Lou Cypher
The Tokin' White Guy
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OUT NOW J. Cole - The Off-Season
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I AM THE GAME
Elzo69Renaissance
Didnt you hear about the last nigga who swung @ me
I don’t care about the features just bring in some respectable producers
and I don’t mean Tay Keith or Southside
and I don’t mean Tay Keith or Southside
willhustle
OG
Not a big J. Cole fan but I can respect the effort he's put into the music over the yrs compared to the hot garbage most of his peers put out. I might check it out just to hear something fresh from an established artist.
Motherfuckers really like features?
Features is the worst part of Hip Hop.
When I listen to an album, I don't want or need 2 to 3 other rappers on every damn song. I wanna hear the person who got their name on the album cover.
Features should be reserved for remixes. Nowadays, rappers will have a feature, then do a remix, with a different feature and take the original feature off, or even worse, have 3 different remixes with different features.
Most features are trash anyway. I can go back to the 90s where you would listen to a Tupac or Biggie album and gotta hear their damn weed carriers.
In the present day, Young Thug, who has the most singular interesting style in Hip Hop, sharing songs with the most boring rappers on the planet.
Rappers who don't use features to pad out their albums are the GOAT. Or at least let the feature mean something by having so few. Dirty Sprite 2, only had one feature, and that was Drake, which made it matter.
Features is the worst part of Hip Hop.
When I listen to an album, I don't want or need 2 to 3 other rappers on every damn song. I wanna hear the person who got their name on the album cover.
Features should be reserved for remixes. Nowadays, rappers will have a feature, then do a remix, with a different feature and take the original feature off, or even worse, have 3 different remixes with different features.
Most features are trash anyway. I can go back to the 90s where you would listen to a Tupac or Biggie album and gotta hear their damn weed carriers.
In the present day, Young Thug, who has the most singular interesting style in Hip Hop, sharing songs with the most boring rappers on the planet.
Rappers who don't use features to pad out their albums are the GOAT. Or at least let the feature mean something by having so few. Dirty Sprite 2, only had one feature, and that was Drake, which made it matter.
I don't think anyone here is asking for this either
I don't know, there are only two artists that I know that know how to use features right and that's Travis Scott and Tyler the Creator because the feature isn't given any range to fuck a song up. They are like collaborators in the overall artistic vision and most features in Hip Hop are not that. It's somebody asking for a verse and somebody emailing that shit back to them.
I can't be the only one that would skip the hell out of a Tupac or a Jay Z album when the features showed up. I remember the dark ages of features.
I am of the mindset that a great songwriter, vocalist shouldn't ruin their album with features, unless the features are key collaborators with the overall vision of the album. and they are of equal talent.
Most features ain't that.
unspoken_respect
Progressive Conspiracy Theorist
I'm expecting his best yet. He's reached the apex.
RozayTabernacle
The Bawse
It's better when singers sing his "singing" parts. Plus he tries to carry all the production too. But if he had outside people do the singing and some production, I think he could carry the rapping by himself.
RozayTabernacle
The Bawse
There's a happy medium between no features and making a dj khaled album
Breezy_Kilroy
Black Frost
Lack of features don't bother me especially when most rappers rotate the same 10 rappers for a feature trying to boost their streams.
Now if he got some features like say a Q-Tip or a Charlie Wilson or a Stevie Wonder a Nas some shit like that then I'd be more excited to hear what that might sound like.
But production is another thing. Get this nigga in the studio with some other producers and we'll see that might sound like.
Now if he got some features like say a Q-Tip or a Charlie Wilson or a Stevie Wonder a Nas some shit like that then I'd be more excited to hear what that might sound like.
But production is another thing. Get this nigga in the studio with some other producers and we'll see that might sound like.
Breezy_Kilroy
Black Frost
Just to throw him out of his comfort zone I think Cole should let someone else handle the production. Mans has gotten better KOD was a great album imo but he could use a chance of scenery.
CeLLar-DooR
OG
To clarify, I meant if he raps like he does on other niggas' shit
Los216
The Game Is The Game
Pac would have the Goat discography if it wasn't for all of his trash ass features.
"SO MUCH TROUBLE IN THE WORLD NIGGA CAN'T NOBODY FEEL YOUR PAIN"
If you take off 90 percent of the features on Pac's albums you wouldn't miss nothing.
I be headnodding and bumping along to a Pac verse, feeling that shit, and then here comes some random West Coast rapper and I hit the
Natural Born Sinners
Active Member
Im a big J.cole fan...he can do better than his last two albums. I'm not gonna trash him or nothing. But he got it in em. He can do better than his last two. Guy is TOO talented.
Natural Born Sinners
Active Member
Very true. But that was part of Pac's approach. He was heavy into unity (if he fucked w you) and puttin the homies on. It also allowed him to make ALOTTA tracks. He do a hook and a verse and then let the homies hop on the song.