2014: year of the rapper with a weird voice/weird flow/novelty chorus soundcloud hit

"Tuesday" is corny but also super-catchy and fun and fills an important gap in the list of subjects that have been covered in song and I've liked way cornier things.

Ppl who prefer "No Type" to "No Flex Zone" idgi. Latter is song of the year, former is just barely ok.

― burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb ranks (The Reverend), Thursday, November 27, 2014 3:46 PM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seeeriously. "No Flex Zone" is like the best ringtone rap single since the ringtone era ended and "No Type" seemed like such a disappointing follow-up before it became bigger than its predecessor.

Love the og Maco rev I think you would dig it

team both "no flex zone" and "no type"

Lex otm.

No type has a wayyy catchier chorus than no flex zone

Tuesday isn't even in the same ballpark, total drake stimulus record

Can't belive everyone's forgotten icejjfish already.

This thread reminded me of the fact that the West coast revival seems to have fizzled out already.

Lately I've been getting serious Biz Markie vibes from Makonnon. One of those "once you hear it" things

the criticisms of u guessed it itt are reading very 'oh biggie oh pac oh lord'

-_- the concern with snap music wasn't that it felt forced and theater kid-ish

What WAS the concern with snap music? That it had grown men snapping their fingers?

that it was the death of rap.
http://nahright.com/news/2006/06/20/d4ldfb-killed-hip-hop/

"Tuesday" ... fills an important gap in the list of subjects that have been covered in song

i agree with you on this point and it is catchy. it's just so mopey and that video

lex's hate for 'lifestyle' is his most outrageous opinion since saying 'don't like' wasn't catchy.

the performance in 'u guessed it' does have this quality of seeming really detached while at the same time obviously trying to bill itself as a viral anthem. maco reminds me of chief keef in that way.

generally tho a sense of artifice is tolerable and m/l inevitable. idk this is is like hating on the infamous because mobb deep is trying hard to seem hard (nvm the fact that they're actual theatre kids)

*don't think 'u guessed it' is some kidn of classic, just making the abstract comparison

every day i listen to 'lifestyle' on the bus to work, close my eyes and pretend i'm on birdman's yacht popping bottles in the sunshine

and pretend i'm on birdman's yacht popping bottles in the sunshine

snap feels more like the rebirth of hip hop these days.

comparing og maco to chief keef & mobb deep is o_O x1000

"Lifestyle" does definitely feel a bit out of season.

This thread reminded me of the fact that the West coast revival seems to have fizzled out already.

Eh that's not really so much what happened as your average Big Seans have jumped on the bandwagon and you haven't had a YG/Schoolboy Q/Sage/Iamsu release schedule like earlier in the year.

is it too soon to pt out how 'coco' and 'try me' and shmurda owe keef for their sound/approach

can we slot tkay maidza into this list as well?

thug obv a thing of his own, quan owes future, 'yayo' i thought was biting gates but it turns out dude was just doing his own rap version of reggae in parallel to gates, does makonnen owe yung lean or maybe lil b or maybe keef? then there's og maco where it's like, man, we really had it good with pastor troy huh

year of the weird voiced novelty chorus hemiola flow

lol it up but it's clearly true

nah im cool w it

my girl just brought me some cocoa while i was listening to coco and i had an xzibit recursion moment

ILXor: Noooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

u guessed it

Maco sounds more like a cross between gucci, 2 chainz and some shouty guy shouting in the streets imo. Not won over by his EP yet but i'll give him a few more chances.

Let's be real guys Maco sounds like he's been listening to a lot of Death Grips which is probably why me and Whiney like him

speculating on whether an artist has listened to Death Grips is the 5th element of talking about rap on the internet

i buy it, though

btw im listening to this fetty wap tape and his song 'make it' is entirely in keef's 'hallelujah' flow

Expanding on an idea that J0rdan S. had, we're def entering an era where rap is not about "quotable lines" and more about "catchy/entertaining way things are said"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, November 26, 2014 9:24 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Vocal manipulation is the next (last?) frontier in rap.

I thought it was the 5th element

keef hemiola multipass

5th Element is love, it's like you guys didn't even see the movie

Expanding on an idea that J0rdan S. had, we're def entering an era where rap is not about "quotable lines" and more about "catchy/entertaining way things are said"

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, November 26, 2014 9:24 AM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its always been this tho

stop schemin
and actin hard
i got a great big bodyguard
so step up if you wanna get hurt

lol so simple so dumb lololol

I heard "Tuesday" on 89.9 The People's Station.... On a Tuesday, feel like that song might have the longest legs just because there will always be Tuesdays

Haha so true. Share if you agree

Tag a friend for laughs.

More people have heard (In Da Club) than "How to Rob."
And it doesn’t get old because it’s always someone’s birthday

Industry dudes stay getting robbed tho.

https://vine.co/v/OixOBueKIbb

otm tbrr

https://medium.com/cuepoint/why-2014-was-one-of-the-best-years-for-rap-40ecab5b0ecf

"2014 was the year of SoundCloud rap—why hasn’t anybody pointed that out?"

:|

Dej Loaf is from Detroit?! That's amazing!