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

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)

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

also the energy on SO FUCK AROUND AND POP OFF FOR YOUR WHOLE TOWN~~

shakey: what is that?

there's a thread on ILX right now about the movie Heathers (the central plot of which involves gruesomely murders of the popular kids)

xp

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

― ich bin ein ilxor (deej), Friday, January 7, 2011 5:00 PM (47 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol, i didn't even know that, i just guessed

my fav roach gigz off that tape is 'gold' -- so i love the amelodic spindly beats too but it makes 'gold' seem that much better when it comes in

hmm yeah Dan woulda figured odd future would appeal to yr goofy goth side

xp

lol and by proxy I now like "Lemonade" a lot more than I ever did

although I still hate the way Gucci sounds

roach gigz - pop off

"they're like a young black better version of ICP"

lol

i really like "Respect It" and "Goomba Pimpin" because.... SLAPZ

my faves on the roach gigz tape are "respect it" and "goomba pimpin'"

ha xp

i was gonna say in Gun Sounds. my early hope for th '12 thread is ROLLING SLAPS

wishful thinking

would be down with^^^

if DJ Fresh makes half the cd's he threatens to it might just be

those are good too, goomba pimpin was an immediate highlight to me but for some reason 'let me breathe' & 'gold' hit me harder now for how conceptually consistent they are

"Magic Gas"

period the end

roachy balboa is a really exciting tape, another one that feels like something new, like cohesive and aggressively lyrical but totally zany and fun and pop i guess?

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10. Tyler, The Creator - Bastard

consistent's the wrong word, they're just topical where respect it & goomba are more train-of-thought type ish

going back to roachy balboa now and it's way more exciting than i remember - these beats are kind of nuts and he's just rampant on them

(those are xps to my other post -- the tape itself is super consistent)

yeah, like i have no idea why he would go back to normal beats after a whole album of bonkers ones

not sure how goomba isn't topical?

I think the thing I am most furious about right now is that I've only checked out two things on this list and I've loved them both, completely throwing into disarray my baseline assumption that I hate modern hip-hop.

(the other being "Respect It")

not sure how goomba isn't topical?

― i don't even vacuum, i'm roomba pimpin (The Reverend), Friday, January 7, 2011 4:10 PM (36 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its a story track that goes all over the place & doesnt like have a 'point'
theres nothing necessarily wrong w/ that -- its just that the more focused ones grew to become my faovrite

i didn't know roach gigz was nicaraguan!

trying to find the backstory that would match the pic for bastard

"goomba pimpin" could be described, technically, as gas

someone link DJP to the LIGHTWEIGHT JAMMIN thread & we may have converted him to full autogoon lol