Kung fu movies are slightly addictive...hence my current username.
― five deadly venoms (San Te), Monday, 17 January 2011 13:44 (thirteen years ago) link
this list has led me to find out that noreaga put an album called 's.o.r.e', presumably a sequel to cam'ron's cult classic i.b.s.
― "jobs" (a hoy hoy), Monday, 17 January 2011 15:19 (thirteen years ago) link
old but i am so in love with "a real feeling" by the jacka, off the street album mixtape which deej had suggested to me
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 January 2011 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
love the old school ice cub ref:
once upon a time in the projects, yocome through and get clipped fo sho
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 January 2011 20:01 (thirteen years ago) link
old traxx or not i am always an enthusiastic fan of the jacka
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 20:02 (thirteen years ago) link
http://grab.by/grabs/d9343263f7eb7d55bb796b2015dd968e.png
― just sayin, Monday, 17 January 2011 20:05 (thirteen years ago) link
nice little detail in the mix of the song "no future" by jacka
"knock you out with my lefttake your life with my right"
^on that line they hard pan the words "left" and "right", cool sonic detail that you don't see enough of in rap, kicks the shit out of the supposedly "great" muddy, flat-sounding shit like the new kanye that is overpraised as great production
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 January 2011 20:07 (thirteen years ago) link
overall, jacka is really great in a way that doesn't call much attention to itself
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 January 2011 20:19 (thirteen years ago) link
"fed up" has jazz flute that reminds me of ron burgandy :)
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 January 2011 20:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i recommend 'the jack artist' next m@tt
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 20:36 (thirteen years ago) link
some crucial old school shit right now:
cormega - the testament
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 January 2011 21:18 (thirteen years ago) link
*the more u know*
mob figaz used to hang w/ cormega & he raps on 'jack artist' about being in ny w/ cormega -- cormega's raps are a big influence on his lyrical style ... jacka appears on that odds&ends cormega comp that appeared in like '04
― *gets the power* (deej), Monday, 17 January 2011 21:26 (thirteen years ago) link
ha maybe it struck me in some subconscious way
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 17 January 2011 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
anyone want to join the gunsounds listening room
― *gets the power* (deej), Sunday, January 16, 2011 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
nev mind shit is down apparently
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4lkXxO4YgY
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 05:50 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lckk0EF-Xog
jacka prod by cooking soul
this is pretty good
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 06:23 (thirteen years ago) link
i love that new wiz song
this new kyleon song is great. a bit of a PTII vibehttp://hulkshare.com/3yflgvwtf22r
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 15:04 (thirteen years ago) link
thing i learnt this week- raekwon has done four hundred million guest verses
previously thought it was just like skew it on the bar-b and freak'n'you remix
what have i got myself in for
― "jobs" (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, guys, can I have a recommendation if I'm looking for something similar to Jacka's Street Album?
that shit is so addictive
― rizzx, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:18 (thirteen years ago) link
husalah's 'hustlin since the 80s'the jacka & husalah's "animal planet" mixtape
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:20 (thirteen years ago) link
theres nothing really similar musically tho, w/ all the reggae samples
but that same raw west coast meets ny feel, those two are good
i do not like wiz khalifa
― domo genesis p-orridge (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:23 (thirteen years ago) link
thnx for sharing
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:24 (thirteen years ago) link
okay thanks, imma check those out tonight.....heard some husalah. curious to see how he holds up on a longplayerthe beat from 'A Real Feeling'.....and 'Not Me' = what i need right now. so good
― rizzx, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish wiz did more like the laid back style he occasionally does, instead of the laid back style he does too often - ya 'erd?
― "jobs" (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
in a weird way i think deej is right, this old ass cormega album i've been listening to me actually reminds me of jacka
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:29 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't like Wiz when he's singing hooks like that, i don't like what Snoop does with the chorus eitherthat song isn't that good
― rizzx, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
man cormega i love u
i specialize in warnow it's time to blowmama, show 'em how to use a fuckin' four-four
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:33 (thirteen years ago) link
i think that wiz & snoop song is dope, in the vein of the good stuff on kush & oj
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:41 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah cormega is def a big influence on jacka. they have even done songs together iirc?
― whitney from mtv's the city (tpp), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
since the early 00s
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:51 (thirteen years ago) link
'the jack artist' lp shows even more cormega influence
anyway street album has so much great stuff on it ... m@tt hasnt even mentioned 'aspen' or 'addiction'!
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's solid p much all the way through...though i like the laid back spooky stuff the most
― dj plain ole m@tt (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:56 (thirteen years ago) link
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:41 AM (14 minutes ago)
yeah wiz is basically a black hole for me but i dig this song
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:57 (thirteen years ago) link
husalah's 'hustlin since the 80s'
^cosign this one, got into it about a month ago and it's one of the best rap albums i've heard in a while. some really stunning songs on it
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 16:58 (thirteen years ago) link
im not sure i get the 'black hole' stuff, i know this is al's line on him too, but it seems to me hes a dude who lives or dies by the ability of the song to capture that wistful stoner vibe. his raps are straightforward, he stays in his own lane...i dont get black hole, i just get 'very safe.' when the production or hook is trash, he is. but when it works, its hard to find something to criticize. stuff like "mesmerized" -- which basically epitomizes what makes him work, IMO -- are really pretty great
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:03 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean wiz will never be a 'great rapper' to me, but he seems like a hard one to hate for the same reason
he's just an incredibly stiff MC, even on his good songs. i have no problem liking songs by him ("black and yellow", that snoop song), but it's never the rapping that engages me. diddy outraps him on their song together
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:06 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i don't hate him, but if you're gonna be so monotone you better at least have some skills. he's just kinda whatever
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:07 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont think hes stiff at all tho! hes really good at sounding congruent & smooth, relaxed. skills isnt the point -- hes too busy stealing your girl & smoking weed to worry abt skills.
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Huslin Since Da 80's is so great. I really dig that trick with the William Blake sample on it.
― Number None, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
I don't feel that Snoop track is on par with the better tracks on K&OJ....but maybe I just hate every song with Snoop on it nowadays. yeah it's a shame huh
― rizzx, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
i still say Wiz and Wale sound really alike, i thought hearing them more would make it easier to distinguish their voices from each other but more and more i'll turn on the radio and if one of them is on a song i don't immediately recognize it'll take me 5-10 seconds to figure out which it is (i think one time i actually heard Wale's "No Hands" verse and for a sec thought they did a remix of it w/ Wiz)...they both have the same basic weaknesses, wouldn't say they sound 'stiff' but that kind of straining vocal tone, like they're pushing the words out, i find really irksome, and the way they'll kind of stretch out words at the end of lines and emphasize when words don't even rhyme, like they're flaunting how sloppy their lyrics are (Wale's "problem/New Orrr-leeeens" vs. Wiz's "big faces/tayyy-lorrrr"). i haven't heard a lot of Wiz's mixtape stuff so i don't even think of him as some mellow wistful stoner, he's just this guy who sounds really uncomfortable on the mic on flashy radio songs.
― some dude, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 18:06 (thirteen years ago) link
i think wiz is totally great on this song
― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 18:21 (thirteen years ago) link
what 'flashy radio songs'? just black & yellow? wiz's other hits are all the stoner-y stuff. (& he sounds 100% engaged on 'black & yellow'!) yeah i mean i cant disagree more w/ youre evaluation of it, & the stuff about their vocal inflections is obv subjective but to me it sounds really random. 'straining vocal tone'? i just dont hear it \oO/
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
the admittedly small and probably unrepresentative amount of stuff i've heard that i'm basing my opinion of Wiz on: Say Yeah, Black & Yellow, the Diddy feature, Super High and Bottoms Up remixes, This Plane
― some dude, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont hear 'uncomfortable on the mic' on 'say yeah' or 'black and yellow' -- if anything, he makes sure his lyrics are way straightforward so its impossible to sound anything but comfortable. he doesn't really stretch out or try tricky rhythms or rhymes, just goes for being as comprehensible as possible
― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, 18 January 2011 18:28 (thirteen years ago) link