Kool G Rap interview about MCing

[beats&rhymes]

Thanks, very good read. Damn, only one reply to a thread that's actually worth reading. That G rap quote is on the money, it was important to be original back then.

 

[beats&rhymes]

post some highlights for a better response.

What? That shit take 10 minutes to read.

 

[Frankizzle]

Thanks, very good read. Damn, only one reply to a thread that's actually worth reading. That G rap quote is on the money, it was important to be original back then.

Word, thanks man

Some quotes from it -

How to Rap: When you record lyrics, do you have them memorized?
Kool G Rap: No, a lot of times I read them, because when you first finish writing something you’re still excited over it. Even though you don’t have the memory of it down pat yet, you don’t have the flow all the way down pat, you still got that energy of it being fresh and new because it’s still new to you, you’re entertaining yourself when you hear how good you sound on the track, because it’s new to you. You don’t exactly know what’s coming next.

So I like to record reading off the paper, it’s more fun if I read it. Even if I make some mistakes, I just do the punch-ins because I’m so charged up over this shit because it’s brand new, I’m amped up over it, I might have surprised myself with this particular verse or whatever.

All that energy is still there, so you want to get that shit out while that energy is at peak level like that. Once you start to know something by heart it’s not at peak level no more, it might go down to an eight. So you might lose something… even though it’s still up there, it still sounds good, it’s still hitting hard, but you still lose a little something. They call it that ‘umph’, you lose that little ‘umph’ and I don’t want to lose that.

How to Rap: Do you write everything down on paper?
Kool G Rap: Now I don’t use paper, I type now. It took a long time to do that transformation, but I finally got the transformation to typing now.

I just type in my phone, I don’t really type on the laptop or nothing like that because who’s gonna lug a big laptop around with them everywhere, so I just type in my [Sharp] Sidekick. I can go to the studio or wherever, do a feature with somebody else and my phone is always gonna be there.

Typing it [helps you play around with it more], because instead of crossing out, you’re going back and deleting words and replacing them. And it’s not sloppy, as opposed to writing—with typing it’s easy and simple and it’s not a bunch of cross-outs and scratches on the paper.

 

[beats&rhymes]

yea, i know.
how has that worked out?

Well I guess if you want to read something your interested in, you'll take the time to read it. Unless 10 minutes is too long and you want to get back to a thread about Rick Ross's chain or the latest lil wayne album.

 

[dj expanium]

Well I guess if you want to read something your interested in, you'll take the time to read it. Unless 10 minutes is too long and you want to get back to a thread about Rick Ross's chain or the latest lil wayne album.

I tried post the Big Daddy Kane one, it was long but a very good interview as well.

 

[Kwan Dai]

This hit home with me.

How to Rap: What do you think about today’s emcees compared to older emcees?
Kool G Rap: The era I’m from, everybody strived to stand out and be their own person and to have their own character and have their own image. It’s like you didn’t wanna come out and be another Chuck D, you didn’t wanna come out and be another KRS-One. You wanted to be as good as those rappers but you wanted to be you though.

But nowadays so many people are like trying to be the same. Somebody gonna want to be T.I., somebody gonna want to be Jay-Z, or somebody gonna want to be 50 Cent, but you can’t knock people [trying to be like other people] sometimes, because these are very credible, influential rappers.

But when it’s on a mass scale, when everybody’s sounding the same then that’s when the music gets fucked up, because it’s like you’re buying the same shit over and over again, just different pitch tones and voices and shit like that.

It’s not only the rappers trying to be another rapper, he got the same producers, so it’s like you hear the same music and you hear the same song over and over again.

As opposed to [in the past when] the same people that love Rakim also love G Rap and vice versa, but G Rap and Rakim was totally different. Same people that love G Rap, love Big Daddy Kane, love KRS-One, love Chuck D, love EPMD… but nobody can say, yo, their shit sound all the same.

So that’s how the rappers today differ from the rappers in the golden era of Hip Hop – there’s less variety, it’s [mostly] the same type of shit over and over again, just different groups.

 

[Old Fart]

us old heads read it and appreciate these kind of drops. truth is most Reason posters just really don't give a shit about the legends until they are trying to convince someone that they know hip-hop. That's the only time they name drop legends. In just a regular thread like this, it aint gonna do numbers. Fuck it...their loss

 

[Kwan Dai]

us old heads read it and appreciate these kind of drops. truth is most Reason posters just really don't give a shit about the legends until they are trying to convince someone that they know hip-hop. That's the only time they name drop legends. In just a regular thread like this, it aint gonna do numbers. Fuck it...their loss

It's hard to come to grips with knowing that a product you have brought fails in comparison to the original.

 

[dj expanium]

This hit home with me.

How to Rap: What do you think about today’s emcees compared to older emcees?

Kool G Rap: The era I’m from, everybody strived to stand out and be their own person and to have their own character and have their own image. It’s like you didn’t wanna come out and be another Chuck D, you didn’t wanna come out and be another KRS-One. You wanted to be as good as those rappers but you wanted to be you though.

But nowadays so many people are like trying to be the same. Somebody gonna want to be T.I., somebody gonna want to be Jay-Z, or somebody gonna want to be 50 Cent, but you can’t knock people [trying to be like other people] sometimes, because these are very credible, influential rappers.

But when it’s on a mass scale, when everybody’s sounding the same then that’s when the music gets fucked up, because it’s like you’re buying the same shit over and over again, just different pitch tones and voices and shit like that.

It’s not only the rappers trying to be another rapper, he got the same producers, so it’s like you hear the same music and you hear the same song over and over again.

As opposed to [in the past when] the same people that love Rakim also love G Rap and vice versa, but G Rap and Rakim was totally different. Same people that love G Rap, love Big Daddy Kane, love KRS-One, love Chuck D, love EPMD… but nobody can say, yo, their shit sound all the same.

So that’s how the rappers today differ from the rappers in the golden era of Hip Hop – there’s less variety, it’s [mostly] the same type of shit over and over again, just different groups.

Kool G Rap's first sentence said it all there!!! I'm going to read that article later.

us old heads read it and appreciate these kind of drops. truth is most Reason posters just really don't give a shit about the legends until they are trying to convince someone that they know hip-hop. That's the only time they name drop legends. In just a regular thread like this, it aint gonna do numbers. Fuck it...their loss

One's loss is another's gain.

It's hard to come to grips with knowing that a product you have brought fails in comparison to the original.

Don't understand it.

 

[chet057]

great read, Kool G Rap is one of if not the greatest to touch the mic...

 

[dj expanium]

great read, Kool G Rap is one of if not the greatest to touch the mic...

He's definitely one of the most unique/original ones to do it.

 

[ChuckieInDaMurderAve]

Nice interview, G Rap is one of, if not the GOAT. That interview is pretty useful. I'm a youngster but could give two shits if I heard on the news that Lil Wayne got shot.

 

[Frankizzle]

great read, Kool G Rap is one of if not the greatest to touch the mic...

Word, I'd even say that in some ways G Rap kinda ruined other rappers music for me... because now I'm only impressed if I hear the type of complex rhyme schemes I hear on a G Rap record and there's only like 0 other rappers that do it on that level, so now everything else seems half-baked to me

 

[Disciplined InSight]

How to Rap: What do you think about today’s emcees compared to older emcees?
Kool G Rap: The era I’m from, everybody strived to stand out and be their own person and to have their own character and have their own image. It’s like you didn’t wanna come out and be another Chuck D, you didn’t wanna come out and be another KRS-One. You wanted to be as good as those rappers but you wanted to be you though.



Take heed and peep game young'ns...
Kool Giancana Rap...top 5 seriously..

 

[dj expanium]

Word, I'd even say that in some ways G Rap kinda ruined other rappers music for me... because now I'm only impressed if I hear the type of complex rhyme schemes I hear on a G Rap record and there's only like 0 other rappers that do it on that level, so now everything else seems half-baked to me

When the Kool Genius of Rap, came on the scene, there was no one else like him. But a lot of the emcees that were out that time had step their game up. You can hear his influence in Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Nas, Canibus, Raekwon, Big Pun, R A the Rugged Man, and others as well.

 

[Frankizzle]

When the Kool Genius of Rap, came on the scene, there was no one else like him. But a lot of the emcees that were out that time had step their game up. You can hear his influence in Big Daddy Kane, Rakim, Nas, Canibus, Raekwon, Big Pun, R A the Rugged Man, and others as well.

To me, Big Pun and RA The Rugged Man are the dudes who have the most obvious G Rap influence in their rhymes, though they're both incredibly dope and bring like a twist on the style so it's their version of it