rolling regional thug thread 2012

'why do i care'? really?

it seems p central to what one of my favorite rap artists is up to at the moment, that doesnt mean im rubbing my hands in glee at it. im just trying to understand the context

i dunno you've seemed pretty unenthusiastic about almost everything gucci's done the last couple years (not that i blame you!), so throwing up the "gucci's back!" bat signal as soon as there's beef is just very distasteful to me

hes back in the spotlight for the first time & his two tapes this year are stronger than the stuff he did in 2011. ppl are paying attention to him again after writing him off a year ago.

& not just for the beef -- theres a genuine interest in his shit again, i hear a lot of buzz from ppl looking forward to the tape this week

eh there has been some whiff 'comeback' for like every other tape he's done for the last couple years, i'll believe it when something really sticks. imo the 2 tapes this year weren't shit. and "truth" sucks.

trap back def had more buzz & interest than writings on the wall ii. Some of those singles have gotten radio & club play at least around here (here being, where i lived until 2 weeks ago)

i will give you that "plain jane" is probably the only new gucci song i've heard a dj touch in a year or two, but it's not like he's ever going to operate at half the level of his peak, commercially or creatively

i'm not quite sure why people look forward to gucci tapes anymore but i do agree that he sounds more alive on the jeezy diss than he has in a while

hes not at his peak but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5KxfLuYFJs this stuff was p hard

I really really like DGainz's outdoors videos. I've been missing that everybody out in the streets smiling and dancing community feeling lately. Especially when it comes to women. There are too many videos these days with bored models hanging out in big empty villas while the rappers are rapping and no communication whatsoever. DGainz brought smiling back. That's one of the best things about the whole Chicago scene thing to me.

New album Bullets & Bouquets by PSD Tha Drivah is really good. Spotify has it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDobY9mT4HA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5_S_3YO16U

i really like this new gucci track. young scooter's verse on it is cool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1cmo_kkODA&feature=player_embedded

Effects are like the spotlight skull in Juicy J's Bands video.

Btw, everyone slept on the Gucci & Future tape. It's pretty good in retrospect.

http://soundcloud.com/mctreeg/something-mean-tree-ft-blanco

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

So is Super Future pushed back or not? I can't find an official statement anywhere and datpiff and livemixtapes still say Oct 23.

Trap God is almost good enough to divert my attention from Kendrick btw. I've only listened once but it feels even better than Trap Back, which makes this a hell of a strong year for the Gucc.

Frenchie and Ice Burgundy dropping tapes on the same day just seems strange though.

yo gotti delayed his mixtape release by one day after gucci tweeted that non-bricksquad ppl dropping tapes 10/17 better fall back. true story.

the gucci is cool but i think al may be more right -- he's got his voice back, (in the vague metaphorical sense of 'voice' like his inner voice or w/e) vs. say 'writings on the wall 2' but the songs arent quite all there for me

sorta like mr. zone 6 that way maybe?

I don't know about that. I still play Trap Back all the time and its opening stretch (Back In 95 - Quiet - Walking Lick - Plain Jane - Get It Back - Trapback) is among my favorite stretches this year. I'm Up felt a bit long and lumpy, but from playing Trap God only once I got really exited about how it moved from effortlessly from strength to strength. Not saying it's THAT good cause I obv haven't lived with it enough, but I haven't really listened to any other similar tapes/albums this year that have been as consistently rewarding as these three have. Trap God was up against the Kendrick today (which might end up as AOTY to me) and if it had sounded half-weak I would have just turned it off instantly.

I tend to enjoy even Gucci's weaker stuff though.

i still like mr zone 6 ftr

i'm still gonna keep bugging deej and j0rdan or whoever to do some kind of definitive list of the best post-peak gucci tracks, because there's a hell of a lot to cherrypick from now

i really like trap god after .9 listens, not as good as trap back, but maybe better than i'm up.

then again i think trap back is incredible, one of gucci's best mixtapes, period

Yeah.

couldn't get into Trap Back, thought even Writings On The Wall II was better

You-you-you-you-you need to go baaaaaaaack.

Opposite belongs in that stretch too, btw. And perhaps even Brick Fair.

brick fair is my favorite zaytoven beat this year, classic

Yep.

There are days when I prefer Trap Back to Channel Orange.

well, that i do too

lol

me three ha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyHZNBz6FE

It's here.

ugh i wish it was still "hate being sober"

i mean its amazing but now it's more scarface-cliched now... and before it sounded like a dope drinking/smoking song

hate being sober preview > this

i'm so sad

Hate Being Sober is his next single I think.

I think I've quite suddenly lost all interest in following rap, although maybe I've kept up with it less and less over the past couple years. I'm not even sure I can bring myself to care about the Kendrick at this point even tho I loved Section.80 and everyone says it's good. It's been a couple months since I downloaded a new rap full-length album/mixtape. :/

they're completely different songs rennavate wtf u talking about

also "love sosa" is awesome albeit not as good as "hate bein sober"

fuck the hooks are exactly teh same

the biiitches loooooove SOOOOoosa
i haaaate beeeeing SOOOOObbber

He's got those O's on lock.

dOOOOOOooon't like!

it's not "hate being sober" but this is great. don't think a keef hook has caught me this immediately since i don't like

don't think a keef hook has caught me this immediately since i don't like

― no love spud webb (fadanuf4erybody), Thursday, October 18, 2012 11:36 AM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's because they're all the same

I think I've quite suddenly lost all interest in following rap, although maybe I've kept up with it less and less over the past couple years. I'm not even sure I can bring myself to care about the Kendrick at this point even tho I loved Section.80 and everyone says it's good. It's been a couple months since I downloaded a new rap full-length album/mixtape. :/

― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:28 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

:( This kinda happens to me at least once a year, but only for a month or so.

that's because they're all the same

― heiswagger (rennavate), Thursday, October 18, 2012 12:41 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

get outta here

sorry, you're right. he has TWO hooks...

...i'm joking, i love keef, you know that, d

I think I've quite suddenly lost all interest in following rap, although maybe I've kept up with it less and less over the past couple years. I'm not even sure I can bring myself to care about the Kendrick at this point even tho I loved Section.80 and everyone says it's good. It's been a couple months since I downloaded a new rap full-length album/mixtape. :/

― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Thursday, October 18, 2012 5:28 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too :(