GOON POLL: Riff Raff vs. TKO Capone

MIGHT SWANG THRU YOUR PROM WITH THE WAND IN MY PALM

his lyrics are better when they make sense, he goes off the deep end w/ absurdity too often

i'd more or less agree w/ that

he's a pretty decent singer! the melody on that hook is really good actually, the "who would expect i'm in a drop top six" part in nice

yeah it's just a really great chorus. when he does stuff like this there's always the small chance that it's nicked from some houston song that no one is remembering, but i don't think that's the case here.

why does he always only rap one verse per song ?

he's (successfully) targeting the youtube generation's short attention span?

lot of 50's early mixtape songs were like that, feel like there's a long tradition of one-verse-between-two-choruses quickie rap songs like that.

yeah it didn't strike me as unusual

i mean it's slightly a new development for guys like him and lil b to shoot videos for one verse songs but that'll happen when you shoot that many videos i guess

his lyrics are better when they make sense, he goes off the deep end w/ absurdity too often

so otm

feeling him singing the hook tho. i just want riff raff to do classic swishahouse rap shit not this youtube bullshit but idk what can you do.

his best shit is stuff that sounds absurd but when you break it down you realize it makes beautiful sense

he can be great and totally absurd at the same time but he's usually best when he finds a balance

ok this is also amazing

tko capone skipping all over a "ambitionz az a ridah" sample

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sW1PR4jt-Aw&feature=plcp

THAT'S A FUBU SHIRT
ACTIN COO COO, JERK
I'MA SHOW YOU AN EXAMPLE HOW THE DEUCE DEUCE WORK
NOW ALL A SUDDEN YOU LIKE WHO WHO HURT
CUZ I HAD MY CHICK HIT YOU WITH A VOODOO CURSE

capone has three videos over 2m+ including "harry potter" which is now past 8 mill

ok this "in the end" sample is kinda brilliant

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxo42gyAHiw&feature=plcp

those two other videos over 2m have only been up since feb and march of this year

not sure what that means but

incite bitches with my ice twitches

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg3n-D8aXkc

that's good!

haven't really approached either new album cuz they're odds & sods type stuff... but did get high quality/no-tag mp3s of "lil mama i'm sorry" & "we like to party"

What's the other album?

rap game bon jovi

tho that one is basically all old stuff afaict

the song that he starts singing at 3:00 here -- i'm assuming it's the forthcoming joint w/ snoop -- sounds amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5YEOKlTFkc&feature=youtu.be

dude is really good at writing sung hooks

Yea, his most successful recent songs have pretty much all had those half-sung sugary indulgent choruses. I think he's got a pretty good voice within the context of what he does.

I like Playing With My Heart:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdXgllog2OU

anyone know if there is an ethos behind the cheap sound of these productions? i know it's subjective, but these days it's not that hard to make your shit sound like the big guys, or at least closer than these beats anyway. most of this stuff sounds like glossed up reason beats made in a few minutes

- and i like that, because it's refreshing after the last decade of ultra hifi hiphop.

this dude has become insufferable imo

his art has gone very much off the rails

yet he's still responsible for some of the best rap songs of this year *shrugs*

his pitchfork freestyle was really dope

it was awful!

he was actually freestyling! i loved it

anyone else think he looks like goldie?

http://www.mtvhive.com/2012/09/13/weird-vibes-episode-12-mtv-vmas-2012-riff-raff/

Hmmm, apparently this happened outside Riff's Seattle show (which kind of sucks because the event was put on by this great non-profit org that provides a venue for all-ages shows. don't want this to impact them)

http://t.co/5w4vdfPv

errr this

https://o.twimg.com/1/proxy.jpg?t=FQQVBBhNaHR0cDovL2Rpc3RpbGxlcnlpbWFnZTExLmluc3RhZ3JhbS5jb20vYjU2OTQxNmUwNmU3MTFlMjkzNGExMjMxMzgxNDE5NTZfNy5qcGcUAhYAEgA&s=voCIxjnmjURLwf-rRSXXSWe31xSiry-8WHqyFHAmcPA

weird

it was inevitable that this would happen eventually
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qbg67ShDohQ

oh my god http://www.datpiff.com/TKO-CAPONE-Tko-Capone-Duck-Season-Pt1-mixtape.402918.html?utm_campaign=piff.me&utm_source=http://t.co/GpcXP7NE&utm_medium=piff.me

holy shit at some of the raps on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLyoee6SOyQ

he dropped a verse on "lil mama i'm sorry" that's one of the best things ever

40 songs! I mean do they want us to listen to their music? Horrible id tagging and bit rates all over the place as well. Pedant alert.

it still blows me away how well riff raff sings the hook in that song and how great that melody line is

btw no one's gonna mention the TORI AMOS COVER on this mixtape??

he dropped a verse on "lil mama i'm sorry" that's one of the best things ever

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Friday, October 5, 2012 3:43 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is a dope track

this tape is quite something. i mean 40 songs is complete insanity but every song has moments of incredible rapping, even if it's only a verse or half a verse.

I'm a TKO Capone fan in general but I just wanted to say that I find his PSSSST! I DON'T REALLY WANT TO MAKE THIS SORT OF MUSIC IT SUCKS BUT STUPIDITY SELLS SO HERE WE GO FOR NOW BUT ONCE PEOPLE LOOK AT ME FORREAL IMMA BE DROPPIN MULTIS steez really off-putting and offensive. I wish he would at least pretend to like what he's doing.

I haven't had the time to listen to this one yet though. I expect it to be good.

^^^i see this to an extent but it kinda creates a fun dynamic in a lot of his songs, where he'll get almost LYRICALLY LYRICAL in an old east-coast backpacker way and then flip into a less showy style within the same verse, i know he kinda has that aesthetic but i do think he fucks with both styles more than he lets on

Love Riff's sung chorus on the crystal castles sampling 'don't wait on me'