rolling stupid fruity crazy swag thread

thread wasnt really humming along

d-lo is #1 on rcrdlbl right now...the snoop dogg remix from the tonite show

that's weird to me..is it because snoop is on it or is it like being appreciated as a novelty

has anyone here heard "No Hoe" anywhere

no but im not from the west coast

this new wiz kalifah / neako track bangs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpJ5gHclCiE

guys, if you turn images off, all the youtube videos appear as hyperlinks, pretty sweet

yeah...and then you can't see images. it'd be nice if you could just turn youtube embeds off.

lollin @ this new gucci verse on the rich girl track:

call me mr. scandal
im too hot to handle
pull up in a phantom the color of purple fanta
swag so sick make ya eggs need mylanta
kid so rich have ya flyin to atlanta
gucci mane single so all my dates double
i like gettin rich good girls in trouble
i had a girl we broke up she kept buyin rovers
little sister, hit her, cousin, hit her homegirl and her mother, gucci

i like being able to selectively click on the image links too, esp at work

wiz khalifa sounds good but neako is generic. this beat needs a better song

dunno how i feel about this article

http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2010/01/14/austin-city-limits-to-air-first-ever-hip-hop-hour/?hpt=Sbin

wow

He said he also was impressed that Mos Def recognized so many of the photos hanging on the dressing room wall – past “ACL” acts ranging from country crooner Loretta Lynn to choral rockers Polyphonic Spree.

like, i honestly bet dude from ACL was like, "Oh yeah, it was really cool, we had these convos about Loretta Lynn after he saw her pic on the wall. Dude has a real deep knowledge of music."

and the writer made it read totally condescending

i dont see how u have any idea either way, whiney

but regardless, wtf is the deal with k'naan? i tried watching some youtubes & they all sounded more like coldplay than rap msuic

is dude like the ultimate NPR rapper or what -- every context i hear him referenced in is not leading me to be any more interested

is dude like the ultimate NPR rapper or what

i mean, basically yeah. but i think that's actually a marketing problem that's keeping him from having any cred among internrrd types/hip-hop geeks.

I mean stuff like this is actually kinda dope:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzQmdTt5dPQ

jesus christ that shitty video makes me want to take back everything i just said.

cool beat, would like to hear someone else on it

K'Naan's album is pretty damn good, but is basically the epitome of the granola stuff that's essentially off limits round these parts

dude
whats good about it

if you really like it make a case for it, ppl on ilx have a pretty wide breadth of interests in rap

i mean correct me if im wrong but generally speaking isnt it 'internerd geeks/hip hop geeks" + NPR that = his fanbase?

yo can you do an "essential" street albums/mixtapes/retails list of new bay

like Jacka The Street Album, DJ Fresh etc...

i'm so overwhelmed

i was takin about the post-dipset/trap/jeezyweezy indie fuxx0r internrrd geeks who thinks any rap that doesn't mention coke or guns is automatically uncool and for losers.

but anyway, to make my case, i haven't heard the KNAAN album in like a year, but what i remember, it alternates between softie eclectic Carnival-era wyclef stuff with the occasional total banger sprinkled in between. and dude basically talks very frankly about the very fucked up situations in africa, which is the "black cnn" idea for a internet-connected world to a tee--which is prolly why npr types like him, but it actually works in a way that i don't think is corny at all.

then its not really a 'marketing problem' is it? thats like saying the xx have a 'marketing problem' with post dipset indie fuxxor internerd geeks

can you just like chill with the dicing everybody into little groups of nerds based on your own distorted perceptions? its really tedious

new ILM motto

he's saying the guy makes some bangers that a non-NPR rap fan would enjoy divorced of the context of the rest of his career, deej, calm down

1. deej is otm about my def of "marketing problem." i guess i really mean its just one of those things that will sell records but will never be popular among "cool people" even though its really good (see also: Robert Randolph, most African music that isn't Konono No. 1)

2. yeah dude, i'm aware that the actual difference between Strange Famous battle geeks, ughh.com Nas stans and GorillaVsBear-reading cokey new-jacks is narcissism of small differences, but if you can't see these shades of gray, i don't know how you've lasted so long on ILX

k'naan is okay and he's particularly strong live

is gucci out of jail yet

btw when is a good rapper going to freestyle over "on to the next one"

jay did alright himself tbh, only tolerable performance by him on that album

wtf are these gorillavsbear references I've been seeing lately? i thought that was a chillgaze fansite?

it's whiney's token stand-in for crack-rap bandwagon indie fans

btw when is a good rapper going to freestyle over "on to the next one"

bun b did

actually, he's not good anymore

;_;

k'naan is okay and he's particularly strong live

Truth bomb. Honestly, I quite like his two albums - which should both be corny and awful and worthy based on what they are but are not purely on the strength of his skill/personality/ear. But he wins you over with his live sets - fiercely charismatic, fucks with arrangements and songs all the time, great chemistry with his band (who are pretty tight themselves)...just a consummate SHOWMAN. It's easier if I don't think of him as a rapper per se - rap is one of the things in his tool kit but it's not the only one or necessarily the most important. Sort of like latter-day Mos Def (at least live).

To clarify, not like latter-day Mos in terms of sound, just in terms of how he functions as a performer/recording artist.

he's saying the guy makes some bangers that a non-NPR rap fan would enjoy divorced of the context of the rest of his career, deej, calm down

― some dude, Friday, January 15, 2010 11:30 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

im just asking for less 'internerd' anthropology & more actual enthusiasm for stuff he likes, i dont think thats really such a big deal. although based on the songs online this stuff is just too unrepentantly cheesy
& whiney's scarequotes around "cool" are making me think of the lecoq quote:

Not much of a drinker, but if I get my work done early, I've sometimes pop two NyQuil capsules and then jelly-belly my way around the office, giving people hugs and whistling "Patience" by G'n'R. There's this one guy I detest, though, and once I found his chair empty so I just gurgled up a nice one and spat on it. Immediately afterwards I got paranoid and rubbed it into the upholstery and walk- sprinted away. As I wiped my finger on my sock I bitterly realized that the whole process probably resulted in me getting more spit on my clothes than on his. Hmmm. I don't want to physically assault him; trying to chip away at him psychologically wont work - he's one of those people so removed from any social loop that nothing offends him (Example: Me: "You're wearing neon yellow suspenders and a sweater your gramma knitted you and your fly is undone you dumb bastard." Him: "Well I'm SOOOOORRY...I guess I don't conform to your standards of "COOOL" and "FASHION", hmph!").
I think I'm just gonna steal his fucking stapler.

-- Ramosi (olafsonski...), February 1st, 2002.

It's easier if I don't think of him as a rapper per se - rap is one of the things in his tool kit but it's not the only one or necessarily the most important. Sort of like latter-day Mos Def (at least live).

― Alex in Montreal, Friday, January 15, 2010 2:38 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah this is part of what is so eye-roll-y about it to me. of COURSE this guy -- a non-rapping rapper from another country -- would be one of the first rappers on austin city limits

they should get buck 65 tbh

since you brought him up i will rep the "bike for three!" record

sorry guys

ooh, i hate the Bike For Three record. But I loved Situation

i pretty much hate everything else he has done. but i love the production on that BFT record and the belgian chick is taut.

i'll stan for Talkin Honky Blues forever

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122319397

weird list, esp since i know noz is no Drake fan. including a drake mixtape but not a kanye one is kinda crazy! those early kanye mixtapes were awesome.

id pick that tupac 'rap phenomenon' mix before any juelz mixtapes too

the drake thing seems like some weird concession-- i skipped the intro but maybe he was trying to "objectively" rank tapes in terms of general impact on rap and/or the artists career?-- cuz noz has spent a good amount of time on twitter/blog trashing drake

had no idea that that t.i. tape even existed

its actually a couple of tapes -- i found out about them from ethan's old blog back when he was still posting but then they were almost impossible to find. the 2nd one from '03 is amazing

impossible to find ... outside of atlanta i mean, obv

eh as much as i loved those kanye mixtapes they weren't a media-anointed SEMINAL MIXTAPE MOMENT like So Far Gone or a lot of the other stuff on the list, and obviously he was being kind of withering and obligatory with SFG's inclusion anyway

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im surprised to hear u say that tbh. weren't those mixtapes responsible for a whole bunch of "well its good but not as good as..." type commentary when his lp dropped?