man... i actually sit and ananlyze the words in a song and try and figure out what i like about an artist so that i can better my own skills... for instance

Canibus:

I like... his confidence on the mic, his lyricism (the WAY he spits shyt as well as WHAT he says), the thought he puts into his rhymes, the off the wall topics, the fact that he sticks to what he knows and doesn't try and change for the masses just to fit in, his originality

I don't like... the fact that he has yet to make a solid album, his beats are pretty trash and takes away from his songs, he needs to find away to keep his lyrical credibility with the mainstream without selling his soul... kinda like how jay-z did it on his first 2 albums... he has yet to define his core audience.... it started with underground battle crowds... shifted to intellectual type kats... and now is just hanging between the two with no real direction, his earlier attitude of being too cocky (he's actually toned down a lot and has learned a lot from the LL incident)

i would break down a song but i don't feel like doing that much typing.. there's more to hip hop than just party tunes... like pexx said... sometimes ya just wanna hear some deep shyt... other times you wanna party... and again at times you want some uplifting music... it all depends on your mood... and that's the one thing Canibus has failed to do... capture different moods to build a complete album..

but... he is FAR from wack... look no further than chingy and half the south if ya wanna hear wack artists repeating the same shyt over and over again... of course there are wack emcees everywhere but the only thing really flooding the airwaves right now is south shyt

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