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Most Unusual Or Unknown Songs You've Seen A Mainstream Rapper Featured On/Producer Credited For?

"Ayyy Girl" is the lead single for the South Korean Pop group, JYJ. This song features both production credits and a feature from Kanye West.

It's been a while since I've gone down the rabbit hole for this song so just keep that in mind incase I get some things wrong or forget some key details, but if i recall correctly, the instrumental for "Ayyy Girl" was originally created by Kanye during the Good Ass Job (later turned into MBDTF) sessions and is believed to be an earlier or just a alternate/extended rendition of the instrumental for the song Flashing Lights (2007). Sometime after this, The instrumental was eventually remixed and given to JYJ with a Kanye feature for their debut album, The Beginning.

Fun Fact about the instrumental: It was also used on the scrapped puppet show, Alligator Boots as the theme song's instrumental. Which was also created by Kanye with Rhymefest.

u/ImNotTomStopAsking — 4 days ago
▲ 580 r/hiphopheads

Which famous person who isn't a rapper has the most disrespectful name-drops/name-flips in Hip-Hop history?

A name drop or name flip doesn't have to be an explicit diss or shots fired against another person. It could just be making reference to that person. In this case: a disrespectful way.

I feel like Tina Turner is somewhere in the Top 5 maybe Top 3 of most disrespectful name drops in Hip-Hop lyrics. It seems like almost every old-school and sometimes new-school rapper has a unfortunate lyric flipping on Ike/Tina's domestic abuse situation. "Beating these bitches up like Ike did Tina" type shit. Basically just turning her abuse into a fucked up punchline.

What's some other examples?

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u/ImNotTomStopAsking — 15 days ago
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What other rappers solo-careers can coast off of one debut album à la Lauryn Hill?

Lauryn Hill is the most famous example of a solo artist (disregarding her previous work with the Fugees ofcourse) who dropped one classic album as their debut and continued to coast off of that and stay relevant in the Hip Hop world for decades without releasing another body of work.

This got me to thinking of a hypothetical. What other rapper could coast off of their own debut album without releasing anymore projects and have that same effect?

Edit: Some of y'all are clearly missing the DEBUT ALBUM part of the question

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u/ImNotTomStopAsking — 20 days ago
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Least Favorite Types Of Online Music Discourse/Criticisms?

This is more of a Music Twitter-specific thing where you can see a lot of cynical takes, but recently I've seen a trend of people waiting for a highly-anticipated album to release just to post about it months later with a caption to the effect of "Are we ready to be honest about this album or are y'all still glazing it?". I see the same thing with even older classic albums as well like "I refuse to believe y'all actually are serious about this album. It's so overrated by music nerds"

I hate it because It's such a non-sensical critique. You have no actual argument to be made it's just "No, it makes no sense that the majority of other people can simply enjoy art that I happen to not enjoy myself. They MUST be lying about it to seem pretentious!"

Hell, I even see the same "argument" being made with every newly released or classic highly-acclaimed films too. Sometimes people can enjoy something that you don't enjoy and that should be an OK thing.

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u/ImNotTomStopAsking — 22 days ago
▲ 25 r/OGPBackroom

Never in my life have I been more close to death before working at WalMart as a Dispenser.

I don't know if it's just my area but holy shit people out here drive reckless as hell. I'm not even just talking about in the parking lot or the Entrance/Exit driving spots. THESE MOTHAFUCKAS ARE FLYING THROUGH THE PICK-UP SPOTS AND BACKING UP BEFORE I EVEN HAVE A CHANCE TO MOVE MY DOLLY AWAY FROM THEIR CARS. I swear if I knew this job was basically just almost getting ran over everyday I never would've taken this job 💔

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u/ImNotTomStopAsking — 22 days ago
▲ 548 r/hiphopheads

Real Moments in Hip-Hop History That's So Bizarre It Sounds Made Up?

This whole era is admittedly before my time so what might not sound absurd to y'all is absurd to me, but anyways I learned recently that amidst the infamous Jay-Z v Nas beef, Nas was planning to lynch a life-like animatronic of Jay-Z during his performance at Hot 97's 2002 Summer Jam. It wasn't until Hot 97 got word of this that they blocked the stunt, which led Nas to pull out and cancel his entire performance.

Just hearing about the concept of that is so insane that I can only imagine how much it would change and how much different of a light the entire beef would be perceived after the fact. How do you realistically respond to that? How farther would the back and forth disses go, IF they can get any farther than that? How much backlash would Nas get if a video of that resurfaces in today's climate?

What's a bizarre fact or moment in HipHop that sounds too crazy to be real, but is real?

u/ImNotTomStopAsking — 24 days ago