rolling stupid fruity crazy swag thread

walk with a limp and i talk with a lingo
party with a buncha bad girls in a pinto

i got a pocket full of stones cuz i fell off my dirt bike in cargo pants
i rock a microphone literally, litter the track lyrically with bottles, cans
pop a band, put a stack on it i'll water this plant like aqua man
make a rapper run back to the studio, retrace his steps like he dropped a gram

i'm alabama's own, buddy
flinstone caprice, 1987 cutty
backyard, moonshine still
methadone laboratory real
can i keep it crystal clear
jail two type of people
illiterate pigs who wanna see you killed type of evil
confederate flags i see ya
on the truck with the windows down
why is he playin beanie sigel
cuz his daddy was a dopeman
lynrd skynrd didn't talk about movin keys of coke, man
aint no such thing as a free bird
billy's got that street work and he's packin a nasty heater
trailer home trap spot
chevys on the cinder blocks
still doin donuts
in the gravel parking lots
gold ropes, cousin's in the group home
and he knows ever word to every yelawolf song

shine blockas video is cool

i like these hi def video videos

i wish every big boi leak didn't feel wholly pointless - shine blockas is straight fire beautiful - totally effervescent

big boi's wal-mart freestyle at the beginning is dope too

tomorrow i might go on an excursion to buy the new gucci issue of xxl

supposedly bb's album comes out in february. i'll believe it when i see it

I just made a top 50 albums of 2009 list. Here is the rap:

1. DJ Quik & Kurupt - Blaqkout
6. Big K.R.I.T. - The Last King [Mixtape]
14. Lil Wayne - No Ceilings
19. UGK - UGK 4 Life
20. Gucci Mane - The State vs. Radric Davis
21. Blaq Poet - The Blaqprint
22. DJ Paul - Scale-a-Ton
23. Freeway & Jake One - The Beat Made Me Do It [Mixtape]
28. Beanie Sigel - The Broad Street Bully
29. Pill - 4180: The Prescription [Mixtape]
30. Curren$y & Wiz Khalifa - How Fly [Mixtape]
31. New Boyz - Skinny Jeans & a Mic
32. Two Fingers - s/t (Wasn't sure whether this should count, decided it contains too me rapping to not)
35. Ghostface Killah - Wizard of Poetry
38. Marco Polo & Torae - Double Barrel
41. Young Dro - R.I.P. [Mixtape]
42. Pill - 4075: The Refill [Mixtape]
43. Rick Ross - Deeper Than Rap
45. Dyme Def - Panic [EP]
46. Curren$y - This Ain't No Mixtape
48. Willie Isz - Georgiavania
50. JHawk - Jerkin' With JHawk, Vol. 1 [Mixtape]

oops, cut out Wiley at #13

daps

good idea, I'll do the same w/ mine:

2. DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
8. Lil Boosie - Superbad: The Return of Boosie Bad Azz
9. 8Ball - Memphis All-Stars: Cars, Clubs & Strip Clubs
10. Gucci Mane - The Movie 3-D: The Burrprint
13. DJ Paul - Scale-A-Ton
15. Freeway - Month Of Mania: The Mixtape
18. UGK - UGK 4 Life
20. Playboy Tre - Liquor Store Mascot
22. Gucci Mane - The State Vs. Radric Davis
23. Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx… Pt. II
27. The Alchemist - Chemical Warfare
30. Young Jeezy - Trappin’ Ain’t Dead
37. Freeway - The Calm Before The Storm
41. Rhymefest - The Manual
44. Gucci Mane - The Cold War: Guccimerica
47. Fabolous - Loso’s Way
48. Lil Boosie - Thug Passion

also liked the Dro and Freeway and Wayne on rev's list but couldn't find room for them on mine.

the 'shine blockas' video makes such awkward ends out of its lack of gucci. the slideshow during his verse is ridiculous.

:(

"I just want to hear the music, that's all."

oops

copy/paste fail

http://www.comcast.net/articles/music/20100102/US.Producer.Murder.Charge/

yeah :-(

what is the point of shooting someone? idk. so stupid.

i had I COMMAND YOU NIGGAS TO GET MONEY stuck in my head all day

(i did not get money fwiw)

omg that yelawolf tape is good. i think burnone is by default my new favourite dj, not only by virtue of putting out mixtape i like but by having the least intrusive and coolest sounding dj call. it sounds like one of those dilla vocal samples.

i still don't have the slightest idea who Big K.R.I.T. is and it almost seems like some elaborate prank that a bunch of critics are repping for a rapper with that name out of nowhere. i read deej's long post about him but it was 90% about other rappers and didn't really tell me anything about the guy.

he's a dude from mississippi who raps his ass off

and does his own beats with lots of weird layered samples, too

this ballers eve video interview from yelawolf is very cool. seconding the wkiw

http://www.vimeo.com/8256627

i like burn one and love his blog obv, but i feel like his mixtapes (which are fantastic) are a godsend for a specific crowd of bloggers/web "critics" who's real touchstones for listening to music are the ALBUM and who really come from an indie background. they're safe. granted the music is great and he's getting incredible stuff out of the rappers he's collaborating with and putting a spotlight n some really cool guys but mixtapes come out every fucking day, just because this guy's have fewer drops and resemble traditional albums and have NICE ALBUM COVERS (v. important to this imo) that make them look more like albums I think he's getting attention from a whole bunch of people online who need him to hold their hand as they discover "country rap tunes" (even if it's through this whole new generation of post ugk/8ball&mjg rappers who are running with that and obv never were cosigned by pimp c)...

no shots or anything.

i think it's fucking cool that someone is bringing a level of taste and craft to a format that exists only in pixels.

just because this guy's have fewer drops and resemble traditional albums and have NICE ALBUM COVERS

why the fuck is this a bad thing? i wish more mixtapes were like this

ha, ok didn't see your second post

two things that have nothing to do with the music and make it more palatable for people not used to the package it comes in

Oh noes, uncool people could be listening

tell me more about this new concept of having an aesthetic to your art

yeah talking about stuff is stupid

at this point there might be almost as many people doing 'street albums' w/ slick art and original songs as there are guys doing quick and dirty freestyle tapes with mixtapedia-worthy covers, so if someone's getting hype doing that they're probably doing something more than just that.

he's a dude from mississippi who raps his ass off

― condaleeza spice (The Reverend), Sunday, January 3, 2010 11:02 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and does his own beats with lots of weird layered samples, too

― condaleeza spice (The Reverend), Sunday, January 3, 2010 11:07 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I know you were just giving a straighforward answer to a simple question, but this kind of gets to where I was going. I miss having a 'way in' to new rappers w/ a lot of these new online/mixtape cats, whether it was just a single or signature song, or a backstory or an affiliation . those things are sometimes very surface-level or have nothing to do with the quality of their music, but they were still concrete things to latch onto. now it's like, sure everything's free, it only costs you the time to download and listen to it, but why should i bother? sorry, i'm ranting.

xp to SD

good point, and i def think he's doing a lot of things 'right' but the level of slickness is higher here then just being another round of 'street albums'

also, there's no fucking way there are almost as many slick street albums than dirty freestyle datpiff drops when a guy like Allstar can drop about 5-6 mixtape sin 09 and none of htem make a blip until the one with burn one. just one example.

well not as many releases, i said as many people, obviously the dudes doing more traditional quickie mixtapes are gonna turn out product more frequently

i would like to honestly know the relationships of a dj that makes these more crafted web albums vs one who doesn't and if producers like mick vegas or whoever are keeping their best productions for the better crafted mixes for someone like burn one rather than giving them out for rappers' quickie mixtapes. because if that's so then there could be a good argument to be made that these are in fact more valuable as artistic statements or whatever

maybe i'm naive or just disinclined to give the DJs that much credit but i always assume the relationships are primarily between artist and producer as far as picking beats and releasing songs, and that the artist just decides whether to do a quickie mixtape or a more crafted album-ish one based on their own career plan.

this is kind of what we were talkin about in the simon reynolds thread.

there's no easy way to get into new rappers, and i don't necessarily see it as a bad thing if rockist dudes start finding out abt ppl because they start putting more energy/time into making mixtapes that sound and feel like albums. One coherant statement is way more impressive to me than 6 mixtapes

I mean, I def would rather have rock crits repping dudes who put in the most effort to an album rather than this blogger/diplo/Fadermag Harry-Smith-of-the-streets shit where ppl act like christopher columbus when they "discover" regional rap trends and bring them to the attention of whiteys

to me the Cold War series was kind of an unintentional statement on the fallacy of DJs mattering at all anymore in the ziptape era -- sure Gucci worked with 3 different DJs to show them each love and give them material to push, but virtually every person that heard 1 of those tapes heard all 3, and usually got them all from the same place/site...it's not like DJ Scream had an audience that got the DJ Scream tape and the DJ Holiday audience got the DJ Holiday tape.

xpost

lol @ whiney

i get it but im saying now this dj is acting as the discoverer, packaging it nicely in a way that gets the attention of people who normally would discover a Big KRIT for instance on fader or through a gorilla vs dilpo or whatever the fuck

you've got a point, Whiney, but at some point it's like..OK, if someone like Big K.R.I.T. shows up on my radar, as a guy compared to T.I., wearing sunglasses on the cover of a mixtape called The Last King with song titles like "The South" and "Get Money," and a couple people say he can rap his ass off, the only reason I'm giving him more than 5 seconds of consideration is that it's rev or deej saying that and not some random guy on the internet whose taste I don't know. xpost

the "way in" point is somewhat moot as someone outside the US - if i want a "way in" to a new rapper which just emerges from the pop culture ether i'd probably be stuck with flo rida and wale. i was really surprised at how few of the major label albums in that poll the other day i was even aware existed. but while i'll give ilx cru recommendations more time than other random dudes - though stellar guest verses on bigger artists' tracks are often a good way in - i've found that if the artist is REALLY worth following i'll be able to find my own way in fairly naturally after hearing a few tracks.

i'm going to be a harry-smith-of-the-internet right now and post this very random video of a guy named iceberg tony from central florida. i've watched it like 10 times, it's oddly compelling.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SSl1TMw0kPo

the "way in" point is somewhat moot as someone outside the US - if i want a "way in" to a new rapper which just emerges from the pop culture ether i'd probably be stuck with flo rida and wale. i was really surprised at how few of the major label albums in that poll the other day i was even aware existed. but while i'll give ilx cru recommendations more time than other random dudes - though stellar guest verses on bigger artists' tracks are often a good way in - i've found that if the artist is REALLY worth following i'll be able to find my own way in fairly naturally after hearing a few tracks.

― lex pretend, Sunday, January 3, 2010 1:10 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

fair point, but i was careful to say "single or signature song" and not "hit single" because so few worthwhile rappers become known through hits these days...guest verses are a good example, though, part of the affiliation thing i was talking about. but even, like, a personality trait or a weird voice or sense of humor, to me those are the kinds of things that get me interested in a rapper more than just "he's a guy in the T.I. mold and he's good" etc.

even someone who does have a signature song like Pill -- i'll be damned if i can tell what makes "Trap Goin Ham" so special and it seems like the majority of its buzz came from the video rather than the song

xpost i think we call those things "memes"

some dude, i have the rapper for you, his name is bo burnham

trap goin ham was special because it was the THIRD song in as many years to flip that fucking "New Style" sample and that's like white blogger catnip

but even, like, a personality trait or a weird voice or sense of humor, to me those are the kinds of things that get me interested in a rapper more than just "he's a guy in the T.I. mold and he's good" etc.

MINAJ!

no, i totally agree, which is why i haven't bothered to listen to the big krit mixtape yet even though deej and rev's repping made me download it, and why guest verses are so important. pill is a good example of someone whose particular skill set isn't one that differentiates him from the pack, but who is just so excellent at it that his ability itself becomes the way in - i feel pretty compelled to constantly return to both his mixtapes without having to make an effort to remember to.

whiney you don't like rappers that have interesting voices and funny things to say and unique personalities?