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Apart from the raps, the beats are legendary.

Having a LA artist in a New Orleans Superbowl does kinda feel weird I guess

Temples of boom, third album, best Cypress Hill record to an ancient guy like me.

“Murdergram Deux” marks LL Cool J and Eminem’s highly anticipated first collaboration and the fourth single from LL Cool J’s long-awaited upcoming album, The FORCE. With LL’s nostalgic bravado and Eminem’s signature speedy flow and subtle wordplay, the song sees the pair boasting about their raw “unapologetic” style and credibility in the rap game. The track – a sequel to LL’s original “Murdergram” – is produced by Eminem and Q-Tip, LL’s fellow Queens rap legend and former member of A Tribe Called Quest, who has produced the entire album.

Two months before the official release of the song, an unfinished version of “Murdergram Deux” was leaked to the public, visibly annoying LL. The song was officially released on August 30th as the album’s fourth single, which is set to drop on September 9, 2024.^[[1] https://genius.com/Ll-cool-j-murdergram-deux-lyrics]

I found out about her after her feature on Denzel. I'd heard some of her songs before randomly but never got curious enough to look her up until her verse on HOT ONE.

Her music sounds a bit samey IMO, but her talent is undeniable; she's got flow, lyrics, and charisma. Also... She's newgen, no denying that.

I strongly dislike the majority of mainstream fem rappers out right now (Cardi B, Megan, Sexxy Red) but I think Tia has some gems.

Thoughts?

Give No Fuck

Underground Greek feminist hip-hop

Back in the day this was one of the dopest beats and the scratched 'trax' sample was heard later on on anything. Back then I was into Mantronix too which had similar style of grooves to me using drum machines instead of vinyl drumloops but I think this is way more hardcore and underground.

Mix Master Mike after ghostbustin' heheh, first collab with Beastie Boys.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20031755

My personal entry point to LL Cool J - and I think best song on his best album.

There's a remix that actually has bells, but I thought I should go with the one most will have heard.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/20031449

I have the unpopular opinion that aside from a couple specific songs I've been lukewarm to every LL Cool J album later than Radio (which was such a banger), but this is so eyebrow-raisingly off the path of what I tend to expect from LL Cool J that I had to post here.

I literally came blind to this new album, and just before hitting play I thought - well unfortunately I can predict I'm not going to get any hard social commentary like from dead prez or etc...

30 secs later it felt like that thought had personally offended him. Track 1 no less.

Come on now, many....Innervisions like Stevie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5URefVYaJrA

This fuckin' wacky video was shot in Kiev.

I absolutely love this song, especially for Kendrick Lamar's verse breakdown here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQkurC7jWoM

Waviest beat of the summer

As we know Dela had copyright issues with their first album using uncleared samples. In 1988 Stetsasonic, on this track, where reasoning about their use of sampling, although they where one of the first groups that included a live band. They where also one of the first Hiphop acts to fuse Jazz with Hiphop. Big hit back in the day, played it on repeat.