Last good song you listened to?
- Thread starter Archie Moses
- Start date
[video=youtube_share;86_TqlVQscQ]https://youtu.be/86_TqlVQscQ
New Phoenix
New Phoenix
Hartsock
Banned
I dont listen to the radio like at all, but I kept hearing about this Macklemore guy. Happened to accidentally hear "Thrift Shop" the other day and god damn that tune has a catchy hook. Macklemore is a god awful terrible rapper with no flow, but damn that hook, that hook is catchy. Song is pretty tolerable, but Macklemore sucks balls.
Jump off a cliff into a pit filled with rotting scrotums.
(I was a Macklemore fan before he became famous.)
Hartsock
Banned
So you liked him when he just sucked at rapping and didnt have a catchy chorus to go with it?
QuinSnydersHair
Well-Known Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ahVjnzZ3ZPg#t=1s
Gonna have to agree with Hartsock on this one. It was hard to listen to that song all the way through. First time I've ever heard this dude, but definitely not a fan.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7nCt6vWOxQ
I put him into the category with most other overly-conscious rappers, incredibly boring. Thrift Shop is a fun song though.
There's a reason The Heist hit number one on iTunes nearly immediately as an independent and started out number 2 on the Billboard 200 in it's first week. Thrift Shop was the latest single released; he had plenty of success before this playful song hit your radar. I've never seen an independent reach the successes he has. Not even Tech 9 in many respects.
I get the feeling your snickering is based on hearing a single song from a funny *** dude who has fun with life. Macklemore has a refreshingly new style and talks about other **** than hoes, AK47's and money he's blown, and is a helluva lot more than a voice with no brain who's only claim to fame is Jay-Z bought him a few million dollar tracks that someone else created.
You don't have to like him but his rapping is not as bad as you think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHRkHFxD-xY
Hartsock
Banned
Just as bad as I thought actually. That song is beyond mediocre ... and who are you referring to in the bolded part?
Mediocre? Okay.
You got it all wrong anyway. Macklemore takes that underground "real" hip-hop, storytelling style and puts listenable music with a lot of texture behind it. He's no Mos Def of Nas, not even close. Then again, if either of them could make music like Macklemore and Ryan Lewis then people would listen to them again too.
I'll take Mack over underground garage beats with great rappers or great beats with garbage rappers (like Drake) all day long.
Game6Conley
Well-Known Member
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zr3kFh89Ab0
song, full album. who cares. great backround music too. (kind-of Drum+Bass, but its classy. violins and ****)
song, full album. who cares. great backround music too. (kind-of Drum+Bass, but its classy. violins and ****)
Hartsock
Banned
Nas new album was surprisingly decent. Mos Def has always been overrated as a rapper, Drake has one good song (November 18th) .... Just because Macklemore is selling albums does not mean he is good, not by any stretch of the imagination. I dont hate his music, I just think it is soooo boring. But I totally respect your desire to want to be bored.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52d1CcpEEl8
Sorry for whoring out Aesop, but he is thee best. That is all.
Sandy Braille
Banned
Aesop is the best? Gott in Himmel.
Mos and Lupe blow that clown out of the water, and it is not even close. I cannot believe you can listen to that Aesop track, and then listen to Mos tracks and consider them "overrated'.
Sigh.
Here is what will always separate a musician of Def's calibre with some lollipop rapper like Ae$$sOp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7zUR-4HtgY
And if you really think that ***-hop can even sniff the cadence and flow of Bey, then I do not know what to tell you.
Confirm me, frank.
Mos and Lupe blow that clown out of the water, and it is not even close. I cannot believe you can listen to that Aesop track, and then listen to Mos tracks and consider them "overrated'.
Sigh.
Here is what will always separate a musician of Def's calibre with some lollipop rapper like Ae$$sOp:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7zUR-4HtgY
And if you really think that ***-hop can even sniff the cadence and flow of Bey, then I do not know what to tell you.
Confirm me, frank.
Hartsock
Banned
Mos Def and Lupe Fiasco ? You have got to be ****ing kidding me? Lupe is as lollipop tween ****ty **** rap as it gets. Mos is only relevant because of people who think they are socially conscious try to tolerate him and because he is an ok actor. My brain hurts right now from trying to deal with your last post. That song you posted, not a terrible song, but I would compare that to D'angelo before I compared it to Aesop or even Lupe for that matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEBGCOCxLgA
Lupe sucks ween, that is all.
MF Doom is better than all of those dudes, so quit arguing.
I have a hard time getting into Aesop though. I like him, but I could never fully ever love his stuff. I have a really hard time following his stories because you really have to focus in on what he is saying.
I have a hard time getting into Aesop though. I like him, but I could never fully ever love his stuff. I have a really hard time following his stories because you really have to focus in on what he is saying.