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HI! I AM SHABAZZ PALACES - ASK ME ANYTHING.

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:48 AM PDT

Daily Discussion Thread 04/29/2020

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:51 PM PDT

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

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Breaking: Judge signs off order to allow 6ix9ine to go outside in his backyard for 2 hours per week to record music videos and also to go to his basement for 8 hours per day to record music.

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:10 PM PDT

UPDATE: He just posted on his InstaStory: MAY 8TH.

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Shia LaBeouf's Movie Script About Brockhampton Rapper Kevin Abstract's Life Wins Screenplay Competition, Possible Movie in the Works

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 03:44 PM PDT

[FRESH] Megan Thee Stallion - Savage (ft. Beyoncé)

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:08 PM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Chief Keef - Hate Bein' Sober (feat. 50 Cent & Wiz Khalifa)

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 08:19 PM PDT

[FRESH] Yung Lean - Pikachu

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 07:07 AM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Boogie, SiR, Guapdad 4000 - Rona Raps 7

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 06:02 PM PDT

Offset has teamed up with fellow hip-hop artists Young Thug, Rich the Kid, and SAINt JHN for a performance to benefit the Atlanta Community Food Bank.

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 04:41 PM PDT

A new Little Simz EP is dropping May 6th

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 08:33 AM PDT

Yung Lean announces his new album Starz dropping May 15th

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 08:06 AM PDT

Ka shares tracklist and production credits for his upcoming album

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:16 PM PDT

Source: https://twitter.com/BrownsvilleKa/status/1255570605631393793

  1. Every Now and Then
  2. Unto the Dust (prod. Preservation)
  3. Patron Saints
  4. My Brother's Keeper (prod. Animoss)
  5. Solitude of Enoch
  6. The Eye of a Needle
  7. P.R.A.Y.
  8. Land of Nod
  9. Sins of the Father (prod. Roc Marciano)
  10. Old Justice
  11. I Love (Mimi, Moms, Kev) [prod. Preservation]

The rest of the songs are produced by Ka himself.

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[FRESH] Punch - Pay No Attention To The Man Behind The Curtains ft. Nick Grant & Lyric Michelle

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 09:02 AM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] KAYTRANADA - Need It (Official Video) ft. Masego

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 10:51 AM PDT

Pi’erre Bourne Talks Leaks, Playboi Carti, Kanye West, and Drops “Feds” Video

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 08:19 AM PDT

[DISCUSSION] Rico Nasty & Kenny Beats - Anger Management (1 Year Later)

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 10:48 AM PDT

it still slaps

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[FRESH VIDEO] MIKE - fortune teller

Posted: 30 Apr 2020 12:33 AM PDT

Pink Siifu's new project Negro is now on streaming

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 02:29 PM PDT

Spotify

Apple Music

You can still support him on BandCamp

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A rapper mourns his father and the injustice of a supply chain [CNN piece on Heems' father]

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 10:00 AM PDT

[Fresh Video]Prof - Squad Goals

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 09:20 AM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Jack Harlow and G-Eazy - Moana

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:19 AM PDT

Logic - Lord Willin’

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 12:15 PM PDT

HHH Essential Album of the Week #115: Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 03:44 AM PDT

Every Wednesday we will discuss an album from our Essential Album List

Last week: Westside Connection - Bow Down

This week: Eminem - The Slim Shady LP

All previous posts: Here

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Background/Description

The year was 1999 and rap music was coming off of the back of its 'shiny suit' era: think Puff Daddy and Ma$e dressed in tin foil, shaking their way around a wind tunnel, or Missy Elliott parading around in a foil garbage bag. Then a snot nose white boy from Detroit, armed with a quick wit, battle rap credentials, a controversial sense of humour, unbelievable lyrical capabilities and a mischievous alter ego named Slim Shady, made a grab for his slice of the pie.

"Hi, kids! Do you like violence?/ Wanna see me stick nine inch nails through each one of my eyelids?"

Everyone remembers hearing those words for the very first time. How could they not? They were funny. They were different. And who, in their right mind, would think to rhyme violence with eyelids?

More a wake up call than a hit single, even though at the time it did sell over three million copies worldwide and earn him his first Grammy (of an eventual 15) Eminem's 'My Name Is' put hip hop on notice with the now iconic Labi Siffre sample and zany, self deprecating lyrics and accompanying music video. With super producer Dr. Dre riding shotgun, things were about to change in a very big way.

Released in January 1999, a month before 'The Slim Shady LP' hit stores, the hilariously controversial single 'My Name Is' was like nothing rap had ever heard before. Em talked about abusing his teacher, which Spice Girl he wanted to impregnate, driving under the influence, and even put his mother on blast for doing more drugs than him – which she later sued him for (to the tune of $10 million).

The Slim Shady LP was predominantly produced by Jeff and Mark Bass, a Detroit production duo who were responsible for grooming Eminem's sparse soundscape during his early recording years. The album was made up of mostly new cuts, but also a couple of random songs and a few reworkings of tracks from the previously released 'Slim Shady EP'.

While great music can prick up your ears and touch the soul, most of The Slim Shady LP can hit you in the face and "get knocked the fuck out like Mike Tyson." Think 'Role Model' and the lyrics: "I'll strangle you to death, then I'll choke you again/And break your fucking legs 'til your bones poke through your skin."

Full of 'did-he-really-just-say-that?' moments and harsh reality raps, what helped the album stand out the most was Em's extreme sense of humour, and the off the wall antics and drug induced musings of the juvenile, violent alter ego Slim Shady.

Outrageous at the best of times – on 'I'm Shady' he spits: "My baby mama's not dead, she's still alive and bitchin'/And I don't have herpes, my dick's just itchin'/It's not syphilis, and as for being AIDS-infested/I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested" – you'd be forgiven for thinking you were listening to a Richard Pryor and Chevy Chase collaborative stand-up album. The track would also throw lyrical jabs at Canibus and Cage, the former of who would go on to trade several tracks back and forth culminating in "The Ballad" and "Canibitch". Interestingly, the radio edit of the track featured the further barb:"Six mics in The Source - they borrowed one from LL's arm."

A witty back and forth with complex wordplay and explosive punchlines that hears them rhyme "Vietnamese people" with "Steve Seagal," 'Bad Meets Evil' was an early introduction into what Eminem and Royce's lyrical tag team was capable of. And that's precisely why Dre wanted it on the album.

Another standout moment on the album was 'Guilty Conscience', Em's first official collaboration with Dr. Dre. With a clever narrative that felt like it could have been written for a rap version of 'Tales From the Crypt', it would be accompanied by yet another creative and unique music video that would propel Eminem even further into worldwide stardom and critical acclaim.

97 Bonnie & Clyde, a reworking of Just the Two of Us from the Slim Shady EP, finds Eminem dumping his ex-wife, Kim Mathers' (a lyrical punching bag who would appear on many albums) corpse in the lake with his then-infant daughter Hailie. The sounds played at the beginning of the song, including the jingling of keys and the slamming of a car door, imply that Eminem put Kim's body in the trunk of his car. These are the same sounds played at the end of the song "Kim" which featured on The Marshall Mathers LP.

Littered throughout the 20 track album are skits and interludes, several of which would become staples throughout Eminem's 20 long year career (Public Service Announcement: an introductory forewarning to the listener that the following music would be a violent, expletive laden listening experience; Ken Kaniff: a man lusting for homoerotic relations with Eminem, and Paul, Eminem's attorney, who pleads with Eminem throughout his aforementioned 20 year career to halt any and all activities which result in legal action).

He was young, restless, hungry, relatable, anti-establishment in a Sex Pistols kinda way, and someone who regularly challenged societal norms. It was a thing of beauty. But would he get away with it and be as successful doing so as a new artist releasing his debut album today, in a world where everyone seems to be a lot more sensitive and has a platform to share their opinion thanks to social media?

Aside from blowing the doors off of Hip Hop and expanding its reach commercially, something else 'The Slim Shady LP' did – for better or worse – was open the door for other white rappers to enter the game without coming under as much fire as those that came before Em. For a very long time rap was mostly a spectator sport for caucasian fans, there weren't many white rappers who were accepted within the black art form. Of course there were the Beastie Boys and MC Serch from 3rd Bass, who before Eminem were probably the most credible, and at the other end of the scale you had pop-leaning manufactured acts like Vanilla Ice and Marky Mark and the Funk Bunch. Then sprinkled somewhere in-between there were names like Everlast of House of Pain, Milkbone, Cage and a few others.

"I know for a fact that a lot of black people were like, 'Yo, I fuck with him because he's not trying to be us, he's being himself and he's dope as fuck at it'," Denaun Porter (one-sixth of D12 and producer on the album) explained. "He changed the way people looked at a white person in the genre. He opened the door for every white rapper period. It was bigger than 3rd Bass and Vanilla Ice and Everlast, and all the others that came before him. He opened the door that much wider. He became a storyteller for white people and changed the way everybody looked at their own lives."

It's obvious, even to someone who isn't a rap fan, that 'The Slim Shady LP' changed music in so many ways. It may be 20-years-old but it sounds as fresh now as it did when it landed. It has now sold over 18 million copies worldwide.

Guidelines This is an open thread for you to share your thoughts on the album. Avoid vague statements of praise or criticism. This is your chance to practice being a critic. It's fine for you to drop by just to say you love the album, but let's try and step it up a bit!!!

How has this album affected hip-hop? Why do you like this album? What are the best tracks? Do you think it deserves the praise it gets? Is it the first time you've listened to it? What's your first impression? Have you listened to the artist before? Explain why you like it or why you don't.

DON'T FEEL BAD ABOUT BEING LATE! Discussion throughout the week is encouraged.

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Clipse - I m Not You feat. Jadakiss Styles P Rosco P. Coldchain

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 04:31 PM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] AJ Tracey - Dinner Guest (ft. MoStack)

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 11:36 AM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] RUSSELL! - sucker

Posted: 29 Apr 2020 07:06 PM PDT
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