rolling mumble rap challenge 2017

also there's a new starlito tape : https://starlito.bandcamp.com/album/manifest-destiny

Xxxpost
New Westside is good but really short, half is just instrumentals, more like a maxi single or short ep than a real tape

got it, i'll check it out

I listened to an interview w WSG and he said he has a project with Alchemist in the bag which I'm pretty stoked for so maybe this is a stopgap thing

too hard to find the curren$y thread w/o search - really like this -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOUSJkPy3BI

has anyone kept up w/ him? idk he put out soo much i kinda lost track and tuned out

watching the netflix doc now, it's decent, tho the jamaican influence seems all but omitted

This Joe Gifted & Frontstreet track sounds like Frank O going to ATL without Calvin Harris stepping in between. I kinda love it.

https://soundcloud.com/joe-gifted-1/water-x-joe-gifted-x-fronstreet-1

You can definitely hear his influences fading in and out of his voice, lol, but it's a good song and performance.

Hit alert!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCx4NFNuYgI

the roc marciano album is good, but yeah sometimes the beats just seem off ...

also this is increasingly true, especially with dudes that are operating on a lower budget, but there's so many rap records now that just sound like shit, roc's vocals are mixed too low on some tracks, and could really use some EQing on others, like there's this whole generation of producers that really are just beatmakers used to sending ppl beats through dropbox and then getting a vocal track back, they don't really know how to make records like a dude like DJ Quik or Organized Noise or Timbaland or whoever....really frustrating, i remember some Your Old Droog track last year that was like jesus fuck did anyone listen to how hard these vocals are clipping for no reason?

yeah agree. i have my beef with the sound on a lot of the popular 808 heavy producers too. Probably why Mustard n them brought in Quik to finish YGs biggest hit, fill out the sound.
http://hiphopdx.com/news/id.39927/title.dj-quik-goes-in-on-yg-jeezy-snoop-dogg-stampede-management-over-my-hitta-credit#

Counter point the new Oddissee album sounds fantastic

is that part of the blurring of lines between a mixtape and an album?

spotted first-ever paid mixtape on livemixtapes

Xpost, probably more just the decline of budgets and the studio system. There aren't many guys like a Mike Dean anymore who can have a career in pro studios....I really loved the Odd Tape last year will check new Oddisee

this was sweet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9Zd3u6XAXU

Pro studios aside, a producer who can make great creative beats is not necessarily the same person who is able to do a great mixing job on it + the vocals, but often ends up having to be that person.

what is it with contemporary tv music broadcasts - why is the sound so flat and unengaging? sounds straight off the mixing board or smth, no reverb, no sense of space... and these are good musicians! I'm thinking a Zoom recorder in the studio would've done a better job

agreed on oddissee

saw American Honey last night, some great definite goon cru anthems in the soundtrack B-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajVSMZVGO5U

yea otm plus good use of that gods whisper anco sounding song over the bonfire scene

YUP

http://www.hiphopdx.com/news/id.42551/title.drakes-opening-act-for-boy-meets-world-tour-is-facing-kidnapping-charges#

for rtc/other fans of pressa's "tbh" ...

saw American Honey last night, some great definite goon cru anthems in the soundtrack B-)

― flopson, Thursday, March 2, 2017 10:15 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

saw it on the plane start of january, still have that damn e-40 song in my head like half the day

This new GoldLink song is my shit. best song hes ever done (i always found him kinda annoying)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhNqbe6QENY

sorry that wasn't correct—he wasn't annoying, i found his production choices annoying, the "its dance music but he raps!" angle was forced imo and none of his songs were as good as vic mensa's one

and then Amine went and did it better too lol

anyway this song is good

New Sosa single is channeling classic 50 cent vibes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdfvqXtYp_s

Goldlink track is fire

saw American Honey last night, some great definite goon cru anthems in the soundtrack B-)

― flopson, Thursday, March 2, 2017 10:15 AM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so amazing!

apparently most of those tunes were songs members of the (largely non-pro) cast were into, and Arnold chose to incorporate them, some became kinda "anthems" for the cast & crew (who would also have motel parties similar to those in the movie)

shia was robbed fuck casey affleck

You know whose project I really like right now, is THEY.

not the greatest moniker in teh world, but still:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_f7fbT3ldL8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPc6amxJ-RE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFwr-MCbObY

idk its like Rae Sremmurd goes R&B, electronic pop w/ a sprinkling of vague rock-ness that feels like a spiritual parallel w/ early NERD

this is pretty excellent

https://soundcloud.com/crystalcaines/no-drama

ha that Keef song is really commercial sounding

ya. it's cool. if this ushers in an era of Keef making listenable music i'm down

woah westside gunn & conway signed to shady

http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2017/03/shady-records-deal-westside-gunn-conways-griselda-record/

mb we should have a cupcakke thread

http://www86.zippyshare.com/v/Y3C8VuQr/file.html

never trust a man who wear briefs/cuz he gon wanna fuck and keep it brief

ya. it's cool. if this ushers in an era of Keef making listenable music i'm down

― flopson, Wednesday, 8 March 2017 22:02 (yesterday) Permalink

he's had tons of listenable music over the last 5 years yall just bought into this dumb critical meme that it was more "experimental"/"interesting" than listenable crossed w/ the meme about Atlanta being the only center of the rap universe

21 savage is literally biting flows from 'finally rollin 2' & getting plaques off them

taste checkmate

That SOB x RBE tape reeeeallly grew on me. I did not like "Anti" at all the first time I heard it (I couldn't quite get with how they rap slightly ahead of the beat) but then something clicked.

"Anti" is not even a highlight, not sure why that's the one that's getting attention. I much prefer this one:

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

gotta check that release out

http://gaming.sbroadbent.net/files/totalwar/rome/266-battle%20of%20alalia-naval-4.png

love anti!

well 'love' is strong for any sob x rbe records, lyrically i have trouble connecting w/ fairly large swaths of their output

but in terms of songs to kinda listen to in the background i like 'anti'

what is the living shit is just blaze doing with this track??

https://soundcloud.com/shadyrecords/machinegunblack

Att: deej. I believe Tunji B. is the same guy that got Kendrick signed as well. (re: http://amp.www.complex.com/music/2017/03/bout-to-blow-march-2017/)