rolling stupid fruity crazy swag thread

tbf though it did seem like noz was beefin for the sake of beefin

tbf though it did seem like noz was beefin for the sake of beefin

― armando white (dyao), Tuesday, April 6, 2010 10:59 PM (8 seconds ago) Bookmark

Let's be honest: What's new?

no, the article was solid, a good summary for those not following the convo, and i don't think a p4k writer needs ethically to be part of that convo in order to summarize it for his readers, but noz is justified in his crackaz is biters steez nonetheless, esp. if t.b. is fishing around for attention on the strength of it.

yeah, tom's original tweet was kind of desperate, but i know the feeling

like, when i spent 4+ hours writing a blog post about drake that was informed by months of internal thought, i was kind of disappointed when it only got 6 comments

but then again i didn't end up posting on twitter fishing for comments

btw excellent drake piece j0rdan :D

looool xpost honestly

ha, thanks \(o_O)/

ayo link to your drake piece j.s.?

non-trolling comment coming from someone w/ almost no knowledge of any of this: where is this "convo" taking place?

ksh: twitter

http://somanyshrimp.com/2010/03/23/drake-rap-and-rb/

the whole "convo" that informed Tom's piece? apologies for being unclear--i wasn't referring to the convo following from his piece

just the general rap discourse ksh

you need to get on bloglines right quick

good piece j.s. but I hadn't realized people actually considered drake to be a rapper until now

it's v true

rap is dead, long live rap

this rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wV_MVICbfuo&feature=player_embedded

dude who was looking for summer rapz check it out

ksh: like i could specifically point even just to noz reviews, posts & comment sections on g-side, young l, & the labyrinth/maze series, from whence u could trace significant parts of the p4k bit; even noz didn't do this in this brief spat kicked off by t.b.'s whorish dissing. "Even @noz was only slightly passive-aggressively dickish!"

jeez deej read yr fuckin blogs why don't u rolling stupid fruity crazy swag thread

:D

ksh: like i could specifically point even just to noz reviews, posts & comment sections on g-side, young l, & the labyrinth/maze series, from whence u could trace significant parts of the p4k bit; even noz didn't do this in this brief spat kicked off by t.b.'s whorish dissing. "Even @noz was only slightly passive-aggressively dickish!"

― zvookster, Wednesday, April 7, 2010 12:51 AM (12 minutes ago)

thanks dude! as i said, i have no context for any of this & can't remember ever even visiting Cocaine Blunts before today, but now i have some idea of what all this was about.

btw j0rdan did u hear z-ro's take on "successful"?

[z-ro's singing voice]

i want the money, the money & the cars,
the cars & the clothes
...but when i hit the weed, i tend to get a little forgeeeettttfuuuuuul

:D

runnin this rapping into singing thing goin back like epmd in fisherman hats

this is :-D

z-ro's singing voice is great

that pitchfork article was good, as was yr drake article j0rdan

i agree with whoever was saying rap blogs are awful: with a few exceptions its just people reposting youtubes with little to no commentary
is this really any different to other genres of music though? i don't read indie blogs but aren't they just reposting the new song by this new kewl band etc

i find out abt new rap from here and other message boards and occasionally irl friends. here is good: ppl are usually enthusiastic abt the music and not moaning abt the state of rap and calling each other fags etc.

i guess sometimes i get useful rap info from twitter but more often than not i have to unfollow rappers after they retweet every single person that says they like their new track

i'd actually really love to see a 'rap pitchfork' that pulled together a load of writers (if they can put aside their twitter beefs of course) with album reviews + longer pieces exploring regional scenes and stuff - there is really a place for something like this imo.

yeah the great thing about this place is other people do the culling for you like WoW gold laborers in china

rap sucks now, fags

i think it was jesse serwer who pointed out for me that that was def a reprisal for drake's sacrilegious appropriation of the SUC June 27th freestyle session.

june 27th beat is one of the best ever

s4rge + dr4ke - for some reason so many shrimp not been updating in my google reader for ages. i just assumed it was cos you guys mad lazy or no good rap or whatever but :)

those breihan tweets were embarrassing - c'mon dude we all crave attention but it's just nagl to let it show so blatantly - but i find it hard to believe that noz's much-vaunted "conversation" on "blogs" is all that much better - i'll cop to only reading two or three rap blogs but honestly who needs to dive into a world of grumpyheads nitpicking at each other over and over again zzz.

did we mention the fat joe & young jeezy track here already btw? the soul ii soul sampling one? i really love it.

naw cb is great, but noz be gettin presumptuous here, even if tom b is issuing stupid challanges

noz is a seriously toxic dude imo (and that's coming from me). nagl when ur repping lil b tbh.

dunno about you guys but even besides the 'back to life' ref that 'shutterbug' says to me big boi's been listening to some blaqkout - whole thing seems so much quik-er than any organized noize that i can recall, give or take the signature organ. still dope tho!

i completely adore "shutterbug" and agree re the quikness

damn i hate when this thread gets active overnight and i have to try (and fail) to load the whole page to catch what i missed. can we delete all of deej's fuckin bay youtubes or something?

^otm

also, i think @noz's responses to breihan were totally batshit. he's like "BLOGGERS ARE DOING YOUR FOOTWORK, BITER" as if there's no benefit in delivering that info in a cohesive narrative to an average pitchfork reader. Like noz expects some Local Natives fan to be combing the datpiff comments section and subscribing to 20 blogs instead of reading one article.

"the information is out there" /= "the information is in a digestible and interesting form for someone who's not immersed in it"

yeah i mean...noz wrote a pretty good 'the decade in mixtapes' thing for NPR a few months ago and a lot of it would be no fuckin' duh to the average rap fan but clearly he understands the value of writing for your outlet and documenting larger narratives with summaries and overviews

plus he was just going on and on the other day about how nobody writes at length about rap on blogs anymore and stuff like twitter don't serve well as long term documentation

my bay youtubes rule eff yall

co-sign

you pos this shit yet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_FmLAOP-BY

can't wait for Livewire Radio 3

haa thats another one of those bay beats that starts off super-generic sounding & transforms into an orchestra of textures & melodies a minute in --- so dope. who did the beat??

if only youtubes came with liner notes or if only hus was as titillating a rapper as BoB he would garner 10283829 blog posts when his prod. credits are emailed

but i actually think its an old track, because that dude Pretty Black is dead apparently since 08 (never heard of him til now)