gonna do a dump of things i've enjoyed recently
posted this in his own thread, but chief keef's new song "chief so" is fucking massive https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f36hvoQ-bCs
sha ek x pgf nuk - "we dropping": some vicious east coast meets midwest drillhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9P_ZYpTrI5Y
drego & beno - "sorry we was trapping": clever, hard-hitting detroit shit ("missed my mama's birthday, sorry i was trappin")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NdYIMu5eT4
more michigan stuff, here's icewear vezzo and key glock on the menacing ass "whatever"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIKOQjjcl_c
sideshow "salt kills snails": more off-kilter kind of michigan rap, incredible beat by beatsbysav, who is one of my fav producers these dayshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNi6Q439t8w
gonna split this up into multiple posts
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 15:38 (two years ago) link
maskdownmar - "creepa": not sure where maskdownmar is from, but it seems like he's one of the florida guys heavily influenced by the michigan scene a la real boston richey. i'll update if i figure it out. anyway this is firehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drIen0fgdbY
here's some memphis rap that sounds like an electro-funk version of mission impossible (called, ahem, "50 freaky bitches")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkWdADZD0qw
this isn't as recent, but tony shhnow's "show u" has become one of my favorite songs of the yearhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suSUf_kOEJE
duwap kaine - "my girlfriend": the harmonies on this one are like nothing i've ever heard! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HIpV87fhpw
i also surprised myself by how much i liked the new album by $uicideboy$ (this one is called "1000 blunts")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgjTx7RVJPI
and finally, some honest to goodness rage beats! (bktherula - "forever pt. 2 (jezebel)" ft. destroylonely)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQ-7rd8YgRU
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 15:49 (two years ago) link
I think rage beats was a bad moniker for this thread...cant rememeber if i shared this ... its college kid shit
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 18:52 (two years ago) link
i was fairly sure you were the one who suggested it haha, but it was sislafami.
we should've kept the umlauts
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 18:59 (two years ago) link
i think there are people doing good work within the "rage beat" aesthetic if you go beyond the folks mentioned in that complex "underground" piece. like lucki, izaya tiji, bktherula.
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:01 (two years ago) link
yea but its like a niche, its not 'snap' or 'ringtone' its like saying rap hipster
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:23 (two years ago) link
the only rage beat this year I like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26ejQQFObK8
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:24 (two years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/young-nudy-rich-shooter/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/music/2022/08/22/young-nudy-ea-monster-review/
Atlanta's Young Nudy getting attention
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:26 (two years ago) link
the exact sorta shit that writer drools over lol
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:27 (two years ago) link
nadine or chris or both lol
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:30 (two years ago) link
he sounds way more like keef than he does gucci also, but thats neither here nor there
the latter xp
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 24 August 2022 19:32 (two years ago) link
some beauties there, voodoo - thank you!!! tony, duwap and esp Sha EK making my head spin
― sean gramophone, Wednesday, 24 August 2022 22:34 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PggjOWxOtiw
I like this
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 24 August 2022 23:30 (two years ago) link
thanks sean. i'm very hot and cold on duwap but that one got me. tony's reflexxions album is pretty excellent through and through.
and my fav sha ek song is "who you touch," which seems to have been removed from streaming :/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYAii0rJR58
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 25 August 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
dj lucas and bruiser wolf were responsible for a couple of my fav rap albums from last year. never would've expected them to collab, but this is great. lucas's self-deprecating sense of humor fits really well with bruiser's suga free impression.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMb8jTPBGWk
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 30 August 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
sha ek album is pretty solid! there's a new, presumably cleared version of "who you touch" with bandmanrill on it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfwNhy47e8Y
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 20:40 (two years ago) link
"shot at the party" is another highlight, it's hard not to be shaken by the vocal intensity at work (and the little violin that comes in at the end is a nice trick).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBdyGDZjroI
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 20 September 2022 20:43 (two years ago) link
liking the lucki album a lot. nothing too deep, just a pretty sonic world to immerse yourself in for an hour. my fav is prob "goodfellas" (produced by our guy cash cobain)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDfEuWeu1WY
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Thursday, 29 September 2022 15:52 (one year ago) link
drakeo the ruler posthumous album is out today. seems like they did it right, just using recordings from when he was alive and the occasional new verses from his brother ralfy the plug. my favorite stretch
"john lennon" is a fun lyrical exercisehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ik8HrY0haDc
"the real champion" is also great, darkly funny and immaculately smoothhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2uIdDOoR5A
love the beat on "my way or the highway"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0cptNkkG5w
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 30 September 2022 14:30 (one year ago) link
this mach hommy album is very enjoyable and only a half hour. Matt, I assume you're listening to this already?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Uw-_GyOLVs
― “Cheeky cheeky!” she trills, nearly demolishing a roadside post (forksclovetofu), Monday, 17 October 2022 01:15 (one year ago) link
enjoyed billy woods - church! can't quite place it. feels like it thrives on emotional & artistic ambiguity, sort of thing that rewards lots of listens, while keeping itself varied & vivid enough to sustain a sort of narrative. anyway I guess I'd better hear his other 2022 album tomorrow
nb E L U C I D's album from this year is p classic, guess I'll have to hear armand hammer eh
― imago, Tuesday, 18 October 2022 22:31 (one year ago) link
i think you'll like his aethiopes album, it's arcane and abrasive even by woods standards. it's not my favorite style of his tbh (similar in its abstractness to armand hammer's paraffin), but there's good stuff. gonna check out church this week
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:55 (one year ago) link
anyway, gonna do a dump of things i've been digging lately, but i need to mention "jiggy in jersey 2," which is just so good lol. weirdly, it's the second drill-adjacent song to sample "around the world (la la la la)" that i've heard this year. i feel thoroughly owned to be older than 30, let alone pushing 30!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDhfNCUqZDs
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 17:57 (one year ago) link
excited for the bandman tape even tho it seems like he's leaning pretty hard into drill as opposed to pure club music. i guess not that surprising. i still like his version of ny drill better than any of the other stuff that's out there right now (personal bias on my end)
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 19 October 2022 19:04 (one year ago) link
now that he's major signed, the sample-heavy club style is probably less feasible over the course of a whole tape. i do hope there's some mcvertt in the mix.
im with you, he's one of the best east coast artists these days, main competition in my mind being sha ek, jenn carter, and...ice spice
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 19 October 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link
*east coast drill
"girl w/ the dragon tattoo" is still one of my fav songs of the year. it seems like it got de-listed on youtube tho you can still get to the video from his page
i think "lurkin" was where he really nailed his vision for club + drill
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 19 October 2022 19:28 (one year ago) link
any of you know anything about The Mellos? https://themellos7.bandcamp.com/album/mscln-dst. Saw this on some bandcamp round-up and liked it, but I don't know anything about it
― rob, Wednesday, 19 October 2022 19:29 (one year ago) link
ok, here are some things i've been liking a lot
new wiki album with subjxct 5 is good, but long and unwieldy. there are some fantastic moments, like this one with dj lucas. subjxct usually meets wiki where he lives in the traditional east coast space, but this one has bounce"silent meeting"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5a62M7MfLg
damjonboi from detroit finds a middle ground between the croaky street musings of someone like boldy james with the punchline heavy approach of the shittyboyz and babytron"top shelf"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwAF9mJ2C1A
joony is one of my favorite rappers in his lane, great taste in instrumentals, easygoing melodies that seem to tumble out of him"21"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NfdH8Fn8_w
"drifting in tokyo" (came out a few months ago, has become a bit of an underground hit)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asoGR26VWlI
youngboy's 3800 degrees is his best project in a very very long time. it came out two weeks ago and he's already released another project since lol. only one has mouse on da track thohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8vou7KB38Y
last one for now. still working my way thru the new 1017 compilation, and it's pretty astounding how gucci has remained such an excellent discoverer of talent. i love enchanting, and her whispery flow, wish she'd release more music. she sounds fantastic over that old "photoshoot" beat!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aITJWsZbZqE
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 24 October 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
eagerly awaiting the ceo trayle album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W40KAKQulDc
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 22:39 (one year ago) link
"girl w/ the dragon tattoo"
rev's "girl with the drag-on tattoo" is one of my all-time ILX display names
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 26 October 2022 22:44 (one year ago) link
New EP from one of my favorite rappers (check the emo-punk closing track)
https://open.spotify.com/album/087U0DnHQF2I4HFG7OI1Gx?si=h6HAWSO5SfS6PN9lguf8kQ
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 27 October 2022 18:18 (one year ago) link
new albums from bandmanrill, duke deuce, smino, and babytron out today. suck on that shit, c@rl ch3ry
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 October 2022 17:22 (one year ago) link
haven't checked out any of the new smino stuff but looking forward to that one
― J0rdan S., Friday, 28 October 2022 17:29 (one year ago) link
bandman album is pretty good, tho the previously-released songs are the highlights.
i guess that original "who you touch" sample is never gonna get cleared. thank god for youtube
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Friday, 28 October 2022 18:59 (one year ago) link
Really loving the Smino album (and the continued presence of Monte Booker is a huge part of that)
― change display name (Jordan), Sunday, 30 October 2022 22:16 (one year ago) link
been slacking on boring street rap and dead-end backpacker posts, digging ja'king the divine a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaCKUajYRs
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 November 2022 16:27 (one year ago) link
gabe nandez rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ-P6Xo1vOc
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 November 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
smino alb is one of my favorites of the year. he's just the smoothest mf in the game!
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 16:56 (one year ago) link
thanks for the reminder, been meaning to check that out
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 19:18 (one year ago) link
love this, doesn't quite live up to the song title but what could, reminds me of busta in the chorus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pS7jGd3l9U
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 21:12 (one year ago) link
love $ilkmoney, had no idea he was back. and with a whole new project nonetheless!
looking through the new tracklist and that’s probably only the fourth or fifth craziest song title on the project
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 21:16 (one year ago) link
"eddie murphy golden child hat" made me lol
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 16 November 2022 21:26 (one year ago) link
this one by trapland pat has been stuck in my head for a week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7DAzti-cuA
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 November 2022 01:30 (one year ago) link
really liking the new mixtape by enchanting, atlanta rapper signed to gucci's new 1017 records. can't get enough of her hushed delivery and tho there may be a few too many guests, she has good chemistry with all of them. a few highlights
"kater to me" (prod. by hitkidd, who did "f.n.f.")https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrXjox0eF10
"track and field" ft. kali (been out for a while, but it's still great)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVZSn_XRr3U
"o.p.p." ft. jdot breezy & whoppa wit da choppahttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsnk_u6E1BE
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Monday, 21 November 2022 15:17 (one year ago) link
been blasting out the CEO Trayle album all afternoon, it's good!
― calzino, Tuesday, 22 November 2022 14:36 (one year ago) link
yeah it's legit
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 16:36 (one year ago) link
this one is my current fav
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N05nGNxetXo
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 22 November 2022 17:32 (one year ago) link
gr8 mix by deej on nts
https://www.nts.live/shows/new-york-naomi/episodes/new-york-naomi-12th-november-2022
reminds me i need to start a seji oda thread
― flopson, Wednesday, 23 November 2022 07:35 (one year ago) link