rolling gun sounds thread

"purple swag" is just about to him 1m views on youtube

it's funny, that while chick doesn't actually even say the n word

while i'm a bit underwhelmed by the tape i gotta say this cover art was p ill
http://www.fakeshoredrive.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/49.jpg

The type and logos are meh, but the painting is pretty great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67G54zY6HR8

fav off that tape

agree that "trilla" and "peso" are great but while the overall stoned-in-your-bedroom x witch-house-spookiness vibe probably hits the spot in a certain mood it's not something i can get very excited about as a thing? also he CAN'T RAP omg, and it's not even like there's force of character to compensate à la lil b's stream of consciousness moments

the LEP went for a darker denser street feel than I was expecting, thought it wd have some more pop moves like the last one. there is a good retro vibe to it, like back when gangster rappers yelled about politics in a one dimensional gangster rap way and spelled america with three k's in the middle

of the recent mixtapes i've been catching up on i quite like the travis porter but kind of wish there were more super-fast bangers like "bring it back" - meek mill's is really great though, liked j0rdan's review of that, and the reema major backs up "i'm the one" pretty effectively

this was a highlight too
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdfAZ9BlEMM

but I like PacMan hooks & his verse on this (the last one) was p nice
I would say, if you're not feeling these two tracks, you probably will not like this tape. I do wish it was better mastered hopefully the NODJ sounds better :(

i think deej and i are both in agreement that this tape would be much more interesting/better if you just eliminated clams casino from the equation entirely

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 November 2011 02:00 (1 hour ago) Bookmark

surprised i disagree w this because up until i heard this i was decidedly not a big clams casino fan but c'mon the beat on bass? that & wassup are standouts of the first half

isnt that the one that's just a stuttered biggie beat

the bigger problem on that track is the endless downtuned vocal chorus

in place of a real hook

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ltqrm3Jdu9o

the bo deal will probably get slept on mostly but this track is pretty amazing. ranks up with his classic 'bananas'

its a gender battle track where the dude is the one trying to get the girl pregnant, kind of a flip of the cliche

is there a rap song this year with more youtube hits than 'racks' (almost 12 million !!)

"Yonkers" and "Gucci Gucci" both have more than twice that i'm afraid

lil wayne featuring eminem 64 million

ok i give up

using the patented youtube views metric ASAP is certainly lagging way behind this year's other blog faves

2012:

rolling urban menswear thread

based off 3 listens per tape 2Chainz > ASAP > Freddie Gibbs. I prefer the Travis Porter 'Music Money Magnums' to any of them (don't think that's the most recent Travis Porter tho)

screwed hooks have been all over rap since still tippin deej. u sound a bit like "i don't like how this new rapper uses pieces of other records on the hook, what's up with that?"

Checked out "Tony Story" off the Meek Mill thanks to JOrdan's review. Awesome

You should really have that meek mill imo. It's like 70% the best mixtape this year

And yeah bro I know what a screwed hook is. It just sounds cheap here and more gives feels like a reverse bee gees effect than an actual s&c hook.

The gibbs is way better than the asap imo

I'm really conflicted abt 2 chainz although it sounds p much as I expected

yeah the meek mill is excellent. I like the production on freddie gibbs better than asap for sure, it's just he has too many kinda smooth cuts for me, which isn't really my thing, so i prefer the asap cos of the style rather than the quality.

meek mill just has that something about his voice that connects - j0rdan discussed this in his review, it's something that plenty aim for but when someone has it, it's just POW. don't even mind the generic lex luger beats really. what i find interesting is the way he crosses WAKA-style energy with complex narrative without sacrificing either.

is it just me or does he bring the best out of rawse, too? maybe it's just something about how their voices contrast that makes me more amenable to rick ross's elephantine galumphing as a foil to meek's nervous energy.

i feel like codeine cowboy & trap-a-velli 2 > the new one

zvooks, good catch but i think i was trying to say i thought he was wack
maybe too subtle

btw, i predictably like the roots/krit collabo a lot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xSCPM4Zb9U

can we get a new thread, loading this one is killing my browser

it's november dude, just turn images off

bookmarks dude

screwed hooks have been all over rap since still tippin deej. u sound a bit like "i don't like how this new rapper uses pieces of other records on the hook, what's up with that?"

― zvookster, Wednesday, November 2, 2011 12:32 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is partly right, but the thing about ASAP is that he isn't -- i think even too ppl that really like his music -- an amazing rapper qua rapper. and i think if you're an amazing rapper, you can get away with relying heavily on c&s hooks, but with ASAP (and tons of other rappers) it might be a sign that he just doesn't have that many ideas for hooks right now, and that wouldn't be good

is it just me or does he bring the best out of rawse, too? maybe it's just something about how their voices contrast that makes me more amenable to rick ross's elephantine galumphing as a foil to meek's nervous energy.

― lex pretend, Wednesday, November 2, 2011 1:41 PM (53 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah there's something to this. the interplay b/w their two styles really works.

Those are literally not s and c hooks, though. It's a dude talking slowed down, but not our a scratched hook, more like what mf grimm does in "scars and memories"

Like, the normal s&c hook is a sample

right... well they're screwing his voice instead of a sample, and not chopping it. it's not that big of a distinction. the end results would be pretty similar.

stuff like "my chick bad" and "black mags" are just the rappers pitched down, but yeah they're used like samples whereas this is just dude rapping pitched down, i know what deej means.

yeah i dont think it works for them xp

well typically when someone says s&c hook i'm thinking of, like, the hook to still tippin, where its a sample slowed down for a hook

anyway, pedant overload. jordan was totally otm about the french montana hook on this new pusha t

it wasn't pedantry: it turned out u had more specific criticisms than "pitched down hooks suck"

forks: it's the "hilarious" pun on wack, beloved of hundreds, that's embarrassing! typos and misspellings aren't embarrassing.

thats not all i said in the first place, though

ok dude

anyway why is no one talking about the bo deal track i posted that shit is ridiculous

the french montana hook on this new pusha t

! love it

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu1ug3WqE41qcrp73o1_400.jpg
the gucci & v-nasty track is pretty crazy yall

doing a song with V-Nasty is one of the most Gucci Mane-esque things Gucci Mane has ever done

i've listened to two Future mixtapes a lot but can't see myself really listening to this 2 Chainz one

i'm really, really pissed that v-nasty didn't call riff raff