Im always impressed by the ability of certain artists to take a flow or sound and make it their own or even better!

What are your favorite or least favorite examples of these?

I always saw Young Thug as an evolved ODB

Drake getting his rap style from Phonte of Little Brother is still pretty crazy. That’s like if the next superstar was inspired by Open Mike Eagle or something

Young Chris -> Jay-Z

Chief Keef is an evolved Gucci imo

Draft Day sounds like Jay Critch but better

Don Toliver is just a better Travis Scott

YB usin DaBaby flow

Tony perfected the Plug N B sound

Ross perfected the Luxury Rap sound

Luh Tyler usin Babyface old flow

Point me to the Babyface old flow?

All of Keef's sons
All of Thug's sons

That’s facts.

Desire

I'd say DMX before thug

Thug is like a devolved version of wayne

Slick Rick has a huge footprint and I generally like all the guys who cribbed off of him more. Andre 3k, Nas, DOOM etc.

What I love about this is not just that Drake really morphed his f***ing vocal chords to do a near 1:1 impression of Phonte’s voice, but all he did was evolve that specific style and incorporate his own sauce into it

How he made it so mainstream friendly is beyond me

He perfected Phonte's rap flow but Phonte's singing ability is way better.

Earl perfected the Slums sound.

Not a diss, this was great for all parties involved.

King Tee and Biggie immediately come to mind.

Biggie was lowkey heavily influenced by the West Coast in general.

What's crazy is that Kool G Rap has so many sons on the lowkey but his style has yet to be perfected.

Pun came close but G Rap is still in his 50's rapping sharp as ever.

Thug better than Weezy

Pharrell and Gwen Stefani took this and ran with it. It made her a solo superstar and Nicole Wray never got her due.

mario judah

thug owes a lot to wayne. idk what you’re referring to with DMX

Gucci Mane reminds me of Project Pat a lot in terms of flow and cadence

no lol