rolling CORP low bar just to appear hip to teens thread 2015

i dunno. don't think it's that out of the question that a rapper with a generic noun mononym could be a big star. maybe he'd pick up a more search-engine friendly variation on the name along the way, though.

Lamp feat. Tree - "Money (Pencil remix)"

ok i've been resisting posting this, but i am weak and i'm curious how it sounds to goon ears:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-lyPBro7fw

this is most certainly one of the best keef songs in recent memory

― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, January 29, 2015 1:18 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My Chief Keef best of 2014 comp would be something like:

1. Chief Keef - Gucci Gang feat. Justo and Tadoe
2. Chief Keef - Close That Door
3. Chief Keef - Hundreds
4. Chief Keef - Ight Doe
5. Chief Keef - Killer
6. Chief Keef - Tec
7. Chief Keef - Make It Count
8. Chief Keef - No
9. Chief Keef - Pull Up
10. Chief Keef - Save Me
11. Chief Keef - Slam Dunkin
12. Chief Keef - War
13. Gucci Mane and Chief Keef - Top in the Trash
14. Yae Yae Jordan feat. YNS Cheeks and Chief Keef - Strapped (Remix)
15. Chief Keef - Oh My Goodness

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, September 3, 2014 3:37 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

He's released so many songs since then, top in the trash wouldn't even make my top 25 tbh

beast mode sounding amazing to me right now

i like this new meek single

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9f6s9DxkyQ

ferg kinda throws the vibe off but this is a good look for meek, something rappity rap but still pretty fun

third verse should be drake ._.

unfortunately Drake is currently giving Meek the silent treatment over Nicki and in 6 months will finally blurt out "YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID!"

yeah i can't keep track of whether they're beefing or not

Logic: http://mindoflogic.com

Young cat. Sounds like Kendrick. Kids love him = hot ticket.

What says you, rap thread?

that yfn lucci mixtape is pretty great btw

^im sayin

ha i heard a logic song on some cornball undemanding jazzy radio show and literally could not believe the shameless biter intensity. ohhhh lord 2pac big please etc

logic is a really exceptionally technically skilled rapper whose lyrics have absolutely no depth to them

the mentality of it kinda made me think of like idk, a new skool people under the stairs or something...? like when even backpacks are too rugged but u still don't want to be seen listening to childish gambino

i only heard one bit tho so

the Midnight Marauders voice stuff on his album really bothered me. it's competent i guess.

him being from GAITHERSBURG has been really incidental to his career but now that he is successful one of the D.C. stations has started to claim him as a 'DMV' artist and play "Buried Alive" in light rotation, it's kinda grown on me as a catchy transparent Kendrick bite.

i only listened to a couple of logic songs, i kinda dug them but felt icky about it ... same w/ g-eazy (though i liked the logic songs more, i think)

great beat on that "Riches" track.

https://vine.co/v/M0Piii7JPTg

https://vine.co/v/OwUiFaFOdVU

hey some dude, do you know anything about chaz french from dc? kinda digging him tho he bites meek mill pretty hard on the song i heard

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JdI8ZRbgH8

http://www.complex.com/music/2015/02/bout-to-blow-best-new-songs-february/rowdy-rebel-bobby-shmurda

Perhaps an attempt to de-regionalize the duo after Jahlil fielded so many questions about their debt to Chicago's drill scene

lol ok deej seriously a) has anyone actually asked Jahlil questions about this and b) why would anyone ask Jahlil this when he made the "Jackpot"/"Hot N****" beat before Chief Keef even released "Don't Like" or anybody outside of Chicago heard of drill?

i dont really get everyone flipping over that dream song, the last ep is entirely at least as good (id say better) and no 1 said a word abt it

yeah "that's my shit" is terrible

I posted the jackpot beat on fader when it first dropped I know when it came out

If you think shmurda et al weren't influenced by drill despite shmurda explicitly saying so in numerous interviews + the constant use of "broski" "opps" "with the shits" etc etc you're tripping

"Drill" is not and never has been solely chop beats, king louie's tapes all show a diverse range of production incl some influenced by east coast producers ... It's not jahlil's beat that is drill-like, it's other elements of the song (although there's nothing about the beat that makes it inherently not-drill either)

Jahlil was asked exactly that question in a fader interview, I'm sure I saw it elsewhere, in the early shmurda interviews everyone asked him about drill

"That's that shit" is awesome, dream hasn't had a record that good in ages

but why would people ask Jahlil about drill because someone he hadn't even met at the time said "broski" on a beat he made back before drill had a national profile? i'm just confused really. maybe he's more involved in Shmurda's career than i thought.

You can read the fader interview via Google im waiting for a train in a snowstorm or I'd link myself

I think the interviewer was taking his side fwiw...but asking about it regardless

And the point isn't that the song de regionalizes jahlil. It's that it de regionalizes bobby and robby

that's a fun list i enjoy many of those records

meek and sean are the new young gunnaz like kalin and myles are the new cataracs like rowdy rebel is the new chubb rock like durk and dej are the new bobby and whitney (crack period)

i probably shouldnt have laughed out loud as hard as i did at "What are Sevyn Streeter's hopes, dreams, fears?" tho

http://www.thefader.com/2014/07/30/interview-jahlil-beats-talks-producing-hot-nigga-bobby-shmurdas-breakout-hit

hmm yeah i don't really interpret the exchange the way you did

"that's my shit" -- i'm glad dream's still got the money and the friends to be shooting those kinds of videos for songs that will never be hits, but yeah that's nothing special. pretty weak production especially, compared to his best work

How do you think I interpteted it sd? Was he or was he not being asked about ppl finding them derivative of drill?

the question seemed to be framed as 'here was a breakout hit from a New York rapper that sounded like New York and wasn't biting trendy sounds from the south or Chicago.'

Yes that's the way the interviewer interpreted it but he was asking bc other ppl did compare it to drill?

"that's my shit" -- i'm glad dream's still got the money and the friends to be shooting those kinds of videos for songs that will never be hits, but yeah that's nothing special. pretty weak production especially, compared to his best work

― sae nnwurd - throw sum mo ka (k3vin k.), Sunday, February 1, 2015 5:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Production is awesome ... Minimal and reserved instead of all unnecessarily grandiose imo, more in the vein of "shawty is the shit"

love that new meek mill track and i think the guest rappers are just right for it

idk why we're talking about that terius single here but his production is better when he's unnecessarily grandiose imo. this production is actually very good - little backing vox and that piano motif, yes! - but the song is very rote and he isn't an agreeable presence in any way really

lol the the-dream song is in the forks playlist now

does forks work for spotify or something? o.o.c.

It has rapping on it, qualifies imo

As Jordan pointed out earlier "I know how to push that button, trust me yall just fuckin" is a great all time couplet

for one i think the beat is just purely catchy, it's a nice little groove. like david says it reminds me of his first LP ... "i luv your girl" especially

does forks work for spotify or something? o.o.c.
― lex pretend, Monday, February 2, 2015

new dream is nice but not exactly any sort of radical return to form

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOa-xCmRnVE

Kevin Gates - The Law

not sure how i feel about this yet, obv beat is fire

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uF1rodYaVpI

wooo

aw fuck
http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/02/02/bay-area-rapper-the-jacka-killed-in-oakland-shooting/
RIP