i don't care if you are a virtuoso rapper
any more than i care if you are a virtuoso singer
or virtuoso guitar player.


if you don't have a hook, you don't have a song.
(it doesn't have to be a pop hook, though. even great jazz songs have hooks)

i did count a few albums in that thread that I've given heavy burn to.
Amerikkka's most wanted is the only one in my top 20, though.




>at least three of the albums listed here
>http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=5&topic_id=2533825&mesg_id=2533825&page=
>aren't in your top 20, and at were time were in heavy
>rotation, meaning there are a couple of songs you can spit
>line for line.
>
>It gets questionable if you place all of those three in the
>bottom tier of your 20.
>
>Now this doesn't mean you don't like rap music or aren't a
>hip-hop head, but you're likely more attracted to the other
>elements than to rapping itself. You like rapping which
>accessorizes hot beats, or your perception of 'street
>culture', or even da bitches that get down to it. But rapping
>itself, you could probably take or leave.
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>
>"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."