rolling rap thread

i can't remember if i got a chance to say this before the crash but i love that don trip & starlito mixtape. they both have such cool voices. trip's single 'letter to my son' is an impressive single too imo - v personal and intense.

O_O @ 151 feva gang mega mix

"i got a six figure check and my sister got diabetes"

^^ some real shit!

xp

I think j otm about the Yelawolf, maybe even nicer than I was to it.

5 tracks in and I was like "damn what these ILX folk talkin about, this is dope", and then I barely enjoyed any of the remaining tracks.

I hate Made in the USA. worst hook EVER. The rapping is competent in the verses but...it's kind of a corny song to begin with, and the chorus ruins it for me.

i mean the chorus reminds me of some Kidz Bop type shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aILv0MMVAh0

wkiw 151 feva gang @ ac

y'all need to become friends with dapper don on facebook. shit changed my life, dude is the status update king.

re: MGK, I don't think it's a year-end-list track or anything, it's just a more fun song than I've heard from Yela. It's kinda corny but in that pop music way -- i mean the opening, w/ the square parents at the dinner table, thats like, TRL-era video, i kinda like that? its just more fun to me than yela's stuff

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Friday, December 2, 2011 3:12 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

i could see how you think this but, like, i guess the thing about the machine gun kelly song being FUN is that i really would never want to hang around and/or be around the guy, and i think that comes thru in his music. like he just doesn't seem very cool?

Waka's verse is insane (real good lex beat too), MGK tries too hard.

hey i haven't been keeping up w/ rolling rap much this year, are there any goon consensus best releases like flockaveli was last year for example

i want to catch back up but i haven't listened to new stuff since like april and i dunno where to start

comparison between yela and petey pablo is one i hadn't considered and is pretty apt

cosign on Dapper Don being a good facebook buddy btw

FIDDY !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXm5qwprjbk

was not expecting that!

how am I supposed to know the difference between kirko bangz and kherk cobain

NEW NICKI!

http://57thave.com/?p=49151

exactly what i want from her. that's kind of like if swizz beatz remixed roman's revenge and kicked eminem off. (don't think it's actually swizz.) very hopeful about the album

it seems like they kicked her wittiness off along with Eminem

she is killing the delivery tho

yeah it's all about the delivery set to that beat - really elevates whatever she's actually saying, which is why that doubledogdareya outro is completely amazing even though on paper it shouldn't be

I've played the heartbroken outro to that 151 feva gang song like 5 times now

plus the nicki song basically sounds like the album intro

that fiddy song O_O

his voice! it has changed!

the new nicki is produced by street runner

i dont like that 50

i could see how you think this but, like, i guess the thing about the machine gun kelly song being FUN is that i really would never want to hang around and/or be around the guy, and i think that comes thru in his music. like he just doesn't seem very cool?

― v-shasty, Friday, December 2, 2011 8:46 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

no hes not cool at all, but i dont really want to hang out w/ yela either. at least MGK ha a cluelessness to him that is more forgiveable imo

that fiddy song O_O

his voice! it has changed!

― lex pretend, Friday, 2 December 2011 16:10 (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

sounds kinda method man!

this mgk song sucks deej

apart from n/l waka verse

i kinda like the haystak/jelly roll album

nah the mgk song is way fun cmon. its like adapting the flockaveli style to Jackass-type white dudes. would get drunk & yell about steve o. dont care about yelawolf superintricaterhymeschemespitwithdoubletimecomplexityaboutthesceneryofimpovershedamericawithasuperseriousdemeanorrrr

http://www.trutanksoldiers.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Official_NLF_Mixtape_Release_TBO_whiteboiswag_A_Netversion.jpg

that 50 song is cool

its like adapting the flockaveli style to Jackass-type white dudes. would get drunk & yell about steve o.

half the mellowhype album is basically this (minus the white dudes part)

superintricaterhymeschemespitwithdoubletimecomplexityaboutthesceneryofimpovershedamericawithasuperseriousdemeanorrrr

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Friday, December 2, 2011 4:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

rapping about the scenery of impoverished america with a super serious demeanor is, like, half the point of rap music

the machine gun kelly song is def cool but you could throw any brick squad rapper on it and it would be just as good, if not better

i'm feeling the sess 3-5 & keedy black track that deej posted on the fader

hey guys i finally noticed this thread and that it is all radiohead and beach house samples, lex wanting to have sex with tip and justin bieber so ima give up on rap music for a while

peace bro

listen to the stack$ & diamond song before you go sam! it's a banger

noted fruity swag/ringtone blogger yayo dancing's top 25 hxxp://nojumper.com/mixtapes/best-of-11-yayos-top-25-albumsmixtapes/#more-267

obv he has his srs moments but i really view yela as more of a goofy character than anything

ugh that Future album

rapping about the scenery of impoverished america with a super serious demeanor is, like, half the point of rap music

― v-shasty, Saturday, December 3, 2011 2:27 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

yeah i just mean he doesnt hold my attention & i dont think he's as great a rapper as everyone else seems to, there's a lot of skill to what he's doing but it just doesnt engage me at a gut level

man I couldn't disagree more w/ 'yayodancing' abt the Trouble albums either. his 1st one is way more consistent

there has been plenty of good rap music released this year but i kind of feel like rap as a whole is kind of stagnant atm, it makes me depressed

/thinkinbaoutthings

i've found plenty of tapes this year that I really like, i don't think it's stagnant. I just think that most of bloggers are just following the same artists that released good albums a year ago (or longer in Juicy J's case)

like that Juicy J record is fun but so one dimensional & each tape has like 3-4 jams on it at most

I just cant get over how unlistenable that Future record is, though. its like an hour of autotuned half-sung rap cliches

And while I like this year's Coke Boys tape the 1st one of those is better to me as well

i just mean in terms of like overall narrative and shared experience. i feel like my taste is so out of tune with what is popular/selling/getting airplay in the last few years. death of monoculture and all that but i hate even the huge rap albums that everyone irl has heard/loves. it just makes me sad, that our megastar auteurs or whatever are dudes like kanye and drake. where is the king of the past 3 years or so?

xxp

i haven't heard that future tape that he put at no 1

i don't wanna be a wet blanket or anything but it's just something that's been bugging me lately