"Unique & Excellent"
faux_rillz
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http://xxlmag.com/online/?p=1619NoMamesBuey Says: May 13th, 2006 at 2:16 pm Fort Minor as wack, WTF?!Did you or Kelefa Sanneh actually listed to Fort Minor???s ???The Rising Tied??? album? That was one of the BEST albums of 2005. Many agree with me on this opinion, including hiphopsite.com http://www.hiphopsite.com/SEARCH/?ITEM=78888C0F-1772-4D6D-9403-268A9158D1EF#reviewThe beats (all produced by Shinoda) are unique & excellent. I would rate Shinoda???s MC skills at the ???B level???. He???s definitely not at the ???world class A level of MC??? as say Nas/Black Thought/Jay-Z/Talib Kweli. However, he???s good/decent MC. Also the subject matter of Shinoda???s lyrics is interesting. To me A beats + B lyrics + interesting/unique subject matter = dope album (Ditto for Kanye BTW).It seems to me that many rap fans these days have a bias against ???MCs that are not authentic thugs???. It seems that the ???non-thugs??? have to be ???A level??? MCs to get any props. While ???D level??? thug MCs lack of lyricism is not criticized because they have ???a cool swagger??? or ???say good ???yeah??? adlibs??? WTF?!Now some of the ???thug??? rap is some of the greatest of all time. For instance Nas, Kool G. Rap, Notorious BIG, Jay-Z, Big Pun have rapped about selling crack, murder, etc. But much of the current ???thug raps??? frankly suck. Since rapping about selling crack has been done 1000 times, why would I want to listen to a ???D-level??? MC do it for the 1001st time when I got Nas/BIG/etc on my mp3 player already.Finally, check Shinoda???s ???Bloc Party??? verse of the ???Fort Minor We Major??? mixtape.Shinoda >> typical mediocre ???thug??? rapper such as Young Jeezy, Camron or 50 Cent. Shinoda ETHERS non-lyrical cats such as these. After listening to that Shinoda versed I mentioned, if you don???t feel me on this, we can agree to disagree. But I will have to conclude that you???re a horrible rap critic. In other words, my amateur rap 5-minute opinion ETHERS your ???professional??? rap critic job ???skills???
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It sounds like an absolute nightmare, the worst of both worlds
I like the scientific approach to evaluating rap, that starts with sifting rappers into skill levels A through D, and assigning corresponding grades to the "beats"...
Just want to make sure I've got this system down.
I sense you may not be ready for this science--you are already forgetting the third dimension: the unique and excellent subject matter that is irritable bowel syndrome.
good call. this rambling paragraph gives it away:
Actually, grades are magically bestowed upon emcees by Hiphopsite.com's editorial staff at the end of each calendar year, to correspond with the release of Skillz' "Year-End Wrapup" anthem. Grade letters may only be changed depending on an emcee's "developing conscious flavor," future collaborations with Dangermouse, and HHS.com sales slumps.
Shit, you're right. So using this system, that catipults this release over those with A rhymes and A beats, but NO unique & excellent subject matter?
I hung up my hiphopsite backpack years ago.
Last review I did for them was done waaaay back.
besides Mike Shinoda/ Linkin Park/ Fort Minor is not on my "unique and excellent" list
Kweli 4 vida!
LOL... what's particularly funny (or sad) about this is that just about every word of it could be true.
You're getting it. See also: Lupe Fiasco's "Kick Push" single.
The subject matter of skateboarding alone would have been sufficient to assure "B" status regardless of the quality of the beats and rhymes, but what really brought it to A level was unique and excellent narrative involving a budding romance between the protagonist and a female skateboarder.
This can't be real, Is this really a song? Wow, that is unique and interesting. It should have been called 'heelflip over my heart' though.
Yeah, it's real.
Honestly, I like the production and he rides the beat competently enough, but I don't know how anybody--including, or perhaps particularly, people that skate--could listen to the lyrics and not cringe.
unique and interesting:
cringe worthy: check
snowmen seem to have a special place in young regatta's heart
is that the same as "grinding"?
tepid at best.
That is all.
Ron Browz manager: You know my man produced "Ether" right?
Me: It's tattooed on his neck.
Perhaps you would like it better if it was a tale of adolescent romance fueled by a common interest in crack-slanging?
"I-P-R-O-D-U-C-E-D-E-T-H-E-R": 14-letter "choker" style tattoo?
But how much hotter would it have been if it was a tale of adolescent romance fueled by a desire to open competing adjacent record stores?
Unique & Excellent!
wow, what a tool! can suburnban losers please stop pretending they are black and from the inner city. its such a bad look.
Nothing can save this song.
Denny "Blazin" Hazen couldn't have said it better himself.