Are Migos the Thelonious Monk of nu-rap?

Rev otm. Times x 1000.

deej has his finger on the pulse of the throbbing, central vein of migos

http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/DeAndre-Jordan-Face-After-Brandon-Knight-Dunk.gif

I'll give you that it's not as intense as "Hannah Montana" or "Fight Night", but "Handsome and Wealthy" and "Bad and Boujee" are both p lowkey too.

I really hate when you do this "no one understands the rap music as well as me" schtick.

― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Wednesday, February 1, 2017 4:25 PM (fifty minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

im not claiming to have some inherent deeper understanding of rap music im claiming to have paid attention to it.

and i don't think this is a real hit, its a streaming phantasm record built on the momentum of their first hit in ages.

but i guess we'll see if yall are still singing it in april

*ascends into the sky, laughing maniacally*

(the movement to make t-shirt the number one song of 2017 STARTS NOW)

Isn't that sort of barely there menace the wave now? Didn't 21 Savage have a top 40 hit?

Also, T-Shirt has a great video, which can really drive a steam count skyward

the seed of bad n boujee can be found here at 2:29, the fact that i noticed it makes me the arbiter of the culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mis8vdyWlw

Isn't that sort of barely there menace the wave now? Didn't 21 Savage have a top 40 hit?

Also, T-Shirt has a great video, which can really drive a steam count skyward

― voodoo chili, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 5:55 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

21 savage's top 40 hit is a future song

i agree about t-shirt's video...in fact id argue that's what let it touch top 40 in the first place

excellent thought leading lagoon don't think we haven't noticed at ilx HQ, there's talk of a promotion

i called 'bad and boujee' as a hit back in august

isn't this some broken clock right twice a day shit tho?

jk i have enjoyed Bout to Bust

he who controls the deej... controls the FUTURE

Mama told me
not to guesswork

isn't this some broken clock right twice a day shit tho?

― flopson, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 6:38 PM (forty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

purpose of the column isn't to predict the future or anything, like im actively cheerleading for stuff that doesnt have the mechanisms in place to be big all the time (cf 'cross me,') or has an uphill climb to be taken seriously again (we are toonz, Tink, sevyn streeter).

but the same column w/ bad and boujee also called amine, "black beatles" & "key to the streets" so you tell me

that same month, i mean

jesus christ deej you need to blow on your thumb and be a little more three dimensional

jk i have enjoyed Bout to Bust

LMAOOOOOOOOO

jesus christ deej you need to blow on your thumb and be a little more three dimensional

― bamcquern, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 8:35 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lolz

i only found out like last week that aminé was on the radio

why is everyone so mad abt me saying i dont think t-shirt is a real hit? im not saying you cant like the song. im not saying its bad. im saying its like 'timmy turner,' a fleecing the people via streaming 'hit' & we will all know in a month or two if we were right or not

dont denigrate tshirts is what it comes down to

excellent thought leading lagoon don't think we haven't noticed at ilx HQ, there's talk of a promotion

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, February 1, 2017 7:37 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank u i wont let u down

btw the migos look great in their new videos now that theyre not just dripping in flashy versace and whatnot

Isn't that sort of barely there menace the wave now? Didn't 21 Savage have a top 40 hit?

― voodoo chili, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 5:55 PM (thirty-six minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

21 savage's top 40 hit is a future song

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, February 1, 2017 7:33 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

No Heart isn't doing too bad either

21 is possibly my least favorite rapper of the current moment

At least of those taken seriously

He's like the most one dimensional drill cartoon & it was sold on pure noisey esque authenticity fetishism. Except all the ppl who said that about drill rap are cool with it this time around for some reason

T-Shirt is incredibly hooky - the kindof song where you'll have the whole club rapping along to every word. It's not very radio ready but then how much does radio matter these days anyway?

did someone say it wasn't 'hooky'?

its not a hit, idc idc idc

Well being incredibly hooky and fun to rap along with can certainly help a song from a hot and successful rap group become a hit. Not saying it is or will be. But it might.

is t-shirt the pannonica of nu-rap?

t-shirt is a head-fake, people

the real plan is [looks at track list]... deadz

excellent thought leading lagoon don't think we haven't noticed at ilx HQ, there's talk of a promotion

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, February 1, 2017 7:37 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

thank u i wont let u down

― lag∞n, Wednesday, February 1, 2017 9:20 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

great. we're excited to have you on board. frankly, deej has been a great thinkfluencer in the world of young ppl but looking over his recent expense reports stet and the board are....quite concerned....over the trips and considerable resources trying to make a young gentleman by the name of....let's see, yes...."Little Peep"...happen.

so heartened to see people calling out "going to Thailand with the chinks" on "get right witcha"

oh wait

literally just heard that line as i opened this thread and went hmmm

it's a shame because I was so here for this album and "T-Shirt" was obviously an amazing hit in waiting

I would have said something but I was so shocked by the rare problematic word on a rap record that I was rendered speechless

lol

some people can be more blasé than others about racial slurs, whiney

definitely expected more racial sensitivity from a group of non-Latinx who call themselves MIGOS

has anyone heard the origin of the name, i know they all group up together, maybe people called them the three amigos cause they were inseparable, aw

I always assumed it had to do with the "Little Mexico" part of Atlanta, but I don't know for sure

whiney are you really telling an Asian person not to be so sensitive to an Asian slur because I should have expected it? even by your standards this is nagl

I'm not saying you shouldn't be upset or offended!

I'm saying you shouldn't expect other people to immediately dismiss or decry Migos even if you choose to.

And it's also like one of about 50 problematic things about the Migos

it's a shitty lyric, yes.

given how many music journalists' brand is to be WOKE, yes I absolutely fucking expect it! Transpose your terrible argument to any of the social justice blow-ups in the past few years and think about how ppl would react if you said that about Iggy Azalea or whomever. Just bc other people don't get this slur directed at them means they can handwave it away?

And don't do that thing of claiming the POC is calling for extreme measures rather than just an acknowledgement. I like the album a lot, aside from that extremely souring line. I'm not going to ~decry them. But you doubling down on your right to dismiss this slur as unimportant is probably more offensive than them using it in the first place, bc it just exposes how little you give a shit about anti-Asian racism.