Just Chatting - Take 3

Social forum

Posted on April 24, 2015, 4:02 p.m. by Didgeridooda

Third time's a charm.

Remember to please post Magic-related discussions in separate threads as appropriate. This thread is for non-MTG or very casual discussions; we want to foster new and continual game discussion across the rest of the site as well.

Admin Note:

Attention Modern players! There's a new Modern Chat. Please use that thread to discuss Modern-related things.

Attention Standard players! There's a new Standard Chat. Please use that thread to discuss Standard-related things.

Slayne says... #1

He did most of Em's beats too.

May 14, 2015 5:24 p.m.

Ryotenchi says... #2

Sometimes miss wow... Tried to replace that addiction with magic.. >.< (Actually went by the same name)

May 14, 2015 5:34 p.m.

Lelz, subpar and Em in the same sentence. Honestly, I don't care for a lot of current rap, but Em is on the short list of artists I'll listen to from the last 10-15 years.

Dre is legendary and it is very much deserved, but it's fairly well known that most (read: basically all) of his material is written by other artists (for example: I'm fairly positive that Jay-Z ghostwrote Still D.R.E. and Let Me Ride was ghostwritten by RBX... I think). He's still basically the universally acknowledged godfather of gangster rap.

May 14, 2015 5:47 p.m.

This conversation is surprisingly similar to the lecture I had in US History today... We discussed the evolution of rap and hip hop with relationship to the civil rights movement.

May 14, 2015 5:50 p.m.

Scorprix says... #5

I guess. Dre just has insane potential and used it to become a billionaire. But more as a producer/insane marketing skills. Still not a bad rapper though. Chronic was and still is great.

Kanye was great before 2013. Now he's going downhill.

Cole is great and is on his way to the top for sure. His lyrics have real meaning usually, which is nice.

Eminem was great up until around 2010. He's only made a handful of good songs since then. Still is regarded as EASILY one of the best of all time.

Drake is good. Yes, he does some R&B, but he's still a great rapper.

50-Cent is good too. He did one INSANELy great album, but not much great beyond that. Still not a bad rapper though.

May 14, 2015 5:54 p.m.

Scorprix says... #6

And fluffy, couldn't agree more. Even his funny songs are great. I'm even listening to Without Me right now. xP

May 14, 2015 5:58 p.m.

Sagarys says... #7

Ryotenchi, there is no replacing it. Once it's gone, it's gone, sadly. I still get nostalgic for it to this day. But nothing compares.

May 14, 2015 6 p.m.

Ryotenchi says... #8

Agreed... I really only replaced an addiction with a greater addiction I didnt spend enough time with. :P ...Though It will never be like the first 2 expansions...

Id still play if Id had enough gold to buy one of these new tokens... and start farming gold up.

May 14, 2015 6:02 p.m.

Runlue says... #9

Man, why we talkin' about rap?

EDM WOO... RAWSTYLE WOO... Monstercat woo!... woo?

May 14, 2015 6:06 p.m.

Sagarys says... #10

Totally. I started basically right when the first major patch of Burning Crusade dropped. Played through the end of Wrath and quit just before Cataclysm. That's when it started to get too casual and unbalanced for me. Warlords looks pretty sweet though. It's almost drawn me in a couple times now, but I've resisted.

May 14, 2015 6:07 p.m.

Scorprix says... #11

RAP=

Rythmic American Poetry

I am a great lover of profane poetry.

And Runlue, because RAP>EDM.

May 14, 2015 6:18 p.m.

Slayne says... #12

@fluffybunnypants That's basically exactly what I said. Eminem has just went downhill in the last 5-7 years. Everything from Infinite to Encore I consider to be his best, with Encore on the weaker end of the spectrum.

May 14, 2015 6:20 p.m.

Runlue says... #13

scorprix pls

May 14, 2015 6:22 p.m.

Agree with Runlue.

May 14, 2015 6:24 p.m.

Scorprix says... #15

Run pls.

May 14, 2015 6:25 p.m.

xzzane says... #16

My brother got me into the devil is a part timer. It is hilarious

May 14, 2015 6:25 p.m.

APPLE01DOJ says... #17

I slap Mozzy, Jacka, Lynch, Philthy Rich & Berner.

May 14, 2015 6:25 p.m.

Runlue says... #18

Mozzy? More like MUZZY, HAHAHA THAT GUY'S AWESOME.

But no one will know who I'm talking about. 3:

Except maybe ABMP. Woo.

May 14, 2015 6:29 p.m.

Ryotenchi says... #19

xzzane They need to make more episodes... :(

Sagarys Im the same.. drawn in by the finally going back to TBC and supposedly fixing things-ness.. Pandaz sucked.. and the last raid in cataclysm is all I really enjoyed.

I started 3 months before TBC btw.. quit last September hopefully for the last time..

May 14, 2015 6:31 p.m.

@ Slayne

I actually consider Em's newest stuff, specifically off his latest album, to be some of the best material that he's written... and I've heard all of it. Who the fuck nonchalantly throws the word rumplestiltskin into a verse and makes it make sense? Seriously.

May 14, 2015 6:32 p.m.

Ryotenchi says... #21

Anyone want to playtest on untap?

May 14, 2015 6:34 p.m.

Slayne says... #22

I'm not saying it's bad or anything, I just don't think it's a good as his old stuff. Maybe it's just his voice and flows. He sounds like Tech N9ne on a lot of songs now. Some of the songs on MMLP2 just didn't hold up though. Survival, The Monster(purely do to Rihanna. I hate anything he does with Rihanna), Love Game, and Beautiful Pain I just couldn't get behind.

May 14, 2015 6:38 p.m.

@ Ryotenchi

I'm also done with WoW... probably for good. I came back briefly after a very extended break post HM Lich King for end game content in Cata and again in Panda because my raid leader offered to cover my sub and bought the expacs for me, I recently turned down an offer for mythic raiding in WoD. Guess high end main healers are hard to find.

May 14, 2015 6:39 p.m.

Ryotenchi says... #24

Yes Amazing healers are hard to find.. and the dude ones with egos never stick around so. :P

Im a rogue though... In personality too... There is never a need for a rogue.. Especially last expansion, Melee were screwed until garrosh hard mode..

but now I dont play any 'virtual' game I enjoy enough to obsess about... so bored..

May 14, 2015 6:45 p.m.

xzzane says... #25

I used to be a pretty good tank in my WoW days. Haven't played in a while though.

May 14, 2015 6:46 p.m.

I was a tank in WOW. a deathknight, too.

I was the "tank" b/c I had maxed enough of my stuff that as long as I had buffs up from clerics, I could 1-shot enemies. raid bosses? more like 30, so I was just DPS there. still, best defence is good offence.

May 14, 2015 6:49 p.m.

Yall need to hit up Hip Hop 101... Listing some busted ass phony shit.

Number 1 is 2pac and there is no debate.

2-5 in no order: Biggie Smalls, Scarface, UGK, Cam'ron

Rap pretty much died as a genre after Lil Wayne adopted The Diplomats style/swagger and created Young Money records. They took the metaphorical lyrics too far and the shit turned into pop. Guys like Drake are not real rappers, they're pop artists.

May 14, 2015 6:51 p.m.

Slayne says... #28

There are some good modern day rappers, but overall you're right Rasta_Viking29. Mainstream is garbage.

Biggie and Pac are definitely top 2.

May 14, 2015 7:04 p.m.

Scorprix says... #29

Pac is good, biggie is weird, and Wayne is annoying af.

May 14, 2015 7:18 p.m.

why are we talking about rappers again?

May 14, 2015 7:35 p.m.

Scorprix says... #31

Music.

May 14, 2015 7:38 p.m.

wow. amazing. didnt know that was music.

I always thought it was all a bunch of noise.

May 14, 2015 7:40 p.m.

Runlue says... #33

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

drop the mic

May 14, 2015 7:41 p.m.

steps on the mic, the mic breaks

May 14, 2015 7:43 p.m.

Runlue says... #35

NO MOH RAP FOH YOU BOIS.

May 14, 2015 7:49 p.m.

@Runlue I'll be making sure of that.

May 14, 2015 7:51 p.m.

bijschjdbcd says... #37

Derp do you go to school?

May 14, 2015 7:52 p.m.

Scorprix says... #38

Turns on phone

Starts playing "The Real Slim Shady"

May 14, 2015 7:53 p.m.

@bijschjdbcd yeah, why?

May 14, 2015 7:55 p.m.

the fuck is going on and why are we still discussing rappers? I think that's the longest conversation ever held on this thread.

May 14, 2015 7:57 p.m.

bijschjdbcd says... #41

Just curious...

May 14, 2015 7:59 p.m.

NoPantsParade says... #42

Would you people consider Kid Cudi a rapper? I don't know much about today's rap, but he's the only modern-day rapper I listen to regularly outside of working out. Any other rappers/singers that are similar to him?

May 14, 2015 8 p.m.

Scorprix says... #43

I like this conversation. : )

May 14, 2015 8 p.m.

Scorprix says... #44

NoPantsParade

Yea, that's rap. He's actually not at all. Day n' Nite was a great single...

May 14, 2015 8:02 p.m. Edited.

@bijschjdbcd the fuck does that mean?

are you saying I'm stupid?

I'm smarter than most of the teachers in my school.

and just b.c I can...

May 14, 2015 8:03 p.m.

bijschjdbcd says... #46

Not the intention but it works.

May 14, 2015 8:05 p.m.

@bijschjdbcdthen what was your intention?

May 14, 2015 8:05 p.m.

Holy crap the Custom card forum is booming!!! Four threads in a row!!

May 14, 2015 8:05 p.m.

NoPantsParade says... #49

I love his song "Pursuit of Happiness" simply because of how ironic it is. "Day 'N' Nite" isn't my favorite, but I'll say that it's good. "Up Up & Away" is probably my second favorite Cudi song.

May 14, 2015 8:06 p.m.

bijschjdbcd says... #50

Information as it almost always is.

May 14, 2015 8:07 p.m.

Please login to comment