tumblr rapper kitty pryde

her new mixtape's great, as good as she is at the cosmic love stuff i wish she'd go harder more often though

got 20 seconds into okay cupid before i had to turn it off. does any of it have delivery with any real oomph to it or is it all that lilting valley girl thing?

some dude OTM

got 20 seconds into okay cupid before i had to turn it off. does any of it have delivery with any real oomph to it or is it all that lilting valley girl thing?

it's all that lilting teenspeak thing. that's what keeps me from liking it, but it's also what keeps me from condemning it.

I am listening to Angel Haze today

― dayo, Monday, May 14, 2012 8:38 AM (42 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

her new mixtape's great, as good as she is at the cosmic love stuff i wish she'd go harder more often though

― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, May 14, 2012 8:40 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

distressing implication. i don't like the cosmic love stuff much. only songs i really dig on altered ego are the one's where she's in full, fire-breathing attack mode.

paris milton!

rtc is great

when i was in 9th or 10th grade some friends from school had a rap group called Bubble Up, four official members: MC Delta T (that name was some math equation or something), The Lyrical Miracle, and the Nicarguan Nightmare (he wasn't from nicaragua, the name came from this sketch on SNL where white people in a newsroom overpronounced spanish words like Nicaragua or Me-hee-coh or Doritos, they loved that sketch a lot)...

the "DJ" was a kid that played in a death metal band - DJ Dominator -- he was into Morbid Angel and Deicide, etc but he was the one who could kind of play keyboards and so he became the DJ...he just used preset beats and then played stuff over it...

they did a whole "album" (cassette), I can't remember all the songs, there was "Littabugs" (kind of based off of 100 Miles and Runnin' by NWA, it had the fake "police CB" banter between verses about how they were on the tail of some "hardcore littabugs" who were driving all over littering"....there was "Workin' At the Seed Farm" (Lyrical's dad owned seed farm where they grew seed corn for Dekalb I think, and 2 of them worked there)....and "Genocide on Wells" (Wells was a neighboring town and it was about killing the Wells mens tennis team - they all played tennis)...and "He's Gay" (diss track about a guy named Steve)....and "Bitch Patrol (feat. MC Peanut Gallery)"...(i dunno they basically just called ppl bitches)...and "Heist at the Easton Bank" (another crime one, but they were robbing a bank in this super tiny town of like 300 ppl)....

I did a guest verse on the posse cut "Rap Casserole" (My name was MC Escher)....my cameo was widely thought to have stolen the show....my money like was "I got money in the bank/I got girls on my dick/I got a lifetime subscription to Ranger Rick"....the beat was just DJ Dominator replaying the bassline to "Brick House" by the Commodores on a Casio keyboard....

anyway, I just remembered all this and I thought I'd write it out...this seemed like the best thread for it.

I'm really glad YouTube didn't exist then.

oh there was another song called "Kickin' the Saffapants"...which was about wearing MC Hammer pants, they called those type of pants "Saffapants" because they misheard "dance how they want to dance, kick and then slap a friend" part from "Adamm's Groove" by MC Hammer as "Kickin' the saffapants" so they started calling MC Hammer pants that

MC escher

causin' pressure

no one fresher

the impossible sketcher

with loops of pleasure

m@tt you're telling me your DJ wasn't called "DJ Tanner" like the character from Full House? that's the only thing about the story i don't believe.

create lines you can't measure

I knew there had to be some payoff for reading 476 posts about Kitty Pryde, and M@tt's story was it. A+, MC Escher!

M@tt wasn't Bubble Up's big hit "Drawin' Blood"? Abt excessive jerking off?

i think some people are genuine enthusiastic about challops

yeah but this is enthusiasm about the doing of the challop rather than the holding of it, I think.

"Genocide on Wells" (Wells was a neighboring town and it was about killing the Wells mens tennis team - they all played tennis)...and "He's Gay" (diss track about a guy named Steve)

totally dying

M@tt wasn't Bubble Up's big hit "Drawin' Blood"? Abt excessive jerking off?

― chr1sb3singer, Monday, May 14, 2012 11:52 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

oh god yeah haha that was the shock rap one....bubble up enters a jerking off competition and pushes themselves past the uh limit:

"drawin' blood
no pain, no gain
takin' one for the team
goin' waaaay paaast cream"

that reminds me of a thread i've been meaning to start

(uh not about beating off)

"Goin' way past cream" is a top ten song lyric ever

they did a whole "album" (cassette)

Please mediafire this cassette album. Thanks.

im pretty enthusiastic about challops but it`s easier & more fun to challop irl than on ilx

sadly i think it's a lost album at this point

also it's probably better to read about than listen to - just like kitty pryde!

well, except that it's actually fun to read about

raps that you composed for school or while young

im pretty enthusiastic about challops but it`s easier & more fun to challop irl than on ilx

― flopson, Monday, May 14, 2012 1:11 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is kind of a truth bomb

not sure i agree with that

you can definitely present CHALLENGING OPINIONS as an entertaining and possibly edifying conversation-starter irl, whereas if you do it on ilx you just get shouted down or zinged from all sides, whether deservingly or not

you can definitely present CHALLENGING OPINIONS as an entertaining and possibly edifying conversation-starter irl

i think you can do that on ilx too, like especially if your name is dave q or whatever

i admire & probably try to emulate the way characters in whit stillman movies challop, sort of fabulist or whimsical, but seductive. "you don't have to read a book to have an opinion" or the thing about clichés in the newest one. otoh i've probably done more than my share of, like, drunkenly defending early nickelback singles or something equally heinous

i prefer literary criticism because then you get the author's point and the critic's point

well i'm talking about ilx in 2012. a dave q era thread probably resembles a small casual converstaion more than it resembles 'tumblr rapper kitty pryde.'

xpost

I actually went "ok, scarlet letter that dude, he reps for the Paris Hilton album" to the Lex in my mind back when but then one day I was getting my hair cut and there was some pretty chill dance stuff playing & I was getting into it & I asked Paul, Paul, what is this music, and he says "this is the Paris Hilton album, I love it," and my mind was forever blown so I called up PH and said "I am sorry for judging you" and we cried. True story

that is a beautiful story ;_; *tears of joy*

hahaha

Always listen to Paul.

aerosmith can i have your friend Paris' phone number

loathe my life for having nothing better to do on a monday night than read this whole thread

i didnt hate those kp choons, quite liked them in fact. ur lying to yourself if 'kathryn obvious' isnt some prime mf doom

idk sorry to be glib but a lot of this frowny rap fan rancour seems pretty uselessly antiquated, seems to me the cultural vocabulary has long bled past the point where if someone does a vaguely transverse move you can point at paul barman and case closed. and yeah that even does go as far as covering max b

i'm the same gen as most of you lot i imagine and all this makes me think of is like, arab strap and sofia coppolla film soundtracks and bleary sentimental whatever whatever. like haha remember that shitty french band the teenagers? death to indiedrome long live the new flesh

Okay, late to the thread, but that Juicee Kouture track is lols a billion. Catchy, but so laughably bad at the same time.

oh yeah also if i see lex rep for my paris hilton post one more time i swear to god i will hang myself

OMG yes this is totally Lost In Translation: the High School Years

Okay, late to the thread, but that Juicee Kouture track is lols a billion. Catchy, but so laughably bad at the same time.

look, I've never had a crush on a guy on an internet dating site and I've never worn gucci or fendi, but "that cracker might be the police" is actually some advice I can use

OMG yes this is totally Lost In Translation: the High School Years

Had this same Sofia Coppola brain-bubble this morning and recalled all the shit she got for Marie Antoinette, a movie I think fucking rules.

okay, i'm glad i'm not alone in thinking this isn't the worst shit that ever happened to music

it's not the worst thing that ever happened to music, and i don't think anyone itt has been that hyperbolic about it, but it's not good.

that mysterious "good" thing again...