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Stitches - Best rapper alive? (1 Viewer)

This is really refreshing to listen to after all of the bubble gum hip hop music being spun right now. Most of the rappers these days rap about drugs, guns, etc. But they are all fake. Stitches leaves nothing to the imagination. He flat out says "he loves selling blow". He has an AK on his face so he doesn't waste his time with pistols. Also, he has extendo clips, so his gun won't run out.

The video was of very high production quality and Hell Raiser shaking out kilos of blow is a nice touch.

 
Maybe I'm just getting older, but rap is getting worse and worse... Over the last 5 years, rap has spiraled downwards as much as anything.

ETA: The answer to your question is no BTW.

 
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STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
Lol. I can't tell if this guy for real or not. Also, it's either genius or stupid.

Either way, the thread title is a joke.
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Hilarious. I think he's serious, but who the hell knows. You have to be careful, I think some posters here really think this guy is like a popular rapper or something.

 
By the looks of it, he's trying to ride the Riff Raff train of trolling hip hop.

At least, I hope to god he is.

 
Ilov80s said:
Soulfly3 said:
By the looks of it, he's trying to ride the Riff Raff train of trolling hip hop.

At least, I hope to god he is.
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Speaking of Riff Raff, I believe his new album just dropped. I can't even imagine how ridiculous it must be.
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However ridiculous, he has some insane beats. And some pretty clever lines. I appreciate him for what he is

 
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Soulfly3 said:
Ilov80s said:
Soulfly3 said:
By the looks of it, he's trying to ride the Riff Raff train of trolling hip hop.

At least, I hope to god he is.
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Speaking of Riff Raff, I believe his new album just dropped. I can't even imagine how ridiculous it must be.
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However ridiculous, he has some insane beats. And some pretty clever lines. I appreciate him for what he is
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I think ridiculous is his goal, he delivers.http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/RiffRaffTweets.jpg

 
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Soulfly3 said:
Ilov80s said:
Soulfly3 said:
By the looks of it, he's trying to ride the Riff Raff train of trolling hip hop.

At least, I hope to god he is.
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Speaking of Riff Raff, I believe his new album just dropped. I can't even imagine how ridiculous it must be.
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However ridiculous, he has some insane beats. And some pretty clever lines. I appreciate him for what he is
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I've listened to his mixtape. I gotta admit, he's got two songs that have grown on me.

He's obviously ridiculous but fun, sorta in a hardcore rap/NWA/Onyx kinda way.

 
As far as breakout singles go, Stitches’ “Brick In Yo Face” is nonpareil. Its beat wheezes and lurches like a freight train as conducted by Godzilla as Stitches bellows, “I LOVE SELLIN’ BLOW!!!” over and over again, like a team of sirens trying to lure Odysseus to their lands with the promise of gigantic ####### brick of cocaine. Its video, meanwhile, is devastatingly straightforward, almost comically so. Linebacker-size, Stitches cuts an imposing figure, especially when screaming, gun in hand, in front of a trap house with a battalion of likeminded goons. His boasts about selling blow are complemented by shots of him exchanging bricks for trash bags of cash, as well as a dude with a Hellraiser mask throwing a brick of the Chelsea Clinton around an empty room, chimp-style. The overall effect of the song and its accompanying video leads you feeling like you’ve been shot in the face with an AK-47. This has more than a little to do with the fact that Stitches literally has an AK-47 tattooed on his face.

“I got it ‘cuz it’s my favorite gun,” Stitches says over the phone, nonchalant, as if tattooing the image of a heavily-regulated firearm above your right jawbone was the most normal thing in the world. “I got it when I was 16.” This pragmatic attitude of Thing-A-Yields-Thing-B permeates every facet of how Stitches communicates. When I ask how the video went viral, he tells me, “I was planning on that a couple weeks before it dropped. I knew it was going to be big.”

Stitches and I are talking on the phone because I, along with a substantial portion of the rap-consuming internet, want to know more about him. Though he’s given a few interviews in the past, he’s divulged little, perhaps out of a wish to avoid self-incrimination, perhaps because no one was asking the right questions. The lack of information, along with the feeling that the Stitches shtick is a little too perfect for capturing the Internet's attention, creates the distinct feeling that there's something off about the whole story. Where the #### did the dude actually come from? How the #### did he hit so big, so fast?

Though it seems like Stitches and “Brick In Yo Face” came out of nowhere, the dude’s been kicking around corners of the Miami rap world and the Internet for a while. The first Stitches songs to hit the 'net were “Dirty Game” and “Love for My Haters,” from The Wire, a compilation mixtape featuring independent rappers, notably K Camp and Young Dolph. The Wire was released on January 10th of this year. As far as I can tell, “Brick in Yo Face” first appeared on a compilation entitled Rise of the Indy, though it was referred to as “Brock on Yo Plate” in the tape’s tracklisting. Both of these tapes were hosted by DJ Cinemax.

Before Stitches was Stitches, however, he was Lil Phill, a teenage drug dealer and sometimes-rapper who lived in Miami. A trip to his old Twitter reveals his single “Ridin’” garnered roughly 88,000 plays on YouTube (it’s since been deleted from YouTube, but listen to a version of the song below, coupled with another single, “Rollin’”).

Stitches tells me he’s been on his own since 14. “I got in trouble at school because I knocked my principal out in the office. They arrested me for that, then I was on my own, ####in’ around. I got my own crib within two weeks, and I started to sell and ####.”

“Ever since I known him he was pushin’ weight,” his associate M. Deniro, who I contacted via Twitter, says. “Not like little dime sacks, really pushing weight, literally getting it at 14.”

The terrifying face tattoos happened when he was 16, Stitches says, because he was tired of people ratting him out. “I was in and out of jail when I was younger and ####,” he explains. “I never went to jail for any evidence I left. I always went to jail because of another person. I had to make a statement to let people know what it is.”

M. Deniro puts it more succinctly. “We don’t deal with snitchin’. [stitches] is really a humble dude, but if you get on his bad side you don’t wanna know him.”

As of March 25th, the name “Stitches” has been legally trademarked for the purposes of “entertainment rendered by a musical act”; meanwhile, a publishing company called TMI Publishing called TMI Publishing, LLC was registered on May 9th (Stitches’ crew is called TMI, which stands for “Too Much Ink,”). When I ask about the trademarking thing, he says matter-of-factly, “I own the word ‘Stitches,’ so if you put it on a shirt, I can sue you.”

On April 25th, Stitches’ mixtape No Snitching Is My Statement was released. It was hosted by DJ Ace. “He actually hit me up on Instagram, being like, ‘Ay, let’s rock together,’” Ace tells me over the phone. “I usually charge rappers $5,500, but I did that one for $2,500.” In addition to doing mixtapes with Waka Flocka and Alley Boy, Ace also serves as Flocka's DJ. This connection might explain how, in an interview with Complex, Stitches boasted of upcoming collaborations with 808 Mafia and Southside, two Flocka-affiliated producers.

On one hand, trademarking one’s name, filming a high-concept video with a high chance of virality, and linking with industry figures over Instagram seems to require a relatively high level of savvy for a dude with an AK-47 tattooed on his face. On the other, it feels like DIY personified. We live in a time where anyone can use social media to network, impress them enough to get them to work on a mixtape with him, and issue an insane video that puts him on the map, pretty much with zero help. If Stitches were some ####ty punk band using the internet to raise enough awareness of their music to get a write-up on Pitchfork instead of a crazy-looking kid with tattoos of stitches and assault weapons on his face trying to get enough viral fame to land himself a record deal, we wouldn’t question any of this. But he does, and because of his inherent bizarreness people write him off as a music industry contrivance rather than a smart, young person with a rough background trying to use what he has to make the best of himself. “I did all this #### myself, #####,” he tells me. “I ain’t have nobody’s help. Not my mom, not my dad, nobody.” Who is Stitches? He’s just a dude.

Drew Millard is the Features Editor at Noisey. He's on Twitter - @drewmillard
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I chuckled at this and I'll take all the laughs I can get. It seems like it has a decent chance of going viral.

 
He's no keyboard cat.

Rebecca Black or Psy were viral "stars," this guy still has a ways to go.

Right now he's a Tosh punchline...he has a while to go before automatic inclusion in a VH1, "I love 2014" special 12 years from now.

 
Gawain said:
He's no keyboard cat.

Rebecca Black or Psy were viral "stars," this guy still has a ways to go.

Right now he's a Tosh punchline...he has a while to go before automatic inclusion in a VH1, "I love 2014" special 12 years from now.
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It will never get that big because it's too much for many conservative minded people.

 
STEADYMOBBIN 22 said:
Soulfly3 said:
Ilov80s said:
Soulfly3 said:
By the looks of it, he's trying to ride the Riff Raff train of trolling hip hop.

At least, I hope to god he is.
Click to expand...
Speaking of Riff Raff, I believe his new album just dropped. I can't even imagine how ridiculous it must be.
Click to expand...
However ridiculous, he has some insane beats. And some pretty clever lines.I appreciate him for what he is
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I've listened to his mixtape. I gotta admit, he's got two songs that have grown on me.

He's obviously ridiculous but fun, sorta in a hardcore rap/NWA/Onyx kinda way.
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Actually the new Riff Raff isnt bad at all. Its the first RIff Raff album i have listened to. I liken him to a white lil b. You cant take him too seriously. But its entertaining and the production is solid.

 
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Yawn. But I can see some falling for this act.
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Guilty... At first I didn't like this track, but after laughing at it and playing it a few times I've got it in my head.

Also watched another video Mail. If this dude really is moving weight like he raps about, he'd be done by now as I'm sure some law enforcement would look into him after all the lyrics about selling coke.

 
The original video was on Worldstar, and it had like 6 million views. This kid is gonna be huge.

Check out his other hit,

Stitches - Mail (Official Video): http://youtu.be/Aj1mp5zxZQI

Check out this interview, I guess the Heat were playing the song for warm ups.

Stitches Interview W/ Dan LeBatard on ESPN Radio : http://youtu.be/kPck0dmQB1k

 
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The way this guy claims he deals drugs actually annoys me. I can't even suspend disbelief.

"I send it through the mail..."

Yeah, of course you do. You moron.

eta* He should change the lyric to "I send it through the ma-il/So that you wind up in ja-il"

eta2* The best rapper of the aughts and Jada have a message for this guy. Run

Note instead of doing something monumentally idiotic, like throwing flour at a wall as a nod to how much you have, Jada says:

"Don't leave nothing unbagged shave everything/I learned from those OGs to save everything"

Stitches irritates me.

 
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PinkydaPimp said:
For those of you that need to clean your brain after watching stiches enjoy this lyrical refreshment(video is dope too)

R.A. The Rugged Man - Definition Of A Rap Flow
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Nice. Watched through. Kinda reminds me of a Scratch-esque beat. Eye candy on the blonde, too. Who is that?

eta* One good turn deserves another. Since The Beatnuts were in R.A. The Rugged Man's video, I figure I'll post a song whose beat got lifted for "Jenny on the Block" and could be the oldest use of "jelly" for "jealous" that I've come across.

The Beatnuts Watch Out Now

 
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rockaction said:
PinkydaPimp said:
For those of you that need to clean your brain after watching stiches enjoy this lyrical refreshment(video is dope too)

R.A. The Rugged Man - Definition Of A Rap Flow
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Nice. Watched through. Kinda reminds me of a Scratch-esque beat. Eye candy on the blonde, too. Who is that?

eta* One good turn deserves another. Since The Beatnuts were in R.A. The Rugged Man's video, I figure I'll post a song whose beat got lifted for "Jenny on the Block" and could be the oldest use of "jelly" for "jealous" that I've come across.

The Beatnuts Watch Out Now
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thats a classic. Yea this video is probably my favorite to drop this year.

 
PinkydaPimp said:
rockaction said:
PinkydaPimp said:
For those of you that need to clean your brain after watching stiches enjoy this lyrical refreshment(video is dope too)

R.A. The Rugged Man - Definition Of A Rap Flow
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Nice. Watched through. Kinda reminds me of a Scratch-esque beat. Eye candy on the blonde, too. Who is that?

eta* One good turn deserves another. Since The Beatnuts were in R.A. The Rugged Man's video, I figure I'll post a song whose beat got lifted for "Jenny on the Block" and could be the oldest use of "jelly" for "jealous" that I've come across.

The Beatnuts Watch Out Now
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thats a classic. Yea this video is probably my favorite to drop this year.
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I've watched this four or five times already, so you may be right.

Also, read an article about him in Vice. I knew he'd been around for a while (Soundbombing II), but I had no idea about everything in his career.

http://noisey.vice.com/en_uk/blog/ra-the-rugged-man-is-the-craziest-rap-legend-still-kicking

 
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