canibus was never mainstream he neva had a mainstream flow just some videos an thats it...as for sayin mainstream makes your raps shit id say no an yes.. no because your constantly elevatin so lyrically you grow if you want to such as nas.. but people do club bangas an shit to get you to buy the record an the real lyrical shit isnt the singles so for most lyrical emcees there raps never dumb down they just keep them non "trl" tracks on the album but release a "big pimpin" or some other club banga they have.. perfect example is 50 while we on that subject do you not think he could be lyrical? he can but thats not where the money is an when you havent had any paper you gon want all tha money you can get...

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Y.ou Know My Style 20 Niggas Wit 40 Cals

^^^word to that shit, cuz 50 did used to b good back in the day, until he wa slike "fuck this? im gettin some paper" "who cares if i rap like a 6 year old? when my house is bigger than Delaware

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good point... Cannibus is one of my top 5 emcees. Dope flow, DOOOOOPE vocab, and he isn't gay about it, he's just mad smart lyrically...

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2 bad you cant be as good as him ni99a

*nuff sed*

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^^^^ why don't you call me out and find out how dope I can get

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Canibus is DOPE. End of story. Vocab is just his style.

I guarantee if you heard one of the RV head yahoo cyphers you would be more impressed by the dudes with a big vocab that use it well.

But you dont need that to be dope. It takes a lot of skill to say real and meaningful things by staying simple. ie. Nas/Pac. You know?

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It's your personal style I guess, some feel more comfortable with complex vocab and I don't mind actually. Whether it's basic or complex, the flow can be equally bad or good, I can feel both types.

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I guess that call out ain't happenin?

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Look @ my drops..
I dont use homo vocab..

Only shit that sounds cool.

Heres a quick battle I dropped on RB just before..

Something to live for.

Yo--
Give me a second, and I'll break down my life like a lesson..
I need music when I wake up, music when I'm stressing..
Its like an intermission to a sitcom of reality..
It casually captures me in its rhythem & rhapsody ..
Music has no nationality, no color or race..
It has steriotypes but everyones free to create..
It has no date, tracks are timeless everybody relates..
Lyricism is interlectual minds spilled on tape..
Music facilitates a lotta culture, and to me?
I cant get to sleep without writing a peice..
Dividing the peace, slicing the beef from emcees on the streets..
To entertainment halls, weekends or shows on the beach..
To having 1000 teens in tight jeans in your reach..
Its the season to teach the youth that beefin is weak..
Music's been speaking to me, now I seem eager to be..
The masiah of my own style, never seen as pety or cheap..
Cut that-- I'm ready to speak.. Like I said I got a lesson to teach..
And this is how it goes..

-|-|-|-

I grew up with music,
And through music I am myself..
Its the reasin I wake up,
Its the reason I stay in health..
I want you to imagine for one minute we lost our music..
And the world sat in silence, critical and abusive..
In a world where truths elusive, everybody wants new shit..
I kick back with my cd collection and bump tunes kid..
Because I got nothing to give whores,
I got my mic, my head phones
Music's something to live for..

"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. "
Aldous Huxley (1894 - 1963), "Music at Night", 1931

Thats what music is to me..

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I can't hear it.....

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^Biggest blonde statement of the day..

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RIP jono, peace out bboy.
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awww, nos u love omb ...dont gotta try n hide it...
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-_o

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i'll play on ya consience, ya contents is complete nonsense
speak of biting, then you fucks flip everyone of my damn concepts
what the fuck, was you high..?
did you think i wouldn't recognize lines that i made
then you come up some bullshit tryna prove that im gay...!
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fake fucks..move on...!

heh. I use big words in poetry and simple words in OM's. Suckers......

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Back.....

but big words to you is like:
understand/suckers/influence/pronounce...
j/p

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i'll play on ya consience, ya contents is complete nonsense
speak of biting, then you fucks flip everyone of my damn concepts
what the fuck, was you high..?
did you think i wouldn't recognize lines that i made
then you come up some bullshit tryna prove that im gay...!
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fake fucks..move on...!