rolling mumble rap challenge 2017

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