ring ring that’s the phone
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
ring ring
i mean if anyone was ever MADE to work with diplo
― sandbox banned socks (Mr. Stevenson #2), Tuesday, December 6, 2011 8:16 AM (44 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
lol i know, i mean obv it makes too much sense — i’m just chapped that he’s giving riff raff awful techno beats instead of “look at me now” style stuff
“HOLLYWOOD BRAZIL BITCH” pops into my head more times a week than is entirely healthy I think.
miss u dro
ummmm you guys i’m just getting round to danny brown
what
is
this
shit
how am i meant to take his voice for another 17 tracks?
that’s what i thought, too, but it grows on you
also it’s not always like that
he was kind of like a really unfun roach gigz
he’s stopped doing it now, not sure why people were going buts for him though—the production maybe? i quite like it even if there’s something of the anticon about it
“unfun” is kinda the point in the sense that he raps a lot about being a 30 year old broke dude in a fucked up city
“lie4” is kind of like a really annoying angry unfun travis porter song. he keeps spitting in my ear :(
pity, the beat’s great
it could def be more fun tho, i play “monopoly” on repeat constantly, but the album itself is a bit of a heavy listen. i’m actually not a huge fan of the production a lot of the time, kinda amusical.
he doesn’t have the gravitas for that though (only hearing lines in isolation, not the songs’ narratives yet)
i never really thought he’d be someone you’d like lex tbh
i think the fool’s gold twitter account keeps tweeting about him? and they are kid sister boosters so trust them
i’m just doing what whiney says i should be doing! (not really i’ve been meaning to listen to this for ages anyway, but everything must be done at my leisure)
well they put out the record
and they are kid sister boosters so trust them
^can’t tell if this is a joke or not haha
I LOVE KID SISTER you know that.
her 2011 mixtape >>>>>> this danny brown thing
“monopoly” is good!!
3D THE LEXUS,
X-RAY ViSiON ON MY BLACK AND DECKER
SPECiAL EFFECT ON NEON NECKLACE
WASH iT DOWN WiTH diSiNFECTANT
20 TANNED ViDEO ViXENS
CODEiNE BOTTLE SCRATCH PRESCRiPTiON
DiM THE LiGHTS ELECTRiC BiLL SKYSCRAPER
30 ? BiKiNiS DOiNG THE DARK BRACELETS
HAiTiANS SKATiNG OCTANE? WAiTiNG
CHASiNG BASiCS, REMAIN PATiENT
PULL UP ON THE LAWYER PLAiNTiFF
JUDGE, THUGS, SHOULDER SHRUGS, DiMEPiECE CONTENDERS
SERVE ME SPLENDOUR iN EXPENSiVE SUSPENDERS
FEED ME CANTALOUPE AND CHiCKEN TENDERS
APPLE SAUCE, WHO’S THE BOSS,
FLOSS MADE BY MASHALL FAULK?
KEPT DOWN BY DiSPOSABLE VAULTS
danny brown is a much better rapper than kid sister. i don’t rlly listen to either though. danny brown is something i kind of respect from a distance but have trouble listening to at length
danny brown is a much better rapper than kid sister
deej has pronounced objectively! rmde
well, kid sister is basic as fuck with no pop instincts, so
i guess you could argue that danny brown is a more actively abrasive rapper, so it’s a bit more nuanced than simple sliding scale, but cmon
nb i haven’t heard the new K.S. album but i heard her verse on the song w/ riff raff
well, kid sister is basic as fuck with no pop instincts
i disagree. and you yourself admit your opinion is based on like one verse o_0
kid sister is fantastic at bringing a breathless workout energy to dancefloor-oriented tracks. her verse on the juke remix of “motivation” is one of my favourite things this year, as well as her taking on the “work them” beat
it’s o capone, i ain’t trippin
still gettin head like bill clinton
white chhicksmy everyday mission
with a tan you look like abe simpson
^lol/i hope this is tko capone coming out against fake tans
i disagree. and you yourself admit your opinion is based on like one verse o_0
― lex pretend, Tuesday, December 6, 2011 1:19 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark
oh i’ve heard several of her songs from years past — i just meant i’ve only heard like 2 songs of hers this year
i forgot i was trying to keep it posi re: artists itt
sorry, just pretend i’ve never mentioned KS
with a tan you look like abe simpson
lol wtf is this nonsense
duh
this beat
Rolling sub bass, yesss. Great beat imo.
jam
kanye honk supercut is so perfect
yeah that is a fantastic beat
production on the dro is great too, verses are pretty unexceptional unfortunately
wtf. apparently killer mike likes ron paul.
https://twitter.com/#!/KillerMikeGTO/status/144266320366669824
um that is totally not wtf at all. ron paul is totally the candidate of choice for political rappers, at least the ones contrarian/anti-populist to make a point of not being obama fans
i’m not surprised at mike not being a fan of obama, but ron paul? i feel like he’s smart enough to know better than that.
yeah maybe i think less of the guy who thought ‘mike bigga’ was a good idea? the ron paul profile imo is often perfectly intelligent clued in person with JUST the right pinch of crackpot.
lex danny brown was never gonna be for you man, for better or worse he is just not your style. i can’t really remember you ever being excited about technical rap-qua-rap or whatever
um that is totally not wtf at all. ron paul is totally the candidate of choice for political rappers, at least the ones contrarian/anti-populist to make a point of not being obama fans
― sandbox banned socks (Mr. Stevenson #2), Tuesday, December 6, 2011 11:26 PM (16 minutes ago)
ha really? what other rappers fit this bill (srs non-snark question). smh @ killer mike obv -_-
lupe obviously but maybe old angry ice cube-type cats (including ice cube possibly?) and immortal technique types
i mean ime there are a surprising number of black ron paul supporters who are strangely unbothered by/unaware of the whole ‘racist newsletter’ thing
or any of his policy positions
i mean i guess his opposition to the war on drugs is something
front
back
side 2 side
i think that: spottie ottie & shakey mo will quite like this. possibly also m@tt and j0rdan
its not, like, great, but the beat & hook are fun enough. total random rap though
so this french montana ‘jacking for beats’ tape just out with a load of max b verses, are these verses new?
oh dear a david bowie sample.
Yeah, all about the hook on that xpost, and that sporadic snare pattern, their rhymes are pretty lol.
there’s a new young gully out, mostly produced by the freshest dj, and featuring an auto-tuned song sampling kp & envyi’s swing my way.
:/
what did you all think of kendrick lamar?
how am i meant to take his voice for another 17 tracks?
― lex pretend, Tuesday, December 6, 2011 1:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Permalink
i could never get over him sounding like roger rabbit
lupe obviously but maybe old angry ice cube-type cats (including ice cube possibly?) and immortal technique types
lol Cube and Killer Mike did an anti-Hillary/pro-Obama track pre-election (“Pressure”)
pre-election TRAC
K
what did you all think of kendrick lamar?
― degas-dirty monet (lex pretend), Wednesday, December 7, 2011 1:09 PM (20 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
was anyone besides me taking the pepsi challenge w/ kendrick lamar recently? i don’t wanna harp on it but his stuff seems very SMART and TASTEFUL and SERIOUS in a 2011 blog rap way that i admire from a distance but have no real interest in engaging in
on one listen it kind of came across like a lupe fiasco without quite so much worthiness (but also without a “kick push”-level track that grabs you by the ear and hooks you in)
yeah the gulf between the excitement AROUND the music and excitement IN the music feels like Jay Electronica all over again tbh
i think krs-one performed at a ron paul rally in mpls recently, or was supposed to unless he flaked out or something
haha krs, THAT’s who i should’ve thought of
yeah the gulf between the excitement AROUND the music and excitement IN the music feels like Jay Electronica all over again tbh
― sockness, just sockness (Mr. Stevenson #2), Wednesday, December 7, 2011 12:46 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink
jay electronica had like 2 tracks that had everyone proclaiming him the next coming of nas. i don’t think its really comparable
i definitely prefer schoolboy q from that crew, but Kendrick’s record engages w/ a lot more of the modern sound of hip-hop. I agree that people looking for a ~deep rapper~ have put way more on him than is fair, but he does a really good job imo of stitching together Lupe-ish ambition with a Drake-esque atmosphere and then being very good at rapping. I recognize the two of these things sound like something bad but ... i like it a lot more than Drake or Lupe, at any rate.
the jay electronica comparison had nothing to do w/ the quantity of music they’ve released. it’s immaterial.
it’s definitely like, berkley hippie socially conscious lil b thing but... coherent and pretty well thought out
i think the production is great too, pretty inventive stuff that’s definitely in the ‘kush & orange juice’/40 shabib universe but not as soundscapey as a lot of that stuff
i think people pushed a lot more of that ‘the savior of conscious rap’ thing on jay electronica than they do kendrick lamar — i think lamar is still sorta seen as like a non-gangster weed rapper who actually has something to say. idk, it feels different to me.
yeah i’m probably combining the breathless praise and the imagery of the “HiiiPoWeR” video into an idea of him that is not entirely accurate or faithful to his reputation
that song really gave me k’naan-level do not want vibes, though
thats relly not what his album is about, and i think the number of songs jay electronica has released is entirely material! it was hype over nothing, whereas there is, in fact, a long & interesting record that kendrick dropped that people are largely responding to, and its a lot more diverse than you’d get from just looking at a couple seconds of the hiii power video
yeah, it’s definitely not... k’naan
i don’t think kendrick is going to be doing a song about world peace with will.i.am and shakira for the world cup
ive listened to this one a lot
i mean his twerpy voice is very k’naan
the one w/ GLC on the album is dope
its just an interlude-ish joint btw i wasnt trying to append this to the discussion with al
his voice sounds nothing like kanaans, jesus, not even close`
i still think wiz khalifa and wale have very similar voices too ::shrugs::
i just feel like you’re compartmentalizing rappers into such distinct categories that you can’t even begin to comprehend someone hearing a very elemental sonic similarity based on something more external and superficial — it’s like “no no they have NOTHING in common, this guy wears doo rags and this guy wears kufis!!!!”
lol, i feel like this cricles back to the basis of the ‘regional thug’ argument
haha uh oh
the thing i like about kendrick lamar is that he raps better than all those new rappers with a bit of internet hype.
as simple as that
that is also true
and then he can make a good song, he has some really dope production, blogs seems to like him but he’s not soft...
yeah i mean he’s got better bars than a$ap rocky no doubt
yeah as a technical rapper kendrick is obv preferable to any of the other dudes mentioned in this convo, & i did like a few of the songs on that album but most of them seemed like kind of a mess to me, i really don’t get the pac comparisons some ppl (and lamar himself) were pushing, even aside from the laughable implication in terms of quality wrt that comparison i don’t feel like he’s a very inviting or likeable persona, he’s kind of blank actaully
i just feel like you’re compartmentalizing rappers into such distinct categories that you can’t even begin to comprehend someone hearing a very elemental sonic similarity based on something more external and superficial — it’s like “no no they have NOTHING in common, this guy wears doo rags and this guy wears kufis!!!!”
― sockness, just sockness (Mr. Stevenson #2), Wednesday, 7 December 2011 19:49 (1 hour ago) Permalink
thanks for ascribing superficial stupidity to me but now, just, like, on any level they don’t have similar voices; neither do Wale and Wiz. the comparisons both seem bizarre to me.
Kendrick has a much less corny flow and vocal tone, he has more control, his voice doesn’t dip up in frequency like ka’naan’s does. it’s nowhere near as corny. i mean, they might have voices at roughly the same frequency but that’s true of tons of other rappers as well.
i mean, lamar just sounds cooler and less earnestly eager-to-please than kanaan, and i mean that in the sense of his vocals, never mind his lyrics. Lyrically, Kendrick is also a lot more oblique & less on-the-nose obvious about what his ‘point’ is, it’s a lot more about conveying a feeling than trying to hammer home a message
dying @ lil b being a conscious rapperor whatever btw, boots riley weeps
honestly, I wouldn’t carry this argument on if I didn’t think that Al would probably like the album a bit more than he realizes based off of the tracks he’s sampled — I can see why he would have that kind of snap judgement, but the record is really diverse & interesting & he’s definitely a talented performer, with a lot more depth stylistically than the other artists mentioned here
yeah kendrick actually makes an effort to flip new styles in his actual rapping as opposed to his clothes or his twitter brand
the adhd video is really really cool too
that said he should probably check ‘setbacks’ first