WAKA

interview transcripts should never ever be verbatim accounts of everything everyone said including logistical asides that participants needed to communicate to each other but have no value to the reader, that's like writing 101

i've never seen one like that

i guess the problem was that the tyler + waka portion of the interview was like 500 words, so they needed to add in the whole theater of "tyler's out with his mom and waka is conferencing in with someone else from interview" which just paints interview as a really haphazard and poorly executed concept

imo

also i guess the guy who set it up really wanted to be the one to do the interview but he's not a celebrity himself so he had to kind of shoehorn himself in

saw waka being interviewed on tv this morning and couldn't get this outta my head

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_so1SQZ040_A/S1NENqr4uuI/AAAAAAAAADo/IqCvPfHM_1Q/s320/tumblr_kuzt8tDXTf1qat25fo1_250.jpg

and then typed in kel mitchell dreads for image search and waka came up in first pic. ha

http://meetthadealer.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Waka-Flocka-x-Tyler-The-Creator.jpg

To be blunt, I was more struck by the class differences that come out in this interview. That's how I read it.

FLAME: So where does the anger in your music come from?

TYLER: Uh . . .

FLAME: Is it from issues that you have? Is it from stuff that happened to you?

TYLER: Yeah, shit like that. I get pissed at little shit. Like, Facebook deleted my profile the other day without telling me, and I was fucking angry.

From Stereo Type:

brother dead, daddy dead, auntie got HIV
lord, can you please get this rage out of me?
started popping pills cause of shit that i’ve seen
and the shit that I went through as a child

Not exactly the horrors of a Facebook account getting deleted.

not that its not still a class difference, but im p sure tyler was joking

the deflection is a pity - since they're both angsty it was an interesting q from mr. flame

It's not like Tyler shies away from discussing his personal problems in his recorded output

first single from his new album

http://soundcloud.com/wakaflockaflame/round-of-applause-dirty

more evidence for the "luger is actually a pretty diverse producer" file

not bad, that flow he slips into for the second verse is my favorite of his

not really sure the ad-libs really work with the more laid-back first verse

i like this song a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEzLFv-gRaU

i was kinda hoping that would be a proper church organ though, like imagine that shit reverberating around st paul's cathedral

gives me a klezmer vibe

yes, lex, that's what you hoped a video titled "boy goes hard on the organ" would be

omg y'all waka is reading thomas friedman :( :( :( (

What’s the last book you read?

Actually, I just got this new one two or three days ago! It’s called, The World Is Flat.

Oh yeah, by Thomas Friedman. That’s a good one.

Damn, girl! You be on them books too! (Laughing) I was in a conversation with a guy in the studio and he told me to get it, so I went and Googled it, ordered it and it just came in. I haven’t started yet, I can’t wait though – they said it’s good.

noooooo

The World is Flocka vs. The Waka is Flat

Hey, what did you think about Jay-Z kind of quoting your song, Bustin’ At ‘Em, on Watch The Throne—

What? He did? I ain’t know that! How did that slip that by me?!

I'm from East Atlanta 6 where the boys dump bricks but we don't bump The Blueprint 3 Watch The Throne

that girl look like halle berry when i'm on them beans
when i hit the scene, girls yellin and they scream

"flocka can you be my baby daddy?"
yes!

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/06/magazine/lex-luger-hip-hop-beat-maker.html?_r=1&ref=magazine&pagewanted=all

def really interested in what lex has beyond gun sounds -- "that way" & "round of applause" are two really good, different productions

hilarious byline

Alex Pappademas is a contributing writer for the magazine. He last wrote about the career of Ryan Gosling.

"flocka can you be my baby daddy?"
yes!

― J0rdan S., Friday, October 14, 2011 4:41 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark

love the tone of his voice there

still bewildered by the arms race people have been in to see how hyperbolically they can write about lex luger's amazing achievement that only 30 other southern rap producers have accomplished before him, all with better music

Is it a good thing that he makes his beats in twenty minutes?

for him, yeah

also when was the last time that a rapper or producer was like "yeah it took me like 3 and a half days to get this song perfectly right"

kanye duh

I bet Clams Casino takes at least half an hour

none of ya'll were shakin your heads that hard in da point only took 20 minutes to compose when it first dropped

still bewildered by the arms race people have been in to see how hyperbolically they can write about lex luger's amazing achievement that only 30 other southern rap producers have accomplished before him, all with better music

― prettyliketynandelong (some dude), Saturday, November 5, 2011 2:49 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

when was the last time a southern rap producer became singularly associated with a certain type of sound?

drumma boy got a write up in the NYT iirc

yeah but that was after he did what lex luger has done several times over

Drumma >> Lex

drumma is def >>> lex but otoh when drumma had his biggest impact he was coming up w/ shawty redd and a few others who were working in that lane

lex didnt really have any peers he had imitators

i think what i'm saying is that lex's influence appears more seismic bcuz of that

& fwiw lex has plenty of great beats

Agree.

yeah I don't think there's anything wrong with writing a story about lex, he's got a good narrative, a good angle

yeah i mean the sound has been omnipresent in rap for like a year and a half almost now

when was the last time a southern rap producer became singularly associated with a certain type of sound?

the entire decade of 2000-2010

lol. but seriously, whenever you hear a fast-paced orchestral bombast beat you're gonna automatically think 'lex' whereas other big name southern producers displayed a lot more variety out of the gates

p sure this came out before "Hard In Da Paint"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8Kog_sozBE

yeah but that wasn't as big a hit as hard in da paint?

nyt's not gonna care about timelines, they're only gonna care about a good story

While I do love the construction of lots of Lex's beats, I feel they suffer from fidelity issues on occasion, especially compared to Drumma's beats which generally always sound ironed out.

Having said that, was just listening to

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7xtOkT_0zQ

and it's pretty crispy, no issues at all. idk, maybe I just dont love the bass sound that he uses on most of his beats.

i think lex's best beat this year is "Smoke That Bitch"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wT3AJ-FBD2w