FIGG GET THE MONEY YEA
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
fukkin love this dude
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Right?
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty sure i'm in the minority on ilm in preferring kendrick
― art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty sure you're not!
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm with you full force, tpp.
― dr dre throwing dubstep balloons (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wish he'd do a mixtape where he just rhymes stuff with "Figg"
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
just spent most of the evening listening to schoolboy q
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
I need to hear more Kendrick so I can weigh in
the only person on ILM who I've actually seen say "I like Schoolboy Q more than Kendrick Lamar" is D-40
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like setbacks better than section 80, does that count?
― pandemic, Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
seem to remember a fair few ppl expressing pandemic's opinion. i won't really contest it since section 80 does kinda drag. kendrick's best verses just blow me away though.
― art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Thursday, 9 February 2012 21:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like SchoolboyQ better, though the more I listen to section 80 the more I like it. It's def a grower.
― Regional Tug (irrational), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
i prefer q to kendrick too, yeah
― diln (k3vin k.), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
POLL
― dr dre throwing dubstep balloons (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
i like some of his songs, still think it's weird/disheartening when a rapper uses the word "fags" and no one seems to think it's a problem, not really interested in a big discussion about it because i know it's been talked to death but i'm just tired of it. sorry.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
ok i know this is a schoolboy q thread but i LOVE that bit in the A.D.H.D video in the empty office building when the cute girl in typing on a non-existant type-writer and kendrick is pretending to pass her some invisible papers
HIGH TOLERANCE WHEN YOUR AGE DON'T EXIST LIKE WOAAAAAAAAAH
― art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I like Schoolboy Q more than Kendrick Lamar" is D-40
I didn't like Section 80 at all but am curious about this dude
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
What did you not like about it?
― dr dre throwing dubstep balloons (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
granted I only listened to it twice but I really did not dig the production
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
'blessed' off the new schoolboy q is really nice effort from both of these guys actually
― art dealin' thru the west coast (tpp), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
They all use the same in-house producers for the most part, fwiw.
― dr dre throwing dubstep balloons (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
There should be an annual award for best mockery pf Jay-Z's BP3 aaaauh adlib
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yea you know what I'm rocking on today's drive home
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 9 February 2012 22:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
I haven't heard the new Schoolboy Q album, but the production on Setbacks seems pretty slight compared to Section.80 to me. And Kendrick is a lot more charismatic and a better songwriter imo.
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Friday, 10 February 2012 02:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
the production on the new schoolboy is pretty cool and even tho i wouldn't agree i'd hear an argument that from that standpoint it trumps section.80, but in any other facet i think it's kendrick by a pretty large margin
― J0rdan S., Friday, 10 February 2012 02:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
kendrick is just a much better songwriter... q hits on some good stuff on a few songs on the album but it's still pretty amateurish in a lot of places to me
― J0rdan S., Friday, 10 February 2012 02:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
and not amateurish in a way that i guess i'm attracted to... just sorta skating by on 'vibe' and all that
― J0rdan S., Friday, 10 February 2012 02:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
how was the production 'slight,' like what do you mean by that?
the production on section80 was kind of hokey to me in parts, v grandiose & all that
― D-40, Friday, 10 February 2012 04:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah i agree with that
― diln (k3vin k.), Friday, 10 February 2012 04:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah kendrick made some real corny choices on section.80 but i don't think it's a huge deal
― J0rdan S., Friday, 10 February 2012 04:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
cosign n/a's post. otoh most of the music I listen to is dudes talking about who they're going to kill & with what gas-powered garden tool so glass houses I guess
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 10 February 2012 05:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha
― diln (k3vin k.), Friday, 10 February 2012 05:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
"And Kendrick is a lot more charismatic"
This is basically what it boils down to for me. His voice is v engaging/unique.
Having said this, SQ's new album is probably my favorite release so far this year.
― dr dre throwing dubstep balloons (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 10 February 2012 05:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
TS: Schoolboy Q vs Schoolkids OZ
― Mark G, Friday, 10 February 2012 06:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Really hope we get a Black Hippy album this year
― Number None, Friday, 10 February 2012 11:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
This dude is amazing! I had also slept of Kendrick Lamar before now... Damn, great discoveries.
― Clarke B., Friday, 10 February 2012 17:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
(slept on)
yeah, likewise
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 10 February 2012 17:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
He reminds me SO MUCH (especially in the grain of his voice but even his flow) of a mid-'90s MC I used to listen to a lot that I cannot recall... I only had his stuff on some now long-lost mixtapes my buddy made me...
― Clarke B., Friday, 10 February 2012 17:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ah, shit; I remembered--Saafir:
― Clarke B., Friday, 10 February 2012 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Does any of this stuff come out on vinyl? I wanna give these dudes some $$$ somehow, preferably not via iTunes...
― Clarke B., Friday, 10 February 2012 18:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, this annoyed me, the R&B gloss
― max buzzword (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 10 February 2012 18:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.thefader.com/2012/02/20/black-hippy-a-view-from-the-center/
― Number None, Monday, 20 February 2012 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol at Kendrick's sister preferring YG
― Number None, Monday, 20 February 2012 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
damn, this is grimy as fuck
― The Reverend, Monday, 20 February 2012 22:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good article - it's got me wanting to follow these guys
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 21 February 2012 03:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
FUCKS YES
― marissa explains it all (The Reverend), Wednesday, 29 February 2012 06:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
WHAAATT
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
best thing i've heard from any of these dudes
― flopson, Wednesday, 29 February 2012 07:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Love all the ad libs too
― Raymond Cummings, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 23:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
Most Enthusiastic Crowd
Minneapolis. I was literally expecting 150 people there because nobody showed up to the meet-and-greet. I was thinking, "This is about to be a disaster." But that shit was packed out. It was a little overwhelming for me. It was crazy, all white people. There were like three black people in there.
― johnny crunch, Monday, 12 March 2012 11:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
people who wanna perfect their "the album you lames didn't rep for was better" game really need to get into metal, you'll love it
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 12 March 2012 11:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
this album really isn't all that
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, February 29, 2012 11:05 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark
― some dude, Monday, 12 March 2012 12:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol this guy
http://pitchfork.com/features/guest-lists/8790-schoolboy-q/
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 March 2012 22:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
what an excellent interview
― been to lots of college and twitter (k3vin k.), Monday, 12 March 2012 22:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, March 12, 2012 6:56 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
its not like i wasnt on here telling ppl to check it out tho
― D-40, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 00:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think you're overestimating your Schoolboy Q cheerleading a little bit deej. Not that it really matters
― Number None, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 01:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
funky house septics (D-40) wrote this on thread rolling gun sounds thread on board I Love Music on Aug 24, 2011
the schoolboy q you linked me to awhile back was way more up my alley but i dont think that track is rlly too far outside of what we talk about
that said its not striking me particularly
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 01:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
i can't tell if you're talking about the schoolboy album there w/ that second line
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 01:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyway to settle this once and for all it appears as if you posted about schoolboy q once in the r&b thread in 2011 and then not until you posted your year end list this jan (except for when we were talking about asap rocky)
but i didn't go thru all the ilx mentions of the word "schoolboy"
― 3hunn O))) (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 01:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
yo nobody gets down with the "the early demos were better" stance than me, I can dig in, c'mon over to the metal side there's a bunch of us haters telling people not to dig what they dig
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 02:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Deej taking over the metal thread would be so awesome
― a little tiny crunk person (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
jesus christ dudes hunting my post history? i included it in the top ten of my favorite albums of the year, which i posted on this board
― D-40, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 02:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Number None, Monday, March 12, 2012 8:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pretty sure i called 'fantasy' one of my fav songs of the year at SOME point. if i didn't post it i certainly told ilxors on IM just as often. like, anyone who regularly talks w/ me about rap here knows i was telling ppl i liked it
― D-40, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 02:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
but my only pt was that this wasn't some "the older shit was better" monday morning QB ish
― D-40, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 02:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 22:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
i dunno how i feel about that really. not too excited on first listen; i tend to like ab soul more when he doesn't play up to the 'philosopher of the group' tag he's been given.
― bass, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 08:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
"enjoy your mind trip but don't trip on your mind" is awful
enjoying the ab-soul album a lot
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think it might be as good as section.80 ??
― The Reverend, Sunday, 20 May 2012 07:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
i hadn't looked at the tracklist when i first listened to the album and danny brown coming out of nowhere put a big grin on my face
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Album IS very good. Got it last week off iTunes, just getting into it.
― Sonic adobes of stultifying hipsterdom (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
We are living in an age of genius. I love this song. My ten year old boy with autism loves this song and we let him listen to it despite the industrial cussing. My wife loves this song despite normally hating all things rap. This song is the first one that has united my household! It is The Shit.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 21 June 2012 23:01 (11 months ago) Permalink
I am talking bout There He Go
motherfuckers are still sleeping on the ab-soul record :(
― fanute gingrich (The Reverend), Thursday, 21 June 2012 23:21 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's alright
― Number None, Thursday, 21 June 2012 23:22 (11 months ago) Permalink
It hasn't really hit me yet has that one. Gonna listen to it some more.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 21 June 2012 23:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:01 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark
oh man, that's like one of my least favorite songs of the year.
― here's my lumber, so jack me maybe (some dude), Friday, 22 June 2012 00:41 (11 months ago) Permalink
Really? I am on the opposite end of the spectrum. I fucking love it.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 22 June 2012 00:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
Do you guys have any links to really good writing about anyone in black hippy? yes i've read noz in the fader
there was a twitter discussion tonite about the lack of quality writing about it & i've felt that way about it for awhile; that people seem happy that someone 'raps good' & 'has political ideaas' & it actually makes the music sound WORSE sometimes than it is, imo. like, writers are falling over themselves to make this stuff sound as woefully respectable & firm-handshake (c. ilx via rtc) as possible when the music is actually frequently pretty exciting, if a bit more mediated by kendrick's vaunted 'technique'
― google deeznuts (D-40), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 05:27 (10 months ago) Permalink
i can't stand KL's rhyming/delivery and find SQ deeply unlikable, which i'd be happy to write about at length is someone was paying me
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
which is not really what you're looking for but i see what you mean, people that hold their particular appeal inspire some pretty surface-level praise
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
i like both of them but find the praise overheated & morality-dependent
― google deeznuts (D-40), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:54 (10 months ago) Permalink
tbh i'm not even sure how i'd go about writing about these guys without falling into the trap you describe (which is why i haven't tried or pitched). that might indicate a flaw in what they do, everything - the beats, the rapping - is fine and often a lot more, particularly in the moment of listening, but it's some way off ~blowing my mind~. it's all, like, the #25 album on your EOY list in a mediocre year
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:04 (10 months ago) Permalink
but i do like them
i mean i just listened to the new kendrick single for the first time, and i listened three times and i enjoyed those all the way through? but i don't *care* about it?
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
Like I was saying on twitter, I think a most of Black Hippy's best material is the emotional stuff (with Q as the exception, his best stuff is weird techno sex raps), and I think most rap writers are more comfortable writing about the more technical or political aspects of their records. So when that kind of emotional catharsis comes wrapped up in displays of technique or a rebellious political stance, it's the latter things that end up being written about. It's like... the Ab-Soul album is my favorite rap album this year, but the best parts are the songs where he's getting all emo about his dead girlfriend, the rappity-rap shit is just a bonus.
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
for sure - "Blessed", "His Pain", and "The Book of Soul" are all pretty fantastic imo
― Number None, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
Kendrick's tour is gonna be called 'music matters'
― google deeznuts (D-40), Friday, 20 July 2012 15:29 (10 months ago) Permalink
with Q as the exception, his best stuff is weird techno sex raps
wish there was more of these, I love them.
― Tim F, Saturday, 21 July 2012 17:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
tHe commitment tHis guy Has to capitalizing every single letter H in tHousands upon tHousands of tweets is so fucking corny
― Citizen Ship (some dude), Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:22 (6 months ago) Permalink
I cannot understand why more people don't get excited about Q. He is an extraordinary talent and has produced one of the best albums of the year.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 10 November 2012 01:30 (6 months ago) Permalink
I really fucking love Habits And Contradictions. My 10 year old son loves it and so does my wife, it's so rare have an album that is loved by my whole family. When I am old and dying that will mean something to me.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 10 November 2012 01:51 (6 months ago) Permalink
idk turns out I really like Hands on the wHeel a lot
― EZee4snappin (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 11 November 2012 04:03 (6 months ago) Permalink
― Citizen Ship (some dude), Friday, November 9, 2012 6:22 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
apparently He does tHat in texts too b/c He's a Hoover crip
― D-40, Friday, 23 November 2012 23:03 (6 months ago) Permalink
so it's corny gangsta shit
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Friday, 23 November 2012 23:05 (6 months ago) Permalink
sHit
― J0rdan S., Friday, 23 November 2012 23:06 (6 months ago) Permalink
can you program your pHone to auto-cap the letter H every time
there's an app for that
― Number None, Saturday, 24 November 2012 00:04 (5 months ago) Permalink