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

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

http://www.awn.com/mag/issue1.6/images/DilworthApt2.gif

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)

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

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, January 7, 2011 3:55 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

projectinnnnng

uh yeah i was a fucking dork in high school deej

but please tell us more about how you were one of the cool non-music kids on the hockey team before you discovered El-P freshman year of college

we all are, can we move on to the countdown? i want to see the dl links for some of this stuff i haven't heard

i liked roachy balboa but didn't go back to it much, but "pop off" BLEW ME AWAY - incredible, incredible track, the way he rides every detail of the beat is so great - v yelawolfy

xp i'd start by googling roachy balboa

i was a nerd too but its not like odd future are these uber hip guys -- disparaging yrself like that was a lil o_O

also,

but please tell us more about how you were one of the cool non-music kids on the hockey team before you discovered El-P freshman year of college

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Friday, January 7, 2011 3:58 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is this because i talked once about how i liked sports as a kid on ilx? is that really so alien to you?

xxp meaning, it's good, you should download it

not, hey google it yourself

anyway sorry for derailing. keep posting albums or talk about roach gigz

she dreamin bout my palace, reality is different
i'm stayin in the slums but she don't know the difference
get it? she don't go where i'm livin
if i was in prison, she would have a different dick in

okay I don't know why I dismissed Odd Future based on the way you guys talked about them before, but based on you all essentially being like "they're like a young black better version of ICP" here I looked up "Orange Juice" and holy shit I should have been up on this earlier