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Kanye West freestyling circa 1996
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seems so.
What's wrong with it?
It's all in the execution. My trolling was so obvious that anyone who bought into must be a very special person. I was so blatant that it would have to take a real concerted effort to actually believe those posts. You'd have to be a tit to believe it, but many did, many tits. I thought 'If I make it any broader it'll be a giveaway' but it seems no matter how fucking broadly I played it people still wanted to believe. It's interesting that people would rather overlook the obviousness and choose to believe it was genuine when, for most people I would hope, it was clear as day what was going on. GAFs always looking for people to hate on. I wonder why? (wink)
It's cool to see old footage of kanye tha god rapping when he was young.
It wasn't obvious. There are many people out there who have the same opinion of rap in general, not just Kanye. Daft punk slows a sample down = genius. Rap producer does it = "wtf he just ripped off xxxxx song."
Furthermore trolling is against the terms of service. Glad you admitted to intentionally derailing the thread.
TheContact
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This is a prime example of when opinions can be wrong to you? About what another person feels about someone else's albums?
You can come at me and argue lyrically and musically why this album is better than his other works and I would STILL be right in my opinion
Like this album all you want, but look if you tell me that this beat is entertaining to your ears then we just have really different tastes in music, again still not making my opinion "wrong".
To me, compared to 808s and MBDTF, this album is terrible. I just like clean sounding music, and this album sounds rugged, choppy and hacked.
Your backpedaling is obvious, actually.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Your shitty beats get unearthed and now your "trolling". That bike won't go anywhere with all that backpedalling bruh.
Yeah, I dug that one too.
That shit was hawt fiyah. Sorry but if you think it was hacked then you're just wrong.
I highly doubt you were making better beats on SpecDrum. Go back and listen to "This Can't Be Life" from Jay-Z's Dynasty album, the production he did for Scarface's "The Fix" album and Jay-Z's Blueprint album.. Also, the track that he did for Mobb Deep's "Amerikaz Nightmare" album called "Throw Your Hands". All those tracks are certified bangers and that doesn't even scratch the surface. You'll pull out the lazy "but he just samples, that's not creative" criticism probably, but WTF do you think DJ Premier and Pete Rock do?
I know a whole lot about music composition and production having participated in both on a professional level and Kanye isn't the one I think is a fucking clown here.
EDIT: oh and now I see you were "trolling".. No you were just posting stupid shit.
Enter The 36 Chambers
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I had no idea kanye was rapping as far back as this. Thought he was a producer only until he got his break.
DJ McLovin has some dope beats, I think.
Yeah, he always wanted to rap. This is just people hanging at a store opening rapping, he's not doing it professionally or anything. Hell, there might be audio of me rapping when I was 13 or something.
I'm pretty sure I never rapped
Freestyle, for ya? No, for me
Fixed2BeBroken
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but seriously, how is trolling ok for one poster but not ok for another?
where is the consistency doe?
where is the consistency doe?
FairXchange
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Have you ever attempted to freestyle?
That was magnificent for completely off the top of the head, which it was.
This shit happens in every Kanye thread, trolls come out in full force with no consequence.
Was.
I can't believe they didn't provide a link to the Canibus freestyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGN_B8Ro6SU#t=78
POWERSPHERE
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Coming in on the half beat is always annoying to me.
Hip Hop
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Shit, had in my mind that the Diplomats freestyle should be number one, and it is. Legendary freestyle right there.
Rubbish King
The gift that keeps on giving
lttp but daaaaaaaaaaahuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuum
Hip Hop
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"My bass drums samples are all under 20hz and my hi hats are over 30k, that's how fucking futuristic they are. "
That line there, the first line of the post, was the give away as to the frivolity of my claims. Those frequencies are basically below and above most people's hearing range. Any beats under 20hz and over 30khz would be only audible to some animals. It was a red flag that the following hyperbole was daftness for the sake of daftness. It seemed obvious to me I was taking the piss.
My first post, the one about the SpecDrum was when the penny might have dropped but it is a pretty obscure reference (SpecDrum was an early drum machine for the ZX Spectrum, it was shit).
Anyway, while I'm here, and before I get banned (if I get banned, I thought it was pretty obvious I was being daft), let's break some hearts and kill a few childhoods. There's toast on the table and I'm ready to spill the beans. There's soap in my hand and I'm ready to come clean...
The following are spoilers for those who'd like to continue to believe these shenanigans were anything but.
I'm not a rapper and I'm not a DJ (but I am a musician).
Those 'beats' were parts (ie, the rhythm tracks, no instruments) of 10+ year old backing tracks I did for a project long gone as rough, unmastered mixes I mixed down in 10 minutes before posting them from Cubase multi's I haven't touched in 10 years. My real music is actually very straightforward and would in no way be appealing to anyone on this thread (ELOesque pop, you'd fucking hate it and I wouldn't blame you).
I've been a semi-serious musician for 25+ years and my honest appraisal of Kanye's talent is this ... he's OK but he's not as great as he (or his people) paint him out to be.
Is he a genius? No. Fucking. Way. Frank Zappa? He was a genius. Brian Wilson? Genius. Prince? Genius. Kanye? I just don't see it. I can't even see him as a particularly talented musician on any specific instrument, let alone as a multi-instrumentalist, composer, arranger, engineer, producer, mastering-engineer, or any other disciplines which "real" musicians spend years of dedication to master. He's OK but that's as far as I think it goes.
There, happy now? I've ruined the magic of the djmicluv persona for the children and laid it all bare. Hear that sobbing sound? That's the sound of a million Gaffer's having their dreams shattered, their dreams about the folkloric magician of mirth they know as djmicluv. You've broken their hearts. It was your fault. I hope you can sleep tonight with this guilty burden bearing down upon your heartless chest. Yes, you're a wrongun alright.
PhineBuyM3
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I've only just seen this post.
Yes, you've got me kids, that's me.
I'm sitting here in sunny Detroit thinking about how great it is to be a yanky doodle dandy.
I suggest you send me as much hate mail as you can via that site and teach me a lesson I'll never forget.
But of course, I'm not a rapper.
Pretty much. That's the crazy shit in the club
poopninjamvc3mk
I sucked six dicks to get this tag.
And that post was after your soundcloud got exposed. Keep on trying to convince us though, it's entertaining.
Feel the Swift
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Pre-written freestyles are cool. For example, Lil' Wayne has killed plenty of songs and laid better verses then their original artists/writers.
User 73706
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"I'VE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE"
I agree wit/u Timedog, that was a sick line
Ninja Scooter
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Sounds like generic catalog music they'd pull for that one scene in Law and Order SVU when they find a dead body in the bathroom of a club during 80s night.
"I'VE MADE A HUGE MISTAKE"
Sounds like generic catalog music they'd pull for that one scene in Law and Order SVU when they find a dead body in the bathroom of a club during 80s night.
freenudemacusers
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i make way doper beats than kanye in fruityloops hung over from banging models
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