Just lyrically, who can f#ck with canibus?

[runningwolf1980]

You must not be Black...no offense.

Because the only people who rate Em above Canibus, lyrically, are whites, who just want to make their fallen soldier appear better than what he actually is.

Not only is Canibus better than Em, but didn't he challenge Em to a battle...a battle that Em did not accept?

how in tha mutha fuuu...ugh...fuck it just fuck it

 

[DB Cooper]

nas

g rap

crustified dibbs

ghostface

ras kass

rakim

kane

i could go on

 

[Yungin T. Jeezie]

Canibus is garbage

 

[Punisher__]

Canibus is garbage

lol

..........

 

[runningwolf1980]

only joint i ever liked was channel zero

 

[Punisher__]

only joint i ever liked was channel zero

Are you black?

 

[DB Cooper]

oh yeah pun

 

[Yungin T. Jeezie]

cosign

..........

real talk

.................

 

[runningwolf1980]

Are you black?

nah im native american

 

[cobbland]

When has Em ever spit something close to this?

Those were dope, but check this out:

Canibus on Hot 97 "Release Day Freestyle"

[video=youtube;u4VqkHp_SD0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4VqkHp_SD0[/video]

*Couldn't find the lyrics for this one on his website, so I typed them out as best as I could*

"I'll cut through your epidermal layers with verbal lasers/

Sharper than razors on the feet of Olympic ice skaters/

Carving figure 8s in the pavement, judges will smile with amazement/

Till their facial muscles start aching/

The most dedidcated hip-hop lyrical patron/

Busting on Hot 97's frequency modulation/

Make sure your Monday night mixtapes is taping/

Clueminatti controls the airwaves like freemasons/

Thought I couldn't freestyle you must be freebasing/

After this album, tell Universal I'm a free agent/

I might move to Japan and marry me an Asian/

Or move back to Jamaica and start deejaying/

"*Chants in Patwa*"

Or I might just stay in New York and murder emcees/

I intertwine with rhymes like, two girls living together having their menstrual cycles at the same time like/

I kick a rhyme that'll melt the earth/

Then ask you in the afterlife if you felt the verse/

Sipping on sizzurp/ trying to stay alert, belch, and burp/

I know I'm the illest, I don't know if it helps or hurts/

Nobody can copy me/ I got a doctor's degree in botany/ that's why I can grow my marijauna properly/

Listen to my voice New York/ listen deeply/ you are getting sleeepy/

On July 18th, you're going to get up, go to the record store, and you're going to buy 2000 BC/

Listen to my voice please, listen deeply, you are getting sleepy/

On July 18th, you're going to get up, go to the record store, and you're going to buy 2000 BC/

I breathe in real deep, through the nostrils/

Charge my lungs like a CO2 cartridge/

Soon as the air is released, the rhyme launches/

Hit you like the Shoemaker-Levy Nine comet, what/

Canibus will bust bust your ass/

Strke a match against your mustache/ light my spliff and laugh/

Take two tokes and pass, wait till my lyrics reach critical mass, and whip the GOAT's ass/

I speak with the silent syntax of insects/

Human ears are inequipped to hear my E.L.F/

Extremely low frequency that frequently flows/

Type my rhymes out in morse code with pinky toes/

Bury your body underneath stones where algae grows/

Underneath oak trees guarded by thirteen floors/

Canibus will bust a flow, bust my load, bust all over your radio, I'll bust down your throat/

I bust like Busta Bust be busting for Flip Mode/

And keep busting till you can't see guns and gun smoke/

Like an active volcanos mad cause they ain't blow/

Searching for that pot of gold under the rainbow/

Or searching for that big pot of platinum, down at the bottom of the North Atlantic, with the Titanic captain/

I been rapping since rap happened/ My passion goes way beyond drinking Dom P. out of crystal glasses/

Yo, yo, check it, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo, yo/

So every day, Sunday, Monday through Friday/ we can battle at 5:00 traffic on westside highway/

If they can see it live, why pay/ I'll slay you in broad day/ so stop being cocky and try me/

I'll be downstairs in Hot 97's lobby in about 5 minutes if you think you can out-rhyme me/

To the Ghetto Superstar that plays the guitar, that got lucky off Salaam Reemi's track Fugee la/

Trust me nigga, every dog has it's day/ I'll chop off your dreads and auction them on E-Bay/

So yo, forget the he say, she say/

Rumors are cliche, I'm just here to talk about my release day/

July 18th, I got to be honest, 12:00 in the morning you should be standing in line for it/

2000 BC coming out tomorrow, my album is ill, you can ask Clue or Duro/

Ask anybody you see in the 5 burroughs/

Even niggas that bootleg say my shit is thoro/

Listen, it's not like I'm whack, it's not like I can't rap, it's not like I'm not black, so cop that/

Believe that, you just witnessed the sickest emcee rap/

A hundred bars, no feedback/ peace black.

 

[BEAM]

Honestly, Canibus' rhymes are a bit scatterbrained and unnecessary to me.

He really rhymes just to be rhyming. No real coherent sequences that are relevant to one another, just rhymes that rhyme and sound like they have to do with things of high calibur and intricacy.

And this is coming from a listener who's fluent in Lupe...

 

[new account2]

You must not be Black...no offense.

Because the only people who rate Em above Canibus, lyrically, are whites, who just want to make their fallen soldier appear better than what he actually is.

Not only is Canibus better than Em, but didn't he challenge Em to a battle...a battle that Em did not accept?

LOL c'mon yo, I think thats the second time you tried to come at me sideways over a discussion you couldnt debate on.....

now I'm not black.....LMAO.......like even if I was white that would make this less creditable......

Stop acting like Canibus be kickin shit niggas really feel....LMAO...

I dont give a fuck about black or white....nice is nice boss...Canibus aint as nice as people make him out to be.....he had some good punchlines and had a nice like run from 97 till about 98 when his album.........I used to buy all his mixtapes.......I had all the canibus shit......but I grew to realize once his punchlines wore off....it wasnt nothing else there......thats why dude fell off.....

A lotta cats still hang on to the dude cause either he talked about some shit that wasnt hustling or blinging, so it made alotta niggas who couldnt relate feel like they could relate to something in hip hop......OR they still stuck on shit that nigga did 13 years ago......I

 

[weezyfgarbage]

Damn you canibus, if only you just saved your super lyrical punchlines for mixtapes and made some real fucking SONGS on your albums....

 

[new account2]

Honestly, Canibus' rhymes are a bit scatterbrained and unnecessary to me.
He really rhymes just to be rhyming. No real coherent sequences that are relevant to one another, just rhymes that rhyme and sound like they have to do with things of high calibur and intricacy.

And this is coming from a listener who's fluent in Lupe...

exactly....nothing is really there at the end of the day...........

and I fucks with Lupe hard, I put a lotta people on, even the IC, on to lupe......not even in the same ball park....

 

[BEAM]

exactly....nothing is really there at the end of the day...........

and I fucks with Lupe hard, I put a lotta people on, even the IC, on to lupe......not even in the same ball park....

I may be a stan, but I have yet to hear a talent that parallels Lupe's.

Dude straight OD's on the intricate lyricism, story telling, surrealism-esque detail, metaphors and references. And he never stops.

IMO, Lupe >

 

[new account2]

Canibus could never hold a verse with a multiple syllable pattern for most of a verse such as:

Soul's escaping, through this hole that is gaping
This world is mine for the taking
Make me king, as we move toward a, new world order
A normal life is boring; but superstardom's
close to post-mortem, it only grows harder
Homie grows hotter, he blows it's all over
These hoes is all on him, coast to coast shows
He's known as the Globetrotter
Lonely roads, God only knows
He's grown farther from home, he's no father
He goes home and barely knows his own daughter
But hold your nose cause here goes the cold water
These hoes don't want him no mo', he's cold product
They moved on to the next schmoe who flows
He nose-dove and sold nada, and so the soap opera
is told, it unfolds, I suppose it's old partner

 

[new account2]

I may be a stan, but I have yet to hear a talent that parallels Lupe's.

Dude straight OD's on the intricate lyricism, story telling, surrealism-esque detail, metaphors and references. And he never stops.

IMO, Lupe >

lupe s an artist boss.......Canibus aint even close

 

[Punisher__]

LOL c'mon yo, I think thats the second time you tried to come at me sideways over a discussion you couldnt debate on.....

now I'm not black.....LMAO.......like even if I was white that would make this less creditable......

Stop acting like Canibus be kickin shit niggas really feel....LMAO...

I dont give a fuck about black or white....nice is nice boss...Canibus aint as nice as people make him out to be.....he had some good punchlines and had a nice like run from 97 till about 98 when his album.........I used to buy all his mixtapes.......I had all the canibus shit......but I grew to realize once his punchlines wore off....it wasnt nothing else there......thats why dude fell off.....

A lotta cats still hang on to the dude cause either he talked about some shit that wasnt hustling or blinging, so it made alotta niggas who couldnt relate feel like they could relate to something in hip hop......OR they still stuck on shit that nigga did 13 years ago......I

No. What I'm saying is, it's just an inability to read and comprehend coherently. I have criticized people who have dismissed Lupe and GZA as "boring" or "corny" or "garbage", as well.

What I find most sad about these topics is how people are exposing themselves, as just 1) Not reading; and 2) just being flat out lazy, when it comes to actually dissecting lyricism.

Canibus goes over your head, because you don't understand what he's saying, and that is really what it boils down to. He's too convoluted for you, because his rhyme scheme is based more on complexity, intricacy, and casuistry, as opposed to the simplicity and shallowness that you and your kind are used to when it comes to appreciating lyricism.

You like Eminem, that's fine. But if you were familiar with the concepts and ideas that Canibus touches on, then you'd be able to appreciate him more. But truth is, you're not...and it's that unfamiliarity that is causing you to not think logically and rationally.

Eminem is your type of MC because he's easy for you to comprehend. But anybody with a decent ear for lyrical complexity, will tell you that Canibus' ability to put words together, bend words so that they rhyme, and touch on abstract ideas, all at the same time catapults him much higher than Eminem.

This is just factual information. Eminem does NOT stuck up.

 

[NYState-of-Mind]

lyrically...just on some lyrical shit...no 1...fuck opinion...no1... not 1 rapper has done what he's done, spit the way he spit.... fuck clef 4 blowin up and allowing the wack azz production on what shouldve been a bigger debut then 50 in 03, fuck industry politics(blackballin da nig),fuck e.sermon 4 not scoopin him 1st b4 clef, and fuck ehhhbody who didnt support real shit back in 98-99-00...we prolly wouldnt be sufferin now if he would have blew... 1

 

[thedesolateone]

He influenced Em....ok....

Kurtis Blow influenced jay tho........

Canibus aint no where NEAR em's level in any catergory......

no jay was influenced by big daddy kane ,g rap,nas and biggie

its well known canibus and esham influenced him with eminem adding humor to theyre styles

im talking lyrically punchlines methaphors riddles and surrealism and the grotesque sickness and complicated rhyme patterns he borrowed and added comedy in there.its documented in his albums but i admit he developed into his own style especially when people started calling him on it.canibus doesnt get into his personal life like eminem thats true.

overall eminem connects with people more because he is white and talks at a level you can understand easily and writes a good chunk of personal songs that people understand and can relate to especially him being white in a black originated and dominated artform (fitting in)and such a good wordologist.

im not taking nothing away from eminem but line for line and conceptually and doing things and pushing boundaries plus mastering poetic forms canibus is the best which is barely accepted because he spits beyond some peoples walls of intelligence and doesnt dumb down his lyrics so its only really understood by a few and that is how he likes to do it .