While it's no secret that I can't stand Drake,
I was a little intrigued by the mere lineup of this song. (Lil Wayne excluded. Seriously, who needs to hear him say that he's a Martian and whatever scatalogical euphemism he will throw at the competition.)
Well, I guess I was at least tempted to hear at least two of the top 10 rappers doing a song with a guy who's not fit to carry their weed.(There's that Drake-hate slipping out again. D'oh!)
When I say top 10, I mean in terms of popularity, as in, rappers my mom has heard of. Let's get into it...
Drake not only has the leadoff verse, he sings the hook, claiming to "shut shit down at the mall." Wow. You know who also used to "shut shit down at the mall?" Former teen pop star Tiffany. Looking forward to you posing in Playgirl in 15 years when your career is over, right before you have to go do The Surreal Life 39. [II] I'm not going to disparage the young Canadian any more, but let's just say his verse is severely lacking anything worth writing about, but I'll leave you with this. He starts off with "Last name "Ever"/First name "Greatest." Mmmm....nope.
(Honestly, he's already says he's more into R&B than hip-hop which is fine. Just stick to singing. In fact, just say "I'm not a rapper. I'm a singer," like when Young Jeezy claimed to be "a hustler not a rapper." No one had a problem with that...except hip-hop fans.)
On to Mr. West's verse. I'd love to see his New Year's resolutions. I think they'd be 1) Get back to rhyming, 2) lay off the Auto-Tune and 3) Keeping being an asshole. Done, done...and done. Since his verse on "Run This Town," it seems Yeezy has returned to form after alienating a chunk of his fanbase with R&B antics. As he talks about his rise to fame, he throws out this gem
"Y'all seen my story my glory/I had raped the game young/You can call it statutory." That's rhyming. That's what I want to hear from an MC. (These are those giddy little moments that make me obsess over music.) He also makes an allusion to Ferris Bueller's Day Off. I wonder if that was a shout-out to John Hughes, a Chicagoan. Probably not since he's still on New Year's resolution #3.
Lil Wayne's verse is a standard Lil Wayne verse. For those out of the loop, he's still a Martian and still from New Orleans. A bit of a snoozer. I'm thinking Lil Wayne might be the Dwight Gooden of hip-hop. He had a couple of productive years, messed around with drugs a couple jillion times and as a result burned out way too fast. Just a thought.
The Eminem verse was what I was waiting for. After Relapse, which wasn't a bad album, I wasn't sure if his time off had hurt him or what. That awful cartoony pirate voice he raps in on the majority of that takes away from how technical his rhymes are. When you listen to how he raps, he obviously cares about hip-hop and letting everyone know how dope he is. It's kind of important. It's less about the image and more about the substance with lines like "You dealin with a few true villains/Who stand inside of the booth truth spillin/ And spit true feelings, until our tooth fillings come flying up out of our mouths/Now rewind it!"
Yeah, that's hip-hop. Raw rhyming, the desire to let everyone know you're the best and why you're the best. Fuck "shutting shit down at a mall" because he just fucking shut down a song.
New school, please take notes.
Courtesy of OnSmash
4 comments:
this guy has no clue what the fuck he's talkin about. drake's verse hit harder then anyones. stop freakin out over kanyes cuz i didnt hardly feel it. i'm feelin drakes verse, guy who wrote this is a fag
and shuttin shit down in the mall i thought it was sick
Thanks, no one has called me a "fag" since high school.
It's bad enough being 15 sucks...word to The Beatnuts
Wowzers!
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