rolling scambaby shotta flows 2020

stuff we heard on tiktok

key glock - look at they face

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

sada baby ft. king von

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7qgDb-lypA

lil tjay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2QRNtkGDg

here we go then

why is kool keith shitting on popular rap in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIViMTCb6M

a great song, and another entry into the venerable tradition of rap songs that sound like they might be in 6/8 before settling into 4/4 when the beat drops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5MWoDQMREE

from 2019 originally, but the video's new

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

kony is back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aM3rwY9afw

very mozzy-esque on that one

many xps
this kool keith record is amazingly good!!

this knocks. bass mixed so high it distorts their voices lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNG66Pq-IPA

Pop Smoke killed in home invasion, 20 years old

It's like a whole generation of rap is going to be gone before 30, poor kid

Fucking hell, that's terrible.

jesus

really awful shit.

they're all so damn young :(

Pitchfork just ran this piece like hours ago too:

https://pitchfork.com/levels/brooklyn-drill-rap-live-bk-drip-sheff-g-fivio-foreign-pop-smoke/

Pop Smoke spent most of his extremely short career being harassed by police and prevented from playing shows in his hometown. He never got to have his coronation. This fucking sucks

— SahBabii Yoda (@CineMasai_) February 19, 2020

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

song title speaks for itself lol

new king von is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzt31eJTGxo

New Kamsiyah album (mixtape? I don't know what the difference is anymore) is great so far though I'm impatient to get to 1-800-IM-HORNY lol

didn't mention it earlier but 1-800-IM-HORNY has an uncredited appearance from Short Dawg

new nudy album is all what it's about.

Nudy is deathly boring to me as a rapper

agreed, though i do like the sound of his voice

duke deuece energy is infectious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srK2_Buu7hc

another baby. that voice coming out of this dude is quite the effect lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BVBzNQuk5E

here's a quartet of rappers i cannot tell apart even having listened to a project or more by each, however the song is magical and i could die of joy to it under the right circumstances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVcxwmWUqPo

drego is the one that goes maaaaaaaaaan

So this one is the talk of the town around my parts today...:

RMR - Rascal
https://youtu.be/gxIEt3KEohk

This link might work better...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxIEt3KEohk

That RMR video is hilarious but also kind of sweet.

fuck them boys in bluuuuuuue

my man has pipes

incredible.

I like that he sings the opening live in the video, just so you know for sure it's his voice.

omg RMR...amazing

this was late 19, but Mally released an album that is real good if yr looking for some more backpacker boho type stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFU2HDME2J8

Planet Asia new album produced by 38 Spesh, PA is really low key a consistent underground dude

Just happy to hear some underground rappity rap shit with DRUMS in in the post Griselda era haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeLHgMx2nys

lol at the RMR, I will be adding that to the week's mix for sure.

the current rap discourse on twitter is making me want to claw my eyes out.

It’s really bad

been off Twitter, what is up?

man i hate that RMR song ... u guys lost me on that

1 dimensional irony around a rascal flatts cover ? no thanks

finally digging into the Boldy James/Alchemist, love it

thats more like it [thumbs up emoji]

lovin this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW7dsPhZ3hw

that's cool

some bay area(ish) stuff i've been into this year

shootergang kony - "jungle" ... this beat is nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2CBbQuDHE

kai bandz - "big boss status"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4EgiZR6Rro

two similar sounding songs i've been listening to a lot lately... melodic guitar based southern rap, i feel young again

rugrat od - sumtimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6nhF81Miik

slatt zy - remorse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMqv87a5y9g

Ridin the Rod wave

that kai bandz is great

while, as a general rule, one never goes full deej, I must admit I've been mildly sceptical about the rmr hype myself. I do like it but it's also a bit on the nose.

what do you like

rod wave's songwriting is getting sharper without losing that raw nerve emotion

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

crazy how popular he's gotten, but hard to think of any rap young'n who deserves it more.

what do you like

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), 3. mars 2020 23:29 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

the singing, mostly

the rmr doesn't do anything for me without the video

i'll agree that the video is most of the appeal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY5Bxm5iVvY

Che Noir from Buffalo, digging this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=109&v=lofuUUaWa80&feature=emb_title

feeling the wheelchair goat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nv1AUBaB_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nv1AUBaB_w

wow youtube doesnt wanna see him win ...
copy and paste www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nv1AUBaB_w

looks like it was taken down?

https://youtu.be/0HD4VuhhbJk

Weird... idk what was up w that link

shoulda guessed he was from the D lol

The official tracklist for @JayElectronica’s #AWrittenTestimony is here. pic.twitter.com/aoRB1s1mDG

— Apple Music (@AppleMusic) March 12, 2020

these really are the end times

Last month, Jay announced that he would be releasing A Written Testimony in 40 days (which would be on Wednesday, March 18). The album was recorded over a 40-day, 40-night stretch starting on December 26, and will feature Jay-Z, who signed Electronica to Roc Nation back in 2010.

which begs the question....what the fuck have you been doing??

crazy, not sure it will be good but def curious to hear it after all these years

hey man, he did at least, like, 8 guest verses in the meantime.

I mean it's kind of stunning in a way, the dude has this enduring rep based on....two songs

well the Jay Electronica album is a huge fuckin mess

Hov is all over it, like nearly every song (every song), I wonder if JE was struggling to write?

a bunch of these songs were clearly recorded in 2011 at the latest. his voice has totally changed, you can tell how much older he sounds on 'neverending story' than 'ghost of soulja slim'

and in the case of shiny suit theory, i was crazy about that song when i was 20 in 2010. glad to see it finally on streaming services tho.

then again on 'soulja slim' he drops a black panther reference, so maybe even each individual track is a hodgepodge

yeah everything just feels...weird and disjointed, and not in a cool way

yeah, people are gonna pull some bars and they'll look good, but it doesn't work as a listening experience

i feel like i missed the moment when lil uzi vert was decreed not worthy of discussion. really enjoying eternal atake; should I ... not be?

alb is getting rave reviews, this board isn't populated with uzi stans at the moment.

also not populated with many people who talk hip-hop on a regular basis, unfortunately.

fwiw I got halfway through the 106-minute version out today and thought it was pretty alright

was also gonna say that it's mostly good but also a lot to digest

tacking on an extra album's worth of material but placing it at the front of the tracklist is....certainly a move

Jfc there is literally no rapper who ever lived that I want to hear a 106 minute album from

What's the "real" album tracklist? I should check it out

it's really two albums, tbf, bundled together. most likely for chart reasons. just ignore the "deluxe edition" and listen to the original.

tho im listening to the deluxe disc right now and the future, 21, and keef songs are hitting pretty hard.

of course, listening to uzi is always an experience where i'm like 'this knocks, what's this one called?' only for me to find out that it's called 'yessirski'

digging urgency a lot. the concept and skits are so hilariously disconnected from the album tho, like to an extent I was literally lolling

the non deluxe version is a pretty great album

yeah tbc im not talkin deluxe, looks overwhelming

i like uzi's album more than the last one

the original tracklist anyway ... havent heard new one

heard the new one. Excellent as well.

philly and Pennsylvania in general just seem so ... relevant for neo-america; its combination of urban decay contrasting with gentrification and its proximity to trump-country Appalachia makes it feel like a microcosm of forgotten usa. i feel like for this album it sort of contributes to this stylistic slurry of regional and popular styles and makes the emo blend in seamlessly. uzi's drugged out exuberance concealing pain, being vulnerable and aggressive at the same time, just feels very touching as we all slog through the long 2016. obviously, it's unsustainable, and the amount of young rappers dying lately is just so incredibly sad, and then those that do succeed being turned into anhedonic shells a la future or drake, it all just points to a sense that things need to slow the fuck down and that we need to disconnect from this hyper individualistic life

I like that kind of regional writing !!

some shit i like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7A7ahopYGs

kmurda da steppa - bumper cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQoa1pmblbM

pfm pistol p trap flow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgoN0YaFd7I

PerrisTP x MeazzyLoc x Tiny Savage x SpazzCapone - Givenchy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcxotE3zbKw

young slo be 2100 shell casings

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

honeykomb brazy - honeykomb jr vs. honeykomb brazy (signed to rap a lot)

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

cee kay - play

cee kay is dope

this too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8K907spSzk

Yeah nice, rad beat

this is my fav song right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY5Bxm5iVvY

yeah carmelo bryant is crazy

Really into Dopeboy Ra ... he was signed to Grand Hustle in the mid 10s and in the mid 00s he was Young Capone and rapped with Daz Dillinger ...

His new songs are real good, kind of Boldy James meets Bankroll Fresh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_2aMRN5sPY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayxmFMN2NBM

I can't listen now but holy shit that description sounds like my shit

nice find deej, his album from last year is dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe5Tz05CnHs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzc6AS_XJnI

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

this other stone cold jzzle song is dope too... the video kinda reminds me of early 2000s rap city

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngw8j4e8RFE

i know sada makes great videos but this rio album is >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> sada's

oh shit didn't realize there was a new rio alb

i really like jack harlow 'whats poppin'

love the beat on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWJOd0WONvc

Swervyy - "Smoke"

finally getting around to that cardo album, some nice comfort food

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THZ4yb2Selc

FCG Heem "Destiny"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hb2pG9nKC8

Baby Ghost "Understand"

love the flow on that

good song, good remix

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

been really feeling SC's PG Ra, especially this jetsonmade-produced heatrock. love his blunt-force delivery.

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

'made it' is also good:

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

his album from last year is great !

yeah, this PG Ra is growing on me

liking Eternal Atake a lot.

even as someone who deliberately sat through the awful late Henenlotter movie he wrote/produced (Bad Biology) it's kinda cool to see RA the Rugged Man get an Adult Swim Singles boost in 2020

with verses from ghost, masta killa, and kool g rap(!!)

smino dropped a free tape last week, sounding really nice.

https://soundcloud.com/sminoworld/sets/she-already-decided-mixtape

Getting major Ka vibes from that new Earl/Maxo joint.

feels like we've reached the part of the year where there's just gobs and gobs of quality raps coming out every week. jackboy, baby smoove, wifigawd, rucci have been this week's highlights for me so far, but my 'new releases to check out' list is crazy long right about now.

jackboy album is good as hell. great knack for hooks and enough vocal acrobatics to keep things interesting. flow at about 1:00 reminds me of nothing less than 'i believe in a thing called love'

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyf0GHb4_kI

the album was mostly solid to me but "cleaning crew" is my shit right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDKfDw7hmNs

ya cleaning crew is catchy as hell

idk if quelle chris is loved much around here but imo he's one of the best around and this got me emotional

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbG-6upal8U

glad to hear the new album's out!

Love Quelle Chris, new one is great

There's a new Ka album, Descendents of Cain,out only on his website

LJ have you ever checked out Ka?

https://brownsvilleka.com/collections/digital-downloads/products/descendants-of-cain

NEW MOZZY 🔥🔥🔥🔥

have too checked out Ka! rly liked both Honor Killed The Samurai and the Dr Yen Lo album, excited to hear this

check out the new serengeti x kenny segal too, lots of good stuff in there

will have a listen!

got the Ka, it's intense. only half an hour long, doesn't waste a syllable

new Ka is more of him doing his thing, maybe even a shade more chill than normal. nothing wrong with that as no one on earth sounds like him

new cash kidd tape is strong

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsKe6y8SlBc

echoing the love for the ka, probably my favorite of his to date

the style ka utter is highbrow gutter

I really like it. I wasn't familiar with his stuff at all prior to Descendants of Cain.

the ruler's back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaFzqeIx0Lw

https://soundcloud.com/drakeo-the-ruler/gtavi

Another year, another stellar Freddie Gibbs collab, this time with The Alchemist.

yea love freddie but dont like him as much over al's beats

Yeah I'm overselling it a bit. Still, it's good stuff.

Oh shit he's apparently an anti-vaxxer.

g.t. - what you gon do

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PV0q2IUDEBY

glistening song for the riders out of detroit

idk where el hitta's been, but i'm glad he's back

new song 'dear me'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQLVQHkWfZk&feature=youtu.be

video for 'el toxic pt 2' shot at chicago's blm protests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S75NE-hXzBI

Armand Hammer's Paraffin was pretty damn good but Shrines is next level.

tbh, i couldn't stand paraffin. but shrines was much closer in spirit to billy woods' great albums from last year, definitely more my speed.

Agree that it didn't hold a candle to Hiding Places or even Terror Management but it was still solid in my book. I should revisit it in light of Shrines.

Billy Woods is one of me overall most listened to artists lately

https://www.thewordisbond.com/new-single-iron-wigs-feat-crimeapple-problematic/

Iron Wigs: Vic Spencer, Verbal Kent and a UK artist Sonnyjim

sounds great, thanks UMS

Has Vince Ash ever been talked about on a goon thread? I fucking love this, real 3-6, classic Cash Money vibes, so goooooooood

https://soundcloud.com/pow-recordings/sets/vince-ash-vito

also for the backpackers the Koreatown Oddity album is fantastic, classic Stones Throw vibes, really love his whole persona and rhyming

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

real 3-6, classic Cash Money vibes

some heat from the mitten

Los & Nutty ft. Babyface Ray - "On Fire"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lQpb0v5uOk

Rio Da Young OG & Louis Ray - "Movie"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm1ToRW0ip8

Bfb Da Packman ft. Sada Baby - "Free Joe Exotic"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzY64Qu8HHc

Oh, and another one from Los & Nutty ("I'm Jus Fuckin' Around" ft. WB Cash)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtmK4owlW3Q

"movie" is crazy ... rio is dropping like 3 videos per week right now it's incredible

it's impossible to keep up. i think my fav rio track is still this one from last year

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

'just fuckin around' is a great song as is 'movie' imo

yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah we paid

No idea where else to put this, but the new Killah Priest album Rocket to Nebula is a beatless, ethereal and spiritual cloud rap victory. With a ridiculous album cover to boot! Seriously, this is great.

https://killahpriest.bandcamp.com/album/rocket-to-nebula

oh awesome didn't know about that

I don't get Pop Smoke

pop smoke is cool, i wasn't blown away with any of the projects he dropped when he was alive, but i've grown to really appreciate the hits. his stuff had a bounce and it was fun to rap along. his main artistic mode was '50 cent if he smoked 500 cigarettes before each verse,' but it would've been cool to see him grow.

that all sounds about right to me; his hits still resonate for me. I should listen to the new album.

i've been spending a ton of time in my local cemetery; it's about 350 acres of open land and one of the only places to be calm and alone in nature in brooklyn right now. Pop Smoke was buried under his government name out there in February in an unassuming and hard to find space and there is ALWAYS a group of two to five kids keeping vigil by his entombment.

PS to Matt, thanks for Koreatown Oddity; that guy is great

maybe I'll try again, I haven't really found any of the newer generation of NYC post drill/trap/whatever rappers that interesting

Love Koreatown Oddity, I'm a sucker for those West Coast weirdo vibes

don't try with the new album, imo. it's a&r'd to death.

nyc drill isn't my bag either, tbh, but sheff g and sleepy hallow are doing interesting things. idk who said, but i saw someone on twitter describe sheff g as sounding like 'if scarface were british' lol

the only thing I really heard of Pop was the new album, aside from a couple things on YouTube prior, does he have a definitive mixtape?

his first mixtape is entirely produced by 808 melo and it has his two most famous songs, i'd check that out. only 9 tracks.

sheff g & sleepy hallow "molly" is one of the best rap singles of the year

its a very not-drill song (at least in the ny drill sense...) but yah thats great

this beat's crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cRO9Xi4yK6Y

Love this song

Duke deuce - bad news

http://youtu.be/tnEHBjghhXg

yeah best song off MM2

apparently valee dropped an ep earlier this month. i've missed him.

https://soundcloud.com/user-790740864/sets/taedakidd-x-valee-thersday

dee watkins' chosen one tape is a couple months old by now, but im a fan. he's got that north florida bite in his voice, and a touch of the youngboy/yungeen ace melodic sensibility. good stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CCVZQ6T_0k

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx6JGyRNRuM

I haven't been keeping up with rap the way I should this year but I'm enjoying the new Sada Baby.

Haven't properly kept up either, but I like the new MIKE, Weight of the World.

So-called jazz rap is almost never jazzy enough for my ears in that it tends to minimize the improv part of the equation but what I've heard so far of this Boldy James / Sterling Toles collab gives the lie to that assumption. Not worth more than a 7.7 according to p4k tho.

love the baby smoove album. also love this new song, which isn't on the album but has an uneasy, syrup-fried charm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g83_wKxJgQ

remake of 'freaky gurl' by mulatto (unfortunate name), featuring gucci's best verse in a long time

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meFxq3-mNEc

brian brown from nashville giving me some soulful isaiah rashad vibes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=05AxIXk1GCY

there's also a nashville rap-n-b guy named johnny pe, who, to keep the TDE thing going, reminds me a bit of sir

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

jetsonmade probably has the best 808 sound in the rap game right now. collaboration with rod wave is surprising, but works very well.

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

Fivio Foreign was just shot in Atlanta.

JUST IN: Fivio Foreign posts video from restaurant amid rumors that he had been shot pic.twitter.com/fmY9YB0Ize

— XXL Magazine (@XXL) August 9, 2020

interesting article: https://www.complex.com/music/2020/08/no-hook-viral-rap-songs-structure-changes

the latest tiktok rap hit is...kinda a fuckin banger

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

the latest tiktok rap hit

Not sure I'm ready for this tbh.

then you better get in your time machine and take away the cowboy hat from baby lil nas x

yeah that genie is long out of the bottle

and to that end, i like Crisis a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBdSP9XZlcE

crisis is cool, i think i prefer 'break shit' (not a limp bizkit cover)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE0WmmEn7Yk

short and screamy works for this kid

https://www.complex.com/music/art-rap-2020
brief "art rap" wrap up interview piece focused on quelle chris, billy woods, elucid, rap ferriera

put off posting this one for long enough lol

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

Veeze • Law N Order

thank you breast • crawl

Oh shit, that sample is what i didn't believe it could be!

i feel like bandgang lonnie bands always gets under-discussed when it comes to michigan rappers, maybe cause he isn't new and shiny. but it's not like he's gotten any worse.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQT0ENHzvQ0

got money with my blood brother, i feel like slim jxmmi

i like the idea of the law & order sample more than the execution, it's a little awkward with the drums

boldy's versace tape is probably just my third fav album of his of the year, but i can't stop thinking about this abbey lincoln/stevie flip on "monte cristo"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PUYH3_24vI

yeah he's having a great year

more bandgang lonnie goodness

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Swi3f7IwILU

the new mozzy album 'occupational hazard' is an extension of the vibe of the 'beyond bulletproof' project he released earlier this year, sensitive street guy stuff. there's no song on here as good as "pricetag" or "unethical and deceitful," but it's a mozzy album. you know what you're getting from him at this point. i will say, he sounds excellent over live instrumentation on "livin what i know," the closing track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUK7-obxCyI

been digging brokeasf lately, sounds like no auto durk with plies' accent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8jgWi3zItM

"how" is a great song

tons of good stuff out of florida this year... t9ine & hotboii new song is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2pZWaflAZM

ooh yeah that is good. also, speaking of hotboii and plies, they have a song together (and it's great):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCQIAzMD5uU

charmed by this bit of keef apery by bktherula

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK9lQH12gDA

one of my favorite random l.a. rap cuts i've heard in a while, thank you youtube autoplay:

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

siete gang yabbie - "gift of gab"

drakeo the ruler is out of jail, amazing news. his prison tape was incredible, and it’s gonna feel even better to hear his voice without a staticky prison phone

Feeling the new David Brooks

RIP King Von, truly devastating news.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6pTy638_V4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luU7F7lvvjk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx9jDT7mILk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMxOz_6gWOE

what??

no desire to hear a song titled "quarantine thick"

you're not missing much, it's mediocre.

"mulatto" is a pretty good rapper but i seriously can't get past her name.

still angry and sad about von, welcome to o-block is a major step up for him, but it’s a rough listen in retrospect

man this is infectious

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLi5_8JWoAU

industry plant vibes, but who cares when the song is this good.

the video is super joyful, really feeling how he incorporates his sweat rag into his dance moves lol

sounds a lil bit british maybe! it's nice!

yeah it's funny he's from fayetteville i think? i like the kinda odd accent

industry plant vibes, but who cares when the song is this good.

― la table sur la table (voodoo chili), Monday, November 9, 2020 12:10 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

i honestly don't know what people mean by industry plant anymore

just reacting to the fact that it's his first-ever video and his top comment is a few fire emojis from marshmello

nothing wrong with being an industry plant, usually just means that someone found the artist early and worked behind the scenes to develop the music before releasing it into the wild. as opposed to the regular rapper instinct to drop everything immediately.

he's signed w/ marshmello's manager which i'm sure explains the co-signs & playlisting on the first ever release. sort of the definition of an industry plant but also doesn't mean the music can't be good

yeah, exactly

"that guy's got his lines memorized!"

this is cool. a friend of mine is convinced this guy is literally rmr in an lrg shirt though.

lol, that would be a hell of an unmasking

So-called jazz rap is almost never jazzy enough for my ears in that it tends to minimize the improv part of the equation but what I've heard so far of this Boldy James / Sterling Toles collab gives the lie to that assumption. Not worth more than a 7.7 according to p4k tho.

― pomenitul, Wednesday, 29 July 2020 23:27 (three months ago) bookmarkflaglink

this is sounding p cool rn

Yeah one of my favorites of the year

yeah v v good

the versace tape is amazing too, boldy had a really great year

versace tape was a clear third-best imo. i still think for the price of tea in china has the best rapping of the three projects he dropped, tho the toles collab shows a side of him that i did not expect to see.

oh wow tea in china was this year, seems like 2 years ago haha

hahaha it's a hellscape hahaha

https://www.instagram.com/p/CHX5IMIrBET/

not familiar but rapper Mo3 has been shot and killed : (

boosie associate I guess

goddammit another one?

he was a talented dude, great singing voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa9Q3DWPtj4

who won tonight's game, gucci or jeezy

new dababy EP, My Brother's Keeper, is very good

agreed, it's like a whole EP made out of the ingredients of "intro." i don't want the death of a loved one to be the only thing that gets him in that reflective mood though, poor dude.

the new meek mill EP, on the other hand, is a slog despite being 4 songs long

(not) coincidentally, the meek mill track on My Brother's Keeper is the one song I don't like!

digging the chiptune vibes here

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40uEZ7axRQg

love some of her tracks, this one included

posthumous king von video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P7P1lxwZms

i like this track from Nashville's ron obasi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xRDIc-zD-RA

https://soundcloud.com/user-247074481/454-fast-trax

Playboi carti album 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

god it's fantastic

“rockstar made” gives me mixtape future vibes, miss that sound

Bizarre that this is divisive ... so obviously great

part of it is that the kanye track comes second, and it’s by far the low light

feels like an album that people in the future are gonna claimed they loved right away lol

It’s better than die lit imo and people did that with that one one

this playboy carti is interesting

who does the production or does he do producer by committee?

was thinking hard like what do these beats remind me of and there's parts where the synth sounds and melodies remind me of Boards of Canada

this feels pretty exciting

"You always asking for buddha/you're a Budapest" STFU Kanye

why do people hate this?

I don't necessarily have the facilities to understand this style completely

'Inconsistency' seems to be the main gripe.

It’s an incoherent criticism imo. The album has a cohesive unique sound and there are no tracks id really skip (tolerance for guests ymmv). People are just being confronted with something new and don’t know what to make of it

Weirdly it’s divided some of his more fervent fans as well, but I think it’s because he’s moved past the sound of “die lit” which despite having self-styled themselves as a vanguard for they don’t really want him to move past

i think another part of it is that the sound whole lotta red pretty distinct from the sound of carti's leaks, which people fell in love with. there isn't anything on here that has the vibe of "pissy pamper," for example.

Yea that’s what I mean .. he’s on some next sound. Tho a couple leaks did make the tracklist iirc

huh I feel like the production has a pretty definite aesthetic, which prompted me to ask if it was one producer (though I see it's multiples)

I don't know anything about him really other than magnolia so it's interesting to hear ppl are upset

People are just being confronted with something new and don’t know what to make of it

In all honesty this is where I am. I haven't given it a full chance yet, but it's a pretty big swerve in style

Thinking abt this Jzone thread

I used to bag on artists making 180 degree change till I hit a point it felt like everything most wanted or expected from me made me want to torch my studio and what I really wanted to do was exactly what they didn't want. With experience now those artists inspire me the most.

— J-Zone (The Du-Rites) (@jzonedonttweet) December 21, 2020

The new Carti is the only rap album I've really liked this year.

it sounds like rico nasty to me

some combination of the first sremmlife and 1000gecs is what keep coming to mind for me. I agree, I like pretty much every track on this and it moves on to the next before anything ever gets a chance to get stale

it sounds like rico nasty to me

― flopson, Saturday, December 26, 2020 11:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

its what i wish rico sounded like to me lol

which, same thing, but still

i don't really see it as a big change in style, it sounds like the leaks mixed with the production rico or other soundcloud rappers get.

and of course it's bette music.

better*

i didn't keep up with the leaks or anything but to me it sounds just like he's just leaning even further into his existing idiosyncrasies rather than it being any sort of left turn

really good album

Anyways goodnight y’all pic.twitter.com/vRtQhE4mNy

— Flacko⁷⛷ (@flackoyee) December 25, 2020

I'm listening now and it is really great (maybe a xmas release wasn't ideal? lol). But idk maybe it's cuz I listened to the s/t a lot more than Die Lit, and I've never heard any leaks, but I feel like he's using his voice in a bunch of different ways on this, e.g., his super raspy voice on Rockstar Made.

i mean it just seems like a fairly natural continuation of what he was already doing even though there's new stuff there

Ok yeah that makes sense, it's not like he put out an album of ballads or something

never heard die lit but this just sounds like carti to me

i hope the deluxe is only with the baby voice though

This is way more aggro than die lit or the leaks, come on

There’s a reason stans keep saying the second half is “better” and it’s cuz “place” is the leak aesthetic whereas most of the rest is in the new style ... and I don’t agree that it’s just standard production, there’s clearly a curated sound here that separates it from the earlier stuff

the whole vibe of the album is a midpoint between the leaks and stuff like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KSJuec45M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE788mo6_Mc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC3HF0S-I70

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

I see some common sonic touchpoints but that’s a pretty disparate list of “influences” to suggest it’s a more conservative “midpoint” between the leaks and those. More like a ramped up version of those

Really I think the producer-auteurs prob most responsible for this sound are the working on dying guys who’ve been doing uzi’s shit but they went in a new direction here

it's a great album, no doubt about that

i'm starting to think so too. can't stop thinking about "punk monk"

It’s probably my favorite rap album this year, haven’t been knocked back by something like this in awhile

Yeah this or EA

tempted to stop my end of year listening and slot this in given the collective shine but i think ahma wait for 21

what's our new thread title gon be? i wanna post stuff by los & nutty

Rolling 2021 MF DOOM Memorial Thread

down to use a doom quote but that might confuse people (including me) into thinking it's a doom only thread

rolling rapp snitch knishes 2021

sold

rolling coochie land thread 2020

any more ideas? otherwise, i'm gonna start the thread with the doom homage title later this week?

ride on

Doom homage title is weird to me & counter the traditional spirit of these threads frankly but ppl get mad at me for pointing this out every year and I no longer care

lol i typed & deleted the same thing cuz i didn't wanna come off as a dick but it's true

yeah, this is the main reason why i bumped the thread and didn't just start a new one.

there's gotta be something we can use that doesn't have "coochie" in it

lmao

rolling workin on dying 2021

ok t-minus three hours before we go with rolling coochie land 2020

hahaha

i mean... it's a good one

rolling deluxe edition thread

haha deluxe editions are definitely the zeitgeist jfc

deluxe version of coochie land is very good btw

deluxe edition it is