Jay-Z vs. Linkin Park

[Guest The Winter Of My Discontent]

Jay-z is the only rapper that I know that can walk the fine line between street rap and pop rap. Black Album was good and maybe rap album of the year last year, I wouldn't say its a classic thou.

Sorry, Jay Z isn't street rap. He may have been at one time, but not now. 99 Problems may have seemed edgy with Rubin's crunchy guitars and dark video - but that whole album is total pop. I liked the album, but when I look for legit street rap albums, I wouldn't ever ever ever look towards the Black Album.

[Guest Dynamite Kido]

Out of curiousity....what do you consider "street rap"?

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

If you wanna get down to it, "pop rap" covers any sort of hip hop that sells a lot of records; going quadruple platnium, no matter how "street" you sound, makes you pop.

 

However, more in terms of style, substance, etc. Ja Rule is pop rap, even if he never had a hit in his life. He's like Will Smith but with more profanity.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

And Banky wants to act like he knows "street rap" because he's been listening to Mobb Deep recently.

[Guest PlatinumBoy]

If anyone wants The Purple Album on Mp3 send me a PM, one of my friends ripped it and sent it to me.

[lomasmoney 0]

Jay-z is the only rapper that I know that can walk the fine line between street rap and pop rap. Black Album was good and maybe rap album of the year last year, I wouldn't say its a classic thou.

Sorry, Jay Z isn't street rap. He may have been at one time, but not now. 99 Problems may have seemed edgy with Rubin's crunchy guitars and dark video - but that whole album is total pop. I liked the album, but when I look for legit street rap albums, I wouldn't ever ever ever look towards the Black Album.

how exactly is 99 problems a pop rap song again.

[Guest evenflowDDT]

I've been a fan of mash-ups (and have downloaded quite a few Black Album remixes...a personal favorite is a version of "Lucifer" that pairs Jigga with The Soggy Bottom Boys...Kanye really did it again) for about the past year or so; even though they're as mixed a bag as can be, with most tragically leaning towards awful, the concept still remains more interesting than gimmicky to me.

 

What makes Collision Course interesting to me (even though I don't really care for Linkin Park) is how, as opposed to some musical surgeon forcibly separating and recombining samples ripped from albums, the songs were "properly" re-recorded on stage and in a studio. It also represents the first major American mash-up project/recording (which many would argue, due to its very nature, is a bad thing...but I, for example, would love for a program similar to MTV UK's MTV Mash to even be aired in the States, let alone catch on)...a trend which I hope continues (when I caught this special on a fluke flipping channels, I originally thought MTV had brought a version of Mash across the pond). It's certainly no less awkward than the extended house/trance remix craze of a few years ago.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Where can I get the Grey Album?

[Guest evenflowDDT]

Where can I get the Grey Album?

Here.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Thanks!

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Woo!

[Ravenbomb 0]

Linkin Park = shitty Emo Rap

[Hank Kingsley 0]

Michael Mann used "Numb/Encore" for the Miami Vice trailer. I'm not sure what to think, I thought he had better taste than that.

[Henry Spencer 0]

I don't know what about Michael Mann says "quality" to you, but that trailer was the first place I heard one of these collaborations. What a surprise, it sucked.

[Hank Kingsley 0]

Hey, he used "Seed 2.0" in Collateral (for 7 seconds?)

[Annabelle 0]

And Banky wants to act like he knows "street rap" because he's been listening to Mobb Deep recently.

 

 

HEEEEEY....

 

i missed that the first time

 

but really, im not gang banger but i know the difference in lyrical & musical traits in kanye & big l. know what i'm sayin? of course not, you dont respect my rapperman opinions. but still.

[Giuseppe Zangara 0]

I was just pulling your leg.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

A cool video

[Matt Young 0]

Wow.

[Art Sandusky 0]

So that's what that annoying "Everything you say to me" song is actually called. Huh.

 

Meh on the remix. I could do it too if I wanted to find a lyrics-only "99 Problems."

[Edwin MacPhisto 0]

"Thanks to Deon Dark for making this!"

 

Wasn't Bob Van Dam, this here poster, once named Deon? And an idiot? I smell fish, along with a terrible fucking "remix."

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

Correct. And really, Deon Dark? Is that like some sort of shitty porn name?

[BUTT 0]

That remix is poorly edited. The transition from "riff and loop" at the beginning to full band is messed up, as is the transition from the second verse to Jay-Z rapping. But I guess that gritty, unpolished sound is to be expected from a collaboration between such hip-hop giants. Streets is craving more Deon remixes.

[muzz 0]

Jay-Z works best with FF7, duh.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYCTpU_7Eis...ted&search=

[Guest "Go, Mordecai!"]

That was so ridiculously horrid, I think it actually made me hate Final Fantasy VII for existing and thus lending itself to that.

[The Niggardly King 0]

That was so ridiculously horrid, I think it actually made me hate Final Fantasy VII for existing and thus lending itself to that.

 

FUCK YOU

 

That was simply tremendous, and the next Final Fantasy game should include Jay-Z, Nas, and Mos Def on the soundtrack. Maybe even a Game track.

[snuffbox 0]

Fine by me. I wouldn't have to listen to their new material that way.

[AndrewTS 0]

That was so ridiculously horrid, I think it actually made me hate Final Fantasy VII for existing and thus lending itself to that.

 

I already hate FFVII for existing. But if I didn't, I'd agree.

 

Much better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnABKuHbfpA

[The Niggardly King 0]

I think it's pretty clear that this is what happens to be missing from hip hop. More video game rap music mash ups could only be a good thing.

[Lil' Bitch 0]