If you’re reading, it’s not TOO LATE to step your flow knowledge game up. I’m talking to you younger users whose brains “have no rhythm” (cacs or other colors of the skittles), we on RAP GENIUS for fuck sake.

Since now the retired RUN-DMC and the permanent hiatus of Outkast, duos existing with careers as long as theirs, (let alone releasing classic Rap albums) are few and far.
The one thing that makes a duo last is introducing a new sound and style, then reinventing that to stand out from copycats. Their personalities must become an entwined entity at one point, a fusion of two worldviews. Whatever flaws one has, the other must buff them up with positively reinforcing qualities, vice versa. When a second album arrives, it’s to be assumed they’re practically “brothers” - with a togetherness, containing the strength of a covalent bond.

Speaking of having “chemistry”, what about a duo that are real-life brothers and have a tether so unbreakable, that only a man-made drug could atomically split them apart? Well, unlike duos from previous regions, Terrence “Pusha T” and Gene “Malice/No Malice” Thorton have kept to that formula, literally and figuratively – WITHOUT co-signs or having a scene established already. These brothers were born in NYC’s crack era, though were raised in Virginia.

Their topics span many subject pools, involving the white rock itself. They have many ways they talk about all the properties of physiological effects, nomenclature and business to the chemical composition of coke. Both could Major in biochemistry, pharmacology and economics.

Southerners they were, but with very refined accents, drawls and twang inflected with a sense of high-class, yet stern and acute attitude.
The state at the time, set a new trend in Rap in becoming famous from a city – nobody has endorsed, supported or known anything about. VA’s dope boy representatives along with the Neptunes, put a stamp on Rap that no one else could match up to – even today with countless wannabe Trap rappers doing their best faux-impressionism of the drug trade. Whereas other regions would touch on how cocaine is around their environment, these guys go metric measurement DEEP into the “Coke Rap” subgenre. The substance is basically their deity, for without it their lives wouldn’t have flourished the way they have now. Occasionally, they have Conscious tendencies and very aware moments of issues it brings upon, but their ideal of “having substance” is strictly weighed on scales.