"Nobody Believes Me"- Styles P
Story-telling tracks get slept on way too often in the hip-hop community. The radio is all about the beat, the hook, the chorus. Youtubers get caught up in who has the best punchlines or the smoothest flow. Give me a guy with the ability to paint a story and have it unfold around me-- thats what sets the emcees apart from rappers. Styles P of the LOX produced one of my favorite story-telling hip-hop songs ever, delving into a persona of a gangster riddled with paranoia. By the end, you completely buy into the idea that he's arguing with his gun and money.
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