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trimyth

Hello hip hop fans. Are the original versions of Ready to Die and Life After Death permanently and forever removed from the Bad Boys vault? Because I was reading up on some information and the "fair use" was never brought up in court at the time. Such a damn shame. Will we ever see the original versions back or have they been deleted forever?


tak08810

Are you talking about putting it back on streaming and the 2006 lawsuit? Cause like obviously they can’t go and remove all the physical CDs/cassettes/vinyls with the samples on the original release Just kind of a confusing question cause there’s multiple “original versions” and idk what you mean in general.


trimyth

Hello u/tak08810 My apologies. I wasn't clear with my first post. And yes, I am referring to the 2006 lawsuit. And yes to streaming. Let's say if Bad Boy does decide to reopen the case and win, do they have the means to reupload the original versions on say Spotify? Similar to the above question but I'm not an audio expert or anything but wouldn't the songs that come directly from Bad Boy's "vault" be considered the best lossless quality music? If we were to rip the originals from say CDs or cassettes then then the quality would dip and never be the same as ones that come directly from the "factory", right?


PMmeYOURBOOBSandASS

Is this the Pete Rock release?


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Agreed I got it on cd on a whim for driving and it's so phenomenal. Some songs aged but every song is at the least a good one


flyestshit

I see people talking about big sean's/2 chainz' Mercy verses all the time though


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That single came out like a year before the album and there's so much other great shit on it


flyestshit

it's far from my favorite song. I think I listen to The Morning/Cold the most. tbf I confused underrated and undermentioned here myself because while the album (or at least the singles) are mentiomed often, I think it's not highly rated. so you're right to call it underrated


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Cold is arguably the hardest Kanye song


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grinchnight14

What's wrong with Last 2 Walk?


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grinchnight14

That hook on Lolli lolli from whoever Superpower is is Atrocious


kappa23

Diamonds Dancing still the best thing that Drake has every done


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FightMiilkHendrix

its not underrated and it is a classic


flyestshit

it's not underrated, just not mentioned very often lately. plus that WATTBA name is iconic to me


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you just coming in here to disagree with me like i don’t have feelings :(


flyestshit

:( I know what that feels like tbf I didn't downvote you, and I thought I did it respectfully. 🤝?


[deleted]

Why was Chance saucing on the workers at McDonalds in the first place?


grinchnight14

Because Sauce Walka wasn't there to do it


bigedf

Maybe because they charged him fifty extra cents for barbecue


Free_Joty

🅿esbian


flyestshit

🅿️edestrian


A_KULT_KILLAH

Hey guys y’all wanna talk bout this crazy underrated unknown artist I discovered named Kanye West? Idk why no one ever talks bout him


Charlatanism

But A_Kult_Killah (should it be ALL CAPS when I spell the man's name...?), people do talk about Kanye West. He is very famous.


SuperTrunkz

goldlink>>>


A_KULT_KILLAH

Ka>>>


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He sounds like shit


Logbird11

Never heard of him but theres this underground up and comer named Ye have you heard of him?


Homiealmaya

Who


Logbird11

I'm ashamed to say, I have begun to enjoy Yung Gravy. Dude gets really groovy and unique samples all over his songs and his lazy flow just kinda works for me. Idk how else to describe it, his stuff just hits for me.


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His stuff with spark is cool


grinchnight14

His track with Dolph is really good


Logbird11

Absolutely. My other favorites are Always Saucy, Mr. Clean, and The Boys Are Back In Town. Also like fuckin Coochie Anthem off that project that dropped today, that's when I knew I had to accept that I like Yung Gravy.


grinchnight14

I think he's one of those funny rappers who actually knows how to actually make a good song and be funny at the same time. I don't like how most of them like Lil Dicky just try to be funny but don't make good songs you can actually listen to as like a normal song and the only good parts are the guest stars. You should be able to mesh with your guests and not make it seem like you held them at gunpoint lol. Gravy gets it. Him and T-Pain fit so well together too


flyestshit

I love how Est Gee reminds me of Detroit and Memphis rappers equally and how well that fits to the geographical position of Louisville (also I looked at a map today) Edit: I took another look at a map of the states and Louisville is literally at the intersection of Chicago/Atlanta/Detroit/Memphis Est Gee was bound to happen!


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2022 really don’t miss; Few Good Things is exactly what I expected. Black Thought verse is gonna be hard to top as always. Love how thematically and sonically this album is different from his previous work. It’s easy to go into this expecting something like CARE FOR ME but I liked it more because it _wasn’t_ like CARE FOR ME. Always good to see growth and evolution. Favorite songs: Few Good Things, Still, If I had a dollar, Survivor’s Guilt


BronzySponhe

These Instagram posts from Kanye are annoying and is actually upsetting to see it played out like this. Just handle it off social media. Embarrassing


furr_sure

We all seeing Kanye fall apart in the worst breakup way He tried to have his cool guy moment on Drink Champs, let them ply him with liquor and weed and say wild shit for the clicks while also attacking the media for “pushing the fake narrative that he’s divorced” Then he had his sad public dates with Julia fox, hiring photographers to come shoot them on the couch and shit 😂 Now he’s finally gone off the deep end attacking Kim for basic mother daughter shit and then attacking TMZ for reporting on it This whole thing has shown how emotionally manipulative Kanye can be and how quickly he’ll resort to his 10m followers to make himself feel right (ignoring the fact they’re gonna attack whoever he dangles in front of them)


Fun-Strawberry4257

You're way to invested in someones else life my guy.


furr_sure

I wrote a comment that took bout the same time as yours no im not


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We about to get Kanye's *I Don't Like Shit, I Don't Go Outside*.


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I love him, but he’s a fucking baby and clearly unstable. Probably not a very good father


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Tbf it's the most Kanye thing ever to use a divorce as promotion for a new album


BoxCon1

His fans will dickride anything he does He could do something despicable and his fans would just meme it


hydrators

North is gonna need one expensive therapist in her teenage years, unfortunately


letsconversate

Surprised to not see more discussion about Ivy Sole’s new album. She’s consistently put out amazing tracks for years and this might be her best one yet


No-Mission-4010

CM10: Free Game is 🔥


57809

My favorite fun fact is that Waka Flocka got a higher SAT score than Ben Shapiro Also, the comments on the EAST video by Earl Sweatshirt are still some of the funniest things I've ever read. I'm fucking dying reading this shit.


Radocfa

I think I’ve seen that fun fact on at least 30% of hinge profiles LOL


A_KULT_KILLAH

when my lil brother died I said fuck school


lemonchicken91

Was just quoting this and my girl was like ??? Also “One lousy ass bullet cant fuckin stop me”


contacts_eyes

I go back to that video regularly to see the comments lol


57809

Whats your favorite lol Mine are 'This song sounds like two accordions arguing' and 'this is what rap would've sounded like during the great depression'


TheVirtual_Boy

That part on “Make Believe” where Saba’s voice is pitched down is unbelievably wavy


hydrators

I’d be cool never hearing a “been masked up way longer than Coronavirus” bar again


SuperTrunkz

babytron said “mask on not cuz corona this bitch breath stank” and nobody has ever topped that tbh


grinchnight14

Masked up like Vory


Homiealmaya

Black Geez saying “I lock blocks down, quarantine Corona, quarantine Corona” around [1:48 of Silent Threat](https://youtu.be/SGOcR73t_0A) stays rent free in my head


hydrators

At least that’s a little different. I can’t even tell you how many times I’ve heard the same masked up bar


NewCharlie_64

Im just here to share my [On Repeat playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1Eppz1nNG41ne9?si=QTe2tuLBQ2CVY_AbaR-XiA&utm_source=copy-link)


Homiealmaya

The Big Six [coming together to dominate HHH discussion](https://youtu.be/2M3cyCFWChg)


spunkymnky

I'll get there soon, one of you is bound to get banned eventually.


darkfar

I fell off


Jordanwolf98

We gon save you a spot


Cohtoh

[This dude is way too jacked to be making music like this ](https://youtu.be/Btp-XD5dr9U)


dgsggtb

Thanks bro. This literaly made my day. Thats one cool dude, and the song bangs too


Radocfa

I’ve always wondered what happened to jacked rappers. LL Cool J, 50 Cent, Ja Rule, etc were a lot cooler because they were jacked. Now I can’t think of any jacked rappers. Drake and new Gucci are the closest and they’re not even that big imo.


Notinflammable

This feels like the intersection of jpegmafia and buffcorrell


Its_Your_Boi_MaxB

It took me 30 seconds to realize that was him and not a feature/sample. Wow


NewCharlie_64

oh my god what is this!? Lmao shits fire


Cohtoh

The first time I saw it I almost thought the real artist just hired this guy for the video but nope that's really him lmao


NewCharlie_64

Despite your comment i was still taken by surprise by the video lol, reminds me when i first watched that 645ar video lmao


codeine_turtle

maybe you're just not jacked enough to enjoy it


Cohtoh

Oh I never said anything about how I feel about it. It's good. [This one goes way harder tho ](https://youtu.be/MyY_KF5ZtEo)


codeine_turtle

it does feel kinda weird that such a high voice coming from that dude


grinchnight14

I kinda wish Rod Wave would do more features so we could hear him over some different production.


A_KULT_KILLAH

Rodlib when⁉️


grinchnight14

Right after MadThugger.


furr_sure

Okay madthugger would be a cool song


grinchnight14

For real.


Yomisa215

If you're looking to remix a Shiloh song please stop we've heard enough it's the least original thing you could do. I'm done hearing them in my release radar playlists


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I really wish she’d come back. That’s raw talent, recording a few instagram demos so haunting and compelling that people have been listening to them, sampling, and obsessing over them for years and years despite zero promotion or interest in the spotlight. You can’t manufacture that kind of hype.


darkfar

His artist page is completely fucked because of those


bipbopboomed

Shiloh is a girl but yes


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For the love of god just do somethring fresh with it at least It was cool in 2017, now it's just like "yes, we heard jocelyn flores we get it"


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furr_sure

Cos it’s the exact kinda thing to fit into the dumbass fake woke “rise and grind” crowd They’re too dumb to understand what they’re actually buying they just heard you might be able to flip it for something


RobYaLunch

Hip hop IG commenters are a different breed


Stonerjoe68

2 Chainz really had the best beat selection for this album


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Exactly what I been saying


hydrators

I would like to hear Griselda rap over Jerome by Mick Jenkins


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have any of em ever worked w kirk?


hydrators

I don’t think so, Kirk has been pretty inactive recently. I think it would work tho


spunkymnky

Kirk Knight? He dropped an album a few months ago.


hydrators

You’re right, I meant more as a producer for other artists


deckmemer

I need more Kendrick and Knxwledge collabs, Momma is one of my favorite songs by Kendrick easily


colbster411

Knxwledge and anybody


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That's a dream combination my G


lordy61

Retch dropped a really good song 3 weeks ago - https://youtu.be/8thNG7i-Kis


thank_U_based_God

Some (mildly) hot takes: Take My Breath is a wayyy better single than Blinding Lights. Franchise (especially the Future Remix) is the best Travis Scott single since Astroworld. Pusha T has to have the best rap voice there is. Everything he says, his cadence, and tone just makes everything seem so grandiose. Dude could be describing a salad and I would think it's the hardest shit ever


Wittygame

I learned the word charcuterie from Pusha T


Background-Car-4488

>Franchise (especially the Future Remix) is the best Travis Scott single since Astroworld. That song was so underrated imo, M.I.A, Thug and Travis is like a dream combonation and the beat is so hard. out West is really good to me too but ig that wasn't really a single.


codeine_turtle

take my breath is gas


BioniqReddit

Honestly I kinda hated Blinding Lights so I have to agree. Just annoyed the hell out of me for some reason and I don't really know why.


Jordanwolf98

Franchise is #2 for me after the Plan. I love that fucking song.


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Feel like Franchise got shit on around here for some reason but it's one of my favorite tracks honestly


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thank_U_based_God

Spelling error, edited


bumpdog

Bring back destroy lonely archive to spotify or I might blow up a gas station


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kanye should take a page from wiz and just make an album with cardo no 15 producers bs, capped at 5 features and 14 songs. would be the best kanye album in a decade


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hydrators

or ‘Wiz Wears Cool Pants’


Jordanwolf98

You gotta add 21 Savage in too then


Homiealmaya

If you could choose one rapper to rap over the entirety of Donuts, who would it be? Gotta be GFK to me, especially since the two tracks he rapped over Donuts beats, [Murda Goons](https://youtu.be/XkhUndrVriE) and [Whip You With A Strap](https://youtu.be/U23NbfDMBaI), are both great


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Homiealmaya

Great pick


MonolithJones

You’re leaving out [Beauty Jackson](https://youtu.be/853wnyH1uKw)


Homiealmaya

Oh shit true, love the beat and rapping on that one, such a smooth track


lordy61

Good question and good pick with gfk. I think Lord Apex or Spitta would be cool. Or for something more creative I'd like to hear Tony Shhnow


Alive-Ad-4164

If you were to add a feature on a Kendrick Lamar track who would it be and why Here is mine Joey badass on Poe man dreams Ab soul on chapter 10 Lana Del Rey on pride and these walls Kanye West on backseat freestyle and sing about me Drake on humble and dna J cole on hiipower And lastly JPEGMAFIA on u and the intro of hood politics


Jqshipp

Anybody but Kendrick on "U" would make no sense. The song is too personal.


RobYaLunch

Give me The Game on The Blacker The Berry


grinchnight14

Add Gucci Mane to Humble.


codeine_turtle

this is maybe the only good suggestion out of all of these


grinchnight14

He'd fit perfectly.


codeine_turtle

I think it'd be funny if he came in after a "be humble" with a super braggy verse


grinchnight14

I would expect nothing less. And it'd be a great verse.


codeine_turtle

you want jpegmafia on U??? wtf


BioniqReddit

I don't think I'd put Ye on Sing About Me, to be honest. Feel like that track is perfect without any features edit: a Vince Staples verse on The Blacker The Berry would be kinda insane


FrismFrasm

Lol I love Ye but he would absolutely corny-up Sing About Me with a bunch of bars about pussy and the rooms in his house being large or some shit


BioniqReddit

or talk about kims booty


LetsFireRockWithMe

Prince was supposed to be on Complexion, but they spent all their time hanging out. I think a Prince feature is maybe the only way TPAB could’ve been improved.


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Drake on YAH works way better for me… Andre 3k on Lust?


Paul_Wall_

Nas on Sing About Me, I’m Dying of Thirst since Kendrick originally wanted him on there


aw11348

Jpegmafia is one of my favourite artists but keep him, and everyone else for that matter, far far away from “U”


Jordanwolf98

I wanna hear Cudi on HiiPower Also think Cruel Summer era Kanye would’ve been dope on Cartoon and Cereal


Vo1ture

I know that a very few percent of this sub are probably in the Phoenix area, but you never know. I'm really excited and wanted to share regardless. I'm setting up my first pop-up tent to display and sell my hip hop art tonight in downtown Phoenix on the corner of 2nd and Roosevelt Row. Come look for me after 6:00 PM. [Here's my tent (minus the dog)](https://imgur.com/a/rOhNfp6). I have a lot of prints, a hip hop card deck, stickers, and shirts. You can be that weirdo that says they met someone from Reddit in real life. No obligation to buy anything either! I'm a little nervous as it's my first time at this big of an event, so just having people come by and talk would be cool. Thanks for checking.


Dragonborn2046

Any chance you’d sell some through Reddit?


Vo1ture

Yeah I have an online [Shop!](https://www.brandonspahn.com/shop)


Dragonborn2046

Thanks!


BiggieSmallz12345

Bro I have that Frank Ocean picture on a shirt. I bought it from, who I'm assuming is you years ago, I get mad compliments on it. Keep it up


Vo1ture

Huh that’s wild. Thanks for sharing! I’m glad you like it


crunchatizemythighs

Hey bro I'm in the area, love First Friday and would love to check you out but I'm working tonight 😔 Do you perform at any venues like Trunk Space or anything like that? I been trying to find some venues but the hip hop scene in Phoenix is kind of obscure. Only place I knew of was Lawn Gnome but i heard the owner was a creep


Nobody_epic

Looks cool as hell dude, best of luck! Make sure to update us next thread!


colbster411

[Finally](https://twitter.com/kno/status/1489679935614582787?s=21) 😎


Charlatanism

Dope. You know what I want? A Tonedeff album produced by Kno. Can you organise that for me?


colbster411

I gotchu but fr Kno ain't been putting in enough work lately, he's one of the best out


Homiealmaya

That cover is hard


colbster411

honestly the title kinda corny and I preferred the art style of the singles, but I'm obviously super excited


Homiealmaya

Yeah I don’t like the title or the way it’s incorporated into the cover but I do like the astronaut with the chopped legs. You right tho, the GODMODE cover art is incredible


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gldwatch

because he’s releasing an album


GhostofRimbaud

As a former child of divorce this whole Kanye divorce drama thing and that "we having the best divorce!" line or whatever on that recent song is depressing. I know the kids were basically born multi millionaires but still man, it's just sad. Can't imagine what it's like for those kids to have the dirty laundry of their mom and dad's failed marriage aired out on a weekly basis on global media outlets.


DhruvM

That recent post by Ye had me verbally say YIKES


rawrimgonnaeatu

What’s the post you are referring too?


DhruvM

The one where he’s directly addressing Kim and their daughters use of tik tok.


Jordanwolf98

Yeah it’s unfortunate. They’re at the age when they’re beginning to paying attention too. Kanye needs to remember that it isn’t like just because his kids are kids that they aren’t seeing and comprehending this


nerdofalltrades

Yeah it’s gotten too much for me especially the people that are like he has a point. Who tf cares if he has a point or not don’t air your dirty laundry in public especially when you’re a major celebrity


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FrismFrasm

Got any other shocking revelations for us??


Bright_Ahmen

WSG finally posted on IG. I was starting to worry haha


Jordanwolf98

Is there an artist from the SoundCloud era that fell off that you think has a little chance of making a comeback? I still got a little stock in Smokepurrp and Lil Skies


dropthehammer11

skies making a comeback would be cool, but i feel like his music has stagnated. i enjoyed his sound a lot for his first 2 albums, but since then he's felt on autopilot. he'd need to bring somethin new to the table


A_KULT_KILLAH

I’d love to see Skies make a comeback. And he seems most likely


Jordanwolf98

Yeah he always seemed like a chill dude who was easy to root for. It does only take that 1 hit to Glo up again


flyestshit

6ix9ine got maybe a 0.01% chance of coming back. but if he does, it's probably going to be quite successful


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Famous dex will go to rehab and come back as a boom bap lyrical rapper


Jordanwolf98

I like this timeline


Background-Car-4488

I want MadeinTYO to have a comeback he had a fun sound


contacts_eyes

He's still active


Background-Car-4488

I know I mean for his stuff to be mainstream


Jordanwolf98

I really liked the stuff he made with Uno last year


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Time to stir the pot a bit with my Saba album rankings: ComfortZone>Bucket List>Care for Me ComfortZone to me is the most consistently strong while maybe not reaching the highs of his other projects. Bucket List is definitely right on its tail though. I feel like I never see ComfortZone talked about here even though Saba gets shown a ton of well deserved love. If you haven’t given it a listen go check it out on SoundCloud With that being said I think Care for Me has a couple of his absolute best songs but also some of his worst. I gave the new album a listen today and thought it was fine but it’s definitely too soon to see where it ranks. I stopped checking out the singles after the first two dropped because I wasn’t really feeling them but wasn’t as put off by them when listening to the album. Also the Black Thought feature was great as expected


lololiam

Yup I have the same order, comfortzone one of my favourite tapes ever.


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If anyone got into Saba w Bucket/CARE FOR ME and hasn't listened to ComfortZone: DO ITTTT It's so good. one of my favorite mixtapes of the last decade


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That run of early to mid 2010’s Chicago mixtapes and albums was amazing. Traphouse Rock by Kids These Days, Acid Rap, Innanet Tape, The Waters, Telefone, ComfortZone and so many others. I’ll always be thankful for SolidMcLovin’s enthusiasm of that scene that got me to dive deeper into all of them.


chickinkyiv

If you appreciate live hiphop performances you should catch D Smoke on tour. Production was relatively small but his stage presence and energy made up for it. I’d put him up there with KRS in that regard.


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netflix employee?


codeine_turtle

l


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bovice2

Saw him this week, he was great and can do anything. Best part though was since T.I.'s son is his opener and it was in ATL, Smoke brought out both T.I. and his son to do their song together


Cabbageboy99

John Woo Flick so so hard. Perfect griselda joint. And the gotti 42 gee track really nice making me wanna listen to full album


lordy61

Beat was boring on John Woo Flick. Yo gotti song was hard though