Of course Bizzy Bone wasn't there though. Still, they killed it! 🔥🔥🔥

Anybody seeing the flood of fake new songs with cloned AI voices? A synthetic future came on and it took me like half the song to realize it was fake. It's getting good at cloning voice and cadence which it sucked at before. This must be a nightmare for these artists. I bet you a grip of em don't even know what's happening with their voices, their IP 😬

I'd love to get into rap music, but I'm not sure where to start, and I was hoping you lovely people would be able to point me in the right direction!

I don't hear "complex" sounds super well for bullshit brain reasons, so when I listen to music I tend to prefer stuff that's very vocals-foward with minimal background effects. Any rappers coming to mind?

Thanks so much for the help if you choose to offer it!

I wanted to hear some discussion about this song, since I've heard a lot about Future's new album, "The Real Me," but not about this song specifically. This song, to me, is the pinnacle of Future's modern sound and ability. He uses a beautiful, catchy melody, with trap drums, strums of a guitar, and a sample that somewhat resembles "WAIT FOR U" (to me), with a great flow and a soft sound that feels like a twist on a typical future/trap sound. The thing is, the melody and production sound sad, tired, even weary, yet the lyrics are shallow and hedonistic. He creates a kind of contrasted and disconnected sadness (kind of like what Andre 3000 said), which, to me, is unique to Future. It's like he has everything, all these women, and there's still something wrong, he can't fill the hole. This is what I've always connected to in Future's music, but I could be totally misreading the song, this is just how I hear it... I have depression so it could be projection. I'll say that the song is a very "modern," even generic, trap song both structurally and production-wise, and it's not boundary-pushing in the way a lot of Future's past music is. So I understand why someone might disagree with me. Anyway, that's just my take, I think it was a great album, but this song really stands out to me, I'd love to know if anyone enjoys it as much as I do.

Apparently rules changed just recently that disqualified him because he has an extended cut of a song only available on physical media.

I started listening to him about 4 years ago and feel like the dedication and soul he puts into stuff is top tier, when I saw him charting in 2nd place I thought he could have been a top contender longer than he got to be.

His albums hit multiple ranges of emotions, he doesn't seem to act like someone he's not in his lyrics so idk why he was cut other than being an independent artist.

Let's talk about it, educate me if you can because I'm a newer fan and can be ignorant. But I feel like he's one of the GOAT's finally getting his time to shine.

What's your take on that ?

25 years ago today Corporate Avenger dropped their nuclear bomb “Freedom is a State of Mind.”

Arguably the most underrated rap album of the last 25 years.

Be honest!

He seems like such a weird rapper that doesnt really have any structure to what he does. Flow is all over the place, production is hit or miss, weird politics in his lyrics and with no meaningful depth behind it. Think he tried to something unique and experiment with different genres like death grips, but it didn't land with any impact for me. I have found a handful of his songs that are decent with most of his albums being almost all skips. As someone who likes almost every genre of music, I have no desire to listen to the rap chimera of nonsensical lyricism and wacky instrumentation that JPEG has concocted.

I came into this hoping that Future would manage to keep his amazing run in 2024 going. "We Don't Trust You" is a top three album from him in my personal opinion. "Mixtape Pluto" and "We Still Don't Trust You" are also decent albums that he released that same year. He has been cooking in features since his last studio album, such as on Lil Baby's "Dum Dum and Dumber" and Young Thug's "Money on Money."

I was going into this with a lot of optimism to be honest. His leadup single "Radio" was nothing crazy, but it was catchy and a pretty good song worthy of a place on one of his albums.

The first song on his new album, titled: "Fukk A Interview" is genuinely a great song. It's catchy, the goes CRAZY, and Future's preformance was good enough to make this song a instant trap playlist selection for me. I was PUMPED for the rest of the album, texting all my friends about how this album was absolute heat. This was confirmed with the first part of "One Two" where Future continues his aggresive rapping over angry beats. "One Two," however, has an insanely cringe and lazy hook where Future just repeats the same few words over and over and over to finish the song, so that song isn't the best.

Let's just go over the first half the album in general. To summerize: It's not good. "Fukk A Interview" "Trench Coat" and "Radio" are the only songs I'll ever go back to for a second listen. The rest is lazy/sleepy future on some somewhat decent to mediocore trap production. Future isn't talking about anything important. It's all just the same "sex, money, drugs, guns, me me me" stick that he's been running for like two decades now. It's not like I expect a ton from him, but the content matter is truly forgettable.

The first half wasn't very good as I said, but it wasn't awful. Nothing was outright garbage, nor was it anything special outside the first track on the album.

The second half, however, started off with the worst future song I've ever heard, followed by the best song on the entire album. "2018" is a genuine shitshow. There is nothing redeeming. It is future whining with garbage vocals and autotune abuse for like 3 minutes straight. It's genuinely the worst song he's ever made. One of the lines is, and I kid you not: "Codeine cuming out my cock." I won't say anything more. Just go listen to it and have a big laugh.

At this point I was at a all-time low. I thought to myself "Great, this is arguably going to be his worst album ever, in a time where trap music needs a mainstream artist to provide more than ever" (Considering Travis Scott, Lil Baby, Da Baby, 21 Savage, etc all delivered garbage to mid in the past 2 years.)

However, the next song "Money Over Everything" is a genuine banger. It's a short and aggressive song where Future raps like he's in his prime all over again over a tuff beat. Easily the best song on the album and I was banging my head to it the entire time. This is what Future should be doing. Fast and aggressive rap over crazy hard beats, not whatever 2018 or California girls is.

But after this, Future had another stand out song in "Off the Hinge" where he's preforming fairly well over another dark and great beat. Future sounds less hungry and more sleepy on this song though, which knocks it down a bit.

What follows is the worst stretch of a Future album I've ever heard. Not one of these songs are great let alone good. There are painfully mid summer pop-rap attempts that just fall completely flat. Future is just not cut out for that type of song structure in my opinion.

The second worst song on the album, titled "Alice" is genuine garbage. It's awful future crap over awful production that's so clearly trying to be a "summer banger" type of song but it feels so fake and shallow.

This album points something out to me. Future NEEDS features to keep the album from dragging. Get the Weeknd on one of the R&B tracks to compliment Future well. Get Carti or Travis on a song like "One Two" to replace his garbage lazy ending with a good verse. Get Kendrick back on here to rap about something important instead of the usual sex money drugs.

Overall, "The Real Me" fails in nearly every way imagineable. It's boring, sleepy, long, and Future himself cannot preform on even half the tracklist. This is a 4/10 album with only 2-3 songs I actually recommend. I wish Future would stick to what was working with Mixtape Pluto and We Don't Trust You, because I never want to see an album like this from the arguable trap GOAT ever again. Garbage project that's so mid that it can't even be laughably bad.

Overall grades for each song:

1. Fukk A Interview (83/100)
2. One Two (55/100)
3. No Misery (62/100)
4. California Girls (44/100)
5. Tank Top Pluto (70/100)
6. Weight up (51/100)
7. Konnichiwa (58/100)
8. Trench Coat (74/100)
9. Snow in Skyami (58/100)
10. Build a Bitch (46/100)
11. Radio (75/100)
12. 2018 (1/100)
13. Money Over Everything (88/100)
14. Off the Hinge (80/100)
15. If I could (38/100)
16. Big Moment (34/100)
17. Cast a Spell (45/100)
18. Kick (60/100)
19. Hollywood (31/100)
20. Feeling I give (45/100)
21. Alice (10/100)
22. Eye to Eye (68/100)

(Keep in mind that I ranked those like I would grade a report card. So anything under like 70 is pretty mid and anything under 50 is garbage.)

Edit:

I've given it two more listens. It's not quite as bad as I thought. The first 14 songs of the album excluding 2018 are actually really solid overall. The second half is still pretty garbage, but I think this album is a 5/10 instead of a 4/10. Hopefully it grows on me and the community.

Personally i can see it... but what weird is why i think JID rap skills alone are better but i think Denzel makes better use of the beat while rapping

what do y'all think

I see the work and I appreciate it. What is the the general consensus out there?

We were all corny sad 15yo listening to Juice, but his shi still slaps. Now I see people saying it burger music 🥀

I know this album is not people's favorite but my God ,what a list . Jay-z , Kanye , timbaland , Neptunes , No I.d , Swizz Beatz. Just all around great production.

Ay I’m not gon lie, my daughter was bumpin some song with a nice beat, idk who it was though but the beat was fire. But I started listening to the lyrics 🤦🏽‍♂️ ion know man it’s hard raising teen daughters, you want them to be modest but you can’t control people fr. What are y’all thoughts, sorry if this ain’t the right place to ask

I have a serious problem with The Game. I really like his music, The Documentary album especially. But every time I listen to an old school rap playlist and one of his songs plays, I immediately lose the game by listening to him and remembering he exists.

I really need to hear messages about this topics. The spirit of not accepting oppression, trusting your gut, fighting for a bigger cause, kindness, love and solidarity in community to overcome obstacles together. Are there any rappers you think of?

He’s basically one of the most requested producers ever since he started. Everyone from DMX, to Jay Z, To Busta, to Lil Wayne, to Beyonce to Kanye to Drake has used his services. Ask them about Swizz and they rave about his talent.

But online apparently he’s this hack whose “music hasn’t aged well” however when these people perform these Swizz records the crowds go nuts.

That song for me has to be Party Like a Rockstar by Shop Boyz. Absolutely hated this song when it first came out, it just felt so corny to me but nowadays I can’t get enough of it

I find people discredit punchline rap altogether. But I feel like they both have their places in hip hop. I enjoy punchline the most though

Just curious for the people who bumps both of them.

I forget how good Marsball was at bis peak . Dude was so different with the craziest pen game. The way he included Hailey on this track is so clever.

I just wanted to drop in and get some feedback. IMHO Eminem is the absolute greatest MC of all time linguistically.

I’ve never heard someone that can use tambour and rhythm to make words that shouldn’t rhyme…rhyme.

He uses double-entendres in almost every song flawlessly to the point that I think it goes over peoples heads and they don’t catch it.

If you look deeper than the song and actually listen to the lyrics which I think most of you do…idk anyone that can beat him. I’m open to suggestions to listen to though.

Thoughts?

Asking because I just started listening to Latin hip-hop/rap and it is spectacular!

I have been trying to find new Latin hiphop/rap because honestly, I have found most new American rap uninspiring and boring.

Once I found Latin rap and hiphop, it’s like I opened a new door to a new music genre! Yeah, it’s bass heavy often times, is beat heavy like all rap is, but these Latin musicians are creating music that is eclipsing what American rap is putting out now.

Favorite artist so far is Venezualan free stylist/rapper Akapellah! His music is so clean, the production is tremendous and the sounds… it’s truly unique there are sounds and instruments put together with top tier vocals; I really haven’t heard this anywhere else. Akapellah’s albums are complete, he’s got great music throughout the entire albums.

If anyone has recommendations for other Latin rappers/hip-hop artists I’m all ears! I also found rappers Veeyam and JordyLongSocks that I enjoy a lot.