QPOC Shakur is the pseudonym he puts on his Twitter - I promise it's not my pun.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 17:46 (twelve years ago) link
Although, I think it's pretty clever.
also is this what seapunk is? really?
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/04/fashion/Seapunk-a-Web-Joke-With-Music-Has-Its-Moment.html
http://coralrecords.bandcamp.com/
― rusty_allen, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
i liked this (listened off the stream) - i can't really listen to 70 minutes of anything anymore and i wish the vocals weren't so buried but there are some bangers here
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
'dark york' kinda drags (no pun intended, eh) as a whole, but there are definitely some 6 or 7 great songs in it. the overall murky mastering doesn't help, also.
― rusty_allen, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
dark york is my favorite rap album this year cause it's the only one that a) says what's in my head and b) sounds like what i'm actually listening to in 2012
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Monday, 30 April 2012 23:14 (twelve years ago) link
"triple-omega"/"mind body"/"& gomorrah" is such an amazing opening stretch
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Monday, 30 April 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
haven't listened to this yet but the title makes me think of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJeJtK7Q2kk
― dayo, Monday, 30 April 2012 23:19 (twelve years ago) link
Mind Body is so great.
But my favourite stretch is probably Wut --> Yup --> Fresh or Gimme Light through Fry Dem.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 3 May 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
this is such a densely packed listen, it takes time to get into but it really keeps on giving - just noticed the aaliyah baby sample distorted and resampled on "fresh"
THIS IS FOR MY CUNTS WHO KNOW I CAME TO STUNT
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 7 May 2012 11:38 (twelve years ago) link
I'm in my castle, I'm king of the beach, I'm princess peach
― The Reverend, Monday, 7 May 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
where was you in 95? where i was in 94.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Monday, 7 May 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
Really digging "Lavandin" atm; real deep album.
― etc, Friday, 11 May 2012 14:23 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, that's been one of my sleeper favorites.
― The Reverend, Friday, 11 May 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
Seven songs in, mind = blown
― cinco de extra mayo (loves laboured breathing), Sunday, 13 May 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
I'm an emperor when they see me in my new clothes
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 01:34 (twelve years ago) link
wow this is like the loudest thing on my ipod. i like it but the mix + mastering makes it a harsh listen sometimes.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Tuesday, 29 May 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
very dope show tonight. i danced very a lot. (and based on my short chat with him before he went on, he's a pretty nice guy to boot)
― they loooovin the crut (The Reverend), Wednesday, 13 June 2012 09:13 (eleven years ago) link
very
err strike the second "very" i mean
this is great! so many awesome little lyrical bits bobbing around in the murk
― rob, Friday, 6 July 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
Important: All the lyrics (the actual lyrics, from what I can tell, so presumably le1f is responsible) are up on RapGenius.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 11 July 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
If those are the correct lyrics, I'm very disappointed to learn that the line "my twat is just a metaphor" was just a figment of my imagination. (n.b. that is totally what he says)
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
What does it say the lyrics are instead? I haven't had time to go through them all yet.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 23:58 (eleven years ago) link
"patois is just a metaphor"
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh, yeah. i already was hearing 'patois'
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
:(
I like my version so much better
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:55 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrnq4SZ0luc
― fauxmarc, Thursday, 19 July 2012 16:13 (eleven years ago) link
I was just coming to post that!
!!!! so good.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:08 (eleven years ago) link
looks to be as gif-able as Lemme Smang It
― rob, Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
also, ilx gayz, pay attn from 1:02 onwards for a familiar not-face.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
This is incredible. Mr. Jukebox Selection Committee, you know what to do (if you, or someone else, hasn't already).
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
also (xpost) i give up.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
I mean. I was about to send the email. I wanted to cover it the week the mixtape/album came out but the video got delayed.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:30 (eleven years ago) link
Ah, just posted that to the other gay rappers thread. Great video! Makes me realize how awesome this track is.
― MikoMcha, Thursday, 19 July 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
i really want someone to remaster this shit. not to keep harping on it but i wish i could listen & enjoy it.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:04 (eleven years ago) link
it's really not that bad. i don't really get what's 'wrong' with it? a little murky but not as much as people make it sound and it's deliberate, not low quality or whatever.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:07 (eleven years ago) link
oh and xp @ jer - it's lou.
something about the bass being too loud and then the mix being overcompressed to fuck, whenever the sub hits everything gets squashed in away that is oppressive/unpleasant to my ears. i'm not trying to be on some audiophile shit, i'm really not that picky in general but it's hard to get past here.
― 40oz of tears (Jordan), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:17 (eleven years ago) link
man I kind of love that tbh
― that one guy (loves laboured breathing), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:19 (eleven years ago) link
only on track 1 right now, but are his vocals always so buried in the mix?
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
frequently not always but that's what folks are complaining about. the 320 kbps free download is better than the stream. but you get used to it the more you listen.
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Thursday, 19 July 2012 18:28 (eleven years ago) link
Not saying this is what's happening in every case, but I think the fact that it's mixed more like a dance record than a rap record is throwing some people off?
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Thursday, 19 July 2012 19:30 (eleven years ago) link
i need to listen to more of this but "wut" is rad as fuck.
― This clam, stranded on someone’s floor, is trying to dig itself (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 July 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
v glad that he's put the lyrics up
can't watch the video
mixtape keeps on giving
it seems "seapunk" in the thread title is understandable putting people off (INCLUDING ME tbh), can we delete it? it makes me cringe
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Saturday, 21 July 2012 09:53 (eleven years ago) link
Don't delete it until we've found out what "seapunk" is!
― that one guy (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 21 July 2012 11:34 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.itisamystery.com/itisamystery.gif
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Saturday, 21 July 2012 11:50 (eleven years ago) link
Been googling it on and off for the past couple hours and am now searching southern Michigan for a place that sells turquoise hair dye.
― that one guy (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 21 July 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
so long as his lyrics still include lines like "i'm such a mermaid that I stay in your waves"
and "i'm banji, i'm foamy, i'm kunty believe me"
and as long as he keeps producing gorgeous instrumentals that sample erykah singing 'i was born underwater' i will continue to jokingly include him in #seapunk
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Saturday, 21 July 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah all that stuff just makes me love it more tbh.
― that one guy (loves laboured breathing), Saturday, 21 July 2012 15:57 (eleven years ago) link
Forgot the end:
that's major.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 14 March 2014 14:35 (ten years ago) link
lol @ 'are those shoes yours or are those rentals?'
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 14 March 2014 14:56 (ten years ago) link
yes, that was classic
― imago draggin' (The Reverend), Friday, 14 March 2014 17:53 (ten years ago) link
great performance and this ep is the best thing he's done - had been lukewarm on basically everything post-dark york but this bangs, good to hear him easing up on the trying-to-fit-too-many-words-into-the-line flow as well
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 10:44 (ten years ago) link
dear Lord Jamar,Choose your battles. If the whitening of rap is a concern to you, please leave my name out of it. If you think being gay is the same as being white, you are as ignorant as your enemies. I'm darker than you. I'm african. I'm a black man and I experience all the same racism you do, if not more, on top of homophobia, including from black men just like you. Are you proud of being a hateful member of a majority? Rap started out as a creative response to oppression, and no matter my outfit, I know oppressions you will never understand.All respect,Le1f
boom
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 March 2014 18:35 (ten years ago) link
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2014/03/lord-jamar-rap-hip-hop-conservative.htmlsome background
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 March 2014 18:55 (ten years ago) link
but yeah, boom
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 March 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
jamar is such an asshole
― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 March 2014 19:04 (ten years ago) link
his twitter feed is so insufferably self-righteous
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 March 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
though tbf
‘Yeezus’ was wack to me,” Jamar said, in reference to Kanye West’s most recent album, a strange and sonically abrasive work that received acclaim and solidified West in the eyes of many as this era’s most important pop star. “You got people who blindly say, ‘That album was so genius.’ And those are the people who will take hip-hop and fucking let it drive right off the fucking cliff—who will listen to ‘Yeezus’ and say, ‘That was so artistic, the way he drove hip-hop off a cliff.’ ”
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 March 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
Except that driving genres off a cliff is a great thing to do. Not taking a sound to it's limits because your afraid it can't handle it, that's weak. And conservative.
― Frederik B, Monday, 24 March 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
yup
― The Reverend, Monday, 24 March 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Also Yeezus isn't necessarily more abrasive than vintage Bomb Squad & a bunch of other stiff Jamar is probably down with
― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 March 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
Wow, if anyone could make Macklemore look sympathetic, it's this clown.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 24 March 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
i think "driving hip hop off the cliff" can be interpreted as demolishing the car rather that "taking a sound to its limits"and my beef with yeezus is not that it's abrasive so much as it is unfun, bloviated and generally uninterestingi guess really my reasons for disliking kanye and jamar's reasons for disliking kanye are really differenti just don't like kanye is what i'm saying
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 March 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
jamar's objection to the sound seems token in comparison to his weird fixation on "masculinity", which is a) bullshit and b) explains a lot...this idea that hip-hop is inherently a masculine venture. that's where his conservatism seems to stem from - not the beats, it's all about gays and beta males (and white people) (i guess women are not on his radar at all?).
i mean i'm a drake hater but his grounds for criticising drake are also bullshit, this guy is the worst
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 March 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
although as always anything that gets people invested in Traditional Masculinity shook has to have some worth, and when those people are shook it's always fun to see
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 March 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
beta males thing made me lol... is ariel pink the new threat to rap??
― coops all on coops tbh (crüt), Monday, 24 March 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/kelelam/oicu/this is pretty good
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
New album, Riot Boi out this Friday, Nov. 13. First taste of it is very promising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0zjfW2qY1U
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Monday, 9 November 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
listening to this now. wooo yeah
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Monday, 23 November 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
the album, i mean
this album is so great, le1f is so great
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 23 November 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
rly good
― bla.p, Monday, 23 November 2015 23:55 (eight years ago) link
Seapunk is still alive. Girl at the coffee shop has a prominent jellyfish tattoo, seapunk dyed hair, and is dressed in athleisure
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Friday, 31 August 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link