Never Judge Off a First Single

We should never judge an artist off of their first mainstream single...though i've been guilty of it, and im sure you have too. I don't know what it is but some artists attempt to make their first single a hit in an uncharacteristic way. For example B.O.B's first single was "Haterz Everywhere", personally i thought the song sucked ass, and because the song gave me that impression i thought B.O.B was a shitty rapper. Now look at him, his album debuted at No.1, he has two lead singles off of his album, "Nothin On You" & "Airplanes" and seems to have another in "Don't Let Me Fall". So the question is why would an artist so talented put out a song he probably is ashamed of now? Is it for mainstream appeal? or could it be to lure the mainstream audience to who you really are musically? IDK, i have no clue really, but artists who do this fail to realize that they give themselves an false image to the listeners. Here's another example, Tyga, now when Tyga was my favorite rapper back in 07-08 he wasn't popular and was just making mixtapes with features with his GED label mates. Then when he gets the deal with Pete Wentz(Decaydance) and signs to YM he puts out a sub-par single, "Coconut Juice". This kinda upset me because i was telling everyone that he was the next nigga to blow, but once they heard his single they didn't give him another listen. So while artists attempt to make hits that don't reflect their true talents, they lose possible fans that they mislead in the process.

Mistah fab did the same with his "Hit Me On Twitter", but dude can really spit he just may freestyle better than CH, you be the judge.

What's Charles Hamilton's Best Project???

I Know everybody considers "The Pink Lavalamp" a "classic", and i agree it was pretty damn good. Though i been listening to "Normalcy" alot lately and im convinced it's his best piece of work. I know 98% of StarChasers would disagree but his originality really fell into place on this album. First of all, let me start with the instrumentals, now most rappers are known for what they do to beats, while charles is known for how he uses it. The beats for Normalcy were top notch, the samples were great and were done in good quailty(especially "Laptop Therapy" and "Baby Says I Want"). Secondly, lyrically this was his best shit, compare the lyrics from Pink LavaLamp to Normalcy and tell me he aint step his bars up. I know there were done almost 2 years apart but still lyrically Normalcy kicks Lavalamp's ass(Give "20hamil10" another listen as well as "Coodies"). Another reason is the way it was mixed and mastered was highly overlooked, the way the beats were chopped and how you could actually hear the samples crystal clear unlike most of his work was pretty amazing. Truly Normalcy was the most slept on project of CH right next to "This Perfect Life" another album i think is better than Lavalamp. Now my fianl reasons are because...well CH ain't the best rapper, and when he has that rapper approach rather than his artistic approach you won't get the best out of him because yet again, he ain't the best rapper. Now when he produces his own shit, comes up with creative hooks and decent verses, that's when he's on top of his game, and i think every StarChaser would agree with that. #GiveNormalcyAnotherListen