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 I mean, he would have sounded outdated in 1996, when he was one year old.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
no one should detest real hip hop
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:45 (nine years ago) link
There were quotation marks involved. Please do weigh in on the album though.
― longneck, Tuesday, 20 January 2015 15:50 (nine years ago) link
the badass album is pretty enjoyable, barring the drum'n'bass stuff (heard that and was like O RLY? a roni size tribute?). even if the thinking behind the revivalist style can be reductive & disagreeable, i don't mind listening to the music itself.
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
speaking of revivalist-minded rappers, i feel like lupe fiasco has reached new levels of insanity and/or trolling with this trackhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ka8akzWKQak&feature=youtu.be
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 16:19 (nine years ago) link
it sounds like v fun goon stuff, interesting beat/production, also a trae the truth guest spot - but i figure since it's lupe, it has to be some sort of stealth attack on trap-rap or some similarly didactic shit...right?
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 20 January 2015 16:21 (nine years ago) link
def not sure who this dude lucci is (no susan) but im really feeling his tape 'wish me well'
couple cuts
kno no better - http://youtu.be/c1IUsrIb29Qtraumautized - http://youtu.be/5tqqgdR6jgs
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 21 January 2015 04:09 (nine years ago) link
the Warm Brew album - Ghetto Beach Boyz is out
really great so far! cool dirtbag LA stoner vibes
Dom Kennedy guests and I guess if I had to compare it to anyone it would be him
i dunno, maybe a little more like street version of Pharcyde in places?
loving it
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:29 (nine years ago) link
feeling this cover aesthetic
http://images.complex.com/complex/image/upload/t_article_image/fj6vqkigfek4lfdatrdx.jpg
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
v. chill
― virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:47 (nine years ago) link
this song really hits a nice nate dogg vibe
http://fr.sports.yahoo.com/video/a1day1-feat-racella-140000551.html
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 January 2015 16:51 (nine years ago) link
Warm Brew signed to Dom Kennedy's new label opm i think. They had another tape 'the ride' I liked alright a couple years back but this new one sounds better
― Spottie, Friday, 23 January 2015 18:05 (nine years ago) link
ah ok yeah that makes sense then, def that same kinda lackadasical vibe i like about Dom
like ultimately i wanted to like Odd Future cuz of the dirtbag skater cali vibe but those kids are just too wound up for me, they like Eminem too much
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 January 2015 18:13 (nine years ago) link
Loving the Future & Zaytoven tape.
― longneck, Friday, 23 January 2015 18:56 (nine years ago) link
heard the new vic spencer tape, shit jams, gonna be a real deej/m@tt common ground record
its some authentic backpack lyrical shit in like ... redman / young zee type lane
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 23 January 2015 19:03 (nine years ago) link
hm.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 January 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
out jan 30 i believe
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 23 January 2015 19:04 (nine years ago) link
cool i'll check thatwhats your take on warm brew? could see u going either way
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 January 2015 19:57 (nine years ago) link
im digging it so far
― deej loaf (D-40), Friday, 23 January 2015 20:36 (nine years ago) link
just copped need to listen to more of it
http://open.spotify.com/user/forksclovetofu/playlist/2tCCiE3QkE3PGy7uMztMmo
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 January 2015 23:07 (nine years ago) link
my lists not good enough 4 u any more eh?
― Spottie, Saturday, 24 January 2015 02:46 (nine years ago) link
yours is the gold standard. I just wanted something thread specific for ongoing reference in this and fifteen other threads.
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 January 2015 02:50 (nine years ago) link
ah cool, no mind. I'll check it for sure if you're gonna be dumping from other genres and such, for sure.
― Spottie, Saturday, 24 January 2015 02:52 (nine years ago) link
not sure my goon cru cred is up but that lucci tape is really blowing me away, honestly havent loved a prev unknowns tape or album this much since isaiah rashad last yr
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 24 January 2015 03:51 (nine years ago) link
good recommend there
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 January 2015 03:55 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3vT_3UJ76A&feature=youtu.be&a
new z-ro
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 26 January 2015 02:09 (nine years ago) link
spent some time w/ Warm Brew, f/w it heavily ... there was one song i liked slightly less, it was a lil too fake dilla for me
― deej loaf (D-40), Monday, 26 January 2015 02:10 (nine years ago) link
good z ro song.
― Spottie, Monday, 26 January 2015 05:14 (nine years ago) link
that z-ro is v nice
― ciderpress, Monday, 26 January 2015 22:53 (nine years ago) link
love it
― Οὖτις, Monday, 26 January 2015 23:00 (nine years ago) link
good stuff. this is last year but i wasn't on ilx to post it, joe jackson 'steppin out' sample + z-ro really goes full blast on his verse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ae5JSKsjvE
― flopson, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 00:13 (nine years ago) link
btw in the warm brew video one of the guys seems like he's dressed up like awesome dre lol
http://eil.com/images/main/Awesome-Dre-You-Cant-Hold-Me-527371.jpg
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 18:08 (nine years ago) link
hey guys - should i post new shit by old rappers on this thread or the hip hop retirement community thread?
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 19:56 (nine years ago) link
that thread exists?
― Spottie, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:03 (nine years ago) link
link plz
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:06 (nine years ago) link
The PJ's at Sherwood Heights: A Del Webb (TM) Hip Hop Retirement Community
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:07 (nine years ago) link
anyway this is the video i was gonna post, grand daddy i.u. being grumpy over a kinda eerie diamond d. beat, i'm cool w/whatever ppl want, it's obv not very zeitgeisty but it is a new song so i'll defer
"give me some elbow room/or go to war with a well-known goon"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?x-yt-cl=84838260&feature=player_embedded&v=cuAaowLfVRU&x-yt-ts=1422327029
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:08 (nine years ago) link
though i guess that could be a potential problem because like i'm sure dj quik or like e-40 are the same age-ish and ppl would probably care abt them
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:09 (nine years ago) link
yeah i see no reason why this thread can't be inclusive of old rappers. a lot of interesting things that happen in rap these days involve guys after they turn 35 and fall off the mainstream radar.
― some dude, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:20 (nine years ago) link
Some of them might even make an album that tops Pitchfork and P&J
― 龜, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:29 (nine years ago) link
we've always posted old head rappers in this thread, its like one of the core values
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 20:41 (nine years ago) link
word
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:22 (nine years ago) link
http://themartorialist.blogspot.co.uk/2015/01/generic-list-post-unlock-swag-rap.html
― deej loaf (D-40), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 21:35 (nine years ago) link
joey badass sold 50k first week, i officially don't understand anything
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 27 January 2015 23:29 (nine years ago) link
wow! if you would have said 5,000 i wouldn't have batted an eye
― kurt kobaïan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 23:35 (nine years ago) link
sasha and malia pulling some strings imo
― Sounds like a forks display name (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 27 January 2015 23:42 (nine years ago) link
new york hungry for something, ANYTHING
― Spottie, Tuesday, 27 January 2015 23:52 (nine years ago) link