rolling gun sounds thread

thats the 'top artist searches' at livemixtapes.com

lol that is not good for soulja boy

didnt realize how big travis porter were but i havent been listening to the radio

glad waka is at least beating mac miller yeesh

things i noticed

1) how low rick ross is i.e. below yo gotti (and jeezy and plies...)
2) lol gucci beat drake
3) zero max b??

i suspect nycentrism still plays a part in my perception of how popular stuff is

well rick ross pretty much never puts out mixtapes

also lmao rocko ahead of jcole

travis porter have had two pretty decently sized hits off of one mixtape, so yeah

list of 'most viewed' mixtapes is also interesting
obv these are all confusing because an idiot label pulled all of gucci's older mixtapes from these sites entirely

http://www.livemixtapes.com/main.php?l=32&sort=mostviews

yeah -- probably a bit distorted by the fact that some mixtapes are released initially exclusively thru livemixtapes or thru datpiff

yeah these are def more distorted than the 'search' ones

Im curious what rappers the gun sounds cru would consider their personal GOAT's 2005-2010

its a period where there doesnt feel like much of a heirarchy has been canonized

my top 3 are easy in no order -- boosie, jacka, gucci

past that it gets a lil confusing. z-ro & t.i. would be up there but my favorite stuff from each came prior to 2005. killer mike, young dro & max b are next in line for me. not sure who else i'd consider

idk i think there is some sorta hierarchy in some regard -- a large swath of ppl would throw wayne & ye up there to start

wayne is another one i (obv) def think peaked prior to '05

mine would prob be

1. gucci
2. wayne
3. kanye
4. boosie
5. jeezy

something like that

maybe freeway or styles p if i want to get my some dude on

'best thang smokin' would be in my top 5 albums from that period, but dro's output of music pales in comparison to those guys unfortunately

but yeah there's a lot of artists that straddle that line -- t.i., wayne, kanye, the clipse

yeah currensy, husalah & Dro are in the same boat, where their style is really strong but for different reasons it doesnt feel like they quite have the complete picture (currensy has the style but is almost entirely escapist ... hus dropped a classic but spent most of his time in this period in prison & the 'classic' was cobbled together from pre-recorded verses ... Dro released one defining record, then basically stopped developing & just sorta treaded water off of it)

as a stylist i like killer mike the least of all four, but he has the more consistent quality releases amazingly

how effing impossible would it be to do a top 5 for 2000-2005

i think id go crazy

♪♫i just wanna smoke weed and buy shoes/n do what fly guys do♫♪

past that it gets a lil confusing. z-ro & t.i. would be up there but my favorite stuff from each came prior to 2005. killer mike, young dro & max b are next in line for me. not sure who else i'd consider

E-40, CCuren$y, Ghostface for me. would have to think on some others.

that Soulja Boy track is pretty nice actually

D-40 is it me or is that soulja boy got a little max b in it

check out the latest soulja boy mixtape - 1UP, it's pretty decent, that track is on it.

maybe freeway or styles p if i want to get my some dude on

― timbo slice (D-40), Friday, April 1, 2011 1:59 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark

if you're admitting those are possibly the 2 most consistent east coast cats of the past few years i'll take it!

it's really kind of amazing how the entire northeast corridor has utterly failed to produce any new rapper of serious consequence since like 2004

yeah I was thinking that myself the other day

although given how much I hate 50 Cent I'd push it back even earlier than that

yeah but given how huge and unavoidable 50's impact is he's a good dividing line to use (and even then he was well known in '99 and not necessarily a "new" rapper by many definitions in '03)

yeah, I can't stand him but I can't deny his significance

how soon we forget papoose

i should've phrased that in papoose's terms: we forgot papoose like we left something

lololol

pomplapoose

it's really kind of amazing how the entire northeast corridor has utterly failed to produce any new rapper of serious consequence since like 2004

― dayo technology (some dude), Friday, 1 April 2011 20:50 (12 minutes ago) Permalink

a lot of folks would argue max b qualifies there & he does have that populist rapper appeal

obv not much competition tho lol red cafe

i should've phrased that in papoose's terms: we forgot papoose like we left something

― J0rdan S., Friday, April 1, 2011 4:58 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

nah Pap would say something like "you forgot Papoose like if there were four of me and we had to go to the letter T"

Max definitely has a following but let's be real there aren't "a lot" of people that would single him out as the most significant northeast rapper to emerge in the past 6 years

per usual i think youre underestimating his grassroots but w/e

max certainly has a large fanbase but that's not the type of thing ship is talking about

& he's right btw

fwiw it is something that has *just* started to really build -- he was releasing stuff since '05 but that stuff wasnt resonating w/ a wider cult til the last couple years

well if it's still building and you're projecting where it will/could/should be then yeah let's leave it at that

imo that is what ship is talking about -- hes a significant rapper w/ a very novel style relative to basically any other post-05 east coast rapper.

well if it's still building and you're projecting where it will/could/should be then yeah let's leave it at that

― dayo technology (some dude), Friday, April 1, 2011 9:09 PM (30 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

we're all 'projecting' but imo on an artistic level, the last 5 years of his music -- regardless of its following at that time -- would qualify him

i thought he was talking about new york not producing a new rapper since 50 that was at any point one of the 5 or 10 most famous rappers in america at any point

speaking purely on artistic terms, to be clear

i mean if we were having this convo in '09 before you actually got heavy into Max B and surfboard was making the argument you're making you know you wouldn't be backing him up

i def wouldnt but i wasnt really familiar w/ his catalog; imo hes got the range

i mean my 'thing' is sorta arguing that the kind of grassroots popular social energy is in someway tied to aesthetic novelty of a rapper's style or music so i agree im projecting but thats where that is coming from -- obv max hasnt been / prob still isnt one of the ten most popular rappers in america (although i do think his influence on rappers has been larger, i.e. wiz khalifa-- which to answer matt's q, i think soulja boy is channelling max via wiz)