rolling regional thug thread 2012

the chief keef tape is way underwhelming, wtf do you think is special about this

*sighs*

boring voice, no memorable lyrics, boring production, no memorable hooks...it was like a really really basic version of early gucci

i recommend a reassessment

i doubt i can be bothered to listen to it again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WcRXJ4piHg

boring voice, no memorable lyrics, boring production, no memorable hooks...it was like a really really basic version of early gucci

― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:00 AM (19 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

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sadly that eloquent defence doesn't convince me

he's not an amazing rapper but i think he has a cool delivery. i like the way he hangs on some syllables and spits out others staccato style. a snich uggggggggggggggggggin that's that shit i don't like! >> this song and '3hunna' are constantly playing in my head at the moment. real earworms.

very obsessed with that jackie chain song from ur q1 roundup deej. early summer jam material

i have 2 thank jordan for getting me to check that one again .... i was set on 'molly' for a long time

sadly that eloquent defence doesn't convince me

― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Saturday, April 14, 2012 6:28 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i think its much more difficult to discuss something w/ a person who claims a song w/ a blatant & obviously catchy hook doesnt have hooks

i mean, keef is growing as a rapper, and from "bang" to "3hunna" has show hes thinking like a rapper, and occasionally writes really good & memorable lyrics ~ they'll tighten up as he gets older. but he's also writing amazing & catchy songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADakxd9dliA

i was at this. so many stories

skip to 4:30

i don't see the connection b/w keef and gucci

keef isn't much as a lyricist right now but his hook are unusual and memorable -- the same can be said for his flow

i think his flow & all that is pretty basic, although his voice is memorable, but he does have lyrics, they're just spread out b/c of the age thing. 'bullets hot like the sun' 'good loud pack smell like cat piss / hangin out the roof young and reckless' 'she say she love me whatever that is' 'i like my bitch conceited' 'she said sosa i'm a big fan / bitch i'm leanin like a kickstand' these are memorable lines & theres a reason ppl are quoting them all over twitter locally. its those kinds of lyrics ... the whole rakim thing abt taking a phrase that's rarely heard, flip it now its a daily word ... louie is obv a much more developed rapper (hes also 8 years older than keef) so his verses are tightly packed w/ memorable lines like that, where keef's are more spread out. but the seeds of it developing into more are all there: he sounds like himself, hes not packing ungainly phrases together, not biting other people, has an original style.

plus, and this can't be underrated, he's created incredibly catchy songs. hes not just rapping, he's writing songs

'war time spark broad day all night'

the future album is really good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RD0sgKYlDeA&feature=player_embedded

the future album is really good

― J0rdan S., Saturday, April 14, 2012 5:01 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

listening to this now

lol intro

"u might catch me on pluto, 4 billion miles away"

more or less

mike will kills his productions on this

"turn on the lights" is killing me right now -- those keys!!

yeah, how many Mike Will beats are on this?

i mean, keef is growing as a rapper, and from "bang" to "3hunna" has show hes thinking like a rapper,

i don't even know what this means

i don't hear how keef's hooks are any catchier or better than any other random mixtape rapper - when i think of a notably great hook i'm thinking ice cream paint job/good fucking night/beamer benz & bentley/silly bitch level catchy. i just don't hear any energy or singularity in keef at all. if i had to write about him i'd be racking my brains trying to come up with a single interesting thing about his music.

as for future i cannot take any more stoned autotune slow shit so does that dominate the album or not?

god, listening to "i don't like" again just for you and it's so boring and ponderous and there's absolutely nothing interesting about his timbre or delivery

the new meek mill is >>>>>>> though

and big krit's "i got this" continues to dominate my life

i'm in pluto
i'm in mars
AT THE SAME DAMN TIME

anyone got production credits for 'pluto'?

feeling the album. good balance of bangers and zoned out garbled space ballads.

1. The Future Is Now (Feat. Big Rube)
2. Parachute (Feat. R.Kelly) (Produced By DJ Pharris & John Blue)
3. Straight Up (Produced By Nard & B)
4. Astronaut Chick (Produced By Will-A-Fool)
5. Magic (Remix) (Feat. T.I.) (Produced By K.E. On The Track)
6. I’m Trippin (Feat. Juicy J) (Produced By DJ Spinz)
7. Truth Gonna Hurt You (Produced By Mike WiLL Made It)
8. Neva End (Produced By Mike WiLL Made It)
9. Tony Montana (Feat. Drake) (Produced By Will-A-Fool)
10. Permanent Scar (Produced By Jon Boi)
11. Same Damn Time (Produced By Sonny Digital)
12. Long Live The Pimp (Feat. Trae The Truth) (Produced By Da Honorable C-Note)
13. Homicide (Feat. Snoop Dogg) (Produced By DJ Plugg)
14. Turn On The Lights (Produced By Mike WiLL Made It)
15. You Deserve It (Produced By Nard & B)

Thx for that.

I dont know what to tell you lex. I just saw him perform it and people were losing their minds yelling the lyrics. Its a funny concept based around understatement. His vocals have a rawness, an uncensored feel. I explained what I meant by thinking like a rapper above

lex is just "getting old"

i'm sorry you don't consider angel haze and lady leshurr to be sufficiently youthful

"reckless/cat piss" is a p. cool off-rhyme but "bullets hot like the sun" seems commendable to you d? seriously? you who have probably got one of the biggest rap collections of anybody I know? "she said sosa I'm a big fan/bitch I'm leanin like a kickstand" merits c & p from you? idgi at all, those are just bad. not because they have "bitch" just 'cause it's like bad writing imo

they're pretty memorable catchphrases... the sorta thing you find yourself mindlessly mumbling - maybe diff than "good writing" in the traditional sense but still effective in its own way

Mindless memorable catchphrases are great things but not when you can't outperform big sean let alone soulja boy

him and big sean are on pretty different ends of the spectrum

big sean is rappy rappy punchlines over pop nonsense... keef is all presence, drawing pop from a rock, convincing you via aura etc

personally i've heard that keef tune like once and a half times just purely out of internet boredom and it does get into your head immediately

he seems fun, def better and more switched on than some lucky schmuck fluking a hook, i can easily see the appeal

the keef thing is getting ... mighty interesting

An altercation that began inside of the Congress Theater, 2135 N. Milwaukee Ave., during an opener act at last night’s Meek Mill rap show and ended in front of the venue brought over 20 police officers, one alderman, a district police commander and the fire department to the scene. No arrests were made…
…Joining the numerous officers and an estimated 100 patrons who were hoping to either get back into the venue or get a refund was First Ward Alderman Proco Joe Moreno, accompanied by two community security workers that Moreno had hired out of his own pocket, due to concerns about the background of one of the evening’s artists, Chief Keef, who wears an electronic monitoring bracelet and had been granted permission by a judge to perform. This news of the additional workers had been shared earlier that night by Ronda Locke, 1st Ward Director of Community Outreach, who’d posted a message to the 1st Ward Community on the GGNA message board.

venue response: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/greatergoethe/message/7965

funny rumor passed around tumblr:
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m21qifQj9z1qa6z6yo1_250.png

that dude went hammer on the alderman

i was at the show & there was a pretty rough fight but that shit happens at all kinds of shows. its chicago. there was a shooting at a drake concert at house of blues here once

that was lex iirc

you think drake will pull some shit like that YOU NEVER KNOWWW

http://www.fakeshoredrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/large-550x412.jpg

king louie in the white sweatshirt in center, directly to his right is keef, can't tell if that's SD or fredo to his right, then dj kenn holding up the camera in the white shirt to the right of that