Is there any kind of origin story about how YT and RHQ teamed up? How much of a factor was Birdman? (research question)
― longneck, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:46 (nine years ago) link
they definitely were collaborating before Rich Gang
― some dude, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Yeah I know that Get TF out my face is from before they became Rich Gang but I'm guessing Birdman made a business decision at some point anyway? Or did they show up at his door fully formed?
― longneck, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:51 (nine years ago) link
there's some sort of jobs, hope, cash joke to make about people hating on kendrick & loving azealia banks and rich gang going into 2015
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 15:54 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gv6mCHoJxQ
YAA!
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
are you guys kidding re: Rae Sremmud
― Let me help you out Charlie XCX fan (DJP), Tuesday, 13 January 2015 16:16 (nine years ago) link
xp haha this sounds like the rap equivalent of a "DJ tool"
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:29 (nine years ago) link
next year rolling DJ tool thread
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 18:30 (nine years ago) link
This one goes out to the furry, absent one, I guess:http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2015/01/young-jeezy-black-lives-matter.php
― longneck, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 19:52 (nine years ago) link
ooops - wrong thread
― longneck, Tuesday, 13 January 2015 20:00 (nine years ago) link
― longneck, Tuesday, January 13, 2015 10:46 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
my guess is that gucci mane was somehow involved
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 January 2015 21:11 (nine years ago) link
um so new DMX album
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 02:28 (nine years ago) link
Yah. How bout that cover!
― Spottie, Wednesday, 14 January 2015 02:36 (nine years ago) link
last few years def seems like Cali is where it's at for me in terms of stuff that really grabs me
Any heard of Warm Brew?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqwV-ksaHJk#t=149
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
this was very late '14 but fuck it, my first rap fave of '15 nonetheless:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcKBl1S469E
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 January 2015 01:41 (nine years ago) link
warm brew was pretty fun!
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 15 January 2015 01:43 (nine years ago) link
Hey guys is this the Rap thread?
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:02 (nine years ago) link
yes
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:08 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Okl5D_nowZw
hey look Future's rapping off beat now lol
LO fucking L https://twitter.com/bdotTM/status/556121427490115584
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:09 (nine years ago) link
I haven't really listened to rap since 2007. What's some cool stuff I missed?
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:16 (nine years ago) link
noz' year end lists are p comprehensive, this is the most recent one but has links to each past year (since 2005) at the bottom http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=8100
― flopson, Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:19 (nine years ago) link
Cheers flopson. That looks like, a great start. It's crazy how I know all that stuff on the 05-06 lists and then after almost nothing... did I change or did the music? Something I ponder a lot
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:23 (nine years ago) link
i think a lot of ppl lost interest in rap around that time. at the turn of the decade there was a lot of speculation by certain critics (simon reynolds, sfj in partic) that hip hop had stagnated. deej made an imo classic mix that's probably still out there somewhere rebutting that argument. in hindsight i think it's clear 08-12' was a transitional period. many of the people weren't sold on gucci mane (the one rapper many held up in 09 as an example of rap's vitality) are now very enthusiastic about the generation that were influenced by him (critical love for migos, etc.) of course not everyone is down with where that transition has lead us (whiney g, for example) but it at least feels like there is more optimism and positivity about rap right now than any pt since i started reading rap blogs & keeping up with the genre
― flopson, Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:37 (nine years ago) link
*many of the people WHO weren't sold on gucci mane...
― flopson, Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:38 (nine years ago) link
looks like deej's mix is still up here http://somanyshrimp.com/2010/01/30/best-raps-2009/
we should poll it imo
― flopson, Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:41 (nine years ago) link
I've heard some Migos and they're fun but they make me feel so old lol. Thanks for the deej mix link I just downloaded it.
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:52 (nine years ago) link
if you take the rolling rap thread titles as a rough approximation of "lcd rap" trends you can kinda get a picture of why some people lost interest. ringtone & snap were very colourful, bouncy, immediate. and i think that when that was succeeded by the more monochromatic trap sound of autogoon & gun sounds many lost interest. fruity swag (another classic shrimp post this time by jordan: http://somanyshrimp.com/2009/06/25/k-e-producer-of-the-summer/) is maybe a counterexample here, but it never really took off at the time and i would argue is at the peak of its influence right now (k camp, young thug.) we stopped that model of thread naming in 2013 in favour of self-aware rap critic in-jokes, but my suggestion that year was 'sunz of mane' which i still think is hilarious but was maybe too divisive. this past year's trend was "weird voices" (to be forever documented in this horrifyingly named whiney thread ayo best coco yayo maco wacko no-fi schmoundcloud dooblebob vine rap thingy of 2014) and it seems like people are finding their way back into rap through this stuff. joe now posts to rap threads for example, and i've had many irl friends ask me if i've heard of young thug, etc.
― flopson, Saturday, 17 January 2015 21:57 (nine years ago) link
if you take the rolling rap thread titles as a rough approximation of "lcd rap" trends you can kinda get a picture of why some people lost interest. ringtone & snap were very colourful, bouncy, immediate. and i think that when that was succeeded by the more monochromatic trap sound of autogoon & gun sounds many lost interest. fruity swag (another classic shrimp post this time by jordan: http://somanyshrimp.com/2009/06/25/k-e-producer-of-the-summer/) is maybe a counterexample here, but it never really took off at the time and i would argue is at the peak of its influence right now (k camp, young thug.) we stopped that model of thread naming in 2013 in favour of self-aware rap critic in-jokes, but my suggestion that year was 'sunz of mane' which i still think is hilarious but was maybe too divisive. this past year's trend was "weird voices" (to be forever documented in this horrifyingly named whiney thread ayo best coco yayo maco wacko no-fi schmoundcloud dooblebob vine rap thingy of 2014) and it seems like people are finding their way back into rap through this stuff. joe now posts to rap threads for example, and i've had many irl friends ask me if i've heard of young thug, etc.― flopson, Saturday, January 17, 2015 4:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
― flopson, Saturday, January 17, 2015 4:57 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
http://i.imgur.com/KCZEOEy.gif
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 17 January 2015 22:03 (nine years ago) link
that was maybe more historicizing than you were asking for lol but i guess i'm feeling wistful
― flopson, Saturday, 17 January 2015 22:05 (nine years ago) link
Sorry, I'm just razzing you a little. Thanks for all the information.
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, 17 January 2015 22:06 (nine years ago) link
nah it's cool i always get creeped out when your posts are too earnest ;-)
― flopson, Saturday, 17 January 2015 22:07 (nine years ago) link
in rap more broadly 2009 was an amazing year of new rookie artists that were often dismissed as nonserious & have since become canon or successful or both.
in late 08 (iirc) dj drama was raided for selling mixtapes using industry beats ... so all the rappers started releasing mixtapes with all-original material, '09 was the point where the industry totally bottomed out & everyone was downloading free mixtapes for the first time. critics thought freddie gibbs was the only thing worth hearing but basically in 09-10 you have the arrival or peak output of:
drakenickiguccimax blil boosiejcoleodd futurewakaWiz KhalifaCurrensymeek millbig krittravis porterlil b
plus the beginning of regional careers that wouldn't get attention until more recently: kevin gates, king louie, danny brown
― deej loaf (D-40), Saturday, 17 January 2015 22:24 (nine years ago) link
otm. feel like my explanation is more "demand side" while yours is more "supply side" lol
― flopson, Saturday, 17 January 2015 22:47 (nine years ago) link
― Hungry4Ass, Saturday, January 17, 2015 4:02 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
HAHA
You wouldn't know it was just by looking at the title now would you, that's for sure!
― 龜, Saturday, 17 January 2015 23:28 (nine years ago) link
the triumphal return of canks.i recommend spottie's spotify lists for up to date stuff
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 January 2015 03:37 (nine years ago) link
it wd be interesting to do personal top 20s of fav records from the past ~ year
― deej loaf (D-40), Sunday, 18 January 2015 05:21 (nine years ago) link
you can't suggest another secret poll by posting on the board...the...OTHERS...will see
― some dude, Sunday, 18 January 2015 05:24 (nine years ago) link
^ Interesting reading flopson and deej. thanks.
― grant holt (prettylikealaindelon), Sunday, 18 January 2015 14:15 (nine years ago) link
RIP A$AP Yams
― 龜, Sunday, 18 January 2015 14:41 (nine years ago) link
Lil b seems like a long time ago
Hi hungry4ass
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 18 January 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
― 龜, Sunday, January 18, 2015 9:41 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
fuck. that's tragic. he was an amazing, hilarious writer. RIP
― flopson, Sunday, 18 January 2015 16:22 (nine years ago) link
wow, that's a shame. only in his twenties.
― shmup....smug....shmub....shmug.... (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 18 January 2015 16:27 (nine years ago) link
Rip
Crazy
― Spottie, Sunday, 18 January 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
he had an amazing gift for seeing the humour in the tiniest of details
― flopson, Sunday, 18 January 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link
seeing twitter scuttlebutt that the cause was lean but don't know how true that is. but no matter how it happened, goddamn. fuckin 26.
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Sunday, 18 January 2015 17:48 (nine years ago) link
Tragic. Rip
― out here like a flopson (tpp), Sunday, 18 January 2015 19:16 (nine years ago) link
Any thoughts on the Bada$$, gents? I guess it's better than I expected but there's something about the blatant anchronisms that rubs me the wrong way. I mean, he would have sounded outdated in 1996, when he was one year old. The two "drum and bass" tracks are downright horrible, Teach Me in particular. Like Me is pretty nice though, I've got to admit.
― longneck, Monday, 19 January 2015 15:18 (nine years ago) link
badass is awful
― ANU (sisilafami), Monday, 19 January 2015 17:25 (nine years ago) link
ehhhhhhhhh, it's actually not too bad. And this is coming from someone who detests "real hip hop". It has a loose vibe and is pleasant enough. He can live.
― longneck, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:27 (nine years ago) link