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he looks more like an overweight a-trak imo

there's a geekiness to berner that bubba didnt have

reminded me of scott storch at first glance

i mean it's not like he looks like aaron carter, pretty much if any chubby white dude with a goatees and a blunt in his hand told me he raps i'd think "of course you do"

but then i'm going off GIS here, haven't seen him in a video or anything

also i didnt think berner was white tbh

if only he had dropped some sort of hint

http://cdn.pitchfork.com/media/BernerWhiteAlbum.jpeg

hint: thats about coke

but i mean even if you assumed he wasn't white i don't know if he'd look out of place as a cypress hill hanger-on or something

well im def incorporating his persona as a rapper / video presence into my interpretation here, which i assumed you were as well so

but i mean even if you assumed he wasn't white i don't know if he'd look out of place as a cypress hill hanger-on or something

― raggett doll, livin' in a rovi (some dude), Monday, May 9, 2011 6:01 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

thats a far cry from rap STAR which was the original terms we were discussing? berner makes me think of, like, spliff star -- distinctive non-entity -- its like if spliff star had a solo record w/ big name guest verses

in the post-drake/minaj era i don't even know if there IS a rap star profile tbh

so glad pin-up tv stars and women with huge asses finally have a place in rap superstardom

just saying if a guy that looks like Eamon and a black Fanta girl can get on the cover of XXL, the field's pretty open

http://yodonbleekraps.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/craigmack.jpg

hint: thats about coke

― TTDeej (D-40), Monday, May 9, 2011 1:59 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hint: sometimes rappers use double entndres!

and sometimes they dont? he looked Mediterranean / israeli / arab in some way & assuming hes white bcuz of the album title is presumptuous. 'all white everything' doesnt make young jeezy white either.

regardless, if he is white, comparing him to bubba sparxx because hes white is about as meaningful as comparing eminem to aesop rock

you asked who he looks like, not whose music he sounds like

he doesnt look like bubba sparxxx

dude looks white

almost the color of snow

deej will defend anyone from the bay, even berner

does dude have some crazy back story, like his mom drank too much Mountain Dew while he was in the womb or something?

he's not a dead ringer no but if you're asking for a precedent of "chubby white rap star with a goatee" that's probably the closest you're gonna get

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how am i 'defending' him what is wrong w you

comparing a dude's career to a luckier spliff star qualifies as 'defending' around here

you called him "charmingly bad" which is like the deej version of "pretty fly for a white guy" and then got in a 50 post argument with some dude about how his looks(?) make him some unique rapper entity

he's not a dead ringer no but if you're asking for a precedent of "chubby white rap star with a goatee" that's probably the closest you're gonna get

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― raggett doll, livin' in a rovi (some dude), Monday, May 9, 2011 6:21 PM (56 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

youre being mad pedantic today. this argument is getting idiotic so im stepping out of it but Berner is a funny-looking weirdo who lucked into a successful career somehow & that is amusing & interesting to me, there isnt really an easily-notable precedent that i can think of & certainly hasnt been one mentioned in this thread, which is why jokes about his origins are funny

good lord u can suck the fun out of anything

im certainly not responding to that level of pedantic idiocy from whiney

this argument is getting idiotic so im stepping out of it but Berner is a funny-looking weirdo who lucked into a successful career somehow & that is amusing & interesting to me

yes

there isnt really an easily-notable precedent that i can think of

no

oh ok, he's a funny-looking weirdo. yeah, never been a famous rapper like that ever.

so....

Ed OG is still around! and he has a new song with M1 of Dead Prez

love the nostalgic jazz piano + bongos beat, real nice, i really like statik selectah alot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouHmjf-GRkI

oh ok, he's a funny-looking weirdo. yeah, never been a famous rapper like that ever.

― raggett doll, livin' in a rovi (some dude), Monday, May 9, 2011 6:28 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol @ the disingenuousness here surpassing even "if a television soap star can make it in the music industry, surely a flat-footed greek immigrant-looking weed dealer is mere seconds from rap superstardom"

lol @ end to end berners

lol @ flat-footed

imo berner looks very much like a specific kind of wannabe rapper, but not the kind of successful one who ends up getting big krit on his debut solo LP & tons of PR & attention

lol @ end to end berners

― chairfuckers union (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, May 9, 2011 6:32 PM (45 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

otm

so all of the hundreds of rappers currently at Berner's career level or higher fit a certain profile or 'look like a rapper' in some basic way? that just seems like a weird idea to me.

it's like saying a guy in a successful band who has short hair "doesn't look like a rock star," feels very outdated to even pretend there's some narrow criteria for looking the part anymore

narcissism of small differences etc

i think its p interesting that lady gaga and ke$ha aren't what anyone would call traditional "knockouts" like madonna or kylie or whatev

i would say that many successful rappers strike me as 'successful for a reason' even if i dont love their rap style i.e. wiz. berner is like the anti-wiz

some people seem like stars, some dont. berner seems to have outgrown his image

yeah maybe the difference is i couldn't begin to guess or care why most Berner-level rappers are as successful as they are

the thing with berner is that he picks better beats than your favorite rapper (not assuming your favorite rapper is nas)

there is kind of a small-scale rick ross thing to him, where hes punching out of his weight class (very much figuratively, obv, in both cases)

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