ayo best coco yayo maco wacko no-fi schmoundcloud dooblebob vine rap thingy of 2014

Hookah is a hit, it's in the hot 100 at any rate

the thing about hookah i never rly came to terms with is when tyga abruptly comes in with the flat staccato cloudmatic / mathematics line sounding like a wu guy or someone else i can't quite recall

Coco is totally the song I would never play at home but I totally dig when I hear it out on the street

https://scontent-a-atl.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t50.2886-16/10842701_528243050612261_1370437345_n.mp4

Carlos Gomez otm

thing is i'm kind of p much at the kindly grandma stage of rap appreciation now so i was quite happy to accept kids finding coco fun and expressing themselves and all that cutesy shit. but then busta popped up and made it unbearably corny

"No Type" or "Lifestyle" for me. Though I feel like I possibly prefer "No Type" over "No Flex Zone" for what are probably corny fuxxy reasons.

i'd be v much done with 'no flex zone' by now if it wasnt for irresistible "gold BEzel?! so SPEcial?!" karaoke squeaky backing vox duty

I don't remember if we got into this in the funny voiced rapper poll thread (I can't remember that thread title), but a big part of the reason I love so many of these Internet-y hits is that they create a perception, real or imagined, that the door to rap stardom is open to anybody, even the most unlikely outsiders. I love that fantasy, and the sense that there are no gatekeepers, and that rap is truly a responsive, bottom-up genre where fans decide what deserves radio play. That's not a sense I get from any other format. Obviously the reality isn't as idealistic as all that, but every time I hear Thug or Rae Sremmurd or even Makonnen on the radio I get a charge like, shit, anything is possible.

it's always kinda been like that, i mean what's 'ice cream paint job' or 'this is why i'm hot' or 'laffy taffy'

or 'crank dat'

True, true. And that's always been part of the appeal; it just feels like the process happens a lot faster now, and that the artists benefiting from it are a lot more outside the box than they used to be. Where Mims and Dorrough just seemed like B-list copies of bigger name rappers cashing in on already popular sounds, a lot of 2014's crop seem like they're popularizing their own template

well in part that's bc there's no industry to work on artist development w/ young rappers

if it wasnt for irresistible "gold BEzel?! so SPEcial?!" karaoke squeaky backing vox duty

totally the best part of the song

https://soundcloud.com/thizzler/99-percent-shabooyah-naenae-x/sets

er, http://vimeo.com/89834853 rather

"No Type" or "Lifestyle" for me. Though I feel like I possibly prefer "No Type" over "No Flex Zone" for what are probably corny fuxxy reasons.

there are other reasons for preferring "no type"?

Maybe not!

'no flex zone' = swae lee roth, 'no type' = swae lee scratch perry

that's kinda otm

Unpopular opinion round these parts, but I voted for Maco

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, January 5, 2015 1:17 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is there a maco thread bc his last ep is fucking awesome and nothing like "u guessed it" which is also cool

this poll winner is the true #1 single of 2014 fyi

Great poll. As much as I like CoCo, Trap Queen is the best, unquestionably.

Made Me is also good. No love for "Cut Her Off"?

'no flex zone' = swae lee roth, 'no type' = swae lee scratch perry

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 10:23 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

classic thread title

it's amazing that "pass the mayo" doesn't appear anywhere in it

In light of out tweet war 2day I want to be clear that anyone denying Keef's impact on the rise of this sound is lying to themselves and God

Further that coco is a blatant drill record & radio conspires against Chicago artists

still not sure what I'm gonna vote for but I had to post here just to show off my new DN

went with lifestyle. thug's (?) delivery on the third line provoked such a visceral reaction of horror from my g/f that I can't help laughing whenever i hear it.

You really think radio CONSPIRES against Chicago artists, deej? That's kinda... huge. From my persepective it looks a lot more like radio is letting anyone with a NYC affiliation (Shmurda, Genasis) get spins.

for the first time in history, Chicago is the victim and not the perpetrator of widespread corruption

loooooooool

revenge for JFK obviously

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2014/07/sad-jack-white.jpg

D-40 listening to the radio

lol we've had this debate on here before i already pointed to the tweets of radio djs talking about how PDs refused to play chicago artists bc of the 'controversy' over violence, it's no conspiracy or secret

just like they stopped playing Bobby Shmurda and T.I. records the moment they caught weapons charges

New York and Atlanta werent caught up in the media hype about a "violence epidemic"

Stop playing dumb

idk enough about the radio to comment but it does seem p obv even from afar that if king l was from ny the reax would be completely diff

i wouldnt buy that shmurda specifially has been unfairly elevated tho, unless having experienced management counts as cheating

Shmurda seems p natural considering his hit was literally a mixtape-style "freestyle" over an existing song

people have constantly tried to use controversy to suppress the commercial success of gangsta rap for 25 years, i supposed it's possible that it actually worked once

eh its a lil from column a, a lil from ...

those kinds of from-the-block organic viral videos weren't taking off before chicago's stuff broke through in quite the same way, Shmurda got a deal off rip & Epic capitalized immediately, clearly benefitted from what happened in chicago. i don't think it was inorganic or anything. Like ... "Dont Like" was out in spring 2012 but didnt end up radio until 'ye remixed it, 'love sosa' came out in fall but didn't get a radio push until spring. 'hot' though was channeled straight to radio nationally

like i could see it popping up on shazam in Los Angeles w/in days of it getting posted on blogs, definitely didn't work like that for any of these earlier artists

ditto with Dej Loaf

i mean there's still dudes who have like over 4-5 million views in chicago who arent even getting label attention, ppl were scared basically ... & maybe rightfully so in some instances!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w38MidKsWqE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDct4NU3hQI

part of the reason i think ppl latched on to herb & bibby (even though herb for ex still seems to be involved in street shit) is bc they werent as tied to beefs w/ 300/600/OTF

is it possible Epic is just a better label than Interscope to sign to these days? Interscope only released i think 2 rap albums in 2014 (Schoolboy and the Shady comp).

lol are Dej Loaf and Shmurda appropriating Chicago culture like Iggy's US accent

ha obv not appropriation (although influence isnt a stretch at all obv) but i dont think its a coincidence that Lyor Cohen/Todd Moscowitz's label for scouting street talent & getting them on radio (cf Fetty Wap, Shy Glizzy, etc.) is called "300" even if they claim it's named for the movie

"it g ma" is cool but there's a worrying number of beats right now that are direct rip offs of "u guessed it"

"it g ma" is cool but there's a worrying number of beats right now that are direct rip offs of "u guessed it"

in retrospect can we all at least agree that brisk god on vine will permanently remain a top 5 dead or alive rap crit/curator

doodlebob rap def became the dominant paradigm

this is still one of the most confounding polls in the history of this board

wld be a good mix

if all rap sounds the same to you maybe it is time to get a job at rolling stone magazine

― based grandpa (noz), Monday, January 5, 2015 1:48 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol burn

amine's "caroline" feels very post-dooblebob to me

schmurda not really doodlebob imo

hahaha i never noticed that the poll option says "schmurda"

Prescient thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YwAaNFJwRA&t=24s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YwAaNFJwRA&t=

www.tiktok.com/embed/6599587682718846213

this is good btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyQHNwRlulc

doodlebob rap def became the dominant paradigm

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