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Topic subjectPhonte just dropped 2021 verse of the year
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3031547, Phonte just dropped 2021 verse of the year
Posted by DJR, Fri Apr-02-21 12:19 PM
I just ran this about 30 times in a row.

http://youtu.be/0EWNX-rhALg
3031549, Dude is very, very nasty...
Posted by Dstl1, Fri Apr-02-21 12:50 PM
and I don't even think it's overstating it, to say he's one of the best lyricists of our time. Not getting into albums, or careers or anything else. Phonte raps better than or as well as anyone. I can't count how many times I've heard him destroy an artist, while doing a guest verse. I've felt this way for a long time, but it really hit me one day when I was messing around on YT. I came upon these Rate the Bars videos and there's one with Rapsody. They had her read some bars and she from Phonte...and she was just in awe. The scale was 1 to 5, she gave it a 6. Then they told her who it was. He's been so ill for so long.

https://youtu.be/NDdezQLTYgk?t=369
3031550, Completely agree on all of that
Posted by DJR, Fri Apr-02-21 01:08 PM
I saw that Rapsody Rate the Bars too. Great stuff.

3031634, He's my GOAT. I aint just saying that
Posted by Geah, Tue Apr-06-21 12:21 PM
nm
3031641, Yeah. I’m there too
Posted by DJR, Tue Apr-06-21 05:35 PM
3031652, Ha he really may be mine too.
Posted by Brew, Tue Apr-06-21 09:17 PM
Common has always topped my personal list for a number of reasons, and depending on the day he probably still does.

But I enjoy Phonte's music at a level pretty much even with how much I enjoy Common's best music at this point.

My personal top 5 is as follows now:

Common
Posdnuous
Andre 3000
Phonte
MF DOOM

Next 3:

Black Thought
Nas
Royce 5'9

No particular order on either list. Need to figure out who would round out my top 10 so I can just use that list instead of doing the rotating top 5 I've been doing with these 8 for the past few years lol.
3031551, RE: Phonte just dropped 2021 verse of the year
Posted by spidey, Fri Apr-02-21 01:28 PM
Maybe the best doing it in 2021...Beast on MIC...
3031555, He fucking murdered that shit.
Posted by mrhood75, Fri Apr-02-21 03:11 PM
I don't know what that's from, but I'm copping it.
3031556, It just comes so so so easily to him.
Posted by Brew, Fri Apr-02-21 03:13 PM
He says as much at the beginning of that verse.

But man. Like a few have already mentioned, he's among the best to ever rap no question. But I think in terms of making it look effortless, he does it better than anyone.

He's got a great rap voice too.
3031561, "when them Central refunds had me in a Coppin State"
Posted by poetx, Fri Apr-02-21 10:00 PM
come the fuck on.

it's so much packed in that one line.

and all his shit pretty much like that. phonte's lyrics always reward a close listen.


peace & blessings,

x.

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focus on working hard you end up making someone else rich and
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3031663, As an NC A&T alumnus...I felt that line...
Posted by ChampD1012, Wed Apr-07-21 05:37 PM
If you know...you know...
3031563, Don't sleep on IAMNOBODI
Posted by Nabs, Sat Apr-03-21 05:26 AM
Elevated, Dearly Beloved, Footprints... all his beat tapes are flames. I think he'd be a favorite on OKP.
3031564, thanks
Posted by thebigfunk, Sat Apr-03-21 06:11 AM
Was wondering who that was -- will put on the to-listen pile right away.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~
3031569, IAMNOBODI is amazing!
Posted by spitfire, Sat Apr-03-21 06:03 PM
dude got so much heat
3031750, I never heard of him before this
Posted by DJR, Sun Apr-11-21 05:44 PM
But have been listening to a lot of his stuff since. And yeah, I agree. I’m a new fan.
3031570, What is the name of the song?
Posted by blackfoot_female, Sat Apr-03-21 07:06 PM
.
3031571, Let It Roll Interlude
Posted by DJR, Sat Apr-03-21 07:09 PM
It’s producer IAMNOBODI’s song.
3031572, SOLID!
Posted by Shaun Tha Don, Sat Apr-03-21 08:48 PM
3031635, Phonte is the rapper whose rhymes I most identify with.
Posted by Buddy_Gilapagos, Tue Apr-06-21 03:34 PM
Like for almost the last 20 years dude has been rapping about the stuff that's actually going on in my life.

Feels like coming up with somebody.

He's also one of the few rappers who has also figured out how to rap as a grownup. Only a few elite rappers have figured out how to do that (Nas & Jay for example).



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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"
3031640, Easily
Posted by DJR, Tue Apr-06-21 05:35 PM
3031642, i felt this.
Posted by kinetic94761180, Tue Apr-06-21 05:38 PM
and i wholeheartedly agree.
3031739, His pen game still impeccable. Flow too.
Posted by spirit, Sun Apr-11-21 07:33 AM
He’s just one well placed cameo away from the fame he doesn’t even seem to want.

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com
3031751, He’s like Thought
Posted by DJR, Sun Apr-11-21 05:46 PM
in that everybody who knows, knows. The rappers know.

3031740, Would fight anybody to get a Phonte/Elzhi album going
Posted by spirit, Sun Apr-11-21 07:42 AM
>I just ran this about 30 times in a row.
>
>http://youtu.be/0EWNX-rhALg

Just throwing that out there in case Tay is reading this thread LOL

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com