Rolling 2006 Hip Hop Thread

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Thanks man!

It's Rodney, poised and rational! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 29 June 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

That AZ track is fucking great; he's aged better than Nas, I think.

max (maxreax), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

"where y'all at" is nice! i'd pretty much given up on nas, but i'm assuming this is like made you look, the song that's going to get me all excited to go out and get the record, only to be disappointed....

M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah the format is great. i still check for every single az track that appears. i love last five years az shit more than his supposed classic shit. i love transcribing whole verses and marveling at how it all comes together and is about perfect as possible. he's on a whole other level than just about anyone.

333333333333 (33333), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

someone tell me where i can hear the new nas

333333333333 (33333), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.spinemagazine.com/music/june/nas/whereyallat.mp3

max (maxreax), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm still annoyed that I can't figure out where I know the sample from.

It's Rodney, poised and rational! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link

Who's Luda going at in "War With God"? T.I.? I thought they settled.

max (maxreax), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

sorta okay, kinda stilted and like he can't pick which nas mode he wants to be in, mixing up worldweary nas teacher nas untouchable gliding over the track nas. az track kills it if you wanna compare them.

333333333333 (33333), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

YOUNG AND GIFTED, MY TONGUE'S PROLIFIC
IN THE BEACH BUNGALOW'S HOW I BRUNG IN CHRISTMAS
WITH THE STREET'S I'MA FLOW, FROM THE HUNGRIEST DISTRICTS
SWISS KICKS, CRISP WHEN I COME TO THEM PICNICS
PLAY IT SLOW, PAPERCHASE, STACK AND LAY LOW
RANGE ROVE, TINTED ALL BLACK, THE SAME OL
PSYCHIC MIND, RIGHTEOUS RHYMES
THEN TURN THE NEW LEAF ON MY LIFE OF CRIME
NO CONCERNS WITH NEW BEEF, WHO'S AS NICE AS I'M
IT'S CONFIRMED FROM A FEW FEET, I'M STILL A SNIPER BLIND
BUILT MY FAME, SPILT MY PAIN
POLITICKIN DAILY, STILL TRYNA MILK THE GAME
IT'S OBVIOUS THAT I'M REAL, RAP SKILLS REMAIN
I TOOK SOME CHANGE AND I'M STILL THE SAME

333333333333 (33333), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I was really feeling "City of Gods" off the last one, the one with that extended Rakim quote and the disco d beat.

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:53 (seventeen years ago) link

"The Come Up" was good too but not as good as "The Format"

deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 29 June 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Why can't he just be Nas? It seems rediculous to say he has to choose a certain facet of his personality for each song and stick with it.

It's Rodney, poised and rational! (R. J. Greene), Thursday, 29 June 2006 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

is the az track up anywhere?

Sym Sym (sym), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link

here

max (maxreax), Friday, 30 June 2006 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

DJ Quik was arrested, I'm not clear why.

If you'd like to send letters of support
then:

David M. Blake
0606343410

9500 Etiwanda Ave.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA 91739


if you send a book, it has to be sent directly from the bookstore in paperback..
...you personally cannot send it

Thanks From DJ Quik and Mad Science Recordings

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:45 (seventeen years ago) link

http://myspace-093.vo.llnwd.net/00882/39/03/882953093_l.jpg

Picture from the "Cali Iz Active" video shoot.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Also this photo is just awesome

ihttp://myspace-252.vo.llnwd.net/00421/25/28/421088252_l.jpg

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:47 (seventeen years ago) link

West Coast rapper/producer DJ Quik surrendered himself to San Bernardino County authorities on Thursday last week (22 June) and is currently in custody serving a 150-day sentence for the violation of a parole order.

Back in 2005, Quik, real name David Marvin Blake, was sentenced to two years of supervised probation following charges from an incident in 2003 in which the super producer’s sister claimed he assault her. According to police reports, Quick pulled a gun on his sister during a family argument.

Last year Quik was ordered to spend 45 days in jail on weekends following his guilty plea, however, he never served any of his time, which led to Judge Keith Davis increasing Quik’s jail time last week to 150-consecutive days and ordered him to begin serving it immediately.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 14:49 (seventeen years ago) link

On the AZ stuff, is Decade a good place to start or most of what I need?

matt2 (matt2), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Whoa I'd never seen that best of...it looks pretty comprehensive. Yr missing AWOL obviously, and the new single. The only AZ album I think pretty much flat out sucks is 9 Lives.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:53 (seventeen years ago) link

That looks like a good comp because it compiles shit from outside his LPs, his shit with the firm, etc.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Does Decade have anything on it from Last Call?

max (maxreax), Friday, 30 June 2006 17:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't remember all the songs on Last Call which is pretty uneven but I didn't recognize any on the tracklist. AWOL has 3 'bonus tracks' off Last Call.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

First of all, I'm an idiot for starting this thread instead of posting my query here: Shawnna - 'Block Music'.

Secondly, deej, did I really read this right?
Also, ILM should be prepared for the fact that one song samples the NEW RADICALS. I am not even joking.
If so, I will buy it immediately. As in 5 minutes ago. (New Radicals one of my favorite albums of the past decade, for real.)

Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Is it wrong that reading this, about DJ Shadow's new album, just makes me sad? I don't wanna hear him making a damned hyphy record, I wanna hear him as a turntablist. And yes I guess in a way I'm saying "STAY THE WAY YOU ARE DON'T EVER CHANGE" but when you're as brilliant as he's been, is that a crime?

Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:11 (seventeen years ago) link

The song "Chicago" samples "Someday We'll Know"

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:21 (seventeen years ago) link

Schwing!

Thomas Inskeep (submeat), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:28 (seventeen years ago) link

say, that AZ song is tops! sweet thx for the heads-up!

M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link

That AZ double album reminds me of the Cormega double CD which is totally worth the purchase price, even though I think one of the albums it contains is total garbage. I think its the 2nd CD I like a lot, some great bonus tracks and his best album.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link

OK I got the titles straight, I kind of can't stand "The Realness" where the lyrics are all vague and not particularly real and the beats are largely zzz, but "True Meaning" it all comes together.

dk prob has a different perspective, I know he's a 'mega fan.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

(I'd heard both way back when, but didn't really revisit him again til I copped the double disc when it dropped.)

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link

man, are you mixing up the titles? the true meaning is the questionable album, out of those two. the realness has... man, tons of classics... THUN AND KICKO with prodigy, THE SAGA, GLORY DAYS (ghetto quran basically but beofre 50 did it [50 jacked the idea and the beat too for some shit on the massacre][there's a bit on his dvd where he talks about actually getting permission to name some names he named and he interviews the black roddy dude that was the richest nigga in his building]), 5 FOR 40 (acapella mega interludes greatest thing ever invented), R U MY NIGGA, THEY FORCED MY HAND. beats are crazy, raps are just so basic and raw, nothing vague at all (on the contrary all the bullshit OCD details i love about what exact cars and shoes he was copping in twenty fucking years ago now [NIKE DELTA FORCES WITH THEM CLEAR CAPSULES]) and he still got the concept tracks about pimping his pen and how his raps are like crack.

the true meaning is some shit i can see a lot of people not being that into unless they have a high tolerance for that kind of thing.

333333333333 (33333), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe I'll listen to it again when I get home from work. I thought the one w "Love In Love Out" was the one I liked though.

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:25 (seventeen years ago) link

if the odds were good, i'd put some money down on mega not actually putting out a new album this decade (the testament doesn't count cause it's from 94). i mean, he's got like four years and if anyone can fuck up that kind of deadline it's mega. you know we're never gonna hear that lake/mega album that's supposed to drop on death row. not only is it cormega, it's on DEATH ROW. and that track with puba and krs and e-40 was supposedly mixed like a year ago and urban legend's been coming soon for like five years.

333333333333 (33333), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:44 (seventeen years ago) link

i forgot about legal hustle but mega tries to distance himself from that by calling it a compilation and not a real album, even if there isn't anything wrong with it.

333333333333 (33333), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:46 (seventeen years ago) link

This double CD would've been pure fire, enough to move all the attention off wannabe rappers 50something and The Ga(y)me and bring Mega the fame and glory he rightfully deserves.

333333333333 (33333), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

"If you be a nympho, I'll be a nympho."
-Cormega

deej.. (deej..), Friday, 30 June 2006 19:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Thomas, what I've heard of Shadow's album isn't great (altho I probably need to listen to it more) but it's only partly because of his beats; the other problem is that the rappers on it are spitting mediocre lines. "Three Freaks" isn't bad, though.

The instrumentals sound sort of generally mediocre--it feels like Shadow's still in 1997 or something (not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but I already own Endtroducing, not to mention the RJD2/Diplo/whoever albums that rip it off. So why do I need to hear him rip off himself again?)

max (maxreax), Friday, 30 June 2006 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Haven't Shadow's DJ sets been pretty much nothing but crunk & hyphy for the past four years?

Also, AZ is clearly the shit--possibly only second to Ghostface as far as still relevant NY vets. "Never Change" and several tracks from AWOL are tops.

ramon fernandez (ramon fernandez), Saturday, 1 July 2006 05:45 (seventeen years ago) link

man i gotta check out some AZ! i totally slept on him after the first record..i've been missing out!

M@tt He1geson, Rendolent Ding-Dong (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 1 July 2006 15:36 (seventeen years ago) link

Thoughts on the new Snoop single, the last half of which I just heard on KDAY? I liked it. I think it's called "Vato." Neptunes production ("Skateboard P" is heard at the end)? Good chorus, though.

"Run, motherfuckers, run
Duck motherfuckers, duck."

max (maxreax), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

skateboard p is #1

psycho pete (pete38), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 23:04 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
i got too much tlive fo
niggaz goin gainst the grain
turn sour hind the do
niggaz turn state
turn y'in t'the folk
inthastreet
no choice but t'live cutthroat
f'real nigga

PILLY DE BLUNTHOLDER (pete38), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:30 (seventeen years ago) link

lu

now pass the killa
t'the realest uh yo niggaz
t'the one who gon ride witcha
t'the one who gon die witcha

bow ya head
til ya get out wit that bree
lettem know you got his back if he get caught up by da feds
keep it gutta
take carra his kids and his mudda
throw bricks to his brudda
go run out that motherfucka
if you lovem
ya kissem an ya huggem
don't let nobody touchem
get that choppa start bussin
if they killem
we come n snatchin babies
choppin ya old ladies
cuz my dog goin crazy in that pen na
back then god took his lil brudda
becuz his sence nao
i ain't gon lie
deep inside i feel i aughta die
tryna be like u put 22s on a 745
my life is crushul
i' shootcha like a dice roll
they burn my tape and they burned my tape becuz i might sco
they hollin boosie got the juice na
say run the streets
holla boosie throw me sump'n
but look here boosie ain't sherr peace, nigga
an it's a worldwide struggle
an i respect it if ya hussu
butcha gotta stay outta trouble if ya wonna (bubba)
momma holllin come home
she know i'm doin wrong
she know when i'm smokin an leanin
she know when i got that chrome
but that's my momma
an i love my momma
an i bus heads if you touch my momma

Nelus Lectron (pete38), Sunday, 30 July 2006 05:47 (seventeen years ago) link

three weeks pass...
today on http://www.paperthinwalls.com/singlefiles/item?id=40 Sterling Clover on some appropriately unstable " 'global hip-hop' " and some subway (car-to-car)loose jointjamz too (that last is id=118). And yours truly on let's-call-it-grime Tolcha, Berlin-based collective, featuring some UK and US rappers; their album is one of the best of any kind of music I've heard this year (id=26). Featuring MP3s of all these.

don (dow), Friday, 25 August 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link

i just picked up the jr writer album out of curiosity and it's pretty good. or half-good, anyway. some of it drags, predictably, but there's some pretty hot stuff on it. i think he works best on the harder cuts, he has trouble really riding the slinkier beats -- tends to sort of just rhyme straight through them.

gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Saturday, 26 August 2006 02:55 (seventeen years ago) link

only great thing I've heard lately is the new DOUBLE CD mixtape from Chingo Bling, who just got his culo signed by Arista. first disc is called "Everybody Wants Him...But Who Can Afford Him?" and second disc is "America's Faborite Wetback: The Mextape." it's funny and Houston-riffic, on one he tells a girl to shave her chocha because 'damn, I ain't vote for bush"

also the single, "Do the Lasso" (with two D4L guys) is pretty great, he rhymes lasso with el paso and hassle and asshole

Haikunym (Haikunym), Saturday, 26 August 2006 03:23 (seventeen years ago) link


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