rolling mumble rap challenge 2017

he's had more good songs last year than any of the comparable rappers. his breakthrough "2 times" was more like a keef thing, most ppl just heard "drip from my walk" & knocked him as a sauce walka clone but he's way better than sauce twins & chooses better beats than anyone in rap right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyOEB__d4xI
"checkmate"

I should do a real list but here's 5 great 2016 dex songs

took time feat 12tildee
my energy
i'm great
kanye
i'm paid

5 more

HBK Intro
Never Saw
Link
Slide
Amazing

i also like abt his music that though he's v much a 'street rapper' via lineage/tradition his music isn't weighed down by trying to prove how street it is, it's just fun music that has a sense of humor about itself

That G Herbo song is great, reminds of Pac

I like Famous Dex's ok, but he probably has a definitive commercial ceiling after that video came out of him assaulting his girlfriend

Sort of makes it hard for me to listen to him, tbh, even though I listen to plenty of rappers who have likely done worse.

i never really identified w/ him as some kind of moral voice, or it was like never like his thought process or persona that resonated w/ me—he's an entertainer more than a narrator—so while i don't approve & it has me thinking twice about, like, how i would interview him given the opportunity, or how I would write a #thoughtpiece about it, it doesn't really affect the way i hear the music itself all that much.

but i agree it may have created a commercial ceiling—he was too late vs. say kodak whose crimes came out after the Drake cosign etc.

whole nba young boy 38 baby tape is p solid

yay migos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzpZov-VFLk

So this song is #100 on the Hot 100 right now.

yeah I saw it on the rap caviar playlist and figured something must be up.

good luck america

whats funny about that to me is its like the most boring iteration of a familiar style, i dont really get it at all

i suspect ppl are sharing the video for the luigi cap + hentai shirt more than the song

xp I agree with that, maybe people are responding to the tongue-in-cheek video/hook. Sort of like the response to "CoCo" and the whole "BAKING SODA I GOT BAKING SODA" bit.

i get all that but it's not actually "good"

Yeah, wasn't arguing for its quality, just its appeal. "CoCo" was also not good, but its over-the-top goonery was more appealing to me than whatever Ugly God is.

ugly god feels like an even more basic madeintyo

heard that song last summer on a brisk god vine of a turtle falling off a beach ball

good times

it is extendo meme schmoundcLOUDDEAD drollwave

it is ironic but also not, like yknow the internet or whatever

most methods of 'attack' are not going to be very relevant

yachty is the creative director of nautica now

what is there to get really

Can't have a lil boat without water

Is there a difference between "mumble rap" and "coco yayo maco wacko no-fi schmoundcloud dooblebob vine rap thingy?" (idk how to hyperlink to that poll)

there are so many new rappers rn & so few of them get posted here it's kind of hard to create your own take cuz theres no taste chess w/ no opponents.

kind of feeling this one though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4wxPOiXa9c

http://i.imgur.com/vb4Y0hT.png

that Ski Mask the Slump God track is nice imo as is the other stuff of his I looked for this morning so tyvm for that. kinda retro in a way I'm not gonna write giant boring grafs about but anyway nice stuff

there are so many new rappers rn & so few of them get posted here it's kind of hard to create your own take cuz theres no taste chess w/ no opponents.

haha peak deej

V.I.C.E. Boys are getting kinda big in Mpls I like this one, esp the video w/the Duluth coast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USGZfV6pUjg

i really really like Juice Lord from St. Paul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWThjZAY1U8

not on deej's chessboard but was mentioned in that pfork Rising article last week, so i figure it's fair game to post something else by him:

https://soundcloud.com/websterx/blue-streak-prod-by-four-giants

(Milwaukee)

i'm out of the loop dm me name sof the new rappers i should be posting about itt and i will post about them

https://charlesngo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/550px-Play-Blitz-Chess-Step-3.jpg

no new rappers here, but this is a good PnB x Chicago track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx9DluMpEbg

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jz_Q9ch2B4Y/VjI3rHvV_RI/AAAAAAAARNM/GOzzjVxz6zo/w220-h201/bc2.gif

holy shit i used to play that game lol

omg Battle Chess

have i posted this yet? Rico Nasty is the shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1CjG0E_1w

here she is over "walking on broken glass" sample lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8Np8BFmJZY

to me this is like princess nokia or kodie shane, except good

SahBabii's "Pull Up Wit Ah Stick" feels like an obvious future hit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKVllbh3i9w

midpt between thug & 21

Thouxanban Fauni just dropped a tape I haven't had a chance to fully process but this record is cool & blowing up rn

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ysdf6F_8Nyk

XXXtenacion is blowing up & sure to be controversial, like if Uzi Vert was more into rock & raw emotional gut spillage & blown out death grips-ish aggro sonics

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wmjpp0_6kb0

I have mixed feelings personally, not my usual thing, although the ballads can be touching

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhJKwHQ4sq8

There's also some controversy & rumors of him having a violent history

w/ women

also goes w/out saying but i like Lil Peep's "Girls" a lot

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hlSgENWCcU

liking all the new Dex records too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qLhEhetm-k

old guy question: what's "footballs" slang for? (re: rico nasty)

oxycontin?

xans

rico nasty has a great natural charisma & likeability on those tracks. production is painfully lo-budge amateur. altho the samples were fun, as were the videos

"midpt between thug & 21" is so accurate a description of SahBabii that i had to turn it off. too soon

what's the relevant deej world of yung ppl opinion on peewee longway? i like this song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S3n07zNGOeg

Peepee was a Thug also-ran who never achieved liftoff but had some good songs c 2014, iirc

thug also ran? he doesn't really remind me of thug on that

who was that chubby super hardrock dude that never wore a shirt from detroit that deej was really big on then he went to prison? (like this was at keef's ilm peak era?) kinda reminds me of that

The new Lil Wop mixtape is wild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3gsv3PMNPU

i find him unlistenable. im convinced hed be nowhere near as famous if his name wasnt 'lil wop' in the era of GUCCI MANE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTIST WHO HAS EVER LIVED

Nah, his Gucci fandom is the least interesting thing about him. He gives lip service to Gucci, but his sound owes more to Keef. Both of those things are kinda boring on their own, but I love the tape's mashup of slasher films and sugary breakfast cereal.

Also helps that he uses his own stable of producers, rather than just tapping the same old 1017 standbys. Gucci's never made a tape that sounds anything like this

i dunno, most of his records so far i find aggressively unlikeable

lets talk about how this is the best chief keef record of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3LvBIOsKI

I haven't kept up with them all but that whole tape sounds like his best start-to-finish project in years to me. The mix is interesting... all these songs, like "Less Speed," that might have been played for maximum volume a few years ago, sound slightly cushioned, like it was mastered with headphones in mind

it doesn't feel like his 'best project in years' to me in the sense that his catalog has always sort of exceeded the bounds of his projects, and capturing just one project feels like you're only look at one facet of what he does--like, to say this best represents him when there's zero melodic records on it feels wrong. I will say that this, like Thot Breaker, feels like one of his best-packaged efforts, and is definitely more well sequenced than the unfortunate Bang 3 releases, which were kind of botched even though the have some classic records on them (ie "laurel canyon")

I knew from the singles that this keef would not be for me. I enjoyed Thot Breaker a lot, and I was into Nobody 2 and quite a few Bang 3 tracks were great too despite being patchy on the whole. I'd love to see him put something together that was full of tracks like No and Tats. Still, for me, he's been the most consistently interesting and innovative rapper around for the last 3 years.

For those compiling your year-end lists, this includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Hip Hop Thread Spotify Playlist

this isn't particularly great but man this album cover art is something else

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1324521162_10.jpg

That cover art is amazing. It doesn't make me want to listen, however.

A few jamz

gunna/young thug - don't play with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_NJ6NgtADE

YB - flights over feelings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmknEyg0Gro

queen key/valee - pass the blunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIPp2ilPXBk

drakeo - big banc uchies

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

zmoney/valee - two 16s
https://soundcloud.com/user-421658681/two-16s-feat-valee

need to hear more from her but i think i really like bbymutha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fgx4NNgqps

lol, she just posted a rap over grimes' "genesis" on twitter; she is hunting hipsters
love that drawl tho'

T.Y. and Jet Life Recordings crew is worth checking out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D0sH5Z-SPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PtMGBLP7-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPI-lTBs_Jk

ive grown to like the yachty album its fun

I'm literally crying over the death of Combat Jack. Such a loss.

yeah too sad :(
and mf doom's kid :(

The shit with combat happened so, so fast. Like out of nowhere. He just broke the news he was sick in October

it's very sad. i didn't know about doom's kid, that's heartbreaking.

got around to listening to the durk/tee grizzley tape and it fucking goes

yeah i like that

i also like the jadakiss/fab freddy vs jason tape

2 generations of workmanlike street rap formalists

saw a tweet that reminded me this project was really quite good for "boring" formalist street rap (not really boring)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dpyJR4sWnE

rolling boring street rap 2018

like the Travis Scott/Quavo on first listen

I always made a point of never listening to Travis Scott because there was this ding dong thread about him

xpost lol I would be totally on board with boring street rap

ALERT ALERT new scarface album, deeply rooted, is v v good ALERT ALERT

"deeply rooted" was released 2 years ago.
what he just released is "rooted the lost files", which contains outtakes and alternate versions of songs from deeply rooted.

my bad, that's all accurate. the outtakes are v v good.

i like the new, slight curren$y fiend record
vibes

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

"'boring' formalist street rap (not really boring)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmcp3qvWZe8

“History of violence” was cool I gotta check that out

2018 rolling boring street rap