Awesome / The Rap Critic

• Rap Critic's rap song! Oh Really?
  • The rest of his album as Masta Artisan is not half bad either. The man has some serious lyrical talent.
  • And he can dance, too.
• The last minute of "Worst Lyrics I've Ever Heard... This Year (2011), where he goes on an angry rant about how mainstream music has become.
  • And his furious rant about how New Boyz and Chris Brown dared to try romanticising a line that told a woman that she looked better when they couldn't see her.
• Similar to the above, his "haters" rant from the Worst Lyrics of October 2012 video.
  Yes, that is exactly why conscious rappers are mad. Not because the majority of mainstream rappers use their very limited time in the limelight to rap about materialistic crap without an iota of skill, devaluating music as an art form. Nah, it's because they're just haters!
• In his "Bitch Bad" review he had his interpretation of the lyrics confirmed by Lupe Fiasco himself.
• At the end of his "Worst Lyrics" list for 2012, he gives a solid explanation as to why he was initially hopeful for the career of Nicki Minaj, but is ultimately disappointed in her.
  • On a similar note, he also explains why he doubts the relationship between Kanye West and Kim Kardashian is genuine (in spite of a factual error regarding the sport Kris Humphries (Kim's ex-husband) plays.)
  • He also calls out a lyric in an Ace Hood song which declares that talking with a woman after sex implies homosexuality.
• His rap imagining what happened if Black Rob's "Whoa" continued beyond the "finger in the asshole" line, especially the last line during his "Top 5 Worst Lyrics I've Ever Heard... This Month - March 2013" video. It's infinitely more interesting and layered than the bog-standard Boastful Rap Black Rob actually gives us.
• Calling Will.i.am a shameless whore for putting a hashtag in the title of '#thatpower' to try getting it trending on Twitter, despite the fact that the song has nothing to do with Twitter whatsoever.
• Rap Critic and Kyle Kallgren providing their own version of Jay-Z's Picasso Baby with better art references and wordplay.
• From his "Top 10 Worst Lyrics I've Ever Heard...This Year (2013)" review: Calling out Rick Ross for a line in "U.O.E.N.O." in which Ross casually mentions putting Molly in a girls champagne and raping her. Ross even had the gall to say that people were misunderstanding his lyric and saying that it had nothing to do with rape, to which the Rap Critic knows he had no care to what he said or the problems behind it at all.
  • Calling out Lil Wayne for daring to compare having sex to the death of Emmett Till, going so far as to say, "There's a fucking limit" to how far rappers should take lyrics in mainstream music.
• His explanation of why Nicki Minaj's "Anaconda" is horribly unfeminist despite what some may say.
• His "Top 10 Worst Lyrics of 2014" video showcases Rap Critic obliterating P. Diddy for daring to put Product Placement to his alcohol brand in a song about police brutality.
• His daring to analyse and pick apart the flaws of Fuck Da Police by N.W.A and Fight the Power by Public Enemy, the Sacred Cows of gangsta rap.
• Reviewing "Dilemma" by Nelly, one of his favorite songs of the 2000s and analyzing it without the nostalgia goggles.
• His ripping apart of B.o.B's anti-science and Insane Troll Logic song "Flatline" in his "Worst Lyrics of 2016" video, as well as pointing out how even though people seem to generally know he's a crackpot, conspiracy theories like his can be actively harmful regardless of that fact.
  Rap Critic: Now, I put this song as #1 on my “Worst of 2016” list for a reason: this isn’t just bad. It’s malignant. I think it’s good that this got attention because, for the longest time, this stuff has gotten pushed to the margins because of how ridiculous it was. That said, I think it needs to get exposed because the people who believe in it were already gonna believe in it, so it’s important to point out how wrong and how silly it is at every chance we can get! For other people who might be teetering on the edge of maybe accepting it… no. Don’t consider this for a second! This is fucking stupid. The reason why this is particularly harmful is because baseless fantasy conspiracies like this take time and attention away from actual government tyranny that goes underreported by a corporate-driven news media. Now, everyone that seeks to expose government corruption that has actually happened — like COINTELPRO or overlooking the poisoning of our water with fracking and lead pipes… well, they’ll instantly get lumped in with these ridiculous fairy tales, and some people won’t take it seriously just because of that!
• His brutal takedown of Tyga for his song "$timulated", which is about his dating Kylie Jenner while she was still underage.
  Rap Critic: Guess what the name of the sample is that he uses for this song? ... He uses a song called Children to talk about having sex with his underage girlfriend. *completely devoid of sarcasm* Dude. Fuck you."
• In his "Top 10 Worst Lyrics I've Ever Heard...This Year (2017)" review: Calling out Jaden Smith for comparing himself to Martin Luther King Jr. in one of his songs. Also, his explanation of how there's a difference between rappers who are "fake deep" and rappers who genuinely have a message in their music, and how unfair it is to automatically assume they're one and the same.
• Also in his "Top 10 Worst Lyrics I've Ever Heard...This Year (2017)", his takedown of Logic song "Ink Blots" feat Juicy J, where Juicy J finishes the outro of the song by telling people who show off on Instagram to kill themselves as an insult... on the same album that features one of 2017's most prominent anti-suicide songs (namely the song "1-800-273-8255") as one of its main draws. After proving Juicy J to be a Hypocrite on this point (using video from Juicy J's own Instagram, no less) and demonstrating that Juicy J was not speaking from the perspective of those Instagram users as some fans have tried to claim, he proceeds to spell it all out for Logic and Juicy J.
  Rap Critic: "And you know what type of people like to pretend that they're doing better than they actually are?" (through gritted teeth) "People who might be depressed, and maybe have suicidal tendencies, you assholes."
• In his "Worst Lyrics of 2018" video, he calls out Tom MacDonald for his song "White Boy". He also calls out the mainstream for ganging up on Macklemore and driving him from the public sphere as punishment for his well-meaning attempts at social commentary while allowing MacDonald to spew his bile with no controversy.
  Rap Critic: Gotta ask you a question, America: Are you happy you scared off Macklemore? Are you happy that your radio stations are no longer being bothered by this well-meaning white guy who actively wanted his white fans to be more aware of the racial and homophobic discrimination still rampant in this country? Because, I mean, if you didn't want that, America has an abundant supply of angry white guys who have no idea what's going on in the political world, but would really like to give you their opinion on it.
  Tom MacDonald: I cannot feel guilty for shit that I didn't do / but I can understand why you think that I should
  Rap Critic: Wow, y'know, it's the fundamental misunderstanding of the situation followed by the smug self-righteousness that really drives it over the edge for me. (...) You know, I think this song does raise the problem with current conversations about race. White guys like this are so worried about being called a racist by angry minority voices, they never stop to think about why those minority voices are angry in the first place. Those statements like this end up basically saying, "Yeah, I know discrimination affects your lives in a myriad of ways that don't allow you to live your life to your full potential as a human being, but I think it's equally important that we should remind me that I'm a good person for not being racist!" Look, here's the reality of the situation: babies are being split from their parents. People are being killed by authority figures. These are things that are affecting minorities right now, and if you really cared about those people, you wouldn't be trying to make it about you in the first place. (...) Now, I don't know or care if this dude is racist himself, but I do know that guys like this usually end up being useful idiots who clog up the conversation just to beg you to confirm that they are, indeed, not bad people.
• In his "Worst Lyrics of 2019", he takes Kanye West to task for his lackluster Christian Rap album, with his song "Closed On Sunday" (that prominently features references to Chick-Fil-A, including the title itself) being #2 on that list. However, his primary issue isn't so much with the song itself, but with Kanye West being seemingly ignorant of the fact that Chick-Fil-A has donated millions of dollars to anti-gay rights groups and then being confused when pro-LGBT organizations took issue with said song that was essentially free ad space for that company. RC even drops an uncensored Precision F-Strike while raking Kanye over the coals for this.
  Rap Critic: But when you become a Christian rapper, and then make a song that associates you with an openly Christian company that directly poured millions of dollars into anti-gay political organizations, you figured gay people weren't going to feel some type of way about it? Did you fucking think, man?
• This comment on the "Call Me By Your Name" review.
  Lil Nas X: this is the best thing i’ve seen this week