2010 GOON POLL results: The Top 30 Hip-Hop/Rap Albums of 2010

most of us actually like 'gangster rap' more than odd future this year

^^^also this. I find Odd Future entertaining but I haven't bothered beyond youtubes whereas rap albums I paid money for this year = E-40, Ghostface, DJ Quik

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its also weird to me that like ... "it's so obvious they DON'T drink that drug concoction (it would probably literally kill everyone who did) and half of their "bleeding" is obviously just for shits and giggles."

so whats so great about insincerity & irony exactly? they're tools used just as sincerity is used by lil boosie, it doesnt make one inherently better than the other like i feel that post is arguing

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Friday, January 7, 2011 2:29 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

Yeah, I wasn't trying to say that at all. I wasn't making a value judgment, nor saying that there's anything insincere or ironic about the video.

hey whiney post #12

but keep fightin them strawmen deej! it's clearly yr calling

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shakes are you talking about blaqkout?

im just opposed to statements that seem to imply to me that theres some kind of 'high ground' for rejecting the basic framework around a scene in rap that has been vital for decades now

you bunch of 13-yr-old boys

only at heart

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12. The Jacka & Laroo- Neva Be The Same (20 Bricks: Season 1)

re: the quik album you bought this year

ftr I have no idea why everyone is jumping all up and down on deej's dick again aside from the fact that that argument was posted under the name "deej"

but keep fightin them strawmen deej! it's clearly yr calling

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― assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, January 7, 2011 3:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

you're the one who posted the gangster rap is more offensive because they're more sincere which is clearly absurd -- i never made any statement about what you voted for or whatever! relax dude - this is exactly why i wanted to take an ilx break -- if u guys dont want me sharing my opinions then fuck it, im out

shakes are you talking about blaqkout?

yes (and yes I know it was not from this year)

i voted for this one! was a big big part of my summer. i love how pretty it sounds - "don't be scared" and "get on 1" are prob my favs off it

xps re: jacka & laroo

i liked odd future more than 'other rap' this year w/ i guess the exception of e-40 and like 'hard in da paint' but its not a general case or anything

i mean odd future works w/ a sensibility & 'language' thats a lot closer to the other music that i primarily listen to - its v much a subjective thing - so i 'get' why i gravitate towards it way more than freeway or w/e but i wouldnt make the case that its inherently 'better' just that its successful and compelling when taken on its own terms

The thing is, there's only so much I can listen to Odd Future, too. It's the same reason I was never into Slim Shady LP-era Eminem, or songs like "Kim" (which I detest); much like Lex, that aesthetic just doesn't do much for me. I love a lot of Odd Future stuff, but I never play it over and over, if that makes sense.

you're the one who posted the gangster rap is more offensive because they're more sincere which is clearly absurd

man yr reading comprehension failure rate never fails to astound

also just wanna say that youth was also important to jerk, and it's not like no one ever mentioned the youth element of various emergent cultures. and this is rather like jerk was produced by one group of teens, crewing up like teens do, with whatever youthful virtues of energy & fun & etc. and with sophisticated raps & technical chops, which jerk was always (charmingly?) deficient in. so i guess 1) it's not like youth wasn't important to jerk 2) there are unsurprising reasons ppl mention they are kids from time to time

But I mean, at the same time, when ISN'T youth important to music, period?

OK GUYS all the quivering vaginas re: OF go in the OF thread

stfu

But I mean, at the same time, when ISN'T youth important to music, period?

what kind of question is this

it's important to varying degrees, and is usually mentioned in rough proportionality to those degrees

if you still can't decide whether murder fantasies are for you, raise your hand so i can chop it off

lol

zvookster otm. youth isn't really important/relevant to, say, the mid-70s work of Willie Nelson.

But I mean, at the same time, when ISN'T youth important to music, period?

what kind of question is this

― assorted curses (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, January 7, 2011 2:44 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

I dunno.

let's talk about how good the jacka/laroo album is

and this is rather like jerk was produced by one group of teens, crewing up like teens do, with whatever youthful virtues of energy & fun & etc. and with sophisticated raps & technical chops, which jerk was always (charmingly?) deficient in

i guess the biggest difference is class - not social class but, y'know, what ~type~ of kids the jerk kids were vs. the odd future kids - ie kids who love dancing, dressing up, chatting shit about sex and status, vs. kids who like being gross and watching jackass

jerk kids def seem more well-adjusted heheh

kids who love dancing, dressing up, chatting shit about sex and status, vs. kids who like being gross and watching jackass

this is like some silly T/S teenage girls vs. teenage boys dichotomy

chatting shit about sex and status

tbh i'd much rather have talked about "gross" than "status" at any age in my life, sex always tho

jacka/laroo album is really good and i think anyone would like it not just rap-heads

let's talk about how good the jacka/laroo album is

― J0rdan S., Friday, January 7, 2011 2:46 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

I put it too low on my ballot, unfortunately.

lol @ jerk vs. odd future

jerk has cooties but odd future pull ponytails

talk about jacka & laroo plz

so addicted to picking out the organ in this

jacka & laroo "about me"

i dunno, i was not well-adjusted at that age, to say the least. like... i would definitely been more likely to hang out with the of kids than the jerks.

i liked jacka/laroo a lot because i think there is a perfect balance there -- be it laroo or andre nickatina, i think jacka's style works best when it's overtly contrasting someone more deep voiced/typical

lol @ jerk vs. odd future

we were specifically discussing why it was important that they were young, don't be a dick

would have derided the jerks as the fucking popular kids.

so addicted to picking out the organ

sounds like an odd future lyric

the jacka & laroo was one of those records where the first track started and i just thought, oh i am gonna love this

would have derided the jerks as the fucking popular kids.

^^^lol perhaps the ILX Heathers thread is relevant here

i would def have identified more w/ odd future socially but jerk wd be my aesthetic guilty pleasure

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11. Roach Gigz - Roachy Balboa

i love all the light, airy synths on the jacka & laroo album that make it feel like you're cruising around on a cloud or something - it feels really opulent, but super-casual too. one of those albums i had to rebuy just for the higher quality.

shakey: what is that?

lol about what rappers you would have hung out in high school. they would have probably thought you were all fucking dorks

yay, another one of my picks. glad that did well.

the jacka & laroo was one of those records where the first track started and i just thought, oh i am gonna love this

i love how suddenly the album starts! like, BANG just straight into this sweet, sweet chorus

pot kettle black

xxpost

yeah, 'don't be scared' just has 'summer jam' written all over it xps

weird derails aside this is a great list so far btw (/goonthreadlurker)