random question: where did the heavy-reverb-ad-lib thing (see "21" by dababy e.g.) originate? i feel like i first heard it on "shabba" by a$ap ferg but i have no idea if that's where it started
― na (NA), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 15:04 (five years ago) link
it's in "sicko mode" too
― na (NA), Tuesday, 19 March 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
though not as intensely as in "21"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trU-S53fK04
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Thursday, 28 March 2019 14:41 (five years ago) link
Nipsey Hussle was shot and killed in L.A. this afternoon
― omar little, Monday, 1 April 2019 00:16 (five years ago) link
god fucking dammit
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Monday, 1 April 2019 00:18 (five years ago) link
rip
― flopson, Monday, 1 April 2019 00:20 (five years ago) link
Fucking shit. RIP.
― Simon H., Monday, 1 April 2019 00:24 (five years ago) link
so sad, great rapper and generally just a very cool presence and vibe
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 April 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link
Horrid
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Monday, 1 April 2019 02:32 (five years ago) link
honestly, it's just.... depressing... been a fan of hip hop for so long, and it's like nothing fucking changes, biggie and pac was a lifetime ago and still the same senseless tragedies, 33 years old, what a shame
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 1 April 2019 02:36 (five years ago) link
RIP, utterly pointless and deeply sad
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Monday, 1 April 2019 03:34 (five years ago) link
his record last year was so good
RIP
― ... and the crowd said DESELECT THEM (||||||||), Monday, 1 April 2019 07:14 (five years ago) link
This is incredibly depressing. I first started paying attention with "Hussle in the House" like most people, it was a smart idea for a sample flip...I had a friend who was into the bullets have no name series & he was living in LA at the time but I didn't keep up w Nipsey really until 2012 when DJ Kenn told me he was his favorite rapper ... i didnt know folks were still feeling him like that but I thought this video was really moving ... it came out about the time that in the mainstream it felt like maybe his wave had crested, and he hadn't really taken off like some folks thought he would, but he was establishing an outside-the-system model for success
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhAUzmMAJ_k
he didn't have a straight arc to success after appearing on the cover of xxl and i'd blame that more on the pre-streaming industry of the katy perry era, it was very difficult for "Regional thugs" (copyright spin mag) to cross over at the time even if they were buzzing heavily at a local level. ppl at the time made fun of his $100 cd stunt but it was a smart argument abt how the value of art is what you can make people pay for it, moving against the stigma of street music being valueless w/out the imprimatur of a major label or w/e ... then jay z cosigned it ...
my personal favorite album of his though is 2014's 'Mailbox Money' & I think his stuff from 2014 to the lead-in to "Victory Lap" was among his best....opener "Killa":https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0o8Hha9FkxA
closer "Overtime"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLbke6krL_8
personal fav, "Between Us"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr-khO73GUgVS bezel my Rol'perfected my roleFocused my mindand got to this doughI'm one of a kindnot like what you knowTrue to my oaththey proud of my growthI come from the turfI doubled my worthI made some mistakesbut that’s just part of my searchThey connect with my wordsright at the part where it hurtsThis life is a bitchWith my hand up her skirtHad a thirst to get richcouple stains on my shirtEvery reason to failbut we was makin' it workWe was walkin' on wateryou could say it was churchAll this money I’m makinevery day I’ma splurge
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Monday, 1 April 2019 07:55 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM9xgHibvzM
god this always gets me hyped
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 15:01 (five years ago) link
the new billy woods album is really really good: https://billywoods.bandcamp.com/album/hiding-places
― na (NA), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 15:06 (five years ago) link
between us is prob my favorite nispey track too
― Neus Anneus (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 2 April 2019 16:14 (five years ago) link
New Tree album, WE Grown NOW., is awful good.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 5 April 2019 17:48 (five years ago) link
Zed Kenzo's ep is out today and it's great:https://open.spotify.com/album/5IiANa9vS04H5nLzAYe4Su?si=90kg2WNXS5S35VMc8QYnfw
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 5 April 2019 19:33 (five years ago) link
the new billy woods album is really really good
This is some quality avant-backpacker shit.
― pomenitul, Saturday, 6 April 2019 14:31 (five years ago) link
Tree singing is so rawhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0-hfHs0QiY
― but I can't let Trae do it I got Huerter on my mind (Spottie), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 06:39 (five years ago) link
god kodak black is such a p.o.s.
https://news.yahoo.com/kodak-black-apologizes-following-backlash-170032886.html
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 9 April 2019 19:21 (five years ago) link
the new billy woods album is really really goodThis is some quality avant-backpacker shit.
I really only want to hear avant-backpacker shit if Kenny Segal is producing.
― change display name (Jordan), Thursday, 11 April 2019 21:58 (five years ago) link
ambjaay is good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tplYG8HEdQ8
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Friday, 12 April 2019 21:47 (five years ago) link
Oh billy woods is my shit ! Thanks
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 12 April 2019 23:21 (five years ago) link
for interested NYers, here's a free Brooklyn show with Deem Spencerhttps://www.bam.org/music/2019/deem-spencer
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 14 April 2019 23:05 (five years ago) link
i love this new your old droog/doom/mach hommy song, such a classic old doom vibe on the beat
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eczdp1OslHU
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 April 2019 13:40 (five years ago) link
Ambjaay is super fun!
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 19 April 2019 13:45 (five years ago) link
new valee has my favorite chasethemoney beat yet, i think
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9LASFNo9X4
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 April 2019 13:46 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLtg-lAawyQ
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Friday, 19 April 2019 21:15 (five years ago) link
nwe shy glizzy is heart-wrenching and melodic, though unlikely to give him the hit that he wants so badly. here's "volcano," my favorite track from the project.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSVzQXvWauY
― person industrial complex (voodoo chili), Monday, 22 April 2019 18:14 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY1GWSL6iBQ
i like how xanman sounds like a hemiola teen rap rick ross
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Tuesday, 23 April 2019 00:25 (five years ago) link
Nobody's mentioned the Quelle Chris album yet! I'm listening now and it's great. What gives, ILX?
― imago, Friday, 26 April 2019 16:51 (five years ago) link
i've been meaning to listen, i will get to it this weekend.
in the meantime, the pivot gang album is a fantastic low-stakes hangout record. liberated from concept and the pressure to make a statement, they just shit talk, which suits them just fine.
― mourning joe (voodoo chili), Friday, 26 April 2019 17:33 (five years ago) link
thanks VC, that Pivot Gang album is good so far
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 15:53 (five years ago) link
the queen key album that leaked is great
― ANU (sisilafami), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 19:35 (five years ago) link
sisi can i get a link?
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Wednesday, 1 May 2019 22:24 (five years ago) link
Pivot Gang is totally cool
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Thursday, 2 May 2019 19:43 (five years ago) link
yeah chiming in on Pivot Gang
just feels like really free....non unambitious but just not weighed down by something it's "supposed to be" like just a bunch of crew hanging and rapping over some chill beats...really fun and infectious feeling, not labored
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 May 2019 19:57 (five years ago) link
just fyi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K01WzTUbuz8
― ANU (sisilafami), Saturday, 4 May 2019 19:10 (five years ago) link
bandgang masoe tape is rock-solid detroit shit, but whoever uploaded to spotify fucked up several times lol. songs cut off before they're done, and the first track has like 2 minutes of dead air appended onto the end
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 May 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Liking the avant-hiphop beats on Abdu Ali from Baltimore album Fyah!!. Hiphop w/ Baltimore club & a few out there jazz sax solos plus a bit of rock and more
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 15 May 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
totally mystified by this, but im kinda thinking it's genius
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tazVKOIbYNs
― i think ur a controp (voodoo chili), Monday, 20 May 2019 21:43 (four years ago) link
all in favor of weirder hip hop in 2019 and beyond
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 21 May 2019 00:28 (four years ago) link
new YG is not great, barring a couple highlights
― Simon H., Friday, 24 May 2019 13:09 (four years ago) link
I didn't know I wanted a dungeon synth/hip hop crossover, and yet here we are:
https://naturalsciences.bandcamp.com/album/dungeon-rap-the-introduction
― pomenitul, Wednesday, 29 May 2019 10:16 (four years ago) link
― Simon H., Friday, May 24, 2019 8:09 AM (one week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for the first six or so tracks it feels like it's gonna be the best album of the year, but then it falls off a cliff.
― Jeff the grown man (voodoo chili), Friday, 31 May 2019 21:30 (four years ago) link
gerald's verse is surprisingly strong though
― Jeff the grown man (voodoo chili), Friday, 31 May 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
the new Denzel Curry is more enjoyable than last year's. starting to actually miss bloated 80-minute rap records tho, they're all so short now!
― Simon H., Friday, 31 May 2019 22:37 (four years ago) link
I’m professionally biased but I’m kind of obsessed w “soapy anthem” what y’all think
https://youtu.be/UlMls98X3l0
― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), Saturday, 1 June 2019 22:46 (four years ago) link