frat rap

asked my 16-year-old Odd-Future listening son if he'd heard of rappers Mac Miller and Sam Adams mentioned upthread. He said he had--Miller he pronounced ok, Adams he said was terrible.

By coincidence an oar live thing was just on mhd.

I watched it. Pretty bad.

Also they have no connection to the dead or even wide spread. Not hippies.

Basically there are people for whom the first counting crows record is sgt peppers. Throw in a little dmb guitar center jackoffery and voila

just remembering that when I was at penn state for a summer like 8 years ago bros were listening to happy hardcore and sandstorm

brostep seems like a logical extension

people who're into Kanye are into the narrative of when he got good & does he keep getting better or when does he "start to suck," etc -- this narrative doesn't appeal to fans of the bands we're talking about; these bands consist largely of "players" (jazz dudes use this term just meaning "guys who can really play") who can hit a groove & hold it and that's not really something you lose if you're always out there, really you just keep getting better as long as your health holds. when you're a pop star your days are numbered. people who go see Ratdog in 2011 first saw Weir sing "Truckin'" in 1978.

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this seems pretty otm to me - we ilxor-lookin dudes do love bands & artists whose story arcs parallel those whom we know and love

by the way, 200 posts and nobody's mentioned GIRL TALK yet

his popularity among ppl is kind of thoroughly distasteful to me

fyi mac miller's "all around the world" is produced by just blaze & includes a "SWAG" :-/

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i think this sort of is what this thread is getting at but "bros" are basically "hipsters" now, huh?

its weird how all the unpopular kids in high school "won" but it turns out that winning just means that jocks dress like you and listen to the same music you do

so many rappers/producers/ppl in the industry seem so damn desperate these days

max otm — my pithy comment of choice for summing up this situation was "it turns out everyone and everything you run away from eventually follows you to the places you made cool"

^^^ this is why you keep running and how cool cycles imo

"it turns out everyone and everything you run away from eventually follows you to the places you made cool"

have you... made internet message boards cool?

well this was framed more in terms of cycles of gentrification and 'urban renewal' & shit, but i think it obviously applies metaphorically to certain aesthetic choices

not sure whether 'posting on an internet message board' is one of those choices tho

number of college students posting on this thread and board is miniscule I am assuming (number of high school student likely even smaller)

wait wait wait, from waaaaaay upthread: BRETT RATNER????

Okay I'm glad YOU noticed that.

btw just for further context on the demographics in question: the highest-voted comment* on that skrillex vid nabisco posted yesterday was (paraphrasing from memory) "Skrillex, I'm taking you into custody... for causing the Japanese earthquakes!"

(not tryna be all cap'n-save-a-public-decency here, but i generally prefer my tasteless humor to be a bit more clever than "lol this bass kills ppl" (but then again, that comment was probably posted by a 15-year-old))

*: it has since dropped off the front page, replaced by

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http://www.youtube.com/v/WSeNSzJ2-Jw&fs=1&hl=en

^ listening back through something like this ... the big-wobbly-bass thing around 0:40 is obviously what I'd think of as dubstep, but so much other stuff -- the electroish sound palette, the regularity of the beats -- always makes me think of it some other way. (informative thread! learning and whatnot!)

― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Sunday, March 13, 2011 1:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the dubstep bass-drops are such a weird motif to orient an entire genre around imo

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to me, tempo and beat-style is a more important connection between the different kinds of dubstep that we're talking about (compared to sound palette/LFO-based basslines). at this point anything hovering about 140 bpm is going to be called dubstep.

like how anything around 120 with a four-on-the-floor kick is going to be talked about in terms of "house", whatever little subgenre it might occupy.

btw this thread is totally otm about dubstep in the u.s.. i only became aware of it a few months ago...i mean, i consider myself a dude keeps up with electronic music, i've got a vested interest in it, but i live in a midwest college town and was like "who are these dudes (like skrillex) selling out large-to-huge venues here whose names i've never even heard?"

does donal glover fit into this conversation in any way?

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

the only person i know who listens to childish gambino praises him as the savior of "real rap" without having really listened to the genre. hates lil wayne too.

what was mike posner and kid cudi last year is mac miller and wiz khalifa this year. Fresh on Campus seems to be the go-to blog for this kind of crowd.

I thought the skrillex song was okay at first but I kind of hate how telegraphed the bass drop is, it's so functional

also it's probably shitty youtube qualiy but the mixing sounds like shit, all mid-high bass with no real bottom end - I'd have to listen to a HQ version to be sure, but it sounds like it was mixed to sound good on those cheap 400 watt computer speaker systems you can buy, which emphasize mid-bass

so i guess this is like the frat version of "toot it & boot it"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFjJGG4dkgg&feature=player_embedded

btw

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to have sex with a girl using no condom
I just hit a yogi last night

christ -- these dudes or dude or w/e are connected w/ ryan tedder (figures)

the singer on this one is the biggest doofus i've ever seen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDtZDGslz-M&feature=player_embedded#at=184

can't believe "starting six" let the tiny dude into their group

it really undercuts the credibility of any song they do about sex

these are the types of dudes that end up on jezebel after a string of sexist emails gets leaked

song is kinda catchy but i'm gonna choose to go around singing it as "i ate a gnocchi, ate a gnocchi, ate a gnoooochiii"

difference being they probably intentionally leaked the e-mails xp

We have meanwhile been thinking in Dublin that what the world really needs is a compilation of white scobie rap from around the world - people like Die Antworte, Goldie Looking Chain, and The Rubber Bandits. There must surely be equivalents in Australia.

ok, "ironic" but still
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fvP4OACmWw

http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=32314

"zooniversity's uw-themed hip-hop is a social networking smash"

I am totally accidentally at a mac miller set right this second

nobody is discussing different vantages on dubstep, though, this thread is misleading

nabisco you better do a keg stand

Okay how are you 'accidentally' at a Mac Miller set.

"Oh my god, I'm sorry, I was looking for the Rebecca Black showcase."

i go to UM and that fucking "pursuit of jappiness" video is all that anyone has been talking about for like two months

http://www.spin.com/articles/behind-two-faces-white-rapper

n/m that's not really about frat rap that much

that jappiness video makes me more ashamed of my people than anything since kissinger

kissinger was a wolverine??

xpost to big beat, can i just

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the frat of the land

just heard 'i love college' in a cafe in darjeeling, rip civilization

its well known that th epeople of darjeeling love college

fart rap

shart rap

I'm sorry.