rolling gun sounds thread

haha i wonder what's the amazing all-important word j0rdan accidentally left out of his post (xpost)

if you knew 2 chainz had more ppl talking about him in the strip club than why didnt you jsut say that. thats not buzz that anyone here can accurately measure

inherently & effortlessly cool

are you saying hes the only rapper right now to have these qualities?

that's pretty subjective and probably short-lived

you said it yourself before today the man had released three minutes of good music - the buzz relative to his skills/actual output is wildly out of proportion - and his buzz is mostly with people like us who read internety rap blogs btw

xps re cool

the question is; why does he have more buzz?

buzz being defined as: people who's job it is to create buzz being excited

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, October 31, 2011 9:15 PM (1 minute ago)

lol as i was saying - this is exactly why he's much less interesting than you seem to think

btw j0rdan that Main Attraktionz / ASAP song that soulja used in the other thread is on this renamed "Leaf"

k3vin k. you have no grasp of the context that post obviously

im listening to this now, peso is dope but i really dont like clams casino i think

are you saying hes the only rapper right now to have these qualities?

― The boyboy young jess (D-40), Monday, October 31, 2011 9:16 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

no, but he's the leading rapper who has those qualities as it pertains to hip internet things

yes but we're talking about why he is 'hip internet thing'

this is actually better than i expected, to top it all off

yes but we're talking about why he is 'hip internet thing'

― The boyboy young jess (D-40), Monday, October 31, 2011 9:21 PM (4 seconds ago) Bookmark

bcuz he marketed himself that way and ppl bought into it

schoolboy q stands out when his verse comes in.

well again as someone who doesnt spend all day reading/care about these rap blogs & their buzz, what exactly is his unique narrative

xp surfboards

bcuz he marketed himself that way and ppl bought into it

― J0rdan S., Monday, October 31, 2011 8:22 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i feel like we're running in circles here

having a terrible awkward name plays into his coolness, right

schoolboy q stands out when his verse comes in.

― The boyboy young jess (D-40), Monday, October 31, 2011 9:22 PM (11 seconds ago) Bookmark

ha i didn't really like this guy, just threw off the mood totally

yeah tautologies galore tbh xxxp

having a terrible awkward name plays into his coolness, right

― mylo & xylotis (some dude), Monday, October 31, 2011 9:23 PM (10 seconds ago) Bookmark

just ask the Weeknd

what i'm saying!

i mean when it comes down to it, 'why is this so buzzed' isnt the question, its 'why on earth is the buzz so out of proportion to quality'

ha i didn't really like this guy, just threw off the mood totally

― J0rdan S., Monday, October 31, 2011 8:23 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

having an ability to rap would probably be very jarring in the context of this record

the thing that throws this debate off is the THREE MILLION DOLLAR DEAL thing which really moved the goalposts, as they say

the thing that throws this debate off is the THREE MILLION DOLLAR DEAL thing which really moved the goalposts, as they say

― J0rdan S., Monday, October 31, 2011 8:25 PM (29 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

its not like he was avoiding letting this happen

DJ Burn One really hooked dude up, thats one of the more memorable moments on the record

well again as someone who doesnt spend all day reading/care about these rap blogs & their buzz, what exactly is his unique narrative

and as someone who makes ridiculous assumptions about someone you do not know you also will get no response beyond this.

the thing that throws this debate off is the THREE MILLION DOLLAR DEAL thing which really moved the goalposts, as they say

yeah i agree. it sucks that it has to be so controversial. it's jsut a fuckin tumblr mixtape and now we have brooklyn vegan trolls giving their two cents. unneccessary

i will tell you right now, I'm not even a freddie gibbs fan like that but his is a much stronger record

can you draw up the formula for converting BUZZ to BUZZ in proportion to QUALITY

cuz then we can talk

might wanna use some greek letters

maybe lambda = amount of strip club patrons who have heard of x (x being rapper's name)

well again as someone who doesnt spend all day reading/care about these rap blogs & their buzz, what exactly is his unique narrative

and as someone who makes ridiculous assumptions about someone you do not know you also will get no response beyond this.

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, October 31, 2011 9:26 PM (2 minutes ago)

lol ive been posting on these threads for 3 years now, i didnt think implying that you were into rap blogs would make you catch feelings

1) he has a narrative that's MUCH more interesting than "earnest rapper gets signed doesnt put out music than does". blogs and magazines create naratives around these guys and then they all just line up to the pump . asap's is way more rich

in all seriousness what does this mean

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JOC5St8GVkc/TZa81a9gqoI/AAAAAAAAAFM/4UkmBWpXY-w/s1600/6a00d8341c5fd253ef0120a66e5973970c-pi.png

i don't think he was overly buzzed based on "peso" & "purple swag" unless, again, we're talking of millions of dollars and whatever expectations come with it

this kinda thing happens to indie rockers ALL THE TIME, and as major labels have died, the playing field in rap has shifted more towards the model that indie rock has been on for years now. the only thing is that rappers are still expected to go major, so at some point things get thrown out of wack.

but having lots of 'industry buzz' after two mp3s is pretty standard practice

i mean, this same thing happened with sleigh bells or vampire wekeend or whatever and that's just how the machine goes -- the only difference is that RCA didn't go and give sleigh bells a three million dollar advance.

It's all this girl's fault basically
http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqqx6bld5u1qamo7k.png

yep

DUDE. seriously, magazines and blogs need a narrative for an artist to really get a lot of ink beyond just an mp3 here or there. his is more interesting/rich to them than the other rappers. so they all flog the same narrative about asap over over and over hence his buzz.

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but having lots of 'industry buzz' after two mp3s is pretty standard practice

― J0rdan S., Monday, October 31, 2011 8:33 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and you dont find this completely gross & distorting? that its concentrating influence in a small group of people?

DUDE. seriously, magazines and blogs need a narrative for an artist to really get a lot of ink beyond just an mp3 here or there. his is more interesting/rich to them than the other rappers. so they all flog the same narrative about asap over over and over hence his buzz.

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, October 31, 2011 8:36 PM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

are you arguing that asap is the only rapper w/ a worthwhile narrative? this is absurd.

DUDE. seriously, magazines and blogs need a narrative for an artist to really get a lot of ink beyond just an mp3 here or there. his is more interesting/rich to them than the other rappers. so they all flog the same narrative about asap over over and over hence his buzz.

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Monday, October 31, 2011 9:36 PM (56 seconds ago

ok i get this - what is his narrative though? i am still unclear on this

this is the biggest waste of time i've experienced in a LONG TIME. i dont know why im doing this.

THAN THE OTHER ONES YOU MENTIONED. fuck

no shakey but i'm dead serious

the '2 mp3s' thing feels TOTALLY different in a rap context not just because of major label money but because most rappers have to drop like 80 songs a year to have any presence at all

xp GOOGLE IT OR VISIT PITCHFORK.COM RIGHT NOW

I mean, if you don't think LEP has an interesting narrative just means you aren't paying attention.

and you dont find this completely gross & distorting? that its concentrating influence in a small group of people?

― The boyboy young jess (D-40), Monday, October 31, 2011 9:36 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

ummm distorting? sure. gross? i don't know, i don't lose sleep over if all is far and equal in the world of rap buzz.

i'm not necessarily advocating the process that i've outlined, just saying trying to outline sort of what i think is happening

LEP's Count came out of the Ickes projects. Count was a black stone p ranger. he grew up on NWA and originally met his manager when he was plotting to rob him. thats barely scraping the surface of the stories about those guys

The PGM deal lays a lot of hopeful industry weight on Rocky, whose government name, Rakim Mayers, is derived from one half of legendary New York hip-hop duo Eric B. & Rakim-- though Rocky wasn't even born when Paid in Full was originally released in 1987.

lol wow he wasn't even BORN when the person he was named after became famous! whodathunkit!