rolling gun sounds thread

old but i am so in love with "a real feeling" by the jacka, off the street album mixtape which deej had suggested to me

love the old school ice cub ref:

once upon a time in the projects, yo
come through and get clipped fo sho

old traxx or not i am always an enthusiastic fan of the jacka

http://grab.by/grabs/d9343263f7eb7d55bb796b2015dd968e.png

nice little detail in the mix of the song "no future" by jacka

"knock you out with my left
take your life with my right"

^on that line they hard pan the words "left" and "right", cool sonic detail that you don't see enough of in rap, kicks the shit out of the supposedly "great" muddy, flat-sounding shit like the new kanye that is overpraised as great production

overall, jacka is really great in a way that doesn't call much attention to itself

"fed up" has jazz flute that reminds me of ron burgandy :)

i recommend 'the jack artist' next m@tt

some crucial old school shit right now:

cormega - the testament

*the more u know*

mob figaz used to hang w/ cormega & he raps on 'jack artist' about being in ny w/ cormega -- cormega's raps are a big influence on his lyrical style ... jacka appears on that odds&ends cormega comp that appeared in like '04

ha maybe it struck me in some subconscious way

anyone want to join the gunsounds listening room

― *gets the power* (deej), Sunday, January 16, 2011 10:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

nev mind shit is down apparently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r4lkXxO4YgY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lckk0EF-Xog

jacka prod by cooking soul

this is pretty good

i love that new wiz song

this new kyleon song is great. a bit of a PTII vibe
http://hulkshare.com/3yflgvwtf22r

thing i learnt this week- raekwon has done four hundred million guest verses

previously thought it was just like skew it on the bar-b and freak'n'you remix

what have i got myself in for

yeah, guys, can I have a recommendation if I'm looking for something similar to Jacka's Street Album?

that shit is so addictive

husalah's 'hustlin since the 80s'
the jacka & husalah's "animal planet" mixtape

theres nothing really similar musically tho, w/ all the reggae samples

but that same raw west coast meets ny feel, those two are good

i do not like wiz khalifa

thnx for sharing

okay thanks, imma check those out tonight.....heard some husalah. curious to see how he holds up on a longplayer
the beat from 'A Real Feeling'.....and 'Not Me' = what i need right now. so good

i wish wiz did more like the laid back style he occasionally does, instead of the laid back style he does too often - ya 'erd?

in a weird way i think deej is right, this old ass cormega album i've been listening to me actually reminds me of jacka

i don't like Wiz when he's singing hooks like that, i don't like what Snoop does with the chorus either
that song isn't that good

man cormega i love u

i specialize in war
now it's time to blow
mama, show 'em how to use a fuckin' four-four

i think that wiz & snoop song is dope, in the vein of the good stuff on kush & oj

yeah cormega is def a big influence on jacka. they have even done songs together iirc?

since the early 00s

'the jack artist' lp shows even more cormega influence

anyway street album has so much great stuff on it ... m@tt hasnt even mentioned 'aspen' or 'addiction'!

yeah it's solid p much all the way through...though i like the laid back spooky stuff the most

i think that wiz & snoop song is dope, in the vein of the good stuff on kush & oj

― *gets the power* (deej), Tuesday, January 18, 2011 11:41 AM (14 minutes ago)

yeah wiz is basically a black hole for me but i dig this song

husalah's 'hustlin since the 80s'

^cosign this one, got into it about a month ago and it's one of the best rap albums i've heard in a while. some really stunning songs on it

im not sure i get the 'black hole' stuff, i know this is al's line on him too, but it seems to me hes a dude who lives or dies by the ability of the song to capture that wistful stoner vibe. his raps are straightforward, he stays in his own lane...i dont get black hole, i just get 'very safe.' when the production or hook is trash, he is. but when it works, its hard to find something to criticize. stuff like "mesmerized" -- which basically epitomizes what makes him work, IMO -- are really pretty great

i mean wiz will never be a 'great rapper' to me, but he seems like a hard one to hate for the same reason

he's just an incredibly stiff MC, even on his good songs. i have no problem liking songs by him ("black and yellow", that snoop song), but it's never the rapping that engages me. diddy outraps him on their song together

yeah i don't hate him, but if you're gonna be so monotone you better at least have some skills. he's just kinda whatever

i dont think hes stiff at all tho! hes really good at sounding congruent & smooth, relaxed. skills isnt the point -- hes too busy stealing your girl & smoking weed to worry abt skills.

Huslin Since Da 80's is so great. I really dig that trick with the William Blake sample on it.

I don't feel that Snoop track is on par with the better tracks on K&OJ....but maybe I just hate every song with Snoop on it nowadays. yeah it's a shame huh

i still say Wiz and Wale sound really alike, i thought hearing them more would make it easier to distinguish their voices from each other but more and more i'll turn on the radio and if one of them is on a song i don't immediately recognize it'll take me 5-10 seconds to figure out which it is (i think one time i actually heard Wale's "No Hands" verse and for a sec thought they did a remix of it w/ Wiz)...they both have the same basic weaknesses, wouldn't say they sound 'stiff' but that kind of straining vocal tone, like they're pushing the words out, i find really irksome, and the way they'll kind of stretch out words at the end of lines and emphasize when words don't even rhyme, like they're flaunting how sloppy their lyrics are (Wale's "problem/New Orrr-leeeens" vs. Wiz's "big faces/tayyy-lorrrr"). i haven't heard a lot of Wiz's mixtape stuff so i don't even think of him as some mellow wistful stoner, he's just this guy who sounds really uncomfortable on the mic on flashy radio songs.

i think wiz is totally great on this song

what 'flashy radio songs'? just black & yellow? wiz's other hits are all the stoner-y stuff. (& he sounds 100% engaged on 'black & yellow'!) yeah i mean i cant disagree more w/ youre evaluation of it, & the stuff about their vocal inflections is obv subjective but to me it sounds really random. 'straining vocal tone'? i just dont hear it \oO/

the admittedly small and probably unrepresentative amount of stuff i've heard that i'm basing my opinion of Wiz on: Say Yeah, Black & Yellow, the Diddy feature, Super High and Bottoms Up remixes, This Plane

i dont hear 'uncomfortable on the mic' on 'say yeah' or 'black and yellow' -- if anything, he makes sure his lyrics are way straightforward so its impossible to sound anything but comfortable. he doesn't really stretch out or try tricky rhythms or rhymes, just goes for being as comprehensible as possible

i mean, i guess if you have some kind of pavlovian thing w/ the tone of his voice theres nothing really to argue about here tho

i can hear the stiff thing -- his rapping is def very measured & stilted, but that doesn't really bother me at all