rolling regional thug thread 2012

i like some Rich Kidz songs, just got a bit much over the course of a whole tape imo. that one guy's voice especially.

stuff like Young Thug basically reminds me of when i used to listen to 150 Baltimore mixtapes a year and what the bottom 5% of that sounded like

did you like 'foreign' by him any more or are you not going on the whole thing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXiUBlPlRkQ

hadn't heard that one, better than the others i guess. i realize that "sounds like lil wayne" is a genre in 2012 but if you can't even rise to the standards of 2012 lil wayne then kill yourself imo.

https://twitter.com/Young_Guru/status/284327576489570304

looks like young guru's getting a bad first impression of j0rdan

rite cos there's nothing but pure high consciousness on rapradar

Brian B.Dot™ Miller ‏@bdotTM
damn the cutesy gif's. It's outsiders like yourself in hipster media that get a hard on by over analyzing Black music.

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Young Guru ‏@Young_Guru
@DJGREENLANTERN this Altitude mix tape is phenomenal!!!! You realize you just made a new style. London trap mixed with Hiphop!!! Good Job!!

lol leave young guru out of this i don't think he realized what he was getting int

*into

my fault for bringing him up i just thought it was funny timing

the more specific criticisms of the review are being lodged on krs ex's private fb00k page

b dot is trying to kick me out of rap music... i'm finally rich

Rolling hipster media that get a hard on by over analyzing Black music thread

http://pitchfork.com/features/hall-of-game/9029-the-year-rap-broke/

noz gonna drag his feet the whole way on the keef thing

not that u guys were expecting me to respond any other way. but the soulja boy comparison suggests a level of accidental & coincidence where i'm hearing more intent & personality but ymmv

but 'ineptitude,' really

the other way the soulja comparison doesn't work is that it was the song that went viral, not the artist. ppl liked the dance & the video & werent wrapped up in soulja boy as a person iirc? i mean, we were all around when it hit but i don't recall the same level of connection to who soulja boy was

uhhh isn't rapradar like a haven for middlebrow aftermath bullshit rap or am i missing something completely

(many xposts)

no it is, which is the stupidest thing. i'm being accused of harming "the culture" via my position of power by a guy who runs a site that posts every iggy azealea mp3.

whole thread going "when you look into the abyss" atm

oh no what if we lose forks

lost me a long time ago friend

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9IXAJg4Vm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Tt269zCo-0

Forks whats a couple releases you liked this year that never got brought up itt?

hip hop releases? not many and primarily far more poppy than this thread cares to deal with.
I disagree with a lot of trap uber alles and crit rhetoric that gets slung around on here but it's been an excellent source for new music this year, no doubt. it's why i'm here!

Yeah hip-hop only.

i mean i'm doing my top tens now and the hip hop albums that seem to be cropping up are

E-40 - The Block Brochure v 1,2,3
Killer Mike - R.A.P. Music
Kendrick Lamar - good kid, m.A.A.d city
Wiley - Evolve or Be Extinct
Ab Soul - Control System
El P - Cancer 4 Cure
Azealia Banks - 1991 EP
Schoolboy Q - Habits and Contradictions
Le1f - Dark York
100s - Ice Cold Perm

can't imagine there's many surprises there

i spent the last day or two giving a college try to Big Boi / TI / Chief Keef and am having THOUGHTS but nothing worth sharing at the moment beyond the obvious

new freeway and vybz also in attempted rotation

Cool, I still haven't managed to get through that El-P album yet.

Need to hear that Freeway too.

im sure ppl here are as interested in hearing forks' thoughts on chief keef as they are mine at this pt

i found the el-p pretty hit and miss but the hits are meaningful
one off singles by artists that are new to me are the most useful impact stuff on this thread for my money. that's how i vibed with 100s and why i've listened to this zilla track like nine zillion times this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1GQahDwCpQ0

That Zilla tape has so many good beats.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe75okKvsTY
This is my jam off that

keef album is interesting in its minimalism; i don't exactly want to listen to it but its something of a master class. Quivering candy painted suspension wires. singles are still totally unpalatable but something clicked when I tried:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQCyhaOt9bc
so i'm not coming around exactly so much as i am getting what there is to get as opposed to, say, gucci and waka who still are opaque to me even after i've tried for years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaNAoBIw14&feature=youtu.be

this goes

surprised at open minded forks experience w/ keef. *respect dap*

zilla beats are pretty amazing yes

Nothing showing on that link for me Deej

he meant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7EaNAoBIw14

insane hook on that btw

idk why that link didnt work but yah forks got it

That synth(?) sound was cool at first but then just kinda dominated after I got about half way through. I like though.