Finally Rich - Chief Keef

Quietus dude repping for the wiz verse on 'sober' was a lil' strange.

haha "is on interscope" how uncanny

haha "is on interscope" how uncanny

― some dude, Wednesday, December 19, 2012 10:37 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

jimmy iovine dropping serious $$$ on this sort of thing cant be a surprise right

not picking on spin cuz everyone's doing this but its weird to me how after years of no one noticing that rappers are talking about guns suddenly it bears mentioning in every keef post http://www.spin.com/articles/chief-keef-ftr-drama-go-video-nsfw

i hung w/ brainwasher last night & he said it seemed like they were rushing the release of the album b/c to him 'love sosa' was just starting to build, which feels right I think. this album coming out now is some kreayshawn-driven insecurity at some level. maybe a lil too worried that he wouldn't be able to follow up "i dont like" when they scheduled the release. keef isnt really doing promotion for it — he isnt doing any release parties and is already recording new material for his next album. meanwhile, i heard from a friend that 'love sosa' is being played constantly in atlanta right now

the other thing w/ the 50 cent parallel is — 'they like me i want em to love me like they love pac' would be keef's 'they like me i want em to love me like they love wayne'

idk i think there's some interesting parallels w/ keef & 50 although MUSICALLY i don't think there is much—jordan's theory about keef's recombination of influences seems otm to me

these days release dates don't seem to be as reliant on radio spins. although obv different kinds of artists/careers, kendrick and j. cole got their release dates and did good first week numbers and THEN the singles really rose up the charts. which used to be the standard, and is probably healthier in the long run.

i mean maybe CK will surprise me and move some units and get a serious radio-hit. all of his fame feels so media-driven on a national level, though, like he's definitely a big deal to certain kinds of rap fans but not really in the conversation at all for a lot of demographics.

talking about louie again?

haha

yeah you might be right about that. this effect at work

http://instagram.com/p/TbP4kMDx8g/

The rap on "Laughing to the bank" is like a 1/8 beat ahead of the beat and its so hard for me to listen to

yeah this must be how dan perry feels listening to singers w/ bad pitch

even the "hauh hauh hauh" loop is off in a way that never starts to sound deliberate or like a happy accident no matter how many times it repeats

exactly, like if you move 1/8 of a beat in time it would be really funky

Yep. He tends to finish too early and it's semi-annoying.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fRWxAV3Eik

exactly, like if you move 1/8 of a beat in time it would be really funky

would be funny if the engineer fucked it up accidentally.

v addicted and p much super endeared with this album i think, idg how anyone could call it nihilistic

jeezy cut is kind of a drag and breaks the spell long enough to take 3hunna down with it too tho

loving the lil birdcall adlibs on 'kay kay'

haha on one listen jeezy's entrance was my favourite moment on this

i've come round to "i don't like" to the extent that i'd, like, nod my head if it came along in a club but it's not that keef is nihilistic so much as completely unfun

it's kinda early-days-of-dubsteppy in that it's really made for moody boys to nod along to while skulking in the shadows and i gues sthey can have that if they want

idk this wasnt at all the album i was really expecting coming off of 'dont like' and various other received half-wisdoms, it's a calling card but not necessarily the most musically representative of the whole

and it is a fun album!

"i don't like" sounded a lot more exuberant in this context than it ever has

ha xp

yes, i also found that

like before it was catchy but here it seems bouncy

yes, bouncy! i really really love the sentiment of "i don't like" & completely identify; it doesn't strike me as portentous ~nihilism~ (they really mean it and that's scary) (yes i know there is horrible social context) so much as scornful but celebratory of the stuff unsaid that keef DOES like

i just wish i could hear it as anything other than "a fart niggaaaaa"

fuck anthony fantano that guy is a waste of breath

clarifiation: i don't care he doesn't like finally rich, he's just awful in general

fredo fantano

i cant claim to have invented that but it is hilarious

Yeah, that guy sucks.

Youtube criticism is in a bad place (well, possibly by definition)

i just wish i could hear it as anything other than "a fart niggaaaaa"

:( me too, now

Listening to the scattered, formless A$AP Rocky commercial debut gives me a new respect for Finally Rich, though. A reminder that uncompromised rap debuts are a very, very rare thing

"savage" (best buy bonus) is awesome

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

album is whatever

gonna predict 35k for first week

― some dude, Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:25 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

album is great

on track to sell 50-55k

obv some unnecessary editorializing in there but w/e :p

lol @ the implication that your opinion of the album and its sales figures are connected

that was not implied i was just trying to parallel w/ ship's post

http://www.salon.com/2012/12/18/raps_killer_new_rhymes/

curious what u guys think of this particularly lance williams' comments

I'm positively surprised by the A$AP album, actually. I had given up on him. It's not a great album by any means but it's a lot better than it could have been.

needledrop guy is the absolute worst but that freezeframe is hilarious

his opinions are garbo but i kinda like fredo fantano the internet's busiest internet hitta

FREDO FANTANO IN THE CUT THAT'S A SCARY SIGHT

I totally do not mean to start beef & besides I barely listen to any new rap ever anyway but I thought I'd check this dude out and...deej? you rep for this guy's rapping? really? like I have argued with you abt shit but generally speaking I think of you as a guy with some pretty high standards for rapping and like

man I do not get what you would see in this dude's rapping. like at all, if you are into good rapping.

lol "garbo", i'm having that

straight greta son

xxp http://instagram.com/p/TbP4kMDx8g/

^^^another chief keef review i like. lol