blowjohn: I forgot to add, fat Joe is really dope. He held is own on a track with big L. In fact he holds his own on any track with a dope rapper very well. To me he killed AZ on AZ new track 'how we get it'.
This track he did when he was in flow Joe days got me thinking about how good he can be if he wants to.
blowjohn: No but now that u nmentioned it let me adjust it. My number 1 will always be Nas who in my opinion is the greatest lyricist of all time of any music genre. My list is based on mic skills, lyrics, cadence etc. But lyrics form a far far bigger factor for me. Take note that the lyrics don't have to be too complex such that the listener is lost, like in an artist like lupe fiasco but the complex rhyme patterns should complex common sense.
Some guys are lambasting me for not putting Eminem.
Eminem is like a rap athlete. Very versatile yet boring most times. U see the subject matter Eminem attends too is my problem with him. Fast rap and double entendre don't move me.
I wish Eminem would return to the Eminem of 'say what you say feat dr dre' era. That was prime Eminem. All this fast rap he does isn't it. And I'll say it, since his verse in renegade with Jay Z, Eminem has not had a better verse. Go check it out.
And rappers like Nas, jay Z, Raekwon give u lyrics that even Shakespeare would be marvled at.
Let me give u some lines frm Nas tracks so u understand.
'Steak tartare bloody, mercury levels from raw fish Sushi for lunch, waiter at the table, the cork twist'
That's like prose, something Shakespeare would be proud of.
Again:
'Let's take three brothers and put them in the bing or something Who's gon' survive the wise man, the fool or the warrior? Well if all of their minds are chisel, then all of them'
That's some real life lesson there.
I don't even want to begin to mention over 70 Nas tracks better than all Eminem songs lyrically.
The rest of the top 20 is difficult, but I'll put kool g rap in my top 5. I'll put AZ and Raekwon in my top 15
I'll put biggie in my top 5 too.
Ill put Lauryn Hill in my top 20 too.
But Nas makes all other rappera look like kids.
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Can't believe we have a similar ranking. I am a Nas stan 💯. You quoted the "Cure" there 🤣
Take it easy with the white boy. He can rap for sure. I agree his style can be boring at times. Putting too many rhyming words together can make the whole verse or song sound corny. Lil Wayne did it on that song he was with Nas recently. It sounds elementary to me, and to me Nas had the better verse. He showed more technicalities. But I still have no problem putting Eminem in my top 10 sha. He has the discography, although latter albums have been generally poor.
I'm surprised you know Kool G Rap. To me, that his album, live and let die, is one of my best Hip-hop albums, vIvid storytelling, multisyllabic rhyming, wordplay, etc. If that album had not suffered label issues, it would have made him a more successful rapper. But G rap is just the king of multi syllabic rhyming. That dude can body anybody. Although subject matter maybe a limiting factor for him. That's where Nas is head and shoulder above everyone.
So you know AZ. That dude rhyming scheme be mad as well. Those his tracks with Nas are majestic. The Essence , how ya living, mo money, more murder, Life's a B.etc. He bodied God's son on the track on stillmatic. I hate Nas for that. His rhyming was weak in some sections of their back and forth.
I like that you like Jay and Nas. Most dudes be talking negatively about one in order to elevate the other. It's not necessary. Appreciate Jay's skills. Anyone who doesn't is just hating. I be listening to Dead President I, the first version, and boy, Shawn Carter is boss.
Please remove Don cartegena from any top 20 list. He does have the skills or materials to be there. I like him as a rapper but he can't be on no mount Rushmore.
I generally have a problem with people like Lauryn hill and Biggie cos of materials. But Biggie is a best on the mic anyway.
Do you think Nas overreleased these last few years, cos I certainly do. He could have made just 3-4 albums. They would have been all classics, although none of the albums are below 3.5 and KD III and Magic I are my sh.iit. They are classic materials.
Life is GOOD is heavily slept on. Nas himself said it. That album is a solid 4.5 album for me, at least.
I was listening to illmatic on Monday and I was just smiling like say dem give me new wife. I like to believe Nas didn't write those at that young age sha. It's hard to believe.
Where do you put these new cats like Lamar, Jcole?
blowjohn: All am saying is that Eminem already gave is a hint on who was probably involved in pacs murder.
BTW Eminem is not in my top 20 greatest rapper dead or alive.. I can name 20 rappers better than Eminem.
Nas( the greatest) Jay Biggie Beanie Seagal AZ Cormega Kool G rap Big pun Prodigy Fat Joe Rakim KRS1 Ice cube Scarface Method man Red man Raekwon Ghostface Havoc Gangster Slick Rick
Etc
You have a dope list. Is it in order of greatness?
Moniya4Real: Installing favorable regimes by what means o? By brutal invasion.. The reason Russia invaded Ukraine is because of the fear of NATO weapons and all at its doorstep.
It can be by helping to organise a coup, sowing discord to overthrow a regime, destabilising a regime, assassinating the head, etc. There are many tactics in this playbook.
Moniya4Real: Yes! i meant interferences in terms of going all the way to instigate a regime change in less developed countries. This, the US has done in many countries of the world. That is the main reason the US is now an enemy of Iran.
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Seems you're a geopolitical neophyte.
All big countries try to install favourable regimes in small countries.
Russia, America, Britain, France are skilled players in this area.
Sapiosexuality: Truth is that people do not watch these channels to decide for themselves. They decide the truth and then may try to watch it once it a blue moon to confirm their bias.
The most ridiculous channel among these big boys for me is RT. Their propaganda is so weird, strange and opinionated that I watch it just for laughs. Imagine a channel that can't critique itself in any form talking about objectivity.
CGTN would have been like that but they don't carry the holier than thou attitude of RT or even continuously dish out top level Chinese propaganda. I just hope FirstPost and Wion do not end up like RT.
The most objective for me, even though every channel still has a doze of bias, is France24. Nobody is safe from criticism. Not the president, not Israel, USA, Russia, china, not even France.
They once ran a documentary on how France enslaved Africa something no state sponsored channel will dare try. A documentary that puts them in bad light.
The problem is that people love to categorize western media as a single entity with a single ideology when it's obvious that BBC, the Washington Post and TRT World (western and eastern) are anti-Isreal.
Sapiosexuality: Truth is that people do not watch these channels to decide for themselves. They decide the truth and then may try to watch it once it a blue moon to confirm their bias.
The most ridiculous channel among these big boys for me is RT. Their propaganda is so weird, strange and opinionated that I watch it just for laughs. Imagine a channel that can't critique itself in any form talking about objectivity.
CGTN would have been like that but they don't carry the holier than thou attitude of RT or even continuously dish out top level Chinese propaganda. I just hope FirstPost and Wion do not end up like RT.
The most objective for me, even though every channel still has a doze of bias, is France24. Nobody is safe from criticism. Not the president, not Israel, USA, Russia, china, not even France.
They once ran a documentary on how France enslaved Africa something no state sponsored channel will dare try. A documentary that puts them in bad light.
The problem is that people love to categorize western media as a single entity with a single ideology when it's obvious that BBC, the Washington Post and TRT World (western and eastern) are anti-Isreal.
Sapiosexuality: Truth is that people do not watch these channels to decide for themselves. They decide the truth and then may try to watch it once it a blue moon to confirm their bias.
The most ridiculous channel among these big boys for me is RT. Their propaganda is so weird, strange and opinionated that I watch it just for laughs. Imagine a channel that can't critique itself in any form talking about objectivity.
CGTN would have been like that but they don't carry the holier than thou attitude of RT or even continuously dish out top level Chinese propaganda. I just hope FirstPost and Wion do not end up like RT.
The most objective for me, even though every channel still has a doze of bias, is France24. Nobody is safe from criticism. Not the president, not Israel, USA, Russia, china, not even France.
They once ran a documentary on how France enslaved Africa something no state sponsored channel will dare try. A documentary that puts them in bad light.
The problem is that people love to categorize western media as a single entity with a single ideology when it's obvious that BBC, the Washington Post and TRT World (western and eastern) are anti-Isreal.
I am following you immediately.You give clear-eyed analysis.
That lady has brought her Indian bias to Firstpost. Although I agree they can be a breath of fresh air sha.
Wion is typically anti-china and anti-pakistan for obvious reason (it's an Indian establishment). They like to talk about the bad in China and co, but I'm waiting for when they will talk about their own caste system, the excesses of the Modi government, etc.
Wion tries to delicately walk the fine line between being Pro- and anti- Russian in the current Russian-Ukrainian war. It's not an easy thing to do sha considering historically warm Indian-Russian relations. Russian provided some serious help to India in the past. Look it up.
Moniya4Real: i don’t think we should categorize them as “Autocratic” but rather-“Illiberal democracies . One thing that is obvious with the latter is; They hardly/do no interfere in other lesser countries internal affairs. History , so far shows they have NOT. But you see the so called democratic countries of the west, they are best at destabilizing even democratic countries that they don’t consider pliable to control OR acts against their own interests.“
Are you kidding me? "They hardly interfere in other lesser countries." Like, are you for real.
Interference is not until you put military boots on the ground.
Nigeria, as regionalised as our power is, tries to influence or lord itself over its West African counterpart. That's what make you a regional hegemon. It's the stuff of international politics.
You try to bend others to do your bidding. This brings positive outcomes that helps make you climbs up the geopolitical ladder or help maintain your hegemony.
Sapiosexuality: Lol. I used to watch RT and Al Jazeera too much too. Even Press TV until I realised they are all the same or worse. Now I watch all. Don't let these guys confuse you.
Al Jazeera has semblance of objectivity but they are pro-Qatar, pro-Shia, anti-Isreal and the same thing goes for Press TV though at a worse level. CNN is pro-Isreal, pro-Usa, anti-Russia and the same goes for Fox News only that while Fox is Pro-Republicans, CNN is Pro- democrats.
DwTv, France24 and SkyNews are the most objective you will find. DW is more into documentary and not really as in-depth as Aljazeera, CNN or even SkyNews.
The most ridiculous for me is RT. They call every channel bad but they can't even criticise anything in Russia. Not even the president. It's too much propaganda for anyone to handle. It doesn't have the maturity or tact of Al Jazeera or CGTN or even the ridiculousness of CNN.
So, RT is lying to you. If you really want something fair you either watch all of them or try France24 and SkyNews. I would have recommended Al Jazeera but they are only fair if there's no Qatari interest in the subject matter.
You must be a geopolitical guru. You stated pure facts 💯.
A305: both sides dishes out propaganda. No doubt, but I'm more convenient listening to the propaganda of the middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia rather than then hypocritical west.
You think the east doesn't show hypocrisy? You think if they were in America's place they wouldn't do worse things?
America is definitely flawed, absolutely, but I wouldn't want to live under a world hegemon that is autocratic.
As much I feel a dictatorial regime can be beneficial if the leader is benevolent and it may just be what some countries need currently to move forward, a lack of dissenting voices is not too good for human development. No one knows it all.
The number of people that have fallen out a window in one Eastern European country send shivers down my spine.😔😔
A305: I switched to IPTV live streaming by getting an android TV box last month. I also got Airtel 5G router. With the experience I have had so far; I WILL NEVER EVER GO BACK TO DSTV OR USE ANY CABLE TV.
I watch more of Geopolitics news and football but hate it that I can't have access to RT news which is my favorite news network. I hate all the CNN, Bloomberg, BBC, Reuter, DW, France24, Euronews, Skynews, Nbc, Fox new of this world
They are all western manipulation and propaganda machine. I despise them all. The only news source I consume are Russian RT news, Al Jazeera and Chinese CGTN. Since the start of Russo-Ukraine war, RT was banned from YouTube. I couldn't get it anywhere, DSTV use to show it but they stopped even long before Ukraine war.
Ever since I began Livestream I have access to RT news, I have access to all live sports for free, I stream blockbuster movies and even old movies from yesteryears.
Sometimes I wonder why it took me so long to discover this. At this point, I don't care how much I spend on data, (currently I do the airtel monthly 20k unlimited data subscription), as long as I have access to what I enjoy to watch. I will stick with streaming.
You don't believe the other side is dishing out propaganda, too. Or you just prefer Russian propaganda?
To me, Western propaganda is more subtle, but Russian own is the in-your-face type sha.
7wonder: Good day all. Well, I don't know how many persons here are aware of this new grant programme tagged UAS/UAAG Grant. From my findings, the programme involve NGOs, CEOs in charge of the various NGOs who will receive certain amounts of money and in turn disburse to persons who are referred to as bundle heads and subsequently beneficiaries who are in their millions. They also say the monies are deposited with the CBN and all that. The whole thing sounds so good and too good to be true. Please any one with good clarity on this issue because it seems our security agencies and the government as a whole are not really putting so much efforts to clamp the perpetrators of all these fake grant programmes. Please any info in respect of this UAS/UAAG Grant? Thank you.
That UAAG is a cheap SCAM. Run away.
Over 70 fake GRANTs have been created by these Scammers already 💯
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nairalanda1: Politics in Nigeria is not about change, it is about making your opponent look bad, until they get forced out of office, then you take over and begin to enjoy the perks, while your opponent starts the process of making you look bad
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Obinoscopy: If you read my OP thoroughly, you would see I also provided a link that showed my research and sampling protocol. But I will explain my research protocol again here. And I will try to be concise.
I got my sample size using an online sample size calculator. It was calculated using a margin of error of 5%, a confidence level of 95%, a population size of 176000 PUs and a Population Proportion of 28% (that is the percentage of voters that actually voted). For those questioning the representative capability of 314 PUs for a population size of 176000 PUs, I recommend you go read statistical sampling. The beauty of sampling is that it enables you make some deduction about the population without having to studying the entire population.
The most critical aspect of sampling is randomization. This is because while sampling, we must ensure that every member of the population has an equal chance of being selected. The best type of sampling is the simple random sampling which is what I did. However i am aware of the heterogeneity of the 176000 PUs, that is while I also did multistage sampling as well. First I made sure ALL the States (including FCT) were represented in the sample. Within each States, LGA and Wards and PUs were randomly samples (multistage sampling).
So in conclusion, my statistical power is strong. am 95% confident of my result. I can say that if you manually collate the results for Rivers State, LP won massively. However APC won fair and square if you collate the results from IREV for all the States, FCT inclusive.
However we all know that there are questions on the veracity of the result sheets on IREV. The veracity will be questioned in the Courts, I'm just using the data provided by INEC to make my inference.
"The chances of both type I and type II error is 5%."
This is highly, highly unlikely (in fact impossible) if your sample size is 300 plus.
Otherwise, you have a solid knowledge of statistics.
Obinoscopy: As a statistician, I've always believed in the powers of deductive inference based on sampling.
INEC has uploaded over 94% of the Presidential Results on the IREV Portal. Now there are people who believe that the result announced by INEC is significantly different from the result uploaded on IREV. I decided to randomly select result sheets from IREV and collate. The sample size was 314 result sheets. That sample size was gotten from an online sample size calculator. Click on this link to see my research protocol: https://www.nairaland.com/7614305/statistical-analysis-inec-result-irev
The result is very interesting.
RESULT So after collating the result sheets from randomly selected 314 polling units, APC got a total of 15394 votes. LP got 10430 votes. NNPP got 2613 votes. And PDP got 11533 votes. So APC got the majority of votes followed by the PDP, then LP and finally NNPP.
This means INEC declaration is in tune with what's uploaded on IREV. However I noticed that the result for Rivers State is very strange. My collated result shows LP has more than 4 times the votes gotten by either APC or PDP.
So in conclusion, the IREV result is almost exactly what INEC declared. The only discrepancy is that of Rivers State. I might have to inspect that of Rivers State even further in my next analysis. But despite the Rivers State discrepancy, APC won fair and square based on the results on IREV Portal. I say this with 95% confidence.
Whether the results from IREV is authentic or not is a matter for another discuss. My focus was just to use the results I saw on the IREV Portal.
Hello, well done. I love that you love statistics. Our disregard for it is one reason this nation is not progressing fast. But I have one few question:
How exactly did you arrive at such a very small sample size? I think the statistical power is too low to make your result reliable. You are exposing yourself to too much beta here.
Good one, please I think we need that collation of IREv for Anambra, Enugu and Abia States.
That's same energy is needed; and let's see if Obi's votes won't drop.
Of course, even a cursory look at the inec-released results for Rivers in the presidential election screams FRAUD, but oBi is not squeaky clean in those Ibo states.
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