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Who's a phenomenal rapper that if you heard someone say is their personal favorite or is in their "objective" Top 10, it would make you do a double-take? Not because you think they shouldn't be in that list, but you've never heard their name be brought up in that list compared to a more common name.

My answer: I rarely see the name Project Pat get brought up in a Top 10 list even though a lot of rappers can trace their style back to him and a lot of other rappers from Memphis. If you listen to Mista Don't Play: Everythangs Workin and don't feel something then idk what to tell you.

What album/song has production that is so experimental or unique that you're almost confused how someone could actually flow on it or made you realize that was the only rapper who could've made that work?

Yes this is about the OutKast/Ovrkast situation lol I just thought it would be a funny post idea.

My example: Smoke DZA and SZA would have some explaining to do for RZA and GZA's lawyers.

What's a specific region of HipHop that you believe is very underrated when it comes to the conversation of influence on other regions and bringing something new to the game? or What are some regional rappers that you just simply want to highlight and discuss?

Rappers that you remember were hyped from the beginning and were hailed as being the "next big thing" in HipHop just to kill their own momentum and end up being forgotten over the years. Whether it be drug problems, waiting to release an album for too long, releasing a trash album, burning too many bridges in the industry, etc.

Verses that a lot of other people seem to hate, but you're just like: "This feature wasn't even THAT bad people are just really overdoing it at this point" or "Alright he could've executed that a little bit better but I see what he was doing here. I understand the vision"

Rappers that completely adopted a new flow or delivery on one song/album just to never use it again.

I always fucked with Future's raspy voice on Group Home. Others understandably might hate it or think that it sounds goofy, but IMO it really fits the vibe of the song and was pretty unique at the time of it's release. While I don't think an entire album of him using that specific voice would be a hit, I think it's a shame we don't hear more non-autotune songs and I would love to hear him experiment with that more.

What's your examples?

If I ever had the chance to have one of my wishes granted, I would be able to see the behind the scenes footage of the studio sessions for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.

We've all read interviews from his collaborators about the intense atmosphere in the studio (Everybody required to wear a suit, total focus on the project and the project only, the pictures of the strict rules that Kanye came up with and plastered on the wall, etc), but due to those same rules that were made, there's very little to no footage of what it actually looked like in there or any leaked reference tracks/early demos which is surprising when we're talking about arguably the most well-documented and leaked Hip-Hop artist of our time.

I feel like this one line on Baby Birkin by Gunna definitely has to be up there.

"I have a daughter, I'm buying her baby Birkin (Baby Birkin)/Fucked her good and got her legs hurtin' (Yeah)"

Now, you know that he's obviously not talking about his daughter in that second line but he should've broken that shit up with another line so we know he's talking about a woman. First time I heard that shit I went "HUH?!"

Future can be pretty straightforward with his music which is why this one line on Unicorn Purp genuinely makes no sense to me when I try to comprehend it.

"We came up piss poor, I had to Tom Brady it (Had to Tom Brady it)/I got some bags just sittin' out in England, but I ain't savin' it (But I'm not savin' it)/She got that Boston, Massachusetts, I'ma Mercedes it (Massachusetts)"*

I mean what the fuck does that actually mean? I tried to connect the Tom Brady/England/Boston mentions with the fact that the New England Patriots used to be called The Boston Patriots but other than that I see no correlation. I just assume this is some weird ATL slang or some rich nigga talk that I have no knowledge about and I'm just thinking about it too hard lol.

What's your examples?

While going through a deep-dive on Future's discography I got to listen to the album Honest for the first time and from reading reviews from forums and publications I was thinking this was gonna be the worst project I would ever hear from Future, but I feel like the flack it got was pretty undeserved because I personally think it's a solid Future album with equally hype and reflective tracks. I also love the star-studded guest features we got from Pusha T, Pharrell, Kanye, Drake, etc.

It obviously doesn't compare with what's to come with his 2014-2015 mixtape run, but Honest has some gems in there.

For me, I'm so happy that sex skits faded out just in time so it didn't carry out majorly into the 2000s and 2010s. I hate when I'm listening to a classic 90s HipHop album and theres a track thats just a skit of the rapper pretending to fuck a groupie in the studio or the interlude to the next track is the rappers' homeboy acting like a crackhead begging to suck his dick for a chain.

Rarely was it ever funny or interesting and it just added nothing to the listening experience other than letting me know which songs I need to skip through the last 30 seconds for. I'm just glad that we're not in the timeline where we heard a sex skit on The College Dropout.