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Rick Ross- “Stay Schemin’” (Drake vs. Common)
Essentially, I gutted out the track and left both Drake and Common’s verses for easier listening. Recently, Common [Sense] himself took the proactive approach and unleashed verbal shots at Drake over Rick Ross’ Stay Schemin’; a song which features a Drake verse full of subliminal warnings and insults aimed at Common. The download link below if you wish…
Personally, I think Com is just bored. He’s a certified legend with classic albums under his belt. He has nothing to prove. He doesn’t need to earn the co-sign of today’s rap fan because he’s earned his position in hip-hop when they were still in diapers. With Drake’s growing appeal in our pop culture, it’s not a stretch to say a chunk of Drake’s fans don’t even listen to Common or any music similar.
I myself am a big Drake fan but it looks like he’ll never be a hip-hop artist of Common’s calibre. Not that he doesn’t have the potential to—it has a lot to do with our generation of music and how it has influenced popular hip-hop. Drake’s a different artist than Common and has already developed tools that distance himself from a traditional hip-hop artist i.e. singing (which is one reason Common has this distaste towards him).
These days in hip-hop, beef has become something of the past; at least these two arent afraid to trade bars. Gotta miss those days where there was tension in hip-hop. Not serious, life-threatening tension, but tension through competition and the art of battle rap. This new wave of rappers seem like they’re all on each other’s team; I guess they don’t possess the no nonsense mindset that popular rappers had when I was growing up i.e. Jay-Z, Nas, 50 Cent, The Game, Jadakiss, Ja Rule etc. Where if you do something I don’t like, I’m calling you out. Maybe this generation is scared because many rappers I just mentioned careers’ went cold due to their quarrels.
Even still, these emerging rappers lack the grit that was tied to the typical on-paper rapper. Kinda sucks to see the more ‘hood’ rappers stray away from mainstreams’ eye, but that’s just how hip-hop is changing and how this generation decided to define what’s relevant.
Anyways, even though the justifications of the ‘beef’ are a little blurry, it’s good to have a little sport again.
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Affion Crockett - “Headvines” (Drake ‘Headlines’ Parody)
Fcuking hilarious. Feels like it’s been a while since the last all-out-music-video spoof by Affion. Meticulously on-point as always.
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Florence + The Machine Covers Drake’s “Take Care” on BBC Radio 1
Ms. Welch provides her take on Drake’s take on I’ll Take Care of U..in one take? Good stuff.
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Kendrick Lamar - “Buried Alive (Interlude)”
Here is K-Dot’s contribution to Take Care liberated from Marvin’s Room. A captivating verse about falling to the allure of the rap industry.
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Drake - “Headlines” Music Video
Some good old authentic Toronto scenery. TC drops October 24th! The real is on the rise; fuck them other guys.
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Drake - “Club Paradise”
Drake can’t rap about the hood, but he can rap the fcuk out of honesty. I always enjoy introspective tracks from Drake for some reason.
How’d a pile of kush become a mountain of truth?
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J. Cole, “Cole World: The Sideline Story” Tracklist
1. Intro
2. Dollar And A Dream III
3. Can’t Get Enough [Feat. Trey Songz]
4. Lights Please
5. Interlude
6. Sideline Story
7. Mr. Nice Watch [Feat. Jay-Z]
8. Cole World
9. In the Morning [Feat. Drake]
10. Lost Ones
11. Nobody’s Perfect [Feat. Missy Elliott]
12. Never Told
13. Rise & Shine
14. God’s Gift
15. Breakdown
16. Cheer Up
17. Nothing Lasts Forever [Bonus]
18. Work Out [Bonus]
19. Daddy’s Little Girl [Bonus]J. Cole let loose the CWTSS tracklist last night via Twitter for Any Given Sunday. He talked about last minute tracks he pulled off so maybe he’s hiding features somewhere. Really the only dude I ever wanted him to work with is Nas. Also, he decided to revisit Lights Please and In The Morning. Maybe he’ll flip them, but most likely they’ll be the same. I guess he didn’t want gems being lost in mixtapes…
Lights Please is honestly one of my fave Cole tracks off concept alone. It’s about a girl who lives in ignorance. You want to educate her but when you try all she wants to do is have sex. Incidentally, she ends up pulling you into her ignorance and you forget about the bullshit in the world yourself. Dope shit. Anyways, September 27th Cole World!
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“OVOFest 2011”
A montage of Drake’s 2nd annual OVOFest featuring the likes of The Weeknd, Rick Ross, J. Cole, Nas, Stevie Wonder and Lil’ Wayne. I got to be in attendence and sh!t was bananas. Undeniably, my favourite part was when he brought out J. Cole for a verse and afterwards when Nas came out, they both stayed on stage like fans to watch him perform.
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you want to know...just seek and you find.
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