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>It's not about "acting". it's about having an innate power that grabs the listener and attracts them to you. Jay-Z has it. even when he's not at top form, he sounds dope and people like him. Mos has it. Common has it. Black Thought does not.
-i think it's all passe. i totally understand your point, & i agree that he ain't "animated" at all, but that's what i love about dude.
>take Love of my Life. I guarantee you that if you asked 100 people whose verse they waited for on that song, it would be Common. that's because it doesn't matter if Thought spits the most incredible rhymes, he still doesn't have that magnetic charisma. it's the same thing on Super Lyrical with Big Pun. by the time Pun is done his verse, you don't even feel like listening to BT spit.
-but you still admit that he "spits the most incredible rhymes".
-it made *somebody* relate, right?
>you don't get it. it IS the same Thought, and that's the problem. if he didn't have the Roots behind him, he would still be in South Philly spittin and trying to get a deal.
-horse shit.
>there's a lot more to MCing than raw verbiage...it's about how you present yourself, your voice, and the soul that leaks onto the track.
-ok, you're starting to lose me again. you make it sound like dude is some sort of a dork.
-i suppose this is another one of those things that comes down to preference (like the rest of this 'ish) but i still say i care about what's said, moreso than how.
i get it, though.
>charisma matters because you can hear it when an MC spits. listen to a Mos Def song. when he spits about water you can feel the sense of urgency in his voice. when he talks about a girl with a fat ass you feel like he's your boy just tellin you about it with a bigass smile on his face. it's not the same way with Thought. when he talks about how much he loves Amina, you don't know whether it really happened. it's not as convincing. what Mos does is injected with charisma.
-i feel you. but, i guess i'm struck because i keep getting the feeling that you're exaggerating a bit.
you ain't so wrong, though.
>i think this comes down to standards.
-word.
>you favor the vocal and lyrical gymnastics of this shit, am i right?
-not so much. although that surely is part of it, i like to think that it all comes full circle w/ quality.
-i appreciate your op.'s, though.
f'real.
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