rolling rap thread

def -- there's something evocative about that beat and him just kinda repeating the song title

verse is dope too, dude is a very storyteller

that track i guess isn't much of a story, but it kinda is -- very macro story

I kinda assume everyone's aware of this already: E-40 to drop THREE new albums on same day

if i have a few bucks to spend that week i'm gonna buy them all just off the respect

jesus

Preordering that shit on amazon asap, no rocky

This is no dis to mixtapes. I like mixtapes. But you have some people putting out mixtapes when it really is their album, but [calling it a mixtape] is just a security blanket in case the project don’t perform well.

ha otm

yeah I hate that shit

the branding of actual well crafted albums as if they're free quickie mixtapes is funny but i can't imagine getting actually mad at it, like unwrapping a hershey's kiss and it's actually a gourmet chocolate truffle and you just throw it away in disgust

often spoilt by dj shouts and dubious quality though

so kind of like the gourmet truffle is melted and a bit of the wrapper is stuck to it

except we're talking about the mixtapes that are essentially albums (i.e. less dubious, less shouting)

i thought we were just talking about the mixtapes of album coherence/quality? yeah sometimes those are professionally presented but often they're thrown out totally slapdash (GUCCI) (TEEDRA)

this video is funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwZoT19GyPw

I just don't like the way "mixtape" has come to be such a sloppily applied, catch-all term. Quality of individual mixtapes is irrelevant.

calling something a "mixtape" these days tells me essentially nothing about the project.

is it a collection of songs by different artists mixed together? a collection of all-new material by a single artist? a collection of cast-offs/unreleased songs by a single artist? WHO KNOWS

think it might be time for e-40 to slow up a bit

how about we give the albums a chance first

I def preferred the first two Revenue Retrievin volumes to Overtime/Nighttime but I got a lot of respect for musicians with this kind of work ethic. bring it on sez I

Impossible to hate e40's grind imo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=FRWatw_ZEQI

uh why didn't that work

interesting.

I really like that new Juicy J mixtape.

Eh there kind of all the same to me, 3-5 good tracks and the rest all lexlugerysamey. Probably could make a killer 10 song mix of his 2011 stuff though.

Yeah, I think the last few tracks on Blue Dream & Lean are especially strong, though ("I Don't Play With Guns" through "Flood Out the Club").

Speakz is good on "Deez Bitches Rollin'."

uh huh.

Great cover too.

Whiney argued to me that Meek Mill is 'boring' which I think is totally wrong, so as an argument, I'd like to link to a promising rapper from Detroit named Fowl (he won a freestyle contest that was judged by eminem apparently) who is totally using the Meek Mill flow on this song, and I think it shows how meek's flow functions (by being a bit more baldly obvious in its message) for listeners & how influential meek could end up being / already is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7rQomhvuYnw

(i'm not linking to more meek because i'm assuming he's heard more than enough already)

can't remember which one of you guys pointed this out but yeah..i hear a lot of peedi crack in meek mill

I'm just not sure what's so unique about Meek Mill's flow? (Which isn't to say I don't like the guy.)

i wouldn't say it's unique, he just brings this very urgent energy to his rapping and is convincing about it

exactly. he def has a peedi influence but i think that's more of a general philly sound than it is about him biting peedi

would someone disagree if i said he's like a midpt between peedi & freeway?

No, I think that's pretty accurate.

I TOLD HER MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM....

cannot get this out of my head!!

Meek's allright imho. Too bad he's so often paired up with Rick Ross, who I can't stand.

French Montana signed with Bad Boy

nice, when did he get dropped by akon

i don't think he was, he was just bought by the bigger checkbook. i'm glad he didn't sign to GOOD

big boy makes tons of sense, if they manage him correctly

lol big boy

lol i'm so tired

swap out that y for an i and pretend i'm talking about def jam

public enemy doc on bbc4 right now

chuck d : me and hank were putting up posters of malcom x when some kid comes up and asks "who's this malcolm the tenth?" and i thought "well something's gotta be done about this.

lol

err malcolm x even

just listened to "middle of the summer" by meek mills cuz deej posted abt it upthread

what a great song. back in the day jams 4 lyfe