Bodak Yellow is:

one thing I'm liking about Tidal is the playlists and what they feature seems a little more human driven

like they did some cool stuff with ECM records in the jazz section recently

Wow! Thought it was a radio station or something in the US! Very impressed to see it’s a spotify playlist and how huge it is.

Payola in the Spotify era sounds interesting... you can get real numbers and instant results and they’re pretty much open for everyone to see. Not being cynical this is kind of exciting for me... seeing the actual followers and play numbers behind a hit.

EH it’s deceptive.. Apple doesn’t post play #s and apparently they broke it before rap caviar

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DG0QwuTXgAA-AbZ?format=jpg

tempted to start a thread w the title

list degenerates liked by ilxors who would be banned into oblivion if they posted on ilxor.com

big man

Lesser men have started

Threads

Hard to believe i kno

I wiww twy

if only the lumpenproletariat would adhere to the strict ethical demands of the leftist bourgeoisie and stop stymieing the attempt to ride the multicultural rainbow into post-patriarchal utopia

xxxpost

rac∞n tan∞ki

Oh man if this guy was raccoon tanuki, it would confirm my long held belief that raccoon tanuki was the kind of guy who hung out at strip clubs; what a Christmas miracle that would be

for some reason i thought ∞ was an old school ilxor, but i also thought ∞ was not the type of poster to go around posting in the most patronizing tone possible about how much firsthand experience they have with strippers

you were thinking of lagoon perhaps

i've longed proclaimed ∞ is the worst poster on this board, good to see that is still holding up

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/8085800/cardi-b-the-beatles-ashanti-hot-100-top-10

my favorite line in bodak yellow is 'got a bag and fixed my teeth'

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What makes this song resonate for me above a million other similar bits of luxury braggardry is the line "These expensive/these is red bottoms/these is bloody shoes," which is not only catchy but lays bare the violence of capitalism in a way I haven't heard in other songs. The louboutins are literally "bloody" -- she acknowledge that she has stepped on and crushed others to get where she is. This line works not only on that sort of personal ruthless, status climber level but also describes the "blood" of the sweatshop labor that went into making her luxury item:
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jun/17/revealed-the-romanian-site-where-louis-vuitton-makes-its-italian-shoes
"Red" is even more appropriate here being not only associated with blood but with labor. At the end of the day she openly admits to identifying with being a "boss" and that "worker(s)" are contemptible. And being a boss means she makes "bloody moves," i.e. she acknowledges that being a capitalist inherently requires violence. Moreover, she doesn't have to *dance* (sell her labor) because she "makes money move" (freely moves capital across borders).

i cant tell if you're taking the piss or not, but i like it anyway

agreed.
excited to find out what bodak yellow is FINALLY

You needn't wait: it is.

lmao that post

that shit is like what you guys imagine im saying any time i bring up chief keef

if i see you and i don't hemiola, that means i don't fuck with you

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'not a good song' outnumbers 'great song'!

if i see you and i don't hemiola, that means i don't fuck with you

― (the blues version in his Broadway show) (crüt), Sunday, January 14, 2018 5:58 PM (twenty-four minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

my whole point about him doing something 'rhythmically unique' that ppl would pick up on was absolutely validated by how rap music played out over the next 5 years fwiw

^true

I mean, if you can boil the insane and hilarious small opinions of deej into one larger big picture opinion, then yes

no way. show me even one time that Migos have used a hemiola, D-40.

I think Migos doing their entire career on an offbeat flow is somewhat validating for D-40

song of the year + great song + good song = 55
okay song + meh song = 45
not a good song + terrible song + worst song of the year = 30
(other 3)

i do think of the migos as kind of a keef mumblerap counterpoint fwiw, their typewriter style coded as kinda 'lyrical' to ppl who didn't like slurred mumbling which ended up defining so many other rappers of this era (uzi yachty playboi carti 21 et al)

i do think famous dex & post-dex music (lil pump) was a kind of uniting of the keef style blueprint w/ the migos rat-tat-tat style hooky pop sound; meanwhile rappers like dudes in detroit chicago LA pushed further w/ the rhythmically loose narrative style that retained some connection to the basic beat but kept things unpredictable. all these guys retain a more keef-like swing w/ the groove than lil b (who obv fathered keef to some degree)

here's noted anti-keef partisan bdot three years after keef identifying the 'offbeat' rap trend:

is rhyming off beat the new on beat?

— brian b.dot™ miller (@bdotTM) January 16, 2015

anyway i dont mean to distract from the cardi b results which are not bad imo

Gonna be interesting to see where this places on ilx's top 77 poll

Number one obviously

i'm gonna call "good song" as the likely winner here btw
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses)

d40 being right about chief keef's influence and d40 being insane about chief keef aren't mutually exclusive

What exactly is insane abt what I’m saying ?

i'm just winding u up
this was hilarious

that shit is like what you guys imagine im saying any time i bring up chief keef

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Sunday, January 14, 2018 5:22 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hemiolaphiliac
hemiola and the masters of the universe
hemioohla la la

Get Up 10 is fire

Get Up 10 is FIIIIYAAHHHHHHH

it's dreams & nightmares

No shit Sherlock

I listened to the first 3/4 of it on the way into work this morning and I'm pretty sure I like every track on it more than Bodak Yellow.

Caity Weaver GQ profile

https://www.gq.com/story/cardi-b-invasion-of-privacy-profile

this album is so so good. I listened to it probably five times this weekend. such a great mix of guests and styles. I get that Cardi's not as dexterous on the mic as somebody like Nicki but she turns that into a strength. her technical limitations just help her come across as more real and relatable and more convincing. her words really mean something too, like I love puns and punchlines and references and insider slang and she does have some of that but something like "Be Careful" is just so beautifully direct.

Jesus you don't argue with The Barbz or the Cardi hardcore.

http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/cardi-b-nicki-minaj-rivalry

I mean, pitting the only two current black female rap superstars against each other and defending it by saying "this is freedom of speech as its most fundamental level" is hugely NAGL, but this does not deserve death threats.

album is really good. that it appeals even to Joan Crawford herself, an aging shut-in, means it will probably irritate a lot of people who spend/have the time to be up on all the hot new stuff that hasn't bubbled up yet but as so much music listening is pretty much pure hedonism/healing for me right now...these beats are fucking righteous, the "all right all right" loop in "Bickenhead" is great, this is like a perfect spring record imo

the "all right all right" loop in "Bickenhead" is great,

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