rolling regional thug thread 2012

the MMG track that linked today is cool

er, leaked

altho as someone on twitter pointed out it the beat totally sounds like "penitentiary philosophy"

i want someone to write an article abt the influence of pop punk on rap like travis porter. i hear so much in there

― tpp, Thursday, June 14, 2012 7:15 PM (31 minutes ago) Bookmark

well they all dress like 14 year old white kids as it is

"party time" from the new album is basically a get up kids song

i avoided travis porter for a while because their name sounded like a pop-punk artist

the meek tape was aite to me but has no singles on the level of his shit from last yr

the MMG track that linked today is cool

― lamborghini persie (J0rdan S.), Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

zzz

the meek tape was aite to me but has no singles on the level of his shit from last yr

― littledotheyknow (D-40), Friday, June 15, 2012 8:28 AM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark

eh i think that's just holding him to too high a standard. yes he hasn't made any songs as good as "I'ma Boss" or "House Party" in the last 10 months, but it's not like a bunch of other rappers have. and "Lean Wit It" and "Amen" are perfectly good songs to keep it moving with in the meantime.

yeah i dont mean to suggest hes fallen off, im just hoping for more & those feel like a holding pattern i guess

Anyone else enjoying Joey Bada$$ and his new mixtape 1999?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DDWAk8-leVA

Keef signed a deal with Interscope

RIP

Better that than cmr or cte.

yes, that is true

basically all i've been listening to this week
http://themartorialist.blogspot.ie/2012/05/max-minelli-compilation-4-u.html

― Number None, Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:31 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Excellent shout, now I too have been listening to it all week. Well from Thurs-Today to be accurate.

generally speaking, a new artist signing to a major for their own imprint is a higher risk/higher reward than signing to an established star's imprint. you might not get as much instant attention as you would signing with Wayne/Jeezy/Kanye/etc. but you also don't have to wait in line behind Lil Twist/Gibbs/Pusha T/etc. and coordinate your career with 5 other careers already in progress.

is there anything appealing to creating your own imprint aside from theoretically having the power to put your friends on? (and i'm not sure if that's even true tbh.) just seems like unnecessary risk for everyone involved, and sometimes just totally pointless (thinking of earl sweatshirt getting his own imprint w/ wherever he signed).

i understand not wanting to sign w/ another rapper's imprint... that sounds pretty shitty for a new artist unless you're someone like ice burgandy who wouldn't be signing w/ a major anyway. i'm talking about just signing w/ a label outright.

i think helping your hypeman put out a solo record is kind of a secondary concern really -- you're not gonna get to do that unless you're pretty successful either way. i think of it more in terms of, Wiz created his own franchise by not signing under a bigger star, which is how it usually happens. Drake and Nicki got to do it while signing under a big star, but that's the exception to the rule (and they also aligned w/ YM before having a huge buzz).

i don't think really ANY rapper anymore is just "signed to interscope" or def jam or whatever without a go-between imprint. that's just not the way the industry has worked for, like, 10 years now.

right, alright

there's probably also a chicken-and-egg thing with the death of rap A&Ring -- every rapper who wants to be Jay-Z has a guy next to him who wants to be Dame Dash so they walk into the building with the team they want to run their career before they sign

like that Joey Bada$$, man what an old school Black Moon throwback

basically all i've been listening to this week
http://themartorialist.blogspot.ie/2012/05/max-minelli-compilation-4-u.html
― Number None, Wednesday, June 13, 2012 1:31 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Excellent shout, now I too have been listening to it all week. Well from Thurs-Today to be accurate.

― pandemic, Monday, June 18, 2012 6:10 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^best thing posted in this thread for a long time!

i dont get joey badass. how long are we going to mine that exact same vein of ny rap

i dunno, m@tt you have any history of family illness? you're gonna be alive at least another 40 years, right?

i feel pretty good thanks :)

i hope to live to see roc marciano's grandson flow over a vampire zombie pete rock beat

seriously though the max minelli thing is so great, def would appeal to trv kvlt southern rap fans

i mean joey bada$$ isn't doing anything that new, but he can rap and the beat is solid. i'm not like freaking out about it, but tbh sometime s i feel like stuff like this is called out as comfort food derivative stuff when you could say that about tons of non NYC stuff on this thread

"i hope to live to see roc marciano's grandson flow over a vampire zombie pete rock beat"
too long for a display name but i salute u

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sgDeB7MNQg

yeah yeah yeah

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coF-KsSb4iU

this shit has been made for yeeeears

are krispy kreme guys the grown up manic dancing kids?

Am I the only one who finds the Krispy Kreme stuff extremely unfunny?

no, it's not funny or especially interesting.

except for immobile skinny guy and "pretty little thang from tennessee, i like you and you like me"

oh wait, this is a thing isn't it

new Juvenile seems pretty good so far!

Love the song "Power" with the Chill Rob G/Snap! sample :)

yeah "power" is fantastic

actually dudes i was gonna start a list thread but I think that's like my single favorite micro-genre of music - raps songs where there's a repeated vocal sample that finishes lines for the rappers, like "oh boy", this song, etc

that's literally the greatest thing in music history

good call on this juvy

that came out last year & i swear we discussed it here before

i guess the vid just leaked. anyway i love how smart of a song it is

i cant decide if i like this or no -- i think i posted it awhile back & said the same thing but now it has a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y-RCc6UL30&hd=1

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http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/music_box/2012/06/azealia_banks_a_ap_rocky_tnght_and_the_end_of_hip_hop_regionalism_.html

as much as you hood rep deej; i'm curious what you make of that piece.

Article is otm, but regionalism has been dying for a long time

Cfe: dre, em, and 50's early 00s stuff was all basically the big screen dre expensive sounding aesthetic... And 50 def sounded a little more southern than was typical of nyc..or jigga what by jay and big pimpin was him getting at the south

Or timbo/missy def had an aesthetic that didn't seem tied to a region and tim would make tracks for everyone

article is incredibly myopic w/ its examples & that fundamentally undercuts trying to say something at all relevant about the subject

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dUkoe_Sr5i0

around 2 min. keef does a double time flow that kinda kills