curren$y (or currensy i guess) - pilot talk

on the ground i am
like a quarterback attacking defensive linemen

"the hangover" is kinda hilarious cause he raps over a 110 bpm beat like it was 130 bpm, with the former seeming just as relatively fast for him as the latter would be for most rappers

the more i listen to 'this aint no mixtape' the more i realize i pretty much missed the boat not calling this a classic last yr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYkPxF2bYkg

don't really understand how this guy got so huge, how did ppl become fans of him? like "where da cash at" was cool and if he was still on young money he might be their best rapper, but i've yet to hear any recent solo stuff that's exciting on any level.

this aint no mixtape is awesome man

i mean why are cheech & chong huge .... its no big mystery, hes an affable stoner w/ a unique persona & is a really really skilled rapper

hes also been rapping coast to coast w/ pretty much anybody from j stalin to french montana, doing the regional guest verse thing

maybe 20% of all rappers talk a ton about smoking weed, though, and him and wiz aren't exactly red & meth in terms of approaching it w/ humor or personality

there really arent that many rappers who talk about it this exclusively! kinda tiring of the Some Dude 'why is this rapper suddenly so popular??' thing -- made more sense when u were talking about big krit, less so a rapper who has been releasing mixtapes and building steady buzz for the last four years while guesting on lots of ppl's songs

xp i don't think the point of curren$y is to approach it with humor--his thing is a lot darker imo.

i mean why are cheech & chong huge .... its no big mystery, hes an affable stoner w/ a unique persona & is a really really skilled rapper

― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, August 19, 2010 1:21 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

spent a second trying to remember when cheech & chong became really skilled rappers

curren$y isn't about being funny (even if he is sometimes), he's about being ~~fly~~

word

damn... higher than 30,000 feet

d-_-b

whoa this is good

30,000 feet or pilot talk?

pilot talk

i'll check out some of those tapes in a bit, don't think i've heard any of em

i've been out of the loop on rap for a couple years now, gotta start lurking rolling goon thread maybe

i get why ppl think currensy is boring if theyve just heard pilot talk tbh

yeah, it's fine has its moments obv, but i think it's prob the least good currensy album/mixtape i've heard

i dl'd this a while ago and still haven't listened to it, so hi thread.

i think maybe 'elevator musik' is my fav currensy track right now

that one is super-dope

ok this doesn't sound quite as miraculous a few days later but it's still the best rap album i've heard in 2010. which probably means i need to hear more new stuff, but i haven't seen anyone repping hard for any albums/tapes this year except for this one and the big boi disc.

i liked this but didn't love it, maybe need some more listens tbh

i agree that curren$y is more of an effect than a leader on this album but goddamn the beats are good and C doesn't take anything away from them.
This feels a little frontloaded to me. Real nice overall tho'.

I dunno, I actually think Pilot Talk is better than his previous stuff, as a whole.

there really arent that many rappers who talk about it this exclusively! kinda tiring of the Some Dude 'why is this rapper suddenly so popular??' thing -- made more sense when u were talking about big krit, less so a rapper who has been releasing mixtapes and building steady buzz for the last four years while guesting on lots of ppl's songs

― NOT FUNNY NEEDS MORE GUCCI (deej), Thursday, August 19, 2010 11:45 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah sorry it is a bit predictable from me. but MTV Jams keeps playing the "Life Under The Scope" video back to back with Wiz's "This Plane" and i'm just scratching my head like holy shit this is some boring-ass rap music. the "Scope" beat is so wack I'm disappointed in Ski for making it.

wtf that beat is great!

i just want to listen to 'elevator music' all the time. i hate 2 be that dude who's all like 'the mixtapes/old stuff is better' but in this case they really really are

i hate 2 be that dude who's all like 'the mixtapes/old stuff is better'

riiiiiiiiiiiiight

naw deej otm

haw i do love 2 be that dude

but im still right in this case

I hope you're right but you're not.

???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBsJJd2r92E

i seriously am tempted to do a "is this beat good or bad" poll because honestly to my ears that shit was drowned in wack juice and then sauteed in a wack marinade

it's ~chill~

all this talk about chili and marinades is not helping my hunger, dudes

i like the life under the scope beat

it sounds a bit different in that music vid though from the album track, like its mixed differently or something

oh it doesn't sound like it the drums were mixed down in a cave on the album?

which probably means i need to hear more new stuff, but i haven't seen anyone repping hard for any albums/tapes this year except for this one and the big boi disc.

this is a problem

admittedly it hasn't been a huge year for rap tbh but both of these albums are pretty overrated & prob not in my top ten of the year. i think 2011 is going to be a great year for rap, though. a lot of cool shit sprouting these days

Nah, Rick Ross and Shabazz Palaces are terrific too.

ppl have been repping for lots of (quite varied) stuff this year.

xxxp yeah, the drums are way undermixed (intentionally, i imagine) but it works imo. knocking hard is not that track's purpose

i think it's been a pretty good year for rap tbh

yeah obv there's no one way all beats should sound, i'm just saying it sounds like garbage to me, the drums and the synths and everything. sounds like something i'd hear on a local mixtape and run to the skip button on.

wuht i thought shabazz palaces was last year? they already got something out this year?

samosa otm about both the big boi & pilot talk being overrated/not top ten/etc but both are fine and i think most ppl here if they started shitting on them it would be kind of disingenuous to do so

naw shabazz was last year but no one here was talking about it til this year

I think I saw the first review posted in January.