CrowleyHead
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Yeah, I suppose more rappers are openly aspiring to that level of 'sophistication'.
Crowley have you ever read this thread on project covo about writing pools in rap music? Guy who started the thread says he has been signed to a major and names loads of rappers who apparently use ghostwriters (who are lesser known rappers who are signed to write for the big boys without ever getting a record out). Dunno how true it all is and to what extent rappers like Nas/Eminem/Jay-Z etc. are supposed to use these writing pools (just for hooks? for whole verses?) but its quite an interesting read.
Links in with what you say above in terms of rappers portraying a false image...
Do I ever.
This guy was a former friend of my family. After his album flopped, he was ghosting throughout the industry for years. Dude fluttered in and out of labels writing for artists who both made it and never came out, His big career highlight was insulting my father's rap crew through K-Solo's mouth on that one record with Redman. He STILL ghosts for K-Solo now, to this day.
Also recently, it was announced that "Gucci Gucci" was ghostwritten by Speakz, this hipster rapper who's fluttered around the LA rap scene. It's so crass that they just came out with it... Whenever that happens with a big 'regular' rap hit (see: "Turnt Up", "Racks") there's always this debate of "Nah man, we all came up with that song together... Nobody wrote that hook and shopped it around..." That unsettles me.
So many posts in this thread to consider though, it's all overwhelming. AND I'm distracting from the point.