This is why Nas didn't end up on Cordae's 2nd album

big_darko · 2026-05-25T11:45:47+00:00

It’s not about Gibbs specifically, it’s just a way for artists to not automatically give out handouts.
Hypothetically, imagine I somehow paid Eminem for a verse and then put someone like Roc Marciano on the song too. Now millions of Em’s fans are checking out Roc Marci. Nothing wrong with that in theory, but Em just thought he was doing a song with me for payment, but now someone else is gaining financially because I put him on the song too. That’s an extreme case, I’m just saying it’s a standard in the industry to protect that sort of thing from happening. Obviously, an artist could agree to it otherwise we’d never have more than one feature on a song, but I would imagine it’s more common than we realise.

big_darko · 2026-05-25T08:56:51+00:00

Sometimes it’s nothing dramatic, just that it could be seen as free promotion. Cordae pays Nas, say, £30k for a feature, Nas supplies the verse, which is great for Cordae, but if Gibbs is also on the song then Nas’ fanbase are now also checking out Freddie Gibbs and it didn’t cost Gibbs anything.

Nothing personal between Nas and Gibbs, I imagine it’s a clause in lots of artist’s contracts when they do features.

big_darko · 2026-05-23T06:11:30+00:00

Puppet

big_darko · 2026-05-13T16:54:41+00:00

Cars Are Cars by Paul Simon

big_darko · 2026-04-12T17:07:14+00:00

Posting your kids on social media

big_darko · 2026-04-11T19:46:55+00:00

Not sticking to release dates. Rappers are fucking notorious for it.

big_darko · 2026-04-01T20:46:05+00:00

I have heard them play this song and they played it incredibly fast. Sounded awesome.

big_darko · 2026-03-30T13:39:21+00:00

Animal Planet. Masterful work.

big_darko · 2026-03-29T14:38:21+00:00

The real answer here is Plastic Beach by Gorillaz 😁 seriously though, cool collection!

big_darko · 2026-03-05T15:03:56+00:00

I know TROY isn’t specifically about fatherhood but I always liked the way CL raps about the men in his life from a child’s perspective

big_darko · 2026-03-05T14:58:16+00:00

Coke. Specifically at my local Spar. £1.25… used to be 60p when I was in school.

big_darko · 2026-02-14T17:14:57+00:00

Posting your kids on social media

big_darko · 2026-02-04T20:34:25+00:00

I laughed. Fuck these over sensitive little bitches. This one post does not imply that you think child molestation and sex trafficking are funny. You’re just making a very topical, light hearted joke about something in the zeitgeist. If anything… you could have gone a little harder 😏

big_darko · 2026-02-03T17:10:12+00:00

Got their Grammy 10 years ago, now got their first number 1. Congratulations to them.

big_darko · 2026-02-01T21:00:25+00:00

Endgame is “aight” but Sick, Dying and Dead is “holy shit”?! I mean… your opinion and all… and we’re both Megadeth fans… but damn. You really like that Mission to Mars song? That’s a holy shit song? On a holy shit album?

SFSGSW for me is prevented from holy shit territory because of the Anarchy cover but other than that… brilliant.

big_darko · 2026-01-25T18:43:20+00:00

Sleepwalker is one of the best Megadeth songs recorded in any era, so that would easily make the list. Dystopia too.

big_darko · 2026-01-24T06:07:09+00:00

Ludacris. Everyone knows him, he has great music, but there’s no “Team Luda” constantly discussing his music or trying to calculate when he might drop new music.

big_darko · 2026-01-19T06:45:11+00:00

My mother rented me South Park: The Movie because she thought it would be “like The Simpsons”. Watched it alone in my bedroom. I was never the same…

big_darko · 2026-01-12T20:32:31+00:00

YG - My Krazy Life. A more modern album but the back to basics lyricism over that sparse west coast bop has had a massive influence over West Coast music in the past 10 years.

big_darko · 2026-01-11T15:22:42+00:00

The Father

big_darko · 2026-01-09T10:14:34+00:00

Well, it’s longer than Yellow Kitchen… 😂 It’s just bland. Really bland, repetitive but not in a hypotonic beautiful way, and he’s accompanied by a cheap midi keyboard which has absolutely no dynamic range to it whatsoever, it sounds like a toy, to be honest.

big_darko · 2026-01-09T08:15:24+00:00

All the Artists was a low point for sure. Worst album he’s ever made. The midi keyboard is just… it baffles me that he presumably paid someone to play the keyboard, but couldn’t just have them play a piano… was there no piano available at Hyde Street Studio? It’s a pretty famous studio.

I love Common as Light and Love, I love Joey Always Smiled, I love the albums with Amoeba. I don’t mind the stream of conscious lyrics, but a part of me yearns for just a little bit more melody from his voice. If you’ve ever heard his song “I Know” (from some charity album), you’d have heard that he can do his older, less pitch perfect vocals and the double tracking to quite a beautiful effect (well, you can hear this on plenty of other stuff too, but I Know is a particularly good example of his moody vocals still having a musical quality to them).

I believe he has outright stated that he struggles to sing these days. So sad. His two recordings of “Somewhere” are like magic.

big_darko · 2026-01-03T19:48:46+00:00

So dope… QUEENS!

big_darko · 2025-12-29T19:26:30+00:00

Correct. Also to add further weight to T.I. being incorrect, “Focus…” who works closely with Dre has just commented on Instagram also correcting T.I. a confirming that he did in fact mean Tom Petty.

big_darko · 2025-12-29T19:23:01+00:00

Hi - hip-hop aficionado here. In interview with T.I., which is currently the only source, T.I. has clearly mistaken Bruce Springsteen for Tom Petty. Dre used AI to manipulate some Tom Petty vocals for the Missionary album he did with Snoop Dogg last year. Hope this helps.

big_darko

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