The4D

@GanjaNYC Board Member•Film/Record Producer•Mastering Engineer•Web Designer•Director•1st AD•Art Dir.•Manager @KidHyphen•Sheik/Zelda Main•Oil Painter•OPEN MiC DJ

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Also, for those who like a little variety in their micro-blogging:

https://t.co/6FF9vzATYd

Very proud to be on there using my website as my handle.

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@JohnCloudThe1st A classic

[Lucid00.com @Lucid00]

My best friend the extraordinary rapper Mark Pheonix (yes, "the E before the O") passed away this morning.

I don't have pretty stuff to say yet as I'm still going through it, but I just felt I'd share to get the word around.

🕊️

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@Lucid00 How so? This sounds interesting

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@_tim_burke Behind the scenes, a lot of the Fugees' best ideas actually came from Pras. It's def one of the original "If You Know You Know" kind of stories in the music industry… you always hear older execs & rap industry veterans talk about how influential Pras was to the whole Fugees run!

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@djkdchip @_Skeeze @Watson3172 36 Chambers, Tical, Dirty Version, Cuban Linx, Liquid Swords, Ironman, Forever was 7 classics in a row.

If you're refusing to count "solo" albums (produced by and with the greater group), then EPMD, Gang Starr, & Mobb Deep each had runs of similar quality levels across 4 albums

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@mieowkaa Chrollo is clearly emotionally numbed due to violent childhood trauma (a common theme in Hunter x Hunter).

Look at Kurapika.

Look at Gon in Chapter 1 and how that near death experience at 8 causes him to be excited risking his life & to develop reckless self-destructive habits.

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@7WdSolja @Chrisjo16893668 @_XAmount2 @HipHopforever99 @Nas What a lot of ppl don't know is that NaS wrote the rhymes for I Gave You Power LONG before he recorded them to a Premo beat.

Ask Lord Digga of The Bluez Brothers (1 More Chance, Everyday Struggle). NaS rapped those bars over his beat, but they lost touch when NaS changed lawyers

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@7WdSolja @_XAmount2 @Chrisjo16893668 @HipHopforever99 @Nas You're right about G Rapp, but you're arguing w/ ppl who don't rap, so they don't get it

NaS gets disproportionately compared to Rakim VS his other influences because of 5%isms, lyrical content, & their similar "storylines" in terms of their massive impacts when each came out.

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@Watson3172 @TonyDaDome Straight facts 📠

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@JohnCloudThe1st Thank God it's not Drill!

#BoomBap

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@kingfreeces What my friend always tells me is that HxH doesn't have a pre-set ending like One Piece. It's supposed to be Togashi's personal artistic playground, & it's in his contract they can't make him finish

His plan was always to keep going forever. He'll write an ending when he retires

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@ividboy @kingfreeces What he was actually traumatized by was his publisher forced him to rush & wrap up YuYu Hakusho early because the massively popular hit anime was catching up w/ him.

If you've ever read it, you can tell almost the exact moment where it happens. All this build up abandoned! Smh

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@bibiiking11 We're getting about a volume's worth every year and change. So if the Chinera Ant Arc's narrative structure is any indication, this current arc should wrap up in the next 4-8 years (depending on where he goes with it).

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@midzthariot When I get back to my studio next week, I got you

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Making me want to break out my vinyl of "That's How It Is (It's Like That)", which is like the OG version of "It's Like That (My Big Brother") w/ a different chorus, no K-Solo, & extra DOPE verses from Doc.

And anybody saying Doc is overrated can't rap lol. If u get ill u know!!

[Thee Boom Bap Hip Hop/Vinyl Historian #🇺🇸ADOS @Watson3172]

This app is wild. I’ve seen some crazy takes about Redman..I’ve seen him be called “ overrated “ I have seen a person say when I wanna laugh I listen to doc……well this is the real Redman a super dead nice MC.

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@Watson3172 Word? If you don't have a copy, I can post it

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@Zayy_doee @Cheamane Go listen to Pusha T then.

He always says Biggie is his favorite rapper.
They just have very different voices.

But in a lot of songs, Push is def doing a Biggie

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@vem73846 @iamphella @WhiteDontCare23 The conversation had shifted to eras, and I was talking about how Royce & Joe Budden were from the era before Lupe.

A lot changed in those 3-5 years!

We weren't talking about their ages anymore, that was more a jumping off point.

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@noahsiskaamari @iamphella Absolutely. NaS for sure. About the only person who WASN'T influenced by NaS then was Guru (on purpose).

I'd never heard Em credit Outkast as an inspiration (besides putting Andre 3000 on his list after Redman, Jay-Z, Pac, & Biggie). But I'm not a huge Em fan so I wouldn't know.

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@noahsiskaamari @iamphella Em was rapping (& trying to make it as a rapper) for MAD years.

Infinite is just the relatively recent shit that was good enough to remember (/ independently did OK, a lot of copies circulated & thus were uploaded).

There is some meh stuff from WAY back that sounds super dated.