WAKA

current billboard top 100 hiphop artists that i am feeling that are fairly new: future, ab soul, j cole (kinda), odd future, kendrick lamar

cudi and wale suck btw

future and j cole are total radio rappers but i've never heard ab soul or any non-frank ocean member of odd future on the radio, and just started hearing kendrick on the radio for the first time like a week ago

but yeah i mean if you dig future and not waka that's a fair baseline to go on that you're objecting to waka individually and not the whole context he's operating in

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7QHA_VOS1s

Those are fair points, I guess. I'm not especially an expert on hip-hop - people's knowledge online continually reminds me of that. I would say that, putting aside being drunk at a party, Waka's persona is actually pretty compelling for me, equally if not more so than his music (if you can separate the two). I can sit through Flockaveli no problems and enjoy if I'm in the mood, but can't really say that for any of the mixtapes. It does relentlessly one-note, Lex Luther-y minimalism, blank-eyed nihilism after a while. Any change in texture is like an oasis in the desert.

There are several words missing in that last post. It's late in the afternoon and I'm halfway through a 500ml can of 'power booster energy drink', apologies ;)

i was not a huge fan of Waka's first few singles or Lex Luger beats in general and thought the enthusiasm around "Hard In Da Paint" felt a little forced, but Flockaveli is a dope album, have to respect anytime an artist can the best case scenario debut album out of being themselves

Re: Luther beats - also why I put up that Foreign Shit track, it's good to hear him on another style. Didn't know the source of it, so cheers sisilafami.

Another moment of different styles:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDq4zD6whFo

looking forward to this album... tracklist is pretty promising

also IT HAS A PLIES FEATURE

also a dj speedy beat

a song called "rooster in my rari"

!

it's been a really good year for rap so far and if this album comes thru and the travis porter album comes thru... could be the best year for rap full lengths in like 5 years

yeah it's kind of nice the way ATL is running shit again, if even one of the Waka/Travis Porter/T.I./2 Chainz albums is as dope as the Future album it'll be a pretty crazy year for the city

dirty south is ABSOLUTELY my bailiwick

sorry that just sounded funny

lol :-)

WAKAAAAAAAAAAA

i love the Future album & am hopeful about the Travis Porter, but I don't really like the single off the Waka at all, 2 Chainz is a funny lyricist with a pretty blank story & mediocre hit/miss ratio, i havent heard a good t.i. track in years. no one is really engaging me as a personality out of Atlanta right now at all.

yeah i'm not saying we're in for 5 definite masterpieces, just that odds are at least 2 or 3 will be above average major label rap albums

It's my bailiwick, what can i tell you

also lol @ deej worrying about whether a rapper has a discernable posting style "story"

"wake up" is so good they sound great on that kind of beat, love ice burgundy's verse (fsr uncredited?)

2 chainz engaging me as a dope rapper

'no discernable posting style' is like an ebony eyez level zing at this pt

2 chainz has had some great verses recently no doubt. i just find it hard to care about him -- the way u could get invested in who gucci was or who t.i. was

i know it matters to you whether a rapper has been to jail/held a gun but wow didn't think you'd be that transparent about it

the t.i. mixtape definitely has some songs that border on great imo

killer mike should not be forgotten amongs all the atl rappers.

i know it matters to you whether a rapper has been to jail/held a gun but wow didn't think you'd be that transparent about it

― some dude, Friday, May 18, 2012 12:41 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the fuck? thats not what i said at all

like, i dont care if tity boi's story is that he was the real rick ross or that he ran a titty bar, but the idea that your perception of an artist's bio doesnt enter into what you get from the music is denial. i mean, its a part of all the things ppl talk about when they talk about rap--like, t.i. dissing flip is as much about what happened off-record as it is what happened on.

lol it'd be great if he was the owner and proprietor of Tity Bar

otm

the song featuring plies is good

http://www.dirtyglovebastard.net/?p=51411

lol "ft. algernod" always kills me

yeah thats dope, so is the new gucci/2chainz

plies sounds like he wants to be gunplay

i'm okay with that

dirty south is his baliwick

ahma own that one thank you very much

ABSOLUTELY his baliwick

more like baliwack

bailiwick, i misspelled

sup yall

::gives some dude candy, turns on shitty sitcom::

what are we watching? ::chews loudly::

http://i.imgur.com/pa1KT.jpg

drama

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cleaned up your misspelling of privileges, you're welcome