rolling regional thug thread 2012

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

Well, this is too hard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttPE8WCEsmM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPQ7a-yJ7cg

this goes hard too altho durk kinda kills reese on it

only b+w videos today

pha'tal f. chief keef - fuck around
jack, mike larry, blast holiday and mistah fab - get money
lil durk f. lil reese - OTF

That slate piece is a weird piece of work.

lil durk >

Juvenile album is pretty boring to me, but the Wacko/Skip section toward the end kinda redeems it. been hearing "Nolia Clap" a lot lately and thinking about what a classic it is.

From a historical perspective, Ice Cubes Amerikkkas Most Wanted is probably the most important album in the decline of regionalism, him going over to the bomb squad and doing a verse on PEs burn hollywood burn felt pretty important at the time, esp when east/west tensions were high and cube was perceived as gangsta and pe perceived as conscious

Also kool g raps live and let die embraced thicker west coast beats and had sir jinx productions

Actually the source review of ready to die was framed as biggie taking the dominant west coast style and adding an east coat spin to it

What about LL's Bigger And Deffer? He recorded that with some LA producers.

Juve album is pretty garbage really. 1st half outside of Power is a total loss. Still Here beat was ruined by the hook. idk, maybe 3 good tracks total.

Rev, yeah the LA Posse I think, still LA didn't really have a distinct identity then, or not unless it was super local and underground

So I don't think it was perceived in the same way, or that anyone thought LL was changing his style

LA had that whole Egyptian Lover/Uncle Jamm's Army/World Class Wreckin Cru electro-hop steez.

Yeah but I don't know how much that traveled

I think around 84, 85 you could go to any city and kids were dressing like run dmc & LL

plus nothing on bigger and deffer sounded electro

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K42vy6aReco

dang

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfY-G9z9U4Y&feature=youtu.be

i smell a goon classic

http://s.ytimg.com/yt/img/image-404-vfl1vwmey.png

is this the face one makes when one smells a goon classic

that vid isn't loading for me for some reason. can someone c+p the url?

like i just see a blank space

word. eager to listen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV1tMUP5z5A

Where's the drop!?

He's got a great voice. Like a scarface/mystikal mix, but more sloppy. Love the melody on the hook.

Where's the drop!?

― Gotye Sports (It's In The Name) (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:49 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

haha

i like how it sorta blurs the line between a hymn and being lyrical on a young dro tip

makin discussions with russians and still whippin cookies

or

seats television, the interior jellyfish

or

me and scoop, hoppin outta two coupes, in two suits, with more o's than two bowls of fruit loops

but it's still this real swampy spiritual kinda thing

lol parts of the video look so strange set against that track

i love it. like scarface with a lil goodie mob via some grindin'. and yeah def. pickig up on the dro or gucci style lyricism. thank u j0rdan.

i think the disconnect ive felt between the rap i hear & whats hot in nyc has never been more distant. did you guys know 'hands on the wheel' is IN ROTATION in new york?

ha i listen to hot 97 on my phone sometimes & i hear it as frequently as any other song. it's pretty bizarre.

that fat joe/kanye song is pretty dope tho

Alpoko Don: Rap game Dr. John.

the bubble of new york people who think a$ap rocky will be/already is a 'UGE 'UGE STAR is hilarious

i heard as recently as a few months ago the label was still pushing peso to national radio stations

can't wait to hear this...

http://www.twitvid.com/Q0CC4

i heard as recently as a few months ago the label was still pushing peso to national radio stations

― littledotheyknow (D-40), Tuesday, June 26, 2012 4:15 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark

well they're pushing "goldie" now. which definitely has more traction nationally than "peso" ever had but is still not exactly a smash.

"goldie" is pretty bad... also seems like it's only marginally bigger than "peso"

yeah i hate the hook so much

yeah it's really bothersome -- someone should let him know that not every one of his singles can have a screwed hook

gotta give it to kanye (or whoever figured out the hook) 'lamborghini merci / your chick she so thirsty' is 100x catchier than any screwed asap hook even if thats who they bit the idea from

5% or something of all rap songs have had screwed hooks since time immemorial, how is it even possible to 'bite' the 'idea' from one recent guy

yeah, does "mercy" directly rip an asap song? i missed that

what contemporary acts have screwed hooks right now? name one

i won't doubt kanye's desire to rip something off from every hot young rapper but it seems a bit generous to credit the hook on "mercy" to asap rocky instead of the entire sound & culture that it (including asap rocky) is spawned from

the-dream has done screwed hooks a bit no?

anyone listened to self made vol 2?

I think its evident that bringing a screwed hook in 2012 is a reference to asap, unless youre a texas rapper

"anyone listened to self made vol 2?"

i did, prolly won't do it again.

eh, it's in every rap listener's vocabulary as much as sped-up soul samples and fucking record scratches at this point (xpost)

I think its evident that bringing a screwed hook in 2012 is a reference to asap, unless youre a texas rapper

― littledotheyknow (D-40), Tuesday, June 26, 2012 8:08 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah this is... not true, i think