Hip-Hop and Rap is at its best right now.

Eminem seems disappointing live, people accused him of miming at T and i can see why. I don't think he mimes, just has a really loud backing track playing over him which defeats the purpose.

 

Mate there are 100s of really good lyricists underground these days, Diabolic, MF Doom, Apathy etc and legends like Canibus, Ghostface Killah, Kweli and Nas still dropping good stuff. Theres slightly more commercial lyricists out there too like Slughterhouse, J Cole and Jay Electronica
But if your talking about main stream i agree no hope really, wish i grew up when Wu tang and so on were getting radio play

 

Eminem needs to iron out a few bits here and there and he'll be on fire again.

For punchlines and pure comedic value, no one can touch him.

Listen to this track with pink, hilarious

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5h9_L98H84U[/YOUTUBE]

Worth the 4 minutes, if you a quick laugh

 

Songs like the ones with Pink and Rihanna had me reaching for the sick bucket tbh.Not the Eminem that i love,if it wasn't him,for that last album i'd accuse him of selling out.

 

Big L is the greatest ever at funny punchlines, Eminem isn't even in the same league.

This is what Pearce was saying on the last page about Eminem, he is (was) good but people make him out to be so much better because they have only heard pretty mainstream chart stuff, I may have misread you, and if I have I apologise, but I doubt it.

If you are comparing Eminem with Lil Wayne, Drake and post Black Album Jay-Z then you'd be forgiven for thinking this way, but that does proper Hip Hop a real injustice.

 

Yep mate hard to think of any better, loved this one
"and gotta enough bread, and mad h*oes, ask beavus i get nuthin' *-head"
combine the punchlines with his flow he was an incredible young MC, plenty more funny lines too but thats one of my favourites

 

'A tec-9 is my utencil, fillin' *'s with so much lead they can use their * for a pencil' is another one I really like.

 

Wiz Khalifa New Song

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmP7TYtDVUU[/YOUTUBE]

and Swolllen Members New Song

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KDrnCYztmg[/YOUTUBE]

 

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSbZidsgMfw[/YOUTUBE]
Just found this dude the other day,class.

 

* dres detox, i cant wait until for pharoahe monchs w.a.r. album is out, ive listened to the leaked version but its not the best quality, heres one of the leaked songs with jean grae(one the best female MCs, she puts lil wayne, drake etc to shame nevermind nicki minaj)

[youtube]dtcmxBGgLpk[/youtube]

 

I personally can't stand rapping. I think some of the music behind the songs is excellent, but I feel that it's a false way of creating the music, i.e. it's completely soulless, all computers etc. I can't fathom why it's so popular, but as some folk have said on here - each to their own.

I do like some of the older stuff such as N.W.A, Public Enemy, Dr. Dre and Beastie Boys, as well as Common's album "Be". I just think that nowadays, for the most part, it's completely vacuous.

Ps. Eminem is a complete and utter *.

 

Listen to the likes of the roots, mos def and talib kweli, definitely not soulless dont let the bullshit mainstream put you off, theres real hiphop still out there, im listening to commons second album resurrection at the minute, his last album was terrible

 

Saw him for the first time there on Jimmy Fallon in America, * brilliant

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIOtLeJNrRU[/YOUTUBE]

 

reminded my of a wu tang performance, lol at mos def at the end

 

Sorry should'ave elaborated a bit.

What i meant was that right now in the present theres no-one that can touch him for punchlines and comedic value. I don't mean he's the greatest rapper out there i want to make that clear.

He has a mixtape launching 7th march hopefully releases some head bobbing *.

 

all 4 members of slaughterhouse have better punchlines than todays eminem

 

[YOUTUBE]qRPpLGxGNZY[/YOUTUBE]

 

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lrVO3pPDP4[/YOUTUBE]

Cant believe iv read through ten pages and no-ones mentioned this guy

the best up-and coming rapper

 

great rapper, well better than j cole imo, looking forward to his album

 

fair dues, missed that