David East

11mo

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I just meant the total package. You know prince had hella influences but the lanes and doors he made more mainstream and being the poster or symbol for those sounds and aesthetics. Obviously yknow i could go with some super niche weirdo rap which I also do f*** with for the record but I definitely think the ones I listed are pretty big. Albums like IGOR and TPAB and MBDTF hadn’t been done to that level before I feel like they were taking them to their greatest heights or farthest conclusions. Shout out the weirdos doing cool s*** tho obviously s/o Jean Dawson haha yknow s/o Carti, Thug, I saw someone post Basedgod that’s another good one. I just feel like they’re about a dozen big names and it’s like once we name them where do we go from there? Where this thread goin

2words

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Ok actually a very good reply you got me. I appreciated this much more than a 2 word reply

2words

11mo

Ok actually a very good reply you got me. I appreciated this much more than a 2 word reply

Weekend KaTeezy

11mo

bro you just wrote a bunch of s*** and he called you on it

you had no point from the start

2words

11mo

De La and Tribe bodies all of the choices itt

2words

11mo

Relax lol what do you want?

I still stand by my point that if people feel like this discussion is boring, maybe it’s because we’re picking too obvious picks because we’re requiring everything to breakthrough in the mainstream to count it

Of course Ye and Drake broke down some barriers and changed the mainstream of rap more than almost anyone

But just answering the question in thread title, no they haven’t colored most outside the lines, not more than de la, Danny brown, del the funkee, (generic pick incoming) mf doom, the list goes on really

But of course I’ll give them credit for doing it on a very high and visible level. I just personally don’t feel like this is a question with a super obvious answer and the answer is just all the typical HHT darlings. Nah I’m not with that. But they made a good argument too. You gotta relax though

internet buddy

11mo

Thug arguably more than him

internet buddy

11mo

For rapping. Separate Ye as a producer from a rapper then approach this conversation again.

Weekend KaTeezy

11mo

remove THIS MAN from the RAPS ???

Weekend KaTeezy

11mo

Close your eyes and imagine, feel the magic
Vegas on acid
Seen through Yves St. Laurent glasses
And I've realized that I've arrived, 'cause
It take more than a magazine to kill my Vibe
Does he write his own rhymes, so sort of, I think, um
That mean I forgot better s*** than you ever thought up
Damn, is he really that caught up?
I ask if you talkin' bout classics, do my name get brought up?
I remember I couldn't afford a Ford Escort or even a four-track recorder
So it's only right that I let the top drop on a drop-top Porsche
It's for yourself that's important
If a stripper named Porscha and you get tips from many men
Then your fat friend her nickname is Minivan
Excuse me, that's just the Henny, man, I smoke
I drink, I'm supposed to stop I can't because

internet buddy

11mo

Re read the thread title

Weekend KaTeezy

11mo

oh yeah i forgot sampling shirley bassey and spitting the coldest s*** of all time was coloring inside the lines

internet buddy

11mo

if you know anything about old rap, you just described exactly what you need to do to color inside the lines

TheSmokeMonster

11mo

Kid motherfucking Cudi

The main one who brought us to where we are now starting with 808s n Heartbreak.