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South Philly Escapee
Joined January 2009
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El Oso Blanco
4 months
JOE CLAIR THINKS MY SONG IS FIRE I CAN NOW QUIT RAP AND BE A REGULAR OL’ DAD WITH A BEER GUT IN PEACE🙏
@JoeClair
Joe Clair
4 months
@DJChongWizard Yooooooooooooo!!!!!!! Stop playin!!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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El Oso Blanco
6 years
Never forget that Havoc made 5 beats that thousands of rappers have freestyled over for 20+ years: Quiet Storm Burn Shook Ones Pt. 2 Survival of the Fittest Hell on Earth
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Okayplayer
6 years
Happy birthday to Mobb Deep's Havoc ( @mobbdeephavoc )!
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I've been listened to rap for 35 yrs, of all subgenres and label situations. I'm also not a reactionary catastrophizer who is a '80s suburban mom with entertainment. Having said that... Revisiting "Marshall Mathers LP" and it's quite clearly the most homophobic album ever made
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El Oso Blanco
7 years
Funny how Public Enemy, Ice Cube, The Coup, Dead prez, etc never registered to my man
@KeithOlbermann
Keith Olbermann
7 years
After 27 years of doubts about rap I am now a fan. Best political writing of the year, period. 👏👏👏👏👏 #Eminem2020
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1 year
Who is the greatest fictional music artist of all time?
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Swole Scurry
1 year
Who is the greatest fictional music artist of all time?
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2 years
What’s that SHIT that you be soaping 🧼
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3 months
Most slept on album cut off "The Infamous"? I'll start: "Up North Trip"
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El Oso Blanco
5 years
This but it's a Dilla stan
@junejuly12
Just J
5 years
Feeling sad? Donuts. Feeling blah? Donuts. Feeling upset? Donuts. Feeling that your husband may be Facebook cheating on you with his skanky old high school girlfriend Brenda? Lots and lots and lots of donuts.
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2 months
I see your Illmatic and raise you The Cold Vein poster in “Lady Bird”
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@wavy_bagels
A CARFULL OUT NOW
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I see your 2Pacalypse poster on Martin and raise you an Illmatic poster on Married With Children
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9 months
What’s a perfect album that came out when you were 16?
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What’s a perfect album that came out when you were 16?
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3 years
One of the best songs ever made, during the worst era in rap history (2005-2008)
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El Oso Blanco
4 years
You were never serious about rap as MC or producer if you didn’t deeply study Doom on the mic or behind the boards
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2 years
It’s happening 🔪🐂
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6 years
Roc Marciano created a new eco-system for east coast grimy underground rap. Before Marcberg, there was nothing more frowned up than that style of music in hip hop.
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5 years
Revisiting all of the Muggs albums this year. Not all hit me but overall, he made 100+ grimy ass beats this year for all types of cats. Really impressive for a guy who still gets “Jump Around” checks from every basketball games lol he’s just as good as he’s ever been
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3 years
Future billy woods hook
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2 years
El-P has never delivered a bad guest verse in his entire life
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7 years
Crazy how literally everything in our lives cost more than they ever did before. Except music.
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2 years
Elephant Man’s Bones Aethiopes Metal Lung King Cobra Pigeon Man The Forever Story Ramona Park Broke My Heart Mudslide For all Debts Public and Private Hundred Year Darkness It’s looking like a real good year
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El Oso Blanco
6 years
This is the filthiest sounding major label multi platinum album I’ve ever heard. What a triumph
@evboogie
•UP•NORTH•TRIPS•
6 years
On this day in 1994, Method Man released Tical.
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4 months
I have now rapped on songs with: Blu Malik B Nature Roc Marci Geechi Suede Casual Sean Price Thirstin Howl III Bruiser Wolf Reef the Lost Cauze Open Mike Eagle Armand Hammer Not many bucket list folks left! Shouts to getting old but staying busy 🤌
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El Oso Blanco
5 years
At this point it would be most beneficial for Earl Sweatshirt to start a label and just put out all the cats he tweets about. Think about how great a roster would be with Denmark Vessey, Armand Hammer, Chris Crack, Mach Hommy, etc
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El Oso Blanco
2 years
Happy bday to the only rhyme animal in our crew without a salt and pepper beard @Curly_Castro 🎂🎂🎂
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El Oso Blanco
3 months
I used to read Dallas Penn’s blog way before Combat Jack, Complex, etc Dude even sent me some old school Eagles football cards in the mail to say thanks for reading. What a guy. A true end of an era 🕊️
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3 years
Shouts to alchemist fans still not quite grasping Armand hammer being two totally different MC’s 😭😭😭 it’s like hearing Mobb Deep for the first time thinking Hav and P are one guy
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El Oso Blanco
10 months
My safe and unsafe choice for the greatest album of all time
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@DubCityRoller
THE Rap Pundit
10 months
My safe and unsafe choice for the greatest album of all time:
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El Oso Blanco
3 years
Why would you ever care about rap grammy's when Eminem has won Best Rap Album FOUR TIMES
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El Oso Blanco
2 years
In deep concentration with @Curly_Castro
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3 months
Premier and Nas obviously would be a long overdue album but honestly...Nas and Large Pro have the best chemistry of all
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10 months
Happy Armand Hammer Day to all who celebrate 🍾
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3 months
Bought this for $10 at a mom and pop store in South Philly and made it do Drake streaming numbers on various Walkmans. RIP Mister Cee 🕊️
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3 months
What’s an album you heard at 15 that changed your brain chemistry?
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@brightloud
Matt
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What’s album that you heard at 15 and changed your brain chemistry ?
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El Oso Blanco
5 years
It’s that time of the year. CanOx weather
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3 years
This year, two of my dearest friends will have credits with Alchemist, Ghostface, and Roc Marci. I love rap and good friends!!!
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El Oso Blanco
1 year
Prodigy "I break bread, ribs, hunnid dolla bills" "The saga begins...begin war" "I got you stuck off the realness" "Queens get the money long time no cash" "I put my lifetime in between the paper's lines" "There's a war going on outside no man is safe from" Could go on for days
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Furious Styles IV
1 year
Ice Cube to me starts out verses better/harder than anyone else "Goddamn, I'm glad y'all set it off/Used to be hard, now you're just wet & soft" "(N words)used to come & get me When it was time to disagree with an enemy/ Pass the Hennessy it gives me energy" Who's your fav?
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6 years
The rim shot on "Ova Da Wudz" Andre saying "softly, as if I played piano in the dark" The cuts on "Wheelz of Steel" The CD booklet with the comic book theme Big Boi's hooks Debra Killings hook on "Growing Old" Perfect album
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On this day in 1996, Outkast released ATLiens.
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2 years
Best part about making a beat is when you finish it, you then play it 260 times to yourself.
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4 years
The worst era of rap music was 2005-2008
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6 years
Aesop Rock, almost 20 years since this dropped, has become of the best rappers of all time. And the fools that don’t get that by now are just missing out. Well into his 40s, he’ll still better than almost everyone.
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3 years
Here’s proof that I was in cyphers ‘03-‘05. Found this in my moms attic
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2 years
Still the best rap song of 2022 😤
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El Oso Blanco
4 years
Please remember that Combat Jack was still Reggie Osse, a burned out and disgusted major label entertainment lawyer who grew to actively hate rap music...until he discovered DOOM.
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El Oso Blanco
2 years
Upgrade your gray matter Cause one day it may matter
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4 years
LORD SEAR JUST PLAYED MY SHIT ON SHADE 45!
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4 years
Every time I go back and revisit the Jungle Brothers first 2 LPs, I hear where dozens of rappers got flows, beats, and hooks from.
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3 years
Supreme Clientele, lyrics aside, is amazing because you can reasonably argue that “Mighty Healthy” or “One” is the best beat ever made
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El Oso Blanco
5 years
Our palettes weren’t ready yet for what Dilla and Tip wanted to do. When you play The Love Movement and Amplified back to back, you hear the progression. It’s all Slum influence
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6 months
“Falling” needs a 90 min documentary
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4 years
Without Madvillainy we’d all still be making rap songs with 3 verse for real. He gave us permission to keep it short and potent
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arcadenameALX
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Madvillainy really put me on to a lot of jazz. Really put me on to the idea that songs could be 1:13 seconds... a lil intro and a 52 second 16 bar verse.... if that’s all the record needed was a 16. Creating audio visual paintings through a collage of samples.
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5 years
Took me until this day 3 years ago for me to realize that Prodigy is the best rapper ever. Here’s my thoughts on the crime rhyme Houdini P at @Passionweiss
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El Oso Blanco
4 years
If you would've told me 10-15 years ago I'd have done songs with: Roc Marciano Geechi Suede ALASKA from Hangar 18 Sean Price Malik B Nature Blockhead Blueprint J-Zone I'd have LOST. MY. MIND. The point is that the long game is all that matters
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3 years
If Biz Mark only existed to be sampled by Pete Rock, he would still be one of the most important voices in my life. Luckily, he was a full blown rap phenomenon who could appeal to every kind of person, even if they didn’t like hip hop. What a genius. RIP
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5 years
"People think rap is a young man’s game, but do you know what it is? Pop is a young person’s game. You don’t become a master at rap until your forties and when you learn more, you learn that age is an illusion and it don’t matter at all. I’m just getting going." @DJ_Muggs
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5 years
Honestly, in 2019 if you're still compared Action to Ghost you're a troll. He doesn't rhyme like him. He doesn't talk about anywhere near the same shit. He doesn't look like him. He doesn't chase the same audience. That shit is some 2010 lazy shit
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2 years
Batman is a character that is 83 years old. Dozens of movies, shows, etc Thousands upon thousands of comics. And every film director picks the same 3-4 books from the '80s when they make a Batman movie and acts like no one else has ever seen "Taxi Driver"
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El Oso Blanco
5 years
"In 2003 they wanted to be Def Jux but by 2007 it was no longer fertile ground. The same dudes who were giving Aesop Rock good reviews were now like, “I’m only listening to Dipset now!” TALK THAT SHIT, WOODS!
@okayplayer
Okayplayer
5 years
"The music industry was detonating underneath us..." Veteran rapper billy woods talked to us about making 'Hiding Places' with Kenny Segal, his writing process, and indie-rap’s lost movement.
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3 years
When I play this song it befuddles me how Puba didn’t become one of the biggest rappers in the world
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2 years
Sunday mornings are for Dudley Perkins and Madlib songs
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7 years
@DavidDTSS It’s sequenced as a night at the club. On Sight is when you walk in disoriented. Hold my liquor you’re feeling nice. Bound 2 slow dance when the lights come on
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1 year
What’s an album you feel you rate higher than most people?
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2 years
Just scooped up the New Testament at Target right quick. Shout to @Raekwon
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El Oso Blanco
6 years
Best rap marketing plans based around # of songs: Lil B - 700 songs Pusha T - 7 songs Jay elect - no songs
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El Oso Blanco
11 months
Outkast was so ill, they were tossing outtakes from their first 2 albums on "Aquemini" and "Stankonia" and shit still SLAPPED HARD
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El Oso Blanco
5 years
Prodigy is my #1 rapper ever. And this shit is better than everything still
@GrownUpRap
Grown Up Rap
5 years
Rap History: Prodigy & Alchemist - ‘Albert Einstein’, released June 11, 2013.
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El Oso Blanco
10 months
who’s a rapper that you’d consider top 5 that most wouldn’t? here’s my picks:
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CAGEY 🔥🎤📻
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8 months
Gym shit 🏋️‍♀️
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9 months
Four defining teenage albums
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@DubCityRoller
THE Rap Pundit
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Four defining teenage albums
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4 years
Stove God Cooks has owned every song he's been on this year. It's not even a debate.
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3 years
Likely my most played song in 2021
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4 years
My son currently is acting out a Roc Marci/Bronson song, sitting butt naked eating Beyond burgers in a recliner
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2 years
Getting ready to go sledding and shoot a rap video from ‘94
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El Oso Blanco
3 years
Congrats to MY MAN @Curly_Castro for getting on an ALC beat and to Armand Hammer for being the masters of the universe
@Alchemist
Alchemist Type Beat
3 years
TRACKLIST
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El Oso Blanco
4 years
Queen Latifah had some serious flows and hooks. Goddamn
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El Oso Blanco
6 years
My first solo LP in many years #FutureFormerRapper is out now on @POWRecordings ! Art by @memeticsupplyco Raps from Armand Hammer + @CurlyCastro + @serengetidave + @sidasutra Buy it here: Stream it here:
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5 years
This is why Madlib is an all time great: "I never came in feeling I had something to prove. I’m not here to be the No. 1 producer. I’m not into all of that. I’m just making music. I’ve been producing since the early ’90s and digging for records since the ’80s. It's just natural"
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4 years
When you realize how much great hip hop has been built off Billy Joel samples, you should listen to more Billy Joel
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6 years
The importance of “Flava In Ya Ear” can’t be understated. When I interviewed Prince Charles Alexander, musician and engineer for Bad Boy, he said that song officially ended New Jack Swing and was like Pharrell’s “Happy” how it dominated the airwaves in ‘94. RIP bwoy
@Passionweiss
Otto Von Biz Markie
6 years
RIP Craig Mack, Bad Boy's first album artist. He had two perfect singles and the platonic rap remix. That's more than most. May he kick that ol' robotic, futuristic, George Jetson crazy shit in the infinite.
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I dropped an album yesterday and today got a puppy 🥹
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El Oso Blanco
6 years
@big_business_ Jim's dream was to be a sports reporter in Philly. He literally did NOTHING to accomplish this, not even blog about sports everyday during the blog craze of '05-'10. He was just like "I'd rather prank a farmer and date this girl in wack cardigans".
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El Oso Blanco
7 years
The beautiful thing about rap internet is that it has given a lane to straight up east coast rap. Cause ain't no radio station or club DJ playing that shit. But if you make great east coast rap and put it online, it will be supported. It's incredible.
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El Oso Blanco
4 years
Everyday my son watches YouTube videos of people playing video games, and I’m like “wow this is dumb”. But then i remember as a kid I went to the movies to see “The Wizard” just so I could watch a boy play Super Mario Bros 3 😂
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El Oso Blanco
3 years
YO MY FRIENDS REALLY WERE ON STAGE LAST NIGHT RAPPING ABOUT AARON MCKIE WITH THE ALCHEMIST BACKING THEM! @Curly_Castro and @PlanetPremRock ARE MAKING DREAMS COME TRUE! WRECKING CREW!
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El Oso Blanco
5 years
No one is pointing out that Black Thought rhymed: "hippocratic oath" with "diplomatic post" with "cinematic scope" with "consider that his coast" On Streams of Thought Vol. 2. And it was effortless
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El Oso Blanco
2 years
Rae’s flow >>>> Deck’s flow >>>> Ghost’s flow and vocal delivery >>> RZA’s beat >>>> Perfect fucking song
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El Oso Blanco
5 years
I never had a major co-sign. I never paid for one follow or fake views on YouTube. I've been rhyming for 21 years and just put out another album today totally on my own and it's hitting the people it needs to hit. Can't have a better career than that!
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El Oso Blanco
8 years
Only person who favorited this tweet was Danny Brown himself. He gets it.
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El Oso Blanco
8 years
Danny Brown's "Tell Me What I Don't Know" is his "NY State of Mind Pt 2", down to the somber Nas delivery
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El Oso Blanco
4 years
I always forget that Strong Arm Steady "In Search of Stoney Jackson" is one of the best albums of this century
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El Oso Blanco
4 years
Dude from Staten Island and his two friends love weird multi colored shoes
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El Oso Blanco
3 years
billy woods becoming one of the best rappers talking about women and relationships. It's just not fair.
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El Oso Blanco
7 years
I've been rapping since 1997-1998. Been putting out my own music since 2005. I've lost thousands of dollars since that time. And I never made more money off rap than I did in 2017, when I rapped less than ever. Point is, none of this shit ever goes as planned so just keep at it.
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El Oso Blanco
4 years
National holiday
@GrownUpRap
Grown Up Rap
4 years
Rap History: S.A. Smash - ‘Smashy Trashy’, released June 3, 2003.
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5 years
Raekwon verse on "Faster Blade" = perfect Cappa verse on "Winter Warz" = best verse in Wu-Tang history "Daytona 500" = my favorite Nautilus flip "All that I Got is You" + "Motherless Child" = the beginning of Ghost as best storyteller ever
@upnorthtrips
upnorthtrips.eth
5 years
Ghostface Killah released Ironman on this day in 1996.
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El Oso Blanco
11 months
Anyway, cleaning the palette with Biz Mark's "The Biz Never Sleeps". Thank you!
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El Oso Blanco
6 years
🖋it’s official: I’ve signed with @powrecordings to release my next solo LP “Future Former Rapper” dropping in the fall! Stay tuned 📺 #futureformerrapper
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5 years
I’m the only rapper laying verses before 8am on a Sunday. That’s just good time management as a rap dad ⏰
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El Oso Blanco
6 years
LeBron spends $1.5mill ANNUALLY ON HIS BODY and these cats spend $45/mo on a gym membership and $30 week on Muscle Milk bars telling him his workout is foul LOL
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"The Infamous" is an unbelievable Queens/neighborhood album. "Hell on Earth" is the beginning of MOBB DEEP as an insular, dark, and untouchable duo I'll put '96 Prodigy against any rapper who ever lived and '96 Havoc against any producer ever made a beat
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•UP•NORTH•TRIPS•
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On this day in 1996, Mobb Deep released Hell On Earth.
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3 years
All I can say about my peers checking off hip hop bucket item lists every year is that if you're dope, aren't a complete fucking asshole, and just stay at it....cool shit indeed will happen to you.
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El Oso Blanco
2 years
🚨🚨🚨🚨 1st single from WRECKING CREW @Curly_Castro x @PlanetPremRock x @smallpro x Zilla Rocca "BEHEMOTH" FEATURING CASUAL AKA SMASH ROCKWELL The album #SedaleThreat drops 7/11 📅
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