I have got into him with the Chomp series having producers like 9th Wonder, The Alchemist, DJ Premier, Havoc of Mobb Deep, to name a few on his projects

other goat rappers mess with him too

so i see that he is considered corny often by people

is this a meme or am i missing something? I dont know much about him but his music in the chomp series

hes italian

He's too pretentious for his own good

Just everything about his music screams "painfully average"

He was saying some wild stuff back in the day it wasn’t about his music

Plus his whole “I do everything” gimmick was silly

always felt like I was watching an MLM ad whenever he talked about his music

"I did it all by myself, just me, your favorite rapper probably didn't know this and is TRICKING you. look at my streams. I'm recording on a beach right now. you see my income? 100% mine. no splits. my own production and engineering on all of it"

just to hear the most mediocre s*** imaginable

Because he gets girls and haters don’t

white

Classic vid lol

He was making generic music at one point. Didn't know who he was catering to.

he’s mostly irrelevant nowadays but in his heyaday he came off as really arrogant on top of being a weird super washed mix of drake and j. cole

that xans shirt was corny af

If you gotta ask that question you have not been around

Ngl I havnt given his music a real chance. Chomp might actually be good. But the music I have heard from him sounds like T-Mobile commercial music. Unless you Drake you can't get away with making Mall music without being called corny

I only knew Russ as like the last guy of the blog era when he released a song like every week for a summer or a year or something. Losin Control was one of those songs.

Then he became this kind of annoying personality and jumped some rappers and had the corny "I'm independent" gimmick. So I guess that stuff more than his music.

This too yeah

Virtually every backpack-esque rapper post 2010 has been labeled corny at some point tbh some dudes just don’t have the ability to overcome it quite frankly

Calling Russ backpack is crazy lmao

Not a direct linage but you know what I mean lol the Logic’s of the world and that ilk

The Chomp series was him tryna revamp his image. Real rapper stuff. Before that people just thought of him as a Drake lite guy

Ain’t gonna lie I ain’t listened to much of him fr so I may be off base

I feel like I haven't either but him being annoying has kept him relevant to the point I know his career. Man is a genius

He’s condescending but he never told a lie