lol its almost as if its not about noz at all, but the subjects being discussed!
― D-40, Monday, 31 December 2012 00:19 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i agree with noz more often than not, working on a 30 page gallery of Things Noz Is Right About
― PliesStripAThon5Jan20th@gmail.com (some dude), Monday, 31 December 2012 00:21 (eleven years ago) link
id recommend sharpening the zings for the coming year
― D-40, Monday, 31 December 2012 00:54 (eleven years ago) link
don't come at the king, lil flip
― dead cera (J0rdan S.), Monday, 31 December 2012 01:28 (eleven years ago) link
...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.
― een, Monday, 31 December 2012 06:05 (eleven years ago) link
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
― flopson, Monday, 31 December 2012 06:08 (eleven years ago) link
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, Monday, 31 December 2012 06:20 (eleven years ago) link
flopson you have not experienced true horror
― based grandpa (noz), Monday, 31 December 2012 06:24 (eleven years ago) link
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
― kaygee, Monday, 31 December 2012 06:45 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― D-40, Monday, 31 December 2012 11:38 (eleven years ago) link
i dont normally n/h but i thought it was lightweight funny to do so here
i feel lightweight agitated
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Monday, 31 December 2012 12:02 (eleven years ago) link
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"
― some dude, Monday, 31 December 2012 12:47 (eleven years ago) link
shit's actually been readable imo
― dead cera (J0rdan S.), Monday, 31 December 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
oh it's def improved in some ways, props for that. just saying, my post was more pointed than just 'lol complex makes slideshows.'
― some dude, Monday, 31 December 2012 13:28 (eleven years ago) link
the EOY stuff has been particularly ugly and difficult to navigate this year.
― how's life, Monday, 31 December 2012 16:55 (eleven years ago) link
the hideous glowing trapezoids are part of an emerging visual culture, man
― some dude, Monday, 31 December 2012 16:56 (eleven years ago) link
"hopelessly meta" does this phrase even have meaning
― D-40, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
you were the one scolding me for being meta on twitter the other day lol
― some dude, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― Rolling "2 chainz" draadje (The Reverend), Monday, 31 December 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
― 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
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 31 December 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
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
― D-40, Monday, 31 December 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
blah wrong tab ignore me
― D-40, Monday, 31 December 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
that seemed like a very cryptic metaphor for pitchfork's layout, yes
― Author ~ Coach ~ Goddess (s1ocki), Monday, 31 December 2012 22:11 (eleven years ago) link
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
― 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
― how's life, Monday, 31 December 2012 23:35 (eleven years ago) link
works on one click for me, must be my indie cred
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:01 (eleven years ago) link
LOL @ 'the hideous glowing trapezoids'
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
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 rapI don't represent no colors, I represent my lil' sisters and brothersI'm the oldest, niggaAnd if you can't respect that, your whole perspective is wackCheck it out
I used to wanna rap like Jay-Zuntil I finally realised that Jay wasn't me
― Eggs and the marketing board behind them, Thursday, 3 January 2013 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
i hate the idea of 'the great tastemaker called time' btw so stupid
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 3 January 2013 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
Time, the great hate duller, shall dull your hatred
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 January 2013 06:49 (eleven years ago) link
or possibly reinforce it. did u think about that? old bitter ppl are everywhere
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Thursday, 3 January 2013 06:55 (eleven years ago) link
Mirror, i'ma talkin' to you
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 January 2013 07:00 (eleven years ago) link
Perhaps Time, the great timer, shall call times up on them
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 January 2013 07:01 (eleven years ago) link
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
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 January 2013 07:04 (eleven years ago) link
Time swears it
― toy_sleigher (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 3 January 2013 07:05 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 6 January 2013 18:05 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― said the brohaim to the cochise (how's life), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:00 (eleven years ago) link
naw, that's drake
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
some indie record that's much cooler than mine, that's that shit i don't like
― lex pretend, Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
Meanies, that's that shit I don't like
― Binder, Binder & (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
On a date with cutest boy, higher than a kite
― Binder, Binder & (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 6 January 2013 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
daddy said stay away from juliet, like #huahhuahhuah
― mconor, Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
― Binder, Binder & (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, January 6, 2013 2:59 PM (48 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Sunday, 6 January 2013 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
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.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 7 January 2013 23:07 (eleven years ago) link
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?
― scott pgwp (pgwp), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, seems fine to me.
― Z S, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:30 (eleven years ago) link
it's IMMERSIVE
― j., Tuesday, 8 January 2013 02:32 (eleven years ago) link
its also a shot against NPR which kinda locked down the ON FIRST LISTEN hits awhile back
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
the thing about NPR album streams is that they kinda sucked from a user perspective
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 8 January 2013 05:50 (eleven years ago) link
i mean it was cool that they existed but that was about all