tosinaded@:

What is too early? Me am comparing talent and not the number of albums or years in the game!

By your analysis, biggie shldnt even be talked about when modenine is metiond!

Baba_Eleko:
@o4ka I, am here now. In support of your knowledgeable analysis on dude. Yes! He spits fiyaa knowledge. Yes! Yes!! Yes!! Some of the lines makes u stare at d ceiling for a minute but he got a problem trying to over play words. I think he can do better if he can be "himself" like he said he is and not force "Goat to give birth to elephant". I mean there are too many force wordplay if peeps can really listen. Some of his word plays don't just fit together and he is too quick to go off topic all in a bid to word play. I have hope in him and i think he can do better only if he doesn't allow himself to be over hyped like MI. MI will not get any better if he keep listening to those "twitter-rats" (twitterers). Grin

Now on flow, bro needs work on his flow or delivery too. Peeps can say thats his style and style na style but menh, delivery and style is the first thing to notice in any rap song before what knowledge u kicking. Speaking of delivery, DMX and The Game are very good example of great deliverymen that i can think of right now. He can do better than that style or delivery or whatever u call it. And like i said b4, comparing XO to mode is just too premature abeg. And even if anybody want to compare talent abeg make una no even go there ATALL. Mode 9 kick more knowledge than your "Social studies teacher" abeg. XO is good but i can't even think of attempting to plan to want to compare him with mode9. I mean Mode 9 is a hiphop teacher. From the album cover to the title to track name to the bars to the hook, Mode 9 teaches whoever cares to listen!

@Tosin, nice thread but abeg no make pple rugged-eedris hiphop head like u with that comparison nahhh. haba. U should and i knw u knw beta nah. Wink Cheesy

This lengthy post and yet you didn't post anything different or add to what o4kaa posted. . . SMH

semid4lyfe:

This lengthy post and yet you didn't post anything different or add to what o4kaa posted. . . SMH

semid4lyfe:

This lengthy post and yet you didn't post anything different or add to what o4kaa posted. . . SMH

McCoy91:

LOL!! Very funny
@OP, lyrically XO hangs with Modey and OD. Dude's red hot. I never really looked at the points O4kaa made before he made them and yeah, now it makes sense. Modey, tho is still the king. Only wish he'd cut out the 'self-rap' a bit. Too much of it.

DBR:


PS: i tot pple said M.i is lyrically beta than M9, so y not compare X.O and M.i #JustWonderin

oNe

DBR:

Errrmmm. .XO. .ermmm. .dude aiyte.
Compare wit M9. .not just yet! But start by comparing him wit V.E.C 1st,. .
talkin' bout hangin' wit OD and Modey, Mode aint even in d same lyrical zone wit OD. .
scratch that, he aint in d same lyrical zone wit nobody. .Y'all need to go listen to Malcom iX again.
The cohesiveness of his barz. .d 'seemlessness". .and that way years ago!

Senovoe is a nascent lyrical dude no doubt, flow is cool, but still needs some tunnin' and tonnin' here and there.
Needs to shed some weight on the 'forced' punchlines approach.

Its different when u have bright lines, and when u set out to deliberately create them.
The former sound believable and in sync, the latter sounds forced.

XO has the lyrical buddin' genes to be d next in line to receive d mantle from Nine. .
but for now. .no need to even put it in vote, cos nobody touchin' Dr. Ninestein.


PS: i tot pple said M.i is lyrically beta than M9, so y not compare X.O and M.i #JustWonderin

oNe

javalove:

He might not be the richest amongst rappers but even the ones boasting about Msc can't match his lyrical prowess.

javalove:

Its not easy to be consistent in spitting dope lyrics except it lives in you. MI dropped one of the best rap albums in TAI, and see what he did with MI2. , crap in my opinion. Some rappers lose lyrical steam after a few tracks so lets hope xoxo's is not one of them

shotster50:

There is room for X.O to grow, This dude isnt even signed on any label yet and we are already having comparisons, Hopefully he will not burn out like some other rappers out there.

shotster50:

There is room for X.O to grow, This dude isnt even signed on any label yet

must he be on a label to succeed?, is modenine on any label apart from his own label, this shotster guy is dumber than i thot.jeez

ibime:

Sorry, this dude is a more amateur version of Chino XL.

No hate, compared to most Nigerian rappers, he's the bomb, but I wont place him above Mode, MI or even Sauce Kid

Overdose of punchlines, 90% of which are forced.

He has good flow, but overdoes the "bedroom voice".

If he curtails his excesses, he can be the top man.