rap radio hits of the first half of 2012

doesnt sound v similar to me although 'aint gon let up' was actually pretty big around here

xxp

lotta people fronting on "I Do," sure it's a retread of a very familiar UGK song but that shouldn't bother a bunch of Big K.R.I.T. fans

― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, June 7, 2012 4:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hasnt everyone been pretty critical of krit
but still i cant listen to andre any more its painful

idk the ones with tyga or b.o.b could be "no hands" territory

xp to evan

that shit where hes talking to a woman about how one day they'll have a daughter & she'll make the club swoon, its just creepy imo, like hes fantasizing about how hot his daughter will be

xxps to self

anyway glad we all agree rap radio is p dope right now

xp to J0rdan yeah, but "No Hands" was great. That one with the Nicki/Tyga/Flo-Rida(!) pileup is just so desperate. The B.o.B. one kinda works for what it is, I guess, but again, faint praise

anyway glad we all agree rap radio is p dope right now

I spent six hours listening to rap radio at a grillout last night, and I don't recall hearing one song that I actively disliked. A couple exposed singles I'm meh on, but mostly it was just a lot of gold

Also, save for "Take It To the Head," there's not a lot of Chris Brown on the radio at this moment, so i'm enjoying that respite

amazed that people actually like 'same damn time'

Also, save for "Take It To the Head," there's not a lot of Chris Brown on the radio at this moment, so i'm enjoying that respite

― Evan R, Thursday, June 7, 2012 6:05 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

are you kidding? "Another Round" and "Birthday Cake" and "Strip" are inescapable and "Right By Your Side" and "Sweet Love" are building steam pretty quickly

hasnt everyone been pretty critical of krit

― littledotheyknow (D-40), Thursday, June 7, 2012 6:00 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

it was a joke, Serious C.A.T.

Fuck, ima go with beez

i don't really get "Beez In The Trap." no good verses, awkward hook, beat that makes me pine for "Beemer Benz or Bentley," where's the appeal.

i like that grindy low-pitched noise

and the snap that reverbs for like 20 seconds

are you kidding? "Another Round" and "Birthday Cake" and "Strip" are inescapable and "Right By Your Side" and "Sweet Love" are building steam pretty quickly

Ah, forgot about "Birthday Cake." They play that so often it just registers as background noise to me now. "Another Round" and "Strip" are mostly out of rotation here, though, and "Right By Your Side" and "Sweet Love" haven't caught on, at least not yet. So this is about as Breezy-free as our rap station gets

spotify playlist

http://open.spotify.com/user/1000timesyes/playlist/4icsbOkvygqLsSkyZKMkTN

drank in my cup

i don't really get "Beez In The Trap." no good verses, awkward hook, beat that makes me pine for "Beemer Benz or Bentley," where's the appeal.

― shipl.de.al (some dude), Friday, June 8, 2012 12:03 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i kidna felt this way about it initially but it wormed its way into my head. i like how circular it is, if that makes sense.

fuck is on your biscuit

xp wtf just spent the last 20 minutes making a spotify playlist out of these.. and then i hit refresh

like beez in the trap because of the me against the world feel of it, also it's kind of raw like a milli

RIDIN ROUND WITH THAT NINA!!!!!!!

The Beez in the Trap beat is great but I can't get over my intense distaste for Nicki Minaj/Young Money. It is pretty demented that there's a huge pop song right now that's just a tritone repeating over and over again.

also the chorus is dumb as hell (says the guy who's voting for Ca$h Out)

it's definitely kinda awkward which is why I like it

kenoe is a dope producer who should get hired for big name stuff more often

i really hate soda commercials on the radio or TV where you hear the sound effects
of

*PSSSSSH* --guk guk guk guk-- *AHHHHHHHHH*

― easter back, somebody call the binks truck (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, April 11, 2012 11:51 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I have to tell you goons, listening to the Kirko Bangz song is like fucking torture to me. I think hearing that song for me is like when other people open the Tryptophobia thread

lol

it's a pretty weak track imo. I always have to stop myself from literally rolling my eyes when it slows down.

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Almost missed this. Top five in no order:

Drake f/ Rihanna - “Take Care”
Nicki Minaj f/ 2 Chainz – “Beez In The Trap”
J. Cole f/ Missy Elliott – “Nobody’s Perfect”
Future f/ T.I. – “Magic”
Future - "Same Damn Time"

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ugh

Not at all crazy about "Cashin' Out."

it kind of interests me that it's still possible for a rapper to have a hit as big as Ca$h Out or LoveRance do without having any real public profile or identity beyond that song

its esp fascinating with loverance b/c the song is so mind-numbingly generic imo

lurkers and herbs AT THE SAME DAMN TIME

its esp fascinating with loverance b/c the song is so mind-numbingly generic imo

― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, June 13, 2012 11:08 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

i like that loverance beat a lot

"cashin' out," while good, is pretty damn generic too

one thing that really bugs me about "mercy" is how needlessly redundant the chorus

lamborghini mercy, your chick she so thirsty
i'm in the two seat lambo with your girl she tryna jerk me

like, y'all already established that you're in the lambo with my girl in the first line! say something else!

idk

also pusha t & kanye rapping about blue dolphins and molly is secretly the corniest thing in major rap this year

ha the exact same thing about the chorus occurred to me and was bugging me this morning

there is nothing cornier than "your duncan hines is irrelevant"

i give her that D
cuz that's where i was born and raised in

http://www.safety2008.org/assets/images/1.gif

haha

radio edit says "at the same same time" which is so stupid

haha yeah, i just heard that for the first time a couple weeks ago, because 99% of the stations that play it are not afraid of the word "damn" and was like ugh wtf

the big sean line is especially egregious because he's cramming syllables and barely sounding out every word so it ends up a borderline incoherent "i give her that D/ cuz that's where born and raised in"

i wish there were stations that played "same damn time" here :/

the two rap songs (rappin-ass rap songs, obv) i can think of that have been big on the radio here but not on this list are "function" and "the recipe", both of which are better than most of the songs here

'take it to the head' really grew on me

weren't you raving about it when it was new?

whenever that song comes on i think it's "Another Round" or "You Da Boss" or "By Your Side" or one of the other dozen boring songs by the same people

nah. i think i might have said i liked it at one point. but its grown on me more since & it sounds refreshing on radio

still want to do this one more time

chainz' "i'm different" is a new-ish song that sounds really good on the radio right now

yeah "I'm Different" is a joint

will prob do another poll in early december when billboard's year-end lists drop