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Erupt da Monsta
12-22-2012, 10:44 AM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sf6Ev84u2yI


Rick Ross-Sixteen ft Andre 3000 .. if you havent heard this peeeep.

Summer '88, or was it '89
Or was it wintertime, ah, never mind
I'm in my room, boomin'
Drawin' LL Cool J album covers with crayolas on construction paper
I'm trying to fuck my neighbor, I'm tryna hook my waves up
I'm tryna pull my grades up, to get them saddle lace ups
Before Lil Marc was Jacob, before them girls wore makeup
Before my voice would break up, before we'd tour them shake clubs
Before my mama wake up, before my palms would cake up
Before they tell me they love me and we'll never breakup
Before the time she makes love, to someone that I thought was, my homeboy
But boy was, I wrong, now
I don't budge, don't want much, just a roof and porch
And a Porsche, and a horse and unfor-tunately
But of course an assort-ment of tor-ches that scor-ches the skin, when they enter
Intru-ders, whose tutors did a lousy job
How's he god if he lets Lucifer let loose on us
That noose on us won't loosen up but loose enough to juice us up
Make us think we do so much and do it big
Like they don't let us win, I can't pretend
But I do admit, it feel good when the hood pseudo-celebrate
Hence why every time we dine we eat until our belly aches
Then go grab the finest wine and drink it like we know which grape and which region it came from
As if we can name em, hint hint, it ain't um Welch's
Hell just, fell three thousand more degrees cooler
Y'all can't measure my worth
But when you try, you'll need a ruler made by all the Greek gods
Because, the odds, have always been stacked against me when back's against the wall
I feel right at home, y'all sitting right at home
All, Kelly green with envy while I'm jelly beans descending
Into the palm of a child, looks up at mama and smiles
With such a devilish grin, like "where the hell have you been"
She yelling that selling's a sin, well so is telling young men
That selling is a sin, if you don't offer new ways to win
A dolphin gon' shake his fin, regardless if he gets in
Or out of water, most important thing for him is to swim
And Flipper didn't hold his nose, so why shall I hold my tongue?
(I miss the days of old, when one could hold his girl on his arm)
And not set off these alarms, when cameras snap snap snap snap
Return fire, pa-pa-pa, pa, pa-pa, pa, pa, pa
They'll learn why, near privacy, so essential
They won't make no laws, I break their laws till they see out our window
I take the fall to make them all treat human kind more gentle
Forsake them all, I hate them all, don't like em don't pretend to
Yea something tells me, we ain't in Kansas anymore
All that shit that used to be cool ain't cool anymore
All the women you been pursuing, now they want more
And they deserve it all, don't settle for what ain't yours

Erupt da Monsta
12-22-2012, 11:04 AM
that Andre verse was top 5 of 2012 fawshoooo i think, absolutely crazy in every aspect

hell yeah, I honestly cant think of any verses of 2012 off hand that can compete with that...... what other verses do you have in the 2012 top 5? Id like to hear... link me my nigg

IV
12-22-2012, 11:51 AM
Never listened to him much til u posted that YouTube link to his full album, he's dope

Erupt da Monsta
12-22-2012, 11:56 AM
Hell yeah, Peep that track above if you havent heard it... dudes the GOAT imo.

IV
12-22-2012, 12:07 PM
I read it but haven't listened to it yet, even in writing its sick

Erupt da Monsta
12-22-2012, 12:17 PM
haha his flow is even more sick. take a listen... go ahead and Add him to your list of favorite artists... early... homies the TRUTH.

RakishHeir
12-22-2012, 12:23 PM
The GOAT poet was Eyedea IMO. 2012 he isn't around anymore so can't compete..

Andre 3000 is dope as fuck though

Erupt da Monsta
12-22-2012, 12:37 PM
Yeah i heard Eyedea..... he nice ... but what seperates 3 stacks from eyedea... is his tracks are better, he's went further with it, and his flow/delivery is more original. eyedea sounds like the stereotypical white rapper bro.

Streetz De Hood
12-22-2012, 01:42 PM
Andre been the truth for YEARS idk why niggas just catchin on to that.

Erupt da Monsta
12-22-2012, 01:43 PM
since like the early 90's .... THE GOAT.

pULS3
12-22-2012, 02:14 PM
Old, verse is old

And didn't I make a thread the other day about Andre 3000 being Top 10 alive & mainstream if not Top 5

This just goes to prove that Erupt is my child. Why you tryin so hard to be like daddy son? Re-creating threads I made a week later as if i never made them lol

pULSe > Erupt

RakishHeir
12-22-2012, 05:25 PM
Yeah i heard Eyedea..... he nice ... but what seperates 3 stacks from eyedea... is his tracks are better, he's went further with it, and his flow/delivery is more original. eyedea sounds like the stereotypical white rapper bro.

to be honest, I'm white myself so maybe I can (easily) relate to Eyedea more then I can to my Outkast collection (first three albums).

But as for tracks being better, yes in some cases you can say that(forexample) to people who like Andre more then Eyedea, then yes the track are better. (only instance that Andre wins the argument though)

and noone even comes close to being more original in rap music with delivery and flow then Eyedea, like you said You've heard of the dude, but he has a very long music catalog and been in the game only a few years less then Andre.

Content is different, but talking about poetry if you had them both studied in a college university for poetry and other similar arts, Eyedea wins the argument every time.(period)


like I said, I'm 22 years old white male and relate to him well. ( I enjoy Outkast very much, fast smooth flows over hard hitting bass heavy beats, no shit )
this is a few lines from an Eyedea song named Skydiver about drug addiction that I can relate to,

Use your fist please don't knock
My loose teeth are yours to take
Cuddling our new found freedom in keeping
Our eyes open without being awake
Kiss my ear the faint still taunts
Children rejoice
"Once hero, now dead"
One last time I'm really hurting
Just a little taste to take off the edge
I rummage through old love letters
And photographs in a desperate reach for
A clue into who I am
With only the distant past as reference
I fail to feel any connection
To the bones under my skin
You can cry but you're still getting sterilized
You can show the sun how to come if you know the sky
He'll let you make a mess if you keep him high
It was a good shoot
The messenger deserved to die for his lies
Make it hurt scare me straight
Cursed is he who can't burn by fire
We're all falling show me feeling
I'm your designated diver
I can see the cuts on your mind
Your mother made yours
Mine made mine, I know you'd rather
Be sad than stupid
Genius by day, Junkie by night
By the grace of breeze I never scraped a knee
That didn't help me see bleeding isn't what it seems
Let it steam let it steep 'till it screams
"Finally free!" then you better leave
I bet that she's gonna kill the king


I believe this is absolute beautiful poetry, but opinions differ obviously.

---------- Post added at 05:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:21 PM ----------

and with this track being off of his last album he released a year before he died of a drug overdose.

R EYE P -_-

Erupt da Monsta
12-22-2012, 05:30 PM
I Been makin Andre threads for months lol fail

But yeah i see whatchu mean bout eyedea.. He deff nice.

RakishHeir
12-22-2012, 05:34 PM
Thanks for listening to what I said and not being offended I did word it a little strongly.

Erupt da Monsta
12-22-2012, 05:34 PM
Lol no doubt.. I keep it 100 brah