rolling scambaby shotta flows 2020

finally digging into the Boldy James/Alchemist, love it

thats more like it [thumbs up emoji]

lovin this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW7dsPhZ3hw

that's cool

some bay area(ish) stuff i've been into this year

shootergang kony - "jungle" ... this beat is nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2CBbQuDHE

kai bandz - "big boss status"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4EgiZR6Rro

two similar sounding songs i've been listening to a lot lately... melodic guitar based southern rap, i feel young again

rugrat od - sumtimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6nhF81Miik

slatt zy - remorse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMqv87a5y9g

Ridin the Rod wave

that kai bandz is great

while, as a general rule, one never goes full deej, I must admit I've been mildly sceptical about the rmr hype myself. I do like it but it's also a bit on the nose.

what do you like

rod wave's songwriting is getting sharper without losing that raw nerve emotion

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

crazy how popular he's gotten, but hard to think of any rap young'n who deserves it more.

what do you like

― ILX’s bad boy (D-40), 3. mars 2020 23:29 (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

the singing, mostly

the rmr doesn't do anything for me without the video

i'll agree that the video is most of the appeal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NY5Bxm5iVvY

Che Noir from Buffalo, digging this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=109&v=lofuUUaWa80&feature=emb_title

feeling the wheelchair goat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nv1AUBaB_w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nv1AUBaB_w

wow youtube doesnt wanna see him win ...
copy and paste www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nv1AUBaB_w

looks like it was taken down?

https://youtu.be/0HD4VuhhbJk

Weird... idk what was up w that link

shoulda guessed he was from the D lol

The official tracklist for @JayElectronica’s #AWrittenTestimony is here. pic.twitter.com/aoRB1s1mDG

— Apple Music (@AppleMusic) March 12, 2020

these really are the end times

Last month, Jay announced that he would be releasing A Written Testimony in 40 days (which would be on Wednesday, March 18). The album was recorded over a 40-day, 40-night stretch starting on December 26, and will feature Jay-Z, who signed Electronica to Roc Nation back in 2010.

which begs the question....what the fuck have you been doing??

crazy, not sure it will be good but def curious to hear it after all these years

hey man, he did at least, like, 8 guest verses in the meantime.

I mean it's kind of stunning in a way, the dude has this enduring rep based on....two songs

well the Jay Electronica album is a huge fuckin mess

Hov is all over it, like nearly every song (every song), I wonder if JE was struggling to write?

a bunch of these songs were clearly recorded in 2011 at the latest. his voice has totally changed, you can tell how much older he sounds on 'neverending story' than 'ghost of soulja slim'

and in the case of shiny suit theory, i was crazy about that song when i was 20 in 2010. glad to see it finally on streaming services tho.

then again on 'soulja slim' he drops a black panther reference, so maybe even each individual track is a hodgepodge

yeah everything just feels...weird and disjointed, and not in a cool way

yeah, people are gonna pull some bars and they'll look good, but it doesn't work as a listening experience

i feel like i missed the moment when lil uzi vert was decreed not worthy of discussion. really enjoying eternal atake; should I ... not be?

alb is getting rave reviews, this board isn't populated with uzi stans at the moment.

also not populated with many people who talk hip-hop on a regular basis, unfortunately.

fwiw I got halfway through the 106-minute version out today and thought it was pretty alright

was also gonna say that it's mostly good but also a lot to digest

tacking on an extra album's worth of material but placing it at the front of the tracklist is....certainly a move

Jfc there is literally no rapper who ever lived that I want to hear a 106 minute album from

What's the "real" album tracklist? I should check it out

it's really two albums, tbf, bundled together. most likely for chart reasons. just ignore the "deluxe edition" and listen to the original.

tho im listening to the deluxe disc right now and the future, 21, and keef songs are hitting pretty hard.

of course, listening to uzi is always an experience where i'm like 'this knocks, what's this one called?' only for me to find out that it's called 'yessirski'

digging urgency a lot. the concept and skits are so hilariously disconnected from the album tho, like to an extent I was literally lolling

the non deluxe version is a pretty great album

yeah tbc im not talkin deluxe, looks overwhelming

i like uzi's album more than the last one

the original tracklist anyway ... havent heard new one

heard the new one. Excellent as well.

philly and Pennsylvania in general just seem so ... relevant for neo-america; its combination of urban decay contrasting with gentrification and its proximity to trump-country Appalachia makes it feel like a microcosm of forgotten usa. i feel like for this album it sort of contributes to this stylistic slurry of regional and popular styles and makes the emo blend in seamlessly. uzi's drugged out exuberance concealing pain, being vulnerable and aggressive at the same time, just feels very touching as we all slog through the long 2016. obviously, it's unsustainable, and the amount of young rappers dying lately is just so incredibly sad, and then those that do succeed being turned into anhedonic shells a la future or drake, it all just points to a sense that things need to slow the fuck down and that we need to disconnect from this hyper individualistic life

I like that kind of regional writing !!

some shit i like
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7A7ahopYGs

kmurda da steppa - bumper cars

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQoa1pmblbM

pfm pistol p trap flow

hahaha

i mean... it's a good one

rolling deluxe edition thread

haha deluxe editions are definitely the zeitgeist jfc

deluxe version of coochie land is very good btw

deluxe edition it is