rolling thread 2021 (deluxe edition)

tried to listen to one of those wiki songs recently and his voice, i just had to shut it off

seems like that's the trend broadly

― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, November 3, 2021 2:15 PM (seven minutes ago)

apparently travis scott has a new song w/ james blake and westside gunn lmao so it's filtering up

lol i mean i strongly dislike westside gunn, they should filter up mavi and yungmorpheus instead

Yeah it's weird he's like the worst rapper on Griselda by a mile

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fxI6w4er-E

new key glock is unsurprisingly fiery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ9LjEWVJQs

New ceo Trayle 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

― xheugy eddy (D-40), Sunday, October 31, 2021 12:38 AM (two weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

liking it a lot, think it’s a step up from his last mixtape. songs are a bit more fleshed out, and his slo-mo slick talk reminds me a bit of starlito

this song is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCQufBkO9tU

shit...RIP Young Dolph

horrible

on twitter they are saying that Yo Gotti's restaurant and Blac Youngsta's grandma's house got shot up

i'm sick. rip dolph

tisakorean is the best. this is a legitimately great song that should get at least as big as that makonnen song about molly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH3nwG0_URw

what is the deal with Berner? he must be a really cool guy. guests on his new album:

Future
Nas
Rick Ross
Conway
Jada
Styles P
Rod Wave
Mozzy
Wiz Khalifa

he is a weed entrepreneur who has all the best gas

he hangs out and smokes with a-listers and makes albums with them.

he’s gotten a lot better over the years imo, he’s a student of the game

yeah i was gonna say i think he's kinda... uh... the plug. haha

ahhhhh okay that makes perfect sense didn't know that

i kinda like the new one, it's got a certain charm like a local rapper with a list connections

yeah he’s a bay area guy and he models his music off a lot of the more lyrical, low-key street guys from the area, like jacka

i was doing a story on wiz khalifa once and berner showed up a few hours before the show w/ two huge black duffle bags and was escorted around the premises like he was the president. now, i don't know what was in the duffle bags but nonetheless i did feel like it gave me some insight into the berner phenomenon if you know what i mean

lol

So… what were your favorite rap releases this year, fellow goons? Asking because I hope I’ve missed out on some truly great stuff, lol.

I played Punk quite a bit but it does not feel essential.

off the top of my head, i really loved:

mach-hommy
est gee
42 dugg
boldy james
bruiser wolf
isaiah rashad
drego
quadry
duke deuce
key glock (solo & w/ young dolph)
lucki
papo2oo4 & dj lucas
g herbo
topaz jones
tisakorean (mrsillyflow)

didn't pay syper close attn to rap this year but i liked bfb da packman, pooh shiesty, pharaohe monch, ceo trayle, rxk nephew, max b, uniiqu3

stupid fruity crazy swag 4ever

travis porter - like dat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxkcp1E8ILg

oh yeah big co-signs on packman and ceo trayle

also: bandgang lonnie bands’ album was v good

new doe boy song is ridiculous and also great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fIgUhyg6_s

I played Punk quite a bit but it does not feel essential.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, December 4, 2021 7:42 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

punk is easily his best album since idk when. if the previous ones were more 'essential' that's bizarre to me

No, I agree it’s his best album since Barter 6. It still doesn’t feel essential.

I guess I don't know what essential means lol

"essential" = fueled by copious amounts of essentia-brand alkaline water

Essential as in particularly memorable, or as in a definitive artistic statement. It’s cool. I listened to it more than any other rap album this year. But it lacks magic.

I'm so terrible at remembering what I listened to but

Boldy James - Bo Jackson
Solemn Brigham - South Sinner Street
Rome Streets - Death and the Magician
Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
Random RxPapi songs on YouTube
Armand Hammer - Haram
Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti
Defecee and Messiah Muzik - Trapdoor
Your Old Droog - The Wolf on Wall Street
Ka - A Martyr's Reward
Conway the Machine - La Maquina

oh also
Deuce Ellis - ACID

JUS - God Goku Jay-Z

roddy album is mid :/

not again…

RIP Drakeo, the greatest West Coast artist of a generation, a legend who invented a new rap language of slippery cadences, nervous rhythms, and psychedelic slang, who beat life twice only to suffer the most tragic fate conceivable. The Ruler, once, always, and forever. 💔 pic.twitter.com/WKKjMV9PML

— Otto Von Biz Markie (@Passionweiss) December 19, 2021

Essential as in particularly memorable, or as in a definitive artistic statement. It’s cool. I listened to it more than any other rap album this year. But it lacks magic.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, December 17, 2021 6:02 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

mystifying sentiment to me. are you sure the 'magic' isn't just 'hyperbole on the internet from my peers'

Yes, deej. I'm sure.

but you listened to it more than any other album??

More than any other rap album this year, yes. It's good. Just not YT 2013-16 good.

Punk is not bad, but no way is it better than Jeffery or Beautiful Thugger Girls, which I see as the end of Young Thug's godlike run. It seems to me that the best of that era is what Punk is aspiring to repeat, and just sort of approximating.

I 100% think it is better than both of those albums, which were overrated at the time due to what he’d accomplished immediately prior

Not sure I hear it

For me it has the same problem as So Much Fun (which is OK), a sort of no-beginning, no-end plateau, nothing horrible but nothing jumping out of the stereo either

A sort of MOR Thug. And the Fun guy - no

I'll listen again and see if I can hear what you're hearing, I do want to like it.

there's a tastefulness to the production but if you're keyed into what he's saying rather than general 'bonkers' vibe its more rewarding imo

I'm a beats and production-first listener and being charitable most of the production is not for me

I'll try to key in more on what's being said

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

i love duke deuce

He’s hilarious

it's new thread title time