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I'll second that, man's developing some serious skills. Though, I liked his Check The Rhyme cover better, that was just straight on!

Maybe I just want rap to continue, but I'd compare it more to rock and roll. I think there's far more room for growth and diversity in rap then there is in doo-wop. Rock and roll was considered dead many times, yet it keeps getting revitalized. I think, hope, that rap is the same way.

Hey Ted, how did JJ/FP change the game? I think that Raising Hell changed the game massively by dramatically increasing raps fan base and significantly raising the bar for production value. The Chronic did the same thing as well as spawned a massive wave of gangsta rap. When I originally said these two are two of the major game changers, they REALLY changed rap. JJ/FP won the first grammy, but do you think that had as significant of an impact? How else did they change rap? Edit: Not trying to jump on the contraversy band wagon, I'm just curious as to what your rational is. :)

Maybe, I hope not though... And I kinda doubt it, all the other lyrics to the song are incredible, doesn't seem like he'd just make that one such a casual rhyme.

Yea, the entire line is effectively saying (like ya'll said) "we have more stores than poor nations have rice", basically a comment about the US's rampent consumerism in contrast to other area's of the world that are struggling to eat. But why "Buddha lazy" ? Is "Buddha lazy" a doctrine of thought? Why does that line end with the word "lazy" ?

Fugees Yea, I'm with ya, JJ/FP music is by far my favorite, but I don't really think any of their discs really changed the scene.

If that's legit, it's sad... but not that surprising. :worried:

How did that album change the game?

There's a bunch of skills that go into how good a rapper is. Lyrical content, wit, emotion, rhythm, delivery, voice, etc... The ability to create interesting rhyme schemes is one of these skills. The game changing albums tend to be by artists with great skills in a lot of these areas and take one of the areas to a new level. Often it's lyrical content, but it doesn't have to be.

I don't really think of Will as much of a user of metaphors, more of a story teller and party starter (mmm, punny) type of rapper. So ya, I think em does better in that catagory. Rhyme scheme? Prior to L&F I would have given it to em, but Will's technique got seriously pushed on that disc.

On the cussing, in particular in the Numero Uno section, where's the line drawn? Is replacing an 'i' with an '!' acceptable, or maybe first letter followed by dashes?

After googling, I came across something called "The Lazy Way" :davidblaine: , it doesn't really seem to clear anything tough, so I'm still confused. :wtf:

Wow, this is turning into a great discussion! Ya'll are mentioning a bunch of great discs.... All Eyez On Me - I don't really see this one as changing the industry, more of just a continuation/evolution of The Chronic and gangsta rap in general. Fear Of A Black Planet and Criminal Minded - These two albums went in the direction of thought-provoking rap and sharp, intelligent lyrics. I believe Criminal Minded predated Fear Of A Black Planet, and in my view it's better, but I'd say that P.E.'s joint was more important. While BDP really put thought provoking rap on the map, it didn't really cause a lot of change (many people biting it). P.E. though, that really shook things up. The Slim Shady LP - Yea, I think this shook things up a lot. It was the first main-stream push of lyrical content in years. (pushing it towards more brash) It was making this same push while becoming a HUGE success. Kurtis Blow - That man's a genius. Probably as much the cause of making rap a national craze as Sugar Hill Gang. The Score - Brilliant album, one of my all time favorites, but I don't really think it really changed hip-hop (which is a shame). After that hit, you didn't really get a big influx of music fusing reggae, rap, and killer vocals. Sure, it could be argued that it paved the way for people like Mary J Blige (vocals) or Shaggy (reggae), but the complete fusion with depth of lyrics didn't really get duplicated. Any album by Jay Z - He's the most over rated, non-talented pop rapper today. Dude needs to stop braggen about being a great freestyler and start taking time to write decent lyrics. But then again, many I'm just getting old and cranky. :)

I've been listening to Tell Me Why so many times now and for the life of me, I can't figure out what this lyric means: "... got rice under Buddha lazy" What's "Buddha lazy" ? I understand the whole we got more stores then they got rice, and I know who Buddha is, but the lazy part's seriously throwing me.

It's a trip what you remember. I was just listening to Homebase on mp3 and the track was on A Dog Is A Dog. Even though I hadn't done it in probably a decade, it suddenly occurred to me that I needed to flip the tape. I'm really not going anywhere with this story, it has no dramatic conclusion, I just found it odd that after 10 years of cd's and mp3's, the end of A Dog Is A Dog still sounds like a stopping point to me.

What albums do ya'll think truely, massively changed the rap industry? The types of albums that are extreamly rare and once they hit, rap can't go back to the way it was before. Two that I can think of are: Run-DMC - Raising Hell Dr. Dre - The Chronic What do ya'll think?

And the Burger Time Crown has been returned to its rightful heir. Wow, Level 6 is evil. I made it there with something like four guys and ten peppers and still didn't make it out. I had one more bun to drop and I had it, arg!

That's good man!

Great list! I'm on a huge Chuck Berry kick right now.

You don't need aol, you can watch videos on the web site.

I like it and the skits crack me up. This topic was created solely for Lerkots sake. :sick:

Damn! So you decided to bring a little game on this one. No problem, your scores tend to be like Bubba Sparks' music, top of the charts for 24 hours and then it quickly fades like a bad memory.

Isn't that Cedric The Entertainer? Wasn't he the voice on College Dropout as well?

I'm with AJ on this, get Tell Me Why on the radio and tv.

In the original question, would I be offended if a white rapper said "my n----" ? No. I think it would be stupid, but not offensive. The reason being is that words depending on context. If you have some white person saying "n----", then one would suspect that he/she is a racist individual. That's because, for many years, when a white person said "n----", he/she generally did intend it to be racist. However, the additional context of this white person being a rapper and using it as "my n----" kinda trumps white context. "My n----" coming from the mouth of a rapper is very obviously intended to be used as slang. So, it doesn't seem offensive. Stupid yes, un-needed yes, but offensive? Na. However, at the end of the day, while logically it's not offensive, many, many, many people will find it offensive, simply because of it's history and it's originally meaning. A while back I was ranting about my dislike for "that's so gay", so I thought I'd comment on why I find the use of "gay" wrong, but I just think that the use of "n----" (as used in the original post) is mearly stupid. In "that's gay", 'gay' is being used as a synonym for 'bad', however 'n----' is being used as a synonym for 'friend' or maybe 'man' or something similar. That's the main reason why I differentiate between the two.