I'm just listening to Big Boi's "You Ain't No DJ" and when I step back and just realize how weird and unique this beat is... and how Big Boi, and OutKast and other innovative greats always seem to try to make everything big and new on every front...
It's such a fucking shame the beats Em is rapping over now. You would think given the kind of artist that he is and the mind that he has, that he'd be just as interested in making a new SOUND in hip hop as new rhyme formations or puns.
It's so annoying that he doesn't care about it more and is happy to just rap over generic shitty beats. They're wasting his vocals and ideas, he could do so much more. And it's not just 'beats', why not try and fucking make weird and original hip hop on every front, I don't just mean grab a funky beat - but work hard and focus on the melodies and sounds, make it NEW.
Maybe / hopefully Yela and Kanye will inspire him.