rolling rap thread

gucci + zaytoven can't do no wrong

i dunno they had some bland joints here & there, it seems like whoever chose the specific beats for the project picked good ones (dunno if it was gucci, an exec producer, zay, whoever)

it took me way too long to figure out what the title 'baytl' meant and now i'm just thinking of how many other great theoretical collaborations would be more deserving of that title

what was with that fader post about gucci "only" making $300,000 a year? did anyone actually think that sounded too low? he's hard pushing an album with v-nasty like it's not even some one off shit, of course he's not making any money

at his peak he was making what 30k per show. his price went way down b/c of arrests, i don't know how else ppl think he's making money -- unless you have corporate deals or are selling records then you arent making shit

<3 this dude

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=q3TZ88TGgRU

huh that didn't embed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3TZ88TGgRU

dude is good and that video is funny/looks great but ugh beat is grating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPlX4XPcjLs

i like this more although teh 1st verse is kinda eh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgDcOTdiPg0

RiFFRaFF_SODMG RiFF RaFF SODMG
WHEN ICE TRAY STEVENSON DROPS ... 4 DOVES WILL CRY TEARS OF McDONALD'S ORANGE JUiCE

canibus is fucking amazing, retracting a diss record that no one even knew existed...

...and it's just not G.

canibus is still around? :?

that 50 cent mix is absolutely class btw. wish it was higher bitrate :'(

yeah mr. cee is a national treasure

Jeezy leaked

and i guess the Flocka and French tape is out there too

oh my god

http://img339.imageshack.us/img339/7775/wavybabybookcover.png

!!!
million dollar baby 2

there's no way that's a real thing

any jams on the waka & french then?

it's a good tape imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvl5HC1LMx8

damn stoked to listen to that, coke boys 2 & duflocka rant are my favourite mixtapes this year

lol @ those shades

this song is incredible

http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=6908

lot of shit i haven't heard or don't remember, but fuck outta here with mean mugging drake and having your top 3 be a vanilla/chocolate/strawberry softserve twist like that

n in paris isn't really 'soft serve'

ball so soft motherfuckers wanna cuddle w me

i still don't even know how something like that happens, how they decided making that song was a good idea, how they picked it as a single, how it became one of the biggest songs of the year. like it's not terrible but there's not a single thing about it that makes me think ok i see how it blew up.

Am I stupid for kind of liking Ninja's verse on this?

http://vimeo.com/31730747

i still don't even know how something like that happens, how they decided making that song was a good idea, how they picked it as a single, how it became one of the biggest songs of the year. like it's not terrible but there's not a single thing about it that makes me think ok i see how it blew up.

― some dude (Mr. Stevenson #2), Thursday, December 15, 2011 9:41 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

the beat is really really catchy. so is the hook. i don't love the song & it wont make my lists but idk it makes sense to me

"All my fucking life I lived a normal fucking life"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K075VpKzGbA

Like I know he's being all "lol hard rapping" but there's something kind of tight about his flow.

sorry, vimeo link has video, youtube does not. Also sounds better on vimeo.

but i mean were people really listening to the watch the throne album for the first time going yo that MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM STAWWWW song with the lol industrial drum machine fart breakdown, that's the joint? that would really surprise me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMklHRKpxl8

dame grease found his own white rapper o_O

ya that noz top 3 is retarded

feel like i barely paid attention to rap all year & yet ive heard a lot of those, obv mostly from having been posted itt. best juicy j song

smoke that bitch >>> imo

i don't really keep up with noz that much but that top 3 seems really out of character

not really, big charting crossover singles always top the list. this is either an exceptionally bad year for those & hes being stubborn or he likes some rap songs i consider to be awful. i guess you could argue either side

1. Rick Ross f/ Styles P – “BMF” (Def Jam)
2. Kanye West f/ Nicki Minaj & Others – “Monster” (Def Jam)
5. Waka Flocka Flame f/ Roscoe Dash & Wale – “No Hands” (Brick Squad/Asylum)
1. Lil Wayne – “A Milli” (Cash Money/Universal)*
1. UGK f/ Outkast – “International Players Anthem“* (Jive)
1. TI – “What You Know” (Atlantic/Grand Hustle)
1. Gucci Mane – “Wasted”

'n____s in paris' is not very good at all

all of those are varying degrees of amazing though

xp

i don't dislike "niggas in paris at all" but c'mon at least have the decency to pinpoint the t.i. remix

no one cares abt the t.i. remix though. its just the original that's a big cultural moment, which is what that reflects

the weirdest one to me on his list is the wiz khalifa, which is almost aggressively lame to me, and i don't really get pac div

i do think, considering the % of disconnected euros (no offense to ilx euros) who might think that, say, G-Side were as big a deal as "Spend It" by 2 Chainz, I get where he's coming from when he rallies around a few major touchpoint rap singles from the year. (although the "I'm On One" omission is pretty absurd)

oh my god your personal EOY list is not meant to be about "big cultural moments". what is this obsession with liking stuff other people like?

why even bother having your own taste? just do a list of that year's nig cultural moments. they were ~important~!

*big