rolling CORP low bar just to appear hip to teens thread 2015

Is there any kind of origin story about how YT and RHQ teamed up? How much of a factor was Birdman? (research question)

― longneck, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:46 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

my guess is that gucci mane was somehow involved

um so new DMX album

Yah. How bout that cover!

last few years def seems like Cali is where it's at for me in terms of stuff that really grabs me

Any heard of Warm Brew?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwV-ksaHJk#t=149

this was very late '14 but fuck it, my first rap fave of '15 nonetheless:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcKBl1S469E

warm brew was pretty fun!

Hey guys is this the Rap thread?

yes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okl5D_nowZw

hey look Future's rapping off beat now lol

LO fucking L https://twitter.com/bdotTM/status/556121427490115584

I haven't really listened to rap since 2007. What's some cool stuff I missed?

noz' year end lists are p comprehensive, this is the most recent one but has links to each past year (since 2005) at the bottom http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=8100

Cheers flopson. That looks like, a great start. It's crazy how I know all that stuff on the 05-06 lists and then after almost nothing... did I change or did the music? Something I ponder a lot

i think a lot of ppl lost interest in rap around that time. at the turn of the decade there was a lot of speculation by certain critics (simon reynolds, sfj in partic) that hip hop had stagnated. deej made an imo classic mix that's probably still out there somewhere rebutting that argument. in hindsight i think it's clear 08-12' was a transitional period. many of the people weren't sold on gucci mane (the one rapper many held up in 09 as an example of rap's vitality) are now very enthusiastic about the generation that were influenced by him (critical love for migos, etc.) of course not everyone is down with where that transition has lead us (whiney g, for example) but it at least feels like there is more optimism and positivity about rap right now than any pt since i started reading rap blogs & keeping up with the genre

*many of the people WHO weren't sold on gucci mane...

looks like deej's mix is still up here http://somanyshrimp.com/2010/01/30/best-raps-2009/

we should poll it imo

I've heard some Migos and they're fun but they make me feel so old lol. Thanks for the deej mix link I just downloaded it.

if you take the rolling rap thread titles as a rough approximation of "lcd rap" trends you can kinda get a picture of why some people lost interest. ringtone & snap were very colourful, bouncy, immediate. and i think that when that was succeeded by the more monochromatic trap sound of autogoon & gun sounds many lost interest. fruity swag (another classic shrimp post this time by jordan: http://somanyshrimp.com/2009/06/25/k-e-producer-of-the-summer/) is maybe a counterexample here, but it never really took off at the time and i would argue is at the peak of its influence right now (k camp, young thug.) we stopped that model of thread naming in 2013 in favour of self-aware rap critic in-jokes, but my suggestion that year was 'sunz of mane' which i still think is hilarious but was maybe too divisive. this past year's trend was "weird voices" (to be forever documented in this horrifyingly named whiney thread ayo best coco yayo maco wacko no-fi schmoundcloud dooblebob vine rap thingy of 2014) and it seems like people are finding their way back into rap through this stuff. joe now posts to rap threads for example, and i've had many irl friends ask me if i've heard of young thug, etc.

if you take the rolling rap thread titles as a rough approximation of "lcd rap" trends you can kinda get a picture of why some people lost interest. ringtone & snap were very colourful, bouncy, immediate. and i think that when that was succeeded by the more monochromatic trap sound of autogoon & gun sounds many lost interest. fruity swag (another classic shrimp post this time by jordan: http://somanyshrimp.com/2009/06/25/k-e-producer-of-the-summer/) is maybe a counterexample here, but it never really took off at the time and i would argue is at the peak of its influence right now (k camp, young thug.) we stopped that model of thread naming in 2013 in favour of self-aware rap critic in-jokes, but my suggestion that year was 'sunz of mane' which i still think is hilarious but was maybe too divisive. this past year's trend was "weird voices" (to be forever documented in this horrifyingly named whiney thread ayo best coco yayo maco wacko no-fi schmoundcloud dooblebob vine rap thingy of 2014) and it seems like people are finding their way back into rap through this stuff. joe now posts to rap threads for example, and i've had many irl friends ask me if i've heard of young thug, etc.

― flopson, Saturday, January 17, 2015 4:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

http://i.imgur.com/KCZEOEy.gif

that was maybe more historicizing than you were asking for lol but i guess i'm feeling wistful

Sorry, I'm just razzing you a little. Thanks for all the information.

nah it's cool i always get creeped out when your posts are too earnest ;-)

in rap more broadly 2009 was an amazing year of new rookie artists that were often dismissed as nonserious & have since become canon or successful or both.

in late 08 (iirc) dj drama was raided for selling mixtapes using industry beats ... so all the rappers started releasing mixtapes with all-original material, '09 was the point where the industry totally bottomed out & everyone was downloading free mixtapes for the first time. critics thought freddie gibbs was the only thing worth hearing but basically in 09-10 you have the arrival or peak output of:

drake
nicki
gucci
max b
lil boosie
jcole
odd future
waka
Wiz Khalifa
Currensy
meek mill
big krit
travis porter
lil b

plus the beginning of regional careers that wouldn't get attention until more recently: kevin gates, king louie, danny brown

otm. feel like my explanation is more "demand side" while yours is more "supply side" lol

Hey guys is this the Rap thread?

― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, January 17, 2015 4:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

HAHA

You wouldn't know it was just by looking at the title now would you, that's for sure!

the triumphal return of canks.
i recommend spottie's spotify lists for up to date stuff

it wd be interesting to do personal top 20s of fav records from the past ~ year

you can't suggest another secret poll by posting on the board...the...OTHERS...will see

^ Interesting reading flopson and deej. thanks.

RIP A$AP Yams

Lil b seems like a long time ago

Hi hungry4ass

RIP A$AP Yams

― 龜, Sunday, January 18, 2015 9:41 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

fuck. that's tragic. he was an amazing, hilarious writer. RIP

wow, that's a shame. only in his twenties.

Rip

Crazy

he had an amazing gift for seeing the humour in the tiniest of details

seeing twitter scuttlebutt that the cause was lean but don't know how true that is. but no matter how it happened, goddamn. fuckin 26.

Tragic. Rip

Any thoughts on the Bada$$, gents? I guess it's better than I expected but there's something about the blatant anchronisms that rubs me the wrong way. I mean, he would have sounded outdated in 1996, when he was one year old. The two "drum and bass" tracks are downright horrible, Teach Me in particular. Like Me is pretty nice though, I've got to admit.

badass is awful

ehhhhhhhhh, it's actually not too bad. And this is coming from someone who detests "real hip hop". It has a loose vibe and is pleasant enough. He can live.

no one should detest real hip hop

There were quotation marks involved. Please do weigh in on the album though.

the badass album is pretty enjoyable, barring the drum'n'bass stuff (heard that and was like O RLY? a roni size tribute?). even if the thinking behind the revivalist style can be reductive & disagreeable, i don't mind listening to the music itself.

speaking of revivalist-minded rappers, i feel like lupe fiasco has reached new levels of insanity and/or trolling with this track
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka8akzWKQak&feature=youtu.be

it sounds like v fun goon stuff, interesting beat/production, also a trae the truth guest spot - but i figure since it's lupe, it has to be some sort of stealth attack on trap-rap or some similarly didactic shit...right?

def not sure who this dude lucci is (no susan) but im really feeling his tape 'wish me well'

couple cuts

kno no better - http://youtu.be/c1IUsrIb29Q
traumautized - http://youtu.be/5tqqgdR6jgs

the Warm Brew album - Ghetto Beach Boyz is out

really great so far! cool dirtbag LA stoner vibes

Dom Kennedy guests and I guess if I had to compare it to anyone it would be him

i dunno, maybe a little more like street version of Pharcyde in places?

loving it

feeling this cover aesthetic

http://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/t_article_image/fj6vqkigfek4lfdatrdx.jpg

v. chill

this song really hits a nice nate dogg vibe

http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/video/a1day1-feat-racella-140000551.html