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Earl Ka Roc for sure. They’re kind of the blueprint. Mike is kind of derivative of Earl so there’s no point in him being there (no disrespect) and are there people out there doing Mach clone raps? I might be out of touch but I can’t think of one

I never heard a Ka song or heard someone mention that name b4

I mean you’re right about your choices but this is obviously about another subgenre entirely. I’m not being an a****** it’s just cmon what are we doing here? Context brother. Hope the rest of your weekends alright

Roc Marciano started this era of the Underground essentially so the Griselda’s (all of them, Mach included) and affiliates are all under him. Ka too

There are a lot of artists who copied MIKE, including Earl. Earl had always been an animated artist until he met MIKE who was always chill and down to earth. Yes MIKE got inspired by a song from Earl, but MIKE created a whole sub genre.

I agree with the general sentiment. That would be close to my list of 5 most copied artists (within the window of rap these guys listen to)

Lupe if we being 300

”Earl had always been an animated artist until he met MIKE who was always chill and down to earth.”

…?

Earl is the godfather of that entire sLums wave, i genuinely don’t understand why people try to sound smart and say MIKE birthed all of this s***

Earl was making sLums type s*** way before he even knew what the f*** a MIKE was

Really just earl and roc but yea I agree

Mike had a pretty original sound with sixpress but when he met earl they kinda morphed together and meshed sounds. now I think Mike has surpassed earl and evolved that sound

Fr if you listen to mikes early work he was always influenced by earl from the jump

Yeah, not sure how you can say that when Earl went from I Don’t Like S*** to Some Rap Songs. It sounds like two different artists

You discrediting MIKE, Ratking, Standing on the Corner etc. like Earl birth all of that. HE DID NOT

Ka is too lyrically intricate to be copied

you just said Earl was “an animated artist” before he knew MIKE, you don’t know his music at all and im not entertaining this further 💀