rolling stupid fruity crazy swag thread

im extremely unexcited about this year's crop of 'buzzed' rappers, im mostly just enjoying the past three years of bay area raps from mob figaz & livewire crews. thats basically all im feeling right now -- then going back & listening to old shit i missed out on.

oj's xxl advert alone makes the year worth it iirc

lol at deej contraristanning on cue

i just realized we've been having two conversations about two different rap artists named DaVinci

renaissance men

http://media.onsugar.com/files/upl1/37/370775/46_2008/forks-city-sign.jpg

Jon Caramanica is touting in the Sunday NY Times today JayAre's "1,2,3" (of California Swag District "Teach Me How to Dougie" fame). Eh, it's ok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWO1RnG5nJg

why did so many rap writers start covering kiddie novelty shit. i say this as a dude whose first tape was 'totally krossed out'

lol @ contristanning = not paying attention to blog hyped rappers

i just realized that the rapper JayAre that people are talking about these days isn't the shitty jazzy rap group JayARE that shot a video at the club in Atlanta that my friend works at that we were laughing at the other day:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfL6CSmhRGs

lol, b.o.b tracklist

In stores April 27th.

01. “Don’t Let Me Fall”
02. “Nothin’ On You” (featuring Bruno Mars)
03. “Past My Shades” (featuring Lupe Fiasco)
04. “Airplanes” (featuring Hayley Williams)
05. “Bet I” (featuring T.I. and Playboy Tre)
06. “Satellite”
07. “Ghost in the Machine”
08. “The Kids” (featuring Janelle Monae)
09. “Magic” (featuring Rivers Cuomo)
10. “Fame”
11. “Lovelier Than You”
12.“5th Dimension” (featuring T.I. & Ricco Barrino)
13. “Airplanes (Part II)” (featuring Eminem and Hayley Williams)

look like a mgmt remix album

nah right comments section surprisingly supportive of hayley williams

loool did not realize that was the paramore chick first time thru and just assumed it was some anon hook girl

ya same but when i saw the phrase "featuring Rivers Cuomo" i figured her name was worth googling

i feel like i'm waiting for the rap game to step into gear this year but not exactly sure what i'm waiting for

lebron flocka james

keith flocka sweat

etc

tom b.'s "state of the rap game" feature today is v good http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/7774-grind-to-get-it/1/

amongst those quoted: freeway, simon reynolds, david drake

Ha, just came to mention that.

Makes me think- are XXL/(Are the Source still going?) really covering regional rap? I'd love to see a regular column written by dudes in the know about various scenes and what is big in [this or that place] while I hate reading blog shit as I cannot tell the difference between them, bar the very cream of the crop (cocaine blunts then...). Are there any trust worthy writers who are easy to follow talking about just [this or that place]? Everything is kinda a blur right now.

i wouldn't read anything in xxl -- it's completely geared towards staying afloat and thus follows trends/movements & their popularity instead of tracing them out on a musical level while they are on the cusp of happening

fair enough, i haven't picked up a copy of either in... about 3 or 4 years now? I think the last copy I bought was the lol kingdom come jay-z comeback issue.

i pretty much rely on this thread -- don't read any blogs besides noz's tumblr (aside from shit like digital dripped or traps n trunks that just post music)

ya rap blogs have the lowest word-counts per post of, like, any other music blogs on the internet. i doubt dudes at dgb or trapsntrunks even listen to all the music they dump on their sites.

i miss having a sub to ozone... are they still worth picking up?

i'm okay with big boi's album being the '10 version of only built 4 pazz & jop ballots

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

word is that this is a storch production, which, wow -- big boi also drops the only funny shit/piss rap line in like two years

oh damn that's nice

vans = black mags = cricketz??

lmao @ cricketz killing on singles jukebox. the best rap song of the year has tyga on it!

loved that track at first but it's fast wearing its welcome thin.
new boyz are such shitty shitty rappers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWMLUSzm3kQ&feature=player_embedded&fmt=18

cricketz is good, doesn't really surprise me that it did well on jukebox considering the scores that other jerk stuff has gotten

it's cool that they were able to make 2 gimmick tracks -- the use of crickets as the hook of the hook is pretty dope, as is just going "yadada new boys/ yadada skinny jeans" -- they're like dj unk but better (and of course that's a compliment)

I need some bangers for my summer mix. Last year rap was sorely underrepresented. Any suggestions?

i'm not gonna post all the youtubes but

dj quik ft suga free - nobody (summer jam of all summer jams)
rick ross - mafia music 2
gucci mane - dear diary
jay electronica - exhibit c
young jeezy ft plies - lose my mind
lil b - insane
the jacka - funk

oh & that big boi track, def

lol @ breihan-noz twitter beef

having read his piece and thought there were surprisingly few howlers in it, his twitter has made him annoying again

http://twitter.com/tombreihan/status/11653789200

dude, it was basically a summary of mundanities for outsiders, don't expect the world to stop.

think rennavate could also rock Alley Boy & Young Dro "Tall" that track is biiiiiig

yeah, forgot about that

noz was being an assface on twitter tho

oh & that big boi track, def

― new goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 11:17 PM (Yesterday)

if you mean "for your sorrows" yeah

no i mean "shutterbug"

eh

xxxp

ya he is but he's also otm when he says "that article just repackaged a lot of ideas that have been bouncing around the blog circle for the past year or so" and that the article doesnt really engage with that blog circle. breihan's article was good and i agree with most of what he says but it was pretty underwhelming in how little new thought/opinions/whatever it had

well yes, but he's also writing for pitchforkmedia.com, not people who know who MAYNHOLUP is

meaning that what noz is saying is self-evident in the content of the article and the place where it was published

Yeah, you have to understand that the article isn't for us. It's for guys who wouldn't know this shit already, like a lot of P4k's crowd.

Thanks for the suggestions so far.

ya ya im just saying noz isnt totally offbase.. i think its less the pitchfork audience--like tom e writes interesting things about pop to an audience that is similarly put off it--than how limiting this obligatory 'state of hip hop' type piece is to content unless youre gonna go challopsing