Official Stalley Honest Cowboy Thread *New Tracks*
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Like Water
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A-Wax and Raise Your Weapons. Both off his upcoming mixtape; Honest Cowboy. 8/08.
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Change title so this could be the official thread.
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Bccmmg
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this guy very boring artist
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"Music to Dry Paint to"
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I bet the cover is just a picture of a beige wall
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? really don't rock wit Stalley, huh? I acknowledge that he's not the most energetic Mc, but the kid has bars. And his production is always top notch.
*shrugs*
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Somebody drop a memorable Stalley quote
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First verse of Raise Your Weapons.
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Stalley Sucks!
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I put 2 homies onto Stalley last week,based on 'Tell Montez I love her'. They went apeshyt
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Like Water wrote: »? really don't rock wit Stalley, huh? I acknowledge that he's not the most energetic Mc, but the kid has bars. And his production is always top notch.
*shrugs*
In this day n age beat selection will take u a long way, and fact is not many artists r fukin wit that chill soul ? like Stalley. And he has an outsider's point of view I ? wit
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Reppin Cleveland area, him & mgk should do some things
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Reppin Cleveland area, him & mgk should do some things
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I agree wit @yamoley here. I don't know what part of Cleveland you're from, but MGK gets no love in the areas I go. Guy's a cornball. He's like the poor man's Yelawolf.
Mos def not a fan. And I pray he stays as far away from Stalley as possible.
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stalley don't b rhyming he hella off beat an he blah mmg should trade him for Robin thick Estelle ace hood anybody
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Better than everything on Wale's album
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Rubato Garcia wrote: »Somebody drop a memorable Stalley quoteMy mama called to tell me they done turned the gas off
And I just spent 500 in a shopping mall
So I can look good for ya'll, guess I got to take this mask off
Cause everything ain't picture perfect
She 60 now and she still working
These tears jerkin and it's painful I can't help
I feel stingy every time I treat myself
So at times this fun rap is really work to me
And at times its got me thinkin what its really worth to me -
the dude makes good music to chill too...
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He need to hurry up and make an album, ? a mixtape.
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i see everyone praising his production but imo that was what was missing on his last joint .. there was some dope production there but it just wasnt consistent and some of the ish sounded real generic .... but these two joint go they sound album quality .......
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bindayvez79 wrote: »He need to hurry up and make an album, ? a mixtape.
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"Swangin" is my jam, but Stalley just doesn't have "It"
Dude's flow needs a lot of work and he doesn't have charisma.
I'm somewhat of a fan of his, but don't see him really making much noise.
It's like what J Cole naysayers thought about his ability to sell and make hits, but it might actually be true in Stalley's case. -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=i9Vcu-uOXtA
Maybach Music Group’s Stalley has been releasing music for over 5 years. After dropping three independent mixtapes prior to 2012 and his first project under the MMG umbrella last year, Stalley believes his latest mixtape, Honest Cowboy, is the definitive work that will force the non-believers to take notice.
“It’s going to be one that people will remember for a long time. I think this one will solidify me in the game as being top dog and not slept on,” says Stalley on Honest Cowboy. “People come up to me and they always say that I’m slept or that I’m overlooked, but I think this is that one that’s going to open people’s eyes up. The music is going to speak for itself.”
Honest Cowboy is a free project that Stalley describes as a musical exploration of who he really is and where he came from. The title was inspired by his troubled father who left the family in Ohio to pursue work as a rancher in San Antonio, Texas.
“I didn’t really grow up with [my father]. That’s the reason that sparked the title and the feel of the album. That was me trying to understand a little more about why he left his family and went down south to go be a cowboy,” explains Stalley. “I saw the parallel of a cowboy and Hip Hop artists today. You go on these frontiers, and you work hard and try to provide for your family. As an artist, you spend a lot of time away from your family and people that’s close to you to try and build this life.”
Kyle “Stalley” Myricks grew up in Massillon, Ohio, deeply connected to the car culture and high school sports. Massillon, a town of about 30,000 people roughly an hour outside of Cleveland, was also the place where Stalley’s grandmother introduced him to the songs of Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and the storytelling of country music. Eventually, a young Kyle was exposed to Hip Hop, and the future rapper found his new passion.
“When I first heard Hip Hop was 2Pac’s Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z. ‘Brenda’s Got A Baby’, those types of records, really touched me,” says Stalley. “I dove into other music like N.W.A., Ice Cube, Scarface, E-40, Nas, OutKast.”
With tracks like Honest Cowboy’s “Raise Your Weapons” the 30-year-old emcee is harkening back to the social conscious records of artists like Tupac who used their music to make statements about the political state of the nation, the injustice of the judicial system, and the institutionalized oppression that affect the community of his listeners.
“I sit around and I get mad at times because nobody speaks for us. Nobody has that voice. Even people with a bigger voice than me. These artists who have a wider reach and bigger audience never speak on things, because I think people are so afraid to get criticized on social networks and in the media,” says Stalley. “I started [“Raise Your Weapons”] out saying, ‘They saying I’m the last of a dying breed in a generation in a dire need of a voice like me.’ I honestly feel like that. I feel like the generation has a dire, dire need for someone to just stand up and speak for the community.”
Stalley also uses his new project as an homage to his loves like buckets and southern Hip Hop. Both of those interests come together on the lead single “Swangin’” featuring shout outs to Houston rap, a sample of Alabama rap duo G-side, and a verse from legendary Geto Boys member Scarface.
“You don’t really hear Scarface talking much about cars. We’re use to hearing street talk from him and the ghetto tales,” says Stalley. “I wanted to have him do a little something different from what people are used to hearing.”
Stalley also recruited a Western voice for Honest Cowboy. TDE’s Schoolboy Q will make an appearance on “NINETEENEIGHTY7.” The pair recently shot a video for the record in Q’s hometown of Los Angeles.
“That’s one of them records that’s going to turn up the hood. It’s definitely one that I think is going to stick and stay for a minute. It’s a big record.”
Stalley’s desire to create a masterful work led him to record over a 100 verses. He eventually dwindling the tunes down to ten tracks which features production from DJ Quik, Block Beataz, S1, Terence Martin, Rashad, Soundtrakk, and Black Diamond. Stalley hopes what he calls “the album before the album” satisfies his core fans and also appeals to new audience as well.
“For anybody that listens to The Autobiography to Lincoln Way Nights to Savage Journey they know that the sound stays similar, but it always grows and gets bigger,” says Stalley. “I just focus on getting sharper with the pen, sharper with the flow, and making sure that the production stays my sound, but also grows and gets more worldly so that it can reach a wider audience. Every artist wants to grasp the attention of a new fan every time out, and I think that’s what I did with this project.”
Stalley’s Honest Cowboy will be available for download August 8. Follow Stalley on Twitter @Stalley -
blackgod813 wrote: »stalley don't b rhyming he hella off beat an he blah mmg should trade him for Robin thick Estelle ace hood anybody