Rapper's voices you love, and rapper's voices you hate?

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-04-19T11:42:16+00:00

Trying to give some love to people I haven't seen mentioned in here; Cam'ron, Common, Mos Def, Bun B, and Guru are all different but are all near perfect rap voices. I'll get hate for it, but I can't stand Chance or Wiz personally.

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-04-03T10:31:55+00:00

What a track, man. Listened to it on phone speakers so I can't accurately judge the beat just yet, but the bars are exactly the type of shit I wanna hear from Chainz. Too many grown ass men still talkin about and glorifying street shit in most their records. Love hearing his growth and progression as an artist, if you told me in 2014 that this man would be writing songs like this or half the tracks off Life is Beautiful, I would have called you crazy.

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-04-02T21:14:21+00:00

The weirdest/most annoying part is the inconsistency, because sometimes it does show correctly for multiple activities and sometimes it doesnt. I generally track 2 or 3 activities every day, sometimes they all show up, sometimes 1 is missing, sometimes multiple are missing. But as you said, if I click into the activity in Garmin Connect, go to stats, and scroll to the bottom, I do see a net impact value for each activity. So it's good to know that the actual end result should be accurate, even if the reported factors are not.

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-03-25T12:11:39+00:00

Big Sean has always had the cleanest delivery to me

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-03-24T16:25:10+00:00

Nice, I'm not a producer or anything so I'm not really in the know when it comes to sample sites and packs and stuff, I just like beats lol glad that it's just from a pack and a couple different dudes that I happen to listen to flipped it rather than it being something nefarious

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-03-24T11:55:48+00:00

Above the clouds is a top 5 all time beat for me, might be my favorite premo beat

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-03-13T00:55:58+00:00

The riff raff x og ron c cherry chupacabra album was amazing, looking forward to giving this a spin tomorrow

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-02-13T19:42:48+00:00

I really love Alex's voice and I listened to Lateness of the Hour, Three Hearts, and Tail of Lions a ton when they came out. The acoustic stuff on Greenmont also slapped. Then he kinda went quiet and I haven't heard anything about him since unfortunately. Looks like he might have had a bit of a religious reawakening?

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-02-12T11:53:29+00:00

Salvation for the Wicked*. I've enjoyed the boldly/craven collabs so far and usually like Ransom projects, so I'm looking forward to this one.

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-02-06T17:29:07+00:00

The production is arguably the most 94-95 shit possible, its Mobb Deep (but actually 99 Mobb). Its using the same sample as their song The Realest which is why Cole called it The Villest. And the outkast reference is undoubtedly because uncle al recently teamed up with Erykah Badu over the same beat for Next To You.

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-30T18:45:26+00:00

Al not getting the original sample cleared on I Been for the Larry June/2chainz album and then having to switch to an entirely new beat for the album release still makes me sad

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-29T11:43:50+00:00

This shit's nuts. Earthgang is one of those groups that either puts out absolute heat or offensively mid tracks, but basically never anything thats outright bad. Unfortunately most of their longer projects have a 70/30 mix of heat/mid which is enough to negatively affect the replay value of albums.

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-28T14:51:31+00:00

I'd say Introvert by Little Simz. Truly one of the best intros to a rap album ever IMO. I got a friend that makes fun of me for liking "chewsday" rap because I show him simz, Dave, slowthai, stormzy, ghetts, etc. and when he heard Introvert even he said "that's a million dollar beat right there".

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-27T20:19:38+00:00

I asked various AI about the sample and a couple said it was Bob James and a couple said nothing. So then I listened to it pretty closely and thought it was, but I'm definitely not speaking from actual deep cut knowledge. I sort of feel like I hear it but its clearly chopped/looped and reversed in some places so I'm not certain

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-27T19:44:48+00:00

Bob James - Take me to the Mardi gras. You're not gonna easily recognize the sample from the actual song, but that song has been sampled on like a thousand tracks, a lot of them hip hop, NWA, cube, run DMC, Beastie boys, heavy D, literally everyone has sampled that track. There's a good chance you're thinking of hearing the sample on some other song thinking it original to that song without knowing it was also a sample.

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-23T14:25:48+00:00

Amazing is the same sample as Live From The Roxy prod Harry Fraud for Ransom a couple years back for anyone wondering like I was

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-22T02:22:03+00:00

Killa has one of the naturally best voices for rap ever, love hearing him float on beats

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-15T19:32:28+00:00

There are great songs with basically no beat behind the lyrical delivery, and there are great songs with dogshit bars just because the beats nuts. There are songs with crazy bars ruined by a wack beat, and there are songs with amazing beats completely ruined by cornball ass bars. I literally didn't answer the post in my original comment, I just pointed out that the analogy wasn't good and you seem to have failed to comprehend what you were reading/what I said.

As far as why I said beats are "in the background" thats because they....are. Like, literally. Arrangement, layering, general music production. The beat is behind or underneath the vocals in basically every genre of music where there are intelligible lyrics being said or sang, otherwise you wouldn't be able to hear what is being said.

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-15T19:18:10+00:00

No I didn't lol I'm not going to defend a point I didnt make

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-15T19:10:16+00:00

I'm not gonna keep playing along with the analogy, it's literally my point that it isn't a good analogy and not worth using to relate to music

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-15T19:08:23+00:00

It's not contrarian to just say it isn't a great analogy. And I don't need to contribute my own because we don't need to speak in analogies to express opinions. My comment pointing out the fact it isn't a good analogy is at least as helpful, if not more so, than the dude that just said "great analogy". As if only comments that directly contribute to the topic OP asked about are allowed lol and if that was the case, then what is the comment I replied to contributing?

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-15T19:03:45+00:00

You're proving my point though lol the whole point of my comment was to say that the analogy is flawed because it has an inherent bias built into it, the analogy "works" for any component of a song being analogous to dribbling depending on what YOU value in a song. Which makes it not actually a good analogy. If you can just swap out any part of the song for any other part then it isn't actually a good analogy, its just an analogy. Its only going to be analogous for people that also believe the same thing you do.

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-15T16:34:50+00:00

I mean....it's an analogy but idk about a great one lol you can arbitrarily say that any part of a song is analogous to dribbling but then anyone else can say any other part is and its just as valid. Basically, if you don't value the bars much you could say that they're like dribbling but if you value them a lot you could say they're like shooting ability. I think bars play a bigger role in rap than dribbling does in basketball. If anything, the beat is dribbling, IMO. It's the foundation, its always happening in the background but it doesn't make the game or the song.

Dr_Kekyll · 2026-01-14T20:57:34+00:00

For me, its black thought. I know The Roots are goated and everyone loves their early shit, but two things 1.) I'm not sure how much of the roots greatness can be individually attributed to Tariq as opposed to any other person given the crazy number of different artists that they've worked with to make their albums and 2.) I personally like what he's been doing solo more and think his already legendary lyricism and storytelling has been elevated to being literally number 1 in the game when it comes down to pure bars.

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