/lit/ - Literature

>>6798423
No such thing

Milo

>>6798423
Childish Gambino for being an odd person. Earl and Tyler with the edge would feel at home in Romanticism. Kanye reminds me a lot of Norman Mailer, Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

>>6798468
Childish Gambino is just so.. Terrible, though. Literally all of his songs are ''I'm so nerdy, but I still fuck everything that moves, also I have a large penis'' He was honestly the biggest let down ever after I listened to bonfire. I don't really know why people like him that much, since he's pretty generic, but I guess he can sing a bit and he has phat beats.

>>6798423
The only /lit/ rapper is a dead rapper.

>>6798484
lmfao how white are you even

Eminem used to read DFW when on-tour, he said "I didn't get alot of it, but I really feel where wallace is coming from, you know?"

>>6798423
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtaRC9vHSgY
Relatively young white dude sick of a slow life, doing whatever he can to express himself on a budget. /lit/.

Scarface. He was the first to rap about the stress and regrets of a life of crime, the paranoia and difficulty of quitting for reasons other than society's condemnation.

he even wrote a book. kinda.

>>6798497
ugh ikr, like, can he not

>>6798423
Rap is the most pleb of all musical genres.

>>6798423
probably kool keith or slick rick or big daddy kane

>>6798468
cringed

>>6798522
>cracker

>>6798497
Great argument, good quality defense of the content of his songs.
''You see me babe, You see me babe, Asian girls everywhere, UCLA'' ''European Armenian girls on my sofa'' ''An elephant never forgets, so my dick remembers everything'' ''My dick is so big needs a big bang theory''
Those are just off the top of my head. It's simple, it's been done ten times better around twenty years ago by Pun, Big and Onyx to name just a few. Gambino is just another dull ''fuck bitches git munny'' rapper. Lil Wayne tier, with a decent voice.

>>6798468
>Kanye reminds me a lot of Norman Mailer, Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.

Mailer, Capote, and Thompson were autistic?

/lit/ is a bunch of bad readers and listeners of bad books and music

just leave the thread and save your peace of mind now

who does that chart say has the biggest? the text is too small for mine eyes

>>679512
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=-M8GszEN9MM
http://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=lTYXQk0MGfw

>>6798525
>Being black.
>Reading literature.
>Pick one.

>>6798423
>rap
nice meme friend

>>6798536
aesop rock

>>6798546
random white dude who just read from a randomized thesaurus

>literally the greatest of all time tier
GZA
Lil B
>tryhard faggot tier
Aesop Rock
Jedi Mind Tricks
Immortal Technique
>overrated backpacker tier
Del the Funkee Homosapien
Danny Brown
Action Bronson
>kill yourself tier
Hopsin

milo, clouddead/why?,chinx drugz, shabazz palaces,e-40, Slum Village, Guilty simpson, Raz Freederiks, Dusty Mcfly, Mick Jenkins, New Dog Rippin', Ace Hood, Common, Isaiah Rashad, Shabby Home, Cozz, PRhyme, Howlin' Fantod, Fabulous, Flying Lotus

>>6798540
>being a pigskin.
>being able to think.
>pic one.

>>6798468
Childish Gambino is bad, but Earl is just shit. You should feel bad.
>>6798497
Probably not as white as the average Gambino fan.
>>6798578
Clouddead's beats are dank, but their lyrics are just lelsorandom. Why? is a faggot.

yung lean

>>6798593
Lean is /a/

>>6798593
bitch I'm Murakami

>>6798534
I get that you're trolling, but what defines Kanye's solo work is his relationship with Hollywood/NYC glamour, jet-set, celebrity life a someone who is both critical to it yet a direct product of it. And still dealing with normal human emotion in the hurricane. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy resonated and made him cross over hip-hop boundaries for a reason, it's where these themes are most evident.

Capote had the same outlook on the high-society life he lived. Mailer was also a megalomaniac. Hunter S. Thompson criticized and was an integral part of everything he criticized at the same time.

>>6798459
this is true, but all of the fags here dont know it. glad to see its the first reply.

West, Kanye. MBDTF. Third-greatest masterpiece of 20th century rap. A twisted fantasy.

DOOM, MF. Great. A favorite between the ages of 20 and 40, and thereafter. Let people compare me to DOOM by all means, but my English is patball to Joyce's champion game. A genius.

Based God, Lil B. A favorite between the ages of 10 and 15, and thereafter. A great artist, my favorite writer when I was a boy. His sociological cogitations can be safely ignored, but his romances and fantasies are superb. A far greater artist than Conrad. A writer for whom I have the deepest admiration.

>>6798468
Gambino, Childish. A nonentity, means absolutely nothing to me.

>>6798459
Milo. Definitely second-rate. A total fake. A venerable fraud.

>>6798512
Scarface. A wonderful poet, the greatest in Houston. His poems are admirable specimens of the human mind at its deepest and highest.

>>6798546
Rock, Aesop. A tense-looking but really very loose type of writing.

>>6798644
nabokov? you seem in a good mood, finally get laid did you?

>>6798497
LMAO @ that white kid tbh. wuts ur tumblr?

who is literary equivalent of hopsin, elliot rodger doesn't count

>>6798590
>White people.
>Literally every great thinker ever.

Please go back to /mu, nigger.

>>6798670
smh @ clueless cracka tbh

>>6798625
>Or he's just a retard.
>Ockham's Razor.

>>6798668
He looks like a faggot.

>>6798683
>or I fucked your mom
>Anon's "Razor"

>>6798668
John Green

>>6798688
There is a higher plane of faggotry which was created by Hopsin for him and his fans.

>>6798497
White people love CG

Who is Big L
Who is Pun

Tyler the Creator, just like every other board on 4chan.

A Tribe Called Quest

they're the best hip-hop group/artist/act

too bad they're still shit. slightly less shitty than most, but still shit

Astronautalis or Aesop Rock

/lit/ can't into hipsterhop though, so don't be surprised by the 'HMMMMM IDK, LIL WAYNE??'-tier replies

Hip hop generally isn't about purple prose and generally deals with African American culture so that eliminates most you could call /lit/core.

going with /mu/s favorites is the closet you'll get.

>>6798498
I find this unspeakably hilarious. Source?

Stefan Burnett
MF DOOM
Run the Jewels
Kanye
Tyler, the Creator

I feel like Astronautalis would masturbate furiously over a copy of Moby Dick or The Grapes of Wrath.

>>6798523
thank god kool keith is finally mentioned
also, kool keith vs joyce quiz:
http://hudsonhongo.com/joyce/

>>6798625
Kanye is a bitch boi product of Hollywood

Over rated white boi trash

>knew ahead of time that DMX is dumb as a brick
>open file
>dumb nigger is indeed dumb

X is going to deliver it to me.
Knock knock, open up the file, it's real.

>>6799777
Only white boys like Kanye

Pure

Shit.

cecil otter

>>6799769
>also, kool keith vs joyce quiz:
http://hudsonhongo.com/joyce/

I got 9 out of 10. Pretty easy if you're familiar with the two. Still a hilarious concept.

>>6798423
Joseph Horton of No Bird Sing and Mixed Blood Majority.
Dude has an MFA; writes next level shit.

>>6798423
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0N_RO-jL-90

Link related

>>6799822
I've never read Ulysses and never heard of Kool Keith. I did 8/10. Should I rejoice?

>>6798522
>rap
>music

Kool A.D.

I think he studied English at Wesleyan.

>>6798423
Can we stop pretending "rap" is actually an art form yet? Segregation when? How long until "music" is just recordings of niggers fucking to a beating drum?

>>6799843
that was hella gay

>>6798468
gambino is one of the least respected rappers out right now. camp is one of the worst rap productions i've ever heard. strings of one-liners that don't fit any coherence of a narrative or personal issues just "you can kiss my ass, human centipede"

>>6799863
Jesus Christ, why is /int/ raid us?

>>6798513
i'd probably agree with this. die antwoord is so self-aware, its pretty spectacular, a song that just says "DJ Hi-Tek gon fuck you in the ass" works for me

>>6798571
Lil B is most definitely the most /lit rapper, i forget who was talking to him but some rapper (i want to say nas but i don't think so) said he's never met any person who has everything so planned and figured out almost down to the day.

Gucci Mane... he fully embraces hedonism

>>6799999
That get, Gambino confirmed worst rapper

J Cole , Kendrick Lamar, big krit , jay electronica,king Los , Lupe fiasco , common, ab soul , nas , wu tang clan, mos def , basically anyone from the 90s

Hip hop is inherently anti-intellectual

Aesop Rock's lyrics literally make no sense.

>>6800005
/int/ isnt racist, you are thinking of /pol/.
/int/ is more about memes

>>6798956
finally someone mentions death grips
lyrics have astounding vocabulary and wit

Lupe Fiasco
Masta Ace
Surreal
Atmosphere
Astronautalis
Shad

athiest tier
Greydon Square

>>6800833
Careful, you might summon anti-death grips meme brigade.
Stefan is pretty /lit/ himself

>>6800833
I literally believe Stefan and Zach have become ubermensch.

>>6800849
Andy?

>>6800854
He's too weird.

>ctrl+f "viper"
>0 results

I thought that the purpose of this site was memeing: https://youtu.be/tsfnuyyjaB0

>>6799769
Managed to get 10/10.

>>6800861
If /lit/ could write books at the rate Viper made albums, there'd be a sudden deluge of novels aspiring to join the literary canon.

>>6800872
My body can't even produce a shit as quickly as Viper makes an album. The man's output is ridiculous.

Eminem is constantly reading different vocabularies to have an edge

>>6798644
underrated

>>6800849
did you see them?
will you see them?
this saturday I will, or so such lies in hope
the powers that b

Hip hop is the laziest and most commercial genre of popular music to ever exist.

>>6798423
It's Kool Keith every day no question

>>6800984
>the laziest and most commercial genre of popular music
>not EDM

>>6798423
Either Aesop Rock or Eyedea

>>6801012
EDM is not a genre of music. "EDM" is a meaningless marketing term, like indie or new wave

>muh hipster rap
>muh alternative hip hop

if you're going to listen to rap, at least listen to the shit with banging beats even if the lyrics are fucking retarded. it's all garbage anyway.

>>6801015
>eyedea
that's what I thought until like a year ago I quoted eyedea lyrics to this guy who posited that there's no legitimately poetic rap and I got BTFO

>>6798423
earl
maybe lil b

>>6798423
>mfw people refer to thug rappers as urban/street poets

>>6800815
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00Aho9vpqLo

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

I have yet to see any artist try and explain social issues like this, maybe System of a Down does it, but still not as elaborately as some rappers out there.

>>6801113
someone ask him on twitter to source this shit about prosperous black towns back in the day

>>6800974
I'm an Ausfag so no. They did say this was going to be a world tour so maybe they'll announce Australia dates.

>>6801176
I'm probably going to be seeing them twice tbh
Zach's drumming makes diamonds, and
Stefan's vocals gives shivers, and
Andy's production makes me fucking bounce unf
so fucking excited jesus fucking christ

>>6798423
Wow, southern rap is shit.

>>6801113
What do you mean by "try and explain social issues like this"? Lots of artists complain about society and through cherry-picked statistics at the listener

ITT: /lit/ reveals their garbage taste in hip hop

Andre 3000/Big Boi

>>6798459
Milo is a g. No other rapper as gained my attention as much as milo. GOAT

>>6798644
How is milo a fraud. He is probably the most genuine rapper ever.

>>6798644
Nabo you're actually spot on about Milo

>>6801088
well at least you learnt the error of your ways. I loved Eyedea as a youngster but after growing up it's just so...cringey? I thought he was a genius and now he just sounds like a psued

>>6800838
HI THIS IS SHAD AND YOU'RE LISTENING TO Q ON CBC RADIO

>>6798497
Racism belongs on /pol/.

>>6801268
If you like hip hop you have garbage taste. Music died in the 20th century.

>>6798423

>>6801136
I don't have twitter, sorry. But that part did make me wonder as well.
>>6801209
Could you name some? That's an honest question, btw, I'm interested in this. I really only know hip-hop artists that do this. Pac, Mos Def, Talib Kwali, Lowkey and the likes.

I close my eyes and seize it
I clench my fists and beat it
I light my torch and burn it
I am the beast I worship


And I know soon come my time
For in mine void a pale horse burns
But I fear not the time I'm taken
Past the point of no return
Wage war like no tomorrow
Cuz no hell, there won't be one
For all who deny the struggle
The triumphant overcome

Trips to where few have been
Out of thin air, upon high winds
Rites begin when the sun descends
Have felt what few will ever know
Have seen the truth beneath the glow
Of the ebb and flow, where roots of all mysteries grow
I am below, so far below
The bottom line
Transmitting live, transmissions rise
From the depths out of controlled by
Suspended glance of an unblinking eyes
Imminent gaze cast 'pon the path that winds
'Pon the path I find, and claim as mine
To ride the waves
Of unrest
Made to make me shine as a testament
To why the ways of the blind will never get
Shit but shanked by my disrespect
Dismiss this life, worship death
Cold blood night of serpent's breath
Exhaled like spells from the endlessness
In the bottomless wells of emptiness
Channeled to invoke what we represent

>>6800006
Die Antwoord's great, and there's a lot of conceptual depth behind them. But Constructus Corporation is where it's at.

It's cool to try figure Ninja out on a lot of levels. His personal philosophy is a mixture of Ayn Rand and Taoism. I get the impression he's very well read.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsLiFa3zUjU

>>6799999
checked

rap is for white manchildren so none.

>>6801639
Nigger manchildren like it to, they especially liked it in the 90s.

>>6798459
Milo is horrible. His pseduo-intellectual bullshit ruins his flow because he thinks that shoving big words where they don't fit makes him sound smart. What a fucking joke.

MC Ride, obviously.

>>6798459
nah, he's pretty shit, and his personality is even worse

Anyone associated with the cLOUDDEAD collective.

https://youtu.be/FlhncpCYLWg

>>6801705
This.

>yo yo schopenhauer, my friend rob is dead, hegel, nerdculture , transcendental idealism yo yo

I doubt he understand half the shit he name drops.

>>6801769
He's the perfect indicator for immaturity, along with Immortal Technique. His fans are like those people who are no longer 15 but still think Bukowski is profound.

>>6798513

Underated post

>>6801195

Where did you see them, anon? The Boston show last weekend was fucking hype

>>6798546
His work with Hail Mary Mallon. The song whales. That's excellent rap with an actual message. Satire at its finest.

>>6801917
>white people

>>6801921
Fuck off, you racist prick.

>>6798513
>>6798523
>>6798571
>>6798593
>>6798899
>>6798956
>>6800014

agreement

>>6801922
>the pigskin is triggered