i wish listening to the new Game song was what was making you scream FUCK OTTAWA
― sipster cuppies (some dude), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:51 (fourteen years ago) link
deej's JACKA POX in no order
1. Jacka feat. Akata - Turned Out (Action)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtWYhDQIEhAthey must be worried cuz i got my beamfifty cal bird out at night but its not a owlyeah ya see my teeth from the light but thats not a smilesparks flash bright out the tip of the silencer thugs in every trap carry cuz its a violent earthknow what im sayinsmoked a pound of purp last night, but im still hurtkeep shit on the back of my mind, but memories lurksometimes
2. is that you3. kuran4. paper non stop5. glamorous lifestyle6. african warrior7. reign god8. sicilian breeze (m.i.a.)9. i live the life10. aspen
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:53 (fourteen years ago) link
haha i almost blew a gasket when i thought you were posting 10 youtubes
― sipster cuppies (some dude), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
me 2 :-)
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago) link
jacka records to get:
1. 'rockist' classic record by Major Artist as Reflection Of His Auteurist Vision: The Jack Artist2. popists' comp of a bunch of his best tracks from a wide variety of sources: shooterz mixtape3. jacka tries new producers & works with stylistically diverse production: the street album mixtape4. 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
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:57 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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...
― rennavate, Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:58 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Wednesday, 14 April 2010 23:59 (fourteen years ago) link
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 slap2. sleep with da fishes3. frozen heart (<---imo shoulda been the 'exhibit c' for this scene)4. husalah shine5. gear
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:01 (fourteen years ago) link
'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
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:03 (fourteen years ago) link
― 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.
― nu bay deejoning (some dude), Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:05 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:12 (fourteen years ago) link
jacka tracks you forgot IMO (prob my top 3 jacka songs)
wont be rightiller clipaddiction
― Kyrgyham (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 15 April 2010 00:31 (fourteen years ago) link
I really don't care if the rappers I like are ACTUALLY popular, I just care that I like them.
― "lemonade" was a popular song and it still is (The Reverend), Thursday, 15 April 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
'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
― tmi finney (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 15 April 2010 02:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 04:02 (fourteen years ago) link
that presumes i talk to anyone but you guys about these artists or that i know anyone else who's heard of them
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 15 April 2010 04:04 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 04:06 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 04:07 (fourteen years ago) link
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 particularanyways 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 specificbut 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
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 15 April 2010 04:14 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 15 April 2010 04:16 (fourteen years ago) link
― Kyrgyham (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 7:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
yeah it should go w/out saying that any of these could go into my top ten at any pt
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:21 (fourteen years ago) link
i agree with rev to a point -- obv i like shit that pretty much spans the spectrum of popularity -- but what im trying to say in that difficult-to-parse para. is that the way we as fans & the artists as well talk about their music both outside it & within is v. clearly i think all related to issues of 'popularity' & purpose and how artist x should be more popular & artist y less so (or less celebrated, or more accurately described, or whatever) & that this is what 99% of the discussion around here/ disagreements come down to.
i also just think its important to have some perspective on how popular artist are w/ other people, because music is social
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:25 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean especially ESPECIALLY if u want to write about music, rev. Who do you want to write for? writers writing for writers is a waste, imo, x1000 when it comes to music writing
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
is currensy really a borderline star? that sounds kind of absurd
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, how are we defining "borderline" star?
― rennavate, Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
Also, if anyone's bothered to listen to those B.o.B snippets, "The Kids" sounds like a complete swipe of Vampire Weekend's "The Kids Don't Stand a Chance."
― rennavate, Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:29 (fourteen years ago) link
ppl know curren$y because of wayne, and he raps w/ a looot of different folks -- he has cross-country appeal, is def one of the broader-demographic'd rappers out there, is lyrical but has that wiz khalifa audience (noz mentions that the kids he talked to mentioned hearing about wiz cuz he worked with currensy, who worked with wayne)
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:35 (fourteen years ago) link
& heres something we can all enjoy !!!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTtW7eHjyPo
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:43 (fourteen years ago) link
DJ Crazy Toones & WC - Frontline prod. by Terrace Martin
XDDDDDDDDDD
This is sickness.
― rennavate, Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:55 (fourteen years ago) link
Five minutes of pure spitting. Wow. That's all there is to say: wow.
― rennavate, Thursday, 15 April 2010 05:58 (fourteen years ago) link
― The BoyBoy Big HOO$ (deej), Wednesday, April 14, 2010 10:26 PM Bookmark
Of course when writing about musicians, one has to relate them to the broader contexts within which they operate, but when listening to something for my own pleasure, it's not a huge concern.
Unfortunately, my own music experience is currently not very social. I rarely talk to anyone about rap offline, except for my best friend, who mostly hears about stuff through me. Basically most of the people I currently know who are into rap are herbs who look at me sideways for ever having liked Jay-Z. Hard to sell those types on Waka Flocka Flame, you know? If this detracts from my abilities as a music writer, not much I can do about it.
― "lemonade" was a popular song and it still is (The Reverend), Thursday, 15 April 2010 06:42 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah i have no idea of what's popular cuz we don't have rap radio here \(o_O)/
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 15 April 2010 06:44 (fourteen years ago) link
We have rap radio here but it never plays rap.
― "lemonade" was a popular song and it still is (The Reverend), Thursday, 15 April 2010 06:48 (fourteen years ago) link
Unless B.o.B. featuring some Vanessa Carlton lookin boy counts.
― "lemonade" was a popular song and it still is (The Reverend), Thursday, 15 April 2010 06:50 (fourteen years ago) link
thx for the jacka/husalah top 10s deej!
my sense of rappers' popularity is all screwed up anyway, so the ones who grab me are those with an easily identifiable thing they do beyond engaging with their context - vocal or lyrical personality, basically - which is kind of an intangible, case-by-case quality. a lot of the rappers i've got super into over the years i hadn't particularly noticed the first 4-5 times i heard them, and then something clicks. but i literally have no idea of which rappers are popular on the charts vs popular on the street vs popular here; everyone i talk to about hip-hop (you guys, the few IRL people i know who care) cherrypicks their favourites. when i realised b.o.b. was at no 2 or whatever i just went UHHHH WHAT because not one person i know ever mentions him (inc here!).
i get the impression that "popularity" is increasingly hard to get a handle on even if you're in the right social context, anyway - cf noz tweeting about nicki minaj the other night, and it seemed that no one could even agree whether she had buzz around her or not.
i've never been the "report what's popular" kind of journalist - predicting the Next Big Thing is a mug's game imo - but "report what's good" seems to do me well enough. still proud that my featurette on minaj last may was basically the first time her name was mentioned in a UK publication, and now look where she is.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 April 2010 08:18 (fourteen years ago) link
'Frontline' is a good time.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
DUB C HOL. LEE. SHIT.
that's the hottest shit i've heard in fucking forever!
hot damn.
around 4:37 or so he almost verges into a OG west coast version of "broken language"
unreal.
― fischer-price my first chukkas (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:53 (fourteen years ago) link
YYYYEEEEHAW
http://www.skicarstunt.com/gl_jump2_w.jpg
― fischer-price my first chukkas (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 15 April 2010 14:55 (fourteen years ago) link
damn, son.
― neveragl story (zvookster), Thursday, 15 April 2010 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
New Yelawolf, from some Cypress Hill tribute mixtapehttp://www.mediafire.com/?jzyotq1zxkz
― Bait Goin' Ham (makeitpop), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:33 (fourteen years ago) link
lol i never realised husalah's name was as in hustler - had been pronouncing it as though it was an arabic name
some of the beats on this mob trial comp are seriously O_O - happy to hear the hyperactivity i loved about hyphy still latent in bay area rap
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Thursday, 15 April 2010 16:42 (fourteen years ago) link
lol hus-allah
― nu bay deejoning (some dude), Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:02 (fourteen years ago) link
dying @ hus-allah
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 15 April 2010 17:46 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought this for weeks! and thought it was a v pretty name on some "i might call my kid husalah", the penny dropping was a let-down
― neveragl story (zvookster), Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link
jacka if it's a girl
― some dude, Thursday, 15 April 2010 18:48 (fourteen years ago) link
it is Hus allah, it's both joe
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_LEghlft43kU/Sdu_iqJPYjI/AAAAAAAAAbc/nzpNlEqK7CI/s400/790327.jpg
― Kyrgyham (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago) link
HOOS-allah
― gucci mane leflaur leflah eshkoshka (The Reverend), Thursday, 15 April 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago) link
They pronounce it pretty straightforward here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yl7jSiWWOk&fmt=18
Any suggestions on where to start with Mob Figaz as a group, or are the solo albums the only ones worth hearing?
― Bait Goin' Ham (makeitpop), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I rarely talk to anyone about rap offline, except for my best friend, who mostly hears about stuff through me. Basically most of the people I currently know who are into rap are herbs who look at me sideways for ever having liked Jay-Z. Hard to sell those types on Waka Flocka Flame, you know?
describes my situation pretty much exactly, except my one best friend is getting pretty exasperated with ignant rap, (*sighs* again with the oj da juiceman dude?) everyone loves plugging my i-pod into the car speakers when we drive around but it would never occur to any of them to listen to any of it independently or in any other context.
i had the impression it was different in america, though. i live in canada so i get pretty much no exposure to rap zeitgeist besides drake or kid cudi or electro djs doing a milli remixes, i was under the impression that this shit got spread around. like not necessarily big krit, but boosie and jeezy-level dudes must be on the radio somewhere, right? to people here stupid fruity crazy swag rap is as much of a hipster fetish as noise rock.
― tmi finney (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 15 April 2010 20:44 (fourteen years ago) link