rolling get sturdy high bpms 2023

more good Defcee action

https://spectacular-diagnostics.bandcamp.com/track/class-ft-curly-castro-illogic-defcee

i've liked che noir in the past but thought her new album leaned too hard on criticizing/scolding other women rappers

yeah i could see that, sanctimony is always a hazard in backpacker stuff

new Gabe 'Nandez with some old Neptunes type vibes

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

i'm convinced lay bankz is gonna be a superstar, how hard is this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNtWif6xayg

new shawny binladen mixtape might be my favorite one of his yet, beta selection is top tier

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgjWD7a5pUc

*beat selection haha

The World ending for sure

— guy baby (@VEEZE4Eva) May 1, 2023

we're never getting this tape lol

had a long subway ride so i listened to the whole destroy lonely album. it's overlong for sure, but i like the vibe. lone doesn't have much to say, but he's a compelling presence. wish there were a few more songs like "which way" and fewer with the fisher price guitars. i do like the guitars at times, especially on "safety (interlude)" which is great sad future cosplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRuZ-Z6N5Go

i feel very alienated from the opium scene lol

my fav song right now is "my skeleethe" which is kinda going viral

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUqI9DN_ocU

that's super fun!

i feel very alienated from the opium scene lol

destroy lonely is the only one who seems to have something going on, imo, you're not missing much

"my skeleethe" is great, hope it pops off. feel like l.a. hasn't had a proper hit since...ambjaay?

whoheem - "let's link" was after... but yeah we're talking kinda ephemeral songs. i did hear "uno" the other day and i was like, damn this song rules

"let's link" felt more tiktok-y than like a song that bubbled from the local scene. i mean, "uno" also got the tiktok bump, but it felt a lot more like a groundswell

some songs i've liked recently

scy jimm - "last days." jimm feels to me like north florida's answer to g herbo, in the way he gruffly articulates raw emotion (and for his loose relationship with the beat lol)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bis2wEf2Fh0

the real g herbo is still out there doing things. my fav from his new mixtape is "feel this"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R7XkrOEl9fY

sleazyworld go - "off the court" ft. polo g. great no auto polo verse.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QULO9wy5E9M

sme taxfree - "ridiculous" ft. mariboy mula mar. my recent milwaukee jam of choice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4XhdmhFwjk

paco panama x ot7quanny - "high balance"; if los and nutty formed a trio, paco would be the third guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMzYomxmbYo

fwc big key - "flamed up"; blistering detroit posse cut (a diss aimed at a different detroit posse)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M156pOrRCdA

daemoney, lucki & money muzik - "who is that?" ft. babyface ray & veeze. somnolent, mostly-detroit posse cut (not the guys fwc big key is mad at)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSWg7WlVzjI

joony - "jagged edge"; laid back and engaging
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GWqVOvUUGI

new wiardon tape, called 'road music,' goes hard. he's got a great laid-back presence behind the mic, and he's grown into an incredible producer. love "chest out" with its herky-jerk guitar sample combined with the propulsive detroit-style drums, and "trackhawk," which is from the "regulate" school of smoky late night funk.

"chest out"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93IBWqqcueA

"trackhawk"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtUgf-FQFeI

oh yeah new wiardon thanks

loved "before fajr" from the new durk album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIbIYihwIao

I like this, kind of a cool modern/classic feel hybrid

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHNQkfzfyP0

couple really good loe shimmy guest spots, recently.

from last week's kodak album, "get away." really more of a loe shimmy song on a kodak album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMUGNhg2kMU

and "5 hour layover" on the new trapland pat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK-h2NkOaIU

daboii, formerly of sob x rbe, teamed with oakland production crew the mekanix for a mob throwback. very satisfying, even the clumsy, funkdafied "billie jean" interpolation lol

this ("up up") was my fav at first blush
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICDLmXg7py8

wait that was "that hurt me," the closer. here's "up, up"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq2h2JGr5yU

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/07/arts/music/cisco-swank-more-better.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Marcus Moore in ew York Times re jazz-rapper Cisco Swank

want to thank sislafami for posting about karrahboo on twitter, i am obsessed. love te contast between her blasé delivery and the souped-up enrgy/flint-style 808s

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

*the contrast

she's great

new boldy collab ep with canadian producer chanhays is unsurprisingly really good. my fav is "i tried," complete with references to obscure football players, random detroit satellite cities, and some casually poignant lines over a beautiful guitar sample (and maybe the same vocal sample from kanye's "mercy"?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymbLnnXVQR0

new babyfxce e song is rly dope, this is my fav stuff out of michigan putting veeze & rio aside

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1JbOw013QQ

yeah i'm continually pretty impressed with him. "september 17" is still one of my favorite songs of the year

speaking of veeze, apparently his mixtape is actually finally coming out on wednesday

(when i met babyfxce he played me a bunch of unreleased that was pretty incredible i thought, he has a great ear for beats)

“jersey luv” is getting run thru tik tok again, i really like this idea of making brent faiyaz club music

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JT6VDEoCBWM

wtf is going on with killah priest

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpCNRs8Cago

certified trapper - 50 on 6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sWF9Qv-aHw

love the sexxy red album

i can’t say his name…cause he be cheatin

Lol Killah Priest is such a nut

veeze album's good as hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXeO4gxX7-o

he's really rapping his ass off

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3POkgcrr5RE

this sha ek song is one of my fav of his in a while. that voice really jumps out of the speakers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvvozMFA5ZY

I dont love that

Chr#s Richards in Washington Post calls Veeze best rap album of year so far

Sometimes his mumbling approach sounds like it; other times it’s cliche . I dunno

sure but on "overseasballer," he says "my stash is colored, i edible arrangement the money"

r1ch4rds writing about veeze sounds really awful, gonna skip that one...

It is aoty tho.

oh yeah it’s a great record. i can’t stop playing “weekend”

I haven't had the chance to spend much time with it yet, but "cliche" seems like an odd criticism?

Some conventional rapper word choices by Veeze ( the obligatory n and p words plus d word and more . Some conventional beats . But yeah he’s distinctive and unique in his flow and sound on a lot )

wait… d word?