This was a really touching song. Very sad, but worth a listen because it’s powerful.
what about drake?
Do we really want to consider drake a rapper? If we are, he’s the elevator music in the hotel of rap.
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Blasphemy!
Nothing Was The Same, If You’re Reading This It’s Too Late, and What A Time To Be Alive represent Drake at the height of his powers. He might enjoy “being friends” with Millie Bobby Brown on Instagram, but nobody can deny that he has (had?) bars.
There ya go 
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I forgot about the ghostwriter allegations 
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Pusha T’s disstrack against Drake is probably second only to No Vaseline as far as disstracks go. I don’t think Drake’s been the same since.
It was almost more like spoken word. Made me cry the first time I heard it, haha.
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I’m being told to not have so many posts in a row so my bad.
Anyway, ever heard J Cole’s 1985? I think the guy(s) he made it about have absolutely fallen off. They should’ve paid more attention to the song.
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Hit 'Em Up by Tupac is number 1 for me. First line addressed to Biggie:
I ain’t got no motherfucking friends. That’s why I fucked your bitch, you fat motherfucker.
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No one has mentioned Grandmaster Flash?
I don’t know if the first rap I heard was from Public Enemy but Anthrax and PE were certainly the first rap metal I heard.
Is it just me or does Chuck D’s sounds like Obama?
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I’m old and I don’t like it. I’ve never liked wearing onions or listening to poetry, and this is more like poetry accompanied by minimalist sounds than music accompanied by poetic lyrics, or even a catchy sound and catchy lyrics. That doesn’t necessarily make you a bad person for liking it, but old men like me get all confused by young people and your magical glowing rectangles that emanate music we don’t like or root vegetables we don’t want to wear.
One of these days you’ll learn how the olds were right all along!
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I remember this when it first came out. I had Anthrax’s EP I’m the Man, and the title track was one of the first rap-metal songs. I was an Anthrax fan as a kid, both because of their sound, and because Scott Ian grew up two towns away from me.
I thought that EP was awful.
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True. It really doesn’t fit what most people would think of as “rap.”
I like plenty of old music too. Been on a bit of a Johnny Cash kick lately. “Hurt” is a wonderful song.
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This is before my time, but when I was around nineteen I worked part time in a restaurant and a black guy who worked there would play all of this old stuff in the kitchen.
If you didn’t know, it is a cover. Original is by nine inch nails.
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Johnny Cash and Trent Reznor were both olds who wrote that stuff before @jshaving was born, back when it was customary to wear an onion on your belt.
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Just in case anyone thinks crazy old uncle twojar is finally losing it, the onion on your belt is an old reference to the greatest show ever made, which occurred during my childhood and teenage years during the last millennium. Most of you missed out on that, but that’s why kids today wear helmets on their bikes and don’t even know how to make a decent works bomb. Back in the 80’s we could all buy cigarettes, as long as we told the register operator that it was for our parents. As time goes on progress gets taken away like dust in the wind, and hardly anyone understands my cursive handwriting anymore. This reminds me of my first Cadillac, which was a big hit in Harlem in the year 2001 on my way to the Yankees game with a guy who turned out to be really unreliable, which may or may not have been related to his cocaine habit.
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My dad used to send me to the store for 3 packs of Kools with a dollar and I’d get 10 cents back!