yeah when "4 AM" first came out i thought it was probably from the Noah Shebib Submarine Sound Factory and kinda resisted it because of that and because it's SO different from what i liked hearing Fiona do on "Gone And Never Coming Back" and "Fool For You," but it grew on me anyway.
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
The new Melanie Fiona single is even more stunning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdwF4R9i0q4
― Evan R, Tuesday, 17 January 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
Elle Varner released a mixtape, btw. I've just skimmed through out but it sounds cool so far:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QYXWFr68bMs
― DO NOT CALL (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:00 (twelve years ago) link
Really feeling this, I was hoping the Dawn single would be more like this:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1i_2vvbprM
― DO NOT CALL (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:11 (twelve years ago) link
And the new Teairra Mari single is a banger, though rooting for her to actually have a hit single again and release an album is a lost cause of Cassie-esque proportions at this point:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeJtdHHOjw4
― DO NOT CALL (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:23 (twelve years ago) link
really like that elle varner track
― dayo, Thursday, 26 January 2012 13:03 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21wO14g9714R.I.P. RichGirl :(
― DO NOT CALL (The Brainwasher), Friday, 27 January 2012 16:45 (twelve years ago) link
Yikes; the pacing on that song is excruciating. It just runs in place for three minutes that feel like eight.
― Evan R, Friday, 27 January 2012 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
Two great ones right here. This Yuna track is the best Pharrell production I've heard it way too long:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fITyU9KM3CU
And this Jahah is an awesome surprise:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVWp0ineOf0
It's like Glenn Lewis, if Glenn Lewis loved huge breakbeats.
― Evan R, Friday, 27 January 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
whoa, this jahah is sweet.
― pandemic, Friday, 27 January 2012 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
so what do we call that beat in the elle varner song - breakbeat? sounds like idm to me
― dayo, Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
i fuck w/ this new slim song
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNvdUH7buBM
― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 January 2012 05:28 (twelve years ago) link
this mixtape has a bunch of really good stuff on it, but the mastering is fucking awful
http://www.datpiff.com/Slim-of-112-Cruisin-Da-City-Vol-1-mixtape.308742.html
― J0rdan S., Monday, 30 January 2012 05:33 (twelve years ago) link
Always a welcome voice.
― Poon Aggroved (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Monday, 30 January 2012 06:48 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4I1-aVZj1s
^ from kalenna's new mixtape
― just sayin, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 16:31 (twelve years ago) link
digging the elle varner mix tape, it's like a purer + better version of the janelle monae album
― dayo, Saturday, 4 February 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Monday, January 30, 2012 12:33 AM (4 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
pedantry alert but when a mixtape sounds like shit it's usually that it wasn't mastered all rather than mastered poorly
― pfunkbo bryson (some dude), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
bachelored
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
idgi, was the first ginuwine album mastered badly or something?
― pfunkbo bryson (some dude), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:44 (twelve years ago) link
^phd in dad jokes
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Saturday, 4 February 2012 01:45 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxjn7R_TU0o&feature=g-logo&context=G2fe938fFOAAAAAAABAA
total sadlol at "Art Dealer Chic Vol. 1" (is that what he's saying in the backgroun?) but OH FUCKING SHIT THIS IS GOOD
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:33 (twelve years ago) link
*on repeat*
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
yeah this is great
― dayo, Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
oh shhh
think miguel is reaching own thread status tbh
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
ah man this is great
Excellent. Short and sweet. Concept for video is kind lame, cool hair though.
Let my loove adooorn you
― dr dre throwing dubstep balloons (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
sounds kinda 80s, no?
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
Some of the intermittent synths have some 80s to them.
― dr dre throwing dubstep balloons (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:50 (twelve years ago) link
"art dealer chic vol 1" is totally *smh... head flies off of neck and out of window* tho
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 4 February 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
whoa this is good
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Saturday, 4 February 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
what a pleasantly surprising turn, didn't think he had this in him for some reason
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Sunday, 5 February 2012 00:00 (twelve years ago) link
I've listened to this 20+ times already.
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Sunday, 5 February 2012 00:15 (twelve years ago) link
yeah this is amazing
― DO NOT CALL (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 5 February 2012 00:17 (twelve years ago) link
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Saturday, February 4, 2012 7:00 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
um aren't we talking about the guy who no matter how you slice it has made between 1 and 4 of the best R&B singles of the last 18 months?
― some dude, Sunday, 5 February 2012 01:00 (twelve years ago) link
someone plz immediately bump w/ an HQ mp3
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 February 2012 01:07 (twelve years ago) link
def prefer this to 'sure thing'
― #YOLO #NAMASTE (D-40), Sunday, 5 February 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
wearing this song out
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
ART DEALER CHIC VOL. 1
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
― some dude, Saturday, February 4, 2012 8:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh for sure but it's just such a stylistic shift, didn't mean that as a diss. this is exactly what i wanted and i didn't even know it
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
art dealer chic apparently = wearing suspenders over a sweater
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
smhiguel
dunno why but something about this song reminds me of aaron neville, it's a good one though
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Sunday, February 5, 2012 1:07 PM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark
this is actually a great title, fuiud
― http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1tAYmMjLdY (dayo), Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:46 (twelve years ago) link
Well fuck me in that case.
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
This kind of reminds me of "Try Sleeping With a Broken Heart".
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
I WAS JUST THINKING THAT
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Sunday, 5 February 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
It makes sense as this is something that would be played at an art dealer's apartment. I like the song. My attitude towards Miguel has changed (even though he embarrases himself a lot). He should've been lumped in with Frank and Weeknd with the whole "new r&b guy" trend. I guess he isn't drugged up or skeezy enough.
― Tired of these edcuated basic bitches. (lilsoulbrother), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:10 (twelve years ago) link
He should've been lumped in with Frank and Weeknd with the whole "new r&b guy" trend.
fux no.
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:11 (twelve years ago) link
god no
― tebow gotti (k3vin k.), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
Jesus I mean as getting exposure from a different audience. Yes he is probably more commercially successful than them but a little bit more wouldn't hurt. You guys are just reactionary as fuck.
― Tired of these edcuated basic bitches. (lilsoulbrother), Sunday, 5 February 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ xgau devoting precious words of his capsule to 'candle in the sun'
― 乒乓, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 14:00 (eleven years ago) link
i feel like we need brainwasher to start the 2013 thread just so we can have that optimistic list of artists at the top
― lex pretend, Thursday, 3 January 2013 09:26 (eleven years ago) link
in the meantime the entire jojo mixtape is still giving; this is a slow burner, but her songwriting and vocal nuances are so on point in it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eet9zVqkGdM
― lex pretend, Thursday, 3 January 2013 09:27 (eleven years ago) link
OK, one last drop from me before Brainwasher reminds us that the K. Michelle album is coming out for real in 2013.
I've been lukewarm on AlunaGeorge, but their new track "Diver" is fantastic. No YouTube embed yet, but Stereogum has it here: http://stereogum.com/1228872/alunageorge-diver/mp3s/
This Austin Brown mixtape is like a weird mix of young Marvin and New Edition, filtered through the Elephant 6 collective. Shit is all over the place, but he has sort of a Bruno Mars star quality, so I feel like he could be a thing:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8bIhVmGvbc
And because we all like her:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFfyFmj0Y5Y
― Evan R, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:28 (eleven years ago) link
I used to know how to embed YouTube videos. I don't know what changed.
― Evan R, Thursday, 3 January 2013 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEZ17WyV9Qs
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Saturday, 5 January 2013 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
Love that. Hate the video.
― Ya Bish Bosch (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Saturday, 5 January 2013 04:45 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not sure if we have much of a choice as to whether Michael Jacksons nephew becomes 'a thing'.
― tsrobodo, Saturday, 5 January 2013 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
oh look, the new KING song dropped and I made a thread for them
― cunnilingus ah um (The Reverend), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
oops wrong thread lol
― cunnilingus ah um (The Reverend), Tuesday, 19 March 2013 23:53 (eleven years ago) link