I keep coming back to this. Sampa’s pen is ridiculous. Like the way she rides a beat, the switches, the stories. She out raps a lot of the folks people swear are “GOATs and somehow she still isn’t in the “best right now” conversations.

It honestly feels like she’s held to a different standard because she’s from Africa and doesn’t fit the usual industry mold.

If you haven’t really sat with her projects, give them a full listen. She’s not “up and coming.” She’s been that good. We’re just slow to catch up.

I remember like around 2018 I first heard of him and I remember people calling him corny because of 1-800 song and bunch of other stuff. I have heard some songs and they don’t sound bad so is it that his music just took a major drop or did he just only have a few good songs?

This music video was filmed in Londrina, Paraná, Brazil, back when gang wars over drug territory were a reality. Amid all that chaos, rapper Mano Fler emerged, and he’s still active in the scene to this day 🙏🏻

I am not a fan of JAY-Z, that doesn't mean I'm a hater by any means, I'm just a casual listener with common sense enough to acknowledge his impact in rap.

However, online, and especially recently it seems like overwhelming downplaying and discrediting of his impact? I can't name one Jay-Z song or his only hits are features...

Yo for the years he had the most #1 albums of anyone EVER! And in a point and time when people had to physically buy albums. He's also one of the best selling artists of all time (150mil +). He also has 25B streams and 50M monthly listeners today. I could run stats down but that's redundant -

What gets me is the obvious. 99 Problems literally made it into the cultural lexicon as a whole; shirt slogans, movies, tv shows, even human to human real life convo. That alone is massive! That's one song. I bet the chorus of Hard Knock Life could play to anyone under 60, regardless of demographic, and they would recognize it... completely iconic. Big Pimpin? Forever Young?

These are genuinely huge songs and dont even touch his features.

So why all the hate? Or saying he's not big enough for the SuperBowl?

Genuine Gen-Z with common sense signing off x________

I've noticed is that every era of Hip-Hop had at least a few huge records built around a dance. Not just club songs, but actual dance records that became part of the culture. Everybody knew the moves and some crossed generations.

But today's mainstream Hip-Hop doesn’t have this.

In the '80s, you had joints like "The Humpty Dance” & “The Cabbage Patch”.

The '90s had the "Tootsee Roll” & "Da Dip.”

The 2000s had a bunch. You had the “Cha Cha Slide," "Crank That," "Lean Wit It, Rock Wit It," "Walk It Out” etc…

Shit even the 2010s kept that tradition alive with joints like "Teach Me How to Dougie," "Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)," & "Hit the Quan.”

Whether you loved those songs or hated them, they got people out of their seats and participating instead of just standing around.

That's what I feel is missing today. Hip-Hop still has hits, but it doesn't really have that one dance record that brings everyone together the way those songs did.

When I look that photos of him from the 90s Imo I can see where a lot of rappers got their style from like for ex the tattoos I believe he was the first if not one of the first rappers to make tattoos popular does anyone feel this way about him ?

A Chicago man was sentenced on Oct. 8, 2026 in federal court in Springfield, Mass. for his role in a nationwide wire fraud conspiracy that victimized businesses and individuals across the United States. Steven Hayes, Jr. 34, was sentenced by U.S. District Court Judge Mark G. Mastroianni to three years of probation. The government recommended.

In a recent interview with Atmosphere on PopkillerTV Plus on YouTube, Slug spoke about the long lost album he did with The Alchemist around 15 years ago (!) The album was called "Lake Minnetonka" and he's urging fans to hit up AL on social media and tell him to drop it :) / Can you imagine that collab? Do you think we'll get to hear it?