at least there was never a rolling ghetto house thread

that wouldn’t have made sense.

is anyone else going to post shit they liked this year?

you dont need to post your whole list but throw an artist out there or a couple youtubes or something

my fave rap album of 2011 was the Killer Mike

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this isn’t on the boldy james tape, but it’s got a verse from him. its from Louie P Newton, who is on that track “Pumping Gas” i posted a bit upthread. It also features GLC.

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i have to say, dealwithit.gif, when you told me that was your favorite rap record of the year i thought that was votes very much in character ha. i cant think of a more whiney-esque rapper this year

everyone else post their fave song from their fave rap album of the year

xpost, yeah, it’s got def that righteous indignation I like of like “a conscious dude who will rap about rockefeller drug laws and also punch you out” Those are my fave rappers: Ice Cube, Willie D, David Banner, etc...

“Ric Flair” is my favourite off the Killer Mike.

plus like in the year of chillwave softest serve pillow rap, it goes hard p much start to finish

takes me back to when rappers yelled

the Flying Lotus track is weird though

i didn’t like any rap this year

i liked some but it was a lot of canon stuff (e-40/quik/etc.) and mildly well received mixtapes (mouse/fiend/etc.), i’m hoping this week i can play catch up and do a lot of listening before i set my year-end lists in stone

quik, e-40, kendrick, shabazz palaces and maybe na’tee will be in my top ten, i think. most of my energy for digging into obscure shit has gone elsewhere this year, so it’s mostly been checking for people i already know i like.

furnace mane i would check out schoolboy q’s album if i were you its called ‘setbacks’

i think you would f/w it

I prefer it to Kendrick’s album

yeah its more my speed, but most of my reasons for preferring it are stylistic preference rather than like, stuff that sucks about the kendrick or something

kendrick will be in my top 10 — was shocked how much i grew to like it

takes me back to when rappers yelled

did you like the death grips mixtape? it was the highest placing ‘rap’ album on my eoy but i was a little embarrassed when no other rap music made our list

i really, really liked the main attrakionz mixtape as well as the spaceghostpurpp and kendrick lamar ones.

i’m sure only dealwithit.gif will like this but this was one of my fav tracks from one of my fav hip hop albums this year

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Kendrick has stuff like the dude singing on “Ronald Reagan Era” which just takes me right out of it. Schoolboy Q has Jhene Aiko who’s much more agreeable

Jay Rock’s debut album coulda gone from a B+ to an A if it didn’t have such a watered down second half.

Haven’t heard that or Ab-Soul’s one. Anyone?

yeah the jay rock was better than i expected too

completely forgot it was this year but I did love the Dinner and a Movie by Brotha Lynch Hung.

err sorry Coathanga Strangla

Yeah, sandlamp, Death Grips is in my top 50

everything about kendrick lamar screams red flag to me, is there a song that might convince me i should not be so cynical about him

rigamortis

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I hear there’s a tape version(!) but I haven’t been able to find it online

furnace mane i would check out schoolboy q’s album if i were you its called ‘setbacks’

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Sunday, December 4, 2011 5:04 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i think you would f/w it

― joey joe joe junior shabadoo, Sunday, December 4, 2011 5:04 PM (23 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

i’ve heard it. it’s aight.

i should check out jay rock and ab-soul’s shit tho.

what’s the over/under on whether TM103 comes out this year. I mean I know unlike prior drop dates that industry heads have heard what the supposed finished product is but at this stage I think it’d be kinda hilarious if he pushed it back again, kinda like rap’s Cartmanland

it weirds me out that those 2 guys work together because i’ve known a rapper from around here for years called ab rock (xpost)

i think TM103 is definitely dropping this month now

it’s definitely coming out — it’s definitely going to be his least good album (depending on how you feel about 102)

Yo Gotti’s joint is pushed back to 2012 now

yeah, “rigamortis” def

i care more about the t-pain & thicke albums coming out

al:

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I hear there’s a tape version(!) but I haven’t been able to find it online

i think that was promo only... but id be surprised if you couldnt swing a copy (lol at the morbsian nick btw)

some dude what dont you like abt kendrick lamar? adhd is my fave track off the mixtape

we might as well give up now bcuz none of us will ever have real world impact

i find it v hard to care about a t-pain album in 2011. robin thicke should be good tho. xxxp

i will always care about t-pain

with you on this one jord

thank u dawg

hmm neither of those songs is really doing anything for me, i don’t think i will watch his show on the e! channel

have you heard the tpain tracks already released from the new album? They’re suitably loopy, derivative and fun.

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oh who are you kidding, you will definitely watch that show that’s on tv

xp

i’m actually going in blind on this one, forks — not out of any nobility or anything, just haven’t exactly been keeping up

like i would normally loathe this sound but penderass’ twangy rambly warblescreams somehow cut through the bullshit for me.

actually just listening to this is making me hate myself. i may have to retract.

nah, i’ll just hate myself.

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just like dude’s voice, regardless how processed it is.

when i’ve liked t-pain it’s been more in spite of his voice than anything. and he seems to have run out of ideas a while ago.

Why are forks and jord taking about a turnt sanga itt

it was my fault — just bringing up dec albums

t-pain’s a talented dude and i never really got sick of him but the six(!) advance singles off this record have been such a mixed bag that the album could go either way — tbh i’m much more optimistic about jeezy turning in an enjoyable ‘same thing he always does’ album

kendrick lamar kind of giving me pusha t vibes in his words promising a personality that his voice can’t deliver on

i think that was promo only

i probably shouldve googled this first—its released on ORMOLYCKA

buyin now

a rapper i know once sent me a package for his latest mixtape that had a CD and a gold-painted cassette — was very bummed when i asked him and it was just for show, not a real playable tape of the record

that’s how bummed i was when I bought the Freeway and Jake One album and tried to spend the money that came inside the package

Al you might like kendrick more as a part of his crew Black Hippy. They did some group recordings, theyre fun to hear bounce off each other

rolling softserve thread

rolling underwater crybaby thread

i should go back to that mike album, i remember being somewhat underwhelmed but it came out around the same time as quik’s i think and obv my listening was dominated by quik’s which was way better

well the term does have legs now apparently...

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=soft+serve

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when was deej underwater?

what is this year’s throwback gem a la 2010’s ‘marcberg’?

rolling paid, famous & sad thread

al :-)

if only you could’ve worked a whiney ref into that

what is this year’s throwback gem a la 2010’s ‘marcberg’?

― k3vin k., Sunday, December 4, 2011 10:54 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Permalink

Most ppl would prolly say Action Bronson, but I’m more into the Kool G Rap

rolling cloud thread

yeah that KGR was freakin sweet

yeah i was gonna guess action bronson

i meant a new dude with a throwback NY style as opposed to an older mc, like AB, but thanks for reminding me to listen to that g rap i almost forgot about that

er AB is an example of the former obv, poorly placed parenthetical

I mean, G Rap kind of raps like Roc Marci now, so I think you’ll like it!

sounds like a much better look than jay imitating kanye at least

feel like next year thread title should be worldstar inspired

rolling asian ratchetness thread

etc

do NOT remember posting in this thread the other day. how r we going to do the EOY goon report—do ppl want to do a poll?

altho obvs no EOY thing can be done before the french montana + waka tape drops...

forbez dvd >>> worldstar imo

btw I vote for new rolling thread title to be “blue color rappers”

i <3 kendrick lamar and his based introspectiveness

been jamming that schoolboy q too and his verse on the asap tape is real nice

franch has a tape with waka, then with three 6 mafia the next week

^^ very wavy xmas

per usual martorialist killed it

http://themartorialist.blogspot.com/2011/12/token-best-rap-songs-of-2011-list-post.html

wish i hadn’t missed this:

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not really feelin that *shrug*

not really feelin you

that beat knocks like gin rummy, raps are dope, what more are you looking for

i apologize for not liking a song you like? *shrugsford brimley*

apology not accepted. listen to it 30x on loop or tell me what you think of keedy black & sess 4–5’s “I Luv Dat Boy” & report back

man boldy james rules. def feel the mobb deep by way of detroit vibe

that martorialist singles list is what the fuck is up

obv

i knew m@tt would like the boldy james “pumpin gas” track, that shit is like ground zero 90s rap-a-lot shit, down to the standoff storytelling rap at the dice game that is so straightforward on a narrative level (“he shot (BANG BANG) I shot (RATATATAT) — as you can see i cold smoked his ass”) and yet the rapping itself is not in any way cartoonish

martorialist rules

“E-40 ft. B-Legit—43”

Yeah thats my sleeper pick of the year, my most listened to track on any of the Revenue Retrievin series. B Legit is pure muscle on that.

although i halfheartedly defended currensy from whiney on this thread (and “this ain’t no mixtape” is still >>> his releases this year) ive totally had the same issues w/ both him & jacka this year

although i still like the alchemist/currensy tape the most

rolling codeine abuse thread