Some clarification, I'm not looking for more nasty female rap with hip-hop backings, there's no shortage of that. I'm curious about nasty female rap over 125-130 bpm 4-on-the-floor house ala "212".
― Plato’s The Cave In Claymation (Sanpaku), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:16 (twelve years ago) link
"4 My People" is only 118 bpms :(
― @51TimesNo (some dude), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:20 (twelve years ago) link
i swear i was just posting that
― this is funny u bitter dork (forksclovetofu), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:21 (twelve years ago) link
FWIW, I think AB is interesting because of the ease with which she crossed that ethnic/oceanic divide on "212", though her other tracks lack that tension of syncopated boast over metronomic propulsion.
― Plato’s The Cave In Claymation (Sanpaku), Friday, 20 January 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
All prob 130-ish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-g-QimJKlc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIyKcNvJNfo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3piv9EFZU8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRefxBSRR68
Dunno about nasty tho.
Hope this helps with your blog house mix :'D
― jimitheexploder, Friday, 20 January 2012 22:52 (twelve years ago) link
Thx. I haven't done a mix since my nephew's wedding 14 months ago. Blog house wasn't in favor.
― Plato’s The Cave In Claymation (Sanpaku), Friday, 20 January 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
Sanpaku you prolly heard this one - it's not exactly rapping and it's maybe not up your nephew's alley either but what it is is immortal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMvpP9Rq3t4
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 21 January 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
d-40 otm about 'bambi'
― I am that young sis, the beacon, a yardstick (dayo), Saturday, 21 January 2012 03:04 (twelve years ago) link
tracer otm about 20 fingers
'youve got to lick it before we kick it' is also classic
― I Love Pedantry (D-40), Saturday, 21 January 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
"bambi" =
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOXKo90-DNA
― Bruce K. Tedesco (zachlyon), Saturday, 21 January 2012 07:05 (twelve years ago) link
had never heard that Ms Bratt track, ty for posting
― Θ ̨Θƪ (sic), Saturday, 21 January 2012 11:16 (twelve years ago) link
hearing "SXLND" without AB on top of it made me like it more
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
Is this a Hip House thread now? This is an all time favorite:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pfQT7etnKg
― Moka, Sunday, 29 January 2012 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
"Club Action" >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> "212"
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Sunday, 29 January 2012 22:21 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah "Club Action" is one of my favorite songs ever so obviously I prefer it to "212."
also.. http://azealiabanks.atmoapparel.co.uk/
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
willfully ignorant about this person
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:20 (twelve years ago) link
"Club Action (I Believe In Love)"
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
fuck bambi is terrible. she is going to be as disappointing as ldr isn't she
― teledyldonix, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
212 is so perfect I almost don't want to hear anything else by her in case it's just ordinary. You know what I really love? "But you do like to slumber, don't you?" The way she chews through that line.
― Michael Jones, Wednesday, 1 February 2012 22:36 (twelve years ago) link
Otm
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:07 (twelve years ago) link
My fave is probly "Imma eat yer food up, boo" followed by "Whats yr dick like, homie? What are you into?"
― tropical mall lady (Stevie D(eux)), Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
It's like she's up in your face rapping while you're bent over backwards and she's picking your pockets and not giving a shit about personal space or how you feel AT ALL
― Raymond Cummings, Thursday, 2 February 2012 05:36 (twelve years ago) link
"cock-a-licking in the water by the blue bayou / caught the warm goo / in your doo-rag too, son?" is my fav line
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Thursday, 2 February 2012 08:52 (twelve years ago) link
It's an embarrassment of riches, is what we're saying here.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 February 2012 09:16 (twelve years ago) link
http://azealiabanks.atmoapparel.co.uk/clothing/chiildren.html
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:39 (twelve years ago) link
guess that.... section of the store isn't open yet
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:45 (twelve years ago) link
"I do like to slumber, don't I?" would be perfect on a onesie.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 2 February 2012 10:47 (twelve years ago) link
Weird NY Times interview.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/02/fashion/azealia-banks-a-young-rapper-taking-cues-from-the-street.html?_r=3&adxnnl=1&ref=arts&adxnnlx=1328293094-wvCkWk+QvRt5w/IykfIShA
"Reggae-spackled"? "Crass lyrics"?
― Suede - the fabric, not the band (DL), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:21 (twelve years ago) link
haha in what way is the crassness of her lyrics in dispute
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
you're gonna nitpick about whether a song in which the word "cunt" appears more than once can be said to have crass lyrics?
lol xpost
― pfunkbo bryson (some dude), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
[young, minority], Taking Her Cues and Lyrics From the Street
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:23 (twelve years ago) link
"how weird of the New York Times to say that a person whose big buzz song contains the lines 'I'mma ruin you, cunt' and 'What's your dick like, homie?' has crass lyrics, I mean what were they thinking"
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
i just realised that the great michelle myers blogpost on what makes "212" so great wasn't posted in here, dunno where i put it originally but for the sake of completeness - http://theremixbaby.tumblr.com/post/13146055905/thesinglesjukebox-azealia-banks-212-9-10
Obviously Azealia Banks is not the first or the best rapper to use assonance and internal vowel rhyme this way. I hope my blurb doesn’t make it seem like I’ve never heard rap music before! I’m fully aware that most ‘good’ (god, whatever that means amirite?) rappers play with phonemes, both vowel and consonant, in a similar manner. But Azealia’s use of assonance struck me for two reasons. First, she sustains a very high level of internal rhyme based on the same few sounds (say “212” and then say “ruin you cunt”) for two whole verses. Which is impressive although I’m not interested much in ‘impressive’ rapping. I own a Twista album. I got it. But all the assonance, especially when combined with Azealia’s bitchy flow (the verses are, fundamentally, just a stream of rudely-posed questions), simply makes the rapping fun to listen to regardless of the actual substance of what she’s saying. A lot of rappers just don’t get this shit. I don’t consider myself a head and I know some people will disagree with me on this one, but, in my opinion, you can rap about the dumbest, most useless shit ever as long as you sound hot on the track. The other effect of the the assonant lyrics, is that Azealia ends up holding her mouth in a “oo” position a lot, which, in the snobby drawl she affects sounds more like an “eww.” Azealia puts that “eww” sound to work. I know I said that in my original blurb, but I don’t really know how else to explain it. It’s a concept I learned doing Shakespeare shows—you give respect to the sounds, let them resonate through your body, and they will work for you, they will help you be truthful in your circumstances. The sounds are honest. So Azealia Banks filters the tone of her rapping through the actual sounds that she’s rapping. Without ever needing to say it or even perform it, she reads as disgusted, bored, and condescending. Talkin’ shit and making oral sex jokes, she raps like a classically trained actor might, and that’s a very good thing.
― first period don't give a fuck, second period gon get cut (lex pretend), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:24 (twelve years ago) link
crass in uk is more 'guileless/stoooopid' than 'obnoxious'
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
i do not like 212
― surm, Friday, 3 February 2012 18:29 (twelve years ago) link
my mans
― lag∞n affiliated (The Reverend), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:33 (twelve years ago) link
sup homies
― pfunkbo bryson (some dude), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:36 (twelve years ago) link
I don't hate it but I don't understand what about it makes it so alluring to ppl beyond the beat, which I like more as a standalone track.
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
haha c'mon people generally care way more about the vocals than the music in that song
― pfunkbo bryson (some dude), Friday, 3 February 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
“Life is the same,” she said, a sly smile forming between her churlish lips. “Life is the same,” she said, a sly smile forming between her churlish lips. “Life is the same,” she said, a sly smile forming between her churlish lips. “Life is the same,” she said, a sly smile forming between her churlish lips.
― The term “hipster racism” from Carmen Van Kerckhove at Racialicious (nakhchivan), Friday, 3 February 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
just sounds annoying and derivative to me
― surm, Friday, 3 February 2012 19:06 (twelve years ago) link
Pile on cause there's lotsa room on the backlash train wooowoooo
― Wie wol ich bin der vogel has noch den erfret mich das (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 February 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
"backlash" is just the word people use to intimidate others out of vocally disliking something popular or buzzed about
― pfunkbo bryson (some dude), Friday, 3 February 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
it's also a state wherein people see something popular or buzzed about attempt to engage that media with preconceived and/or inflated notions and walk away going "eh not so hot" less because of what the media is and more about what the surrounding response to that media is
now let's define strawman
― Wie wol ich bin der vogel has noch den erfret mich das (forksclovetofu), Friday, 3 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
i heard this song weeks ago before i had even even heard the buzz, and that was my opinion at that time
― surm, Friday, 3 February 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
i don't see anyone accusing people of only liking this song because other people like it, so i don't see why anyone should be accused of only disliking it because other people like it. benefit of the doubt has to flow in both directions.
― pfunkbo bryson (some dude), Friday, 3 February 2012 19:17 (twelve years ago) link
forks we've been hating on this shit since the moment we heard it, before it was 'buzzed about'
― #YOLO #NAMASTE (D-40), Friday, 3 February 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
that explanation lex linked to is lol
I just went back and checked facebook to see when it was I first posted the video for "212": September 27, 2011
Not braggin (okay, maybe a little), but I was into this pre-buzz and I'm still into it now.
― Johnny Fever, Friday, 3 February 2012 19:24 (twelve years ago) link
i'm just hearing it for the first time. sounds great. they used to call this "spank rock" tho.
― adolf jingle balls (contenderizer), Friday, 3 February 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
she had a million dollars and she spent it all
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:57 (three years ago) link
i mean THAT'S disturbing but i'd like to see an itemized receipt
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:58 (three years ago) link
She sold her house for over 800k
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 January 2021 21:59 (three years ago) link
pretty wild thing to post to instagram but it’s probably near the bottom of azealia’s top ten wildest moments tbrr
― mh, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:01 (three years ago) link
uh the internet says her house sold in a foreclosure for that muchmeaning she still had a mortgage
― mh, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:02 (three years ago) link
Oh that sucks
― treeship., Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:10 (three years ago) link
well i mean how much was the mortgage
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:12 (three years ago) link
“guess that cat gettin eaten” and “fuck watching a cat” both elite-level posts, a++
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:45 (three years ago) link
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, January 12, 2021 4:12 PM (forty-three minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
how should i know, i ain't got no crystal ball
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 12 January 2021 22:55 (three years ago) link
I would guess she had at most $212k in equity
― mh, Tuesday, 12 January 2021 23:14 (three years ago) link
I guess "Fuck Him All Night" was not an ILM hit.
― Joe Bombin (milo z), Sunday, 25 July 2021 00:19 (two years ago) link
last song of hers I liked was "Anna Wintour"
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Sunday, 25 July 2021 00:22 (two years ago) link
fairly certain i never actually listened to "slay z"
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 26 July 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link
she just called Elon Musk "Apartheid Clyde" so uh points for that I guess
― frogbs, Saturday, 25 September 2021 02:52 (two years ago) link
Lol my hatred for Musk almost makes me likes her for that tweet, but that line was crossed ages ago for me.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 25 September 2021 03:29 (two years ago) link
i guess that kant getting eaten! i guess that kant getting eaten! i guess that kant getting eaten! i guess that kant getting eaten! i guess that kant getting eaten! pic.twitter.com/SahMeq389s— joshie day 🎈 (@theblackIodge) March 23, 2022
― Indexed, Thursday, 24 March 2022 15:16 (two years ago) link
Munching Books - is it a sin?
― budo jeru, Thursday, 24 March 2022 15:21 (two years ago) link