i'm with matt on this wager
not surprised with gucci's relatively weak #s, what with him not having a hit single and GOING TO PRISON
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:50 (fourteen years ago) link
how is the young money album not on that list?
― samosa gibreel, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 02:52 (fourteen years ago) link
he did have a hit single, its called 'wasted'
im not surprised by gucci's weak #s because the only people that buy albums are starbucks customers. its like, the closer to an overlap a rapper has with john legend fans, the more hes going to sell
that does not correspond to actual popularity
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i was ignoring wasted cuz it was a hit, what, six months ago?
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:01 (fourteen years ago) link
Drake is almost single-handedly saving mainstream hip-hop. Where's all the Kanye-sized love from Whitey?
Josh ModellChicago, IL
what is with these people
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:04 (fourteen years ago) link
drake's gonna go quiet for a few months, drop a huge single, and do over 400k imo
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
― samosa gibreel, Tuesday, January 19, 2010 7:52 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
Because besides from Weezy, Drake, and Nicki Minaj, no one else is any good in Young Money. (And it's a shame, Mack Maine can rap, and well, too. At least, he used to be able to).
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:05 (fourteen years ago) link
HE'S SUPER POPULAR WITH GIRLS
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:06 (fourteen years ago) link
BITCH, HE'S MACK MAINE!
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:07 (fourteen years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:05 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is possible but not at all a sure thing& also, i am so tired of hearing critics talk about dude. this ass kiss-ery is embarrassing
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i can see why people like him-- part of it is being wrapped up in the nyc media bubble, but a part of the reason is that he triangulates wayne & kanye & jay and none of those guys are really at their height right now. it's safe to say that for pop-heavy rap music-- world conquering rap music-- there is a dearth in terms of creativity and i think there are a lot of people who are just ready to latch on to anything, be it drake or "empire state of mind". i don't understand why uncle murder & jay electronica stanning nah right readers dig him, but that's whole different apple (GET IT?)
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:14 (fourteen years ago) link
it's safe to say that for pop-heavy rap music-- world conquering rap music-- there is a dearth in terms of creativity and i think there are a lot of people who are just ready to latch on to anything
i think this obv also accounts for the uptick in gucci mane's critical profile in the sort of circles we're talking about here
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
honestly i think drake's uptick in critical profile is more related to the fact that there hasnt been much of an uptick in gucci's
ppl like drake as much for who he is NOT as for what he is
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:16 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao
Voter CentricityVoters ranked by closeness to the consensus.# centricity voter5 0.778 Ryan Schreiber7 0.771 Stephen M Deusner9 0.746 Byron Crawford
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
ha byron crawford is the devil
― guardian nagle (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
el oh el
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:32 (fourteen years ago) link
That would be funny if Bol's ballot is just a joke, purposefully trying to guess consensus. Thinking those were actually his favorite albums of the year makes me sad.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:36 (fourteen years ago) link
"Wasted" didn't really cross over though. Not in the way any of Drake's hits have. Hell, it didn't even get picked up by the hiphop/r&b stations in Portland or Seattle let alone the pop stations. As you say yourself, rap fans ain't buying albums.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ noz listing a lil b mix that he put together on his ballot - i should've pulled a forks and put my #1 album as "Gucci Mane - 2009 Output as posted by somanyshrimp.com"
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:45 (fourteen years ago) link
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:43 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
nah it went top 40 & got play on pop stations here, but im not surprised other cities ignored it on pop stations that would play, like, jay-z singles. pop rap has never been a more embarrassing 'genre'
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:48 (fourteen years ago) link
hahato be fair those were cokeblunts exclusives
It went #36. That's not exactly inescapable.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:50 (fourteen years ago) link
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i've certainly never felt better about my hip hop listening policy of "new shit put out by washed up old 90s dudes, new shit by new dudes that sound like washed up old 90s dudes, and random semi-unknown regional rappers that i download off the ILX goon thread"
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:51 (fourteen years ago) link
new shit put out by washed up old 90s dudes = raekwon, quik & kurupt, sean price
new shit by new dudes that sound like washed up old 90s dudes = freddie gibbs, royce, termanology, rhymefest
random semi-unknown regional rappers that i download off the ILX goon thread = j stalin, trae
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
The thing is, I don't think Quik was ever washed up. Kurupt, maybe. Maybe in a commercial sense, but he's been doing his thing for his entire career, pretty consistently.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 05:57 (fourteen years ago) link
nah i know, i mean just "washed up" like most ppl don't care anymore or forgot about them, like most normal type ppl
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:04 (fourteen years ago) link
Fair play.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:05 (fourteen years ago) link
i would go ahead and bet twenny bucks that drake doesn't hit 400K on his first week. and i don't have a job, so
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:37 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah let me get in on this too. what kind of odds will sarges give us
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:40 (fourteen years ago) link
maybe i CAN pay rent this month
man, if he can get to 250K that would be a big deal
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:42 (fourteen years ago) link
shipley needs to weigh on this
also i should be the one getting odds
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link
400k is a bit much, but I think he could do 250 easy
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:45 (fourteen years ago) link
he'll do 250 easily
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
meanwhile, whiney's rap albums hew closer to rock critic nerd critical consensus than anyone in the above 'list'― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Tuesday, January 19, 2010 11:57 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Calling me out for not sharing the opinions of a bunch of rap bloggers just makes you look retarded
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:27 (fourteen years ago) link
um actually im calling you out for sharing very closely the opinions of a bunch of rap bloggers
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:28 (fourteen years ago) link
what this should have made clear is that me, al, noz & j0rdan are not really anywhere close to the mainstream of 'rap bloggers'
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the rock critic critical consensus of all the Playboy Tre, DJ Paul and Project Pat records i stumped for?
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
most 'rap bloggers' are more passion of the weiss or simple ny-centric pro-industry drake fans. based on your best albums of the 00s, your taste hews a lot closer to 99% of 'rap bloggers' than most other people here
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
what the fuck are you babbling about?
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:31 (fourteen years ago) link
thats probably an exaggeration on my part, but its just frustrating that you cant just refer to us by name, that u disregard the actual aesthetic arguments we make by lumping us in with 'all those rap bloggers' who are apparently overhyping (say) gucci mane
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:31 (fourteen years ago) link
Passion of the Weiss is repping for Zu and Miranda Lambert?
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:32 (fourteen years ago) link
i dont mind if u disagree -- be like "yeah, this shit is not my thing" like m@tt or even forks. but trying to marginalize gucci as some blogger hype machine shit, when ground zero for basically 90% of the critic-discourse for talking about him was originating here, was, imo, a lame cop out
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:33 (fourteen years ago) link
ground zero for basically 90% of the critic-discourse for talking about him was originating here,
you are on your own dick especially as of late
― forksclovetoFFFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUU- (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:34 (fourteen years ago) link
that's actually true though
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:35 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah, that's basically equiv to al saying something about "a bunch of critics" repping for big krit when it was pretty much just deej, me, and kells, the latter two of which heard about it from the former, although gucci's critical base has expanded somewhat from just deej/sarge/noz
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:43 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah now we have tom b. and that dude from cokemachineglow
so icey is an army, better yet the navy
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i heard about big krit from young buck's twitter -- i may have said this already
dude is a tastemaker
fwiw: http://hiphopcritic.com/
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 08:22 (fourteen years ago) link
^^^kinda thoroughly disproves whiney's argument
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 08:25 (fourteen years ago) link