."

But he sounds exactly like Nas.

Like I said: I *want* to like this guy.

To each his own though. Maybe our ears just work differently.

to me he’s the kid who seemingly tried to make people think he was Nas. So why would I care about “him”?

There’s too much music out there and I don’t got time for technically solid rappers who I don’t give a fuck about. I’m too old for that.

So that’s why I asked. Is he still a Nas biter? That’s all I know and remember him for. As wack as that is, I’m willing to move on if he is(because I trust that he may be legit talented if he could almost pull that Nas biter shit off). He’s gotta be able to move on beyond that and make people care about HIM though, IMO.

>to me he’s the kid who seemingly tried to make people think
>he was Nas. So why would I care about “him”?
>
>There’s too much music out there and I don’t got time for
>technically solid rappers who I don’t give a fuck about.
>I’m too old for that.
>
>So that’s why I asked. Is he still a Nas biter? That’s
>all I know and remember him for. As wack as that is, I’m
>willing to move on if he is(because I trust that he may be
>legit talented if he could almost pull that Nas biter shit
>off). He’s gotta be able to move on beyond that and make
>people care about HIM though, IMO.

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

if you're curious, take some of your precious time (that you seem to have, since you took the time to write in this post) and give it a listen. if you don't you don't. doesnt matter really. peace

LOL

to each his own tho.

especially throughout the years since his eponymous debut, it's harder and harder to make that comparison IMO. his style, his topics, his references, all have more in common with someone like Sean P or DOOM than Nas. again, not arguing what you should like, but the comparison has little basis in 2019.

Appreciate the info though. I’ll try to give it a listen and see what I think.

Very dope project...dude got it...

Personal hatred mind you. I never discouraged anyone else from listening, but I just couldn't indulge in this dude.

He has officially won me over though. This project is very well executed all around.

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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)

gives off hella DOOM-meets-roc marci vibes, dope guest appearances and y.o.d. is rapping very well here

my favorite thing about it though is that he dropped it on the 25th anniversary of illmatic...a troll after my own heart

Just for name-checking Kris Kristofferson & VACLAV HAVEL

WITHIN 3 LINES OF EACH OTHER:

Lack of fuck to give, still try to be to productive
Droog ain't a loud-mouth or a gossiper (no)
Just lay low and you'll prosper
Existential dread ain't nothing
But a Rasta philosopher, listen (what?)
Got more hits than Kris Kristofferson
So lames better have em offers out when they Hoffa-ing
Get those checks out like Vaclav Havel
Same punks to front a gun and come back groveling

He is mad deep with the lyrics....

"Even America's Dad had the Bar B Que Sauce"

-To break that line down you had watched the cosby show on the regular...

definitely will end up on my year-end list. dude's strung together a couple really strong projects in a row now.

I'm an open minded dude, man

I really am

That said: DO NOT TRY TO TELL ME this dude just *happens* to
sound that way.

Seriously, GTFOH

But he is definitely talented

>
>I'm an open minded dude, man
>
>I really am

feeling yourself much? lol

Imo, he’s a different emcee since then. He’s much more quirky.
He’s more MF DOOM than Nas.

Sheesh

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O_E: "Acts like an asshole and posts with imperial disdain"




"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

okay that is it. Got damn, it's so easy to be white lol


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

He’s got influences.
Shit - he’s one of the emcees in today’s climate making good music
for us heads that still want stuff that respects, builds off of, and tips cap to the 90s
and the music we and he grew up loving.

... he can rap for sure, but musically this does *not* sound at all like the stuff we love from the 90s IMO. I could not get into it.

>Imo, he’s a different emcee since then. He’s much more
>quirky.
>He’s more MF DOOM than Nas.


i'd say more like a blend of Nas, Roc Mari & DOOM..

He has his influences, like all emcees.