rolling regional thug thread 2012

https://twitter.com/ChiefKeef/status/260074315930820609

kinda like this new Alley Boy mixtape which i listened to mostly because of the o_O rolling metal thread artwork and title

i said that flockaveli thing on twitter... i wasn't necessarily talking about sales or overall impact or whatever just that it seems like it's gonna be an album full of bangers of a specific type that works over the course of a full album in spite of itself

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 8:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ehh obviously we all anticipate and speculate but i feel like it's best to shy away from pre-reviewing the emerging narrative around what an album seems to be shaping up as based on leaks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsRALLea_Q8

So Feva just dropped 75 mixtapes on datpiff? Will these rappers never learn?

That KP Montana, Durk & Louie is tough btw.

ehh obviously we all anticipate and speculate but i feel like it's best to shy away from pre-reviewing the emerging narrative around what an album seems to be shaping up as based on leaks

― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, October 24, 2012 2:34 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark

well sure. if i'm wrong then no one remembers, if i'm right that i get to brag about being prophetic. isn't that how things work?

Meek leaked. Not bad but not very exciting either. Somewhere in the 6/10 - 7/10 range after one spin.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/hear-an-exclusive-advance-stream-of-the-coups-new,86830/
really looking forward to digging into this

i'm only 4 songs in, but sequencing on the meek album seems awful.

running bet as i start the meek how many tracks will feature I Got Serious Shit To Say tinkly piano keys is 5

weird transition halfway through the opener...

lol i love I Got Serious Shit To Say tinkly piano keys

I like the slow tinkly and serious ones the best, probably. The ones with Ross don't sound too convincing. And how is MJB on this one too? lol
I miss Burn though I hear it's on the deluxe.

MJB hook has been the Industry Seal of Approval for like 18 years straight now, how did you never get that memo

MJB hook has been Signal To Skip Track for the last 10 years straight now for me

that too

When was the last time she was on three of the Most Important Rap Releases of the Year though? 1996?

2006

the song she did on the Nas album was surprisingly one of the only good songs on that record!

weird transition halfway through the opener...

― king louie riel (rennavate), Wednesday, October 24, 2012 3:23 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i love that part

i do too, it's just literally the musical transition is odd, but it's supposed to be jarring i think

i essentially wanted to turn the whole album off after "tony story 2"

"believe it" with ross is the best track on there after "amen" and the intro... the only keepers, really

album is def missing some tracks like "burn" or "A1 everything" or "house party" or "don't panic" that are just fun bangers

i like 'layup' or i did at the listening sesh anyway

How does "House Party" not make this?!

best use of twinkly piano keys so far is on "maybach curtains"

the ones in the back that go DEEDLE DEEDLE DEEDLEDUUUUH... but fuck a john legend... the track's kinda whack overall tho, although i like nas on it.

also how many times has nas said "al green while moms cleanin" ... too many, i feel.

"house party" is of another era already

i dont think this album is that bad. not into 'maybach curtains' tho

it's def not bad but i can't imagine anyone would take it over the dreamchasers stuff

i like "young kings" but yeah so far nothing essential here

well. nothing redeeming about this news.

http://soundcloud.com/angelhazeym/angel-haze-cleaning-out-my/s-AJcso

well. nothing redeeming about this news.

― fanute da croupier (D-40), Thursday, October 25, 2012 10:52 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

What news, deej?

rappers fuckin things up episode 34285756489254

http://www.worldstarhiphop.com/videos/video.php?v=wshhH08vfFKdPi49bAHO

rappers fuckin things up episode 34285756489255

http://www.dirtyglovebastard.net/?p=58802

Jesus, Reese.

that video is horrifying

yeah, i mean. FOH

Absolutely disgusting.

who is the rappper Armstrong

orlando rapper who noz wrote about recently on redbull & id written about in blog posts on fader

who has been RICO'd

http://www.redbullmusicacademy.com/magazine/noz-pit-stop-orlando

tbh was never completely sold on his music -- he picked good beats & seems to be the real deal or w/e but i kinda was 'ok' w/ it the way i am w/ alley boy

http://www.chicagonow.com/becoming-nikki-lynette/2012/10/1492/

that's an interesting essay

that reese footage is so terrible.

honestly, it gets to the point where i don't even really want to follow hip hop anymore. and i'm not saying hip hop causes these things, but 25 years of rubbernecking at all this pain and violence and nihilism has just made it to the point where esp keef & reese & this stuff has no appeal to me really at all. just a more dead-eyed thudding version of shit i've been listening to since nwa & geto boys, and nothing changes, nothing is really learned from all of it. hell you could go back to schooly d who could be reese's grandfather. i remember reading that keef's MOM is 31 years old. seven years younger than me. i wish someone could help these kids or make things better for kids that grow up in those neighborhoods but i doubt that will happen, and hip hop sure hasn't helped. 10 years from now keef & them will be right back where they started probably. just not much fun or life in a lot of this music to me anymore. and part of me feels gross for having vicariously looked on for so long.

this line from jordan's review of keef stuck out to me i remember:

As sociology, the mixtape reinforces just how and why violence is rooted in underclass communities, and though Keef has already been blamed for its perpetuation, at the age of 16, he's still years away from fully understanding the context in which his music exists

which j0rd u are a good writer and the review was well written but it's not sociology, that would suggest that something is being learned or discovered, it's just voyeurism for most of us.

that's an interesting pair of posts