rolling autogoon thread 2009

the workout plan video with fonz bentley verse is classic

i always liked "bring me down" but he spit that same verse basically on rap city way before LR over the "stand up" beat and it's way doper

SLU and Drunk aside that list is pretty rong

i mean some of those songs are pretty mediocre but by no means belong on a worst list...and even the biggest 808s defender should be able to think 1 or 2 songs from it that deserve to be on that list.

what's billie jean 2008 like? yeah "see you in my nightmares" is def in the worst 10 kanye songs

"New Workout Plan" is a really fucked up song to consider when you remember that his mother died during weight-loss surgery.

"weight-loss surgery"

"New Workout Plan" is a really fucked up song to consider when you remember that his mother died during weight-loss surgery.

Nice challopsy comment but not really.

that post is a really fucked up challop to consider when you remember that dom's girlfriends are morbidly obese and bipolar

Not true, one of them was just borderline

young dro dropping a new mixtape soon

haha he did that about the same time last year rite

w/ yung la who i am tepidly optimistic about xp

yeah I don't mind his song but Yung LA seems possibly pretty annoying and it'll suck if he gets to drop an album before all the dope artists on Grand Hustle this year

yeah agreed. afaik dro floated some singles out to radio (according to wikipedia at least) but nothing's caught on so we'll see. would be a damn shame if he couldn't get an album out

btw this mixtape is called BLACK BOY, WHITE BOY as in black boy swag and white boy tags

I want a Grand Hustle comp like Purple Ribbon got purp 2

there was one 2 yrs ago that kinda got ignored in the wake of 'king' but it had my fav dro song on it

was listening to the radio while emptying the dishwasher and this radio station went "pop champagne" -> AND THE BEST THROW BACK JAMS LIKE THESE "it was a good day" o_O

what do dudes think of the pitchfork-approved and diplo-mixed paper route gangstaz? the diplo remixes are pretty corny (weezer sample lol) but some of the beats are pretty nice:

i think we all pretty much like those guys a lot - we basically have a thread on them rollin rollin rollin we aint slept in weeks

that weezer sample is a non-diplo remix i think and it's one of their best songs. you should try and find the g-side album "starshipz & rocketz" (we talk about it some in that thread). it's produced by the same dudes who do the prgz stuff

oh duh i recognized that thread title when i heard it in the song

i basically agree w/ what noz said about that mixtape which is -- if you're trying to highlight a crew thats known for its beats rather than its rapping why would u release a CD where you remix their rappers??

noz

Flex - I think I mentioned this here before but I don’t really understand the point of that tape. A bunch of inferior remixes of tracks where the primary appeal was the production. It’s like whats next the Group Home remix project?

I mean, I get that knowing Diplo probably expands their extra-bama audience by like 100x but that doesn’t mean much musically. Diplo is hot but he isn’t half the producer that BB are. Business wise I don’t think it’s very smart for them to be chasing the hipster/fader/blogosphere dollars just yet either. They need to be solidifying a core audience right now, because hipster love is the most fleeting.

my theory is diplo and benzi are crewing with dudes that will allow them to throw around the term "bama" the same way some crackers with black friends think it's ok for them to drop n-bombs

it's just what they do, it's how they put artists on and give them their stamp. they take people in (south rakkas crew, santogold, mia, etc) and make mixes for them and these mixes always involved a lot of ambitious remixing. that's diplo's MO and in order to get his cosign and that bump of exposure that's what happens. yeah it's different this time because they are known for their beats but it's not like they stripped the whole thing of the beats, there's only a couple remixes on it. it's a collaboration that's all.

yeah...i scratched my head the same way when they signed Blaq Starr and did a bunch of shitty remixes of one of his weakest songs.

i was gonna start a new thread about this but i guess it's not worth it: the basis is "lol @ news articles using rappers' stage names as if it were their real names"

i.e. (btw this article is from 05 - don't freakout gucci fanboys)

DECATUR -- The rapper known as Gucci Mane turned himself in Thursday night after a murder warrant was issued for him in a May 10 shooting in which a man later was found dead.

Mane, 25, whose real name is Radric Davis, was notified on Wednesday that he was wanted by DeKalb County authorities for the shooting of Henry Lee Clark, said his Atlanta attorney, Dennis Scheib.

Mane was in New York on Thursday for a show and returned Thursday night, Scheib said. Mane then turned himself in to DeKalb County authorities.

"He said, 'Hey, I'll come down' -- he's not trying to avoid it," Scheib said.

The attorney said the shooting was in self-defense and that Mane was unaware that someone had been injured in the gunfight.

Mane was in a DeKalb County home with a woman on May 10 when five men entered with guns and duct tape, his lawyer said. Mane traded fire with the men, who later fled, Scheib said.

The identities of those men, other than Clark, were unknown.

Associates of Clark, 28, looked for him after he went missing. They found his body in a wooded DeKalb area, and apparently called police.
The arrest could affect Davis' career although it was too early to tell if the repercussions will be negative or positive. In many instances, the profile of stars in the hip hop/rap world is boosted during brushes with the law.

At least two people were holding Gucci Mane posters outside the DeKalb jail as Davis was being escorted in the facility.

Mane is known for several hit songs, including "So Icy," "Trap House" and "Black Tee."

Mr. Mane

the mane from u.n.c.l.e.

i wonder if he gets credit card offers sent to Mr. Mane

I want a Grand Hustle comp like Purple Ribbon got purp 2

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potmXII is on point with this

speaking of manes, did Maino's album ever come out? if, so was it good?

i loved hi hater and then after that i heard him on some mixtape song kicking some conscious political anti-government shit and i was o_O

nah, Maino is one of those deluded guys who thinks their one hit is just setting the stage for something bigger, so he dropped another single w/ Trey Songz and is waiting patiently for his Neveruary release date. the title If Tomorrow Comes... could take on some lol Greatest Story Never Told-type connotations if he's still on the shelf in 2010.

lol @ trey songz

lol @ "Neveruary"

seriously what is up with release dates and rap?

i mean some stuff will get pushed back in like rock or whatever but usually it seems to be more on some artist side stuff, where i get the sense there are albums totally in the can that just sit there for years.

yeah...in rock (and even pop) labels still just put out a single, drop the album a few weeks later, and hope for the best. in rap and R&B, basically since at least '04 or so, the single has to get x number of BDS spins before they'll even put the album on the schedule, and pretty much until the day the CDs start being pressed nothing is certain. rap's been in kind of a fear-based vicious cycle like that for years, with first-week sales scrutiny and the concept of "mixtape buzz" feeding into that system and making it more deeply entrenched.

seriously what is up with release dates and rap?

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i think we have a wale thread already

http://fatlacemagazine.uproxx.com/?p=3621

^^^you kids have probably discussed this upthread, but if not: why the fuck is Fiddy rhyming over an Alkaholiks instrumental?

Matt, seriously, hunt down the original version of Hi Hater ('money dollar dollar bill y'all') and tell me if you just love the hook or you like him; apologies if you already have done this.

I never cared much for gorilla zoe, but I think I like this?

I'm always a sucker for depressed rap songs.

lyrics sound like high school yearbook poetry tho.

@stickman

suits that slurred delivery?

He did a mixtape with whookid last year all over old funk and disco tunes, so not such a surprise to hear him over basically the "seven minutes of funk" break.

i mean it's just some mixtape type "freestyle" thing, right?

dont like 'lost' -- not sure why ppl are all over it. hes so much better at playful lolzy raps

ok i fux with this new busta

i think he took it too. kinda wish kiss went a little harder

actually no jada killed that wtf was i listening to...

yeah i fux - here's the mp3

http://www.zshare.net/audio/53910438cf5763eb/

im officially looking forward to the busta album