lol is there some kind of sentiment to that effect ? xp
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Monday, 2 November 2015 17:11 (eight years ago) link
"twitter.com"
― bricc baby hitlo (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 2 November 2015 17:16 (eight years ago) link
either way if this is the only rap music u listen to F.U. imo
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 2, 2015 4:59 PM (47 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh for sure, none of these are even my favourite rap albums/tapes of 2k15, but they seem very comparable to each other
― lex pretend, Monday, 2 November 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
Yeah. There's Migos too.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 2 November 2015 18:09 (eight years ago) link
if this included Tha Tour Pt 1 it'd be Thug easy but as is, it's prob Future.
― some dude, Monday, 2 November 2015 18:19 (eight years ago) link
Going with Thug. His highs are higher this year.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 2 November 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
Interesting b/c for all the similarities, they seem to be on divergent paths right now. Thug's output is so wide-ranging and expansive, while Future's narrowed his sound down to something powerful but monochromatic. I'd probably vote Thug based on his capacity to surprise.
― Evan R, Monday, 2 November 2015 18:26 (eight years ago) link
Really to me it comes down to song construction, and future has made more classic songs in his recent run than thug, imo
People are still giving props to rappers for churning out a lot of material w/out considering that not every thug song (or future song for that matter) is worth their time and it might seem like it's elevating the artists but really it's grading them on a curve that ends up downplaying the great shit and overplaying the filler
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 2 November 2015 20:28 (eight years ago) link
personally, i need to marinate in this slime for a few more weeks before making the call
― tpp, Monday, 2 November 2015 20:49 (eight years ago) link
u have 6 days
― Spottie, Monday, 2 November 2015 20:50 (eight years ago) link
either way if this is the only rap music u listen to F.U. imo― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 2, 2015 11:59 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 2, 2015 11:59 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
you could do a lot worse than listening to these two. i listened to ds2 almost exclusively for all of sep-oct
Interesting b/c for all the similarities, they seem to be on divergent paths right now. Thug's output is so wide-ranging and expansive, while Future's narrowed his sound down to something powerful but monochromatic.― Evan R, Monday, November 2, 2015 1:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Evan R, Monday, November 2, 2015 1:26 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
interesting, imo thug is also converging towards something
i love the pure texture of future's voice (prob top 5 human voice timbre of all time) but i like the things thug does with his voice more..?
― flopson, Monday, 2 November 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
lex + deej who are ur fav rappers this year?
― tpp, Monday, 2 November 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
xp yeah totally agree with that. Everything that comes out of Future's voice just naturally sounds good; you definitely can't say the same for Thug.
But Thug pushes his voice more
― Evan R, Monday, 2 November 2015 21:09 (eight years ago) link
imo thug is also converging towards something
yea ss2 made me think about this a little more
― marcos, Monday, 2 November 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
thug the most vocally angelic rapper in the game ever gtfoh
― tpp, Monday, 2 November 2015 21:11 (eight years ago) link
i love thugs voice dgmw im just saying like, i could listen to future read a dictionary & i'd be like ♪(]^_^[)♪
― flopson, Monday, 2 November 2015 21:16 (eight years ago) link
also many xps but idk if a future/thug tape would work out, it'd have to be super focused and deliberate vibe, not sure if a haphazardly thrown together tape would work out well w/ these guys? maybe i'm wrong -- i think i read some producer (metro boomin maybe) saying they really work very similarly, very fast, very spontaneous in the moment
― marcos, Monday, 2 November 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
― tpp, Monday, November 2, 2015 4:11 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― flopson, Monday, November 2, 2015 4:16 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yea, agree w/ flopson, thug has some really astonishing highs but there are plenty of tracks where i just really don't like his voice, plenty of thugger tracks that are fucking annoying
― marcos, Monday, 2 November 2015 21:28 (eight years ago) link
At least I notice when I hear one of his tracks tho, March Madness aside everything I've heard from Future might as well've been white noise
― Underground Rick (albvivertine), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 01:30 (eight years ago) link
angel haze and vince staples
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 07:41 (eight years ago) link
mozzy & ty money
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 07:52 (eight years ago) link
this is so hard. a few months ago i'd have def said YT but I've been getting into Future a lot more recently and not so much Barter 6
― canoon fooder (dog latin), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 12:19 (eight years ago) link
oh last 12 months? Future then. But I haven't heard the Slimes
i like young thug more as an artist but future's having a better run so i vote future
Agree with this. I didn't think Future had an album like DS2 in him anymore.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 14:27 (eight years ago) link
both artists are better than they've ever been for me - i was very surprised that i fell as hard for future's output as i have this year, harder than i ever did before (i went back to the pre-DS2 mixtapes and they're all amazing), and i was very surprised that i finally clicked with thug with the slime seasons and "pacifier" having previously found him pretty unlistenable
i wouldn't say i'm enraptured with the timbre of either's voice but something about the production choices and songwriting frames them better for me now
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:12 (eight years ago) link
fyi you were also wrong about chief keef, who's had an alright year if not as strong as his 2014 in my eyes
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:14 (eight years ago) link
future's been more consistent but i love barter 6 the most out of all the tapes. so uh thug
― insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:25 (eight years ago) link
i don't think i was wrong, i just like the new stuff more than the old stuff
i liked bang 3 in a non-coommittal sort of way
on the subject of chicago rappers i can't believe no one's repping harder for nutty world 2, fire from start to finish
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:26 (eight years ago) link
(is what a time to be alive remotely essential despite being a drake hater? i have no motivation to listen to it)
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:27 (eight years ago) link
lex there are some really good future tracks on it that are very much in the same vein as the rest of his work from this year, drake isn't even on every song
― marcos, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
after many tries (1017 Thug, Black Portland, Tha Tour Pt. 1 and mostly lagoon's Straye Thugs comp), i still don't "get" YT. i just can't get motivated to bother w/ Barter or the Slimes
― alpine static, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:19 (eight years ago) link
too bad dude barter & both slimes are way better than than the older mixtapes though i guess if you can't find something to love in those than there's no use in trying the newer stuff
― marcos, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:21 (eight years ago) link
nah i still can't find much to love in the older mixtapes, the new ones are a huge step up
SS1 has terrific use of pianos
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:26 (eight years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, November 2, 2015 11:59 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i find it hard to believe there are people who would dig future + young thug but not listen to other rap music?
― marcos, Tuesday, 3 November 2015 17:33 (eight years ago) link
there aren't, that claim is straight deejery.
― based grandpa (noz), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 21:08 (eight years ago) link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWJI_zeDK0Q
― rap is dad (it's a boy!), Tuesday, 3 November 2015 22:06 (eight years ago) link
gtfowtbs
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 06:49 (eight years ago) link
there are definitely ppl on twitter & ilx for whom this is the bulk of / 90% of their rap listening in 2015
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 06:50 (eight years ago) link
― lex pretend, Tuesday, November 3, 2015 11:26 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they're really not a huge step up from the rich gang tape you're just having trouble backtracking entirely
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 06:51 (eight years ago) link
xp oh im so sorry i forgot about fetty wap, there's your 90%
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 07:01 (eight years ago) link
hip hop partisanship is such a balkanized and paranoid stance, cannot imagine a country fan being "oh so you mostly listen to zac brown and dierks bentley and jason isbell; LAME your opinion doesn't matter"
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 07:33 (eight years ago) link
voted future btw
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 07:34 (eight years ago) link
2015 is one of the few years in recent memory where most of the music that's been the most talked about and widely listened to is also some of the best: Future, Thug, Kendrick, Fetty Wap, even Chance and Donnie Trumpet.
So with all due respect, IF you're going to fill your 90% rap quota with only two artists you could do a lot worse than Future and Thug, two of the most important rappers of this era, arguably at the top of their powers, who, between the two of them, have released 8 good to great projects within the past 12 months.
And I do know you're always ahead of every other rap listener ever, deej, and that sometimes makes it difficult to argue with you, but Power is still a better song than any of Mozzy's. And I do like Mozzy.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 07:34 (eight years ago) link
yeah imo future and thug have released the bulk of / 90% of the best rap in 2015
― based grandpa (noz), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 07:47 (eight years ago) link
but part of that is just the odds given that they both release a lot more music than, say, earl or kendrick or nef the pharaoh
fetty wap is not a rapper
― based grandpa (noz), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 07:49 (eight years ago) link
2015 is one of the few years in recent memory where most of the music that's been the most talked about and widely listened to is also some of the best
― a llove spat over a llama-keeper (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 07:50 (eight years ago) link
earl's album = the other 10%
― based grandpa (noz), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 08:06 (eight years ago) link
don't think this is true, there's still amazing stuff that mysteriously gets shut out of the discussion entirely (ANGEL HAZE)
also not to bang on about this yet again but do people ever have any self-awareness about the lack of female artists when they reel off lists of men like that
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 08:52 (eight years ago) link
I wish I could love Angel Haze like you do, Lex. I also wish there were more female artists making rap music that I'd consider for a list like that. I mean, there are good songs here and there, but your enthusiasm for these projects seems a little bit over the top at times.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Wednesday, 4 November 2015 08:57 (eight years ago) link
i have no idea how anyone can hear angel haze and not realise what a special, one-off talent they are
anyway i feel everyone's enthusiasm for young thug is still over the top so
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 4 November 2015 09:01 (eight years ago) link
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― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 16:27 (six years ago) link
i wish i had a dollar for every time i've heard some weird word or phrase in a hip hop song and googled it and then it turned out to be some kinda ultra-high end super expensive luxury brand of some sort.
i know it's just old man yelling at cloud or whatever but i'm so burnt out on hearing this shit tbh
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
normally I feel that way but this mixtape takes it to such excess that it becomes elevated, and the future-styled autotuned vocals give it a bittersweet undertone.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 18:58 (six years ago) link
it's kinda funny i feel like future has such a blank affect that people project so much sorrow and all this existential stuff onto a guy that mostly just raps about expensive shit and doing drugs and having sex
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 December 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
Kind of a similar appeal to Roxy Music weirdly
― FREEZE! FYI! (dog latin), Thursday, 21 December 2017 01:59 (six years ago) link
funny how art works makes u think
― lag∞n, Thursday, 21 December 2017 02:07 (six years ago) link
xp to UMS I think Group Home has a lot of sorrow in it
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 21 December 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
go for your sorrow boom boom explode!
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 December 2017 14:14 (six years ago) link
I have a strange desire to buy cartier socks now
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Thursday, 28 December 2017 02:59 (six years ago) link
I think I like Huncho Jack, Jack Huncho better than this
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 December 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
But Without Warning is better than both.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 28 December 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
Listened to it today, and Real Love sounded like such a sad sequel to Turn On the Lights. Something about the autotuned Future voice in the background.
― Frederik B, Thursday, 28 December 2017 19:16 (six years ago) link
i can't hang w/21 savage
― Joan Digimon (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 28 December 2017 20:07 (six years ago) link
yeah without warning >
― ANU (sisilafami), Thursday, 28 December 2017 23:58 (six years ago) link
On his own, 21 Savage is dull, but he is the perfect foil for Offset at his most hyper.
― Frederik B, Friday, 29 December 2017 01:43 (six years ago) link
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, December 18, 2017 3:06 AM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 14:26 (two years ago) link
oops, I mean:
HEY WHAT KINDA WATER'S THAT IT'S PATEK WATER― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Monday, December 18, 2017 3:06 AM (three years ago) bookmarkflaglink
"way 2 sexy" is future's first number one, yes?
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 14:38 (two years ago) link
i just looked and for singles yes, the majority of his albums have been #1 tho https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_discography
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
mask off at 5 is his his only big hit on his own
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 14:46 (two years ago) link
Weird, I don't really pay attention to what's in the charts but I honestly thought Future's time in the sun had passed but his last album made number 5 in the UK
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Thursday, 16 September 2021 16:06 (two years ago) link
Mask off being his biggest hit is a bizarre blip of timing w the advent of streaming and the strength of meme novelty, def not his biggest record in real world sense
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 16 September 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
not sure what else it would be... turn on the lights idk, i think meme novelty counts
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:28 (two years ago) link
it doesnt though..that song didn't get more club play or whatever. its like saying "thank you next" by ariana grande is bigger than "vogue" by madonna, or that certified lover boy is bigger than thriller. get real
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:42 (two years ago) link
if you see future live, it def feels like “march madness” is his biggest track, but i do think “mask off” is likely the future song a casual music fan is likely to know
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:56 (two years ago) link
march madness is def his best song and yeah prob the fave w his big fans
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:59 (two years ago) link
xheugy eddy (D-40)Posted: September 16, 2021 at 3:42:18 PMit doesnt though..that song didn't get more club play or whatever. its like saying "thank you next" by ariana grande is bigger than "vogue" by madonna, or that certified lover boy is bigger than thriller. get realomg im not saying any of those things im just saying it counts some amount
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:00 (two years ago) link
all songs are memes if you think about it, the club is a group chat
― lag∞n, Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:01 (two years ago) link
dirty sprite is ten years old so many greta trackshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCpWu_4wpoM
― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 21:36 (two years ago) link
God I thought you meant DS2 for a second there
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 21:45 (two years ago) link
its 11 years old
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 21:53 (two years ago) link
i musta read the tweet wrong. even older then
― Spottie, Tuesday, 11 January 2022 22:11 (two years ago) link
it's also wild to me that he was 28 when ds1 dropped!
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
*27. still tho!
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 11 January 2022 23:03 (two years ago) link
futurism
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 00:25 (two years ago) link
Chief Keef really did belong in the conversation at this time lol . faneto was only a year old when the thread started
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Wednesday, 12 January 2022 03:56 (two years ago) link
i like the adlib abt his struggles w data backup
― lag∞n, Wednesday, November 4, 2015 12:38 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink
otm
― lag∞n, Wednesday, 12 January 2022 13:53 (two years ago) link
Ok so astronaut status is 10 today lol
― Spottie, Thursday, 13 January 2022 03:06 (two years ago) link
I find it weird that Mask Off still hasn't become a major pandemic hit.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 13 January 2022 14:37 (two years ago) link
future say shit like "your racks will neva b honorable" i really fuck wit dude music alot— thebe kgositsile (@earlxsweat) December 25, 2021
― roflrofl fight (voodoo chili), Thursday, 13 January 2022 15:59 (two years ago) link