1. Less Red Tape - You wanna know what the one upside of nobody selling records is? No one is going to sue you for uncleared samples if your album only sells 7,000 copies! More sampling = better beats. (more…)
1. Rappers With Feelings - Who told all these Leaders Of The N00b School rappers that rhyming about being depressed, lonely and emotionally vulnerable is the what’s hot out on the mean streets of the rap game? Stick to the script, for fucks sake. The only time it’s acceptable to show any sign of emotion is when you’re:
a) Making a song dedicated to your deceased mother/buddy/pet.
If you fux wit Blog Rap, then there’s a good chance you’re typing out shit like “Jay Elec. ‘Exhibit C’ >>>>>> ” in every comment section and Twitter feed you can access. Admittedly, he seems to be the best of the current crop of Leaders Of The N00b School rappers, but the fact that he may have the worst handle in rap and seems to be display some emo tendencies is preventing me from wholeheartedly co-signing his movement at this stage. (more…)
Not surprisingly, between having my not exactly stellar memory jogged by everyone’s suggestions in the comments and taking a quick glance through my own archives, I have some important additions to the original line-up.
Blog Rap
Your YouTube freestyle has 50,000 views, but nobody in the real world knows who you are? You’re a Blog Rapper.
TV Guide Rap
Everyone from Bud Bundy to Parker Lewis to David Silver from 90210 has thrown their Cross Colors hat in to the ring over the years. A perfect example of when ‘doing you’ goes horribly wrong. (more…)
There are so many different types of rap today that almost anybody’s taste can be catered to. But how do you keep up with them all? Let’s take a quick look at some of the important rap genres that are out there right now…
Shout Rap
During the mid-80’s, Shout Rap was the move. Run-DMC perfected it and thousands followed until Rakim shut that shit down with his laid-back, precise delivery on ‘Eric B. Is President’. M.O.P., Bumpy Knuckles and Willie D keep it alive to this day.
Weed Carrier Rap
You got your deal because your boy had a hit. See: Bravehearts, Drag-On, St. Lunatics, Flipmode, D-12 etc.
Whisper Rap
Some people think that Young Chris from the Young Guns invented this technique. These people are morons. LL Cool J created that shit on his first album on joints like ‘I Want You’ and, more famously, ‘I Need Love’ on the follow-up. Currently still popular with Jay-Z and Termanology. (more…)
The debut album from Matter ov Fact and EP for your listening pleasure. This is the kind of shit that the Conservative Rap Coalition fux with on the regular.
2010 will mark the sixth year of Unkut Dot Com’s time online, so it might be a good chance to shake things up a little over here. With the ground-breaking work of establishing the Conservative Rap Coalition and another surprise project in the works, is there anything else you’d like to see at Unkut in the future? I’ve been considering adding coverage of video games and even toyed with the idea of a compiling a printed collection of the best of the site…but what else is needed to continue to get dumb on these crumbs for another six years? More booze? More broads? Or as CAP once put it, ‘Not bigger, not better….but MOAR!’
So let’s just say that the results from the first two rounds of this survey have been a combination of disturbing, disgusting and just plain disgraceful. But that’s what happens when you run a poll sometimes – you can’t control who votes for these things once they’re let loose over the intehnets. In this case, it would appear that a bunch of ringers that consider fruit-flavored rap to be the truth decided to drop by and eff shit up. Instead of just pitting the winners of the first two rounds against each other – Kanye West with a staggering 57% of the votes from Round One, and Q-Tip with a respectable 28% in the Second – I’ve decided to include the top 3 from each, which at least gives the voters the opportunity to redeem themselves with a more deserving winner. Failing that, I could always just rig this shit….
Most Mobb Deep fans would generally agree that The Infamous… and Hell On Earth represented Hav and P at the peak of their abilities. As luck would have it, a never-before heard track recorded for the Hell On Earth sessions has made it’s way into my possession, courtesy of the ever-vigilant GT CREW.
This just arrived in the inbox via UK correspondent crate digga. Basically, if the top 50 rappers of the world were someone wiped-out in nuclear explosion, this karaoke master would be be able to hold it down for dolo….assuming the rest of the population had their hearing destroyed by that same nuke attack.
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