rolling regional thug thread 2012

Rolling hipster media that get a hard on by over analyzing Black music thread

http://pitchfork.com/features/hall-of-game/9029-the-year-rap-broke/

noz gonna drag his feet the whole way on the keef thing

not that u guys were expecting me to respond any other way. but the soulja boy comparison suggests a level of accidental & coincidence where i'm hearing more intent & personality but ymmv

but 'ineptitude,' really

the other way the soulja comparison doesn't work is that it was the song that went viral, not the artist. ppl liked the dance & the video & werent wrapped up in soulja boy as a person iirc? i mean, we were all around when it hit but i don't recall the same level of connection to who soulja boy was

uhhh isn't rapradar like a haven for middlebrow aftermath bullshit rap or am i missing something completely

(many xposts)

no it is, which is the stupidest thing. i'm being accused of harming "the culture" via my position of power by a guy who runs a site that posts every iggy azealea mp3.

whole thread going "when you look into the abyss" atm

oh no what if we lose forks

lost me a long time ago friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9IXAJg4Vm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tt269zCo-0

Forks whats a couple releases you liked this year that never got brought up itt?

hip hop releases? not many and primarily far more poppy than this thread cares to deal with.
I disagree with a lot of trap uber alles and crit rhetoric that gets slung around on here but it's been an excellent source for new music this year, no doubt. it's why i'm here!

Yeah hip-hop only.

i mean i'm doing my top tens now and the hip hop albums that seem to be cropping up are

E-40 - The Block Brochure v 1,2,3
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Wiley - Evolve or Be Extinct
Ab Soul - Control System
El P - Cancer 4 Cure
Azealia Banks - 1991 EP
Schoolboy Q - Habits and Contradictions
Le1f - Dark York
100s - Ice Cold Perm

can't imagine there's many surprises there

i spent the last day or two giving a college try to Big Boi / TI / Chief Keef and am having THOUGHTS but nothing worth sharing at the moment beyond the obvious

new freeway and vybz also in attempted rotation

Cool, I still haven't managed to get through that El-P album yet.

Need to hear that Freeway too.

im sure ppl here are as interested in hearing forks' thoughts on chief keef as they are mine at this pt

i found the el-p pretty hit and miss but the hits are meaningful
one off singles by artists that are new to me are the most useful impact stuff on this thread for my money. that's how i vibed with 100s and why i've listened to this zilla track like nine zillion times this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GQahDwCpQ0

That Zilla tape has so many good beats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe75okKvsTY
This is my jam off that

keef album is interesting in its minimalism; i don't exactly want to listen to it but its something of a master class. Quivering candy painted suspension wires. singles are still totally unpalatable but something clicked when I tried:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQCyhaOt9bc
so i'm not coming around exactly so much as i am getting what there is to get as opposed to, say, gucci and waka who still are opaque to me even after i've tried for years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaNAoBIw14&feature=youtu.be

this goes

surprised at open minded forks experience w/ keef. *respect dap*

zilla beats are pretty amazing yes

Nothing showing on that link for me Deej

he meant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaNAoBIw14

insane hook on that btw

idk why that link didnt work but yah forks got it

That synth(?) sound was cool at first but then just kinda dominated after I got about half way through. I like though.

long as i'm in this thread, there's a new dj paul tape on the way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC-QDGLQSj0

his first tape this year was cool wasnt too into the 2nd one but i didnt give it much time

when ppl were talking about shump's rap music on twitter i go to his twitter page & see 130k followers & i'm like FAKE then i realized hes an actual basketball player who raps & felt like The Lex for not knowing that.

more my speed honestly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFzEW8Ki2Yk

"Snow Tha Product"

yeah they coulda gone with "Snow, No Not the Canadian Guy"

when ppl were talking about shump's rap music on twitter i go to his twitter page & see 130k followers & i'm like FAKE then i realized hes an actual basketball player who raps & felt like The Lex for not knowing that.

― D-40, Thursday, December 27, 2012 2:35 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Lol I posted this tape in the ILH thread.

Zilla. Hardly a marketable rapper but I love the guy.

And two out of his three releases this year were pretty great even though no one really cares.

hoping that next year's thread is gonna have a better title so that I'll actually bookmark it because goddamn how did I miss out on gunplay this year

Lol @ u finding out from a pitchfork editorial

;o)

i've been going thru some rap EOY lists and discovering some amazing trax. in partic, so far:

troy ave - i know why you mad
mic terror - rodney king
fam-lay - clap clap <= X A MILLION
feva - handsome
dj paul - cocky
gunplay - take this <= HOW HAD I NOT HEARD THIS GUNPLAY SONG OMFG THE BEAT
ty$ - the weekend [this wasn't on the ty$ mixtape i have, it's...different in a good way, those weird horns really liven up the warmed-up rack city beat]
lil dev - i'm perkins
ca$h out - cashin' out

the worst is the rick ross/drake/french montana song, a less palatable combination of rappers on one song i cannot imagine

lol you will probably take some shit for mentioning ty $ as 'rap' (although his cadences/melodies always sounded so 'contemporary singsong rapper' to me that i was surprised to find out he was categorized as a singer myself)