Go on then.. who's the best UK MC?
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droid
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Ye-ah. Go and listen to some soundclash. You have about 30 years to catch up on by the sounds of it.
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CrowleyHead
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Daddy Freddy is fucking shit and this is why your nation is always going to be fucked. You keep mistaking people who can DO A THING as being the best. Nobody cares that he can spit random syllables again and again and again at hyperactive speed. You don't see me bringing Lambert, Hendricks and Ross into this thread, even though they could do that with lyrics. SO HOW ABOUT THAT. LAMBERT, HENDRICKS & ROSS IS THE PINNACLE OF UK & US MCING.
Also I'm crying at "WHERE IS THE ROAD RAP CHUCK D". Chuck D is actually, in all essence A WORSE RAPPER, both in rhyme structure and technique than Sneakbo. HANDS. FUCKING. DOWN. The genre has only existed maybe a decade and you're out here with "oh, but why haven't they produced an artist of the stature of US Rap did back in 1988-1993?" I DON'T KNOW, DIFFERING SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CLIMATES? ROAD RAP DOESN'T FUNCTION FOR ITS AUDIENCE THE WAY HIP-HOP DID?
Not every form of MCing can be weighed against the other by the same criteria. If that was the case, then nobody'd remember people who on technical standards (which you're so infatuated with tonight) were abysmal but influential in US Rap such as KRS, Chuck D, Schoolly D, 93% of Old-School Original Rappers... Like, c'mon!
CrowleyHead
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DADDY FREDDY WILL NEVER SEE THESE LEVELS
DADDY FREDDY WILL NEVER SEE THESE LEVELS
Bonus middle-class white rapper points for including the phrase 'Mainstream media'
luka
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The reason our nation is 'fucked' in terms of producing a mature, sustainable scene capable of supporting healthy numbers of artists across generations is nothing to do with Daddy Freddy it's a consequence of having a relatively small black population, and that concentrated in a small number of cities.
If wiley gets ambitious and wants decent money he has to make his rolex tune and appear on children's TV. The demographics of the UK do not allow for the breadth and depth of the hiphop scene in the US.
If wiley gets ambitious and wants decent money he has to make his rolex tune and appear on children's TV. The demographics of the UK do not allow for the breadth and depth of the hiphop scene in the US.
droid
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Chuck D is an amazing rapper because of his presence, his lyrics, his tone of voice and his authority. The point Im trying to make, which yourself and Trilliam seem to have missed is that 'technical' skill and 'rhyme structure' are not the be all and end all of MC'ng, if it were, Def Jux would be the best hip hop label of all time.
Its a completely flawed argument, like saying that Shakespeare, or Faulkner are shit because we have a McCarthy or a Pynchon.
droid
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Seriously WTF? 'road rap' might be relatively new, but the UK hip hop tradition stretches back nearly 3 decades.
about read properly, all this shit about horses for courses i already mentioned in my posts on the last 2 pages stay impartial or stfu
if you read properly thats exactly what ur boy droid did, totally misunderstanding the point i was trying to get across in the process
why do u keep dropping my name bro, further more wtf would you judge the best MC whats the criteria
droid
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No, you made some ridiculous point about rapping at 130 and I mentioned in passing that Dancehall MC's often rap way faster. Simple as.
Fine. I have struggled to see how road rap is essentially anything more than a new label for a UK hip hop tradition thats been around since the mid-80's, but I guess thats a failing on my part.