What is the absolute pinnacle of hip-hop to you? I think th

this is horrorcore. horrorcore can't be the pinnacle of hip hop

maybe this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxC-AoT2paQ&ab_channel=HipHopHeadrush

or this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7hLhJtwuHI

or perhaps this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0XVb87crwQ&ab_channel=nobirdsing

this too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0BeetGJZWw

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwwoZ0WPWyA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTk9n7-z55E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3fE_oEtVLE

>>68583583
this is bad.

>>68585152
these are pretty sweet.

>>68585446
tnx, these too. love scarface and ghost

DJ Kool - Let Me Clear My Throat

>>68585004
look at this 2cool4u hipster

>>68585446
I Seen A Man Die is so fucking strong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBadu4K-QkI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIGri_PkRoU
This track is so great in its, I don't know, unassumingness. Just a hymn to living and the people who matter the most us, without attempts to moralize, glorify, or tell a story.

>>68586147
I give you the fact that
"I'm a hell-born Seraphim
Four faces with thorned feather wings
Spawning forth the four Nephilim"
are cool bars.. but even though he rhymes good, it's fucking tryhard shit..

>>68583583
Trying way too hard. Reminds me of Hopsin, honestly; some good technical skill wasted on dumb concepts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJk0p-98Xzc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zw065C5nhYo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkVcF3wFzQ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPd5oLhCcpw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9VYzNUXGDA

some of my favs

bump

I really like this local kid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIb3i_KkeSE

>>68587030
there's nothing wrong with being tryhard.

>>68588995
yes there is
a good rapper regardless of how hard they actually try, should be able to make the listener think that their ability is effortless

>>68588995
I'll give you that as I also consider aesop rock to be tryhard, but the difference between aes and "rhyme asylum" (I don't even like the name) is that aes is over your head "deep" tryhard with all his big words and talking about the most general and most obscure things while actually having a decent flow and making cool rap songs. this is just a thousand ways to spit a line about how sick you are and how you can murder everyone.. lame, tryhard and been done to death before

>>68588887
this is somewhat decent. props to the kid

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vv9G3I1FkuI
noone posted this yet? Ayyy lmao

>>68589524
>should be able to make the listener think that their ability is effortless
because you say so? it's just that i really hate how obsessed rap culture is with seeming "cool", like it's the thing that comes before all else in the music

>>68589718
it's not about being cool.
there's a difference between utilizing your ability to rap well to improve a song and wankery

>>68589800
fucking this x1000