frat rap

wiz khalifa seems to have created this lane for these dudes & i would imagine there's something like a 99.9% overlap in the sam adams / wiz khalifa fanbase (that dosent work in the other direction)

this isnt harvard rap chris its more like big ten rap

big ten rap like a basketball player

i am going to advise shakey mo not to bother with this thread because the music is by and large mediocre & because there will likely be a lot of theorizing about demographics based on anecdotal evidence just fyi

Born as Samuel Adams Wisner, Adams attended Hobart and William Smith Colleges for two years where he played for the Statesmen soccer team. He studied political science at Trinity College, Hartford

how much you want to bet he's a libertarian

waiting patiently for lolz

i mean look man, this shit has existed since rap began. Every school had the funny dude that rapped. Its just that no one gave it any attention until Asher tried to pull the great rap n race swindle. The only reason that rappers cosigned his wack and terrible ass is because the industry was going into the shitter and everyone wanted to be align thenselves with the safe bet as to where the money was gonna be.

yeah he also had a minor hit but

these guys are riding the 'i smoke weed & listen to rap & im a chill dude' wiz khalifa philosophy to white rapper $$$$

i think whats new here is that they're picking up an audience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If9zqpAFYUU

based on the number of hair flips i suspect this girl wants to smash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmEpkztK5Lw

see to me this def feels like a big step further on the whitewashing scale than vanilla ice or eminem ever did

fart rap

well i've finally heard mac miller, uggghhhhhhhhhh

the name 'mac miller' makes me think hes gonna come out wearing a no limit tank chain

if mac & master p had a baby, hed be a white boy named 'mac miller'

where is ethan's thread about rappers having names that make you think they're going to sound totally different than they do

http://cdn3.knowyourmeme.com/i/000/093/953/original/SCUMBAG%20STEVE.jpg

the name 'mac miller' makes me think hes gonna come out wearing a no limit tank chain

― deej, Saturday, March 12, 2011 10:57 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

deej is REALLY into fratrap.tumblr.com

okay this is my first time listening to dude too

sounds like disney channel rap or something

are we sure this isn't just aaron carter using an alias

(re: mac miller)

this feels like the ilm equivalent of a new york times trendpiece

the interesting thing about that video is that even tho it's a white dude rapping they still managed to shoehorn in a scene where a nerdy white dude gets in a circle and does bad dancing and everyone is like "lol white people"

haha, i didn't watch that long

they see Nas as the most recent musical prophet in a line stretching from Jimi Hendrix - > Bob Marley

― deej, Saturday, March 12, 2011 5:20 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark

this part is prob true

i don't see any evidence that these guys are popular at all, let alone moreso than OF

that mac miller knock knock 'kool aid' video has nearly 5 million youtube views

just fyi

frats like andre nikatina

I thought

we're old

i know ppl listen to mac miller cuz i've heard his name prior to this outside of ilm

qed motherfuckers

ime frats used to like popular rap. ludacris. 'big pimpin.' but frat dudes dont care about, like, black eyed peas and flo rida now

mac miller's 'donald trump' video came out one week ago and has more than 1 million views

is mac miller signed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74TFS8r_SMI

and the song sucks too!

sam adams 'i hate college remix' has 5 million views

this guy is really way worse than asher roth

for scale, the 'yonkers' video was tweeted by kanye west and still doesnt have 3 million views

and sam adams afaik hasnt been on national television either

tbph i find his flow on "donald trump" generic enough to be inoffensive, and the beat's not bad; i could see something like this, but with an actual hook of some sort, being a hit

(nb I said flow not lyrics — if i tried to pay attention to the latter i would get rolling-induced eyestrain before he stops to take a breath)

mike posner has hits, i wouldn't be surprised if this other stuff became popular

i don't find it very interesting tho bcuz it pretty much exists in its own universe

take over the world, watch ilm get mad

sam adams has been around for a while -- i'd seen his name before

idk what else to say about this stuff

it sucks

ime frats used to like popular rap. ludacris. 'big pimpin.' but frat dudes dont care about, like, black eyed peas and flo rida now

― deej, Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:19 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark

btw i think it's wrongheaded to say that frat guys aren't into popular rap anymore -- these types of dudes are into drake, kanye, wiz and cudi especially

lupe is gonna sell 250k albums this week, i think males 18-25 are prob a large part of his fanbase

wiz is a big point of crossover tho

i don't see any evidence that these guys are popular at all, let alone moreso than OF

― J0rdan S., Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:15 PM (42 minutes ago)

i go to school in new england and everyone knows who sam adams is, unfortunately

btw i think it's wrongheaded to say that frat guys aren't into popular rap anymore -- these types of dudes are into drake, kanye, wiz and cudi especially

lupe is gonna sell 250k albums this week, i think males 18-25 are prob a large part of his fanbase

― J0rdan S., Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:33 PM (27 minutes ago)

this seems to be otm

xp that's just regional tho -- someone in cali would say the same thing about jerking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaEv78RqoDw

Post-Macklemore flow

feel like this cldve gone a lil deeper http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/arts/music/white-rappers-geazy-mike-stud.html

remember when we discovered the two dubsteps itt, revelatory

the last couple of times i've reacted with a visceral "what the fuck is this GARBAGE" to music on the radio were both to songs that ended up featuring g-eazy

(the grace one and the marc e. bassy one)

man i have missed all of this bullshit entirely.

i dunno whether to commend you for your foresight or hate you, d.

― death to ilx, long live the frogbs (strongo hulkington's ghost dad), Friday, 15 July 2011 01:54 (5 years ago) Permalink

Story of my career

This stuff is extraordinarily easy to ignore, though. I get that these acts are taking a short cut to success, in a sense, but none seem to have cultural reach of black acts who do similar numbers. That's one thing their privilege can't buy them: relevance

(the article was spot on though; best exploration of the subject I've seen)

Story of my career

you're doing important ethnographic work here.

pun probably intended fuck it.

great piece

can't stop lol'ing at this photo tho

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2016/08/21/arts/21GEAZYJP3/21GEAZYJP3-master675.jpg

it's like something from the onion graphics department or one of those horrifying face swap apps

they lost me at "handsome ectomorph".

but for me this whole style reminds me as nothing so much as the various christian analogues of popular culture. the veggietales approach to hip-hop.

i need to catch up on Mac Miller real quick like.

started out frat rap, somehow worked his way into (quasi-?)credibility, critics about-faced on him at some point, now is putting out his "soul" album...does that sound about right? or no?

has he legit gone from joke/horror to decent?

He was never as terrible as people made him out to be. He did the whole "little brother discovers your Native Tongues CDs" thing well on Blue Slide Park

He sucks and he's always sucked and the marketing for him is "actually he's good this time" every time around

i don't know if i can listen to a mac miller album title "the divine feminine"

i can technically i guess but i never will

this one sounds like the death rattle of tasteful milquetoast kaytranadawave r&b

'watching movies w/ the sound off' is pretty neo soul influenced too but is good

it's funny that writers are buying the "it's a feminist album!" angle hook line and sinker when he put fuckin cee lo on it

lol

jeez

the marketing for him is "actually he's good this time" every time around

lol this is very true. But I found his old puppy dog on the playground stuff kind of likeable; it's his newer attempts to be an adult artist that are insufferable. He gets worse each year imo

lol this dude let himself be shamed into becoming an artiste when he went platinum on the frat rap circuit

chose a life of small stinky rooms full of earl sweatshirt fans over boning sorority girls in bathtubs full of money

tbf i'm not sure he could have sustained that audience

also, boning ariana has to count for something, i guess.

is she the one who said she hates america then licked a donut if so then yes, our most important celebrity

don't forget the (alleged) time she smiled winningly at her fans as they mobbed an elevator then when the doors closed wished out loud for their death. that was the one that converted me.

an inspiration truly

i'd bone

wld bone, follow into battle, ascend to the next level of consciousness etc

idk i think i like this album, although yes the idea that this is some feminist awakening does not really jive w/ the content

if the Watching Movies one is similar but better, maybe i should check that one out

Ariana's skit on SNL where she did vocal impressions was pretty great, these two seem like maybe they deserve each other

rip Mac Miller

Probably should have posted this somewhere other than a thread about "Frat Rap". I thought this was a joke at first.

It's being discussed in the "rolling face tat" thread (...I know)

lol

frat rap more like frat crap amirite

oh whoops i didn't see why the revive ... my bad :(

lol

omg chet!

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