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the noz article is good altho i have issues w/ two parts, the first apparently i'm no longer allowed to talk about because i've written a lot about the subject so i cant weigh in or something, and the 2nd is that i don't understand how he doesn't see chicago's scene as a substantial subject worth talking about, considering it had like 8 major label signings & made up a significant portion of his list this year.

"nothing major" is almost like an overt attempt to come up with a worse name than "altered zones," i love it

he pretty explicitly says the column is just a selective look at "some of the individual fragments that the year produced," i don't think the lack of specific topics is meant as any kind of pointed exclusion

For a 'emerging visual culture' blog that site looks absolutely dull.

maybe it's going to emerge very slowly

lol some dude

the noz article is good altho i have issues w/ two parts, the first apparently i'm no longer allowed to talk about because i've written a lot about the subject so i cant weigh in or something, and the 2nd is that i don't understand how he doesn't see chicago's scene as a substantial subject worth talking about, considering it had like 8 major label signings & made up a significant portion of his list this year.
--D-40

you just can't help yourself, huh?

noz gonna drag his feet the whole way on the keef thing

― D-40, Thursday, December 27, 2012 3:20 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this was the post that killed me

Yo, contenderizer, man, yo... Meet the post that killed me.

stop dragging your feet, whiney, history is passing you by

shoulda named names

― small-scale fux with (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, December 28, 2012 3:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

seemed pretty clear who he was talking about--Das Racist, Flatbush Zombies, Le1f, etc. etc.

terminator x in the whineyverse

stop dragging your feet, whiney, history is passing you by

― some dude, Saturday, December 29, 2012 5:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you take this stance on any new artist you hear about thru us on ilx first rather than via radio

i think its a fair statement to make considering he wrote an article about how keef's career was over before it began on the wire earlier this year

i'm a poptimist whore it's true but honestly i see nothing wrong with greeting new artists with skepticism and letting the work they put in win you over gradually, i actually change my mind about people all the time whereas i feel sometimes like dudes decide whether they like a rapper right off the bat and stick with that feeling for life

i mean i hear good and bad in the CK album, no idea which i will be leaning toward more a few months from now but i'm keeping an open mind to either

"he wrote an article about how keef's career was over before it began on the wire earlier this year"

I do so look forward to reading this article in The Annual Compendium Of Slights Towards Chief Keef That D-40 Has Imagined.

doxxed

idgaf dude is airing out my professional name on a daily basis.

airing out? this isnt personal. im disagreeing w/ an element of your argument (after linking to & praising the bulk of it)

its also not 'slights towards chief keef' like this is some 'defense' of the artist. im disagreeing w/ the assessment, i dont care if ultimately ppl do or dont like the art. im taking issue w/ the particular arguments made in describing it

no, you have completely misrepresented one element of my argument and presented it as the entirety of the argument.

but lol at the wire ever running "an article about chief keef."

the artist who made one of their top ten rap albums of the year? lol

i likely agree with the parts of the argument i haven't brought up which is why i don't take issue w/ those specifically

i'm a poptimist whore it's true but honestly i see nothing wrong with greeting new artists with skepticism and letting the work they put in win you over gradually, i actually change my mind about people all the time whereas i feel sometimes like dudes decide whether they like a rapper right off the bat and stick with that feeling for life

― PliesStripAThon5Jan2✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ (some dude), Sunday, December 30, 2012 4:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fwiw i get this perspective & the phrase dragging feet was a bit of a provocation obv

"the artist who made one of their top ten rap albums of the year? lol"

http://gifsforum.com/images/gif/facepalm/grand/2pac_facepalm_gif.gif

much ado about noz zing

i agree with some of noz's posts but not all of them -- will have a tumblr post about this tonight, perhaps will explain it some more on twitter tomorrow

lol its almost as if its not about noz at all, but the subjects being discussed!

yeah i agree with noz more often than not, working on a 30 page gallery of Things Noz Is Right About

id recommend sharpening the zings for the coming year

don't come at the king, lil flip

...the rap that was uniquely propped up on indie PR machine/cool kid blog circuit this year was ephemeral, amateurish, or even outright depressing. I won't name names since you guys seem to love them. Or at least you love reblogging their photos on Tumblr and getting free drinks at their Heineken sponsored shows.

you really DO have to name names though, because otherwise you're the guy who simultaneously champions lil b and shits on rappers because they're popular on imageblogs. also the last time i checked danny brown's twitter background was a mosaic of Heineken bottles so.

i feel sometimes like dudes decide whether they like a rapper right off the bat and stick with that feeling for life

i tend to do the opposite; decide i like a rapper right off the bat and then forget about them

i agree w/ mccoll except that i think it's hilarious reading angry rap blogger shpiel in the p4k & appreciate how much license noz has to openly attack the site's readership. like while it's pretty horrifying to contemplate the innerworkings of the mind of an adult human who would write "just know that none of this stuff is notable or interesting or entertaining to anybody who was listening to rap music back before 2008," it's perversely comforting to imagine someone out there who feels they've just lost pitchfork as a friend

flopson you have not experienced true horror

i've seen things you people wouldn't believe

negative opinions about rap music

all those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain

time to die

don't come at the king, lil flip

― dead cera (J0rdan S.), Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:28 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

if the best the king can do is 'lol complex makes slideshows' im gonna argues hes not wearing any clothes n/h

i dont normally n/h but i thought it was lightweight funny to do so here

i feel lightweight agitated

complex has done listicles for years but it seems like only since deef's been there that they do hopelessly meta listicles of "25 things everyone thinks about hip-hop (but nobody will say" and "25 most hated on rappers"

shit's actually been readable imo

oh it's def improved in some ways, props for that. just saying, my post was more pointed than just 'lol complex makes slideshows.'

the EOY stuff has been particularly ugly and difficult to navigate this year.

the hideous glowing trapezoids are part of an emerging visual culture, man

"hopelessly meta" does this phrase even have meaning

you were the one scolding me for being meta on twitter the other day lol

getting an smartphone is the first thing that's made me understand complex's layout at all. it would be nice if they had a non-mobile version of their site tho.

the EOY stuff has been particularly ugly and difficult to navigate this year.

― how's life, Monday, December 31, 2012 10:55 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can say it's ugly but how is it difficult to navigate? you click on the name of the feature you want and it takes you there

youre apparently better at communicating ambiguity

just to be clear, you realize i'm talking about the place his vocals land on the beat (as in which part of the beat) rather than the slightly 'off' rhythmic nature of his voice that somedude is talking about, right -- hes putting his vocals down in unconventional places w/in the rhythm of the track