Travi$ Scott - Days Before Rodeo - best rap release of 2014 so far?

i am still kinda mystified by the gibbs thing, it reminds me of how lamp (i think) described whiney as having every characteristic of being a hipster except something is missing, except freddie gibbs is like that w 'classic gangster rap artist' for me

kevin gates is better than all of them fwiw

kevin gates is awesome. haven't been disappointed by anything of his.

The highest rated 2014 rap album at Metacritic is Isaiah Rashad (82), which is really good but nobody feels passionate about.

hi dere, best release of the yr, that or future

Music in general is lacking in quality and diversity right now though

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/vporly-sm.gif

well, i'm not a fan of sing-song autotune, so

― lex pretend, Tuesday, October 7, 2014 9:57 AM Bookmark

RHQ is definitely singsong but I can't recall him ever using autotune?

yeah don't think he has

plus a lot of the Rich Gang stuff he doesn't even do hooks, my favorite thing about "Lifestyle" is really his verse

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVhKub975yg

this song is gonna be an anthem for basics up in the club if it isn't already, though i must say i like the production leading up to the obligatory and entirely cookie-cutter drop.

real groundbreaking reverbed/pitch-corrected vocals and otherwordly delivery amirite

Year-end list making time is almost here, so I'm trying to catch up with anything I missed. Anybody else have any rap recommendations? Dej Loaf has been my go-to for the last few weeks, but I haven't heard much else that's blown me away.

JUNGLEPUSSY

i was way late on it but it's such a good album

i don't get dej loaf really

freddie gibbs & madlib's "pinata" is prob overall the best end to end rap album, followed closely by RTJ2 and the YG debut record, all 3 of which have prob

other than that - both gangsta boo releases (witch and underground cassette tape music), kevin gates' by any means, both vince staples releases...

those cam'ron 1st of tha month EPs have also been really solid & not generating that much discussion

*have prob been mentioned already

Lex, is it her voice/delivery you're not feeling or her lyrics? I think her messaging is on point, and just love her overall presence. She's got that whole Rakim "I don't need to raise my voice" thing going, and her inflections are deceptively precise. There's a lot going on underneath what seems like a static delivery.

and yeah that RTJ album is godly. Gangsta Boo might have the most essential guest appearance of the year on that

i like her lyrics, you know my feelings on that kind of delivery by now

haha, yeah, no surprises there. And I could see a lesser rapper doing the same thing coming across like a rapping Jhene Aiko or something, but I think Dej pulls it off and makes the contrast between hard words and soft rhymes work for her without leaning on it as a shtick

anyway, junglepussy: https://soundcloud.com/vice/sets/junglepussys-satisfaction-guaranteed

so much presence and charisma

my fave '14 release not mentioned by slothroprhymes up there is Sweetz P's "#Liferrrs Guide To Watching Porn Without Headphones"

http://www.datpiff.com/Sweetz-P-liferrrs-Guide-To-Watching-Porn-Without-Headphone-mixtape.570016.html

NehruvianDOOM pushing DBR close now. Listening to the new Migos with peaked interest. RTJ2 is dated masculinity trope

xxpost have never heard of junglepussy before, enjoying it thus far

NehruvianDOOM pushing DBR close now. Listening to the new Migos with peaked interest. RTJ2 is dated masculinity trope

― Raccoon Tanuki, Wednesday, November 12, 2014 1:07 PM (59 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

trolling is one thing, incorrect spelling is quite another, my god don't you have standards

That Migos is so good

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/travis-scott-is-worse-than-iggy-azalea-1682870003?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_facebook&utm_source=deadspin_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

haha just came here to post this

tbh Noz should have written this a year ago (and kind of did on twitter) but at least someone put it together

That is one misleading headline there.

is it? I think it's pretty appropriate considering his argument

& the arguments everyone has been having about 'appropriation'

Sure, the headline works once the reader connects the dots and yes, we technically SHOULD be doing that when reading anything but otoh, there's gotta be a more appropriate headline considering he mentions Iggy once and briefly at that but I guess he's gotta chase the clicks

ppl say 'gotta chase the clicks' like it's a new thing & folks haven't been complaining about headlines forever

If I change "clicks" to, I dunno, "eyeballs", it doesn't change a thing about what I said.

idk i think he's a talented producer. his vocal work always verges on the boundary between biting/originality that creates a really alienating level of animosity for some people

i'm cool with travis

'boundary'

and you must mean 'talented co-producer'

Mike Dean being down w Kanye & this guy & J. Prince being down w Drake is so weird

v good article

it's a stretch to call scott's ripoff-o-rama "offensive," but it's definitely lame. in a vacuum, it's pretty laughable given the obviousness of his antecedents that any label would try and tout him as some kinda gamechanger, but that's where shit has fallen to I spose

I will say "upper echelon" is a pretty good song but mostly for the beat and its guest verses (esp. the T.I. one)

actually who the fuck am I kidding thinking that a label wouldn't in the past have pushed a third-rate cudi/drake/kanye clone (replace with any past equivalent), lol

so he's the Candlebox of rap

exactly!

lol

rodeo is an incredibly mediocre album, not that that's surprising, although it's not quite the complete garbage fire I expected

I like "Antidote"

I have a visceral reaction against his flow on that track

yeah his rapping is miserable in a Wiz Khalifa, grin and bear it sort of way. But I like the hook a lot

antidote is a good hook

i might not mind how much the hook is a "no type"/"drinks on us" bite if he didn't go so far as to reference "no type" on a verse