rolling regional thug thread 2012

Tittaaaaaaays!

Anywayz, new Spitta ep
http://www.datpiff.com/Curreny-Here-EP-mixtape.311906.html

haha i love when web urls call him "curreny"

love this beat & hook so much that i'll overlook 40 grocery bagging

http://hulkshare.com/xa9bpue6o6h0

oh and juicy j and 2 chainz guest verses that are actually worthwhile

prod by bangladesh!

#FreeDJKenn

oh this one

This E-40 is daaaaayum.

What do you guys think of Trap Back?

New Jackie Chain, always entertaining:
http://www.mediafire.com/?8l4k795yky8mlzh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llBHU3kwuoE

and New Gunplay:
http://www.datpiff.com/Gunplay-Haters-Aint-A-Problem-mixtape.312094.html

which is really sucky cos its at a shamefully low bit rate

wtf is this

WHERE IS BOGOTA

NEED BOGOTA

Its song 3 on mine?

no i mean BOGOTA the mixtape

http://www.datpiff.com/Gunplay-Bogota-mixtape.271487.html

Oh, maybe this is unofficial then, my bad if thats the case.

Thats good cos this sounds horrible.

well it says that it's sponsored... so it's prob just something they threw out to hold ppl over

its unofficial

sponsored just means someone paid for it to be listed high up

Damn.

That Jackie Chain has some jams anyway, he raps over that Mad Sax track on 'Molly'.

Rolling Post-dubstep Samples

lol i just got to the track that samples Scatman John

Burn One gotdaaaaam

http://hulkshare.com/zgo2y5tx2k2r

Beat is lavish.

wish he didnt waste it on rittz

Ha, 5 listens in and I haven't even paid attention to the rapping yet.

yea this beat d-_-b

anyone listen to that suga free mixtape?

I kinda forgot about it. Need to listen again.

Caught this off sisilafami's blog and can't get enough:

Yung Thug - Curtains ft. Shawty Lo, Skooly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImX30qntU-M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sosAMnL8fc4

ok that ca$h out is brilliant

didn't think it was possible to take fruity out-of-tune hooks too far but....

http://youtu.be/TSGDePMv9As

Spottie I read that too fast and got really excited it had Skee-Lo on it and got way more excited than a person should. Dope track tho.

@2:44 GOALS ON TOP OF GOALS ON TOP OF GOALS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PB6rN9MN4Pg#t=159s

Skee-Lo is primed for a comeback xp.

Cash Out is a good rapper name. Cool track.

why aren't more rappers uploading their mixtapes to spotify?

because you can already stream them for free on a hundred other sites? also it probably takes a similar amount of paperwork to putting them on iTunes, which they also don't do? also if you look at the most played lists on Spotify rap doesn't seem very popular among its users?

ok but people actually pay for records on itunes and they would get paid for streams on spotify? do any rappers actually make money directly from sticking a tape on datpiff/equivs? or is it just hope for a knock-on effect with touring and so on?

i get why they wouldn't upload to itunes cos c'mon no-one is gonna pay to download a tape they can get for free. but if, in my case, i already paid for spotify premium or whatever, i'm looking to give these guys money for playing the tracks that they give away for free. is the paperwork really that bad / are there really no rap fans on spotify? there's a lot of good rap on there! so much bay area stuff

i agree that it would be great if mixtapes were on spotify and maybe that'll happen at some point -- at the very least, yeah, they'd probably make a direct profit from it that they don't get from datpiff or whatever. but it also seems kind of obvious why nobody has really bothered with it -- although when you search for rappers on Spotify you DO tend to turn up a few mixtapes in addition to the official albums, but they're usually random compilation tapes, not the big tape with DJ Drama or whoever that they just dropped.

<i>because you can already stream them for free on a hundred other sites? also it probably takes a similar amount of paperwork to putting them on iTunes, which they also don't do? also if you look at the most played lists on Spotify rap doesn't seem very popular among its users?</i>

because it's not available in many countries?

why would that matter?

I thought mix tapes aren't supposed to pull any income? Specifically those with uncleared samples or beats that weren't paid for.

ok but a bunch now work w/ 100% og material, or maybe krit could release a tape w/ 15 songs on it instead of 20 etc.

Right, no reason those shouldn't be up.

drake, fabolous, etc. have re-released retail EP versions of mixtapes with just the original songs, but again that's only when radio hits and major labels are involved. i think the industry is going to have cycle through a couple more years of post-compact disc growing pains before we get anything like what y'all are asking for.

it does seem like hiphop is a couple years ahead of other genres tho. organising a datpiff&co type situation where at least hiphop fans knows where to get their music and have an organised web presence is still something most other genres still need to do. how that turns into $$$ still needs to be figured out obv.

Dont artists make almost nothing with spotify? I've seen spotify promote at like pitchfork fest but not rap shows too

'nothing' compared to SALES, but 'something' compared to datpiff/livemixtapes (i.e. actual nothing)