rolling stupid fruity crazy swag thread

i try to follow it but this thread is all about the 500 new answers when i'm asleep. and i couldn't get the bookmark to work :(

you didn't miss too much. this starlito joint and mainly some love/hate/disinterest for lil b, a bay area kid who alternates between more or less proper rapping & weird ambient spoken word "based freestyles". u can see/hear him here & here & read tim f on him here. then deej dropped by to express distaste for Pill in general & "hear somebody comin" in particular, his enunciation sucks & his lifeless technical flow on a lukewarm beat may get words from ear to head but bypasses all important organs. he then dropped science on the jacka's subtle modulations of voice and writerly psychological realism iirc. also, j0rdan is ready to re-embrace the bawse on the basis of "super high".

autogoon digest

that jacka song is GREAT

hey goons,

have to DJ tonight, any good sites to pick up uploadz of old school rap albums?

don't know my blogs very well.

i haven't been dling easily buyable stuff much for over a year (the mixtape profusion has guilted me abt dling) so i can't recall the names of my old spots but check http://kido-backintheday.blogspot.com/ & http://golden-era-raps.blogspot.com/ ?

if u want pre-85 specifically get back to me

also check their blog rolls etc. i found these trying to google sites i half-remember but i don't recognize em.

just play this on repeat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WH-hUDalJxI

i have the lil b album! it's pretty interesting at first but not in that quantity.

i didn't know deej didn't like pill, completely disagree obv, though i don't have much more to say about pill than i've already said. i find him really strong at conveying emotion and i like his traditionalism.

i really like the bay area stuff i hear these days - it makes me wonder why i ever stopped following it after the hyphy hype died down, there's something about the sharpness of the production that i really love (esp in contrast to say zaytoven, who i had to really get used to for a while). i've downloaded a few husalah and jacka tracks but tbh they haven't stood out as rappers to me yet.

actually which recent husalah/jacka tracks should i be checking...only have "choppas out" and "pray for you" by the former (both are whatever) and "can't go" and "glamorous lifestyle" by the latter (both are terrific!). track names not youtubes, i never listen to music on youtube...

whaaaaat? ur the king of fearless youtube dumping when ur on ilx! this is like there being no santa or smthing. u gotta wait for deej to come by and say "everything" in response to that, i think.

Vintertainment youtube above! interesting label. put out that & the hip hop on wax series, some really interesting early records, then seemed to die off with the first wave of independents w the rise of sampler-based stuff & the encroachment of majors, then re-emerged w keith sweat somehow and...no-one else? and disappeared again when that played out?

i dump youtubes cuz i know that's how to get others to listen! sundry reasons i only ever go on youtube for music videos - music quality, plus (esp with hip-hop) i prefer initial ipod listening so i can better gauge lyrics etc without getting distracted. plus, totally impatient when scrolling down threads, can't be doing with pausing at every embed.

this is an loln00b question, but where would i go to d/l a copy of the Gucci Mane mixtape ppl were putting on their 2009 ilm ballot? is there some central place to grab mixtapes from? thanking u

www.datpiff.com

oh wow, that's great. thanks dude

a universe of vast, ever-replenishing riches

New Game single... produced by Neptunes... kinda heat rock! "It Must Be Me."

http://content.onsmash.com/archives/36118

The track, for those that haven't heard.

His flow sounds like a mix of 91' Cube and Biggie... I'm really feeling this.

i cant deal w/ the game @ all

I love that KG jersey line

Usually I like when the Neptunes do the minimal drum machine beat thing, but something about the awkward silences during the hook bothers me a lot.

loving it

I think the Neptunes really bring it this time — it's a very old-school N.W.A. beat but they still colour it with electronic squiggles.

We must speak about the new Khalifa tape later. Back to Pittsburgh/Ottaw game.

i had no idea that wiz khalifa mixtapes were a thing now. it wasn't until noz tweeted about it that i realized what the trending topic was about, and even then it was weird that noz was live tweeting about a wiz khalifa mixtape like he's gucci or something. MAYNHOLUP was doing the same thing.

I mean, my favourite Khalifa song is still "Say Yeah" (I think it's incredible, that song should've been a MASSIVE radio hit), but I like him.

there's a huge thread about "say yeah" on ilm

yeah noz's piece about wiz's d.c. show being all packed and beatlemania surprised me, like i said when i was thinking about going to the baltimore show i didn't really expect there to be much of a turnout. i know blog rap isn't just blog rap anymore but it's so hard to tell what's actually resonating out there until you see evidence.

noz's is usually less cynical and apocalyptic when he's writing for actual publications, but that was still a surprising amount of praise

I'll search that thread after this game (FUCK OTTAWA), Jordan.

i wish listening to the new Game song was what was making you scream FUCK OTTAWA

deej's JACKA POX in no order

1. Jacka feat. Akata - Turned Out (Action)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtWYhDQIEhA
they must be worried cuz i got my beam
fifty cal bird out at night but its not a owl
yeah ya see my teeth from the light but thats not a smile
sparks flash bright out the tip of the silencer
thugs in every trap carry cuz its a violent earth
know what im sayin
smoked a pound of purp last night, but im still hurt
keep shit on the back of my mind, but memories lurk
sometimes

2. is that you
3. kuran
4. paper non stop
5. glamorous lifestyle
6. african warrior
7. reign god
8. sicilian breeze (m.i.a.)
9. i live the life
10. aspen

haha i almost blew a gasket when i thought you were posting 10 youtubes

me 2 :-)

jacka records to get:

1. 'rockist' classic record by Major Artist as Reflection Of His Auteurist Vision: The Jack Artist
2. popists' comp of a bunch of his best tracks from a wide variety of sources: shooterz mixtape
3. jacka tries new producers & works with stylistically diverse production: the street album mixtape
4. jacka on a couple tracks but this comp is super-consistent & gives you a good idea of why husalah & ap9 are dope also: mob trial I presented by andre nickatina

i dunno thats a pretty broad overview. i have a lot more to say about dude but ppl need to start paying me for ilx posts at that pt

i wish listening to the new Game song was what was making you scream FUCK OTTAWA

― sipster cuppies (some dude), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 5:51 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

No it's Chris Neil that makes me scream FUCK OTTAWA. And you'd think being from Edmonton I'd be cheering for the Canadian team...

yeah noz's piece about wiz's d.c. show being all packed and beatlemania surprised me, like i said when i was thinking about going to the baltimore show i didn't really expect there to be much of a turnout. i know blog rap isn't just blog rap anymore but it's so hard to tell what's actually resonating out there until you see evidence.

― sipster cuppies (some dude), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 6:45 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark

doesnt he explicitly make the point that dude isnt really blog rap at all -- that no one he talked to at the show had heard of dude from blogs

husalah POV (both of these btw are subject to change) (i'll do a POX when i get home -- im doing this shit from my friends place right now while hes in the can)

1. laid back slap
2. sleep with da fishes
3. frozen heart (<---imo shoulda been the 'exhibit c' for this scene)
4. husalah shine
5. gear

'pray for you' is imo classic dope great amazing but u kinda have to accept going into it that its one of husalah's weirder/less rappy-rap traxxx ... its a track for folx who are already convinced by his persona, not a good introduction

doesnt he explicitly make the point that dude isnt really blog rap at all -- that no one he talked to at the show had heard of dude from blogs

― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:59 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah that was my point...i would've just mentally filed him in the blog bin since his only minor radio hit was like 2 years ago, but apparently his shit is out there resonating with people, and i wouldn't have guessed.

yeah i mean this is basically my argument w/ **RAPPER NAME WITHDRAWN** that i feel like ive been making a lot lately ... w/out the charts really representing popularity its so easy for us to have no concept of the shape of modern popular rap. youd think charles hamilton was a bigger figure, or that currency isnt a borderline star

jacka tracks you forgot IMO (prob my top 3 jacka songs)

wont be right
iller clip
addiction

I really don't care if the rappers I like are ACTUALLY popular, I just care that I like them.

'slike, if your verses aren't likely to be sampled in the next girl talk album why am i even wasting my time listening to your mixtapes

i think u are fronting if yr acting like how the world perceives yr fav stars isnt inextricably tied up w/ how you perceive them.

that presumes i talk to anyone but you guys about these artists or that i know anyone else who's heard of them

everything you read about them & everything you hear about from us is filtered thru layers & layers of ~~~~context~~~~~ bro. its what we debate about all day basically

i mean rap is a form where the artists are totally in dialogue w/ their own context all the time -- you cant just be like 'oh i just listen to it for the pretty sounds' when yr rapper is distinctly rapping "LIVE ON STAGE THE HOES YELLING MY NAME" -- not saying u have to BELIEVE him but if u want to talk w/ me about rap you better take rappers on that level where what they are saying enters into the discussion

i dunno man, i can't entirely parse that.
obvs i'm paying attention to lyrics and "what they are saying" but that's not the same as seeing it through the eyes of the world at large or of a rap blog in particular
anyways i mostly just click the youtubes and dl songs so my overarching context is "somebody thinks this is pretty good"
longer more in-depth artist-specific ILM conversations lose me a bit, but that's hardly rap specific
but i'm the first to say i'm a dilettante in the NEW RAP OF THE MOMENT (and most all musical) fields; i'm trying to hear as much of whatever's out there and that can mean i have limited interest in trying to drill deep to things that are not ringing a bell

like the distinction between jacka and pill for me is that pill spurred instant interest on a first listen to an album and jacka was somewhat less so. I do like 'all over me' a lot though and will be trying again.