Polo Shiesty

5y

Helped catapult one of the craziest runs in hip-hop, nobody was messing wit 69 around this time cuz of his pedo allegations but this interview helped clear some things up

quadra

5y

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/24/arts/music/drake-rap-influence.html

At the end of 2009, the most popular song in the country was “Empire State of Mind,” the hoary, inflated, thudding collaboration between Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. It was perhaps the final evolutionary form — a mealy and edgeless arena ballad — of the rapper-singer collaborations that, over the prior two-plus decades, had come to dominate hip-hop and, increasingly, pop.

By that point, the formula — a rapper brings narrative, and a singer brings pathos, joy or sensuality — was still largely unquestioned. But in truth, songs like this had become rote and unimaginative.

That same year, someone finally noticed, and in one fell swoop, solved the problem.

Drake’s “So Far Gone” mixtape — released in February 2009 — marked the arrival of new path: singing as rapping, rapping as singing, singing and rapping all woven together into one holistic whole.

SHAQUILLE

5y

Was a huge L in hindsight seeing as GOOD gave his labels biggest star his highest charting song just a couple weeks later lol

safe

5y

Lou Reed Yeezus review

laudi

5y

Which song?

safe

5y

I’m guessing party with ghost town

Bow And Arrow

5y

https://pitchfork.com/features/article/the-plight-of-the-kanye-superfan/

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