pitchfork is dumb (#34985859340293849494 in a series.)

i'm a poptimist whore it's true but honestly i see nothing wrong with greeting new artists with skepticism and letting the work they put in win you over gradually, i actually change my mind about people all the time whereas i feel sometimes like dudes decide whether they like a rapper right off the bat and stick with that feeling for life

― PliesStripAThon5Jan2✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ (some dude), Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw i get this perspective & the phrase dragging feet was a bit of a provocation obv

"the artist who made one of their top ten rap albums of the year? lol"

http://gifsforum.com/images/gif/facepalm/grand/2pac_facepalm_gif.gif

much ado about noz zing

i agree with some of noz's posts but not all of them -- will have a tumblr post about this tonight, perhaps will explain it some more on twitter tomorrow

lol its almost as if its not about noz at all, but the subjects being discussed!

yeah i agree with noz more often than not, working on a 30 page gallery of Things Noz Is Right About

id recommend sharpening the zings for the coming year

don't come at the king, lil flip

...the rap that was uniquely propped up on indie PR machine/cool kid blog circuit this year was ephemeral, amateurish, or even outright depressing. I won't name names since you guys seem to love them. Or at least you love reblogging their photos on Tumblr and getting free drinks at their Heineken sponsored shows.

you really DO have to name names though, because otherwise you're the guy who simultaneously champions lil b and shits on rappers because they're popular on imageblogs. also the last time i checked danny brown's twitter background was a mosaic of Heineken bottles so.

i feel sometimes like dudes decide whether they like a rapper right off the bat and stick with that feeling for life

i tend to do the opposite; decide i like a rapper right off the bat and then forget about them

i agree w/ mccoll except that i think it's hilarious reading angry rap blogger shpiel in the p4k & appreciate how much license noz has to openly attack the site's readership. like while it's pretty horrifying to contemplate the innerworkings of the mind of an adult human who would write "just know that none of this stuff is notable or interesting or entertaining to anybody who was listening to rap music back before 2008," it's perversely comforting to imagine someone out there who feels they've just lost pitchfork as a friend

flopson you have not experienced true horror

i've seen things you people wouldn't believe

negative opinions about rap music

all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain

time to die

don't come at the king, lil flip

― dead cera (J0rdan S.), Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if the best the king can do is 'lol complex makes slideshows' im gonna argues hes not wearing any clothes n/h

i dont normally n/h but i thought it was lightweight funny to do so here

i feel lightweight agitated

complex has done listicles for years but it seems like only since deef's been there that they do hopelessly meta listicles of "25 things everyone thinks about hip-hop (but nobody will say" and "25 most hated on rappers"

shit's actually been readable imo

oh it's def improved in some ways, props for that. just saying, my post was more pointed than just 'lol complex makes slideshows.'

the EOY stuff has been particularly ugly and difficult to navigate this year.

the hideous glowing trapezoids are part of an emerging visual culture, man

"hopelessly meta" does this phrase even have meaning

you were the one scolding me for being meta on twitter the other day lol

getting an smartphone is the first thing that's made me understand complex's layout at all. it would be nice if they had a non-mobile version of their site tho.

the EOY stuff has been particularly ugly and difficult to navigate this year.

― how's life, Monday, December 31, 2012 10:55 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can say it's ugly but how is it difficult to navigate? you click on the name of the feature you want and it takes you there

youre apparently better at communicating ambiguity

just to be clear, you realize i'm talking about the place his vocals land on the beat (as in which part of the beat) rather than the slightly 'off' rhythmic nature of his voice that somedude is talking about, right -- hes putting his vocals down in unconventional places w/in the rhythm of the track

blah wrong tab ignore me

that seemed like a very cryptic metaphor for pitchfork's layout, yes

you can say it's ugly but how is it difficult to navigate? you click on the name of the feature you want and it takes you there

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, December 31, 2012 4:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you click on the name of the feature you want a whole bunch and then it takes you there

works on one click for me, must be my indie cred

LOL @ 'the hideous glowing trapezoids'

I tend to believe that the qualitative aspects of a classic—the ones not dictated by the great tastemaker called time—should be measured by an artist's ability to perfect their own blueprint, not The Blueprint.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VqTaV3hbvY

Confusing de dicto with de re...

It's like I don't think you fully understand who I am, y'know?
I'm just a good kid from Compton that wanna rap
I don't represent no colors, I represent my lil' sisters and brothers
I'm the oldest, nigga
And if you can't respect that, your whole perspective is wack
Check it out

I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z
until I finally realised that Jay wasn't me

i hate the idea of 'the great tastemaker called time' btw so stupid

Time, the great hate duller, shall dull your hatred

or possibly reinforce it. did u think about that? old bitter ppl are everywhere

Mirror, i'ma talkin' to you

Perhaps Time, the great timer, shall call times up on them

And then Time, the big brother, will take the controller back and play earthworm Jim because Time, the great Jimmer, knows how to beat this part

Time swears it

Been visiting family & traveling since the 29th, so been sporadic on ilx, but is p much every thread about deej and/or chief keef now?

I figured that since we were on ilm, chief keef was some underground rapper who only put out mixtapes on datpiff or something, but i just saw one of his CDs in target today! I guess he's the taylor swift of rappers or something?

naw, that's drake

some indie record that's much cooler than mine, that's that shit i don't like

Meanies, that's that shit I don't like

On a date with cutest boy, higher than a kite

daddy said stay away from juliet, like #huahhuahhuah

On a date with cutest boy, higher than a kite

― Binder, Binder & (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, January 6, 2013 2:59 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

Admittedly I haven't tried to stream the YLT record yet, so maybe the "controllable" content is really awesome, but man they are really proud of themselves for catching up to what NPR has been doing for years now.

I was glad to stream the album, and happy to easily see/read the liner notes for the record - something that is missing from the rest of my iTunes library. I don't really knock them for giving it a heavy PR spin, even if the BS is high. What are they supposed to do, not announce that they are streaming full albums?

yeah, seems fine to me.