yak ballz

[Jake]

was hesitant to post a thread about him cause of all the people that will judge him by his name. which i understand though,i did the same thing,thought he was a joke rapper,but keep the stupid comments to yourself.

cause even though his name might not say it,he is fuckin dope. broke out "my claim" the other day (been on a old school eastern conference thing) and i forgot how sick this album was.

aybody else listen to yak ballz or have heard "my claim"? or just want to make fun of his name?

 

[SocialResponsibility]

im not gonna make fun of his name, it would be to easy.....my question to you is how in the hell do you even hear about these rappers you post about?????

 

[Jake]

research...its like the 3 degrees of seperation type thing

lets say i see yak ballz featured on an album and he sounded dope. so i look him up online,find his album and see he is a part of the record label eastern conference. so through EC i learn about tame one,cage,camu tao,vast aire,etc and listen to all of their shit. then i look up cage who is down with def jux so i do the same thing over again with all their artists. its just a cycle....thats not how i found out about the artists mentioned,but just an example

then once you are pretty up on everything like i am,there isnt many new artists that i miss out on. i know who is new and who is established,who is new to a label,etc. not many outlets for the kind of music i listen to so have to find it yourself. not much different then underground bay rap,these board is a great outlet to learn about new artists and people you hadnt heard of. how else would you know about these artists? all you have when it comes to underground is work of mouth and whatever resaerch you do on your own. thats the cool thing,more satisfying when you find some dope ass artist you have never heard of. they arent all gold though,for every artist i put up here i have probably had to go through 2 other wack ass emcees that were referred to me or however it may be

but i guess the easy way for anybody else to find artists like this is just ask me,haha.