Ralphy London Album Review

Nyzzy has worked rigorously hard on improving and progressing not only as a rapper, but as an artist. His solo mixtape debut was entitled, "Nothing Nyce," and definitely emerged onto the hip hop scene with hits like, "Live It Up," "I'd Just Rather," "Superstar," and "Nights Like This." A few of his songs from his first album made appearances in television shows and movies including; "Get Hard," "American Horror Story," "St. Vincent," "Beyond The Lights," and more.

Davis is a platinum selling rapper he began writing his remarkable music. His music altered the course of hip hop. Every success was followed by a setback. Incarceration, violence, rap beefs, and drug addiction all took place in Gucci’s life. But Gucci Mane has learned from his mistakes and is changing for his future. Throughout his life, he loved to rap with his friends and cousins but never actually tried to career in music since he was into all the bad stuff in Atlanta. One day, he decided to go check out the rap “game.” He feel in love with rap and made many mixtapes. Many people began to recognize him and started to listen to his music. His friends would help him out by selling drugs and giving the customers a free CD. Some of the Atlantic people would not want the CD but eventually ended up hearing it. Gucci has been nominated in the BET awards 3 times. In 2017, he collaborated with Fifth Harmony and won a VMA award for best pop video for the song “Down.” Gucci Mane has also collaborated with many other artists such as Migos. Migos is a trio; Quavo, Offset, and Takeoff. Gucci met them long before they were really famous. He really liked their vocals so Gucci invited them into his squad “The Brick Squad.” Gucci Mane had 11 albums and many mixtapes. His recent album came out on October 2017 “Mr. Davis.” Since then, Gucci has been a successful

As a solo artist, he releases music since the early 1990ees and mixes funk, soul, dance and electronica music. Until today he published four albums, one collaboration with the mighty

The mixing of both Charlie Wilson and Kid Cudi's vocals with the beat and the sample oh my goodness it is phenomenal. Even Ye's flow on "No Mistakes" makes for a well rounded record.

The first song that introduced to Rocky was "Pesos" back in 2011. After being blown away sonically, and loving the gritty visual for the song, i literally listened to nothing but "Pesos" for an entire week. Through that I discovered his project "Live. Love. ASAP" in which I still listen to many of its songs today. A project which features "Brand New Guys", "Purple Swag", and "Wassup" to name a few, was a solid introduction in the industry. From there Rocky had the attention of fans everywhere, as listeners anticipated his debut album "Long. Live.

Bryson tiller first album dropped know as ''Trap-Soul''.Thirty Minutes into his first set he slows the pace down with some fan favorites. '' Don't '' , '' Exchange'' ,and

Hip-hop’s fascination with authenticity is unique to the genre and its function of its roots as the cultural expression of socially and economically marginalized African-Americans. A narrow subculture, hip-hop’s rise to prominence as evidence by the rise of international hip-hop stars, a high percentage of hip-hop CD sales, and the cooption of all things “hip-hop” by large companies to target new consumer demographics, has jeopardized the genre’s “realness.” Listen to Kanye West’s “Ni**gas in Paris” produced in 2011 and then listen to Maceo’s “Nextel Chirp” produced in 2005, both tracks sound very similar, so what is authentic and what is not?

The concept of being hyped up is a huge must in the hip hop world, people love the feeling of being hype and being motivated and drake takes that and molds it into his album. Drake is known for his singing and using his vocals even though being a rapper, that aspect of drake really separates drake from other rappers to point where rappers are becoming like drake. Drake manages to make you feel emotional using lyrics and diction that are amazingly great. In the song Hotline Bling drake sings about how he left his city and his love to come back to see that she has moved on. Drake says “ever since I left the city you got a reputation for yourself now everybody knows it I feel left out.” saying that everyone knows her except drake who should know her better. Drake also makes us dance, in a tropical vibe song called one dance drake uses drums and his majestic vocals to make a song your body cannot refuse. The song took the nation by storm and really elevated the album to another level and it gained respect from his peers. Another song on views called controlla had the same vibes as one dance, but has more of a romantic feeling to it that also attracts to the youth. Most people like to music that involves being loyal and that has a good tempo to it that can be danced to, drake takes that into perspective and

Talib Kweli and Mos Def are amazing artists each in their only rights. Their performances together as Black Star gave me and many other hip hop fans an amazing album. Aside from the sound of it, what I love about this particular song is that it brings me back emotionally to those few moment were as I explored my own culture and identity I found yet another thing to be excited about. What I also love about this track is that it illustrates hip hop isnt all about selling drugs and thug living. The commercial song are the only voices

Additionally, critics took note of Lamar's verse on the song "Control," by rapper Big Sean. Even though the track was written by another artist, Lamar's verse drew attention because of his challenge to several other popular names in the hip-hop world, including Drake, J. Cole and Big Sean himself. One interesting fact about Kendrick is he became an American rapper and songwriter. The good thing is that Kendrick faced the violence like a real mature kid. Not like those kinds of those kids who are under pressure quickly. So that’s mostly about Kendrick Lamar’s

After revealing his new nose, Norwood was excited to share his latest single. The song features the 1990's hip hop rap artist YO-YO and was the first song out of three selections he chose for the night. Of course, his voice rose to the occasion and the sound music mesmerized the crowd. Norwoods performance was not just a listening party but a full out mini concert with a live rhythm section and dancers.

My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy boasted an amazing maximalist approach that boarded on a hip hop opera symphony with lyrics that were memorable and verses that can rank as the best hip hop verses of all time. It was an album filled with legendary moments that music fans will remember for ages, and moments Kanye fan boys will yell at his concerts. This reaction by hip hop fans for My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was immediate. For Yeezus, it was different. Yeezus’ minimalistic approach threw fans and critics off due to the very left field and experimental approach he took for this album, both sonically and thematically. In spite of this, Yeezus still manages to hold up it’s quality, value, and impact in comparison to his preceding albums while becoming one of the most important hip hop albums of all time.

Although this was his first album, he had already known that he was like no other artist. In the song “Soul Food,” he states “I swear this music in my genes like denim / Lyricism seeping, I’m like venom / Yes, I know the flow hotter than Lucifer / Even though Heaven sent him.” With each song that goes by, people will hear more and more bars go by that will leave them unable to sing along to the song, but still able to understand the words that he is saying. One of the most lyrically flowing rhyme schemes in the album comes from the song “Growing Pains III,” where without a stutter, he swiftly asserts “When will I lose my anonymity and become one with the enemy? / Tell me would I be the enemy, feel like nobody in front of me.” The song that possibly shows the most potential of his lyrics and flow, however, would have to be the song “Under Pressure.” In this nine-and-a-half-minute song, Logic tends to change his speed constantly, but does it in a way that does not alter the dynamics of the beats. A line from the second verse demonstrates that he knows the talent he obtains while stating rapidly, “Yeah my stress up, but I’m blessed up / F*** around and get messed up / When I murder the rhyme, I’m living divine / You know that I’m one of a kind.” In addition to the lyrics of the songs, listeners will also hear the production value behind them as

This technique builds a sense of intensity and excitement in the listener as we approach the climax of his verse. When De La Soul would perform this song live with Gorillaz, he would act as the hype-man (someone who tries to increase the audience’s excitement with raps, exclamations, interjections, and call/response chants); the style of rapping and lyricism in this verse fits perfectly with the way De La Soul liked to perform. The syncopation in his verses and his gruffer, more sinister tone helps De La Soul to stand out from the rest of the song (which is absent of any kind of new, complex, or unexpected rhythms). His verse is littered with maniacal laughter, which reinforce his dark tone and overwhelming, disorienting style. All of these features make De La Soul stand out as the “star of the show” here, in a song that feels otherwise plain in

Bruno Mars is a world renowned performer, a majority of the songs he has written tend to all have common themes, sex, partying and having a good time. His songs focus primarily on making the audience feel good. Bruno Mars focus his music on brightening others day rather than trying to get his audience to understand something greater. He does this by using a mixture of funk, soul, R&B, ‘80s and ‘90s music, and putting a modern twist on it. Unlike Lady Gaga or Miley Cyrus, Bruno Mars songs are more than just a pastiche of his past albums, each song he creates uses a different piece of history and when you listen to his music you can’t help to be teleported to a new world of funk, swagger and fame. The only thing his last album is missing is a little bit of soul. The music industry has manufactured his song so much, to try and get it to be what they think the audience wants, that the songs loses all its meaning.