ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

The problem with a lot of sad emo rap isn't that it's not okay for dudes to have emotions, it's that the dudes in question often come across as whiny entitled douches. Not particularly the case with Tuesday admittedly.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:11 PM (52 seconds ago)

i'd really love for someone smart to write a long article looking at the history of emo rap, i'm blanking on who the antecedent emo rappers must be, but i want to know how this whole drake/future/quan etc scene came to be

what even is a rating, when you think abt it xp

Gotta admit that in the past 12 months I have struggled not to heedlessly clown the phrase "safe space" somehow (ditto "shaming")

The problem with a lot of sad emo rap isn't that it's not okay for dudes to have emotions, it's that the dudes in question often come across as whiny entitled douches. Not particularly the case with Tuesday admittedly.

― Matt DC, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:11 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I agree the original impulse was to push back against male entitlement, but it feels to me like the brush has gotten a lot broader than that. k3v's post makes me think this is just another thing we can blame on Drake

its kanyes fault tho really

Let's have a social justice clusterfuck in the tracks rollout!

really tho its societies fault

is this a social justice clusterfuck or are you referring to something else?

y'all mind if i do a li'l reaction dump type post

hey man not cool, no hot takes, this is a safe space, etc

plz do xp

li'l reaction >>> hot take

tbr i am excited to try on a lot of these songs, like every year.

Lil Hot Take = cool MC name

reaction *dump* now, plz

i'll break it up a bit

tw: hot takes

http://i.imgur.com/p4sK387.jpg

44 TODD TERJE "Delorean Dynamite" [308 points, 13 votes]
http://youtu.be/LUOIvT9hzD8

now, goole!

too low

thought that was a pic of goole reacting

I didn't vote for "DD," voted for the full album, but this is the first thing on the list I can fully get behind

2014 77 TRAX REAX

i’m always about 12 mo behind on all music and i don’t even think i like talking about music on the internet anymore but here goes.

NICKI MINAJ: “Lookin Ass”: eh ‘sokay. heavy! where did that “dude shouting hey on the beat” thing start? i’d love to see a youtube history of that.

OWEN PALLETT: “Song for Five & Six”: i don’t know this guy’s music very well (hi!). i’m pro arpeggio, all arpeggio everything, so thumbs up

TUNE-YARDS: “Water Fountain”: https://twitter.com/RIBSOUT/status/464192649889865728

NINOS DU BRASIL: “Sombra da Lua”: whoa this really smokes. what scene is this? how did this develop any consensus behind it? no idea what the context here is.

KING Mister Chameleon: gorgeous. will admit to not really getting grabbed tho

KATIE GATELY “Pivot”: gorgeous. will admit to kinda skipping through it tho. sounds a little like… Lookin Ass heh

ANA TIJOUX Ft. Shadia Mansour: “Somos Sur”: awesome, glad i got to hear this bcz of the poll

USHER “Good Kisser”: great song. personal note: radio where i live is awful, seems to be getting worse, and i miss hearing songs like this all the time. blanket endorsement from University of Chicago professor and Century Foundation fellow: https://twitter.com/haroldpollack/status/557047130993725440

NICKI MINAJ “Anaconda”: i looove the last minute

DAVIDO "Tchelete" Ft. Mafikizolo: wow, cool. “things that our people do for money,” holy shit. this is the year for pensive, wound-up music huh

RÖYKSOPP & ROBYN "Do It Again": idk why i was sort of rooting for this to be bad but it’s ok

SHAKIRA "Empire": quite a chorus but this is like current-day aerosmith

ST. VINCENT "Prince Johnny": doesn’t do a thing for me

DUKE DUMONT "I Got U" Ft. Jax Jones: not into the vocal but i will always like a tune like this

CARIBOU "Silver": oookay? i like caribou a lot but i’m not sad i didn’t rush out for this one. atp i’m a little mystified how these relatively somber album-cut type tracks are generating this much EOY love

i'm blanking on who the antecedent emo rappers must be

Scarface and 2pac.

AGAINST ME! "FUCKMYLIFE666": i really hate to not be more open to something so important and true in a year, like any other year, when anti-trans violence has been so pervasive and trans experience has become much more visible in mass media. i just don’t like this kind of rock music.

HOLLY HERNDON "Chorus": whoa, intense. heavy pressure on headphones! i have to admit i was not expecting it to have an #actual beat

MARK RONSON "Uptown Funk" Ft Bruno Mars: no.

JENNIFER LOPEZ "I Luh Ya Papi" Ft French Montana. yeah ok. doesn’t seem like much. that’s the point tho, right? it’s so goddam cold here, i’m not really with this right now.

AGAINST ME! "Transgender Dysphoria Blues": see above, but this does hit way harder and i like it a lot more.

NICKI MINAJ "Boss Ass Bitch" ft. PTAF: “aw man slooo down” haha

HAIM - "If I Could Change Your Mind": i was the #1 vote for this. what did i tell you about being 12 mo behind? still better than anything on this list so far.

MIGOS - "YRN" Ft. Young Thug: not that it means anything to the universe but i’m really out of step with rap right now; neither the rappers nor the producers that pop up on the rolling threads or get hyped elsewhere do it for me, the weird-voice mushmouth type stuff and triplet migos flow least of all. i tried with RNT, i really did! a six minute opening track? this is really effortlessly loveable tho! great song! i’ll check that Straye Thugs comp. fine!

ALVVAYS - "Archie, Marry Me": that is a hell of a chorus.

SPOON - "Inside Out": i am now a hater of this band, i guess. koto sounds +, whole deal overall -. just kind of nowhere.

D'ANGELO AND THE VANGUARD "Sugah Daddy": i didn’t even know how to pick anything off of this, didn’t vote for anything.

FKA TWIGS "Pendulum": this is precisely as inert and pointless as the spoon song

50 QT: Hey QT: lol fuck off. i love ford & lopatin but come on. do it or don’t.

KATY PERRY "Dark Horse": lol nice pic. it’s pretty crazy to hear a beat like this on the lite pop station they play at the Y, well done katy perry

JESSIE WARE "Champagne Kisses" love it, love her

ILOVEMAKONNEN "Club Going Up On A Tuesday": drifting but engaging, so personal and wistful and hopeful and proud, just a great great song

RITA ORA "I Will Never Let You Down”: are you serious.

APHEX TWIN "Minipops 67 [120.2] (source field mix)" shrug

where did that “dude shouting hey on the beat” thing start?

Memphis

i'm blanking on who the antecedent emo rappers must be

Scarface and 2pac.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:22 PM (5 seconds ago)

definitely but i meant more in the sing-y sense, i mean you have guys like z-ro and nate dogg who were doing the singy raps but were decidedly more gangster, plus you have gangster rappers who are also emo like pac and scarface, but before kanye and drake who were the emo rap/singers of today like future and quan influenced by, if anyone? where do singy pop-rappers like nelly and ja rule fit into this?

good track

The Reverend FTW

TUNE-YARDS: “Water Fountain”: https://twitter.com/RIBSOUT/status/464192649889865728

v accurate reaction to tuneyards imo

otm

more like todd turds

I just can't find a way into this Aphex Twin track (or Aphex Twin in general).

jk this is probably my favorite of his tracks now, super fun

i'm blanking on who the antecedent emo rappers must be

Scarface and 2pac.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like when people say emo rap they mean at least a few diff streams one of which flows from pac and face but another the kayne drake feeling sorry for myself version does not have too much connection to that in lineage or vibe

hello did u read my post

more like todd turds

― ciderpress, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:29 PM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark

For a split second I thought ienjoyhotdogs was back

i wish

hello did u read my post

― k3vin k., Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:30 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it was an xp, thread moving fast

i'm blanking on who the antecedent emo rappers must be

Scarface and 2pac.

― The Reverend, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feel like when people say emo rap they mean at least a few diff streams one of which flows from pac and face but another the kayne drake feeling sorry for myself version does not have too much connection to that in lineage or vibe

― lag∞n, Tuesday, January 20, 2015 3:29 PM (49 seconds ago) Bookmark

I think you also have to think about z-ro, nate dogg, ja rule and nelly

jordan otm

drake loves z-ro right

lol dayo

one of my favourite songs of 2014 was this z-ro song

cant believe kev and dan are trying to clown me about this emo rap xp im frankly embarrassed for them tbh

maybe z-ro and nate dogg's music should be better described as rappy sings, not singy raps, this is important

aphex makes some really ugly ass boring music, probably not a fair assessment seeing as I haven't listened too him since his drill n bass period, but the prejudice remains and I just know I won't like it.

Everybody forgetting about bone thugs ;_;

terje album sounded kinda oddly unfinished to me but i really like "delorean dynamite"

oh shit yeah xp

i dont think its the being sad so much its the looking out the window when its raining. I dont think anyone has a problem with being sad, Im sad sometimes when i think about my mum not being as mobile as she used to be, its perfectly valid