rolling ringtone thread 2008

thnx am0n

the format was one of my favorites of 2006

definitely

did anybody hear the memphis sessions? great shit.

i dunno about any of their other songs but cappacino by the knux is dope! Its the only throw back joint I've been really feeling. That Pacific Div Fat Boys joint is way boring and sounds just like every Cool Kids song except the dudes are passably better rappers than the Cool Kids. Noz's post I thought was on point for a sec but I dont really think rap needs to be tied to a 'real place' to be good or whatever, thats just not realistic. But yeah so far this post-myspace generic 'throwback' rap has been way underwhelming

'cappuccino' sounds great tho, the one guy kind of sounds like dude from camp lo and the hook sounds totally de la

-- deej, Saturday, April 5, 2008 9:42 AM (Saturday, April 5, 2008 9:42 AM) Bookmark Link

I can see why one might think it sounds similar to Cool Kids, but I think there's certainly room for "similar to, but much better than". Other than the Fat Boys reference, and maybe their image, which I could give a fuck about, I'm not sure what's supposed to be retro about this, tho. If anything, the aesthetic strikes me as hyphy reconciling with medium rap. None of the other songs I've heard by them sound like that, anyway.

I will give you that the Knux song is better, tho. (Actually, their image is way more obnoxious to me than Pac Div's.)

wtf is Flobots??? currently the number 2 hip hop album on iTunes

i heard it yest it's some bullshitt

http://nahright.com/news/wp-content/images/tg-13.jpg

from the new Bun B video

ugh all the shit people clown on here >>>> Flobots

Influences The Roots, Bach, Tool, Psychodelic Zombiez, Timbaland, K-Os, Common, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Shins, Public Enemy, K'naan, Rage Against the Machine, 4th Avenue Jones, Spearhead, Kanye West, Freestyle Fellowship, Digable Planets, Aceyalone, the Coup, Outkast, Leonard Cohen, Silvio Rodriguez, Saul Williams.

so when Lil Jon's next album actually finally comes out, is he gonna change the name to Crunk Disco or something??? Crunk rock seems like two or three hip hop trends ago doesn't it?

this is getting weird and awesome though
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0BBQLOppc4E

more daft punk samples?! the one I've liked best of those was on janet's album.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2k3pv5sNEk

"If a ten-year-old can make 'Love in This Club' and save Usher's career and make black women want to f*ck him again, after they was done with him for getting married, then sh*t he's a genius just like me," Polow said. "I also wrote the hook - that's not a preset."

I thought homie had put that shit on YouTube and was all amped to see it but it's just a promo vid for a link to broke-ass zshare wtf

zshare works tho
i just posted the youtube cuz the dude in it makes me lol

yeah i do kinda love how he's clueless about what to do with his notoriety

"Keep watchin, I'ma have a new video up talkin baout...what's goin on...out there, you know what it is..."

i think it cements polows brilliance that he turned two garage band presets into the #1 song in the country

any of you dudes listen to the guilty simpson album?

xp it cements his hackery! still think its a lame song

two xp's:

the guilty simpson album is really awesome, totaly didn't know what to expect from him but I think I chose the one stones throw/indie rap dude that actually talks about guns and shit

also: I never knew any of this stuff about garage band presets and Polow and "Love in this Club"

what's the deal with this dude?

Guilty Simpson is prolly the second best hip-hop album of 08 so far after Webbie.

Kind of lo-fi grindhouse Madlib/Oh No beats with slow measured G Rap flow.

the only guy who doesn't bring it on that Guilty Simpson record is the guy whose name is on the cover. weird because he has contributed some solid verses to other people's material. he obviously needs the constraint of working inside someone else's ideas 'cos he hasn't got any of his own. this is probably the biggest disappointment of the year for me so far.

new AZ record is fantastic

am0n 0tm

spiralli = amon??

no, but also otm, i guarantee

actually not

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hey everybody, it's Preview of the Matrix 12! yay!

Deej is this what you & Eth felt like watching me/Rev/J0 zing each other last summer?

lol, sorry dad

huge lolz around here

newish big noyd
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qarw5BfaXUc

like this khao solo single, minor epic vibes

might even sell a beat or two / old skool 2 steppin like some orthopaedic shoes

like this 50 liar liar, maybe just cos the beat aint dreary

like this bobby creekwater guy, can't say i ever noticed him on shady re-up

don't think the polow garageband scandal means much of anything really, it probly goes on way more than we imagine. 'umbrella' was a preset g-band drum pattern i believe?

far as hackery goes it's still a billion times better than say tim's 'elevator'/'4 minutes' vile wackness this year - 'love in the club' also has the piano breakdown and a nice ambient section in the video mix for usher's dance bit. even the first 30 seconds of that shitty nelly/fergie single when it jags up is more excitingly produced than most.

yeah the piano really does redeem "Love" -- also the main problem w/ him taking 2 Garageband loops and setting them to drums is that he used his worst, limpest drums. wake me when someone does a straight-up house remix of that song and I might be ready to surrender to it.

lol i really like elevator xp

I don't know, cuz

is there any real problem with using GarageBand presets? I'm wondering why polow's people would make such a big deal out of it...it's not like he's Soulja Boy and this is his first beat, the guy has produced a million hits.

I don't think his people made a big deal about it, someone else just noticed and called him on it, and he responded. anyway when you take a songwriting and production credit on a record and there's no sample clearance, there's a certain expectation that you're creating/playing something, not just cutting & pasting existing material (although Gooch on XXL.com might be onto something w/ his assertion that using software presets = sampling an existing record).

just realized that Robin Thicke played the piano on "Love In This Club," so Polow doesn't even fully get credit for that much!

yeah i mean there are some ethical questions raised but as long as he didn't rip someone off really bad I don't think it should take away form the fact that it's an amazing beat and probably 1/2 the reason why the song is loved so much right now...

i mean i wonder how many people have used software presets and never been caught-- it's really not that big of a deal

well a lot of people haven't been caught because their shit already SOUNDS like presets like various lil' Lil Jons. it's more sensational w/ someone like Polow because he's seen as being in the lineage of Timbo and the Neptunes (both of whom have used a lot of presets and stuff grabbed off beat CDs and uncredited samples, in addition to the more creative from-scratch stuff they do).

no one really seemed to mind that the drums on Umbrella were garage band.

isnt the bit in "what goes around" a garageband preset?

oh no way, what bit?