My favourite rapper is Kanye West. First it was BIG, then Ma$e, then 50 for like a day or two, when he released 21 Questions with the line "I love you like a fat kid love cake" I must have been like 12. I was in Lana's car when I heard that joint and I triiiiiipped. Crazy line! FAT KIDS LOVE CAKE SO MUCH! Like, I'm skinny, and I love cake.I can only imagine how a fat kid feels about the whole Boston cream pie/cake conundrum.
I hated rap for such a long time... so mean and rough and like poetry with annoying music. I could just listen to Marvin Gaye records while reading Langston Or Khalil... Thanks, Kanye West and Jay-Z. But that's a story for another day! Now I just want to shout out one of my favourite songs of all, with one of my top 'Ye verses. This shit changed the way I write. It's not deep, it's not really incredible, it's just a cool, coherent verse over a good ass beat. Point out the bounce!! (The Blueprint remains one of my most adored albums, along with Reasonable Doubt and College Dropout)
http://soundcloud.com/search?q=jay-z+the+bounce
I love SoundCloud because I get to listen to my original query, and a bunch of remixes all on one page. Nice
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