rolling regional thug thread 2012

big sean is rappy rappy punchlines over pop nonsense... keef is all presence, drawing pop from a rock, convincing you via aura etc

oh ok lol if "presence" and "aura" are what we're judging keef on rather than dumb catchiness he's even more underwhelming. what on earth is your benchmark for having aura?

king louie in the white sweatshirt in center, directly to his right is keef, can't tell if that's SD or fredo to his right, then dj kenn holding up the camera in the white shirt to the right of that

― man down (D-40), Sunday, April 15, 2012 6:13 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

yeah it was me. fredo was there too though.

8. Neva End (Produced By Mike WiLL Made It)

blowing my mind

i knew it was you/fredo. you broke my heart.

aw damn, i actually LIKE this new A$AP rocky song. actually hit boy is probably why

i wish it was more pop, also some of the rapping is kinda lazy

yeah - the production carries it, will wind up on a lot of mixtapes

SO GET READY TO HEAR THIS SHIT ALL SUMMER LONG

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i dont care for the song personally. kind of hokey

also i just keep thinking
"hey big spender

dig this blender"

from the simpsons

oh we're not talking about that one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovh4peUmnas&hd=1

skip to :50 seconds in O_O for an idea of what this show was like

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug_vYyt1Yfk

omg this is not a real hook lol

I fucking love this Future record.

i don't feel like a goon anymore :(

i think i'm falling out of love w/hip hop

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― based grandpa (noz), Tuesday, 17 April 2012 03:53 (13 hours ago) Permalink

or if you go out in nyc at night

you hear Peso and Purple Swag every night for a couple months now

so glad i dont live in ny sometimes

jk lazy zing i like peso

"big spender" is shit. i like "goldie" a lot but i think theophilius london is so fucking boring. at least rocky has some presence and memorable delivery.

even the freeway song was bad and that was on a great album imo

between theophilus and all the ASAP ppl, they will be present at nearly every "important" night life moment and/or pre-show dj set this spring and summer, so you can assure that that song will get play.

if you're looking for some ny-centric media conspiracy to make a rapper popular, the proof is theophilus.he has like 3 sponsorships, with brands like vitaminwater and bing, and those brands have partnerships with every media source in this space. they're basically obligated to post his corporate-subisidized tracks and videos and flyers and shit

i dont really care abt asap's media-propelled buzz any more, once he broke through to national recognition it kind of leveled off, and I'm not sure I see him being able to deliver on the buzz so I'm sort of rooting for dude in a bizarre way

that said i think 'goldie' is pretty average, even the beat.

yeah i agree -- for a HIT BOY COLLABO it's just all around underwhelming

i think the collaboration worked for the same reason "n-s in paris" did - asap is way better at carrying a track by himself because he loads them with all the mini-hooks that make a song hit with audiences now. his good songs are very smart bc they hit with crowds at exactly the right moments, with the sort of topography that ni99as in paris had. little bite-sized hooks that come in at reliable intervals

thats why when someone like schoolboy q or theophilus london come in - it breaks his momentum. those songs will never be big like his others

"take 1" w/ main attraktionz is one of his best songs though

yeah "goldie" is definitely not as good as "peso" or "purple swag"

or like half the songs on live love asap

yeah i don't see the big deal about "goldie"? i mean it's aight...

purple swag wasnt really good either tbr

It had a cool beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVE9AwIhV_Y

curious what ppl think of this. i kind of love the contrast b/w fatz's total dead-eyed flow & the lushness of the production, its a good contradiction

2nd verse is not my thing tho

really like a lot of the songs on this new Kevin Gates CD
http://cdn.thefader.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/00-cover.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcDKFPyI5aI

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

curious if Al likes this stuff

will have to make a note to check it when i get home

its hard to believe YMCMB is putting out stuff like this.

enjoying a lot of this future album more than i thought i would! "parachute">>>>>

Gonna get that Gates lp for sure.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJusndrL4ig

digital underground f. j. stalin

"its getting hot in herre ... so take off all your nose"

XD

man when's the j stalin record coming out? seem's like it's forever delayed.

he just put "the body snatchers" out last month, it's pretty good.

thanks i must have missed that. there's the collaboration album with l-jay too but i didn't think much of it.

haven't heard that one

i think i'm falling out of love w/hip hop
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

you're just not digging pistachio. there's a lotta other flavors

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it's alright, just crammed with really average sex raps. it's weirdly nothing like its artwork.

i think i'm falling out of love w/hip hop
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
you're just not digging pistachio. there's a lotta other flavors

― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:33 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i dunno :/

just nothing's really grabbing me lately. i listened to rolling stoned by smoke dza today that was pretty good.

did you hear that marching band track i posted on the no more drama thread? seemed like you'd dig it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmIWmwA-NZQ

haha radiohead chant at the beginning

that's cool, i like guilty a lot

cool breeze did some marching band stuff that was cool iirc