Is Raekwon too slow?

[Kanha]

The tracks I heard from Raekwon and this FILA-thing makes me wonder. Maybe it would be alot better if Rae released this 3 years ago?

This type of hiphop and vibe FILA seems to have is kinda dying. Common and John Legend just got an Oscar for their song "glory", Kanye is back and he's talking about Farrakhan and the power of the people, Jay-Z is making conscious decisions to make statements in his albums, J Cole spittin that REAL rap and still sell alot, Kendrick is rapping "Sweeter the berry".

All I'm trying to say is that RZA's concept of "A better tomorrow" seems to be more fitting for USA's situation right now than Raekwons furjacket "Fila"-thing. Even Rick Ross numbers and relevance is dropping.. It seems mainstream hiphop has an re-emergence of conscious rap.

I'm a little bit afraid Raekwon's "Fila" will seem unrelevant..

[soob]

Rae should make and album as he wants and don't try to fit in today's trends. This type of imitation killed Wu-Tang Clan, because they'd stopped making music like they had been doing for years and started hanging out with some fake rappers who make commercial shit.

[check two]

Kanye is back and he's talking about Farrakhan and the power of the people

lol

[Kanha]

lol

[check two]

I'm not surprised that kanye is referencing well known racists.

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Farrakhan makes Kanye look like Shirley Temple

[lei wulong]

rae been doing the same thing for years now, let him try somthn different for once..

[fortyglock]

^ there was an interview/article around the time CL2 coming out where the person wrote that Rae originally wanted to make a commercial album.

[Holocaust]

I disagree with the Rza comment, but we'll see after he drops these movies (Iron Fist 2, Bobby Digital)

[grt05]

is this even a debate? raekwon been hyped for far too long for mediocre music.
fuck this album.

[food for thought]

It seems mainstream hiphop has an re-emergence of conscious rap.

[zu fam]

"Kanye is back and he's talking about Farrakhan and the power of the people, Jay-Z is making conscious decisions to make statements in his albums"

"It seems mainstream hiphop has an re-emergence of conscious rap"

[zooruka]

Jay-Z is making conscious decisions to make statements in his albums

I sell out arenas, I call that getting dome.

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[Kanha]

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Ok, since you're going to quote some crappy filler verse by Jay-Z on an old Rihanna album , lets go with this one instead:

Inspired by Basquiat, my chariot's on fire
Everybody took shots, hit my body up, I'm tired
Build me up, break me down to build me up again
They like "Hov we need you back so we can kill your ass again"

Hov got flow though he's no Big and Pac, but he's close
How I'm 'posed to win? They got me fighting ghosts
Most kings get their heads cut off
With the same sword they knight you they gon' good night you with

Shit, that's only half if they like you
That ain't even the half what they might do
Don't believe me, ask Michael
See Martin, see Malcolm

See Biggie, see Pac
See success and its outcome
See Jesus, see Judas
See Caesar, see Brutus

See success is like suicide
Suicide, it's a suicide
When you succeed, prepare to be crucified
Media meddles, niggas sue you, you settle

Every step you take, they remind you you ghetto
So it's tough being Bobby Brown
To be Bobby then, you gotta be Bobby now
Now the question is, "Is to have had and lost
Better than not having at all?"
Because dawg

[Kanha]

Or we can revisit Magna Carta-album, or whatever gems he dropped with Jay Electronica;

He killed "We made it".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ljIEAbUxVX8