rolling regional thug thread 2012

yeah they looked to be having a good time -- nice to see

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MuYUbVw0AKw

speaking of chop. .... :O

holy shit this song is amazing

agreed

This makes me happy:
http://supakingbigpope.bandcamp.com/track/asthma-attack

yeah, THAT i like

meek tracklist isn't a disaster

1 Dreams And Nightmares (produced by Tone the Best Bully for Nightrydas Productions)
2 In God We Trust (produced by Black Metaphor for Nightrydas Productions)
3 Young & Gettin’ It featuring Kirko Bangz (produced by Jahlil Beats)
4 Traumatized (produced by Boi-1da)
5 Believe It featuring Rick Ross (produced by Young Shun for Maybach Music Productions)
6 Maybach Curtains featuring Nas, John Legend & Rick Ross (produced by Infamous & The Agency)
7 Amen featuring Drake (produced by Key Wane and Jahlil Beats)
8 Young Kings (produced by Lee Major)
9 Lay Up featuring Wale, Rick Ross & Trey Songz (produced by Kane Beatz and Co-Produced by Ashanti “The Mad Violinist” Floyd for The Building Productions, Inc.)
10 Tony Story Pt. 2 (produced by Boi-1da)
11 Who Your Around featuring Mary J. Blige (produced by Tommy “TBHITS” Brown and Travis Sayles for Darkchild.com)
12 Polo & Shell Tops (produced by Cardiak)
13 Rich & Famous featuring Louie V (produced by Jahlil Beats)
14 Real N***** Come First (produced by Kenoe and Got Koke for Nightrydas Productions)

good cover art too

http://fashionably-early.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/dreams-and-nightmares-official.jpg

lol damn i never used to make that mistake and now i've made it twice this week

http://fashionably-early.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/dreams-and-nightmares-official.jpg

yeah, really good cover

meek tracklist looks good

Xzibit and e40
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIevXc0Oalo

for those who care (me!), rich kidz have a new mixtape coming in the next few months.

also they signed to columbia.

^_^

more Liknuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JSP0yu8VOs

feeling that. this is the one old-man-rap record i can think of that i'm pretty excited to hear

title of the year

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/282240_10151074206568365_1763789187_n.jpg

yeah i love that

lol

mixtape or album?

ehhh ross getting a title from a jay line from 5 years ago blunts the novelty value a bit, to say nothing of the "HYFR" video

it mostly the cover that's amazing

that's actually an untreated photograph of ross in his gucci snowsuit

Did I get accused of boosterism & get called a nu alan lomax in the newspaper of record

say what bruh?

lol deej, you asshole

so confused right now

deej is passive aggressively humblebragging about caramanica mentioning so many shrimp in a NYT article from today about chicago rap controversy

actually not entirely convinced that despite the mention it wasnt a lil backhanded in that his thesis is kinda 'this is happening because people are writing about it happening'

like, as much as its a big deal to be mentioned i'm kinda unsure i completely agree w/ its framing

Link?

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/arts/music/chicago-hip-hops-raw-burst-of-change.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

the passage in question doesn't even make sense to me -- rap coverage on the internet "has increasingly focused attention on the grittiest corners"? no fucking way

tbf, it probably has where jon reads

asap rocky and azealia banks

the grittiest corners

i guess i dont really get at what point i crossed a line where I'm a part of the story

instead of someone bringing new information to light

i told the story, i didn't create it

it's a pretty passing mention of so many shrimp, though LOL at the idea that blogging about youtube videos is akin to alan lomax field recordings...i mean, you seem to question the ways that various rap acts or songs are covered in the media, it didn't seem unfair to me.

the only bullshit would be that lomax kind of comes with an insinuation of exploitation, though i just finished a really good history of the blues book that calls into question who was playing who

yeah 'lomax' being used or interpreted as a simple shorthand for exploitation is pretty problematic. i'm not so sure caramanica even meant it that way at all.

this is the book i just finished:
http://www.amazon.com/The-History-Blues-Francis-Davis/dp/0786860529

it's pretty interesting...he's harder on john hammond sr. than lomax....though it's interesting, his case is that the old blues guys were way more entertainers that played everything from delta blues to tin pan alley songs or whatever people liked, but they sensed what lomax wanted to hear and sort of tailored their stuff to fit his idea of "pure primitive" blues

like, for instance, who's this tortured, bedeviled soul named robert johnson doing this peppy little ragtime number?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOXXh24HnmY

dude, he mentions you in passing as someone who is covering the scene, relax with the "I told the story, i didn't create it" stuff

man an old favorite i found on spotify :):)

secretly one of the greatest southern hip hop records

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Enk0q_1Db9g

a+

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lIqNjC1RKU
video finally dropped for killer mike's "reagan"

dude, he mentions you in passing as someone who is covering the scene, relax with the "I told the story, i didn't create it" stuff

― EVERYONE COOKING SCMABLED EGGS,CHEESE WITH TOASTER!! (forksclovetofu), Friday, October 5, 2012 12:40 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah i appreciated being mentioned i just get cautious abt being seen as a 'booster' i guess; i am in the sense that i'd like to see it succeed, but i feel like ive been careful not to misdescribe it or w/e

well if you're saying you're a booster of the art that comes out of a scene, not of the violence or the uglier shit that comes out of the scene, I'm more sympathetic to that line of thinking and can see where you wouldn't want to get painted as A DARK CHRONICLE OF GHETTO LIFE or whatever but I didn't really see that implied... i guess you could read it that way?

I dropped this in the "forks videos" thread but in light of Matt dropping his back in the day faves here's one that i just rediscovered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vNsyJiF1b_4
WHAT'S UP WHAT'S UP WHAT'S UP WITH THE BANKHEAD BOUNCE SHAWTY

^i can listen to this track basically all day^

i once made a thread about that song bankhead bounce

such a classic vid