Skillz' "The Rap Up '05"
mannybolone
Los Angeles, CA 15,025 Posts
talk about running a one-time gag into the ground...http://spinemagazine.com/music/december/madskillz/therapup2005.mp3
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Unless he included a line about himself making these tired rap ups, I ain't even trying to hear it.
yueah. Engough already. ISnt every year the "Last year"
I agree, but still falls short of the spectacular hyperbole Skillz would have you believe he has recorded in his lifetime (especially to sycophants on Okayplayer)...
he's made a couple good records, but not nearly enough to justify his 15 year "career"
Point noted.....
and....
Neither "mind-blowing" nor "good."
10 years later, "tip of the tounge" is the only track that i bump from time to time
somewhere in the middle then.
i still bump all but one track off this LP.
and i doubt skillz would try to justify his 15 career based on lp output alone.. it's all about the ghostwriting.
dude can rap, stop the hate.
Word, I remember liking Extra Abstract Skills the most. That Large Pro beat is nice and Tip comes off. But overall, Skillz as an MC I thought was just
That one-liner style of rhyming gets old quick to me personally. See also: Chino XL, Kieth Murray, 'Tash (of the Alkaholiks), etc., etc.
Mind-blowing, no, but I think it's a little harsh to say that it wasn't a decent album. Of course, I only have one record of the two, so maybe the other one was just shit.
The first rap up was funny... last year's sucked ass. Time to retire it.
Definitely:
On 2pac:
In a shocking lapse in his once-remarkable posthumous work ethic, Tupac Shakur somehow failed to put out a new album this year: It appears that dying in 1995 is finally starting to catch up with him.
On Lil Romeo:
On the puzzlingly titled Romeo! TV Show (The Season) Master P progeny/Nickelodeon heartthrob Lil Romeo delivers bland, Casio-crafted, teenybopper-friendly pop-rap with a disturbingly robotic proficiency. It's as if a secret government lab set out to engineer an exact cross between C-Murder and Aaron Carter.
On Peter Gallagher:
Remember that episode of The OC where Gallagher ticked off his wife and made it up by singing to her? That was fun. A full album of Gallagher karaoke, on the other hand, is hard to take. Gallagher has a decent, thoroughly undistinguished voice that's two notches above Bruce Willis and about 18 notches below the famous soul stars he covers here.
I don't think it was a shit album but decent is not the same as good. A decent meal = passable. A good meal = a good meal.
Speaking of Supernat:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5074221&ft=1&f=1039
Nerd Hip-Hop, Flowing Like Han Solo
Listen to this story... by Jim Colgan
Day to Day, November 7, 2005 ?? "Geek rap," with rhymes and references to Star Wars heroes and scientific theories, is gaining ground on the Internet. Jim Colgan reports on the trend, and talks with a few of the genre's superstars.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4992405
Geek rap now defined by =
if the rapper rapping sounds bored it's time to hang it up
Somehow, this makes it all the more sad.
Somehow, this makes it all the more sad.
why is there a murs record on the wall?
[sarcasm]because Murs fucking rules man![/sarcasm]