rolling CORP low bar just to appear hip to teens thread 2015

https://twitter.com/MrChuckD/status/547561443134943232

UNLOCK! THE SWAG!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlIm3MDq3FU

It would be weirder if chuck d tweeted that he liked critics and supported their year end list choices

why CORP ?

Cashin'
Out
Really
Persistently

It would be weirder if chuck d tweeted that he liked critics and supported their year end list choices

― Treeship, Thursday, January 1, 2015 8:48 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well sure but it's like...make your own list or shut up. i'd love to know if there are amazing indie rap records he'd be able to recommend as alternatives that none of us have even heard.

chuck is really into referring to corporations/the corporate world as "corplantations" or simply "CORP" these days

applauding thread title

wack butthurt thread title tbqh
"make your own list or shut up" = "make your own music or don't criticize mine"

which is to say both of those opinions are boring and unhelpful.
spending a whole year under the banner of either "hey chuck d doesn't like the music i like" or "point and laugh at legend who doesn't get kids these days" is nagl but whatever. I'm just here for the youtubes.

Honestly, Chuck D's opinion on the matter should hold more weight than the four white twenty/thirtysomething Dude N Nem stans who post here, and are actively gentrifying Brooklyn and Baltimore; all of whose interactions with hip-hop culture have been mostly through television, magazines and high-speed internet connections.

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

Xp preach

Quick fix: change CORP to cowfish

Honestly, when was the last time Chuck D had something interesting to say about the contemporary rap scene? I do hope there's an answer to this question.
I'm not disputing his historical importance here, just wondering about why we should listen to his critical insights in 2015.

Anyway, I posted this in the other/old thread so I might as well chuck (ahem) it in here as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ_GY3ifjVI

i meant it more in that i genuinely would like to see Chuck D's list and just saying someone else's is bad without suggesting other records really helps nobody

just wondering about why we should listen to his critical insights in 2015.

― longneck, Thursday, 1 January 2015 17:36 Bookmark

hero to most iirc

don't get me wrong he did mean shit to me, but he hasn't really in a long time

i only wish my crit beef with Chuck D could be over my long-since-deleted Pitchfork review of the Confrontation Camp album

"make your own list or shut up" = "make your own music or don't criticize mine"

― MAYBE HE'S NOT THE BEST THIGH SLAPPER IN THE WORLD (forksclovetofu), Thursday, January 1, 2015 10:52 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

except that making a list of records, or naming literally even one or two, is a lot easier than making an album

i think i will try to give an occasional listen to Chuck's internet radio thing just because who knows maybe i will find something good on it

I don't think this title is disrespectful to chuck, it's kinda funny

no more disrespectful than 'irrelevant rap bros' was to lex at least!

this is cool, YG on some rappity rap shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omvSUk4TYHo

very cool. love anything that has that "Dreams & Nightmares" intense flows over no drums vibe.

one of my favorite songs of last year just got a video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onvT9iCdUq8

speaking of appearing hip to teens, this is the best new rap song i've heard in the last 2 days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN61-4Iu598

New Keef is a heater: https://soundcloud.com/youngchopbeatz/chief-keef-all-type-of-shit

Young Chop rapping over the same sample as Max B's "Never Wanna Go Back"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzrQMQWexxY#t=40i

that YG thing was cool, looks like he's been studying video of Kendrick's moves, tho

don't get me wrong he did mean shit to me, but he hasn't really in a long time

― longneck, Thursday, January 1, 2015 12:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what did chuck D do to you?

that YG thing was cool, looks like he's been studying video of Kendrick's moves, tho

― alpine static, Friday, January 2, 2015 3:05 PM Bookmark

haha as if this wasn't already apparent

great pants in that video

free gzus piece

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XL8mUjxP5E

YG's stock just keeps rising for me, I think I actually liked his new mixtape more than his album, and I dug that a LOT

"As of December 7, 2014, the album has sold 174,000 copies in the United States."

rolling actively gentrifying brooklyn & baltimore 2016

^would rename

YG's stock just keeps rising for me, I think I actually liked his new mixtape more than his album, and I dug that a LOT

― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, January 4, 2015 6:52 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

what, the Blame It On The Streets soundtrack? i still need to check that out

this is cool, YG on some rappity rap shit

― The Reverend, Thursday, January 1, 2015 5:04 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

rolling fedora rapper 2015

Really feel like YP is reaching a great moment RN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=919uK6wlKFw

see also my year end listed 'thinkin bout'

what release is this on?? its not on Backwood Jones

neither is 'thinkin bout' .... yet to be determined future release iirc

a bunch of shit happened to him since backwood jones

cool thanks. bad stuff happened to him?

his family was held hostage by a nut
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-harvey-hostage-standoff-charges-20140822-story.html

he also lost his infant son ... really heartbreaking

those are unrelated stories btw

That's horrible! Jeez

http://ambrosiaforheads.com/2015/01/the-end-of-an-era-for-hardcore-hip-hop-dd-headqcourterz-studios-closes-its-doors-today/

Help me out, goons. What's the best stuff Joey Badass has ever done?

New album is great

Wendy N Becky featuring Chance is great. Mostly because of Chance.

Great as in...? I didn't know it was out.

rolling Excuse Me Sir, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Mozzy?

lol petty bitches

should do it like last year imo. don't suppose anyone's happened to have had any amusingly quotable twitter interactions with an irrelevant rapper or rappers lately by any chance...?

https://twitter.com/TKNCash/status/679888658921435136

rolling No such thing As a "HORRIBLE HIT SONG" thread

i say what a pleasant surprise

2016 rolling dumb chump thread

Also what's the industry plant thing about?

Rolling you sound Dumb chump thread 2016

That being said, I like 3 times in a row quite a bit.

rolling Excuse Me Sir, do you have a moment to talk about our Lord and Saviour, Mozzy?

― i got a really big steen, and they need some really big zings (some dude), Saturday, December 26, 2015 5:39 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its corny af that you do this every time i like an artist

also that tk n cash song is ... good

Also what's the industry plant thing about?

― Amira, Queen of Creativity (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, December 26, 2015 7:59 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

industry plant is just the term going around for rappers who aren't "organically" popular or w/e, that they've come in thru the major label system

its a silly term at some level but ppl throw it around a lot, raury wore an 'industry plant' t-shirt on the xxl cover in an effort to shake that reputation or own it

a year or two ago i would be against this name bc we'd had a running pattern of calling the LCD rap trend of the year, but lately we haven't really been doing that anyway

rolling industry plant is funnier than alternatives imo

i agree that industry plant is v funny

def the front runner

rolling dab thread

industry plant is just the term going around for rappers who aren't "organically" popular or w/e, that they've come in thru the major label system

Ths
Lol that could be said of like tons of classic rappers

Yeah really it's just an insult used to dismiss lames like Troy Ave and Post Malone

"fake rapper" is an old old idea, that's why this is funny imo

a year or two ago i would be against this name bc we'd had a running pattern of calling the LCD rap trend of the year, but lately we haven't really been doing that anyway

rolling industry plant is funnier than alternatives imo

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, December 26, 2015 12:31 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark

actually industry plant works bcuz the thread was originally named after an (organically grown) LCD rap trend given that liking such was a minority/contrarian opinoin at that poine on the internet. in 2016 every music writer is going to be jacking off to 21 savage so liking industry plants is now the minority/contrarian stance.

also industry plant is easy to remember unlike "CORP low bar just to appear hip to teens"

plus, lupe fiasco -- the patron saint of industry plants -- is putting out 3 albums

the number of times i've had to control+F "hip to teens", thanks a lot pal

i ctrl+F corp

i accept that this will be the last year we have a good thread title because i don't have a better idea than "industry plant" which i hate

at least it's not doodlebob wocka wocka shmoundclowned

Rolling rappers who aren't future or thuggr thread 2016

^has potential

the one that would be most in the spirit of the OG thread titles would be "rolling dab thread"

i like how migos' next tour is just 'dab tour,' like they're just shrugging ok nobody cared about our last few singles or mixtapes but we were in on the ground floor of dabbing, let's just focus on that

Hey explain to gramps, dabbing like the weed oil thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbnd8N2qRdc

u irl

tbf dabbing exists almost purely for people to learn about and then act appalled anytime anyone else learns of it after them. arguably that's the real dance.

oh wait it's nothing to do with mdma?!

Dabbing is also about inspiring discussions of appropriation

http://www.mcrfb.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/Brylcreem-Dick-Clark-Ad-MCRFB.jpg

Dabsolutely Dabulous

if you really think about it, burma shave was the first rapper

The Dab Four

Nef Dab for Cutie

for Duke Bootee

Ok well I only heard of it like smoking the vapor of thc oil

https://vine.co/v/iue0x5299HK

a few hard 2016 release dates and a long list of presumptive TBR records:
http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.36818/title.rap-release-dates-boosie-badazz-lupe-fiasco-action-bronson-cozz

boosie, keef and mozzy on new year's day. \o/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DCXiaXa6ow

Thanks to Johnny Football I have now seen the dab dance

feeling this from the martorlalist list

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

D40 posted some guy's old guy rap best of lost it is really good

http://ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=41

lol oops
rolling industry plant thread 2016

http://www.egotripland.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/capone-noreaga-lessons.jpg

couldnt find that despicable cover art thread so i just wanted to s/o my fave krautrock jazz reissue of the year somewhere

I'm wrapping this playlist for the year. It has been updated with a few new adds (Rick Ross, Step Sisters, Drake, DonMonique, RJ & Choice) and includes every track mentioned on thread that is available via Spotify's US catalogue as of EOY 2015. If I missed something or if a track comes available sometime in the future, bump here to let me know and I'll add.

Rolling Hip Hop Thread Spotify Playlist

Capone Duul II