rolling mumble rap challenge 2017

What rap are you feeling 2017

New year new keef tape. Salute the mumble rap godfather

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cPMHKCdLAA

"fix that"on repeat

This new joint by rich the mid, thouxanbandfauni and famous dex is cool

https://soundcloud.com/digital-trapstars/famous-dex-x-rich-the-kid-x-thouxanbandfauni-gorgeous

I gotta say though dex had some of the best records of 2016.

Lil Herb is killing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YattWTxF4sk

kinda sad that the rap thread titles have come to this tbh

(sorry, tradition)

havent heard from musica de Harry Fraud in a bit.

this is a dope "Ha" remake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHX2wsY34k4

wow it's great

yeah, agreed. who is that guy?

lol this soulja boy stuff

Will Ayo & Teo supplant SheLovesMeechie as hip-hop's foremost music critic(s)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQlf77w1iyk

I like the Ha dude.

just hopped off the plane, i got out about a day ago
everybody love me, when they see me be like 'there he go'

http://i.freegifmaker.me/1/4/8/3/5/4/14835473241621863.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09c7fwUZUrs

echoing deej's praise of famous dex with this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXpZdCdF6l0

he sounds like sauce walka mixed with lil yachty now, i like it better.

he's had more good songs last year than any of the comparable rappers. his breakthrough "2 times" was more like a keef thing, most ppl just heard "drip from my walk" & knocked him as a sauce walka clone but he's way better than sauce twins & chooses better beats than anyone in rap right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyOEB__d4xI
"checkmate"

I should do a real list but here's 5 great 2016 dex songs

took time feat 12tildee
my energy
i'm great
kanye
i'm paid

5 more

HBK Intro
Never Saw
Link
Slide
Amazing

i also like abt his music that though he's v much a 'street rapper' via lineage/tradition his music isn't weighed down by trying to prove how street it is, it's just fun music that has a sense of humor about itself

That G Herbo song is great, reminds of Pac

I like Famous Dex's ok, but he probably has a definitive commercial ceiling after that video came out of him assaulting his girlfriend

Sort of makes it hard for me to listen to him, tbh, even though I listen to plenty of rappers who have likely done worse.

i never really identified w/ him as some kind of moral voice, or it was like never like his thought process or persona that resonated w/ me—he's an entertainer more than a narrator—so while i don't approve & it has me thinking twice about, like, how i would interview him given the opportunity, or how I would write a #thoughtpiece about it, it doesn't really affect the way i hear the music itself all that much.

but i agree it may have created a commercial ceiling—he was too late vs. say kodak whose crimes came out after the Drake cosign etc.

whole nba young boy 38 baby tape is p solid

yay migos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzpZov-VFLk

So this song is #100 on the Hot 100 right now.

yeah I saw it on the rap caviar playlist and figured something must be up.

good luck america

whats funny about that to me is its like the most boring iteration of a familiar style, i dont really get it at all

i suspect ppl are sharing the video for the luigi cap + hentai shirt more than the song

xp I agree with that, maybe people are responding to the tongue-in-cheek video/hook. Sort of like the response to "CoCo" and the whole "BAKING SODA I GOT BAKING SODA" bit.

i get all that but it's not actually "good"

Yeah, wasn't arguing for its quality, just its appeal. "CoCo" was also not good, but its over-the-top goonery was more appealing to me than whatever Ugly God is.

ugly god feels like an even more basic madeintyo

heard that song last summer on a brisk god vine of a turtle falling off a beach ball

good times

it is extendo meme schmoundcLOUDDEAD drollwave

it is ironic but also not, like yknow the internet or whatever

most methods of 'attack' are not going to be very relevant

yachty is the creative director of nautica now

what is there to get really

Can't have a lil boat without water

Is there a difference between "mumble rap" and "coco yayo maco wacko no-fi schmoundcloud dooblebob vine rap thingy?" (idk how to hyperlink to that poll)

there are so many new rappers rn & so few of them get posted here it's kind of hard to create your own take cuz theres no taste chess w/ no opponents.

kind of feeling this one though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4wxPOiXa9c

http://i.imgur.com/vb4Y0hT.png

that Ski Mask the Slump God track is nice imo as is the other stuff of his I looked for this morning so tyvm for that. kinda retro in a way I'm not gonna write giant boring grafs about but anyway nice stuff

there are so many new rappers rn & so few of them get posted here it's kind of hard to create your own take cuz theres no taste chess w/ no opponents.

haha peak deej

V.I.C.E. Boys are getting kinda big in Mpls I like this one, esp the video w/the Duluth coast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USGZfV6pUjg

i really really like Juice Lord from St. Paul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWThjZAY1U8

not on deej's chessboard but was mentioned in that pfork Rising article last week, so i figure it's fair game to post something else by him:

https://soundcloud.com/websterx/blue-streak-prod-by-four-giants

(Milwaukee)

i'm out of the loop dm me name sof the new rappers i should be posting about itt and i will post about them

https://charlesngo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/550px-Play-Blitz-Chess-Step-3.jpg

no new rappers here, but this is a good PnB x Chicago track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx9DluMpEbg

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jz_Q9ch2B4Y/VjI3rHvV_RI/AAAAAAAARNM/GOzzjVxz6zo/w220-h201/bc2.gif

holy shit i used to play that game lol

omg Battle Chess

have i posted this yet? Rico Nasty is the shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1CjG0E_1w

here she is over "walking on broken glass" sample lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Np8BFmJZY

to me this is like princess nokia or kodie shane, except good

SahBabii's "Pull Up Wit Ah Stick" feels like an obvious future hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKVllbh3i9w

midpt between thug & 21

Thouxanban Fauni just dropped a tape I haven't had a chance to fully process but this record is cool & blowing up rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysdf6F_8Nyk

XXXtenacion is blowing up & sure to be controversial, like if Uzi Vert was more into rock & raw emotional gut spillage & blown out death grips-ish aggro sonics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmjpp0_6kb0

I have mixed feelings personally, not my usual thing, although the ballads can be touching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhJKwHQ4sq8

There's also some controversy & rumors of him having a violent history

w/ women

also goes w/out saying but i like Lil Peep's "Girls" a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hlSgENWCcU

liking all the new Dex records too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qLhEhetm-k

old guy question: what's "footballs" slang for? (re: rico nasty)

oxycontin?

xans

rico nasty has a great natural charisma & likeability on those tracks. production is painfully lo-budge amateur. altho the samples were fun, as were the videos

"midpt between thug & 21" is so accurate a description of SahBabii that i had to turn it off. too soon

what's the relevant deej world of yung ppl opinion on peewee longway? i like this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3n07zNGOeg

Peepee was a Thug also-ran who never achieved liftoff but had some good songs c 2014, iirc

thug also ran? he doesn't really remind me of thug on that

who was that chubby super hardrock dude that never wore a shirt from detroit that deej was really big on then he went to prison? (like this was at keef's ilm peak era?) kinda reminds me of that

peewee has so many great tracks, couple from last year I was into:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKsMVj-esRk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWkPtLIF6zY

peewee more migos than thug

i just mean he came up around the same time, had 3 features on 1017 thug

i think he's gotten better since then

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

peewee was recording at gucci's with thug around the same time, "mr blue benjamin" is a great tape from last year but i thought the next one was a step down. he also got shouted out by LL Cool J.

m@tt is thinking of Yae Yae Jordan

yeah longway sinatra def not as good as MBB.

Yes, deej! Thanks that was driving me crazy, did I ever tell you I watched this "documentary" on Yae Yae on Amazon Prime that was mostly just unedited footage of them getting wasted in this shitty house and talking shit to the camera then one of his guys played Russian Roulette for real

no. that sounds depressing. i try to stick to the music

Yeah it was weird, like really unedited iPhone footage, but yeah uh they seemed like real street and not exactly the sharpest tools in the shed

https://soundcloud.com/sosamann/sauce-savage-21-savage-sancho-saucy-nard-b

classic sauce with a great Nard & B beat

i really like the new ab-soul a lot, it's grown on me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPzVG7WPbA

Hadn't heard Perico before, he's good.

sounds good over those old beats

chris crack and vic spencer having fun
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=875OQCLt-q4
new album out soon

https://youtu.be/Rm3J5640jXo
anyone seen the new netflix doc? looks like something done many times before, but might become p influential wrt popular narrative

a four part series under the name "Hip-Hop Evolution"

aye

the SOB x RBE album, is huge. best bay release i heard since 'from the block too a lot'. hope they get hyped more

re: hip hop evolution, it's pretty transparently "we read jeff chang's can't stop won't stop and dan charnas's the big payback & made a doc series out of them"...but...like it's really cool to see all this footage of, for example, the fantastic romantic five vs. cold crush, or actually tracking down coke la rock to talk about the herc parties, it's a great watch either way and saw a lot of footage of stuff i'd read about but never seen

I don't know shit about Lil Ugly Mane (I know only marginally more than shit about the current rap world, but I digress) other than that he is from Richmond, VA and he gets compared to a lot of things that I don't have much time for under most circumstances. But when I saw that an album he released under the moniker Bedwetter, was the #1 album of the year at Rate Your Music chart (yeah, it's early, but still) so I checked it out.

http://liluglymane.bandcamp.com/album/volume-1-flick-your-tongue-against-your-teeth-and-describe-the-present

Apparently Volume 1: Flick Your Tongue Against Your Teeth and Describe the Present was accompanied by an impassioned Facebook post by Mane decrying this county's mental healthcare situation and how it failed him when he tried to seek help.

The album is pretty harrowing stuff, produced claustrophobically perfectly emulating a fucked-up hazy mental state, but with forcefully delivered words - like he's fighting against himself for clarity he desperately needs - with an eloquence and especially a vulnerability that, frankly, seems a complete contrast from the crap he gets compared to. It's like he realized nobody's hard enough to not need help sometimes, and that the inability to get it perpetuates a lot of bullshit. A very personal statement that points out, maybe unintentionally, how whole communities can be lost over our inability to deal with it.

Personal therapy that also critiques our current inability to deal with mental health issues as a society with a laid back noir style that makes me flex my head as well.

xps ums cool I'll check it out then!

song of the year dropped early

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKAH7eSB82s

nice vintage cash money vibes

from detroit almost bringing back an mc breed vibe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ibYIQ5AtgO8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsmo2usqsPc

really dig this guy, sounds more bay than d really

well yeah he has 2 of the best albums of last year

and another one the year before, and the doughboyz cashout albums, etc...

the sample of "front back" is the best sample

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EdObg5Mk_o

i like payroll, very listenable. never get super excited about him but there's a good consistency to it.

i somewhat suspect the first few payroll songs you hear are your favorites. This one is mine probably:

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

<3 Payroll. Love that OMB Preezy too, does he have any tapes out?

not that i'm aware of

Is OMB Preezy affiliated with OMB Bloodbath? He's gotta be, right?

OMB Bloodbath is pretty talented, sinister Houston street shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QHeqZpg-i0s

from ly, heard on deej's pod

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr8ooeRtovY

deej j khaled had a podcast??

another one

he's on one

vince staples' "bagbak" is great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF6x7g5ZfwM

This recently got remixed by Rich the Kid but I prefer the original unmolested version:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ht3l8FXXAwo

Brooklyn rapper, cool organ sample.

This kid Duwap Kaine is disturbingly young but has a great ear for musicality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6NaPxM7e9Q

this is the first time I've really liked a GoldLink song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rAw8wv1QPQ

'Girls' is the first Lil Peep song i've liked but holy shit the timbre of 'horsehead' 's voice is identical to https://consequenceofsound.files.wordpress.com/2016/10/screen-shot-2016-10-29-at-12-06-58-pm.jpg?quality=80&w=350&h=350&crop=1

Are you still hating on "About U"

Wasnt "Girls" linked in the Peep thread already? lol

Feeling the new Mozzy tape
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNQKyJvwrxc

He had another release with Trae the Truth that had some jams too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L03Rly7TzcQ

Thanks, missed that one, will it check out.

check it* obv

the first song on the mozzy solo was the one that jumped out most to me

an ILXer even gets a shout out on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHdM4JSMcd8

that prefab sprout sample flip on the harry fraud beat above is so dope

the first song on the mozzy solo was the one that jumped out most to me

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, February 6, 2017 8:37 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

damn, no joke

love that OMB Bloodbath track, also this from 2015

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk-8B1Wf19Q

that is p sinister, violent vid... sounds great tho

hey everyone listen to this album when it's out, it's great, reminds me of de la (when they made good music) in its fun and creativity.

https://quellechris360.bandcamp.com/album/being-you-is-great-i-wish-i-could-be-you-more-often

god damn. RIP John Walt aka dinnerwithjohn

This is a Chicago classic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wd1wxg0mN5U

And he was developing lots of new sounds:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iW-TyrEgxc

i'm gonna cross post to the R&B thread prob
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkGoeNPrGOE

http://abc7chicago.com/news/man-fatally-stabbed-near-union-station-metra-tracks/1744874/

i didnt watch the video cuz i have flash turned off but its so incredibly sad

damn, dont watch the video imo

had never heard of dude. sounds good

'kemo walk' was a flip of 'nae nae' (the original not the 'watch me whip, watch me nae nae' one)

only know Kemo Walk but it's a classic 4 all time, rip

heavily fucking with this production

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbOeQjPcAb8

Dope. Who produced it?

has anyone noticed that SahBabii "Pull Up Wit Ah Stick" is Young Thug "Pull Up On A Kid" from Slime Season 2?

compare:

https://youtu.be/B9VIH89musE?t=46s

and

https://youtu.be/7yroipjvGII?t=28s

forks and jordan bait alert, i wish i could go to this

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my once-a-year old corny indie dude hip-hop opinion is that the new quelle chris album (linked upthread) is really good

i really like what i heard from it i want to check it out

Florida kid and xxxtentacion affiliate wifisfuneral dropped an album a few weeks back and it's pretty solid--dark atmosphere, deep production, some impressive lyrics for a 19-year-old kid. This is the track that I keep coming back to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAH8kcNif9I

remy ma & fat joe album is fire so far

awesome can't wait to hear that
remy is so great

album was supposed to be out last year, right?

wow this rules, thanks y'all

lol at "my west coast shorty throw dub with four fingers / ma you a pleasant surprise like porzingis"

XD

"Tunnel Vision" is a little skimpy on bars but this is far and away Kodak's best hook yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzSUgOmP66Q

what does teh brit rap cru think of NINES

was a lil disturbed starting this album & hearing dj premier lite scratching

gotta say on a quick skim im disappointed. thought it was gonna be good after hearing some of the older stuff

never thought him more than lowest tier britrapper and yeah album is meh. i will allow 'trapper of the year' to be considered my ilm walk-on music however

also come at the https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uql3rb4oOHY u best not miss

https://twitter.com/TDotKane/status/833414877465214976

CARDI B BACK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCH1PmAqenM

*quiet backpacker voice*

i like the new jonwayne album

i wanted to like it but did not

can anyone tell me some tapes from the last couple months i should listen to? i've heard keef, future, migos, nba youngboy, mozzy, gherbo, remy ma & fat joe

CARDI B

Young Dolph

SahBabii's tape

SOB X RBE
Quelle Chris

agree with quelle chris

sob x rbe stuff is mainly average to me so far

i dont't like quelle chris

but thx for other recs i will check em all out

not even 'buddies'? this song is funny as hell

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

never thought him more than lowest tier britrapper and yeah album is meh. i will allow 'trapper of the year' to be considered my ilm walk-on music however

― r|t|c, Saturday, February 18, 2017 8:42 AM (five days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was pretty good to me:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OBP14hduZc

that's pretty good, i guess. just not my thing though

(xp)

if we're talking nines.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2PpLRjaWT8

J hus factor. nines barely rises above _pulse located_

he sounds more boring on that one but im a fan of guru i like monotone slickness it just means the writing has to be there

not really feeling the new fat joe/remy that much

i mean it's pretty good but feels a bit directionless

new Roc Marciano - Rosebudd's Revenge is some great #conservativerapcoalition bait, fucking love him

with him, Ka, Westside Gunn, Conway the Machine, Your Old Droog, Meyhem Lauren, etc it's a good time to be a fan of boring street rap, i'm living good

Vic & Chris have been killing it also

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=875OQCLt-q4

yeah they are great as well

deej i feel like i should check out g herbo, where to start?

m@tt, how is the new westside gunn tape?

vic/chris are the best. i posted that bacon vid upthread somewhere. new project out soon i think

W g herbo his new tape this year is his best overal project I think... "kill shit" from 2012 is a classic also

The new tape is called "strictly for my fans".

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

Gonna counter: "Strictly For My Fans" is good, but "Fazoland" is far and away his best project. That whole tape is sensational.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qCY7-FraQk

"I'm Rollin" from Ballin Like I'm Kobe is still my favorite thing he's ever done, though I haven't heard the new tape yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE1VeZrFRwU

"I'm Rollin" is so good. 4 My Fans has some great standouts—the outro is fantastic—but I don't think any of his other tapes have felt as complete and hung together as well as his first one

beats on the new roc marci are meh...

agree

also there's a new starlito tape : https://starlito.bandcamp.com/album/manifest-destiny

Xxxpost
New Westside is good but really short, half is just instrumentals, more like a maxi single or short ep than a real tape

got it, i'll check it out

I listened to an interview w WSG and he said he has a project with Alchemist in the bag which I'm pretty stoked for so maybe this is a stopgap thing

too hard to find the curren$y thread w/o search - really like this -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOUSJkPy3BI

has anyone kept up w/ him? idk he put out soo much i kinda lost track and tuned out

watching the netflix doc now, it's decent, tho the jamaican influence seems all but omitted

This Joe Gifted & Frontstreet track sounds like Frank O going to ATL without Calvin Harris stepping in between. I kinda love it.

https://soundcloud.com/joe-gifted-1/water-x-joe-gifted-x-fronstreet-1

You can definitely hear his influences fading in and out of his voice, lol, but it's a good song and performance.

Hit alert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCx4NFNuYgI

the roc marciano album is good, but yeah sometimes the beats just seem off ...

also this is increasingly true, especially with dudes that are operating on a lower budget, but there's so many rap records now that just sound like shit, roc's vocals are mixed too low on some tracks, and could really use some EQing on others, like there's this whole generation of producers that really are just beatmakers used to sending ppl beats through dropbox and then getting a vocal track back, they don't really know how to make records like a dude like DJ Quik or Organized Noise or Timbaland or whoever....really frustrating, i remember some Your Old Droog track last year that was like jesus fuck did anyone listen to how hard these vocals are clipping for no reason?

yeah agree. i have my beef with the sound on a lot of the popular 808 heavy producers too. Probably why Mustard n them brought in Quik to finish YGs biggest hit, fill out the sound.
http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.39927/title.dj-quik-goes-in-on-yg-jeezy-snoop-dogg-stampede-management-over-my-hitta-credit#

Counter point the new Oddissee album sounds fantastic

is that part of the blurring of lines between a mixtape and an album?

spotted first-ever paid mixtape on livemixtapes

Xpost, probably more just the decline of budgets and the studio system. There aren't many guys like a Mike Dean anymore who can have a career in pro studios....I really loved the Odd Tape last year will check new Oddisee

this was sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Zd3u6XAXU

Pro studios aside, a producer who can make great creative beats is not necessarily the same person who is able to do a great mixing job on it + the vocals, but often ends up having to be that person.

what is it with contemporary tv music broadcasts - why is the sound so flat and unengaging? sounds straight off the mixing board or smth, no reverb, no sense of space... and these are good musicians! I'm thinking a Zoom recorder in the studio would've done a better job

agreed on oddissee

saw American Honey last night, some great definite goon cru anthems in the soundtrack B-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVSMZVGO5U

yea otm plus good use of that gods whisper anco sounding song over the bonfire scene

YUP

http://www.hiphopdx.com/news/id.42551/title.drakes-opening-act-for-boy-meets-world-tour-is-facing-kidnapping-charges#

for rtc/other fans of pressa's "tbh" ...

saw American Honey last night, some great definite goon cru anthems in the soundtrack B-)

― flopson, Thursday, March 2, 2017 10:15 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saw it on the plane start of january, still have that damn e-40 song in my head like half the day

This new GoldLink song is my shit. best song hes ever done (i always found him kinda annoying)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhNqbe6QENY

sorry that wasn't correct—he wasn't annoying, i found his production choices annoying, the "its dance music but he raps!" angle was forced imo and none of his songs were as good as vic mensa's one

and then Amine went and did it better too lol

anyway this song is good

New Sosa single is channeling classic 50 cent vibes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdfvqXtYp_s

Goldlink track is fire

saw American Honey last night, some great definite goon cru anthems in the soundtrack B-)

― flopson, Thursday, March 2, 2017 10:15 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so amazing!

apparently most of those tunes were songs members of the (largely non-pro) cast were into, and Arnold chose to incorporate them, some became kinda "anthems" for the cast & crew (who would also have motel parties similar to those in the movie)

shia was robbed fuck casey affleck

You know whose project I really like right now, is THEY.

not the greatest moniker in teh world, but still:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7fbT3ldL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPc6amxJ-RE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFwr-MCbObY

idk its like Rae Sremmurd goes R&B, electronic pop w/ a sprinkling of vague rock-ness that feels like a spiritual parallel w/ early NERD

this is pretty excellent

https://soundcloud.com/crystalcaines/no-drama

ha that Keef song is really commercial sounding

ya. it's cool. if this ushers in an era of Keef making listenable music i'm down

woah westside gunn & conway signed to shady

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/03/shady-records-deal-westside-gunn-conways-griselda-record/

mb we should have a cupcakke thread

http://www86.zippyshare.com/v/Y3C8VuQr/file.html

never trust a man who wear briefs/cuz he gon wanna fuck and keep it brief

ya. it's cool. if this ushers in an era of Keef making listenable music i'm down

― flopson, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 22:02 (yesterday) Permalink

he's had tons of listenable music over the last 5 years yall just bought into this dumb critical meme that it was more "experimental"/"interesting" than listenable crossed w/ the meme about Atlanta being the only center of the rap universe

21 savage is literally biting flows from 'finally rollin 2' & getting plaques off them

taste checkmate

That SOB x RBE tape reeeeallly grew on me. I did not like "Anti" at all the first time I heard it (I couldn't quite get with how they rap slightly ahead of the beat) but then something clicked.

"Anti" is not even a highlight, not sure why that's the one that's getting attention. I much prefer this one:

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

gotta check that release out

http://gaming.sbroadbent.net/files/totalwar/rome/266-battle%20of%20alalia-naval-4.png

love anti!

well 'love' is strong for any sob x rbe records, lyrically i have trouble connecting w/ fairly large swaths of their output

but in terms of songs to kinda listen to in the background i like 'anti'

what is the living shit is just blaze doing with this track??

https://soundcloud.com/shadyrecords/machinegunblack

Att: deej. I believe Tunji B. is the same guy that got Kendrick signed as well. (re: http://amp.www.complex.com/music/2017/03/bout-to-blow-march-2017/)

yah he is he also reads the column B-)

He also used to be a rapper:
https://youtu.be/Hl9W3u5qfms

awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-toRUB2ctcY

wow that is grrreat! she just keeps getting better

there really should be a cupcakke thread by now

http://i.imgur.com/7HPQ1Hs.gifv

this is about as unfashionable as it gets, but just getting into Masta Ace's album from last year, The Falling Season, a concept/story album about his childhood, busing out to a majority Italian white school in Sheepshead Bay...anyway pretty great, structured a bit like A Prince Among Thieves

still one of the most underrated rappers to this day....cameos by Cormega, A.G., Your Old Droog, Torae, Wordsworth and World Famous Supreme Team (!!)

this is the best thing lil uzi vert has ever done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iE0QDecIdc

first track on the new Rozaaay (f R Saadiq) is so pretty

Mastermind, Black Market and this new one really live up to the hype on Ross's production imo. Kinda reminds me of that 2014 Jeezy album that had a bunch of gorgeous soul beats, really like the suspended vocal sample on "Santorini Greece" in particular.

Dude has the worst "hyped up" voice in the game tho. He doesn't use it much but it's on one of the tracks here. Same one he used a bit on "Free Mason" off Teflon Don

first track on the new Rozaaay (f R Saadiq) is so pretty

― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Friday, March 17, 2017 12:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

this was produced by a kid named chad thomas, who is going into his senior year as a football player at univ of miami. he started at defensive end last season. he & ross have made some music before but that beat was way more accomplished and soulful than i would have expected.

Hey that's cool

deej, I noticed you were complaining on twitter about songs that are only available for streaming and asking about how djs cope with this development. The answer, I think, is that mp3 dj pools are going to become even more important to most djs as the sale of mp3s steadily declines. My main issue with the dj pools is that they're quite expensive - at least as long as you can't actually find everything you need on there anyway. I tend to spend about $ 20 a month on afro/london/dancehall stuff anyway and subscribing to get big sean mp3s on top of that for an additional $ 20-30 a month sucks. I can send you Living Single though. They have it on digiwaxx, which is free as long as you give it a quick review before you dl it.

dope plz send. Yeah I had a dj pool sub but it kept me up on shit i didnt care about & mostly missed all the stuff i want...like do any dj pools have the new carti/uzi "woke up" record? i bet they dont, but they do have (as does amazon) the song that they pushed as a single first.

first initial last name at gmail dot com

the organized noise documentary on netflix was good

im also looking for mp3s of the maleek berry ep

it's running out of puff now finally but lowkey one of the biggest music stories of 17 is popcaan's version of the roy woods tune becoming surely the most successful one minute twelve second tagged unmastered demo leak mp3 ever. pure culture; ppl rinsed it, djs rinsed it (the soundcloud loops it once over, the join is rough, no one cares), perfect daydream ephemera infatuation spring jam form & function

never looked into DJ MP3 pools but I sometimes download monthly bundles of rap songs on slsk

really like this kodak black single. flutes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzSUgOmP66Q

why kodak from miami but sound nola??

why uzi from philly but sound cali??

why i cant come thru in the pecan jag??

https://soundcloud.com/kodak-black/24-already

think i prefer this flutes one anyway

wait kodak black is from miami?? weird yeah i assumed nola

kodak from pompano beach

tunnel vision ended up disappointing me, didnt live up to the teaser

Otm

new playboi carti is dope though:

https://soundcloud.com/678carti/woke-up-like-this-prodpierrebourne

this one looks promising also

https://twitter.com/playboicarti/status/843653901584945152

Just getting into this now (a little weird to listen to bc I submitted a bunch of beats for it in early stages, but I feel pretty detached from it now)

http://www.thefader.com/2017/03/23/websterx-daymares-debut-album-premiere-closed-sessions

agreed on woke up like this, it's a jam

the new Devin the Dude album has some classic sounding dev joints

Are You Goin' My Way
Tonight
Acoustic Levitation

'Can I' and 'I'm in the Galazy' are great too

cool, excited to dig in here

new Freddie Gibbs is great, he seems energized

thanks for the heads-up on Devin, one of the overlooked great stylists in the history of hip hop

i actually like this new joey bada$$ and schoolboy song
https://soundcloud.com/joeybadass/rockabye-baby

i also thought there was some good shit on the new devin, and then i listened to "to tha x-treme" and yeah.... it's not the same kind of good shit.

it's a different album, more mournful and psychedelic i think
anyway this is great IMO, almost cloud rap vibes in some places

on first pass a lil disappointed in the cupcakke tape. too many dated tropical house beats

i really enjoy the new devin! More psych is right though not as good as x-treme is also right.

UMS / old heads alert:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQfx4FFaE0A

i actually like this new joey bada$$ and schoolboy song

would have been better 1st single than Devastated imo. (also the record leaked)

Wow excellent find

Xp

Anyone know if the Kodak Black album's gonna get a physical release?

omg that video...love it

the cool c/steady b thing was really fucked up, just checked wiki cool c was sentenced to death but got a stay, still in prison, steady b is in life w/o parole

philly was always pretty fuckin rough

actually like this new joey bada$$ and schoolboy song
would have been better 1st single than Devastated imo. (also the record leaked)

― Van Horn Street, Sunday, April 2, 2017 8:58 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

devastated was really weak attempt at riding current fads nagl for him at all 1) cuz he wasn't any good at it and 2) it seemed weird to switch lanes when he'd somehow actually had some commercial success w/boom bap throwback. new song w/schoolboy is nice cuz it feels a little bit less like duck down/black moon cosplay and modern but still nyc rappity rappin

http://www.npr.org/event/music/521650653/noname-tiny-desk-concert

devastated was really weak attempt at riding current fads nagl for him at all 1) cuz he wasn't any good at it and 2) it seemed weird to switch lanes when he'd somehow actually had some commercial success w/boom bap throwback. new song w/schoolboy is nice cuz it feels a little bit less like duck down/black moon cosplay and modern but still nyc rappity rappin

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

really enjoying the album. even devastated makes more sense in sequence. god bless rap records with less than 14-15 songs.

no one talking abt Valee yet?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjrMW1A0FrQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkV92rzO9Uw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dy9KO_ea5sw

playboi carti is pretty great but thouxanbandfauni sucks

ILM's 2017 Rolling Hip Hop Thread Spotify Playlist

Packs by Your Old Droog is interesting... I like it.

And I said that before I heard him name-check Lemmy and Motorhead on album closer "Winston Red." That kind of thing always makes me smile.

hey everybody I listened to a Joey Bada$$ album

still kinda baffled at how the sonics of late 70s/early 80s dentist office jazz have become so popular w rap producers, these washes of synths w no attack and burbling fender rhodes chord clusters that float around with occasional horn stabs or sax riffs swimming along. I don't dislike it but it did seem like an odd sonic backdrop for like the first half-dozen songs on the album w their angrier/despairing sociopolitical-commentary rhymes. Feel like things start to pick up and cohere around the midway point w Y Don't You Love Me (lol @ "If I Was Your Girlfriend quote, also lol @ Sun Ra dialogue sample in the opening track for that matter), and then Rockabye Baby and Ring the Alarm really pull things together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSrA8bzmBHY&t=2s

Flipp Dinero - "I Do"

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

good one voodoo.

Jordan that link is dead

oops trying this again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSrA8bzmBHY

thx. thats good. checking out the album now

tee grizzley has the best album out right now

Haven't listened to the full album, but "First Day Out" is an amazing song, even if it's a stylistic rip-off of "Dreams & Nightmares."

xposting here as well: Hip Hop Stories, Videos, Interviews of Note

https://soundcloud.com/1wayfrank/sets/sunland-stunna

tee grizzley has the best album out right now

― ANU (sisilafami), Wednesday, April 12, 2017 4:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seemed kinda boring to me on first pass idk

ill give it another shot i guess

i did like the surprise that he's a more lyrically oriented dude than one might expect from detroit at this time

Carti tape very solid so far

reminder that his album is incredible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq_Cc3hZqEM

was just telling someone how much fun it is!

nice, that is indeed a lot of fun
will check out album

420 jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blraDWrr73U

Loving Tee Grizzly. Marred by a few times when he feels like he has to do an autotune radio singing song, just feels really awkward

But yeah this as someone mentioned upthread seems like he could really step into the space vacated by Meek Mill

Man I don't know if a rapper ever played himself as much as Meek. Feel bad for him

actually Tee Grizzly is a big r'n'b fan, and likes to singsong.

“That singing puts some soul on it,” he says. “It makes it connect a little better. I like that type of music more than rap anyway to be honest with you. I like that old school R&B, it make me feel good.”

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/04/tee-grizzley-interview/

New Valee tape is cool
https://soundcloud.com/valee/sets/1988-no-dj

cant remember if i posted "Shell" in here already

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjrMW1A0FrQ

version on the album has an extra verse

i also like this backpack ass xxxtentacion song
https://soundcloud.com/jahseh-onfroy/xxxtentacion-feat-kinoul-killstation-slipknot

the RHQ album had the misfortune of sharing a release date w Damn but it's really fun

didnt know that was out thx

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

this is pretty fuego imo

that's great!

his tape drops 05/12

and this guy 05/15

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJu7brwooD0

the carti tape is really good

that bruno mali is real nice

bruno mali's ha bangs

another vote for mali

love that bruno mali, great loop

new conway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8T6W9Bmaq0

feels weird to hear them over such a modern pop track but it's worth hearing for bizzy's verse, he's such an amazing talent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VNIW5n3n-U

hey thats p good

i made a famous dex comp http://sisilafami.tumblr.com/post/160272450481/adex-twin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oao5JDrdgPk

i trust that this is the "humble" that everyone is talking about?

i dunno who young money yawn is but i like this nas flip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RJfpYnJUO4

Dex's breakout single was "2times" which didn't sound anything like sauce walka fwiw

Did we post 'Gang Up' yet from F&F8?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvUBGN4KoP0

I'm feeling it

this is super irrelevant wgaf territory but the new MF Grimm album is really great

i like gang up, very glossy and big budget

joe budden is loopy

yeah that whole thing with yachty was crazy

i think i like DJ JY better since he stopped doing footwork:

https://soundcloud.com/dj_jy2/jy-no-heart-remix-songwriter

https://soundcloud.com/dj_jy2/jy-pacino-what-you-on

https://soundcloud.com/dj_jy/jy-pacino-cant-fwu-no-mo

new future sounds great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvZqHgFz51I
(starts ~1:30)

woah that is good

don't really get Mask Off as a highlight to be honest. the flute hook is okay but the whole thing drags and Fewtch starts sounding a bit bored by the end

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEVcW85Ph8M

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S0aea777jM

i still cant get over how much Yase sounds like ZMoney

there are similarities but there's a gucci mane component in zmoney's style that i don't hear in yase.

ZMoney - MO (Prod. By Haz Futcha) https://t.co/eOOPmz7n5S

— ig= @Yasemoney600 (@lilyase600) May 24, 2016

this song is sick as hell

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJZisMiDy-A

that's great! first verse especially.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-S0aea777jM

'from the d to the a' is a fukkin great record. like, as good as this is bad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPtu2kcaa1M

that song is fucking hysterical

the sax solo

lol that yachty

i like the new yachty it's cute

or i guess i also don't understand why this is "bad" cute catchy and semi-incompetent and like all his other shit is good

lol it's "hold on we're going home"

it's not as incompetent as willfully off though is it?

or i guess i also don't understand why this is "bad" cute catchy and semi-incompetent and like all his other shit is good

― I got da Midas touch as you fucking were LG x (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, May 8, 2017 8:44 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

aside from the obvious reasons of, ill want to listen to 'd to the a' again but will never intentionally put on 'bring it back,'

hes singing banalities over a 2008 hypemachine chart topper. its cynical & stupid

i mean, i never fully bought into yachty so im not pretending this is some radical departure from his usual shit, cynical pop star at any costs was always his steez

but that also has the potential to tip over at any moment into pure marketing hype. the anti "real hip hop" crusade has been a remarkable shield for his lack of original musical ideas but its kinda corny to me

i do think he can rap though

the other thing about 'bring it back' that's lame is, it feels like a compromise pop record right at the moment when uncompromised rap records like 'xo tour life' 'look at me' and 'magnolia' can do well on top 40...its weirdly dated, chasing that 'hold on we're going home' high.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw0UufFr0qM

like that meek

as your boring rap correspondent i'm digging the new Oh No & Tristate, not brilliant but some good joints

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1ABwKKseH4

Darryl F2 months ago
Yeah this is what we need no mumble rap

#keepitreal

#nohashtag

ive been coming back to the sob rbe tape a whole lot. if i was dismissive earlier: i was wrong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2V1D40Iov0

they're underdeveloped lyrically but not any more so than like early mob figaz or something

kind of ridic to expect a bunch of teenagers to approach mozzy levels of lyrical sophistication on their debut project & sometimes its helpful to remember to "forget" youve been listening to bay rappers flip 80s R&B for literally a decade so you can approach it w/ fresh ears like a younger listener

anyway: i like them. also, think this is much stronger than 'block too a lot', in retrospect im not sure how compelling yase is as much as he is novel

at least, so far

i fuck very much with their db tha general way of rapping.

+ yhung to has a natural popstar charisma.

i think daboii is more charismatic tbh tho yhung to is essential to the sound

i also like the dude w/ the lisp lol

https://soundcloud.com/therealtalkent/mozzy-gunplay-they-know

woah

gunplay's verse is prime gunplay, it's been a while.

got my momma on the phone we sayin prayers together

feel like yams would have loved thi

this

Yeah the gunplay verse is unreal--is this from an upcoming collab tape?

yaarp

out 6/2 then a week later there's a new gunplay album.

https://soundcloud.com/1023-records/i-declare-war-prodby-callari-ginseng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYxwD7dGlkg

thats dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vC98dkhO-pk

oh i really love this new young buck

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

luxurious fly shit

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

good tracks posted lately. Young Buck is still good to me. he puts out an ep/album worth of good stuff every year consistently.

some fun offbeat boom bap out of Portland

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyUzVNsezr0

that's fun
damn is that ever a rap group from portland, shoutout to patagonia fleece

lol fun indeed.

love it

i can't really decide if i like this (Phresher, new dude out of NYC), but he's got a kinda weirdo energy...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWJKdNegOR4

i kinda like that

there's a version with Remy Ma now?

https://soundcloud.com/chin-chilla-meek/netflix-prod-by-big-reggie

phresher 'on the low' is a classic

i find all phresher pretty whatever tbh, but i think new york rap in 2017 is a scourge so

remember the 5 min when everyone thought young ma was the future

on the low is just like, a YG rip

that said this is also the first year where Chicago's been kind of dry too

part of that is because every single chicago artist in existence released a major project last year

into this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF3PyKTKUkI

Trippie Redd's whole project is pretty good actually

https://soundcloud.com/trippie-hippie-2/sets/a-love-letter-to-you

i think i'm the lone warm brew stan on ilx but anyway this new song is super fun as usual (takes a minute to get rolling but love the sung chorus hook and the 2nd verse is really great)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=529u66sGyGc

good times there matt

from Milwaukee Wisconsin, WebsterX

http://www.youtube.com/user/samxsweatshirt

i like him, i wonder if jordan has worked w/him or knows him?

new G Rap album out in a couple weeks
https://soundcloud.com/clockworkmusic-2/capitol-hill-feat-manolo-rose-sheek-louch-cormega-1

Rico nasty block list video dropped:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe_3y_RjnpA&sns=tw

did not know bizzy bone has a son who raps, lil bizzy of course. ep 'son of uh legend' on Soundcloud.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ6_RP4tU1g
I love rashads production on this w its thuggish ruggish interpolation.

link seems broken xp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe_3y_RjnpA

ok mozzy really brings the best out of gunplay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mfs1vgd810

Fuck this tape is good https://soundcloud.com/vtmep/sets/valee-chasethemoney-vtm-1

Acid: https://soundcloud.com/vtmep/acid?in=vtmep/sets/valee-chasethemoney-vtm-1
Window Seat: https://soundcloud.com/vtmep/window-seat?in=vtmep/sets/valee-chasethemoney-vtm-1
Raw: https://soundcloud.com/vtmep/sets/valee-chasethemoney-vtm-1

think it's from last year but Hus Kingpin & Smoovth - HNIC (Hempstead Niggas in Chicago) tape is pretty amazing in the conway/westside/roc marci type zone, reminds me a little of Nas, but It Was Written Nas not Illmatic Nas

not normally my thing but im kinda fucking with DJ Lucas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgKjm0LRx7Q

More evidence for the Sosa influence file also lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ3kCd4EuWE

http://themartorialist.blogspot.ca/2017/05/generic-list-post-legit-jams-of_11.html

^martorialist new orleans rap 2010-2017 comp, self-recommending

new yachty album sucs

just remembered how much i love "elm street" by jimmy wopo

new yachty album sucs

― flopson, Sunday, May 28, 2017 5:30 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so bad. lol @ everyone who pretended to like his shit

Listened to Done by the Forces of Nature by Jungle Brothers tonight, what a classic

no desire to listen to the yachty but i'll gladly fire up some classic JBs

bump j is back, apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPykyl8-Kcg

Yeah good song too.

His first verse though:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDSUWuWOe6c

Mozzy/Gunplay alb drops tonight

new hus is tight as shit

https://soundcloud.com/husalah/protect-your-soul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6EwV9x4KPo

lol soundcloud

this hip-hop worldview is so lame to me

deej. why did you make me watch this? it made me hate hip hop and want to die.

no hype for brockhampton / kevin abstract on ilx i guess

really young dudes originally from georgia/texas
then moved to los angeles, where theyre getting a decent following

kinda weirdish in a good way but i guess kevins a big odd future fan

theyve gotten better since their 2015 release, so heres the new stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpu0JZxDz-w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMZZUyos1kI

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/apr/06/kevin-abstract-brockhampton-rapper-boy-band

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeXbERVaj6w

are any non-kendrick rap albums this year better than "thot breaker"?

seems obviously better than yachty

carti & hnrdxx are good but not as good

uzi vert could pose a challenge, young thug also, but those arent out yet

obviously SANDAS and Trippie Redd's tapes are also ace this year but kind of rookie records.

this new trippie redd is fire btw, what's that string sample? I know i've heard it but i can't place it. Pierre bourne can do no wrong and this is a hell of a chorus lol

https://soundcloud.com/quantaevans/trippie-redd-oowee

yeah id say thot breaker took no.1 spot from two zero one seven for me. i'd put the tee grizzley and gunnas 'drip season 2' in there also.

yeah ive been playing that gunna tape out a lot, hear it a surprising amount in chicago. "belly of the beast" is a jam, love that bassline

a number of real bangers on that tape, but its "secure the vibe" for me. track is something elevated.

Omg kids today still care about garbage ass GG Allin we are doomed

That YouTube was some dark affluenza shit

re soundcloud rap : that thouxanbanfauni tape earlier this year was nice.

it seems p obvious to me that xxx is gonna end up being the biggest rapper to come from this whole scene

but lol @ how he's managed to do it:

https://soundcloud.com/jahseh-onfroy/xxxtentacion-ski-mask-the-slump-god-off-the-wall

noz played this on his radio show, and it's awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-bxhiYHBuw

actually the whole tape is good and this new track too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNM4q75PlxY

Yeah I put "nice n slow" in my column, ballgreezy's sound is refreshingly different right now

holy shit Thot Breaker is amazing... wonder if he'll cross(back)-over, after a few years out of the spotlight making music 4 the fans

Fwiw some of the best songs on it actually leaked out a year ago. Lol a lot of him "making music for the fans" had to do w presentation and ppl's (inaccurate imo) perceptions of him just off in left field making weirdo music or whatever

Like yes a love songs theme makes this more obviously conceptual but a lot of what's going on here musically has obvious precedent in the "nobody" tapes for ex. This stands apart just cuz it is just a well-curated collection of songs put together by his current manager. (Bang 3 was put together by FilmOn, alki david's label; finally rich by larry Jackson and young chop, bang 2 and almightyso by keef himself.)

AlmightySo, IMO, is just as good as this, maybe slightly stronger, arguably slightly less accessible. In the context of Uzi vert, playboi carti, and yachty, I think it seems much less weird now than it did in 2013

"Dats My Bae" is lovely!

Did J.I.D. get discussed in this thread? Album is blowing my mind; right up there with Carti and Kendrick for me.

https://youtu.be/6eFcSesrP6A

https://youtu.be/FtYkZOOMlKQ

Tee Grizzly and GoldLink are the other standout records for me. The new Gunna is gorgeous. And Thot Breaker is a revelation, obviously. Would love to see that become Keef's big comeback project.

i guess it's not fashionable but the yo gotti mike will tape goes hard as fuck.

though i like 'crew' something about the Goldlink doesn't really work for me

I like Smino more as a rapper in that vein but his tape was a lil disappointing.

I really like Jayaire Woods' tape. Did I post that already?

https://soundcloud.com/jayairewoods/woodside-prod-by-vzn

https://soundcloud.com/jayairewoods/wood-prod-by-canis-major

it kind of sounds like it exists in its own world right now, not overly swayed by trends

JID sounds so much like Kendrick I've had trouble living with it. I keep meaning to give it another chance but I can't help but feel like he's building a career of one of Kendrick's voices

oh I forgot in my rundown to mention Valee's VTM project I listen to more than any new artist this year

i put all the Valee tapes in a playlist but ya thats one of my most played for sure, he is like the personification of this thread rap music's memorable banalities lol. 'Shell' is top 5 of the year (despite coming out late last year)

His voice is undeniably Kendrick-esque, and so is his flow sometimes, but his vision is so different that it's not a distraction after a couple listens. I hear more mischief in his sound, and more overt nods to west coast alt-rap, shit like Heiroglyphics and Funkdoobiest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8m2bye0b8k

I like the beat on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eixJgD0OLU

Some will like this Trippie Redd record

hook is truly sublime

https://youtu.be/UCCKxztv7pc

do you still make those mixes ttp? Those were the best; you should make more of those

i really like this (freestyle over kodak black beat)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZ4UjDHPjr4

thoughts on smokepurpp? i dont like his name or this style

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dvTJJvEFL8

todd moscowitz signed him to his new label alamo

love this Brockhampton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jpu0JZxDz-w

smokepurpp is like triple x with all the edges sanded off

don't like either of them tbh

the new kool g rap is suprisingly good

been bubbling up since last year but i've been really feeling this track lately

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0PX6NLvo47w

'boss up' is tyte too cant remember if posted last year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A-kSCET8kog

new JR & PH7 album sounding good

http://pigeonsandplanes.com/in-depth/2017/06/stage-dive-goes-wrong-legal
this one simple trick drives venue security INSANE

also big boi, who you may recall was once one half of the very popular rap duo Outkast, has released his first new album in five years and though it is not zeitgeisty or whatever, it has things to recommend it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDLDVPV8kDE

why there was a time this woulda been a two thousand post thread, etc
/old man yelling at cloudrap

i thought the big boi album was awful...

yeah it's not great, a couple highlights excepted (including Kill Jill and the other songs with Killer Mike)

still digesting but I quite like Kill Jill and In the South and Follow Deez and the snoop collabo
there are embarrassing moments, yes

really like this tape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYS9Szgfkn0

for whatever reason i can't play it, what is it ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s5w4rhiIFR0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEgtvdCx-24

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoRgUlKxZ8M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJcMJ1789B4

yet another 2017 track called "water." it's the new "make it rain."

i have a great ILX-friendly comparison for Trippie Redd's vocals on "gleeeming karnival"
https://soundcloud.com/trippie-hippie-2/gleeeming-karnival

*coughs*

conway, chris crack and an amusingly named rapper from detroit "nolan the ninja"

https://soundcloud.com/spectacular-diagnostics/rambo-bars-feat-conway-the-machine-chris-crack-nolan-the-ninja

i like this, not traditionalist but seems distinctly NYC in a way a lot of a boogies etc don't

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBDXVILyOw8

ugh i cant stand that lol

find it enjoyable too

just hoped they mopped those stairs first

damn ignored a boogie cuz i found his name annoying, luv this dude

"uh oh, thots!" is a jam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZM3E_N9aqY

i think i posted the original version (named "oowee" at the time) upthread

hope meth and red make music together until they're 90
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgoZwp5X2Ek

^^ that's pretty awesome

the original lookin' fly is a stone-cold classic

https://vimeo.com/11701165

pierre bourne is a breath of fresh air.

wow xp how did i miss that? video is cracking me up

new twista streaming here, sounds great:
https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/9kwk9a/twista-is-the-mayor-of-chicago-rap-and-the-commissioner-of-crook-county
stackin paper beat is tough. mortuary w vic spencer is slick

it's the best thing he's done in a while, stackin paper is absurd

also for those interested in vet rappers still doing it, the new MC Eiht album Which Way Iz West album is solid, exec produced by dj premier (he only produced a few tracks on it tho)

savage album out

hes def one of my least fav rappers of the new gen

his voice sounds like dust settling on window blinds

so what full length rap records are you feeling? post here

i dont care that you like drake, kendrick, or vince staples

*from 2017

I like all of these to varying degrees

vets

Jay z (Havent liked anything hes done since black album so this was a welcome surprise)
MC Eiht (over/under on him saying jea 150 times on this release? take the over. still has a great voice)
Yo Gotti / Mike WIl (if only just to give my subs a workout)
Big Boi (more fun than i expected)
Kool G Rap (Mack Lean is good)
Snoop (pretty fun, about half good)
Devin the Dude (still loving this, i realize it's like 70% as good as prime Dev but still)
Dj QUik (the other half of rosecrans)
Kweli / Styles P
Killa Kyleon
Rick Ross
Roc Marciiano

non vets

Future (a playlist of his best from Hndrx/s/t)
Clyde Carson (basically releases the same album every year but i soak it up)
Billy Woods (fills my indie itch)
Valee
Iamsu (playlist of his best from the last year. I love 'Nada')
Ballgreezy
Underachievers (idk, when i need some baps)
Kendrick (good but not my fav Drick)
Chief Keef
Mozzy/Gunplay (not quite as strong as I was hoping for but still some jams, could make a nice playlist with the best from this and the Trae/Mozzy)
SOB X RBE (draymond choosing Anti for his parade speech>>> https://youtu.be/JUfzaqt1K04
Rico Love (ty deej)
Payroll Giovani
Tee Grizzley
Goldlink
Oddisee(def one of my favs this year)

Oddisee
SOB
Thug
2 Chainz
Kweku Collins
Smino
Starlito & Don Trip
Nef the pharaoh
G Perico
Twista
Playboi Carti
Dolph (bulletproof more than gelato)
Freddie Gibbs
Gunplay

Oh yeah the DJ Quik is nice too, but most of my fav tracks were on the EP from last year

I've prob been rocking that NBA Youngboy tape from last year more than any new shit, cept Kendrick