Yo P&J, I'm really happy for you, Imma let you finish, but ILX had the greatest 2009 poll of all time! All time! (2009 ILX Trax Poll Results: TOP TEN TODAY)

Er, that was supposed to read: We got yams, dammit!

You tell us, PILLbox.

lol

Yeah, I'm kinda with Pillbox. I kinda like the idea of a rap song just about how they're more or less breaking even running this convenience store. Baloney meat! Hostess Fruit Pies! Step right up, folks!

In my search for answers, I came across this, a captivating account of the filming of the Trap Goin Ham video shoot.

uh, just the "video shoot," not the "filming of the video shoot."

Umm yeah watch the video. Personally would not let ppl smoke crack in my imaginary corner shop

here we go, 40-39, the lineup today includes one artist with two entries and the placing with the lowest average vote...

40 -- Big Boi feat. Gucci Mane - Shine Blockas (9 votes, 98.5 points, 1 #1 vote/s) (22 in P&J, 7 in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwdU7I_1R9o

xpost - tbh, the video doesn't offer much in the way of thematic info & seems to simply be a warts-and-all depiction of a neighborhood and its inhabitants, an impression which is validated by the blog post I linked to upthread.

OK, I'll shut up about Trap Goin Ham now.

shine blockas is ace, btw.

"Trap Goin Ham" is severely depressing.

― _Rudipherous_, Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:01 AM (1 hour ago)

whaaat

low rating for a track which seemed big out there on the internets. this and "Exhibit C" came out late in the year and seemed to appeal to not just the usual suspects who follow rap releases but also older heads who've given up checking for new rap and generalist music fans. I guess because they're quite traditional sounding in production, it felt like these were huge consensus records.

shine blockas i mean

there better be like 3 Gucci songs and 10 other rap songs in the top 40, or this list is as lame w/r/t hip hop as PF and P&J

shine blockas is a great song but did not end up voting for it. pretty good placement, the other two polls overrated it imo

xp al otm

This list already has like twice as many hip-hop songs as the ones from the last couple years, I *think*? Don't quote me on that.

Oh, and the first time response -

40 (Big Boi) - Not unpleasant on the ears. Kinda don't remember it now that it's over, will give it another spin later in the day and see if it's a grower.

i mean tho dude tbh i only voted for 3 or 4 rap songs...one of my criteria was how often i hear the song on the radio and not having rap radio well....i'm not voting hova

xp

easy to see why trap goin ham vid could be depressing, surely? but in the track there's also exhilaration in the craziness which counters that.

Shine Blockas should be #1. Sad thing is, I have never heard it on the R&B/Hip Hop radio station here. What a fuckin jam. I would have loved to hear it over and over again in my car. Instead I get "Bedrock".

there better be like 3 Gucci songs - the problem w/ Gucci is that ppls votes will be spread among the various tracks. I mean, dude released 7 singles in 09. "Wasted" is sure to be up there, at any rate.

^i think the same thing, it's anthemic the way certain mid-00's hip hop songs are imo. it took a few months for it to click for me though tbh. 1st of my votes to show up. xp

"Shine Blockas" hasn't got even enough of a flicker of airplay to get into the top 100 of the Billboard R&B chart. i'm not even sure the label is pushing it as an official single.

xpost -- yeah but even vote-splitting aside, "Lemonade" deserves votes so much more and I don't expect to see that here

i voted for "lemonade"

i get the pill = depressing thing, that's part and parcel of the whole "gritty street life" angle he works so well (and he makes it a lot more explicit on some of his other tracks), though it's not JUST depressing by any means

"shine blockas" is excellent, and it's great to hear gucci mane in such a different context than usual, but it's just nowhere near my FAVOURITE rap tracks of the year or something i'd consider voting for.

can't remember if i voted for a gucci track or just the mixtape but if i had it would've been "my shadow"

aw don't spoil the suspense by telling what yr votes were plz

Trap goin Ham (for the uninitiated):

trap house - Term used to define a crack house, or the surroundings in which a drug dealer or(trap star) would use to make their profit.

ham - When a person is unstoppable or just in the zone in any type sport or competition setting; It can also be defined as going crazy and buying up everything in a store; or even doing something beast like

So much for selling yams & pies then..

actually relistening, i can really see how "shine blockas" would only be improved by hearing it in public, on the radio &c - that piano and that descending bass are pretty perfect and the chorus just rollllls out like a red carpet

Thanks for the facts, Pillbox!

Shine Blockas and TGH coming so low makes me think that this poll isn't going to be very rap heavy. Can't exactly see anything other than Gucci/9x/10 coming higher than them. Was hoping for Glass low, TGH high.

cheers for doing this musically

^^

yes, thanks!

rap tracks that I could see making the poll: Empire State of Mind, Wasted, 9X Outta 10, Best I Ever Had, House of Flying Daggers

nominated tracks that probably won't make it but are as deserving as any of the above: Lemonade, Mafia Music, Swag Surfin, Who Dat, Every Girl, Renaissance Rap (remix), You're A Jerk, Cold Summer, Turn My Swag On

surely there's enough of a jerk posse to get a couple of placings there? unless the vote was split :(

pink dollaz - "pockets never hungry" was dope and on the nomination list

if u like shina blockas make sure you google for the other big boi track from last year 'fo yo sorrows'

i can't see anything besides maybe "you're a jerk" having a profile high enough to get >10 votes

if 'empire state of mind' makes this poll i mite suggest ban myself

btw I lied, there are two artists that double-dipped in the 40-31

39 -- Fever Ray - When I Grow Up (1 vote, 10.5 points for D. Lissvik Remix) (9 votes, 101.5 points) (97 in P&J, 36 in p4k)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4F-CpE73o2M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MbZEyHy0iM

"when i grow up" is actually far far more of an odd choice a) as a single b) as an individual track to vote for than "if i had a heart" - i pretty much only listen to it in the context of the album, and it's great but not a highlight. loved the lissvik remix on first hearing but it's more of a curiosity innit, has nothing on the banging martyn remix of "seven"

fo yo sorrows was even better than shine blockas imo but less universal appeal

Nice! The first of my voets to appear. <3<3 this track, tho still I wish I could have voted for "Concrete Walls" (which is my favorite track from the FR album).

lmao at the fever ray vid. what's going on there? is she some sort of witch or shaman in sneakers?

liking that D. Lissvik Remix of Fever Ray - hadn't heard it before. I guessing there will be at least a couple more Fever Tracks in the rest of the results.

and echoing others, THKS muscially. really enjoying the countdown.

guys, a pie is a bird; think visually like a cream pie
a yam is a rubber filled with heroin.

OK, now my innocence has been completely shattered.

"when i grow up" is actually far far more of an odd choice a) as a single b) as an individual track to vote for than "if i had a heart" -

I would reverse these. "When I Grow Up" is easily my favorite track on the album, while "If I Had a Heart" mostly just sounds like a warm-up/intro to me. I listen to the former by itself all the time.