rolling regional thug thread 2012

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

http://www.gifsoup.com/imager.php?id=1423842

missed that thread; a victim of my general avoidance of ILM i guess

xxxxps thats not really what i meant but w/e its not important

okay

whiney tweeted about it and reminded me to listen to 100 - Ice Cold Perm
digging it! he's got skills

also like the "DJ Quik joins Boards of Canada" music

i really do like ice cold perm; hope that guy gets more attention.

that record is cool but not mind blowing imo

haha of course

It's way nastier than I was expecting (had no expectations).

idk its got some cool beats & hes a solid rapper but not like amazing or anything

i f/w the 3 best songs pretty heavy

"some cool beats & a solid rapper" is about all we need these day.

dear m@tt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AA0LKoQkRp0
all day

One of my favorite albums, that.

word up i got shit to do ya... TEST... TUBE... BABY
kekekekeke

de la really is one of the greatest groups of all time, they've done a tremendous amount of great music after their critical and commercial peak

remaster of "L's Anthem" is really cleaned up & sounds incredible

bookmarked for future thread beef:

http://videoeta.com/images/news/goon_game2.jpg

nice

ha awesome

for those who liked 'good vibes'

http://indy.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/19105/uptown-xo-the-color-grey.html

yeah that whole tape is p cool & makes me feel want to be a backpacker again way more than joey bada$$

Yep.

LL COOL J has released his new song “Ratchet” from his highly anticipated upcoming new album, AUTHENTIC HIP-HOP, coming soon.

LL should've dropped a joint right after he beat the shit out of that guy who tried to rob his house, i would've been all YEAHHHH no matter what it was at that point

yes

ask caniburglar, he aint understanding this
cause 99% of his fans don't exist

My favorite semi-back packy tape lately is the Bentley one. He's treating these old(ish) beats as a challenge, not as a crutch. So refreshing.
http://intelligenthoodlum.bandcamp.com/album/bootleg-b-sides-no-dj

this krit beat is good

http://www.livemixtapes.com/player.php?album_id=19204&select=7

Q: should there be a separate drill thread? For me, this is has such a dominant sound of 2012.

Only just catchin up with the Lil Reese tape after the Us remix, but that said, Beef is a huge track.

Q: should there be a separate drill thread? For me, this is has such a dominant sound of 2012.

― MikoMcha, Friday, October 12, 2012 2:02 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

why? It's just rap music

http://www.xclusiveszone.net/2012/10/gucci-mane-truth-young-jeezy-diss/

gucci's back

stop rubbing your hands together with excitement that someone's gonna get shot again, fuck beef

so are ppl really investing in this idea that "drill music" is like a discreet genre?

lol i guess so!

stop rubbing your hands together with excitement that someone's gonna get shot again, fuck beef

Also why I'm reluctant to make a thread for it. Actually stopped listening to anything from GBE after Lil JoJo's murder. Couldn't really stomach it. But this week, I went through the tapes from Reese and Durk after the remastered L's Anthem, then Us remix, and despite everything these records still feel somehow significant.

A genre to itself, no I don't think so. I don't listen to tons of hip-hop, but I can't remember something so caught up with gang culture tbh. I mean, the lyrics for most of this are basically gang shout outs, often not much more. So describing something like Beef as a huge track is probably not smart description, but then I don't really know how I should be engaging with any of it. There is something relentless compelling, single-minded and even disturbing about it...

I can't remember something so caught up with gang culture tbh.

this might have more to do with your limited frame of reference, just sayin

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/36/Banging_on_Wax.jpg/220px-Banging_on_Wax.jpg

No doubt.