ILM's Top 77 Tracks of 2014

Sounds like "All the lonely Starbucks lovers, they'll tell you I'm insane."

Or like "Gotta love these Starbucks lovers"

My as well go into partnership with Starbucks. It's what she sings.

i never fail to hear starbucks lovers

― flopson, Friday, January 30, 2015 10:46 AM (8 hours ago)

me too, even when i know it's not what she's saying, even though it makes no sense: "gotta lonely starbucks lovers"

love that chicken at starbucks

lotta lonely starbucks lovers

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despite the terrible, terrible schoolboy q bit '2 on' led me to buying that tinashe album, which is incredible.

love that chicken at starbucks

― qualx, Friday, January 30, 2015 9:31 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it really is a bummer that the rest of schoolboy q's 2014 tracks suffered from vote-splitting

titty
ass
hands in the air

lol

despite the terrible, terrible schoolboy q bit '2 on' led me to buying that tinashe album, which is incredible.

Me too. And yes it is.

Shakira's Empire is on daily rotation since I discovered it through the poll.

there's nothing wrong with ScHoolboy Q's verse on "2 On" imo. his verse on the version of "Latch" that a lot of R&B stations play, however, is incredibly awful.

I wish "Man of the Year" had made it :(

i always hear it as a hyphenate

titty-ass hands in the air

not that that makes more sense

where does rap genius stand on this imp topic

brb gonna email SFJ

there's nothing wrong with ScHoolboy Q's verse on "2 On" imo

yeah i agree, there's nothing great or especially memorable about it but nothing egregious that disrupts the song in a bad way either à la ty on "my main". i don't think i could actually quote any of q's lines on "2 on" off the top of my head apart from the one dj q used to excellent effect in his remix, which is probably a good thing

There's nothing right with it

I don't think the biggest problem with Schoolboy Q's verse is necessarily with the lyrics, but his delivery is kinda disruptive... Like, Tinashe's vocals and the backing track has this subdued, almost melancholy tone, which I feel adds an extra dimension of fatalism to the in-your-face hedonist lyrics... But then Schoolboy Q rides in with your standard aggro/horny, slightly rapey tone, "pull your panties down from under you, beat that pussy up, make you wanna holla Q", and it's just run-o-the-mill rap hedonism, nothing more, so that definitely takes me a way from the tone of the tune... Unless it's all suppose to point out some gendered difference in how they feel about "2 on", but I can't imagine that's what they're trying to do.

2 no más

i think tumoas is otm, waiting for rev to chime in

i stand with the anti Q verse faction, his whole voice flow and everything just doesnt vibe with the song

also its bad on its own

tinashes part is a more convincing portrayal of sexy a-dog masculinity

By itself it's fine but, yeah, I agree the delivery is "disruptive." Lately I take the title more seriously as concept: TWO people on, with distinct povs.

i've come to find the unexpected vulgarity of q's verse in "2 on" oddly charming

it's like Seth Rogen cutting off Angela Lansbury.

it's clearly not as awesome as Seth Rogen cutting off Angela Lansbury, come on

or for that matter Angela Lansbury doing "Uptown Funk"

i dunno, i like it. switches the track up a bit and provides a foil to Tinashe's hazed-out delivery. I haven't spent enough time paying much attention to the lyrics tho

http://images5.fanpop.com/image/photos/31300000/Angela-Lansbury-angela-lansbury-31302683-1232-1874.jpg

"Don't believe me? JUST WATCH"

Gawker, gimme money I'll write about this

i love q verse

I love the Q verse too but it would be kind of great if Seth Rogan spent his off-time butting into Angela Lansbury's conversations

whos to say he doesnt, frankly

ANGELA: But, sheriff, you are aware that ptomaine poisoning is one of the most common -

SETH: Gargle my balls!

DON: Well, yeah.

The lads put some music on in training in yesterday and i recognized a few from here

http://news.images.itv.com/image/file/585113/stream_img.jpg

i think tumoas is otm, waiting for rev to chime in

I have no strong feelings about his verse but I am generally Q-positive and still sad I forgot to vote for "Los Awesome", which would have pushed it onto the list.

making up for earlier hijinx
http://www.billboard.com/bobby-shmurda-jail-rikers-interview

Has it been hard on you?
Not that hard. I get a lot of love in here.

People in there know who you are and know "Hot Boy"?
Yeah, everybody. Every time I walk the halls, I see people and they yell out "Ah Ah!" or something.

There are so many rumors, like, that you got stabbed.
It's nothing but rumors, man. I'm good. Everybody knows I'm good. I'm chilling. We over here -- we over here thugging it out, man. [Laughs.]

WHOTHEFUCKTOLDYOUTHATTHUGGERDONTFUCKWITHTHEBEAT?

'faneto' a lock in surely

― out here like a flopson (tpp), Thursday, 22 January 2015 20:50 (six years ago) link

haha ... a prophet in tpp ...

Also this song was absolutely massive right around the world which is more than you can say about all the wonky voiced Soundcloud rap in this list.

― Matt DC, Thursday, January 22, 2015 1:05 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

what music what matt talking about here?

LOL the pre streaming paradigm in effect...

2014 an incredible year to revisit. One of my favorite years for music in the last decade, no question. The range of styles, the explosion of afropop, deep tech, the ty dolla sign stimulus, thug + keef expanding the grammar of music, rae sremmurd bringing back commercial teen rap, the evolution of chicago drill, the commercial peak of mustardwave before it became clammy and dead, the stuff bubbling with no streaming to channel it. it was so easy to find cool shit! underrated shit, especially. i miss that era of internet and music discovery so much.

actual rap music in an ilm eoy poll, wow

2018 was the real drop-off for rap representation

like did we lose a bunch of posters/voters around then or something?

People started aging out