Just throw loud ass earrapey 808s over drums and suspense synths and call it a day.
Lloyd Banks has made 3 mistakes here (or has been doing them for a while):
1) Not having DJ Drama to host the album. His presence here wouldn't have ruined the experience considering he wasn't even that present in the prior mixtapes of this series.
2) Banks gave up on the punchlines, his greatest lyrical quality, to focus on a conscious, self reflective lyricism, which is cool because it still is technical and he presents a brilliant expertise with rhyme schemes while doing it. But it ... read more
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On DJ Shadow - Endtroducing.....
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On Kendrick Lamar - DAMN.
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On Lloyd Banks - A.O.N. 3: DESPITE MY MISTAKES
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Unfortunately for you, i ain't going nowhere."
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I might write a review later. Don't know if Kendrick is worth my time."
On GloRilla - GLORIOUS
"@kumohs I just don't feel like Rap is a genre that fits the feminine gender. Female rappers always remind me of those child's play when a daughter is trying to cosplay her father by dressing like him and drawing a beard on her face. I respect the technical, lyrically focused female rappers a bit more than the sexualized mainstream ones, but they still irritate me to some degree."
On GloRilla - GLORIOUS
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On Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
"Cardi B is garbage, but she is rated higher because she is more enjoyable than Kendrick."
On Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
"@Dysphoros It's not because of Lupe, i'm not even a Lupe fan, i acknowledge his skills and i like some of his albums but that's it. You can stop trying to identify the root of my disdain towards Kendrick as a "rapper vs rapper" or "fanbase vs fanbase" now, because you are getting it all wrong. I simply dislike the dude. That's it."
On Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
"You putting Kendrick in the same bag as Lupe proves that you don't know about what you are speaking on. Lupe is cryptic for the sake of adding multiple entendres to his raps, Kendrick, who tries to imitate Lupe, ends up being a pretentious fuck with no actual depth because he doesn't have a piece of a fraction of the talent that Lupe does have when it comes to putting words together."
On Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
"@Dysphoros I don't owe anyone here a justification as to why i rate certain albums the way i do, nigga. Who the fuck do you think you are? Lmao. All i had to do was open your profile, saw TPAB as one of your favorite albums and shit instantly clicked."
On Kendrick Lamar - Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers
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On B307's review of Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson
"@B307 For sure.
360 Waves (Planet Asia, Killer Ben, Tristate, Alchemist), they are rapping for real on that project.
Alchemist's collabs with Prodigy such as Return of The Mac, Albert Einstein.
Alchemist's collabs with Curren$y (Covert Coup, Carrollton Heist).
Lord Steppington by Stepbrothers (Evidence and Alchemist). Evidence's first solo album (Weatherman LP) is mostly produced by Alchemist too and it has some of his best beats.
Yacht Rock 2, 1st infantry, Cutting Room Floor Series and Chemical Warfare are some of the projects from Alc with a bunch of decent guest rappers too."
On B307's review of Boldy James & The Alchemist - Bo Jackson
"Facts. I only listen to Boldy's albums because of his beat selection. His delivery is terrible."
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