rolling mumble rap challenge 2017

"fix that"on repeat

This new joint by rich the mid, thouxanbandfauni and famous dex is cool

https://soundcloud.com/digital-trapstars/famous-dex-x-rich-the-kid-x-thouxanbandfauni-gorgeous

I gotta say though dex had some of the best records of 2016.

Lil Herb is killing it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YattWTxF4sk

kinda sad that the rap thread titles have come to this tbh

(sorry, tradition)

havent heard from musica de Harry Fraud in a bit.

this is a dope "Ha" remake:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IHX2wsY34k4

wow it's great

yeah, agreed. who is that guy?

lol this soulja boy stuff

Will Ayo & Teo supplant SheLovesMeechie as hip-hop's foremost music critic(s)?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQlf77w1iyk

I like the Ha dude.

just hopped off the plane, i got out about a day ago
everybody love me, when they see me be like 'there he go'

http://i.freegifmaker.me/1/4/8/3/5/4/14835473241621863.gif

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09c7fwUZUrs

echoing deej's praise of famous dex with this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXpZdCdF6l0

he sounds like sauce walka mixed with lil yachty now, i like it better.

he's had more good songs last year than any of the comparable rappers. his breakthrough "2 times" was more like a keef thing, most ppl just heard "drip from my walk" & knocked him as a sauce walka clone but he's way better than sauce twins & chooses better beats than anyone in rap right now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyOEB__d4xI
"checkmate"

I should do a real list but here's 5 great 2016 dex songs

took time feat 12tildee
my energy
i'm great
kanye
i'm paid

5 more

HBK Intro
Never Saw
Link
Slide
Amazing

i also like abt his music that though he's v much a 'street rapper' via lineage/tradition his music isn't weighed down by trying to prove how street it is, it's just fun music that has a sense of humor about itself

That G Herbo song is great, reminds of Pac

I like Famous Dex's ok, but he probably has a definitive commercial ceiling after that video came out of him assaulting his girlfriend

Sort of makes it hard for me to listen to him, tbh, even though I listen to plenty of rappers who have likely done worse.

i never really identified w/ him as some kind of moral voice, or it was like never like his thought process or persona that resonated w/ me—he's an entertainer more than a narrator—so while i don't approve & it has me thinking twice about, like, how i would interview him given the opportunity, or how I would write a #thoughtpiece about it, it doesn't really affect the way i hear the music itself all that much.

but i agree it may have created a commercial ceiling—he was too late vs. say kodak whose crimes came out after the Drake cosign etc.

whole nba young boy 38 baby tape is p solid

yay migos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzpZov-VFLk

So this song is #100 on the Hot 100 right now.

yeah I saw it on the rap caviar playlist and figured something must be up.

good luck america

whats funny about that to me is its like the most boring iteration of a familiar style, i dont really get it at all

i suspect ppl are sharing the video for the luigi cap + hentai shirt more than the song

xp I agree with that, maybe people are responding to the tongue-in-cheek video/hook. Sort of like the response to "CoCo" and the whole "BAKING SODA I GOT BAKING SODA" bit.

i get all that but it's not actually "good"

Yeah, wasn't arguing for its quality, just its appeal. "CoCo" was also not good, but its over-the-top goonery was more appealing to me than whatever Ugly God is.

ugly god feels like an even more basic madeintyo

heard that song last summer on a brisk god vine of a turtle falling off a beach ball

good times

it is extendo meme schmoundcLOUDDEAD drollwave

it is ironic but also not, like yknow the internet or whatever

most methods of 'attack' are not going to be very relevant

yachty is the creative director of nautica now

what is there to get really

Can't have a lil boat without water

Is there a difference between "mumble rap" and "coco yayo maco wacko no-fi schmoundcloud dooblebob vine rap thingy?" (idk how to hyperlink to that poll)

there are so many new rappers rn & so few of them get posted here it's kind of hard to create your own take cuz theres no taste chess w/ no opponents.

kind of feeling this one though

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4wxPOiXa9c

http://i.imgur.com/vb4Y0hT.png

that Ski Mask the Slump God track is nice imo as is the other stuff of his I looked for this morning so tyvm for that. kinda retro in a way I'm not gonna write giant boring grafs about but anyway nice stuff

there are so many new rappers rn & so few of them get posted here it's kind of hard to create your own take cuz theres no taste chess w/ no opponents.

haha peak deej

V.I.C.E. Boys are getting kinda big in Mpls I like this one, esp the video w/the Duluth coast

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USGZfV6pUjg

i really really like Juice Lord from St. Paul

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWThjZAY1U8

not on deej's chessboard but was mentioned in that pfork Rising article last week, so i figure it's fair game to post something else by him:

https://soundcloud.com/websterx/blue-streak-prod-by-four-giants

(Milwaukee)

i'm out of the loop dm me name sof the new rappers i should be posting about itt and i will post about them

https://charlesngo.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/550px-Play-Blitz-Chess-Step-3.jpg

no new rappers here, but this is a good PnB x Chicago track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx9DluMpEbg

http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-jz_Q9ch2B4Y/VjI3rHvV_RI/AAAAAAAARNM/GOzzjVxz6zo/w220-h201/bc2.gif

holy shit i used to play that game lol

omg Battle Chess

have i posted this yet? Rico Nasty is the shit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU1CjG0E_1w

Am I the only one who thinks the Offset / 21 Savage / Metro Boomin record is absolutely amazing? I mean, Culture is my favorite rap-record of the year, so I was predisposed to like it, but it's really really great, no?

i am just hearing rockstar for the first time and it is .. good?

for some sci fi dystopian can ox type vibez the new Armand Hammer is really great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIbWO8YO0KM

i am just hearing rockstar for the first time and it is .. good?

― alpine static, Wednesday, November 8, 2017 1:32 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

awful

i like this: https://armandhammer.bandcamp.com/ (billy woods and elucid)

Second that Armand Hammer album. It's real good.

There's a new Rexx Life Raj album out and it's gooood

https://youtu.be/Qse5HH30eME

i posted about him in the r&b thread a little back. checking out the new alb now.

ctrl + f "rapsody"

0/0 results

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQzRU8IC0mg
G Perico bringing the Quik vibes

I like this Lute dude, signed to J Cole's label

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Re9wDJeJ1Qo

yeah that first verse is very well thought out

gimme the lute

New Sosa 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 much more Rappy than “thot breaker”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gguqyEUu6QY

The new Lil Wop mixtape is wild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3gsv3PMNPU

i find him unlistenable. im convinced hed be nowhere near as famous if his name wasnt 'lil wop' in the era of GUCCI MANE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTIST WHO HAS EVER LIVED

Nah, his Gucci fandom is the least interesting thing about him. He gives lip service to Gucci, but his sound owes more to Keef. Both of those things are kinda boring on their own, but I love the tape's mashup of slasher films and sugary breakfast cereal.

Also helps that he uses his own stable of producers, rather than just tapping the same old 1017 standbys. Gucci's never made a tape that sounds anything like this

i dunno, most of his records so far i find aggressively unlikeable

lets talk about how this is the best chief keef record of the year

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD3LvBIOsKI

I haven't kept up with them all but that whole tape sounds like his best start-to-finish project in years to me. The mix is interesting... all these songs, like "Less Speed," that might have been played for maximum volume a few years ago, sound slightly cushioned, like it was mastered with headphones in mind

it doesn't feel like his 'best project in years' to me in the sense that his catalog has always sort of exceeded the bounds of his projects, and capturing just one project feels like you're only look at one facet of what he does--like, to say this best represents him when there's zero melodic records on it feels wrong. I will say that this, like Thot Breaker, feels like one of his best-packaged efforts, and is definitely more well sequenced than the unfortunate Bang 3 releases, which were kind of botched even though the have some classic records on them (ie "laurel canyon")

I knew from the singles that this keef would not be for me. I enjoyed Thot Breaker a lot, and I was into Nobody 2 and quite a few Bang 3 tracks were great too despite being patchy on the whole. I'd love to see him put something together that was full of tracks like No and Tats. Still, for me, he's been the most consistently interesting and innovative rapper around for the last 3 years.

For those compiling your year-end lists, this includes all the available tracks on this thread, organized roughly chronologically in order of mention:

ILM's 2017 Rolling Hip Hop Thread Spotify Playlist

this isn't particularly great but man this album cover art is something else

https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1324521162_10.jpg

That cover art is amazing. It doesn't make me want to listen, however.

A few jamz

gunna/young thug - don't play with it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_NJ6NgtADE

YB - flights over feelings
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MmknEyg0Gro

queen key/valee - pass the blunt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIPp2ilPXBk

drakeo - big banc uchies

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

zmoney/valee - two 16s
https://soundcloud.com/user-421658681/two-16s-feat-valee

need to hear more from her but i think i really like bbymutha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fgx4NNgqps

lol, she just posted a rap over grimes' "genesis" on twitter; she is hunting hipsters
love that drawl tho'

T.Y. and Jet Life Recordings crew is worth checking out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5D0sH5Z-SPQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PtMGBLP7-c

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPI-lTBs_Jk

ive grown to like the yachty album its fun

I'm literally crying over the death of Combat Jack. Such a loss.

yeah too sad :(
and mf doom's kid :(

The shit with combat happened so, so fast. Like out of nowhere. He just broke the news he was sick in October

it's very sad. i didn't know about doom's kid, that's heartbreaking.

got around to listening to the durk/tee grizzley tape and it fucking goes

yeah i like that

i also like the jadakiss/fab freddy vs jason tape

2 generations of workmanlike street rap formalists

saw a tweet that reminded me this project was really quite good for "boring" formalist street rap (not really boring)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dpyJR4sWnE

rolling boring street rap 2018

like the Travis Scott/Quavo on first listen

I always made a point of never listening to Travis Scott because there was this ding dong thread about him

xpost lol I would be totally on board with boring street rap

ALERT ALERT new scarface album, deeply rooted, is v v good ALERT ALERT

"deeply rooted" was released 2 years ago.
what he just released is "rooted the lost files", which contains outtakes and alternate versions of songs from deeply rooted.

my bad, that's all accurate. the outtakes are v v good.

i like the new, slight curren$y fiend record
vibes

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

"'boring' formalist street rap (not really boring)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmcp3qvWZe8

“History of violence” was cool I gotta check that out

2018 rolling boring street rap