ilx ain't a rap forum... its a cRap forum
― and I explained the Bechdel Test to her (sleepingbag), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:15 (nine years ago) link
charli xcx doesn't make pop music, she makes poop music
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:16 (nine years ago) link
#StopTanuki2015
i believe in us
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/TheCoupCoverLarge.jpg
Imagine if Kendrick Lamar ever wrote anything as good as this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPr1JLoYLW4
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:17 (nine years ago) link
life is hected
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:18 (nine years ago) link
In that Coup picture the WTC represents ILX and Boots Riley is Raccoon Tanuki, blowing the whole place up with his truthbombs.
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
RT where do you live in the UK?
― out here like a flopson (tpp), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
Realhiphopshire
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:21 (nine years ago) link
lol
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
a land without gays or jews or women
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:22 (nine years ago) link
― Οὖτις, Thursday, January 8, 2015 6:21 PM (51 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wait i just realized this thread needs whiney g weingarten and blood sausage stat
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:23 (nine years ago) link
honestly, ever since i heard that rea shdrusmmmesr shit everyone's going crazy for i am kinda 100% on board with teh raccoon
― and I explained the Bechdel Test to her (sleepingbag), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:24 (nine years ago) link
http://assets.noisey.com/content-images/contentimage/25916/ukhiphop1.jpg
― LIKE If you are against racism (omar little), Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:25 (nine years ago) link
Why is the young buck selling such who never had much, Tanuki? Is it because he is an evil muslim perhaps?
― longneck, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:51 (nine years ago) link
Makes me long for Jay-Z / Nas hip-hop throw down? & other throw-downs? days. Popular and successful threads used to be more conscious back in the day.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 8 January 2015 18:57 (nine years ago) link
(dad prez left in for that one song, that blew up majorly while being hugely political, that song wouldn't exist now)
lol that song peaked outside the top 40 on the rap singles sales chart and was basically only known for its five-word chorus getting played a couple times over commercials on mtv that year. i guess the influence u refer to = having some white rockcrits wanking over how its marginal presence on the charts at the same time as common's supposedly revolutionary love song signaled the inevitable 'return' of explicitly activist rap as the dominant form of rap. except oops, that didn't happen, since instead we got ja rule/murder inc/blissed out thug love jams dominating the cultural sphere for the next couple of years. hint: if you are complaining about the lack of any explicitly conscious/activist rap (that you like or see as politically aware -- who cares about wimmen and gays and 'transgenders') in mass culture these days, maybe the conscious rap u revere so much wasn't actually that influential?
― dyl, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:33 (nine years ago) link
the reason that dad prez song wouldn't exist now is because its content is thoroughly well-trodden and completely unexciting to anyone with a political conscience in 2014
― dyl, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
<3 charlie xcx
if we're counting the Coup, Can Ox & Dad Prez as successful group then why wouldn't Run the Jewels count?
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:49 (nine years ago) link
groups
because a raccoon said so
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:51 (nine years ago) link
Despite some colorful details ("Handcuffed in back of a bus, 40 of us") Deck's verse on C.R.E.A.M. is more defeatist than political imo -- an older person teaches him the value of hard work ffs
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Thursday, 8 January 2015 19:58 (nine years ago) link
"Fellow-traveler" hiphop, maybe
― I can just, like, YOLO with Uber (bernard snowy), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
who did what now― un chill goon (some dude), Wednesday, January 7, 2015 11:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― un chill goon (some dude), Wednesday, January 7, 2015 11:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Pitchfork's Chris Ott takes No Prisoners
― The Complainte of Ray Tabano, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:10 (nine years ago) link
lmao "dad prez"
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
no way RT is Ott
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:13 (nine years ago) link
xxp my previously posited ott-sock theory was mostly for lols
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:15 (nine years ago) link
Why would ott pretend to be british
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
there are dozens of rap forums out there that are just a bunch of guys like RT calling each other soft batch
― ancient texts, things that can't be pre-dated (President Keyes), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:19 (nine years ago) link
sloth pretty surprised you've resisted this thread so far.
― Evan, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:22 (nine years ago) link
Death Grips
― Moka, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
as far as troll behavior goes, creating a persona isn't exactly uncommon, but yeah, my ott theory - which was like 25 percent serious to begin with - is most certainly inaccurate
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:23 (nine years ago) link
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many of us should spend some time tonight looking critically at ourselves in the mirror
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:24 (nine years ago) link
evan i saw no percentage in engaging w/ any of this stuff bc even people who bless their hearts were trying to give serious answers were getting nothing but dickish behavior in return, but i felt i should clarify the joke
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:25 (nine years ago) link
has no one made the 'he will be a zing-flinging jaded ilx regular by 2017' post yet? no?
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
Anyhoo, I'll play along through all this bullshit because I'm bored, just to get facts straight because you're just using your fucked up raccoonesque perception of reality, the following are cold hard facts:These were Metacritic's top rap/hip hop artists from the 00s (as you might be aware they have these scores by summing different review scores from popular zines):
http://i.imgur.com/DBVlge3.png
And this is the list of best selling rap/hip hop albums in the USA since 00s:
http://i.imgur.com/E8zXOVd.png
― Moka, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
He's already flinging that's for sure. xp
― Evan, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
its a ott sock ster
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
No use Moka. It's common knowledge that raccoons have tunnel vision, making it common for them to cherry pick.
― Evan, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:33 (nine years ago) link
I'm sure you'll continue saying that they are previous generation artists or whatever but the truth is they are still the ones getting the best reviews and sales. I'm sure in your 15 year old world it seems like the only artists that matter to other people are Minaj and Drake but there's hope out there. Hang in there, buddy.
― Moka, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:34 (nine years ago) link
http://www.squirrelstore.com/files/744999/uploaded/79100pp.jpg
― Evan, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
that's fucking cruel
― ..but is he a virtuoso? (Raccoon Tanuki), Thursday, January 8, 2015 8:08 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
new theory: it's calum
― goole, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:39 (nine years ago) link
where's my cane
the following are cold hard facts...
What about streaming, mixtapes and YouTube tho? Metacritic is OK, but I don't know if sales is that representative of the RT successful + popular criteria.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:48 (nine years ago) link
This guy went from 50 to 80(!!!) flagged posts in a matter of hours. You won't be seeing him for a while.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:51 (nine years ago) link
that shit on the Charlie Hebdo thread was p bad tbf
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:53 (nine years ago) link
hip-hop is safe!
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:54 (nine years ago) link
Looks like for YouTube Vevo, it would be Pitbull, Chris Brown, Nicki, Black Eyed Peas, Lil Wayne, 50 Cent, Kanye West, Drake, Nelly, Soulja Boy and Tyga, depending on what you label as rap/hip-hop.
http://vidstatsx.com/vevo-most-viewed
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:56 (nine years ago) link
It takes quite a lot to get 51ed in this day and age but I have never seen anyone accumulate flags that quickly.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link
man am i glad i didn't read RTs thoughts on Hebdo
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 8 January 2015 20:57 (nine years ago) link