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"Now you dealing with a group of kids that grew up doing school shooter drills since they was in second grade. Like their music is gonna sound frenetic"

"very chaotic very chaotic and so I think you know that's their expression so it's like it it goes against everything from my era that I feel but I understand that that's their era and every generation is supposed to break the rules"

Nice way of saying y’all crazy & y’all music suck because of it

Phonte will always be the goat

Shout out to DMX for just s***ting on music he doesn't like with no disclaimers or care for their feelings

Every kid was gonna rap like KRS till they did the school shooting drill

He’s trying to make a sophisticated response for something that’s very cut and dry.

The formula was set in the early 10s that being ridiculous as hell personality wise and having catchy beats will get you on. SoundCloud era is a result of that formula and these kids were raised on the SoundCloud era. There’s no artistry anymore. Just kids seeing easy money making a couple TikTok hits then surving off an obnoxious social media persona.

Idk but whatever it is got these youngins droppin bangers on these dust heads

Currently listening to Speakerboxxx

Intro reminds me of ATLiens

Ngl....Phonte must feel both proud and sad at the same time that the biggest rapper in the world raps just like him lol.

Connected, Minstrel Show, and Charity Starts At Home are still some of my fave rap projects.

Breaking the rules in 2024 would be writing 16 bars about a discernible topic.

Drake

It's Phontigga

i mean he not wrong but also most of gen z just tryna have fun rn and or they rappin bout the streets that they may or may not be in

kinda crazy he was the OG drake. Phonte really one of them ones

Conflicted for sure. In a way that’s the baton pass of hip hop in a nutshell. It wouldn’t have survived without it

We did it guys, we're officially in the school shooter era of hip hop

Key word LITTLE Brother

Phonte ego is ridiculous and from his own recount of the story it seems to me like he pushed 9th out of the group because he was insecure about the producer being the star and had delusions of being the big star rapper.

If you listen to them talk about why 9th couldn’t be in the group anymore it’s such a stupid and flimsy excuse. They said they went on a tour for 2 weeks while 9th did production for Jay Z and then when 9th tried to get back with them they felt like he had been gone too long and they developed a bond without him or some s***. But really they were bitter because they had people at the shows yelling “where’s 9th” and phonte ego couldn’t take that so he got disgruntled

Seeing him claim “I realized Little Brother was 2 people” is pathetic. 9th was the dilla of LIttle Brother and you didn’t wanna be T3. But you are. His sound is why the okayplayers elevated yall, not your rhymes. Without 9th you wouldn’t have done s*** and your biggest accomplishment is being a footnote in drake’s come up history if we being real. And I only say this because the 9th disrespect is absurd and clearly ego driven

That documentary made me have a real dislike for dude. It makes sense that he’s so tight with Questlove, both corny weirdos who think too highly of themselves

Reading this you'd think Phonte wasn't a great rapper with multiple classics under his belt. Behind the Music brain take

S/o durham

Lmao f*** phonte. He's fake asl. Shoutout 9th wonder tho, tuff production since day one

I get what he’s saying but don’t understand the shooting drill part although I don’t think he meant it literally. I think one thing that’s a more important component than what he described is how people consume and utilize music today versus 15 to 20 years ago.

It’s all very expedient. From creation process to what is ultimately presented anf how it is utilized by listeners. Almost like a song has to be click baitable not even in a negative connotation but it has to hit an immediate dopamine. Like the song snippet is the song now to most consumers

He has some skill sure but what classics? No one cares about Foreign exchange unless you were on the internet in 2004 or whatever. His solos ain’t classic like that.

They all got more play than some 9th Wonder beat tapes. Where's his solo catalog lol