Re: The Offical Rap Thread Part 3

[Luca]

Have you heard everyday/pray ^^? both recent drops by Logic, both made my run playlist for a time

Currently bumping this:



Next up?

[McLewis]

Feel like I'm probably gonna run through Logic's entire discography. I have a good feeling about him.

Anyway, Drake's dropped a new track. Amazing amount of cameos in this one and I love the Lauryn Hill sample.

[El Gunner]

^^Which city is that, the last shot of the video?

[Freeza]

Kendrick has won a Pulitzer for DAMN.

First non-jazz non-classic musician to win one

[El Gunner]

Damn, so proud

[M99]

2nd half of KOD is goddamn amazing. Great album by Cole, much better than 4 Your Eyez Only.

[guest7]

The last 4 tracks are outstanding

[RealGunner]

Barely managed to finish it.

mediocre.

No one will remember it in 4 months.

[guest7]

Barely managed to finish it.

mediocre.

No one will remember it in 4 months.

Ye there were alot of repetive hooks and repetive flows on this

Seems like Cole wanted to "outrap" the trap rappers by using trap music himself, but I didn't like it.

The 4 last tracks were outstanding though. I liked brackets too

[M99]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUTI4bPdlgE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufynqs_COF4

[guest7]

http://www.kanyewest.com/

NEW KANYE!!!! THAT BEAT FIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

[El Gunner]

So it's like, I listen to this man, and then I question how can people say he is a jackass, an asshole, he is an idiot, he is crazy; when he has done all the things he has done. He has broken barriers, he reached new grounds. He stands for questioning your reality and breaking the societal conventions, something which my frequency in life has always related to to, attracted to, felt strong towards.
And yes, I do get it, he's outlandish and outspoken, and the fact that he goes against the norm, is why he is scrutinised. It's pretty simple.

But man, this man understands it, he is following his beat in the greater sphere, and I am glad he has attained the scope in his mind to assess it, see it and deal with it.

If there's one thing my years at University has taught me thus far, the biggest thing that I will certainly take away... is the fragility, and nothingness of language. Of the words we use. They are abstractions we put onto things to systemise our reality, to communicate and to make sense. But we are so much more than it - it comes to a point where our language limits our perceptions. But then again, at the same time it's also so powerful. The stuff we here everyday, the words we reiterate to ourselves everyday - those things shape us, they shape our minds. So when one person calls Kanye an idiot, that spreads, that affects, that sticks in my psyche. And if I didn't have the skill of critical thinking, of seeing beyond structures in my being and mind, I would just accept that. I accept that words and its connotations. Therefore, if you spread that word in description of someone else, no matter how casual your intentions were when you said that word, it was uttered out into the energy circuits around us and it carries its weight. It will now attach to something else. And that's how words manifest and catch onto other stuff, including people. Not everyone is in the position of having that skill of critical thinking yet, so a high school student who hears someone making a linguistically sensible argument of why Kanye is an idiot, will just accept that, or will accept portions of it. And so that carries on, builds on, and follows on, and flows on.

Now I am only using Kanye as an example for this. I am not here, saying people should change their opinions on Kanye, I guess I'm just trying to make point to the fact that we should use our words more wisely.

But then again just listening to this man's reasoning in this video, you cannot say he is stupid or crazy. The words and terminology he uses for about the first 30 mins or so in the video, or at least before he starts talking about his experiences in the fashion industry; are words and terminology I would use to express myself and my beliefs about the universe and world around us, regarding who we are and how we function in this world. And it's not only been this interview, but a lot of Kanye's talks before, his words in his music, I have been able to feel that beat and it makes sense to me - I relate, I can feel it. And that's why I brought up the whole reasoning of, 'perhaps you just don't understand' in the Donald Trump thread when we spoke about Kanye.

Ever since last year I have been following on this beat and stream of consciousness. Or rather let me say, I have started connecting with it. It made sense to me as a human, and my mind and what I believe. A beat that has made me aware of the greater forces, the bigger picture as one might commonly call it. A beat that I feel like I am on this earthly plain to follow, and the beat that I believe is on the right track to lead me to spiritual higher consciousness, and ultimate human service. Sociopolitics are earthly concerns, they are limitations of our current mental capacity that we can only achieve now, that's why I believe people shouldn't take it too serious and devote their entirety to it. Now I am not saying politics is a waste of time, and we shouldn't correct our social injustices - we should, we definitely should. It is the plain that we live in, the one we live on for now, and we should strive to take care of it and improve it, but more often than not we will fall short and there will always be a group of people that are left behind, that were not adequately taken care of, that are not on the equal playing field of economy and access. Our earthly plain is of good and bad, of equal amount, like the atoms that make us up and everything else around us, we consist of protons and electrons, positive and negative energy - that's what everything is. And it is when we grasp this, when we realise our earthly concerns are not the be-all and end-all. For the greater universe, we have to furnish and build on our spirits because it is only through our spirits and its ability to connect to its own God-level, it's own higher consciousness; that we will be able to reach the higher collective consciousness and move on to the realms and dimensions where we will be able to attain better perceptions and understandings - to tap more into the greater universe which we cannot at the moment.

This stream has been within me since forever, but it was sparked last year I think. Or I started noticing it then. And you guys know my NDE. Ever since that, that was my acknowledgement and acceptance that I got from the universe, I say to people know that was my baptism from the universe. I have felt it every day since, and my job now, is to craft it, is to sustain it, because I am only human, and therefore sometimes I can feel misaligned from my beat, and can feel stressed, I can feel upset, but that's part of the process. My job now is to maintain this beat as much as possible, to take care of it, to polish it, TO GROW IT (that part is so important, we are ever-growing people on this earthly plain, we always grow through experience, and it is not about acquiring information, or accumulating information, it is about we having the capabilities within us since the beginning, we are everything and nothing, it's only through experiences where we filter our way through to who we really are and what our individual beat and purpose in life is) and then finally it is up to me to also share my beat with the people around it. Not so that they should also follow it, but so then they can look into me, through me - look at me, and reflect, and learn, assess, and apply to their own life, similarly to what I do when I am around them.

Much love, my internet brothers.

[guest7]

He looked really humble and calm in that interview IMO

[rincon]

Posting this on the day he refers to slavery as a choice because it lasted for 400 years.

[Freeza]

Posting this day he refers to slavery as a choice because it lasted for 400 years.

“I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life,”

- Kanye

[rincon]

Posting this day he refers to slavery as a choice because it lasted for 400 years.

“I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life,”

- Kanye

^On point. These two quotes pretty much sum him up.

[Freeza]

Posting this day he refers to slavery as a choice because it lasted for 400 years.

“I am a proud non-reader of books. I like to get information from doing stuff like actually talking to people and living real life,”

- Kanye

^On point. These two quotes pretty much sum him up.

Talks about living real life.

I would be interested in knowing the last time he talked to someone who wasn't a millionaire.

[Freeza]

I'm inspired by ElG's post about Kanye.

I'm gonna make a longer post in NBA thread about how Kyrie is actually a misunderstood genius.

[rincon]

How he gets praise for being a clown is astonishing.

The black guy on TMZ is 100% right, check out the video where he says the slave thing. The black guy schools him on his bullshit because like he says: Kanye's voice is too big and the shit he says has real life consequences that affect and marginalize them, the regular black people instead of affecting Kanye the millionaire that lives in an alternate dimension.

[rincon]

I'm inspired by ElG's post about Kanye.

I'm gonna make a longer post in NBA thread about how Kyrie is actually a misunderstood genius.

Imagine if Pep was a Hollywood persona. The extent of his genius and philosophy would rewrite history books

[guest7]

Posting this on the day he refers to slavery as a choice because it lasted for 400 years.

He doesn't know that we stress about slavery and the holocaust because history shows that it repeats itself. By teaching history to kids we might avoid it happening again.

How he doesn't see that is incredible. Kanye is a idiot...

[Guest]

To be fair Kanye is doing what many marginalized groups do when they get money.

They shun their past(He did this)
They shun their people(He's doing this)
And they reproduce whiter.(He's done this).

In fact he'd be following the Asian American Woman playbook to a tee if he starts belittling Black women. He kinda did so calling Amber Rose a whore, when he wifed a woman famous solely for having sex with Ray-J of all people

[Freeza]

He's the O.J. Simpson of rap

[Guest]

He's the O.J. Simpson of rap

That was always the craziest thing to me as a kid.

It was no secret in America that OJ absolutely HATED other black people, yet black folks were so happy when he got off. Buddha knows I felt the pain they felt about the system(it screwed my family just as bad), but OJ was a sucker.The worst of humans on the inside.

[Freeza]

He's the O.J. Simpson of rap

That was always the craziest thing to me as a kid.

It was no secret in America that OJ absolutely HATED other black people, yet black folks were so happy when he got off. Buddha knows I felt the pain they felt about the system(it screwed my family just as bad), but OJ was a sucker.The worst of humans on the inside.

I loved him as a kid. Then I started reading up on him

Naked Gun movies are still GOAT though. Better as films than any music album.

[Guest]

He's the O.J. Simpson of rap

That was always the craziest thing to me as a kid.

It was no secret in America that OJ absolutely HATED other black people, yet black folks were so happy when he got off. Buddha knows I felt the pain they felt about the system(it screwed my family just as bad), but OJ was a sucker.The worst of humans on the inside.

I loved him as a kid. Then I started reading up on him

Naked Gun movies are still GOAT though. Better as films than any music album.

My dad was a student at USC(OJ Simpson's college) during the trial. When my sister and I would visit him on campus our grandmother told us never to say OJ Simpson's name aloud. . He was like the boogieman.

Never saw his films, but my grandfather, like every other football fan in the 70's loved him. Said he ran like nobody he ever saw.

[Sponsored content]