rolling offbeat drip 2019

Getting on the Maxo Kream bandwagon

really love it, just some straight from the heart shit

didn't see any other discussion about this on ILX but holy shit is this fucked up: https://pitchfork.com/news/ynw-melly-arrested-for-double-murder/

jesus.....

Slimey Individualz the new Mozzy and Berner tape is good

lucki tape is sounding fantastic, need to let it sink in a bit more, but damn

this new lucki sounds like a perfect combo of thebe and young nudy

— ben (@bendy_L) February 17, 2019

anyone know Larry June? Bay Area guy...super chill left coast vibes reminds me of a Bay Payroll Giovanni/Cardo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1vFzXsZWic

gunna album is quality, offset album is meh

the last track ("who you foolin") on gunna's is so catchy. but yeah a solid listen all the way thru

new 2chainz not bad

Some new Milwaukee stuff:

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1guXVUMc6U

that zed kenzo beat is fire

TS: Shotta Flow vs. Shotta Flow 2

random question: where did the heavy-reverb-ad-lib thing (see "21" by dababy e.g.) originate? i feel like i first heard it on "shabba" by a$ap ferg but i have no idea if that's where it started

it's in "sicko mode" too

though not as intensely as in "21"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trU-S53fK04

Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed in L.A. this afternoon

god fucking dammit

rip

Fucking shit. RIP.

so sad, great rapper and generally just a very cool presence and vibe

Horrid

honestly, it's just.... depressing... been a fan of hip hop for so long, and it's like nothing fucking changes, biggie and pac was a lifetime ago and still the same senseless tragedies, 33 years old, what a shame

RIP, utterly pointless and deeply sad

his record last year was so good

RIP

This is incredibly depressing. I first started paying attention with "Hussle in the House" like most people, it was a smart idea for a sample flip...I had a friend who was into the bullets have no name series & he was living in LA at the time but I didn't keep up w Nipsey really until 2012 when DJ Kenn told me he was his favorite rapper ... i didnt know folks were still feeling him like that but I thought this video was really moving ... it came out about the time that in the mainstream it felt like maybe his wave had crested, and he hadn't really taken off like some folks thought he would, but he was establishing an outside-the-system model for success

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

he didn't have a straight arc to success after appearing on the cover of xxl and i'd blame that more on the pre-streaming industry of the katy perry era, it was very difficult for "Regional thugs" (copyright spin mag) to cross over at the time even if they were buzzing heavily at a local level. ppl at the time made fun of his $100 cd stunt but it was a smart argument abt how the value of art is what you can make people pay for it, moving against the stigma of street music being valueless w/out the imprimatur of a major label or w/e ... then jay z cosigned it ...

my personal favorite album of his though is 2014's 'Mailbox Money' & I think his stuff from 2014 to the lead-in to "Victory Lap" was among his best....opener "Killa":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8Hha9FkxA

closer "Overtime"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLbke6krL_8

personal fav, "Between Us"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr-khO73GUg
VS bezel my Rol'
perfected my role
Focused my mind
and got to this dough
I'm one of a kind
not like what you know
True to my oath
they proud of my growth
I come from the turf
I doubled my worth
I made some mistakes
but that’s just part of my search
They connect with my words
right at the part where it hurts
This life is a bitch
With my hand up her skirt
Had a thirst to get rich
couple stains on my shirt
Every reason to fail
but we was makin' it work
We was walkin' on water
you could say it was church
All this money I’m makin
every day I’ma splurge

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM9xgHibvzM

god this always gets me hyped

the new billy woods album is really really good: https://billywoods.bandcamp.com/album/hiding-places

between us is prob my favorite nispey track too

New Tree album, WE Grown NOW., is awful good.

Zed Kenzo's ep is out today and it's great:
https://open.spotify.com/album/5IiANa9vS04H5nLzAYe4Su?si=90kg2WNXS5S35VMc8QYnfw

the new billy woods album is really really good

This is some quality avant-backpacker shit.

Tree singing is so raw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0-hfHs0QiY

god kodak black is such a p.o.s.

https://news.yahoo.com/kodak-black-apologizes-following-backlash-170032886.html

the new billy woods album is really really good
This is some quality avant-backpacker shit.

I really only want to hear avant-backpacker shit if Kenny Segal is producing.

ambjaay is good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tplYG8HEdQ8

Oh billy woods is my shit ! Thanks

for interested NYers, here's a free Brooklyn show with Deem Spencer
https://www.bam.org/music/2019/deem-spencer

i love this new your old droog/doom/mach hommy song, such a classic old doom vibe on the beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eczdp1OslHU

Ambjaay is super fun!

new valee has my favorite chasethemoney beat yet, i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9LASFNo9X4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLtg-lAawyQ

nwe shy glizzy is heart-wrenching and melodic, though unlikely to give him the hit that he wants so badly. here's "volcano," my favorite track from the project.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1GWSL6iBQ

i like how xanman sounds like a hemiola teen rap rick ross

Nobody's mentioned the Quelle Chris album yet! I'm listening now and it's great. What gives, ILX?

i've been meaning to listen, i will get to it this weekend.

in the meantime, the pivot gang album is a fantastic low-stakes hangout record. liberated from concept and the pressure to make a statement, they just shit talk, which suits them just fine.

thanks VC, that Pivot Gang album is good so far

the queen key album that leaked is great

sisi can i get a link?

Pivot Gang is totally cool