ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2012

I love the beat and backing track on "Same Damn Time". Is there an instrumental out there?

― EZ Snappin, Monday, January 21, 2013 12:04 PM Bookmark

It's all about how Future's vocals become progressively more unhinged as the song goes along tho.

There will be garbled space ballads.

I like the drugged quality of the Ty$ backing track better than the ott bombast of same damn time

I fucking love Javeria Mena, but I have trouble thinking of "Luz de Piedra de Luna" as having anything to do with 2012. Even though it was officially a single this year, it's not like I came across it on the radio or anything.

I have no use for Future's vocals. I'm tired of him long before he becomes unhinged.

boy your money and my money AIN'T THE SAME DAMN KIND

I think he's my second-favorite vocalist of the year after Miguel. He's so blues (although less so here than elsewhere).

future in banger mode >>>>>> future in garbled space ballad mode

― lex pretend, Monday, January 21, 2013 8:08 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is so, so wrong

The one garbled space ballad off Pluto that i really liked was I'm Trippin'

the song that won me over to future was 'no matter what' which is neither a banger or a garbled space balled.

balLAD

http://i.imgur.com/fgvVlY4.png

68. NICKI MINAJ FT. 2 CHAINZ "Beez in the Trap"

Spotify / Youtube

Rev - maybe I have to check out a different track. This is all I've heard from him and it put me off, vocally. Maybe I need a space ballad for him to click.

Surprised at the lowness.

(tru)

more hip hop shite

no spoilero but nicki was the one artist absolutely slaughtered in this poll by vote splitting

nicki rapping the states of america at the end of this is some of my fav rapping of the year

haha yeah that part is pretty fantastic

Future's I WANT GUCCI I WANT BALLY makes me 5/9 so far. me = ilx hivemind.

i remember not being particularly impressed by this at first but it sounded good on the radio

i went back & forth on this song... it's so weird structurally and sonically that i give it props objectively but i never was like OH SHIT IT'S BEEZ IN THE TRAP, TURN IT UP BRUH when it came on the raadio

Yeah there wasn't really a Super Bass to rally around, although I will be gutted if Gun Shot doesn't place.

xp Kinda feel the same way.

one thing that's amazing & unique about this song IMO is that it sounds PERFECT no matter what the temp is. in the hottest of summer heat it feels like you're hearing sweat hit the bleachers in slow motion while in the coldest of cold winter it sounds like an igloo slowly melting

I think he's my second-favorite vocalist of the year after Miguel. He's so blues (although less so here than elsewhere).

also seems very dancehall, i discovered the other day? although i also don't really know anything about dancehall so i could just be way off

not that i didn't love beez in the trap already, but her appearance on graham norton made me love it infinitely more. also surprised by its lowness.

yeah, the dancehall aspect of future was overlooked. in my early reviews of his i tried to make it a point cuz there's more, idk, demarco in future than there is t-pain. but i don't know tons about dancehall.

Loving this Nicki song so far

IF I GET HIT SWINGIN ON A BIG BITCH
I'ON'T KNOW, MAN, I'M SHITTIN ON YOUR WHOLE LIFE

i think 'i luv dem strippers' might have overtaken 'beez..' as the chainz & nicki masterpiece of the year.

not too bad, weird that a girl saying motherfucker is so much more fun than a guy. it's a little repetitive though.

nicki rapping the states of america at the end of this is some of my fav rapping of the year

otm at first i was like what a cop out, i want another proper nicki verse but really she embeds that rhythm of the states in your head

i can't remember if i voted for a track or just the album but if i had i would've voted for a non-album track - prob "the boys"

i hope to see a lot more nicki as the poll progresses

Never heard this before, but yeah it's sweet.

I think he's my second-favorite vocalist of the year after Miguel. He's so blues (although less so here than elsewhere).

also seems very dancehall, i discovered the other day? although i also don't really know anything about dancehall so i could just be way off

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Monday, January 21, 2013 12:18 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Hadn't even thought of this but yeah. Also he's Haitian-American iirc? Caribbean connection.

late to this thread but...

The main problem I have with 'Crayon' is that the pun is so laboured. For a good pun, you need both sides to be resonant, not just "oh yeah, get your cray on", and a fucking child's drawing implement. BAH.

might help to know that it's a double pun - it's also a play on G-dragon's real name, Kwon Jiyong (Crazy + Jiyong). The division between GD and Jiyong is a recurring theme in his songs, actually.

Anyway... NICKI. YES. And love that Javiera Mena track, why hadn't I heard it before?!

http://i.imgur.com/Tn8MsrE.gif

I kind of feel like Beez is a great first half of a song in search of a great second half of a song.

Poll has been really underwhelming so far but I love those clicks and pops on the Minaj track (as well as Nicki). Best track so far by quite a margin.

that nicki/2 chainz gif! my fav bit of the video, where SHE'S the static pivot that HE dances around

might help to know that it's a double pun - it's also a play on G-dragon's real name, Kwon Jiyong (Crazy + Jiyong). The division between GD and Jiyong is a recurring theme in his songs, actually.

It does help, thanks Roz!

Nicki is awesome, not much else to say, really.

nicki rapping the states of america at the end of this is some of my fav rapping of the year

it's delaware, connecticut, it's newjersey got hellabricks
it's queensbrooklyn and yeahtheywildin
it's BRONX HARLEM AND STATEN ISLAND

she just hits every syllable in the perfect way

I have no use for Nicki. I'm checking out Future on youtube and definitely like the space ballad stuff more.

especially "staten island" xp

Here I was looking for entomological/botanical metaphor, and she's just singing about being a drug stockroom.

^ being in a drug stockroom.

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fuck so upset I forgot to include "gun shot" in my ballot ;_;

have read other people on here being dismissive of 2 chainz' verse on this which is just crazy imo

i don't know man fuck is on your biscuit?