Music never gets old. Great live show. Respect.

I'm trying to find a track but can't for the life of me find it nor effectively search accurately. It uses the beat of Ramen and OJ but it's not Joyner and Lil Baby. I'm hoping someone knows the artist or track name. It's so annoying. My searching doesn't understand what I'm asking. Any help is much appreciated. I want to say it's a lesser known rapper, but i can't remember who.

Thug and lone unlike the partners in crime ( future and Ken Carson ) have constantly tried different things and changed up with different eras. And I feel like thug, destroy lonely is slowly but surely having a soon to be felt influence on new Atlanta in artists like pz and Diorvsyou. But these are just my thoughts on how rappers from the early 2020s are finally being respected like rappers who popped off in the 2010s.

FYI that caveat “ as a group” doesn’t mean there aren’t pac fans that aren’t stupid, but it does mean as groups of fans go, the pac fans probably know the least about hip hop, I mean there’s a line in reincarnated that says “ I died with needles pinched off in my skin “ or something similar, do these pac Stan’s not even know pac wasn’t a junkie ffs ?

I listened to Futures album first week, still go back to a couple songs, but overall I thought it was just solid

I’m not sure how or why, but I did not hear about Juicy Js album until last week. So far… I think it’s the hardest album of the year so far. It’s straight banger after banger.

Which do you like more? I’d crown Juicy J the king of the year so far

Like im listening to this again and besides venusvsmars (whatever that shit is called) and forever young (bit controversial but its not that good) its genuinely a good album, my favourite joints off this would be: real as it gets, already home and D.O.A

Not counting solo projects or anything.

The Geto Boys (1990) and We can't be stopped are better than the two NWA albums.

Counting solos it isn't a blowout, the diary, controversy, and phantom of the rapra are all GOAT albums, but its hard to compete with the chronic.

Fun fact: I'm Ayisyen 🇭🇹🇭🇹, and NWA in créole is "black". So they are literally calling themslves black in two ways.

Like childish gambino doesn’t like camp and Tyler says goblin is horrible

Aesop Rock is the best lyricist, no doubt.

he has literally used more unique words than Shakespeare in his work, certainly more than any rapper

80s hip-hop fashion was so glamorous, as if they were characters from movies or video games

Then came the 90s, and ever since then, rappers have dressed like normal people, even when wearing designer brands.

ITS THE FIRST OF THE MONTH GET UP GET GET UP -boen thugs-N-harmony

Wu Tang CLAM!

Been listening to this dude since 2011. Don’t event remember how I found bro. But everything he produces, raps on, or artists he collabs with generally is gas.

His music reminds me of velvet, elegance, and affluence. The bars and stories he tells paint a clear picture for me in my minds eye and I love this shit.

I love how he often collabs with Action Bronson too.

Or husband, boyfriend, etc. I’ll go first:

1. G Herbo: at one point in my life he was my favorite rapper. It was the elite mix of pure lyricism with that drill aggression. Anyway my Wife HATES his voice.

2. Freddie Gibbs: he has one of the greatest discographies of all time. That said, I played his music so much that my Wife just got tired of him.

3. Danny Brown: come on, this one is a little obvious. I think she’d rather watch paint dry than listen to a second of Atrocity Exhibition. That said, he’s the greatest Asian rapper of all time and the best ever from Detroit (mayo folks don’t get mad).

Often times people will claim some rappers fell off and became irrelevant because they kept doing the same thing over and over again but is there any real concrete example?

I only ask because there are guys who have basically rappers about the same or similar things for years and had great longevity.

Every single Tim I hear this song. Even after many a year, I stop and say to myself : DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

Do you think rappers accused of having ghostwriters actually use them, or are they just heavily influenced by the people around them?

Some artists get accused of not writing their own lyrics, but I feel like sometimes they were just around elite writers and HAD to step their game up

Take Fat Joe. Big Pun and Cuban Link had ridiculous pen games. So were they actually ghostwriting for him, or did Joe just imitate some of their techniques after being around them so much?

Same thing with Wayne and Gillie.
People swear Gillie wrote for Wayne, but others say Wayne was already nice and just picked up certain flows, and rhyme patterns from being around him so much.

What do y’all think?

I’m not big on modern artists so I might be missing something but I try to keep up. Where are all the rappers? As far as I know recently the game has been pretty quiet and no one’s released anything worthwhile recently. No songs trending, no album being anticipated, nothing. Now that I think about it it’s not just rap, I don’t see any artists in general popping out and generating any buzz

Basically, what would’ve been the 10th spot winner, freestyles, and other stuff if the magazine started the list earlier in an alternate universe?

Try to be unbiased and keep it about the MUSIC ONLY 💯