There has been a resurgence, from the underground rap community, of brain-bending, tongue-twisting battle rhymes of the kind Eminem used to write – see Run The Jewels, the collaboration between Killer Mike and Company Flow / Def Jux founder El-P, which gets a physical release on Big Dada this month, as evidence of this trend. Increasingly, fans are turning away from the inflated personas of Kanye, Jay-Z and their ilk, despite the willingness of Pitchfork and other trend-setters to embrace bloated, cod-experimental, lyrically bankrupt turds like Yeezusand Magna Carta Holy Grail. More likely though, he's smart enough to realise that in the current climate, it wouldn't sell.Īnd yet. Perhaps the hip-hop super-ego's days are numbered. Where's Cube's 20-year anniversary box set? Perhaps he's too busy making family-friendly movies to even give a shit. What happened to hip-hop that was about something? It's 20 years since Ice Cube's seminal Lethal Injection, a record which was a direct response to the beating of Rodney King and the subsequent LA riots. I have a dartboard with his stupid face on it. The man is a hate figure in my household. Who wants you to hurry up with his damn croissants, because he is important, and married to a Kardashian. He is a self-proclaimed God, a man who shakes hands with a fake Jesus as part of his show who believes 300 was about Roman history and doesn't care that he's wrong. A lot.īlame Kanye West, who in recent years has taken the money-fetishising greed of hip-hop to its logical conclusion. Lots of people got rich, not least Jay-Z.
He re-emphasised the street economics of hip-hop as a corporate endgame. ushered in the era of 'bling'-obsessed hip-hop, and made it the norm to nick a whole damn chorus of some shite 80s pop song rather than actually focusing on samplecraft. His shameless cash-ins on the legacy of the superlatively talented The Notorious B.I.G. You broke my fucking heart.īlame P-Diddy. But it's paired with a lazy trap-lite beat, and the next single features Rihanna. New track Rap God promises much, in terms of razor-sharp, Ritalin-chomping speed-rap. Slim Shady was reduced to a whingeing shade of his former self, bitching constantly about the pressures of fame, and addiction. His latter-period lyrics showcased a solipsistic style of storytelling that would come to dominate the culture at large. It is sung by Carroll Roberson, from his CD, Gospel Favorites. CAROLL ROBERTON RECORDED ONE PAIR OF HANDS IN 2014. Go to YouTube and check for song, 'One Pair Of Hands' written by Carroll Roberson. elvis coild not have sang one pair of hands in 1969, as mentioned in a post bc it wasnt written till 1970. But after awhile your realize it is someone else. He never sang the song you mentioned, but does sound like the actual singer.
Nothing ever measured up to his debut album. Did Elvis Presley sing one pair of hands No, not Elvis.sounds like him at first. It was his decision to foist 50 Cent on the world.