Don Trip & Starlito's Step Brothers tape from earlier this year

wait, i did what with e-40 too?
--When snap was real ... Thumbs up if you agree (D-40)

There was some whiny comment that someone got to "Lightweight Jammin" before u.

i honestly have no idea what you're talking about, but i'm sure if was you self-consciously misinterpreting something in a self-aggrandizing way

That was a dope song IMO

(jay-z looks like lil b on that picture)

anyway, if jordan and whiney are done backseat driving this thread off of a cliff, i'd like to turn back to the album's content;

from what i've heard i like don trip more than starlito. i posted the 'letter to my son' vid in the ringtone thread & i dont think it got much love, didn't it exist in a pre-cee lo version?

sorry that you called this mixtape a landmark and i asked what you meant by that!

rom what i've heard i like don trip more than starlito. i posted the 'letter to my son' vid in the ringtone thread & i dont think it got much love, didn't it exist in a pre-cee lo version?

― When snap was real ... Thumbs up if you agree (D-40), lundi 14 novembre 2011 01:48 (45 seconds ago) Bookmark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQGUz-ntEPE

sorry that you called this mixtape a landmark and i asked what you meant by that!

― J0rdan S., Sunday, November 13, 2011 6:48 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

a structure (as a building) of unusual historical and usually aesthetic interest; especially : one that is officially designated and set aside for preservation

so, exactly what i was saying

there have been fewer than ten historically important mixtapes in rap history? great point. can we get back on topic? j0 if you havent heard this record, dont post itt again

that sounds like a completely enforceable rule

Trip is a deeper, more dexterous MC to my ears. If you listen to "Life," "4th Song" and the first couple of minutes on "Outtakes" (or "Karate in the Garage"), there's this pattern where Lito starts out and it's good and then Trip comes in and raises the stakes. (Most apparent on "Life").

"Letter to My Son" was first put up on You Tube in September 2009, when his son was two months old and he hadn't seen him in a month. The "recording booth" is his old bedroom in his mom's house, where he'd just moved back because of financial difficulties. The song sat on You Tube virtually unnoticed for a full year before it started to go viral and the labels started calling.

The story I'm working on is primarily about the two-year journey of that song.

nice

anyway i have heard this record, i think it's pretty good, i don't know. it's not really the slice of rap music i'm exactly listening to. starlito actually sounds kinda like fred the godson.

Don Trip Fun Fact: Real name? Christopher Wallace

Don Trip Fun Fact: Real name? Christopher Wallace

the jackin for beats is def awesome & the best thing on it

i cant believe it was a controversial point that 'step brothers' is likely to be considered an important record because i've observed lots of writers and tastemakers like it.

anyway, lol @ the fred comparison -- you're probably not expecting me to say this but i know what you mean. its that performed-'meaningful' vocal style.

this tape is still on the periphery of my favorite tapes this year because i think their voices sometimes get too IM SO INTENSE WITH FEELING RIGHT NOW and not in a way that necessarily seems very musical to me. But I do think its unquestionably an accomplished record, and that it's more a matter of buying that style, than buying that they do a good job with that style.

or for comparison, I like Young Dolph's rap style a lot more, its up my alley in terms of performance -- but on the other hand, i don't think his tape from this year is quite as interesting or as good a full package as 'step bros' is

i cant believe it was a controversial point that 'step brothers' is likely to be considered an important record because i've observed lots of writers and tastemakers like it.

anyway, lol @ the fred comparison -- you're probably not expecting me to say this but i know what you mean. its that performed-'meaningful' vocal style.

this tape is still on the periphery of my favorite tapes this year because i think their voices sometimes get too IM SO INTENSE WITH FEELING RIGHT NOW and not in a way that necessarily seems very musical to me. But I do think its unquestionably an accomplished record, and that it's more a matter of buying that style, than buying that they do a good job with that style.

or for comparison, I like Young Dolph's rap style a lot more, its up my alley in terms of performance -- but on the other hand, i don't think his tape from this year is quite as interesting or as good a full package as 'step bros' is

wtf is up with posting

i think their voices sometimes get too IM SO INTENSE WITH FEELING RIGHT NOW

this is mostly my prob w/ it -- i think it's easy to get burnt out on this kinda thing to a certain extent... like i dig in theory what starlito's going for but i could never listen to all of these mixtapes that he puts out -- feel the same way about, like, main attrakionz misanthropy -- nowadays i'm much more likely to listen to stuff that is super musical (krit or ross or drake) or makes me laugh (riff raff, soulja boy) or does the I'M INTENSE thing in the service of something... greater (meek or gunplay or flocka)

yeah idk ilx ground to a halt there for like 10 mins

this tape is still on the periphery of my favorite tapes this year because i think their voices sometimes get too IM SO INTENSE WITH FEELING RIGHT NOW and not in a way that necessarily seems very musical to me

see, i feel this.

i've been catching up on some stoner/cloud/bandcamp rap things over the weekend and then I threw on the new WC where he's basically just barking at you for 45 minutes and it felt like "YES THIS IS WHAT RAP IS." So, yeah, I feel that these guys go in. Fuck being "musical" imo. 1988 forever.

i'm really fucking sick of rap being "musical"

well that's stupid

You're stupid

i'm really fucking sick of rap being "musical"

― shiroibasketshoes & tuxedos (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, November 13, 2011 8:26 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

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I love this album. Sorry for all the mean things I said over the last three years, Drake.

― Youth Ya Goon (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, November 8, 2011 6:40 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark

The things I love about the Drake album are the amusical things like the nauseous, stumbling wooze and codiene barfs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ9_uur0_HU

^the best raps are amusical. we need more dudes not afraid to rap in double fortissimo—props to Starlito and Don Trip

from the outside of this convo for what it's worth i have NO idea what 'musical' means as you guys are using. melody? production that incorporates live instruments or samples of live instruments?

i've been catching up on some stoner/cloud/bandcamp rap things over the weekend
i've been catching up on some stoner/cloud/bandcamp rap things over the weekend
i've been catching up on some stoner/cloud/bandcamp rap things over the weekend

you know music that is musical, like lyrically lyrical

the beat of "time to kill" is simply beautiful.

smh at lil lody givin his best beats to starlito

from the outside of this convo for what it's worth i have NO idea what 'musical' means as you guys are using. melody? production that incorporates live instruments or samples of live instruments?

― some dude, Sunday, November 13, 2011 8:33 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

i guess i mean poppier stuff... music w/ a lot of emphasis put on the quality & importance of the production

i've been catching up on some stoner/cloud/bandcamp rap things over the weeknd

how did that go

this one time at stoner/cloud/bandcamp, i listened to 12 mondre man tracks and couldn't remember a single thing about them

how did that go

― MODS DID 10/11 (k3vin k.), Sunday, November 13, 2011 9:00 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

curren$y is boring even with alchemist, Scotty is boring even with DJ Burn One, and Travis Porter is just boring

in non-internet-rap news, the Alley Boy mixtape is mastered so poorly that it's practically unlistenable

wait what the hell does travis porter have to do w/ any of that

also basically all of your opinions are wrong (i have no idea who scotty is)

travis porter is great, "proud 2 be a problem" is a landmark mixtape

dude Alley Boy mixtape was like

rap rap rap DJ DRAMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! rap rap

differenter 3 is half a landmark mixtape, half pretty decent pop rap

i don't really care for alley boy

Curren$y is like the most unrewarding listen of anything in 2011, and I have no idea how people can listen to like 20 mixtapes of that guy

loving this 'landmark' meme

me too tbh

i agree w/ that last part, but there's some very good curren$y stuff out there

whiney thank you for being the first person to ever say something about curren$y that i remotely agree with

you are welcome, some dude