Le1f - Dark York (2012): QPOC SHAKUR / #seapunk

Really digging "Lavandin" atm; real deep album.

Yeah, that's been one of my sleeper favorites.

Seven songs in, mind = blown

I'm an emperor when they see me in my new clothes

wow this is like the loudest thing on my ipod. i like it but the mix + mastering makes it a harsh listen sometimes.

very dope show tonight. i danced very a lot. (and based on my short chat with him before he went on, he's a pretty nice guy to boot)

very

err strike the second "very" i mean

this is great! so many awesome little lyrical bits bobbing around in the murk

Important: All the lyrics (the actual lyrics, from what I can tell, so presumably le1f is responsible) are up on RapGenius.

If those are the correct lyrics, I'm very disappointed to learn that the line "my twat is just a metaphor" was just a figment of my imagination. (n.b. that is totally what he says)

What does it say the lyrics are instead? I haven't had time to go through them all yet.

"patois is just a metaphor"

oh, yeah. i already was hearing 'patois'

:(

I like my version so much better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrnq4SZ0luc

I was just coming to post that!

!!!! so good.

looks to be as gif-able as Lemme Smang It

also, ilx gayz, pay attn from 1:02 onwards for a familiar not-face.

This is incredible. Mr. Jukebox Selection Committee, you know what to do (if you, or someone else, hasn't already).

also (xpost) i give up.

I mean. I was about to send the email. I wanted to cover it the week the mixtape/album came out but the video got delayed.

Ah, just posted that to the other gay rappers thread. Great video! Makes me realize how awesome this track is.

i really want someone to remaster this shit. not to keep harping on it but i wish i could listen & enjoy it.

it's really not that bad. i don't really get what's 'wrong' with it? a little murky but not as much as people make it sound and it's deliberate, not low quality or whatever.

oh and xp @ jer - it's lou.

something about the bass being too loud and then the mix being overcompressed to fuck, whenever the sub hits everything gets squashed in away that is oppressive/unpleasant to my ears. i'm not trying to be on some audiophile shit, i'm really not that picky in general but it's hard to get past here.

man I kind of love that tbh

only on track 1 right now, but are his vocals always so buried in the mix?

frequently not always but that's what folks are complaining about. the 320 kbps free download is better than the stream. but you get used to it the more you listen.

Not saying this is what's happening in every case, but I think the fact that it's mixed more like a dance record than a rap record is throwing some people off?

i need to listen to more of this but "wut" is rad as fuck.

v glad that he's put the lyrics up

can't watch the video

mixtape keeps on giving

it seems "seapunk" in the thread title is understandable putting people off (INCLUDING ME tbh), can we delete it? it makes me cringe

Don't delete it until we've found out what "seapunk" is!

http://www.itisamystery.com/itisamystery.gif

Been googling it on and off for the past couple hours and am now searching southern Michigan for a place that sells turquoise hair dye.

so long as his lyrics still include lines like "i'm such a mermaid that I stay in your waves"

and "i'm banji, i'm foamy, i'm kunty believe me"

and as long as he keeps producing gorgeous instrumentals that sample erykah singing 'i was born underwater' i will continue to jokingly include him in #seapunk

Yeah all that stuff just makes me love it more tbh.

damn, I just realized no one had posted "Born Underwater" itt

http://soundcloud.com/le1f/boody-le1f-born-underwater

song (wut) is pretty cool. he has mad swag and i like his rapping mostly but his double time flow is srsly cringe.

Yeah. My one critique is that sometimes his fast raps are a little forced and out of sync with the beat. Especially on Wut.

damn, mind/body

http://www.npr.org/2012/08/30/160324187/guest-dj-pulitzer-prize-winning-author-junot-diaz

New EP out today with Boody, featuring early banger Sweet Tea and also SODA which has an amazing video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=6herO1dIc4s#!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=6herO1dIc4s

argh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6herO1dIc4s

there

Thanks, rev!

Anyway, it is the greatest and the EP is pretty great too.

Apparently the 12" vinyl opens with 'Born Underwater', that amazing track Boody & Le1f did that flips a Badu sample.

Also, the final mix of Sweet Tea on this EP gets rid of all the verses and just leaves the chorus and bridge in place - the rest is instrumental

The verses reappear on the Cedaa Remix but it's weird to not hear them after getting used to them on the demo for so long.

the Mike Q/Divoli S'vere Ha Mix of Soda is also pretty great.

"Soda" wtf
this rules

Also Yeezus isn't necessarily more abrasive than vintage Bomb Squad & a bunch of other stiff Jamar is probably down with

Wow, if anyone could make Macklemore look sympathetic, it's this clown.

i think "driving hip hop off the cliff" can be interpreted as demolishing the car rather that "taking a sound to its limits"
and my beef with yeezus is not that it's abrasive so much as it is unfun, bloviated and generally uninteresting
i guess really my reasons for disliking kanye and jamar's reasons for disliking kanye are really different
i just don't like kanye is what i'm saying

jamar's objection to the sound seems token in comparison to his weird fixation on "masculinity", which is a) bullshit and b) explains a lot...this idea that hip-hop is inherently a masculine venture. that's where his conservatism seems to stem from - not the beats, it's all about gays and beta males (and white people) (i guess women are not on his radar at all?).

i mean i'm a drake hater but his grounds for criticising drake are also bullshit, this guy is the worst

although as always anything that gets people invested in Traditional Masculinity shook has to have some worth, and when those people are shook it's always fun to see

beta males thing made me lol... is ariel pink the new threat to rap??

https://soundcloud.com/kelelam/oicu/
this is pretty good

New album, Riot Boi out this Friday, Nov. 13. First taste of it is very promising:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0zjfW2qY1U

listening to this now. wooo yeah

the album, i mean

this album is so great, le1f is so great

rly good

Seapunk is still alive. Girl at the coffee shop has a prominent jellyfish tattoo, seapunk dyed hair, and is dressed in athleisure