rolling thread 2021 (deluxe edition)

let's get it

popp hunna - "mud baby"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpH1OC4emv4

pooh shiesty - "back in blood" ft. lil durk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Tm65i96TY

ssgkobe - "fnf"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeKMtxppckM

los & nutty - "better at da crib"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTNi-NBA2c0

just rolling everything?

rap

:)

should have been coochie deluxe but whatever

guess we should've made a coochie plan

this fucking sucks

Rio Da Yung OG has been sentenced to five years in prison https://t.co/WsHFcGswP5

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) January 8, 2021

fuck

los & nutty is the best rap group right now

never not gonna lol @ "rolling thread"

i liked these local (to me) guys big kahuna og + monday night's album last year called thug tear

they just released this: https://schemeteamallstars.bandcamp.com/album/shark-report

liked big kahuna og's alb with fly anakin a lot, i'll check this out

good beat flip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb8rserCaiA

it’s weird that the can-i-bus album has a reputation for bland beats, but i’ve never thought so. maybe it does compared to black on both sides or internal affairs, idk

that one los & nutty song reminds me a bit of jimmy wopo (RIP)

the canibus song deej linked made me think about how rare it is to hear steel guitar in hip-hop, but lo and behold, the big kahuna mixtape that roxymuzak linked has hawaiian/steel guitar on my fav song from the tape

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

late pass on this carti album. so weird on first listen, nearly experimental.

maybe it's the sonics and vocal experimentation, maybe it's the way it proudly wallows in toxic solipsism (with occasional vulnerable moments), but the album i keep thinking about when i think of whole lotta red is future's monster

it's "wesley presley" thee album

better than monster imo

big fan of this apocalyptic bandplay beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6YAoOYQkvo

new pharaohe monch is great

didn't know there was one; thanks for the heads up!

new breeze brewin is pretty great

rylo rodriguez is so good. sounds like future-meets-gates on this new omb peezy track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIt2frUYSQ

i thought his album was pretty disappointing, the leaks were much cooler/more distinctive to me. but i'm still really interested in what he's doing generally

jeff weiss has been tweeting about this guy and uh as you might expect i fucking love the shit out of this

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

the album was a little patchy, i agree, but still had some bangers, especially "home run" and the title track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erBR3olroG4

never been a huge g. perico fan, but i'm loving this right now. sounds like if suga free did his own "cell therapy."

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

new breeze brewin is pretty great

― ANU (sisilafami), Saturday, January 30, 2021 6:25 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

honestly shocked at how good this is lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilcWHbbVwF4

I think we all owe deej an apology lmao

^8:28

haha

yeah this breeze brewin is amazing! love it

he was so great on A Prince Among Thieves, had found that CD a couple months ago and was listening to it a bunch

haven't checked the whole tape yet but Pooh Shiesty "Neighbors" is dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtJauZnp3xY

damn, rip ketchy the great, always loved his verse on pippi long stocking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekLp0gZQUlA

re: pooh shiesty, his tape is pretty solid front-to-back, but besides "back in blood" there's nothing on it as good as this cut from 2019

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

idk “guard up” is a pretty great single imo... “back in blood” is nice too & has the durk feature boosting it but i actually like “guard up” better

babyface ray's latest ep got a lukewarm p4k review, but what can i say i just like the dude, and it was cool to hear him over different styles of production (tho he always had a broader sonic palette than a lot of his detroit peers). i get where the review is coming from, considering how good ray can be at his peak (2019's mia season 2 is one of my fav rap albums of the past five years)

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

lord help me, i'm enjoying a jim jones song in 2021 (the terrible mix is part of the charm haha)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xazMGbfLw8

hopping on the rxpapi bandwagaon, along with the rest of rap twitter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhV8-SCltCc

it's amazing how many styles he tries and succeeds with and still manages to make everything quotable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDEM3KcR3jc

this song is hard as fuck (the whole album is, tbh), and my mind exploded when i placed the stooges sample lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd6rwwFawAY

wow this album rules

It's hopelessly old-school, but DJ Muggs & Rome Streetz's Death & the Magician really scratches that 90s hardcore rap itch.

Don't know what to make of Duke Deuce the name but the music's really solid.

what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

crunk ain't muthafuckin dead!

xpost - yeah DJ Muggs is consistently putting out great music and collaborations, great second act to his career

rome streetz has a little Big L in him

no ones having as much fun as duke deuce it seems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZhvZrMo4Ao

Halfway through 'Gangsta Party', yeah this album rules.

I liked the sound of that at first, but it quickly felt like someone yelling in my ear too much, does he have other modes?

Guess I like it when people yell in my ear (unless it's Imagine Dragons or something).

lol, it could have been my mood, I'll try it again some other time

The DJ Muggs/Rome Streetz is way more laidback.

I liked the sound of that at first, but it quickly felt like someone yelling in my ear too much, does he have other modes?

― rob, Tuesday, March 16, 2021 2:32 PM (eight minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

no

Tbf if 'Move' is supposed to be a Ludacris callback, he's nowhere near as shouty as his predecessor (and that's a good thing, too).

very much digging the new album from austin rapper-producer wiardon. he's simultaneously nervy and laid-back, very mature for his 18 years, and fluent in a lot of production styles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDrqPk7tlcM

Fuck, I'm old.

wiardon was born in 2002

yeah wiardon is very good

he's produced for mavi, baby smoove, lucki,...

nice hawk sample

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4SEZ9skGrA

loving rxpapi

another vote for Duke Deuce based solely on Coming Out Hard; will be listening to this album today

speaking of memphis, new young dolph & key glock collab is out today. my favorite of the non-singles is this key glock solo track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0n0VoVMqfk

you already know what this (armand hammer + alchemist) sounds like and damn it sounds good

https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/album/haram

This is bound to paint me as a neo-backpacker or whatever, but Armand Hammer is the current hip hop act whose albums I look forward to the most.

this one strikes me as a cut above even his very good average

The Alchemist? 'Cause AH is Billy Woods & Elucid, who also rule individually, of course.

I meant Billy woods really I guess

Elucid says 'ouch'.

love me some armand hammer but the best album released this week is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sYRY3_Fni8

my initial thought was "I'm too old for this" but...maybe I'm not???

lol'd at:

she like I'm tired of hearing bout ops
I'm like girl you sound like an op

gonna miss rio

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sB51CUUod1w

suprise! i love the alchemist/armand hammer

i think they bring cool things out of each other, alchemist gets a little more out there and it's cool to hear them in a more conventional production setting

didn't see this elsewhere but curious to thoughts. i think I love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFfGgeddAc4

digging babyface ray - unfuckwitable

you should check out ray's 2019 tape mia season 2, which is soooooo good

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there have been dozens of vanessa carlton remixes lol

funniest was this one imo (they deleted the original for sample clearance so it seems like it doesnt many views for a reason)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAa5Q4hE71M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0QB6cXs1_k

Sheldon Pearce ( former Pitchfork current New Yorker writer editor) calls Alchemist “one of hiphop’s greatest producers ever” in his little New Yorker review of Armand Hammer “Haram.” I like Alchemist style but am not sure if he’s in top pantheon. What do you all think?

he's been a fixture for two decades and he's arguably having his greatest (critical) success now, idk where i'd put him on my personal list but he's worked himself into the conversation

I really hate ranking shit, but I definitely think the last decade has done a lot to make his stock rise

and in retrospect he's definitely part of what led to the whole new east coast grimy underground shit - griselda, mach hommy, roc marciano, the god fahim, etc etc etc, hell daringer's whole sound

one of my fav alchemist beats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sr3bZzNNL-4

He's very resilient, he went from producing street hit singles in the 00's to middleground albums nowadays.
Gotta respect that. But greatest producer ? No.

i took pearce's "one of the greatest" to translate roughly to "top 50 or so"