rolling regional thug thread 2012

really glad "kay kay" made this.... that song sounds incredible

No skits?

GBE doesn't really do skits

"hate being sober" is the game changer imo... "love sosa" is just a really good chief keef song

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 12, 2012 12:20 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

omfg "hate being sober" features 50 & wiz khalifa, i'm so sad right now

― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Monday, November 12, 2012 12:28 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao GAME CHANGER

interesting that lil reese is completely absent from the 'kobe' video even tho he featured prominently in the "trailer"

if by 'interesting' you mean 'interscope booted him' u nailed it

b/c of the beating video obv

the fact that i said that & literally eight minutes later got the tracklist press release is a signal that my karma is not in good order today

if by 'interesting' you mean 'interscope booted him' u nailed it

― fanute da croupier (D-40), Monday, November 12, 2012 12:45 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

but reese is def jam

i mean they booted him from the video

the video kinda sucks & in the director's defense i suspect its because he had to work with existing footage to remove dude like he was a stalin-era photograph editor

i mean they booted him from the video

― fanute da croupier (D-40), Monday, November 12, 2012 12:48 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

o

50 Cent and Wiz on Hate Being Sober sounds like Don't Like (Remix) all over again.

yayodancing compared the video on tumblr to gucci's "heavy" video which is meaningless but also pretty true

50 Cent and Wiz on Hate Being Sober sounds like Don't Like (Remix) all over again.

― weak willie (longneck), Monday, November 12, 2012 12:50 PM (13 seconds ago) Bookmark

except for the part where we have an original "i don't like" and don't ever have to listen to the remix

50 Cent and Wiz on Hate Being Sober sounds like Don't Like (Remix) all over again.

― weak willie (longneck), Monday, November 12, 2012 11:50 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

completely disagree. kanye doing a remix --even ignoring his stupid changes to the beat-- is about asserting his aesthetic onto someone else's vision. in this case, it's a favor to both 50 and wiz that they even get to guest on the record. (especially 50, who keef doesn't really need if he has wiz, and who badly needs a look like this)

fwiw i heard the version w/ 50 on it & he kinda kills it (havent heard wiz's verse)

i could imagine 50 sounding good on it because you could make the argument that keef's flow on that and "love sosa" is at least partially derived from 50's early sing-song raps, but it's still unnecessary. and wiz, jesus christ....

yeah i don't need either one, i'm just saying 50 kills it, his verse is kinda crazy, he goes in

Aight. I'll take your word for it. I was just hoping for the Flockaveli approach - the 50, Wiz, French and Ross features can only dilute Keef's aesthetic imo. And part of the problem with the Don't Like remix was that all these technical celebrity rappers just didn't know what to do with that beat.

lol i really have no idea how wiz needs keef more than vice versa

i didnt say he did, i was just talking about 50

Aight. I'll take your word for it. I was just hoping for the Flockaveli approach - the 50, Wiz, French and Ross features can only dilute Keef's aesthetic imo. And part of the problem with the Don't Like remix was that all these technical celebrity rappers just didn't know what to do with that beat.

― weak willie (longneck), Monday, November 12, 2012 12:02 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this HES MAKING THE NEXT FLOCKAVELI meme should die sooner than later, he's a very different artist & it was a useful pt of comparison early on but its obvious he is musically in a completely different style, probably closer to soulja boy actually

ah yeah i kinda misread 'wiz, and who badly needs a look like this'

did people have lofty expectations for the Crime Mob and J-Kwon albums?

"Hood Hop" crushes anything this dude's done btw

oh c'mon

haha sorry i just love that song

lmao

those points of comparison make less sense than flockaveli

ppl are invested in who keef is in a way they werent w/ j-kwon, who was cool & had great songs but no one knew anything about

you are certainly invested in keef being important and a big deal

smh knew that was coming eventually

are u suggesting im buying stock in him or something? im telling it like i see it, as ive always done here

watching some keef stuff on youtube just reminded me of mannish teen rappers of old like j-kown and huey who looked like 5+ years older than they really were

ppl are invested in who keef is in a way they werent w/ j-kwon, who was cool & had great songs but no one knew anything about

― fanute da croupier (D-40), Monday, November 12, 2012 1:09 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you are certainly invested in keef being important and a big deal

― captain angeroo (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, November 12, 2012 1:10 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

i mean it depends on what shipley is talking about with "people" -- for keef's fanbase & rap fans in general, deej's point is totally true. j kwon was just a dude who got slid two incredibly hot beats. if "people" means critics/industry people then you have to remember that keef already put out a very good mixtape, so it's not like people are completely tripping off one or two singles at this point.

deej i'm trolling to an extent but i do think calling it a "game changer" infers that rap will be different after keef...and i guess that suggests a whole lot more than what's going on here.

ok and last time i said that was about gucci, and i was right then

"i would like to point out that i have been otm in this every thread"

like im not basing this on me liking a song, im basing it on the evidence. everyone from stars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45oDwJjJICo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2Dt73G79S0

to smaller-scale artists
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1W5K4FPgR0

to kids just obsessed

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

omg @ that soulja boy song, i can't even believe that guy sometimes

it's so disorienting how his flow is nowhere near the drums. has he not figured out how to listen to the beat on headphones while recording vocals?

maybe he's trying to cop lil b vibes

oh that was years ago

little be vibes, and little were the vibes indeed

this HES MAKING THE NEXT FLOCKAVELI meme should die sooner than later, he's a very different artist & it was a useful pt of comparison early on but its obvious he is musically in a completely different style, probably closer to soulja boy actually

― fanute da croupier (D-40), Monday, November 12, 2012 6:05 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Oh will you relax already. Please

The Flockaveli approach: young rapper with a distinct aesthetic being allowed to make debut album (originally meant to be a mixtape, JUST LIKE FINALLY RICH), with the producer/sound/crew he came up with, without any unnecessary celebrity guests/remixes/painful attempts at crossover hits/passing of torches.

This may, in fact, be nearly what we get. But the presence of most of these Big Names makes me nervous.

When Keef starts trying to rap like Rick Ross, grunts and all, we can compare him to Soulja Boy. As for now, I'll stick with Waka.

but he doesnt sound anything like waka

Of course he doesn't. That's not the point. The point is the singular aesthetic. No one (since crunk) had sounded remotely like Waka - which is also why the PT feature made sense. This is also the argument for the 50 Cent feature making some kind of sense.

If I were to make an argument for Keef sounding like Waka I would have reached for the pre-Flockaveli early feature days, before Waka got enthusiastically energetic. But I'm not making that argument, since it's not a very interesting argument to make.

W/ Keef they're going for complete crossover star, not small potatoes rap mixtape artist.

Exactly. Why no Kobe though?

W/ Keef they're going for complete crossover star, not small potatoes rap mixtape artist.

― fanute da croupier (D-40), Monday, November 12, 2012 3:26 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark

i'm not quite sure if this is a fair assessment also keef will be luck to have a crossover hit as big as "no hands"