he's not really more radical than wayne/gucci/future but he's in the conversation... and those three have huge cults of personality surrounding them. wayne esp
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:19 (eleven years ago) link
maybe insular rather than introverted?
― hemioblock (The Reverend), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:15 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah - something something something subjectivity
― future kendricks (longneck), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
how is "love sosa" more experimental or that different from any given garbled future space ballad
― lex pretend, Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:03 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark
well for one during the verses there's an entire layer of vocals that's just a continuous stream of ad-libs as if there's a bunch of disembodied keef heads floating around whispering at each other
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/bdotTM/status/288735106271674368
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
hey cool, me too! wait a second...
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:22 (eleven years ago) link
lmao @ "there's been a lot of race baiting"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
― future kendricks (longneck), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 10:20 PM (0 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
It's close to what people (me included) have used to refer to by "blankness" but not quite. Gucci, Wayne, Future and even Waka all have pretty elaborate selves that can do things and be things. Keef just isn't there in a way. I think that's where he departs from his (short) "tradition". What Jordan is referring to above as "a bunch of disembodied keef heads floating around whispering to each other" is kinda what I'm after.
― future kendricks (longneck), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
you mean "race bating"
― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:26 (eleven years ago) link
'bating
― regarding an eccentric and non-existent American Gladiator (crüt), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:27 (eleven years ago) link
who is master bating?
― future kendricks (longneck), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
go 'way, batin
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
Woah guys! Thanks had a long day of airports/air travel, got me through
Only thing I'll add is Molly Hatchett is NOT metal, they are southern rock, lots of ppl get that twisted because of the album art
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
― future kendricks (longneck), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 4:25 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i dont really get this at all. Future is way more 'blank' or less 'present' as a personality in his music than keef is to me
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:35 (eleven years ago) link
lmao
― 乒乓, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
I feel like there is a Speed-style scenario going on here that we aren't privy to, like some Dennis Hopper-ish figure is pointing a gun at deej's head and forcing him to paint Chief Keef as the most thrilling, distinctive, talented and multi-faceted artist of his generation every (x) minutes or he'll pull the trigger
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
Nah Future just about manages to put across a sense of yearning with his melodic autotune mumbles. keef is dead eyed and monotone.
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
Again: We're not talking about the same thing, deej. Future can say/sing/rap "I'm looking for her" - but that's something it's hard to imagine Keef saying. There's a very different sense of subjectivity in his stuff.
― future kendricks (longneck), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, January 8, 2013 5:21 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i have absolutely no idea how this is different from how dozens of other rappers use ad libs/backup vocals
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:42 (eleven years ago) link
get thee to a pete rock and cl smooth album
― so far, so good... solange! (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
lil jon yelled iirc
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:45 (eleven years ago) link
Ca$h Out doesn't dub his ad-libs in he just has a parrot on his shoulder that repeats everything he says
― regarding an eccentric and non-existent American Gladiator (crüt), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
haha Ca$h Out's "guy outside the vocal booth yelling encouragement" ad libs are hilarious
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
― future kendricks (longneck), Tuesday, January 8, 2013 4:42 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
wtf is a 'sense of subjectivity'
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:46 (eleven years ago) link
it would be funny if there was some other guy named Sosa that all of Keef's songs were written in praise of
― ThePartyHater (some dude), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:47 (eleven years ago) link
*Alejandro Sosa blushes*
― tsrobodo, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
can somebody post their top 10 rhymes from "Finally Rich" please
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:49 (eleven years ago) link
chief keef and kaiser sosa
― Albert Crampus (NickB), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
so you can compare it to 'deep' lyrically-oriented rap & scoff? no thanks
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:55 (eleven years ago) link
his lyrics are GOOD just not 'lyrical'
http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz3m51W3QB1r861j5o1_500.jpg
― regarding an eccentric and non-existent American Gladiator (crüt), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 22:58 (eleven years ago) link
Let's just ponder this statement for a while
Kind if wasn't expecting anyone to go for the "he's the Bernard Sumner of hip-hop" argument
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:00 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIcNgjqtO8Y
― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
his lyrics perform a function. unfortunately it's not a very worthwhile or interesting function.
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
or fun even
I figured Sosa was a Sammy Sosa thing?
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
you guys are making age old rockist arguments just fyi
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
Perhaps we are if you didn't actually understand the age-old rockiest argument
"Rock music is superior to rap because the lyrics MEAN SOMETHING" is a rockist argument. "This dude has terrible lyrics in a genre driven by lyrics" is not a rockist argument.
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
Deej: it's about how they communicate what the experience of being them is like. Gucci, Future and Waka are way more conversational than Keef - they invite you to take part in their eccentricities in a way that Keef does not. Gucci is a pretty menacing type but he's still very much communicating/joking with the listener. It's unstable but the link is established. As for Future, you could sing/rap his songs to people and they would feel like you were trying to tell them something. Waka can be antisocial but he still invites you to partake in his emotions. Keef is... insular. I don't get the feeling that he's sharing or having a conversation or even looking at the "you" he's referring to in his lyrics. And I think that's partly why he can scare people. He's not TELLING us that he doesn't care. He just doesn't care. Or that's the impression I get anyway.
― future kendricks (longneck), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:08 (eleven years ago) link
"This dude has terrible lyrics in a genre driven by lyrics" is not a rockist argument.
I think deej is ceding that rap is no longer driven by lyrics tbh
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
i am not ceding that nor do i think he has 'terrible' lyrics
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
you seem way more invested in narrative than lyrical prowess afaict
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
i also dont think longneck's description of his lyrics are true either--keef's shit is full of humor. i mean fuckin 'laughin to the bank' is the ultimate example. but 'i gets lots of commas, i can fuck your mama' is a funny lyric. calling himself & ballout the 'bang brothers' is a funny lyric.
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:11 (eleven years ago) link
people source 'lyrical prowess' in the wrong places
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
Does rap need to be "driven by lyrics"?
― future kendricks (longneck), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
i gets lots of commas, i can fuck your mama' is a funny lyric
come on now
― Welcome to my world of proses (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
I haven't heard this, it kinda feels like when I used to read gawker recaps instead of actually watching jersey shore or real housewives
― Andrew WKRP (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:12 (eleven years ago) link
You can accuse me of making a conservative argument and I'd say "yup, guilty as charged" but it's not rockist
― Solange Knowles is my hero (DJP), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
this thread has become explaining to shakey mo why your mama jokes are funny i want no part
― rap steve gadd (D-40), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
As for Future, you could sing/rap his songs to people and they would feel like you were trying to tell them something.
is he lassie?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link
I am not describing his lyrics btw. I can definitely see the humour. But it's a new style.
― future kendricks (longneck), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 23:13 (eleven years ago) link