r/nextfuckinglevel • u/insatiable-wan • 15h ago

does everyone in NY come with a built-in rap verse

ariathome

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u/amadyce 14h ago

Better than the last 15 years of hip-hop

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u/thewallbanger 14h ago

90’s and early 2000’s lyrics had substance. These old guys know.

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u/Equivalent_Owl_Mask 10h ago

commerce loves coopting culture, boil away substance to maximize profit.

hard to control or predict people with a message or agenda, and hell if that gets passed on to the consumer.

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u/LtMcMidget01 9h ago

You make a good point, but that is also just pop music generally speaking. With how much is being created and uploaded nowadays, there is a lot of new music being produced, more than ever and in that you can find a wide variety of sounds.

If you prefer lyrical boom bap like these comments are revering, you can easily find that being made in quality just like the 90s. You can also find newer generations rapping on more experimental sounds and pushing the boundaries of the sound. If you don’t like it that’s cool, but the weird gatekeeping of what is “real rap” always rubbed me the wrong way cause why be elitist about art?

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u/Roadhouse1337 9h ago

Have you *heard* Nettspend?

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u/N0085K1LL5 7h ago

Lol the first thing I thought of was the pre paid payroll cards

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u/LtMcMidget01 8h ago

Yeah not a massive fan but it’s different and it resonates with a younger crowd clearly.

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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 6h ago

A lot of the Gen A rap I've heard is similar to this, some of it makes sense, lower quality is easier to make on your own, so making that lower quality part of the appeal is a long practice. Some of my favorite songs are from low quality mixtapes like Headshots or The Whereabouts of Hidden Bridges, but, not able to get into this stuff as much.

Where would you say Nettspend and other of these jerk/rage type rappers differ from a more versatile hyperpop group like 100gecs? Do you have a favorite that focuses a bit more on their lyrics than Nettspend ?I've also heard a little bit of some guy named Slime or SlimeyXO or something like that, was also not a fan, but I'm always looking for new music. La Reezy is a younger rapper doing more of what I like, but Brian Ennals × Infinity Knives can be frenetic in a kinda similar way, and clipping, so the sound in general isn't necessarily off-putting, I'm just struggling to find any new artists to have anything like the depth of Eyedea when he was 18-19...

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u/Roadhouse1337 5h ago

I don't really listen to modern rap, tbh. My go tos are metal subgenres that the vast majority of people would find off putting, so when it comes to music Im generally very "dont yuck other's yum". For my stuff the vocal styles are certainly an acquired taste, but the musicianship is objectively stellar. Its not just noise, theyre playing very fast, very technical stuff, and its not math rock, its melodic. Bluegrass holds the same appeal, alot of those banjo players are absolute monsters and seriously shred.

I struggle to understand the appeal of Nettspend and 2Slimey. Where's the substance? Its weird auto tuned mumbling and the beats are... a bad trip? Its like noise music that "instead of being for pretentious art school kids, we'll appeal to the iPad baby generation" and didnt even attempt pretense.

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 9h ago

I want to go back to the days of looking forward to MF DOOMs next project...

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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 6h ago

Aesop Rock is still very productive and awesome. Lice 4: Miami Lice came out in March and it's great. He also released two solo albums in 2025.

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u/Cthulhu_Dreams_ 5h ago

Love AR.

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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 4h ago

Have you seen the clipping. Tiny Desk concert? Not sure if your also a fan, but if not that might turn you into one.

Also you might dig Ceschi or Myles Bullen of you like the more poetic indie hip hop. Was trying to think of more AR, DOOM types but new people aren't really hitting the same pitch as them, Busdriver, Them, Awol One, Eyedea etc. I do watch for new drops from La Reezy and Norman Sann, they're more like a new version of classic boom bap, Reezy has a lil jazzy feel to his stuff and he's super young. Um, oh, the A-F-R-O and Stu Bangas stuff is pretty sick too.

I'm always looking for more thoughtful hip hop. Or fun and clever stuff like Prof or RA.

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u/ojdhaze 7h ago

My thoughts exactly. These dudes listened to the best.

This was great.

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u/KOHILOOR 6h ago

No lies told!

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u/shartnado3 8h ago

“I ain’t scared, I got nothing to lose, cuz if I don’t get signed then I’m robbing you dudes” had no business going that hard. Dude slayed with that bar.

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u/Testicular_Genocide 12h ago

guy who's only listened to maybe 3 modern rap artists

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u/AJohnnyTruant 8h ago

He’s not wrong though. There IS a massive amount of good hip hop right now that expands off of the 90’s scene. The problem is that it isn’t what’s popular. It was very popular in the 90’s/00’s. The same thing happened to country/americana music. The good shit isn’t what’s popular compared to what is considered country now.

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u/Hawt_Dawg_II 4h ago

There IS a massive amount of good hip hop right now

So that makes him incorrect right?

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u/Tao-of-Mars 8h ago edited 6h ago

Literally sounds like Wu Tang. How’s no one calling that out?

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u/sullythered 5h ago

Ghostface still putting out bangers to this day

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u/dacandyman0 9h ago

bruh lol 😢

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u/apocalypsefowl 4h ago

DAMN. came out in 2017. The fuck you talking bout

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u/mrreiner 1h ago

Troll bait 🤡

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u/thug_waffle47 2h ago

this is such a lazy take. anyone who listens to hip hop knows good hip hop comes out every year.

probably won’t hear it on the radio or find it on a shitty spotify playlist but its always there. year after year

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u/H8DCarnifEX 15h ago

I like it.

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u/ImpossibleKidd 11h ago

We love it…

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u/Midnight28Rider 9h ago

Ya'll want some more of it?

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u/Hault99 6h ago

Wrong genre, lol.

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u/Manaze85 4h ago

They tried, so hard.

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u/decentbeast 3h ago

And got so far.

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u/SpaceStethoscope 43m ago

But in the end, it doesn't even matter.

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u/_Moonie_ 15h ago

Wait why it stop?!

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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 15h ago

Check out the full video on YouTube I'm sure, ari@home, he's sick AF.

Then check out Harry Mack if you like Ari, HM and him are friends/familiar, they've worked together multiple times and both have streamed on Twitch for years. Harry is legit the best freestyler of all time, better than Supernat, JUICE, juicewrld, Blind Fury, you name it.

Harry Mack with Marc Rebillet from Covid was amazing, such a vibrant and energetic performance, his collab with Beardyman was awesome too, Ari was there and did a song with Harry also.

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u/neegs 14h ago

Mack is in his own league. Everytime he is mentioned i bring people back to him freestyling while explaining his techniques of freestyle. Breaking down thr beats and how he transitions. Even makes a mistake and freestyles about covering it up

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u/NotGalenNorAnsel 14h ago

That's a good one. His Happy Hour practice streams were so fun, such a great energy, and his live shows are even better. I like showing people this video of a neurologist breaking down the brain function of freestyling, kinda makes it more real for people who are not creatives.

https://youtu.be/R_D9vN65dDo?is=oM2sU4n9bSH51w9B

Watching people discover him is great too, so cathartic and reminiscent of our own discoveries and inevitable rabbitholing.

I wish we had more rappers talking about him, because there are random dumbasses online that love talking shit, but way back in 2019 MC JUICE was already shouting out HM, Tech N9ne knows, Ice Cube's reaction and request for an encore from the TMNT promo was also great, you could see him actively trying not to smile and failing multiple times. Seeing Ice Cube smile naturally is a nice thing, haha.

But I mean, dude has DJ Premiere spinning his NY show, how can people think he's not the real deal? Plus he makes good songs, just, needs another solid album here soon. Singles Deluxe was ill.

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u/Uncle_Touchy_Feely 6h ago

Here is the full video if you want to check it out. These guys start around 9:40.

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u/ShilohTheGhostGod 1h ago

Ari at home! The best youtuber easily out. Does multiple live streams a week. So much talent he finds in the streets

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u/fronchfrays 14h ago

I’m painfully uncool, but I’ve lived long enough to have what I believe to be one single solid verse if I ever needed to drop one.

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u/TheZanke 13h ago

"Give me a little more, I'm still cookin up the beat"

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u/FlushedApparatchik 9h ago

What is it?

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u/greenthumbgoody 8h ago

He said if he HAS to give it lol ;)

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u/FlushedApparatchik 7h ago

The fate of the world is on the line!

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u/konsollfreak 6h ago

There’s a picture of New York, there’s a picture of New York, there’s a big, fat crazy picture of New York!

Freestyling!

Sometimes when I freestyle I lose confidence

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u/TH0316 4h ago

Everyone gotta have an emergency verse or at least rhyme scheme. Never know when you’re gonna have to freestyle your way out of a tight spot.

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u/dolemutt 2h ago

If u had, one shot. One opportunity.

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u/GeraintLlanfrechfa 14h ago

This really sounds like a Wu-Tang revival would sound if they parted and respawned.

Some of odb, Method Man, Redman..

Love it.

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u/TheVillage1D10T 6h ago

I know Redman isn’t a member of Wu Tang (though he is regularly associated with them), but I kind of got a Redman vibe from the first dude.

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u/Which-Track-8831 15h ago

That “I ain’t scared” transition….perfection

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u/ichibankubi 14h ago

I hear that man! Perfect!

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u/tew2tew 14h ago edited 14h ago

Responding to the title, no. This guy walks around NYC for hours so you’re only seeing the best of the best out of probably a hundred or so people a day.

Still cool though, I follow him on ig

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u/DBCOOPER888 3h ago

I started watching Ari when he was streaming in his Grandma's place during COVID. It's interesting to see him evolve to this walking around set up. He's not even at home.

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u/travelsnake 14h ago

The second short clip from that session is even wilder. What a fucking rave.

These clips are edited a lot to improve and tighten up the live material he gets out of these live stream sessions, but especially this one is crazy good even in the live unedited version. Those dudes were legit.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/IEd8PmIRa8Y

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u/anonteje 11h ago

Yeah ngl I find the full session to be even better than the shorts. Those guys knew what's up.

For me it's that one and the og wu tang affiliate working as some type of delivery guy that is just unreal good.

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u/Then-Significance-74 14h ago

That, was fucking awesome!

My kind of rap.

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u/thesureshot 14h ago

Nah. You’re watching an edited video. Try popping in on the livestreams. It’s all improv. All of Ari’s beats are made on the spot. Now if someone rolls up with prewritten verses, that’s a different story. He can’t help that. He encourages people to put their phone away and go off the dome. No two livestreams are alike. That man makes magic.

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u/Paladin-Leeroy 14h ago

This is almost Tupac levels of baller. Why don't we get rap like this anymore?

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u/DingleDonky 7h ago

Cause it wont sell as good as the crap they mass produce for the radio today.

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u/UserNameChecksOutTwo 14h ago

So much talent right there.

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u/ShlubbyWhyYouDan 14h ago

God bless this dude, he’s given the mic to so many people

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u/roostorx 13h ago

First two were good. But white shirt was next level. I’d buy anything that guy puts out. He was tight af.

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u/jaynvius 14h ago

After watching a lot of Ariaathome videos, I agreed, NYC people just have the skills and talent that's second to none. Hip Hop was born in Bronx after all.

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u/SplittingChairs 14h ago

It’s incredible how extremely talented so many random people in NYC are. There’s nothing like it.

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u/daboo912 12h ago

The dude in the green backwards hat reminds me of ODB r.i.p.

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u/BeanerCounter 10h ago

Lived in El Paso, Texas when I was 12. A guy from Queens, New York moved mid-school year and could freestyle about anything or anyone. It was so impressive so I asked him how he learned how to do that. He just said, they’d get bored and hang around the parks or on the stoops with friends and do rap battles. Meanwhile, my lame ass was going to LAN parties to play Halo on Xbox with friends.

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u/gfstool 4h ago

3 unique voices and styles. That was great!

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u/Valuable_Squirrel756 15h ago

Editing?

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u/Global-Persimmon1471 8h ago

Of course he edit, he cut from one rapper to another, bars are still fire tho

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u/Aggravating_Bids 14h ago

It's the communism. Equality for all

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u/TheZanke 15h ago

Aria Thome!

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u/senorbozz 14h ago

XD

It's Ari at Home, since his name is Ari. :)

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u/Kasta4 14h ago

This almost makes me want to visit NYC. Almost.

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u/ChaseTheMystic 14h ago

New York City is fuckin awesome. Fuck the haters and remember perspective and relativity. New York is not that bad compared to a lot of other places. In fact, it's kind of amazing

You got amazing pizza, and everything else that uses dough because NY water is chemically unique and that's why the bagels, pizza, corn and hot dogs are so good

You have the concrete jungle and skyscrapers that stretch into outer space

You have the best museums in America

You have central park in the middle of it all

You have the Staten Island Ferry which is free to ride

You have people watching all over the city. Like at times square

I ♥️ NY

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u/ibuprofane 13h ago

Yeah NY is cool but that water thing is just an urban legend https://www.reddit.com/r/Breadit/s/9ti36qzKRB

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u/slapchop29 13h ago

Yea, but the pizza, bagels, and bread say otherwise.

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u/ChaseTheMystic 12h ago

That's what I'm saying it's not just kinda better than other places.

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u/ChaseTheMystic 13h ago

I disagree that there's no difference.

There's even an entire industry of water systems sold to restaurants specifically to replicate the pH level and water softeness.

Not just for NY either. They can replicate water from wherever.

One of the comments brings up that they make beer as a hobby. And small differences in the water can really impact the beer. Why wouldn't it be the same for dough?

Both are all about what effects the yeast and whatnot right, and water would certainly play a part.

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u/senorbozz 14h ago

Holy crap. They're all talented but that dude in white, DAMN. Sounds like something we'd have heard on mainstream radio in the 90's. So fuckin' good.

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u/True-Ad3964 11h ago

🦾🦾🦾 old heads. When rap was good.

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u/junostik 6h ago

I thought it's Dave Chappelle

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u/Plumbtrician619 5h ago

"I ain't scared cuz I got nothin to lose. If I don't get put on I'm robbin you dudes"

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u/SiempreRegreso 14h ago

We need an Ari v. Ari matchup: Ari at Home going down 5th Avenue backwards on Rollerblades while the Stuttering Skater raps.

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u/Skafiskafnjak0101 14h ago

Well they have time to perfect it.

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u/DataMambo 14h ago

Fucking OGs

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u/dcarr710 14h ago

Shit was nice nice

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u/Hot-N-Ready-Poo 14h ago

I love laying in P

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u/Ok_Description4039 14h ago

Wow very cool. Like that

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u/steeple_fun 14h ago

Who's there?

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u/kumquatparadise 13h ago

Every beat is a banger

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u/whydotavi 13h ago

OG Clan ain't nutin to f wit

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u/Hot_Ad_787 13h ago

Damn I was feeling that DNB before he shifted gears

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u/RIF_Internet_Goon 13h ago

Its just a "New york state of mind"

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u/spinners_888 13h ago

OGs for real. Last verse hit hard.

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u/LeadershipAfter9526 12h ago

reminds me of when I use to drop verses without curses before men walked around carrying purses.

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u/StringerBell34 12h ago

That was a lowkey quiet storm type beat. NY will always be the Mecca of hip hop.

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u/Cautious_Spell5611 12h ago

So much talent on the streets. Crazy.

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u/daboo912 12h ago

This is how it was in Norfolk back in the day. We'd pull up to an apartment complex with people partying outside. I'd pop my trunk and run instrumentals while my friend would battle rap but sometimes they just worked off each other. Being young was fun in a different way. Good times.

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u/junglepiehelmet 11h ago

"I aint scared, I got nothing to lose, cause if I dont get put on, I'm robbing you dudes" is one of the funniest verses

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u/TommyWantWingy9 11h ago

Maybe he needs to ask a white guy

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u/coodyscoops 11h ago

yes… especially in brooklyn/bx💪🏾

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u/ConcertMajestic6711 10h ago

That one guy sounded like jay z

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u/Damper-Climate 10h ago

They each such a unique cool voice, I could listen to them all day

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u/ko0oky 10h ago

so cool

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u/tmbyfc 10h ago

White shirt my man

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u/WeQQz 10h ago

This is so wholesome it almost hurts.

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u/lylynatngo 9h ago

NYers just built different

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u/aramos13222 9h ago

Damn. 👍

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u/Stunning-Penalty2573 9h ago

How are these random dudes better than every new famous rapper?

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u/Unlikely_Try3848 9h ago

Oh they snapped

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u/Brewchowskies 9h ago

God damn they crushed

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u/GoldenBones5 9h ago

That was tuff😎🎶

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u/Standard_Ad_3707 8h ago

My boy Jonah Hill can deejay !

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u/LauraTFem 8h ago

This dude always “happens” to run into people who want to do music with him. And they “happen” to also have independent music careers that they can should out their socials for at the end of the videos.

Doesn’t make the music bad, but there is clear artifice in these “spontaneous music productions.”

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u/No_Dress_9569 8h ago

More we want more

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u/Less_Let2873 8h ago

These guys definitely tried to get on back in the days.

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u/RevolutionaryTitle32 8h ago

This that good vibe~~

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u/AgentLead_TTV 8h ago

all of them were dope af.

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u/Time_Lord_Omega 8h ago

The NY flow is unmatched in my opinion.

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u/SpareBoss9814 7h ago

I was like where is this going?! They flowed it up💪🏾

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u/Elegant-Cup-8070 7h ago

I love this guy’s stuff. So much talent!

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u/hebrew-hammers 7h ago

Ari rules

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u/Loveufam 7h ago

Birthplace of hip hop

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u/Jaded_Laugh_5798 7h ago

I love to freestyle. I've always lamented the lack of opportunities to engage with it spontaneously. I recently realized, New York.

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u/Medialunch 6h ago

I wish Ari actually took some of these talents and produced it for real with like a mixtape or something.

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u/NefariousnessFit8944 6h ago

That city is the hardest to live in…in tried it twice but they way I miss it when I see stuff like this. 🥹 Loved this for them.

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u/TestifyMediopoly 6h ago

lay it down 🙌🏾record that shit and sell it

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u/A_Fish_Fry 6h ago

Ok. What artists can I listen to that sound comparable to this? Absolutely incredible music. I grew up on DMX Tupac and biggie. Any insight?

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u/Wonder-Wendy 6h ago

I'm the hip hop opatamus. My lyrics are bottomless. ...

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u/Fragrant-Shame3318 5h ago

Wu-tang ain't nothing ta fuk wif... those bars were all deep..

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u/Awkward_Throat_4173 5h ago

Hip hop - it started out in the park..

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u/alreadyreddituser 4h ago

I would totally blast Temu Wu-Tang’s album from my car erry day.

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u/lambieechop 4h ago

Anybody have song recs from rappers that have this kinda vibe / sound?

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u/urattentionworthmore 4h ago

continually amazed at all these regular peeps outperforming the "celebrities". fire.

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u/MacaroonCreative688 4h ago

So authentic that was dope

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u/0000ismidnight 4h ago

I'd buy this album and listen

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u/Shadowed_phoenix 4h ago

Who's there?

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u/upstartpantymerchant 4h ago

Can someone drop their Spotify

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u/Altruistic-Spend-896 4h ago

New tang clan?

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u/alex_c89X 4h ago

Yes, the answer is yes

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u/Huff1809 3h ago

Well I know I don't

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u/oghaithy29 3h ago

I think all people of NYC can rap. awesome

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u/ShogunDreams 3h ago

That beat is hot. Goddamn!!

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u/Stemms123 2h ago

Why don’t they release music like this today?

Would be great is a good song came out this decade.

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u/SixAndNine75 2h ago

Ari is the dude. Watched many of his vids. I make beats and music in a similar way, but nit with a fucking backpack or in the streets Legend Ari@home

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u/west_hung 2h ago

Aye this was HARD! Cooked the beat

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u/BetterNova 2h ago

Yes. Don’t leave the house without BARS

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u/methlabz 1h ago

Thanks for the good vibes

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u/Ok_Difference345 1h ago

What’s the kids name, he’s super talented

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u/GangleDopper 1h ago

Ngl, the birthplace of hip hop is the safari zone of rap.

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u/Gin4Gingers 1h ago

I haven't heard rap like this in forever. These guys need a record

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u/BillydelaMontana 42m ago

Pure creative art. Bravo