Current Events > Rate my Take: The rapping on Godzilla sucks, but that beat is fucking fire

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Eminem's fast rapping is a stale sound. I've never been the biggest Eminem fan since his shit was jammed down my throat by a drunk parent and pretty much everyone in my childhood, but I can appreciate his older stuff to a degree. And he's always had fast bars, like in Without Me, but this motor mouth shit just isn't vibing with me. Juice Wrld's chorus has some corny lyrics, but I can vibe with his voice and I like how his rapping is a distinct break from Eminem's verses.

But man, give me that beat. It's big, it's bouncy and it's fun. If someone doesn't do a remix, or like freestyle over it or something, I'm gonna be big mad. That beat needs better material.

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TC, what do you think of -

AZ
Big L
Big Pun

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Bad_Mojo posted...

TC, what do you think of -

AZ
Big L
Big Pun

I am a total rap noob and I don't know any of these artists. All I know is what sounds good to me.

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AZ -

https://youtu.be/4NGZ4ITX27o

Big L -

https://youtu.be/qA9grAxAZjE

Big Pun -

https://youtu.be/bWze_JdO57s

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@boxington

Any suggestions from those 3? Or anyone else, really. TC is new, let's help them out

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I appreciate the recs, but I'm not vibing with any of these guys. I can respect it, but I'm not really digging it.

I dunno. I was on a JPEGMAFIA kick last year where I got a lot of mileage out of Drake Era, Black Moses and Awake (thanks Spotify shuffle play), I really dig King Kunta from Kendrick Lamar and there's a 3005 remix from Childish Gambino that I like.

https://youtu.be/wfTv2WZZMpU

And as if I'm not enough of a normie, I really dig the chill vibe of the DJ Khaled song I'm The One. Like Justin Bieber is a little dipshit, but I dig that simple beat and it's just a light and breezy summer track.

Rap isn't usually my bag, I tend to chill with like The Weakerthans, King Gizzard or The Bennies - so like chill indie folk rock, Gizz's more hard sort of stuff like Nonagon Infinity, or Australian party rock. But I can dig a good beat, which I think Godzilla has. The only issue is that whatever Eminem is doing in that track just devalues the whole thing for me, it doesn't sound good.

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The reason the beat is so good is because it's sampled the original Godzilla theme

That's why it's called Godzilla

Well that's what I think anyway

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it's been a while since I've listened to him, but Saul Williams' stuff has a good balance between rap & rock

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IMfuQkwlpbk

and I know you already said Kendrick, but this is probably one of my favorite songs of his just because it's cool to vibe with

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QjlFqgRbICY

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Thanks for the help

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Bad_Mojo posted...

AZ
Big L

Never thought I'd hear these two rappers listed on CE

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BignutzisBack posted...

Never thought I'd hear these two rappers listed on CE

They are two or my favorites. I was just listening to the Children Of The Corn album with Big L, Mase, Camron, McGruff and Bloodshed

You ever listen to Little Brother?

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