is the BEATNUTS any good?
youngEINSTEIN
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they are one of my favorite groups since the first e.p. i really like there nonsense music style. does anyone else like em? peace, stein. . . 
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I got that whitelabel 12" of it but I never found the actual promo 12" of this. Does anyone know if it exists?
"I make bitches make me sandwiches and scratch my ass when it itches"
S/N-My mom used to have MAD Los Angeles Negros records and she used to play the hell out of them and I never heard the song they sampled for "Do You Believe," so you know dem foo's dig deep.
beatnuts rhymes=
sometimes psycho les just doesnt do it for me, and that says a lot because i hardly ever listen to what rappers are saying.
so, overall, beatnuts get a thumbs up.
couldn't even stand the reign of the
Socco
Wow, is that what WinAmp looks like? That's a really ugly interface...
yeah well, thats why I tend to LISTEN to winamp in stead of looking at it...
this press release actually has real BULLET holes in it
THAT'S WHAT'S DOPE ABOUT THEM, THEY KNOW THEY DONT HAVE THE ILLEST FLOWS, BUT THE DIGS AND THE FLIPPAGE AND THE DRUMS. MAN THE NUTS ARE ONE OF MY TOP 5
THEY ARE THE PRODUCERS RAPPERS, JUST HEARING THEM TALK ABOUT DIGGIN, AND SAMPLES,A ND DRUMS AND EQING AND NOT REALLY HAVING MUCH ELSE TO SAY IS ENOUGH FOR ME
i mean, they arent the worst emcees in the world by any means, but compared to jayz, nas, biggie, etc. they aint really cuttin it.
they definitely have some quotables, and i do appreciate them talking about digging and making beats.
but you know, they're still kinda
when i pop the trunk, hit the deck.....
Has anoyone else ever rapped thier sample?
This guys have really harsh lyrics, but they are funny and make great beats.
"I like my girl nice and sleazy with a gun tattoo on her ass that says 'squeeze me'"
maybe heads are keeping quiet.
They make thier own beats and do nothing but talk about beats, girls and getting fucked up. Sounds like everyday on Soulstrut!!!!!!
True, they aren't called the Lyricnuts for a reason. But they do at least know how to flow to a track, which is more than you can say for a lot of rappers these days, and Psycho Les is fucking hilarious.
So yeah, The Beatnuts are fucking great. Or at least I should say they were great. There's definitely been a diminishing returns thing going on with each album of theirs.
Cosign. The Beatnuts have been slowly falling off for at least 3 albums. The EP and subsequent album were classics (a word I do not employ often), and then they had some serious bangers on otherwise OK albums, but they have put out some seriously long, extremely crappy albums over the last couple of years, many of which have not even had a single real banger.
What troubles the beatnuts is the same thing that plagues so much rap music - lackluster rhymes. beatnuts (and you can throw blacksheep into that group too) make great music, but their lyrics acutally DETRACT from the beats. rarely do i want to sit and listen to an album from the nuts cuz those lyrics are just oo wack. compare that to cl smooth or guru, who complement, but don't enhance, their respective producers' music... or compare it to the biggie, rakim, etc who do.
I absolutely LOVE The Beatnuts, from the first EP to the present-day. I find their albums very entertaining and well-done. Psycho Les cracks me up with the tripped out shit he raps about, but quiet as kept, Junkyard Ju Ju is an underrated MC in my opinions (check "No Escapin' This" and "Straight Jacket" as examples). The 'Nuts definitely gets love from the Big Stacks, and their crate exploits are incredible!!!
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak