ODD FUTURE WOLF GANG KILL THEM ALL

it is helpful to point out their use of the word "swag" as a way to underline the ways in their different from other young rappers

erm the ways in which they're different

i agree w/j0rdan that ILX is def at its worst when we're talking about how popular someone is or who likes it or who likes it for what reasons etc and not just talking about music

i dunno i think people tend to get overly touchy about that topic for some reason

how popular artists are and what kind of audience they appeal to, i mean...the second guessing about why people like stuff does tend to get a bit tedious and self-serving

the second guessing about why people like stuff does tend to get a bit tedious and self-serving

^this is maybe a better way of saying it

though honestly i never ever want to think about how popular gucci mane is, like, ever

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MellowHype, composed of Hodgy Beats & Left Brain from Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, sign to Fat Possum for a hard release of Blackenedwhite which includes all the members of Odd Future including Tyler, The Creator who is releasing Goblin this spring. The album was originally featured on OFWGKTA's website back on Halloween and has since been remixed and remastered with bonus content for a physical release on CD and Vinyl this summer. Fat Possum began 20 years ago in North Mississippi and has released albums from Al Green, The Black Keys, R.L. Burnside, and many more.

Fat Possum!

heard some not-nice things about fat possum's business practices lately

do tell.

basically a small very very cool label had invested a lot into wavves and could have potentially really broken thru with that band, and fat possum came in and poached them last minute thru some tactics that have left a bad taste in some ppls mouths...and i guess this sort tactic is p common for FP...not that it's anything new, but i think dude is sorta violating some unspoken honor shit within the community he came up in

MELLOWHYPE (ODD FUTURE) SIGN TO FAT POSSUM FOR BLACKENEDWHITE RELEASE
ODD FUTURE FEATURED IN FUNNY OR DIE VIDEO W/ PAUL SCHEER

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MellowHype, composed of Hodgy Beats & Left Brain from Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All, sign to Fat Possum for a hard release of Blackenedwhite which includes all the members of Odd Future including Tyler, The Creator who is releasing Goblin this spring. The album was originally featured on OFWGKTA's website back on Halloween and has since been remixed and remastered with bonus content for a physical release on CD and Vinyl this summer. Fat Possum began 20 years ago in North Mississippi and has released albums from Al Green, The Black Keys, R.L. Burnside, and many more.

Funny or Die skit featuring OFWGKTA went live as well. Watch it here:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ee0a63a6be/odd-future-gets-signed

Sorry I was late.

Why would you even enter a battle of words with me? That would be like me trying to battle you in copying-and-pasting emails about 1 hour ago via web

I enhanced it with an image and links. You set the trends, I improved upon them. Yeah, that's it.

^whiney /gorilla v bear twitterbeef reference if that wasn't clear.

Yeah I saw that hilarious beef last night. Kind of reminded me of when in junior high the kids at the nerds' table would get into a shouting match over the rules of Car Wars and the rest of the lunchroom would turn around, look to see where the commotion was coming from, and shrug before returning to their meals. (Full disclosure: I was one of those kids at the nerd table, usually not the one loudly arguing though.)

^whiney /gorilla v bear twitterbeef reference if that wasn't clear.

their relationship becomes more mystifying to me every day

they're like Bert and Ernie

the fuck

the reason why i don't like discussions on how actually popular a certain rapper or group is is because nothing ever gets resolved in a meaningful way & you don't really learn anything from those discussions -- usually it's the same old argument of "internet vs real world" w/ people bring anecdotes to the table that involve a sample size (i.e. two people) so small to be meaningless

i guess i just like to have statistics available in arguments like this & unfortunately when arguing about music popularity in 2011 we don't have many reliable metrics to go on, so i think the whole genre of discussion is exasperating

i mentioned this before on the wiz/curren$y thread, but the metrics I go by are live show turnout
and because i'm in nyc, that's the locale I go by

ticket sales are definitely underrated as a measure of an act's actual fanbase, but it can be a little skewed in NYC since there are a lot of acts that can sell out or play bigger venues than they play anywhere else besides maybe their hometown (and even sometimes not there)

the wiz/curren$y argument was different because we were comparing two acts -- that's different than a grasp about how actually popular one act is

yah, what I'm saying is "how many tix can an ofwgkta show sell in nyc right now" and while i imagine that would depend on who in the crew is playing, i would say they could do at least 600 at 15-25 a pop now, right?

when arguing about music popularity in 2011 we don't have many reliable metrics to go on, so i think the whole genre of discussion is exasperating

^^^totally agree with this btw. these arguments always bore me. stick to the music, kids

they packed santos, right? and that was before the current logjam of press and late night. Who was at that show?

mos def

Mos, care to comment?

mos was ecstatic iirc

i loved it

J0rdan S. otm

couldn't believe that wiz/curren$y thing went on for hundreds of posts

or was that before "black and yellow" became the biggest song in the world?

a little before iirc

not one of deej's finest moments

glad I missed it

altho curious what you would consider deej's finest moment haha

he turns people onto good stuff fairly often

tbf he does

from hodgy's tumblr

Is your next album gonna be throught a record label?
fatbootycelinedion

everything coming from OFWGKTA will be dropped through a record label unless its its a mixtape.

when arguing about music popularity in 2011 we don't have many reliable metrics to go on, so i think the whole genre of discussion is exasperating

I would have thought we've got a shitload of reliable metrics w/ respect to music popularity in 2011, last fm charts for example

well, i think we have some reliable metrics & i do believe that youtube plays/last fm scrobbles etc are amongst some of the more reliable, but we still don't have tons of context w/ those

that said the youtube play count for "yonkers" is something tangible i would point at to illustrate ofwgkta's growing popularity, if i was inclined to do such a thing

if a motherfucka was so inclined

i'm reading that in the voice of proposition joe for some reason

think i'm gonna start calling you "prop hoos"

you ARE always working on propositions irl imo