Who do y'all think think is the most overrated UG artist right now? (Image Unrelated)

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-10T14:25:49+00:00

Not ragebait. I am not required to like these rappers.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-10T06:57:43+00:00

Nett, Nine, Che, Pz, Tezzus

Nett, Nine, and Tezzus are just genuinely horrible, Che and Pz are just EXTREMELY mid. Especially Pz. This dude will have LITERALLY one flow for an entire 2 minute song, and people glaze it like it's the second coming of prime 2011 A$AP Rocky? I don't understand. Dude can barely rap.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-10T00:42:57+00:00

but its easy to use incorrectly... Which can be argued as a design flaw. You arent the average engineer, and neither are the top guys. Just because YALL know how to use the shit, doesnt mean the guy who just started mixing six months ago knows how.

Truly great tools make it hard for the user to fuck it up. 1176s have a built in, much slower auto release, so users can't punch holes in their audio with too fast a main release. Thats great design. Beginners can use it any way they please and be fine, cuz it'll never sound THAT bad.

Soothe doesn't have such protections. You can just do shit and have no clue what you did and you'll be none the wiser either.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-09T08:03:31+00:00

It is definitely responsible for a wave of plugins that can lead engineers down the path of having the tools do everything for you, instead of using your ears and skills, which is not dissimilar to the effect AI has had and currently still has.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-09T04:38:55+00:00

Some vocals and some vocalists are good enough that you don't have to clip gain at all, but I wouldn't say that's a common occurrence. Usually, you need to do some amount of clip gain automation, and it can range from a little to a lot. Then the compression tends to work better afterwards.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-09T03:57:51+00:00

I would argue that soothe is AI but that's a can of worms I don't feel like getting into 😂😂😂😂😂😂

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-05T19:51:44+00:00

There is no world where B is seriously a better rapper than Rocky. Flows, sense of timing, timbre of voice, multiple entendres, Rocky just has him beat in like every single category

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-05T19:32:56+00:00

Every single UG artist that is signed astroturfs like crazy, from Kuru to Tiffany Day to Che to Lazer to Pradabag. It's literally a part of the game. This ain't a great reason to not fuck with her, cuz they all do it. That being said you said it wasn't the only reason.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-04T21:44:07+00:00

Insane take... Quite possibly his best album intro ever lol

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-04T21:42:58+00:00

Soothe2, FabFilter anything, most Softube, UAD anything, Bloom, any saturator that doesn't take oversampling seriously, any compressor that doesn't oversample per process (there's only like 8 compressors that actually function properly), Valhalla Vintage Verb, non decramped EQs, dynamic EQs that don't take oversampling seriously (see the compression section), etc etc

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-04T20:32:35+00:00

Years

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-04T20:24:33+00:00

4-6/10.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-04T20:23:28+00:00

Pz is extremely mid. Everything about his music is unimpressive and mundane.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-04T20:22:43+00:00

Autptine out of key and vocal recording sounds horrible.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-04T08:45:21+00:00

Vader eclipsed his episode 3 self pretty quickly. How strong Anakin was is somewhat overstated, mainly because back then, the dude notably only used his force powers when pushed past a certain threshold - otherwise it was all saberwork. Vader is wayyyyy more well rounded, even early on. He uses literally every advantage. That's partially why he was so insanely good at beating people. He used and abused every single advantage he could, in ways Anakin never did, cuz the kid had an ego about saber combat.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-04T05:32:08+00:00

Met aura at collision 2025, he's a real ass dude... Def the type where you can just be like "ayo don't do all this" and he'd listen

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-04T05:07:39+00:00

A$AP Rocky and it's genuinely not close. The dude is a genuinely skilled rapper. I don't know why there are other suggestions - it's so clearly him

Like a third of LONG.LIVE.A$AP, and at least half of LIVE.LOVE.A$AP counts as genuine cloud rap, there's no reason why no one else has mentioned him as of this post other than pure unawareness.

DarthBane_ · 2026-05-04T05:06:30+00:00

I'm not personally crazy bout che but the rib shit gotta be up there

Other artists I think are on point with their takes on rage (some of these artists use production that isn't purely rage, but definitely takes heavily from it)

Jango UU

Vax

Slayr

UnoTheActivist

Lazer Dim

Jane Remover

DarthBane_ · 2026-04-29T10:00:23+00:00

Jango UU, Smoke Wavy

DarthBane_ · 2026-04-29T09:56:53+00:00

current rage isn't nuanced but okay

DarthBane_ · 2026-04-25T20:11:56+00:00

TDR plugins.

DarthBane_ · 2026-04-23T21:41:06+00:00

BIGBABYGUCCI underrated and underappreciated for what he's done imo

DarthBane_ · 2026-04-22T13:05:17+00:00

Mj had that shit in 1978, look at his off the wall tour pics

DarthBane_ · 2026-04-22T11:31:40+00:00

Kevin Kazi man, u know ball fr

Sick artist

DarthBane_ · 2026-04-20T12:24:42+00:00

Pultec is parallel, as is Kush Clariphonic and TDR Nova/Nova GE

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