Horseshoe Gang has been around on the west coast and have become wise to the ways of the Hip Hop game.
Recently sitting down with HipHopDX’s Features Editor Andre Grant, the Long Beach quartet described their blood brother KXNG Crooked’s influence on them.
“We’ve been rapping since like the age of three so that’s over 25 years,” the group said via a segment of today’s (August 5) DX Daily. “Rapping on beats that you find in a pocket and being able to come with deadly bars, lines, cadence, all that mixed in one. That’s a walk in a park for us… KXNG Crooked, he taught us how to rap. He would say, ‘Learn these four bars by the time I get back from school,’ and we would have them down. It’s nothing for us. [We’re] trying to bring back the essence of emceeing as well.”
Watch the full DX Daily segment below:
they had an album like 6 years ago around the time slaughterhouse’s debut came out i believe. i checked for it since i was a fan of crooked (at the time). my thoughts at the time were that they could spit, sure, but all they really talked about were the same tired topics about being so gangster, rich, and cool. which is not very entertaining. same with crooked. although i’m hoping his album with statik goes a different direction like killer mike did with el-p.
You must have bought a one off limited edition album coz HSG have never made a track about being ‘so rich’ or an album just about monotonous bullshit. They’re a very complete group and make tracks that make you think.
i agree they’re nothing special..but theyre doper than 80% of the clowns with commercial fame..but that’s a given..that is what hip-hop has become now..hip-pop. there are very very few hip-hop artists with mainstream success..and i don’t mean rappers..i mean hip-hop artists..and even most of them are trying to cross over..i respect that cats are trying to bring back the essence of hip-hop..but whilst blending it with contemporary hip-pop the outcome is often some weak ass shit over a trap beat. yet still better than everything on the radio..hip-hops in an awkward ass place right now. it’s on the border of shit and attempting to bring back the 90s. it’s too bad being the dopest lyricist you can be has become nothing but a memory in the hip-hop game..even el-p..which motherfuckers are throwing around his name like he’s some new guy..has sacrificed his talent and style to become more accessible commercially..one person i definitely didn’t expect to go the route he went..having met him back in the defjux days and having extended conversations over the phone for beat pricing i can say he’s making the music he’s making for the money and fame..which i don’t blame him at all; hes been in the game and paid enough dues to deserve the success he wishes to attain..but he could have survived as an indie icon had he continued running defjux; and for my two cents, killer mike is overrated; el can and would smash this fool any day of the week lyrically.. as for this topic..i can name unsigned unknown probably never gonna be rappers that are extremely talented and embody hip-hop..what it use to be at least…the entire hip-hop culture; myself included. it’s just an inconvenient truth that being a talented lyricist isn’t an important factor in this shit anymore..so it’s nice that horseshoe gang and crooked (for the time being at least) are still bringing lyricism back to some extent. being a product of the 90s i too get painful nostalgia and will admit my own music is born of the 90s and catered to real hip-hop heads that actually care about substance..probably the main reason i’ll never be rich and famous..but i started rapping for me..not money or fame..and i’m infinitely grateful for the cult following of REAL hip-hop heads that i’ve collected over the past decade.
@fuccingtruth. aint nobody wanna read that long ass message, fuck nigga. go punch yo momma’s flabby ass cheeks.
These are 4 handsome young men who can spit. They’re some of the few rappers who deserve to swing their big donkey cocks around in the rap game.
thats the gayest shit i ever heard anyone say..and as a compliment no less..you’re a confusing cat
lmao!! that statement though.
Crook is the truth and always has been.
Watch the freestyle they did with sway recently they killed it. Cob