rolling mumble rap challenge 2017

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/)

yah he is he also reads the column B-)

He also used to be a rapper:
https://youtu.be/Hl9W3u5qfms

awesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-toRUB2ctcY

wow that is grrreat! she just keeps getting better

there really should be a cupcakke thread by now

http://i.imgur.com/7HPQ1Hs.gifv

this is about as unfashionable as it gets, but just getting into Masta Ace's album from last year, The Falling Season, a concept/story album about his childhood, busing out to a majority Italian white school in Sheepshead Bay...anyway pretty great, structured a bit like A Prince Among Thieves

still one of the most underrated rappers to this day....cameos by Cormega, A.G., Your Old Droog, Torae, Wordsworth and World Famous Supreme Team (!!)

this is the best thing lil uzi vert has ever done

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iE0QDecIdc

first track on the new Rozaaay (f R Saadiq) is so pretty

Mastermind, Black Market and this new one really live up to the hype on Ross's production imo. Kinda reminds me of that 2014 Jeezy album that had a bunch of gorgeous soul beats, really like the suspended vocal sample on "Santorini Greece" in particular.

Dude has the worst "hyped up" voice in the game tho. He doesn't use it much but it's on one of the tracks here. Same one he used a bit on "Free Mason" off Teflon Don

first track on the new Rozaaay (f R Saadiq) is so pretty

― Lebro v. Wade (Spottie), Friday, March 17, 2017 12:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark

this was produced by a kid named chad thomas, who is going into his senior year as a football player at univ of miami. he started at defensive end last season. he & ross have made some music before but that beat was way more accomplished and soulful than i would have expected.

Hey that's cool

deej, I noticed you were complaining on twitter about songs that are only available for streaming and asking about how djs cope with this development. The answer, I think, is that mp3 dj pools are going to become even more important to most djs as the sale of mp3s steadily declines. My main issue with the dj pools is that they're quite expensive - at least as long as you can't actually find everything you need on there anyway. I tend to spend about $ 20 a month on afro/london/dancehall stuff anyway and subscribing to get big sean mp3s on top of that for an additional $ 20-30 a month sucks. I can send you Living Single though. They have it on digiwaxx, which is free as long as you give it a quick review before you dl it.

dope plz send. Yeah I had a dj pool sub but it kept me up on shit i didnt care about & mostly missed all the stuff i want...like do any dj pools have the new carti/uzi "woke up" record? i bet they dont, but they do have (as does amazon) the song that they pushed as a single first.