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Post by "Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik on Nov 23, 2022 10:32:06 GMT -5
They'd kill it at school assemblies.
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Post by Hypnosis on Nov 23, 2022 10:32:43 GMT -5
He's about to tape Top Dolla's mouth shut.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Nov 23, 2022 10:33:57 GMT -5
If kids find these guys cool, fair game I guess, but...yikes.
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Post by Finish Uncle Muffin’s Story on Nov 23, 2022 10:34:43 GMT -5
They'd kill it at school assemblies. Yeah, I'm kind of assuming they must have some data that suggests kids actually like Hit Row because otherwise, yikes.
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Allie Kitsune
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Nov 23, 2022 10:34:50 GMT -5
They're frauds.
Not once did the invoke the greatest military hero of all time, Major Way!
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Dub H
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Post by Dub H on Nov 23, 2022 11:38:05 GMT -5
The comment comparing this to an 80's anti-drug PSA killed me. 💀 It was all embarassing to the one note background Music ,to the insults ,the catchphrase that makes it sound like a Psa, the dance. The little taunt at the end. At least I feel safe I can ways dunk on hit row. The worse they can do to me is embarass themselves further
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Perd
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Post by Perd on Nov 23, 2022 14:02:02 GMT -5
The review was only two words: Shit No.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Nov 23, 2022 14:57:12 GMT -5
https://www.instagram.com/p/ClG9gh3AP3U It was actually decent when they first posted it but WWE obviously don't have the rights to play the Shook Ones beat on TV/Youtube so they made a horrific edit. It was never great to begin with but they edited it from like a 5/10 to a 0/10. It's so bad they'd have been better just not posting it at all.
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Post by sarkerpolseng on Nov 23, 2022 16:27:38 GMT -5
This song sucks. I remember them doing a Cypher thing that was decent. That being said, are they actually rappers/musicians?
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Post by darbus alan on Nov 23, 2022 16:52:18 GMT -5
Just wait until the Vikings retaliate with a diss track of their own…it’s going to happen. lol It will start off with them introducing flyting (essentially, an ancient contest of trading insults in verse similar to rap battles conducted among Norse and other Northern European cultures) to the WWE Universe. It will end with it being sharply cut off just as Sarah Logan is about to use a verse to disparage Jews.
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Post by Starshine on Nov 23, 2022 17:10:44 GMT -5
They'd kill it at school assemblies. I heard they looking to open for MC Safety and the Caution Crew.
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Nov 23, 2022 17:15:03 GMT -5
I am not sharing shit with them
This is my business
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Nov 23, 2022 17:49:29 GMT -5
https://www.instagram.com/p/ClG9gh3AP3U It was actually decent when they first posted it but WWE obviously don't have the rights to play the Shook Ones beat on TV/Youtube so they made a horrific edit. It was never great to begin with but they edited it from like a 5/10 to a 0/10. It's so bad they'd have been better just not posting it at all. God damn he literally uses that Grade A Beef line in like every freestyle
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anglarite
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...enchantment!
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Post by anglarite on Nov 23, 2022 18:01:06 GMT -5
They're frauds. Not once did the invoke the greatest military hero of all time, Major Way! You mean, Lt. Jermaine Strickland. They really need him... On the other hand, he seems to do well without them.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Nov 23, 2022 18:03:51 GMT -5
Just watched the video. I don't even dislike Hit Row, but that was God awful.
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Post by Rudy Gobert Weather Machine on Nov 23, 2022 18:04:46 GMT -5
Y'all think this is Leisure Suit Larry: Box Office Busy or somethin?
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Post by Instant Classic on Nov 23, 2022 18:16:17 GMT -5
Swerve lucked out going to AEW. Without Sweeve these guys all just suuuuck.
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Post by lionheart21 on Nov 23, 2022 18:40:05 GMT -5
Swerve lucked out going to AEW. Without Sweeve these guys all just suuuuck. It feels like they were brought back in the the small chance that it would get Swerve to return. Without him, Hit Row is just…there.
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nm
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Post by nm on Nov 23, 2022 19:15:34 GMT -5
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Post by chazraps on Nov 23, 2022 21:04:47 GMT -5
Wow. OK... I mean...
So, there's a part of me that wonders - as someone who has made making, critiquing and archiving hip-hop my living for 15+ years now - is my perspective on this and other hip-hop gimmicks/characters always going to have unfairly higher expectations than any other characters/gimmicks because I'm so much closer to the fire, and do others in comparable perspectives feel the same?
Like, is this how race car drivers felt about Bob Holly? Is this how sanitation workers felt about Duke Droese? Is this how party clowns felt about Doink?
With The Mountie or IRS, I'd imagine you could be like "well, they're corrupt and evil so I shouldn't expect so much out of them" or "their shortcomings as government employees just adds to their heelness."
Are all the flaws in these raps really not that big of a deal and should I just be trying to enjoy them as "good for someone playing a rapping character" rather than as "a rap performance?"
And there are wrestlers whose rap music outside of wrestling is actually very good. Rocky Romero, Lio Rush, Joaquin Wilde, Swerve, Cena, etc. There's quite a few who have made legitimate well done rap songs I'd enjoy whether they were made by wrestlers or not.
I think Platinum Max's rhymes have gotten much better now that he isn't just going for shock value or whatever headline he reads on Drudge Report. His Full Gear rap is the best he's ever sounded from an aesthetic to a structure to the lyrics etc. But on a very personal subjective level, while I know rapping is his passion, I've been able to enjoy his work a lot more taking a step back and appreciating it in its rightful perspective as a rapping character and not an MC (even though he himself is a rapper, if that makes sense).
It's a long way to the well to say this - for the time spent and amount of money he's sunk into it outside of WWE programming, I do not understand how Top Dolla still struggles so much with so many basic rap fundamentals. Like - B-Fab is passable for a rapping wrestler. Ashanti Adonis has good charisma and the proper presence and timing to be the Spliff Star to their Busta Rhymes (and I genuinely mean that as a compliment and not a backhanded one, it's a tough thing to do) - but Top Dolla's flow is so offbeat (in an uninteresting way) that takes away how cool his voice could sound, especially when he runs out of breath when they perform live. And the lyrics, outside of being uninspired, are just structured to sound so awkward.
The initial backstage clip seen here I thought they might have done that weird WWE think where they record the backstage stuff acapella and they try to layer a beat under it afterward, which never works. But then seeing the IG post over "Shook Ones Part 2" and the added Top Dolla lines at the end.
Like, not every rapper is going to rap like my favorite rappers. There's different rap for everybody. That's what makes rap so enjoyable as a genre as there's so many different approaches to take to the act of rapping.
But Top Dolla... I just don't see who it's for and how it's for them.
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