Hardest line: “Rip the Freeway, shoot through Memphis with Money Bags / Stop in Philly, order cheesesteaks and eat Beans fast / And bring it back up top, remove the fake king of New York” By 2001 the Nas vs. Jay-Z was heating up real fast. After years of subliminal disses, ba...
While Geezy was plenty strong on his own, as he says on the album’s second-most-notable song, “Cash Money Is an Army.” But the high point is “Bling Bling,” a song where he and his fellow Hot Boyz compatriots join forces for a glitzy, synth-heavy celebration of jewelry that ...
money nestled smoothly into the track’s cavernous bass. Even with verses from Mafia founders Juicy J and DJ Paul on the back end of “Where Dem Dollas At,” Gangsta Boo’s aggressive nonchalance absorbed all attention, further carving out a space for women in Southern hip-hop and beyond....
Showing self-awareness and a sense of humor,J. Cole puts an arm around the SoundCloud generation and offers wisdom from his decade in the game, rapping about money, relevance, and playing into the expectations of cynical hip-hop fans. Using a flow inspired by Phife Dawg on A Tribe Called ...
the pioneering labels Cash Money and No Limit turned New Orleans into a rap destination that could no longer be ignored. He admires how they etched their way into hip-hop history doing it their way—forcing the genre’s historical hubs to adapt to their sound and style. He stares at the...
grandmaison says, hustling toward the door to his studio, “by all this attention.” much as grandmaison courts attention, incessantly broadcasting himself, he has also come to be wary of it. in his early days, he could interview artists with abandon and not worry about how the turns of ...
and Weezy the industry game-changer: The prescient, woozy “Lollipop” would almost single-handedly drag hip-hop into the Auto-Tune era. He still loved off-kilter metaphors (“I ain’t kinda hot, I’m sauna/ I sweat money and the bank is my shower/Ha ha, and that pistol is my towe...
Real music not synth autotune recycled old songs. Drives me crazy these constant insults to existing music hits. Ur not gonna pull a fast one on me. I hear so much cheesy biting for profits. Stop with fake music. Stop making love songs by dudes about girls but the dudes singing the ...
The best moments of MMM find him doling out advice like a Godfather on "Facts," and holding court on the Blaxploitation funk of "Auction," while "Money Makin' Mitch" finds Future bouncing over the beat like a rubber toy. Puff's old Bad Boy crew have set aside their differences and ...
me that DJ Cash Money once battled DJ Joe Cooley there, and Joe just destroyed him. Lake Merritt has more hip-hop history, of course. Too $hort’sGet in Where You Fit Inalbum cover was shot there, as was Mistah F.A.B.’sSon of a Pimp. Back in the day, they used to have the...