damn, heres a tissue

Rich Homie Quan - Heart Cold (2017, video)

I’m p sure Kokane’s singing style was more based off George’s 90s rap feature drug devastated throat than any of the classics. Baking soda free. 

Class remake of Back To The Hotel. Throwback YG is the best at it. 

Produced by The Mekanix. The synth heres a homage/redo of some classic I cant place at all, its def been in rap songs.

Unexpected shout outs for various reasons w Souls Of Mischeif and Fat Joe here. See, when people make it up as they go along you get the likes of “I got the AIDS” and “i aint got no cotex cos i aint bloody/ cos im not bloody i just get muddy/ then i get watery”

Kinda related, Ice Cube was asked the question twice within a year - “uh...... remember when you were young and idealistic and incapable of predicting the future? you dont have to remember, theres a music video!” Are there rap journalists to trust atm other than Nore and Snoop?

Special Ed - Im The Magnificent (1990, live)

Different take too

For someone so bit quotable it still doesnt feel right picking and choosing when his big pictures are so good. Theres another clip of him from the same great youtube channel where he nails maintaining the same cadence while going off the top thats something special. He does his own version of the tried and tested “my man in the reeboks, right, to the side of me” street performer trust exercise but in one of the least trite, most natural ways Ive ever seen, its cool. Like a literal lower case c conversation, Im sure urban dictionary has links to youtube videos with dead eyed lads in furry fedoras, defining what that word is in sentences that run on an infinite loop of pretty nonsense but he demonstrates it pretty clearly in under a minute - listening, reacting and turning thin air solid.

Gigilo Tony - Like I Do

 from the face

Sleepy Ru - Foreal ft. Zone 6 Sosa (2015)

LL is not on the reading list

he was a very good understated rapper. Never realised before but hes totally in the Trag “show dont tell" barrage of imagery+ jargon QB lane

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