rolling regional thug thread 2012

what contemporary acts have screwed hooks right now? name one

i won't doubt kanye's desire to rip something off from every hot young rapper but it seems a bit generous to credit the hook on "mercy" to asap rocky instead of the entire sound & culture that it (including asap rocky) is spawned from

the-dream has done screwed hooks a bit no?

anyone listened to self made vol 2?

I think its evident that bringing a screwed hook in 2012 is a reference to asap, unless youre a texas rapper

"anyone listened to self made vol 2?"

i did, prolly won't do it again.

eh, it's in every rap listener's vocabulary as much as sped-up soul samples and fucking record scratches at this point (xpost)

I think its evident that bringing a screwed hook in 2012 is a reference to asap, unless youre a texas rapper

― littledotheyknow (D-40), Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:08 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah this is... not true, i think

didn't kayne have a bunch of screwed shit on MBDSLYTVDSP?

A lot of rappers were alive before this year so they might remember ye olden tymes when hooks were screwedethed and chopp-ed.

http://www.screwlab.com/

mike dean

loved mike dean's twitter rant about a$ap rocky

Asap must have been a big inspiration for dean

o ya

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLZs_HTOp5U

rolls eyes @ all of u

im not even an asap fan but its obv 2 me that he 'brought back' houston ish to teh cool crowd that kanye is interested in impressing w his b&w lambo merci videos of rappers dancing around in parking garages.

i cant think of a noted critical or charting rapper who's used an S&C hook in a major song in the past several years. cmon. trends come in to fashion & go out again

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikl3A9puiKI

it's hilarious to finally hear what Stalley actually sounds like -- there are 50 uncharismatic 'likeable' rappers in every city that rap better than this

yeah the transition from gunplay to him on "power circle" is a bit of a letdown

Damn that Alpoko Don is great. Thanks for the link

i cant think of a noted critical or charting rapper who's used an S&C hook in a major song in the past several years. cmon. trends come in to fashion & go out again

― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, June 27, 2012 3:05 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark

not hooks, but there are tons of kanye songs where he screws a line here or there for emphasis, including "marvin & chardonnay" and "jigga's in paris" last year, so it just seems weird to me to hear "mercy" and think 'oh where did he get THAT idea, who must he be playing catch-up with'

im not saying it was that he was playing catch up per se but cmon wasnt it co produced by hudson fucking mohawke

who?

i just mean hes obv at this point very much a keep-up-with-whats-trendy type producer & has been for a few years, and half the choruses on that asap record that shut down ny press from, remember, less than a year ago, were a strange disconnected S&C style similar to this, i dont really think its that farfetched

hudson mohawke is a critically acclaimed british producer iirc who does, like, i dunno, its not dubstep, but its electronic beats without rapping

I can't believe someone did a hudson hawke reference as a name

i just mean hes obv at this point very much a keep-up-with-whats-trendy type producer & has been for a few years, and half the choruses on that asap record that shut down ny press from, remember, less than a year ago, were a strange disconnected S&C style similar to this, i dont really think its that farfetched

― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, June 27, 2012 8:32 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

listen kanye is sad desperate old trend-chaser, i just think screw is rap public domain. it's like when anyone who said "swag" was suddenly biting odd future even though there had been a bunch of huge songs w/ that word in it 2 years before anyone heard of those guys.

actually i feel dumb for not thinking of this earlier but "a milli" is really the biggest slowed-vocal-loop song of the last few years and a lot of its many knockoff songs followed suit, although obviously the way it's used there isn't really the same as the trad screwed hook thing

can someone recommend some new rap 4 me that isn't charting but is actually cool & interesting & happening & not just blog curio stuff. obv nothing from chicago needed

feeling kind of aimless, need something interesting & nothing's grabbing me

a new gucci verse that is pretty good

http://stupiddope.com/2012/06/27/38-special-gucci-mane-house-around-da-corner-new-music/

great verse!

The track finds .38 linking up with trapstar Gucci Mane for this hot ass track.

lol

http://articles.latimes.com/2012/jun/26/entertainment/la-et-0627-thirtysomething-rappers-20120627
smfh

i saw that linked on twitter and was like "let me guess, this was written by someone in their 30s"

you guys will be old soon and you'll understand, word

"understand" ???

overstand, you dig.
go on and marinate on that for a lil while

some hudson mohawke highlights for you olds:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_36Bw_t-fgU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkWmB9NIg4U

this is not bad! dilla-icious.

er, well the first youtube was. this second one is more ratatat-y.

most of his tracks are crazier/wackier heavy synth shit, but he's at his best when he reins it in. there there's TNGHT which is more of a 'let's work with rappers/get money' project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygKLQ1ItVGY

he produced this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h-vyp-mpPw

i'm a sucker for this kind of synthesthesia-inducing pastel video game music.

hudmo sux. fuck outta here.

fuse is hot

he's definitely more bad than good

only reason i'm half-interested in TNGHT is cause of lunice

aw rev. yeah he's made tons of ridiculous (as in silly) tracks but i think he's super talented. 'butter' had like three good tracks but they're good enough to carry the record. we can take this to another thread though.