rolling ringtone thread 2008

black milk joint is aite

esham is album of the year imo

The joint with Royce on the Black Milk is tight, but as for the rest... the production is kinda interesting, I guess, but not good enough to make up for Milk's weakness as a rapper.

last black milk was much, much better. this one is ok.

i am downloading that Esham. I liked some of the stuff on KKKill the Fetus

i peeped a Murs promo and there's an ad for Murs clothes and it's all like something an Abe Vigoda fan would wear

whiney, bringing up abe vigoda in the ringtone thread is probably the most in character post ever

between this and iron & wine/kanye it's truly been a banner day

:/

what do abe vigoda fans wear anyway? lots of neon shit?

yeah, they do. :(

saying "Abe Vigoda" out of context and expecting everyone to understand you mean some indie band and not the actor they're named after is probably the most in character post ever

i'm sorry guys.

wait theres a band called Abe Vigoda???

BREAKING NEWS

that's not breaking news, we all knew you were racist

oh juelspaws

http://www.hiphopdx.com/index/audio/id.6156/title.juelz-santana-f-skull-gang-christmas-song

How many other hip-hop albums are entirely based on movies? The only other one I can think of right now is Nighthawks

if we're gonna count mixtapes with movie-themed titles/covers/skits like that Juelz thing, then thousands.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/washington/25pardons.html?scp=2&sq=pardons&st=cse

"The closest any of the defendants came to celebrity was John E. Forté, a hip-hop artist and backup singer to Carly Simon who was convicted of aiding and abetting in the distribution of cocaine. (Ms. Simon put up the bail of $250,000 for Mr. Forté when he was arrested in 2001 at Newark International Airport.) Mr. Forté was sentenced to 14 years in prison, but Mr. Bush commuted the remainder of his sentence."

Could anything possibly be more gangster than going to jail for over a million dollars in liquid coke, serving half your sentence and then being pardoned by W?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/189/452630928_b3aa8ac4b2.jpg

no chestnuts on the open fire
just niggas that will open fire

lol @ dipset guys releasing xmas albums every year, they really love it!

I know a guy whose producer did a track on the Bad Santa thing, he sent me a link to a track last week and said "Sounds like they are doing some stupid shit to the beat though. Kinda hurts my heart a bit."

this is the sickest cover of the year

http://nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/drought-6-cover.jpg

also a surprisingly good mixtape.

new clipse tape

http://www.complex.com/ENTERTAINMENT/MUSIC/Clipse-Mixtape

worst title ever

cover is no bargain either:

http://www.complex.com/assets/images/Entertainment/Music/122008/CLIPSE-MIXTAPE-FRONT.jpg

so far, so good

"Voted for Obama, but McCain was my tax bracket"

the next line is better:

"i just sarah palin hoes/kick em out but keep the clothes"

ha i had no idea 'day and night' was kid cudi -- where have i heard this song before??

hmm im guessing i heard this crookers remix @ some 2am intoxicated adventures -- pretty good track

the original i mean, this remix is balls

i swear none of the dudes that make these remixes actually dance

who listens to remixes of kid cudi songs

not accusing - just saying

that crookers remix is garbage i'd rather listen to justice

same ppl who listen to crookers remixes of whatever the fuck else - its blog/bmore bullshit that gets tons of club play now

that's why i stay home and play mario kart on the weekends

the internet has ruined the remix right? i feel like everyone has a crookers remix nowadays. how the hell am i supposed to care

its weird none of this shit seems particularly fun to dance to -- im used to old-ilx-style debates about dance music where everybody talks in reductive terms about a black-white polarity between funkless trance and groovin disco-house or whatever, and although i reject the simple and wrongheaded binary opposition there i have to admit it has sorta subconsciously informed the way i look at a lot of dance, even if in the most general, so-many-exceptions-to-the-rule terms.

this stuff though has really done a service to this sort of offensive race-informed discourse by removing it -- so many shitty djs of all races in this scene, and it is a genuinely diverse scene .... and sometimes it'll have good ideas and sometimes it will have shitty ones, but the worst is this BMORE BREAK x BORING GRATING SYNTH MELODY thing. and this isnt some lol im old bullshit i dont think -- this feels different, like i 'get' whats fun to dance to when listening to a bmore mix, i 'get' house music (obviously) but this stuff seems sheerly irritating when its all thrown together, like there's no vibe, no attempt to really make anything happen, just to signify 'progress' by with this cobbled together frankenstein dance music

that said this kid cudi track (the original) is dope and deserves a really banging dance remix -- which this crookers version is not

no fucking clue why im talking about this on the ringtone thread but i blame 808s and heartbreak

i blame preview of the matrix 12

to be honest i always thought that real hard ravey shit like crookers was made to be purposefully grating and antagonistic - like "try dancing to this" but in an asshole way

i mean i don't see how you physically could do it. i thought this was inherent

Listening to it, it's not great, but I wouldn't not dance to it. It's hardly at the extreme end of the noise-synth house trend.

Seems like it's taking its cues from bassline as much as bmore or Justice

arab money video is kind of hilarious - i approve of shawty lo and ace hood sheepishly dancing

The original is dope though

xp

wtf is 'crookers' and why u guys gotta further the idea of 'bmore' as some abstract concept that wack dudes anywhere can just co-opt with a fast breakbeat