rap radio hits of the first half of 2012

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

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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

i hear a fair amount of "The Recipe" (which i hate) here, but it hadn't quite reached the chart peak of the parameters i set for this poll. haven't heard an E-40 song on the radio since "U & Dat" :(

heard "function" in heavy rotation when i was out in LA

it's weird... you think that if any east coast city would put e-40 in rotation, it would be baltimore, but shit is still just so segregated

"bitch", "my shit bang", and "function" have all gotten at least a smattering of airplay here, nothing from The Ball Street Journal tho

40 was always somewhat popular but something of a cult figure here, but My Ghetto Report Card was huuuuuge, both big singles got blanket play for a year or two

yeah i had no concept that "Function" was doing anything anywhere until i saw it on a Billboard chart.

i don't know anyone who listens to E-40 here; i did a '20 greatest MCs of all time' radio roundtable thing a few months ago and got a lot of resistance for even bringing up his name.

i'm so mad at whoever voted for "HYFR"

"superhyphy" and "thizzle dance" both got quite a bit of play at that time too, even tho the latter was a few years old at the time. still hear them on the radio occasionally, esp. "thizzle"

xp haha otm, but not as mad as at whoever voted for "crew love"

WE HATIN THE CREWWWW, WE HATIN THE CREWWWWWWWWWWWWW

is "HYFR" a dud or just not really been pushed yet?

WE LOVVVVVVVVVVIN THE JEWS, WE LOVVVVVVVVVVVVIN THE JEWS

^ my version

no votes for shot caller :(

it's getting kinda big at the moment, although "crew love" seems to be stealing its momentum a lil bit (to the extent that radio has any hesitation about putting 2 drake songs in rotation at once)

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these poll results are 60% young money >:O

I still haven't heard Future on the radio at all, although "Racks" and "Tony Montana" seemed popular with people I know. Haven't heard "Magic" or "Same Damn Time" in the wild at all tho. :(

these poll results are 60% young money >:O

― bronytheus (some dude), Thursday, June 14, 2012 9:52 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

well the options are prob 60% young money

only 43%

'mercy' has been hitting in a big way for me lately

need an edit that gets rid of big sean obv

love how 2 chainz sonuds like the climactic finale

yeah "Mercy" is like the only recent big 2 Chainz guest verse where he rises to the occasion

yeah

where else has there been talk about 'mercy'? it's basically kanye's take on 'hustle hard' right?