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People say “the boy dead wrong but I feel him!” 😑 East Coast MC/Producer/Podcaster 🎙️ Grift Company Consulting 🤝 Wrecking Crew ⚒️
MusicianSouth Philly Escapeelinktr.ee/zillaroccaJoined January 2009

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"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!
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"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. bit.ly/2JIlCha
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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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"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."
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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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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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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Twitter is so dope because I see all of your political tweets and deeply disagree with 75% of them but I’m still on this bitch because talking about rap with strangers rules 🤘
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20 years ago today Bobby Digital dropped today. Meth’s verse on NYC Everything. Holocaust’s verse on the song named after him. Domestic Violence. ODB over a Portishead sample. Honey dipped blunts. RZA abandoning the Wu sound. Classic shit!
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