rolling rap thread

i was talking about this with deej last night but it's interesting to me that it seems like mac miller seemingly has no interest in entering the popular rap universe. like he definitely aspires for fame and money and stuff, but he's not like asher roth or childish gambino or other outsiders who try and assimilate into popular rap. i mean, mac miller just had the number one rap album in the country and it literally has ZERO features on it! how weird is that? not even a stray taylor gang verse or anything. the only interaction w/ any music outside his camp comes from two clams casino beats and a young l co-production, so still pretty underground and outsider. meanwhile gambino bitches incessantly about how the "real" rap world doesn't take him seriously and asher roth had that drama tape early and had a debut album packed w/ typical guests.

prolly like comparing Edie Brickell vs 10,000 Maniacs in that sense

yeah i man all i know about mac miller is that he's 'down with wiz khalifa' but i have no idea what the nature of that affiliation is or what musical or business ties they have, it seems like he's done a lot without even trading on that very much.

although i mean in those years between "say yeah" and "black and yellow" wiz seemed to kind of build a huge following without much in the way of singles or engagement with the rap industry too

actually back when wiz was doing sold out tours and trending on twitter but it wasn't really clearly whether he was signing with anyone i thought HE was probably gonna be the first rapper to drop a #1 album with no major label or radio hit

i was talking about this with deej last night but it's interesting to me that it seems like mac miller seemingly has no interest in entering the popular rap universe.

the whole frat rap thing is intensely interesting to me like, ethnomusicologically.

a rap of one's own

fyi i wasn't just talking about frat rappers, its obvious to me that having a white rapper in 2011 is for a rap ceo what having an african baby was to angelina jolie

machine gun kelly is a wild & crazy rapper from cleveland and he's totally a part of what's going on here, but isn't frat rap or southern rap. kreayshawn and v-nasty too. there's just a bunch of people paying attention to white rappers this year

lex is also wrong because no, it is totally an observable trend within rap, and there's a difference between willfully following your own personal favorite performers down a rabbithole & paying attention to what's going on in the world of hip-hop, you're like in denial. you can't just will things to not be popular by refusing to cover them

http://edge-img.datpiff.com/m60c435a/Dmx_The_Demons_After_My_Soul-front-large.jpg

did you guys have any idea dmx released something this year

i wasn't just talking about frat rappers either. whiney needs to stop trying to put his insecurities about lol white people or whatever in other peoples' mouths.

xp whoa cover

it's almost a shame we don't have a sandbox drake thread because

http://cdn.rapdose.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/drake-jet-magazine-cover-495x711.jpg

man his hair looks awful

I ain't heard the DMX but after reading his latest interview (post-jail release) in XXL, I'm not sure I want to.

Not that he hasn't always been a little nuts (ok, a lot, like the time he tried to commandeer a vehicle by posing as an FBI agent), but it was clear from the interview that whatever little he had left of his mind is gone, and that even the few hangers-on he had are kinda peacing out on him.

Not that he was ever an extremely deep lyricist, but sometimes I'm amazed a dude with his level of crazy didn't have a Gucci-esque meltdown in the early part of his career.

(i say this as someone who thinks his first two are bonafide classics so)

I like a few of these songs off the San Quinn & Tuf Luv album. there's one w/ b-legit that samples 'i'm always drunk in san francisco' lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aTYNAnVltg

like imo, this needs a video of dudes carousing in SF

rip no homo

haha

http://i.imgur.com/BKv9N.gif

http://i.imgur.com/2wV17.jpg

new slick pulla mixtape sounds good on 1st listen

of course as soon as i said that i skipped to "jugg" which has future-esque autotune singing so

anyway this song is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg9mkQvZUvU

http://i.imgur.com/BKv9N.gif

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Sunday, December 4, 2011 7:19 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Permalink

http://i.imgur.com/2wV17.jpg

― dayo, Sunday, December 4, 2011 7:21 PM (4 hours ago)

a) lol
b) they are both so tall!

uh did ross ghostwrite "dead man shoes" on this mobb deep EP? this is not good

k3v go dl boldy james >>>> the mobb deep, kind of similar vibe to his rapping tho

will do

did everyone know juvenile has an album coming out next week? i really like the first single, "power", which i know some1 posted in gun sounds

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUQ1gJcu9Dc

is it actually coming out next week? that doesn't sound right at all

supposedly it's 100% produced by mannie

oh idunno, that's what wikipedia says

did mannie do "power"? between that and that mystikal song earlier this year i could be...really anticipating this

yes he did

*rubs hands*

k3v go dl boldy james >>>> the mobb deep, kind of similar vibe to his rapping tho

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Monday, 5 December 2011 05:27 (1 hour ago) Permalink

ya thats my favourite thing about him

i kinda wanna see errybody's (ie deej, flopson's) top 10 before the official ilm lists get rolled out

ya thats my favourite thing about him

― wil smif, Monday, December 5, 2011 12:43 AM (41 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

his shit is scary real, the line on the record where the beat pauses & he ends this verse with "i once shot a n**** as a kid for a hundred bucks" and then it goes to the chorus & i'm like O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxLYqOC61_Q

mic terror - chief sampson

weed song

lol noz just posted abt Tree. are yall on board now

I've listened to it quite a bit since you posted it. "Harder" is my jam

Los's new mixtape w/ DJ Drama is dropping at noon, i'm gonna try to liveblog it for a Baltimore site or something

"ro-lean regional white girl thuggin"

rolling rolling rolling we haven't agreed in weeks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CcpwRQ2gtU&hd=1

imo another vote for rolling lean thread

rxlling lxvn thrxvd

ring ring that's the phone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVGTE1cp9O4

riff raff killin it

haha arizona state, OF COURSE

that song is totally awesome btw, hope they drop an mp3 cuz that can't even be ripped from youtube w/ the breaks and stuff

"switch gears" is still just an awesome concept & that riff verse is nuts

really too bad he's doing this crap w/ diplo

of all the people to strike the 'too good to be working with diplo' pose with

i mean if anyone was ever MADE to work with diplo

new o capone tape supposedly dropping today