rolling rap thread

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fred the godson is so dreamy

new mobb deep - black cocaine EP is really good

plz tell me they're done with G-Unit/50 Cent

also RIP Bartholomew Thuggins best d/n ever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPsmX4jyDj0

i decided to listen to popular rap albums on spotify today

right now: wiz khalifa - rolling papers

this is fine, i guess. i dunno. i liked "black & yellow". i guess this isn't really for me.

yeah I've never bothered

thx for the Kool G Rap tip btw been diggin that a lot lately

where the other goons at?

Yo bros, spottie up in it.

Really liking the new Lloyd Banks tape 'Cold Corner 2'

lloyd bringing the radiohead samples too.

Which song is that on?

There's a Beach House sample on the new Juicy J tape

n/m

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZR8JfYCosQ4 xp

Is that juicy J any cop?

Only had a cursory listen. Sounds pretty similar to all the other tapes he's done this year

lloyd bringing the radiohead samples too.

kmt

of all the things to kyt about

4 songs i am feeling the helllll out of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jC-5ENbrqs

^^could get lost in shawnna's flow for days

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXc0eRe8jY0

^^i really need to have sex with tip

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKdyeSIY7SE

^^i wondered who the first rapper to take on this beat would be!

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

^^such a banger, need to be in a club dancing to it right now

tell me more about reema major and how she was born in 1995????

and she's Canadian!

she grew up in kansas i thought? only moved to canada two years ago.

i'm amazed at how mature her voice is, if you didn't know you'd think she was a grown-ass woman - not just cuz she has a deep voice, it's the authority in it too

I've been bumping the 'i am legend' reema major tape/album? since lex made a passing mention of it on Singles Jukebox (so thanks Lex) 'I'm The One' is particularly great.

from how confident she is/the way she raps/the way she looks I woulda guessed she's at least 20! jeez

lol xp

also I love how "i'm the one" sounds like a late 90s ruff rydaz track

yes!

Looking at her wiki seems she moved with her family from Sudan at age three to Canada. It does mention her living in Kansas for a bit but doesn't say for how long. I think she's back in Toronto now though

we talked about reema major on old ilx - i think it was the goon thread i discovered her from!

i don't want my favourite rappers to be canadian :(

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

Canada is a fine nation and i'm sure it's quite capable of producing some excellent rappers

since lex likes reema major that must also mean he loves drake by association

otm

as if fatass rick ross stalking her in the video wasn't bad enough

i dunno why i didn't give the new krit a fair shake before. maybe i just wasn't in the right mood when i first heard it. d-_-b "my sub"

My Sub is good. whole thing is kind of a mess tho

it's deff a lot messier than krit wuz here but there are some gems fo sho

krit needs to do an alchemist style album or something. his productions have been so on point lately.

wait, what krit are you guys talking about? I'm only up to Last King 2, which has the awesome 'Hold You Down' on it.

feel like krit is totally hamming it up with his pronunciation of 'sub'

My Sub is on Last King 2

er no wait I mean Return 2 4eva. which is great. it's Last King 2 which is a bit of a mess

"R4 theme song" was my fav off that

Last King 2 is just odds and ends. Really looking forward to the album though, if Money On The Floor is anything to go by. His song with The Roots was actually pretty nice too but i don't think had anything to do with the production

right, thx. It turns out I actually have that, d'oh. That was this year? Feels like it was ages ago. Rap game move too fast.
xp

"money on the floor" is amazing, it didn't click for me the first couple of plays but then it seriously did

i've never got with krit in large doses though. thought "country shit" was amazing too but the mixtape back to front bored me

^^^ songs all sound same-y, but are pretty good individually

coming from the same cultural place has nothing to do w/ whether or not someone is white

well, i dont mean to go that far. but they're overlapping ideas, not completely reflective ones

for all intents & purposes, in the u.s., both artists are white

the caption "Kreayshawn has a slow and cutesy approach to rapping." >>>> the article

guys northern state

discuss: princess superstar is hands down the best white female rapper who ever lived and that's an indisputable fucking fact

on the evidence of this mixtape it's certainly not iggy azalea, at any rate

lol northern state

i still like the sarai single more than pretty much anything by anyone mentioned in this convo

how good is this ?

http://lilt601.bandcamp.com/track/n-as-in-the-trap-ft-ab-2

disappointed that wasn't "nas in the trap"

I just can't read "she samples indie groups like the xx and the Vines and talks about alienation" without wanting to peel my eyes with a salt-coated potato peeler.

ayo, deej, thanks for posting about nht boyz today

life changed and shit

haha. appreciated

i feel like those guys have been massively slept on. like, i think exquire has some fun tracks or w/e but their brand of retro feels so much more exciting to me for w/e reason

damn is there new nht out?

that reggae-ish track from earlier this year is still the shit

is this on regular ilx? occult.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ME6QSbhL-OM

wow that toure article is terrible

there are a lot of rap critics from the 90s that i don't want to hate on their recent writing but they give off such an 'old man in the club' vibe

it's not a good article, correct.

lol I totally forgot about northern state

becuz they were terrible

first useful promo email of 2011: slim dunkin retrospective

http://trapsntrunks.com/?p=44049

this would be better if you switched out droop e for currensy but still very dope

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cfypTOCF4bA#!

ayo u think this dude lurks here?

http://gawker.com/5869758/nine-awesome-songs-and-one-great-mix-you-didnt-hear-in-2011

Why are you even responding if you don't want to engage? If you don't think the criticism is valid, tell him so and why.

Not new but really digging on Beeda Weeda "That Thizzness" lately.

i don't imagine fabolous and meek mill over a travis porter beat is as enticing a proposition for most other people as it is for me but

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmsrIHe9jX8

heard 'turn my fuckin beat up' on the radio today and thought 1.) damn why does chris always get the hardest beats 2.) look at me now pt. 2 3.) what's up with him and busta, are they bff

anyway fuck chris brown I wish they would give these beats to other rappers

oh wait it's a busta song

hmm

Man what does the gun sounds crew think of Action Bronson? I miss being able to search real ilx right now. I just heard the album with Statik Selektah today and really kinda liked it, but I'm trying to figure out if its just because I miss having new Ghostface now or not. Really liking the production on this one tho. How does Lecter compare?

Lecter's better imo. More hardcore but I like both a lot

who is shakur rump?

anyway i agree w/ jayson greene here: http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/16084-action-bronsonstatik-selektah-well-done/

cannot bring myself to give a shit about Action Bronson, the ghostface thing is too much for me

yeah i mean, i like him, but i don't take him very seriously, and anyone saying hes the best of what 2011 has to offer in terms of rap music is nuts.

it is telling that no one gives a shit that he's dropped nbombs on records released as recently as last year

wait people are saying he's the best of 2011? that's just sad. not that 2011 was a banner year for rap or anything.

i've seen a bunch of places talk about how 2011 is like the best year for rap in ages. its b/c so much stuff is online now that no matter your particular taste you can find some corny niche to fit your needs, no matter what the quality. people are stupid imho

I ... guess? I dunno I don't really listen to rap that way. I mean there are certain things that appeal to me but I am not inclined to focus on a particular sub-strata. my fave stuff this year was probably Curren$y, Kool G Rap, E-40 + some other random old stuff I was catching up on

booming post xpost

yr bit on A.Dd+ mixtape made me curious, haven't dug into that yet

xpp

think anybody w/ half a brain knows Action sounds like Ghostface. I just don't curr. he made two solid albums this year. that's all I give a shit about.

i guess the thing about bronson is he's rapping better than ghostface is at this point?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g2wOL8vWBxE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7Pzxsm2am8&hd=1

big maaaaaaaain

too gangsta for cardio

that is p dope tho

ThAt was an awesome, booming and otm deej post

*blushes* oh you like any post that ends with 'people are stupid imho'

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cocaine blunts 50 brick squad tracks 2011

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