NeYoSoul someone just threw a thermal @ my bigass head
― ie: BANGING (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Now the best rappers are not rapping, going to jail, and just sucking. Now that Wayne has officially evolved into the hip hop personality sphere occupied by such irrelevant recording artists as 50 and Snoop Dogg we have no true rap stars. Kanye is leading the pack, but off the cliff.
The hipster hop crossover (not to be confused with the blogo thundercat rappers, an embarrassment in their own right, but honestly not even worth acknowledging at this point - I am talking 808s, “Swagger Like Us”, “Brooklyn Go Hard”, Jim Jones rhyming over MGMT, etc.) of 2009 will be looked back on as one of the lowest points in hip hop. Lower than snap hop and hip house and all that
― aggy new year (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, January 6, 2009 3:14 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
who wrote this?
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
the worst part is that i found it from nahright's twitter
xp noz
― aggy new year (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.complex.com/blogs/2009/01/06/twitter-fight-jim-jones-vs-ne-yo/
― aggy new year (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:34 (fifteen years ago) link
Now that Wayne has officially evolved into the hip hop personality sphere occupied by such irrelevant recording artists as 50 and Snoop Dogg we have no true rap stars. Kanye is leading the pack, but off the cliff.
too lazy to link to my blog post about jeezy being rap's only true rap star - but jeezy is rap's only true rap star
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
ti?
― aggy new year (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://jumptheturnstyle.com/?p=2043
^this shit is truly a time capsule of ;_; btw
also i think noz is being facetious about the hip-house/snap hop thing
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah t.i. sold the fuck out though - his verses on "live your life" are underrated but whenever that numa numa sample kicks in i feel like im being punked
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
and that song is AFTER live your life
er AFTER "whatever you like"
ha, I first heard Numa Numa BECAUSE of "Live Your Life", so I don't have any negative association with the sample
― a permanent state of o_O (The Reverend), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:42 (fifteen years ago) link
t.i.'s uh "selling out" doesn't seem a permanent or irreversible thing though, just trend-hopping
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
the only thing that bugs me about that song is how rhianna pronounces shit like a leprechaun
― ie: BANGING (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
lex otm
― a permanent state of o_O (The Reverend), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
no noz really has silly opinions about some of that shit
― opinions4usic (deej), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:44 (fifteen years ago) link
who remembers his post about 'no good women rappers'
oof, forgot about that one
― a permanent state of o_O (The Reverend), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 22:46 (fifteen years ago) link
what other rap stars are there right now besides young jeezy
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
t.i. WAS arguably the biggest rap star circa king but now his pop songs are worse and so is his rapping - jeezy's just as successful now as he was and he's done it on his own terms - as far as rap goes as an intersection between an art form and a commercial business i don't see anyone more vital to the game than jeezy
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 6 January 2009 23:13 (fifteen years ago) link
Internationally, i don't think ppl don't care about jeezy or t.i., it's all about 'Ye and has been since at least Late Registration. And maybe fiddy if they still care about him in 2009 ("I Get It In" dropped today).
― subroc back to haunt, Tuesday, 6 January 2009 23:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I know you're intersecting success with ppl you rate, therefore those guys don't apply, but just saying re:stardom. Anyways...
Percival Fats (Born Percival Hindenburg-Fats) Is NOT Lupe Fiasco (Born Wasalu Muhammad Jaco). Although he is a dear friend,' it read 'Lupe does finance the band but is NOT I REPEAT NOT THE SINGER IN JAPANESE CARTOON. He is however the producer and we value his participation very much haha
Q-Tip song for the Cadillac Records OST - "(Evolution of a) Man" is nice in a throwaway way.
The RZA f, Kool G. Rap, Inspektah Deck & Suga Bang (from Afro Samurai: Resurrection) - You Already Know - not really feeling this yet, but it did make me bump "Cameo Afro" from the first one, which was cool.
@Matt upthread, yeah High Powered is on the album, has been around for a bit. Really good. Took me a while to like it tho, and i don't think the video does anything for it.
― subroc back to haunt, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
Noz likes Trina.
And Medusa. A heady mix.
― subroc back to haunt, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 01:32 (fifteen years ago) link
im kind of feeling the new 50 single -- beat is weirdly hypnotizing
― opinions4usic (deej), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 01:58 (fifteen years ago) link
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/TheFaderMagazine/~3/504396748/freeload-50-cent-i-get-it-in-prod-dr-dre
zzz 50 trolls interscope intentionally lame flaming 2% of the track with genius
― Barrabas Osama (usic), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:00 (fifteen years ago) link
idc @ trend partisan fader blogger worked into polemic frenzy.
― Barrabas Osama (usic), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i lolled, what was he so mad about
― opinions4usic (deej), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:21 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, i'm dumb :/
― Barrabas Osama (usic), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:31 (fifteen years ago) link
^ ljin bad
― Barrabas Osama (usic), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:32 (fifteen years ago) link
― Barrabas Osama (usic), Tuesday, January 6, 2009 10:00 PM (35 minutes ago) Bookmark
^good post
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
the 50 track ain't bad
― permanent o_Ovolution (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:38 (fifteen years ago) link
^bad post
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
jk i haven't even listened to it
I've re-read that post like 5 times trying to understand it
xxx
― aggy new year (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:39 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe listening to the track would help
― aggy new year (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:40 (fifteen years ago) link
man 50 can't make songs without "get" in the title anymore can he
― some dude, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:56 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe he's taking cues from T.I.'s runaway success with the word "what"
T.I. also owns the word "know".
― permanent o_Ovolution (The Reverend), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 04:58 (fifteen years ago) link
luriqua ded serious
― FUTURE HOOS: stronger better faster hooser (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 05:27 (fifteen years ago) link
im actually enjoying this CHICAGO HIPSTER RAP and dude and can rap and its also kinda funny low budget shit. And a good beat. and a funny concept
i deem this one of my exceptions to the rule
― opinions4usic (deej), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 05:34 (fifteen years ago) link
-1 same catchphrase as hacksaw jim duggan, -1 no lolz in actual rap, -1 much worse name than jay electronica
overruled!
― subroc back to haunt, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 08:10 (fifteen years ago) link
first fake intro laugh in rap 2009 i think
― subroc back to haunt, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 08:12 (fifteen years ago) link
it answers this question that i've been pondering since i was 15: "what would happen if one of the chicks from bang bus str8 shot one of the dudes?"
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 08:13 (fifteen years ago) link
no way is that a worse name than jay electronica
im not as big a fan any more since i saw him get clowned by the iranian dude from soul purpose and respond by basically being racist, tho
― opinions4usic (deej), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 08:13 (fifteen years ago) link
just a quick lol @ the uk
POLL Better names for Jay Electronica: Je'ri Allah, Jotah Flowers, Jaydolf Spitler, Jay Elect.
POLL Worse names for etc. see above
― subroc back to haunt, Wednesday, 7 January 2009 08:14 (fifteen years ago) link
is that noodle vague's son?
― jordan s (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 7 January 2009 08:15 (fifteen years ago) link
btw i dont think i've ever heard anyone say "shite" out loud - i will always remember this video ^____^