Yeah I'd take the link please. For anyone looking for mixtapes check out datpiff!

Wasteman I didn't mean you were being pessimist I meant I was saying it would fail! Hiphop is in trouble though, apart from lupe, doom, kudi and a few others it's mainly new releases by people like nas, dre, wu and other guys from back when. Will be strange when they're gone.

And that is great news, love premiers beats and his use of scratches. Check out his remix of classic (better than I've ever been) its awesome!

I think Premo comes close to Jus' Blaze (YES), but Blaze obv has a better sick track ratio.

Hard to think of someone with more influence. Since Gang Starr he's produced on the majority of classic albums released and is still doing amazing things

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Lupe's by far my number 1 artist.

Really like Wale, I would say he hasn't blown up compared to the hype after Nike Boots, but I think he has in the States and it's more that he's not marketed over here. Was pretty cool when he headed the house band for the VMA's. Didn't realise it was 'his' band too.

And agree on B.o.B!

Check out people like Ayomari, U.N.I, TiRon, Christian Rich, Pac Div (very Cool Kidsy) if you don't know them already, you might like. And maybe Diz Gibran too - track called Truly Yours that he did is really nice.

likeed them so much more when they were pacific division, songs got worse since the name change

Can't think of anyone that can ever do it as well as Lupe. Got the hustlin thing (4 real, cold blooded), the swagger thing (Gold watch, my sneakers) The love thing (Birds and the bees, and he gets the girl), the political thing (conflict diamonds, handcuffs) The struggle thing (Ghetto story, Coming where I'm from) and the tracks where he just shows off with metaphors are just mindblowing (Mean and Vicious, Ooh, Popular demand, Switch the Science project etc) the list of tracks just goes on. His flow is on point and the list of quotables could go down for pages. No idea why he's not bigger than Wayne or Kanye.

If anyone wants a list of his proper mixtapes and where to get them i'll put it up.

Fanboy post

I would, never listened to any Lupe.

don't know exactly when bout a couple of years ago
cos they didn't release any stuff for a while and then came the pac div stuff
i prefered the earlier cool kids stuff as well, bass was rediculous on some of those tracks

Lol, it's fine I'm having a proper fanboy moment too. He really is an amazingly good artist and even though he's not as mainstream media friendly as Kanye and Wayne, I'd like to think he'll be a giant in the future / in retrospect. Because he is lyrically insane. His Enemy of the State mixtape shows that.

The beat for my sneakers was my ringtone for a bit lol