rolling regional thug thread 2012

the david banner one isn't good at all

i haven't heard the 50 tape but it's getting generally positive reviews, idk

i don't even care about 50 that much when he's good so i dunno why i asked -- i can bump "poor lil rich" 200 more times and never need another song from him tbh

yeah i feel that

am randomly watching 106 & park

damn i forgot all about jeezy 'way too gone' existing, so fucking epic

don't suppose it reminds anyone else of twin peaks love theme perchance no ok nm

yeah "way too gone" is amazing

tpp mix is amazing

yeah on the rare occasion i hear it on the radio i'm like god i wish this was the biggest song of the year

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rocko verse on plain jane is so good

http://www.npr.org/2012/05/27/153604174/first-listen-big-k-r-i-t-live-from-the-underground

lol at npr.org

doesn't get much more underground than that

YOU CAN'T FIND THIS ON PUBLIC RADIO

i'm watching a slaughterhouse freestyle on youtube right now

every time i see some rappers i haven't seen in a while they have all these stupid tattoos on their neck and faces

trying to recall if I've ever seen a good neck tattoo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZUqeN9d034

Theophilus fucking sucks. This isn't very good, but of course Big Boi sounds great. And the beat is nice.

Thoughts on Live from the Underground?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lza3osFEYFY

i like chris brown 's verse

I like that Polow beat.

that song is pretty bad but yeah nice beat

I like everything about that song *except* Chris Brown. He treats it as if it's a rapping contest and totally fucks up the vibe.

"are we living in some imaginary world where southern rap hasn't been dominant for like a decade" - some dude in the Killer Mike thread

This is why, totally off-topic, K.R.I.T.'s "Cool 2 Be Southern" feels a decade late and unnecessarily defensive...

i didn't say that, m@tt said it to me in a fundamental misunderstanding of my post. but haven't heart big k.r.i.t. beyond his b.o.r.i.n.g. singles.

you dont like 'money on the floor' or 'we buy gold'?

yeah both of those are amazing

def convinced that krit should more or less stop rapping

i think a ball & g album prod solely by KRIT would be in my top 10 of the year at this point

there's way too many tracks on the krit album with him doing the repeat title a hundred times for the chorus thing. I actually like most of the smoother tracks, although Money On The Floor is still the best thing on it

yeah, i definitely support the idea of him doing a ball & g album though

he did a track for J. Stalin recently btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CueKuqvMlA

'money on the floor' was good but i never really good to hyped on it

yo lgbt raps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UHUYM7qqJw

^8.09 is fly

20.52 too!

8:09 rapper is good

We Buy Gold > Money on the Floor but I love both.

new young thug : http://soundcloud.com/archivent/youngthugworld-ft-skypadwar

he should keep doing his own hooks

deej's wet dream coming true : the new jacka album called the sentence features max b.

dr4ke gohard

the album's pretty cool, easily the best of the trilogy

this video is awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHfWY0is3rE

she's great!

didn't realize how good that song is, too

video/song both awesome

cute!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzvLlUuMKfk&feature=player_embedded#!
interested to hear #livefromthenewbay

http://thewire.co.uk/articles/9204/

curious what ppl think of this

for my part, i think it misdescribes the dynamics of what actually happened with keef; the gawker article only provoked a critical article from smoking section & a single global grind interview on its own. It wasn't for a couple months, while major artists cosigned keef on twitter, that labels & publications started to pay attention, and it wasn't until the Kanye cosign that labels felt obliged to do so.

further, this: "Over the last year, Keef has become a legitimate street star in his hometown Chicago and could have built up a national celebrity à la Gucci Mane or Lil Wayne. Instead, his narrative rushed his infectious but under-polished Waka Flocka-inspired local hits into the peak of the internet hype cycle."

seems problematic. what makes 'i dont like,' which just hit the hot 100, any more under-polished than, say, 'o lets do it' by waka.

"The fans sort out the stars themselves, forcing the rest of the industry – cool-kid blogs included – to play catch-up later."

but then, if the 'cool kid blogs' bother to keep up with the fans, they're responsible for throwing him into the internet hype cycle, or whatever

i think my post upthread is more otm than noz' pouty jaded blogger blues, it's too early to call & he really just needs like 1 more hit sometime in the next year, could so easily happen. like the shittiest thing about the internet hype cycle has always been the rush to declare trends over, artists bust. reminds me of how last january whiney was freaking out about how we named the thread "gun sounds" when waka had already been in pitchfork and the fader. personally don't see a huge diff between 2 chainz, future, meek mill & chief keef, and like, how does waka even fit into this story?

deej youre like the regional thug caramanica throwin off the hype cycle

end of day an interesting story is an interesting story. i've been critical of kitty pryde coverage b/c i don't think it's an interesting story