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Noz, boldface mine:
Starlito goes in over Frank Ocean’s “We All Try,” which would be suspect as fuck if he was any other rapper. But Lito is on the very short list of rappers dynamic enough to actually make something happen on top of a popular ass beat in these days of everyone lazily jacking beats for blog looks.[4] The thing about Lito is he fucking gets it – the difference between biting and influence, the difference between creativity and just creating.
[4] The others: Fat Trel, Meek Mill and absolutely no one else.
Instinctively, I knew that Meek link was “Faded So Long,” which is so much better than the very boring “The Ride” that I don’t want to listen to “The Ride,” ever, but Meek did his thing on “Niggas in Paris,” too, switching up the “That shit cray! (Ain’t it, Jay?)” flow that Kanye deployed for every average rapper to purloin by Meeking the volume and blitzing the Hit-Boy synths, and also briefly using the “Coke, Dope, Crack, Smack” flow that I really liked. Plus, Meek got to the bone of the opulent ignorance of “Niggas in Paris” joys days after Watch the Throne dropped, which qualifies him for bonus points, I think.
Also, Pusha and Wale both made things happen on popular beats in 2011, but it’s not like we’re giving credit for disses or Wale, right?
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somanyshrimp reblogged this from andyhutchins and added:
including Louie Montana. Suspect.
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