rolling regional thug thread 2012

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJusndrL4ig

digital underground f. j. stalin

"its getting hot in herre ... so take off all your nose"

XD

man when's the j stalin record coming out? seem's like it's forever delayed.

he just put "the body snatchers" out last month, it's pretty good.

thanks i must have missed that. there's the collaboration album with l-jay too but i didn't think much of it.

haven't heard that one

i think i'm falling out of love w/hip hop
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

you're just not digging pistachio. there's a lotta other flavors

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it's alright, just crammed with really average sex raps. it's weirdly nothing like its artwork.

i think i'm falling out of love w/hip hop
― Mississippi Butt Hurt (upper mississippi sh@kedown)
you're just not digging pistachio. there's a lotta other flavors

― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Thursday, April 19, 2012 10:33 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i dunno :/

just nothing's really grabbing me lately. i listened to rolling stoned by smoke dza today that was pretty good.

did you hear that marching band track i posted on the no more drama thread? seemed like you'd dig it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmIWmwA-NZQ

haha radiohead chant at the beginning

that's cool, i like guilty a lot

cool breeze did some marching band stuff that was cool iirc

i've been on a count bass d kick just lately; you a fan? he came up from my college town right when i was paying more attention to hip hop.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZikqRQbpD4

kinda makes me sad that this approach led to record deals for cudi but what're you gonna do

yeah when count bass d's first album came out with t-boz tried to talk to me that single got talked about in the source, love that album...

but i kinda lost touch with the rest of his career for some reason

the dwight spitz album is great, art 4 sale is all time for me.
he's got a LOT of albums on spotify including a full length from last year; probably time for me to reembrace.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUS68lX5NNk

finally some footage that captures the scope of this show

how can someone not be excited abt hip hop right now smh @ m@tt

"Where's the hooks?" lol

Thx for the Kevin Gates mention in this thread Deej. Checked it, liked it.

obsessed with pluto but that kels joint sticks out like a sore thumb. it's good tho. album reminds me a bit of 'the state vs radric davis'. not musically really, just a rapper managing to pull off a major label debut properly. spot on guest apperances. track with trae is so great.

yeah i weirdly found myself impressed that future did a pimp c song that sounded more or less like all his other songs -- figured it would be some hokey twanged out texas shit

that's pretty spot on. lol yea r kelly kinda nearly that song, the 'apple phone' line is just horrendous.

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nearly ruined

EATING ON SHRIMP MOTHERFUCKER

lmao @ that keef show clip. reminds me of grime shows back in tha day with 40 motherfuckers shouting on stage. man that track is so fucking huge

*both those tracks

trying to spot deej on stage...

lol I was in the audience

Thats like keef and louies neighborhoods on stage with them.

There was a whole controversy bc the alderman sent out an email to residents warning about a "chief keef show"....which was actually headlined by meek mill

i was lolling @ louie when keef was doing "3hunna"

that gates song "dangerous" is awesome btw, the beat reminds me of the "bag lady"/"xxplosive" sample a bit

see also 50 Cent - 21 Questions

this new DJ Paul CD is so fucking awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwAoadLz-7U

how can someone not be excited abt hip hop right now smh @ m@tt

― man down (D-40), Friday, April 20, 2012 3:48 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

dunno. i did really like the smoke dza thing i just listened to.

also i'm just not super in the mood as of late, been learning folk guitar and listening to a lot of that stuff and jazz mostly, louis armstrong is a good rapper

louis jordan is better

i never heard him! he's on the list of all those greats i need to check out.

oh shit dude, you really should
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoBWy72t2gA

http://tofuhut.blogspot.com/2005/09/jumpin-jive-glisten-louis-jordan-louis.html

deej do you consider the present moment a great one for lyricists? srs q

dizzy had ridic flow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy-A5FYn27c

deej do you consider the present moment a great one for lyricists? srs q

― same old song and placenta (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, April 20, 2012 3:36 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

i think this depends on who you're talking about? is it presently a great time to be a lyricist? no, probably not. is it a great time to be a rap fan who privileges lyricism? i think it almost always is, if you know where to look/who to look out for

i think this depends on who you're talking about?

i didn't mean for this to have a ? btw, comes off dickishly, which i didn't intend

no it's cool I didn't take it in any off way

i dont think i really agree with jordan. I think it's the same as it's ever been--if you know where to look, you can find great lyricists everywhere. I do wish the industry was propelling more of them, because in retrospect i feel like mainstream rap did do a good job of building talent in a different way back in the early 00s relative to now. but lyricists who can really kill it are everywhere. King Louie's "Bars," for example, doesn't even have a chorus; it's him obliterating the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-i2yR3-eYkk

Then the kevin gates stuff posted upthread ... he gets pretty lyrical on, like, love songs & sex songs, which is kind of unusual. I think he's one of the best writers out right now. For example, on that song "Dangerous," there's this great part where he's like "passing through the hood with memories of the block / left hand holding the wheel our fingers are interlocked," just these kinds of details where 90% of rappers would rhyme it with 'glock' ...

i think that artists who have an ear for pop hooks & musicality are always going to win, whether or not they are lyrical. but i don't think there's a dearth of lyrical rappers or anything

digital underground f. j. stalin

wtf is this new? I thought DU was done

i dont think i really agree with jordan. I think it's the same as it's ever been--if you know where to look, you can find great lyricists everywhere.

i think this is what i said

it's like 6 years old

digital underground f. j. stalin

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that king louie is p good, but doesn't totally grab me for whatever reason.

i liked the one kevin gates song i listened to upthread. i like that letter to my son by don trip a lot, that's probably my favorite song i've heard in a while,..and then like action bronson is fun but i'm not sure how much is THERE in the long term.

gunplay seemed cool, pretty talented and charismatic and stuff.

honestly deej it's more just my mood lately i think. i kinda run in phases.

haha i was gonna say, deej you're totally agreeing with j0rdan