rolling rap thread

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

oh yeah i agree w/ that kev, i was just thinking today about how few of those 100k+ selling rap albums i actually like.

there's a lot riding on meek mill for me right now lol

re: future, dude can kill hooks, there's no doubt. his rapping though is just the emptiest shit.

i think it's kind of adorably ironic how a guy called Future sounds like all the worst parts of 2008 rap

i think it's just a distillation of all that shit being called "futuristic"

k3v goons have been feeling that way for like the past 5 years

idk I remember deej and/or j0rd starting a 'state of the rap union address' thread like clockwork every 6 months

yeah i've definitely been feeling more 'out of it' w/ each passing year but i've kinda made peace with it and appreciate that the climate right now is at least kind of allowing for more plurality in the rap world than at other times in the past. there's always gonna be a lane for whatever you like, whether it's the biggest lane at the moment or not.

there's always gonna be a lane for "whatever you like"

yeah i mean i think at this point it's esp weird because the things that i thought would be constants aren't due to the internet, so things are def a lot more unpredictable in some ways than in the past.

messy marv needs to blow up...fast

im pretty excited about where things are going from a production standpoint atm, less thrilled about most of the rapping but somehow that feels less dire than being stuck living through bad production trends. great new rappers are always forthcoming, its inevitable

the yayodancing top list is terrible

looking forward to seeing your list, sisi

messy marv needs to blow up...fast

― if you ain't gonna wash it, i ain't gonna eat it, Saturday, December 3, 2011 8:48 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

whats that about messy marv and blow

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

I feel like this goes hand in hand with there being no obv thread title for next year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9xflk6o7U0

Love how they flipped that Outkast song '13th Floor/Growing Old'

I feel like this goes hand in hand with there being no obv thread title for next year

― furnace mane, Sunday, December 4, 2011 12:46 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

what weird about this is more that there's just no single sound for "lowest" common denominator rap right now. like, no snap/ringtone/'swag surfin' type shit that didnt exist at those times either. tony montana trick is ... rap cliche + autotune, which we've already done.

the white rapper things comes closest but i feel like that wont continue for a full year

i dunno, the weird thing about that is that being a white rapper now isn't really very novel at all. this isn't to say a white rapper can't be novel or even have a novel spin on being a white rapper, but it feels like being a white rapper is no longer something notable in and of itself.

well, i just mean in the past year they've been really crawling all over the place. it just feels like a particular trend of the moment, w/ crass commercializing operators like Diddy & Master P finding their "own white guy" rappers it feels kinda like its reached some kind of new saturation point

i mean, back when houston was bubbling there was no way tow down AND paul wall were both gonna make it ...

it was pretty hilarious when asher roth got signed to def jam to do a 2nd major label album within DAYS of mac miller's album doing big numbers

i dunno if it is the white rappers thing being notable as much as it is white rappers doing something other than sizzurp-south-rap

i thought people would have got over the whole white rappers thing a decade ago, with eminem?

can't really fathom how much of a moron you'd have to be to think it's a notable thing now

i guess in ten years we'll still be talking about female rappers as a thing! good fucking god

http://i693.photobucket.com/albums/vv300/Superintenddent/Oh-Boy-here-we-go-again.jpg

wow, lex, it's almost as if you make an exercise of not listening to things and then sound like a horse's ass when you open your mouth in front of people who do

rolling solo cup thread would be pretty hilar

howzaboutthis lex -- white rappers as a thing obv ain't new, but the majority of white rappers were people like Lil Wyte, Haystak, or Paul Wall, doing Houston or midwest regioned south-sizzurp rap that was mostly only heard by the hardcore hip hop head community....(ok lol Bubba Sparxx but there are still people I know who didn't know he was white, despite the numerous pics of him on the interwebs)

but in the mainstream, there are more of them with higher commercial profiles now than in recent years, ie Yelawolf, Mac Miller, Asher Roth, etc...two of whom dropped major label releases within a month of each other.

when Eminem first dropped, it was kinda like there was an unwritten edict that only one white rapper could occupy the mainstream at a time.

that's still not what we're talking abt!

(ok ok Mac Miller's wasn't 'major label', but dude's cd fills up the majority of the racks in the rap section at Best Buy right now, other than the gazillion copies of Carter IV that didn't sell)

well, i just mean in the past year they've been really crawling all over the place. it just feels like a particular trend of the moment, w/ crass commercializing operators like Diddy & Master P finding their "own white guy" rappers it feels kinda like its reached some kind of new saturation point

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Sunday, December 4, 2011 11:19 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

i mean, back when houston was bubbling there was no way tow down AND paul wall were both gonna make it ...

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Sunday, December 4, 2011 11:19 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

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