killer mike raps el-p produces "R.A.P. Music"

I can't possibly fathom listening to Run The Jewels and wanting to isolate the El-P half of it.

i know, it's crazy -- and yet, i love it
it's like a totally different album!

"get it" is still my favorite but it's not the same without killer mike

the instrumentals are sick, can't wait for the new one.

gah me either!

agh i can't stop listening to these
what else sounds like this?

how wd you differentiate it from el-p's solo work

i don't know enough to say honestly -- is his stuff instrumental?

oh my absolute word

there are instrumentals of his stuff but he's also an excellent rapper - wordplay levels set to fiendish, spits legit &c

all three of his albums are brilliant but my favourite is the second one, 'i'll sleep when you're dead'

you owe it to yourself to investigate

there are also company flow/cannibal ox instrumentals but you shd really listen to those albums with aire/vordul involved coz they bring a lot of character & are also good rappers

i know he is an excellent rapper, i just wondered if he had more instrumental albums
i can't listen to rapping while i work -- too distracting! but these instrumentals are lending massive bounce to my otherwise headache-inducing day

i'll check it out -- cannibal ox?

he did an album with Matthew Shipp! it doesn't sound much like Run The Jewels though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Water_%28El-P_album%29

his beats are generally leagues better than his rapping imo

yeah but his beats are some of the best electronic pop music ever imo

cannibal ox's album 'the cold vein' features some of his best production work and is available in instrumental form. it's fairly regarded as a monolith of underground rap (to the extent where it isn't rly very underground)

god it feels so good to just be able to type this shit on a board where 3than doesn't post

R.A.P. Music holds up very well

i like this cannibal ox album alright but it's a little cold for my personal taste
the RtJ instrumentals are totally sizzlin
that's what i'm looking for i guess

will check that out crut -- thx

it's a cold world out there

has anyone trolled this thread yet

??

god it feels so good to just be able to type this shit on a board where 3than doesn't post

― imago, Wednesday, August 27, 2014 8:47 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

self-consciously 'conscious', undie, backpacker, experimental, 'new levels', weird 'avant-garde' art rap

just ttly went mainstream, so u can't rly troll it any more, soz. el-p was always a pop artist anyway, haha

just kinda sad this is where killer mike ended up

imago have you ever heard boogie down productions

I get more embarrasses, year on year, for liking niceguysofokcupid rap favorite 'the cold vein'

*embarrassed. seriously tho it is painful for me to hear at this point. i am progressing to the point where the shades of blue-grey on the cover art make me queasy, as does the word 'ox' when encountered in other contexts such as 'ox-tail soup' and 'xb-ox'

at some point in my thirties i imagine I will be on public transport and some algorithmically determined internet 'radio' will serve me with a track from 'fantastic damage' and my heart will shrivel and stop and I will literally actually die of shame

lol i feel u

Wow I hadn't realized this was such a fraught topic.

its tuff

you guys have issues to resolve.
anyway, new album in a month or so.

forks is eagerly anticipating this lol

show us yr blogs

Wow I hadn't realized this was such a fraught topic.

only if you're an overly self-conscious white guy who likes hip hop

um a perfectly self conscious white guy

what about perfect white guys

perfect white guys are too busy cataloging the glyscemic index of their foods to listen to undie rap

perfect white guys rapping in undies

I get more embarrasses, year on year, for liking niceguysofokcupid rap favorite 'the cold vein'

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, August 27, 2014 6:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha ha def jux forever get therapy

lol

I remember downloading some mix lagoon put on ilx a long long time ago and it was like all kelly clarkson

I love the shit out of Fantastic Damage. There are instrumentals around, but I'd rather listen to the lyrics. What's a good rap album, lagoon?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3-Q6zgXl6w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJkfTfud4iU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZT3jAZtJ0

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

def jux is my therapy man *puts on headphones and just zones out into the ill lexicographical cypher*

I remember downloading some mix lagoon put on ilx a long long time ago and it was like all kelly clarkson

― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Wednesday, August 27, 2014 8:21 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

uh that sounds like a kelly clarkson album get yr facts straight i am strictly grimy beats mad visual flows

mad poop flows, morelike

Yeah, there's tons of terrible undie rap but The Cold Vein is pretty classic imo.

don't worry everyone, liking the cold vein doesn't negate the other rap you like, and it doesn't automatically make you "that guy"

mad poop flows, morelike

― mookieproof, Wednesday, August 27, 2014 8:28 PM (33 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i rap solid stools while the haters drool / i got sick ass beats with cool sounds like brrrrr and oooool

that has nothing to do with this thread tbh but this thread madeleine'd me into a rememberance of clicking on a mix hoping it would be good and it being kelly clarkson maroon 5 mashup after mashup

that does sound good tho idgi

at some point in my thirties i imagine I will be on public transport and some algorithmically determined internet 'radio' will serve me with a track from 'fantastic damage' and my heart will shrivel and stop and I will literally actually die of shame

― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, August 27, 2014 6:15 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahah this is so perfect