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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #100 on: 12 Dec 2009, 12:11 »

as opposed to the Rhymesayers stuff that we wind up encountering in every attempt to talk about hip-hop on this forum.
Whenever I hear this I think about people who gripe about the Mainstream Media and how conservative voices are being silenced and I want to go back in time and shake their baby selves and say what are you talking about conservative voices are everywhere you look and besides everybody really loves Ghostface and Hova and Weezy and Wu Tang and PE so it's not like there's some fuckin' backpacker hegemony and then I shake them harder and say do you have any idea what it's like trying to talk to people about electronic music that isn't fucking Daft Punk or Justice.
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #102 on: 12 Dec 2009, 19:09 »

now you're speaking my language
fuckin parents, am i right?





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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #103 on: 12 Dec 2009, 19:36 »

MF/DOOM is pretty cool,huh?
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #104 on: 13 Dec 2009, 00:03 »

There's even some videos about of T-Pain sans autotune and that guy can carry a tune on his own quite competently thank you very much
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #105 on: 14 Dec 2009, 10:51 »

I actually saw T-Pain live in concert, and he does a good quarter or third of his set sans autotune. He sang some of his club hits lounge style, with just a piano and no autotune. Even some songs on his albums have him singing without it, and while it may not be earth shattering beauty, he can really hold his own vocally. He gets a lot of shit for using it as a crutch, but hearing how good he is without it, I'm gonna say it's a stylistic trademark thing he's going for, not some way of compensating for lack of skill.

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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #106 on: 14 Dec 2009, 12:20 »

I now realize I've been confusing two rap artists; the Game singing the Dream and the other douche bag artist.

Also...
Speaking of rap music,
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xcc05_dj-jazzy-parents-just-dont-underst_events

Will Smith came up this weekend when I was playing Apples to Apples with friends. As you know some of the cards have celebrities as the topic and they usually summarize their career; Will Smith was titled "hit hip-hop artist."
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #107 on: 14 Dec 2009, 12:31 »

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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #108 on: 14 Dec 2009, 15:22 »

I now realize I've been confusing two rap artists; the Game singing the Dream and the other douche bag artist.

i think this post is dissing the game and the-dream and Guess Who's Got Problems With That
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #109 on: 21 Jan 2010, 19:00 »

Are you guys up on Travis Porter? These are some really good fuccin tracks, yo.


All The Way Turnt Up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69CMT63nz-c

Whatchu Talm Bout
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Es-CNSQQ0IE

Waka's on that second one. Sicccc.
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #110 on: 18 Feb 2010, 16:57 »

Good news everyone!

New Chris Brown mix tape, produced by DJ Drama. It's at least 75% sick, which I feel guilty saying as a rihanna fan.

http://www.hustlemania.com/hustle/2010/ ... s-mixtape/

Also, new dream track is straight fire.

http://islanddefjam.com/artist/discography.aspx?artistID=7288

And y'all should check out the Freeway and Jake One record, Stimulus Package. Real Talk gonna be the best rap record of the year. Trust.
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #111 on: 18 Feb 2010, 17:30 »

The URL got abbreviated! Is it this one? Well I guess it's the only thing that showed up on search: http://www.hustlemania.com/hustle/2010/02/14/chris-brown-in-my-zonerhythm-streets-mixtape/

Downloading now, I cannot wait to pump it.
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #112 on: 18 Feb 2010, 17:41 »

It is that one.

Particularly psyched on Bad, Shoes, and Twitter. These tracks are pretty well unfuckwithable, as far as I am concerned.
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #113 on: 05 Sep 2010, 08:47 »

Necroposting with the hotness.

Lil b the based god, straight fire real street shit, best fuccin beatz in the biz 2, nicca is just str8 ill no doubt no doubt. Don't sleep on this. Second track is a bangger 4 sur, first one is just straight up classic hood based god deep shit.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-z-GHVLfe8

http://www.youtube.com/user/lilbpack1#p/a/u/1/VkrD9oZLSlg

Also new the-dream is aoty.
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #114 on: 05 Sep 2010, 10:48 »

yes to both parts of that post
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #115 on: 05 Sep 2010, 10:48 »

i think the song i put on mix cd for this girl is "yamaha" but all i know is it wasn't "panties to the side" despite how much i wanted it to be
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #116 on: 05 Sep 2010, 11:19 »

Dude I want to put Panties to the side on every mix CD forever.

And fuccin Priceless.

And Veteran.
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #117 on: 05 Sep 2010, 11:22 »

Really I just want to fuck for like 12 hours with Fancy, Falsetto, and Turnt Out playing on repeat though.
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #118 on: 05 Sep 2010, 11:28 »

Watching you pretend to be black on the internet is extremely painful, Kieffer.
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #119 on: 05 Sep 2010, 11:50 »

hataz gon hate but fucc that shit nicca i'm based 4life, real talk real truth pure street nite bus shit nicca. u gon try n knock my shit but im bringing truth to these forums 100% and yr scared that mayb that truth aint a truth u can understand.

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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #120 on: 05 Sep 2010, 12:07 »

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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #121 on: 05 Sep 2010, 12:18 »

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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #122 on: 05 Sep 2010, 12:20 »

Also you guys weren't psyched on travis porter before but I swear to you this is one of the tightest R&B tracks in a hot minute.

Bryan J and Travis Porter - Let me Take You Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbTWpiv43Os
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Re: Gucci Mane, Etc: Rap and R&B thread
« Reply #123 on: 05 Sep 2010, 13:52 »

Really I just want to fuck for like 12 hours with Fancy, Falsetto, and Turnt Out playing on repeat though.

right i used "turnt out"
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #124 on: 13 Sep 2010, 00:05 »

New Lil' B Video.

Pretty Boy Muzik.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFEpnkGIRrM
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #125 on: 13 Sep 2010, 00:43 »

Also you guys weren't psyched on travis porter before but I swear to you this is one of the tightest R&B tracks in a hot minute.

Bryan J and Travis Porter - Let me Take You Out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbTWpiv43Os


Why do rappers dress like Justin Long now?
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #126 on: 13 Sep 2010, 13:09 »

Many of 'em have always dressed like that but you just couldn't tell with the hoodies and coats.
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #127 on: 24 Sep 2010, 16:58 »

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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #128 on: 04 Oct 2010, 06:59 »

Can't believe it took me this long to download that shit. Sooooo psyched.
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #129 on: 20 Nov 2010, 07:21 »

Okay I totally slept on the Odd Future stuff. Just grabbed Earl's Earl and Tyler, The Creator's bastard. Also their mixtape Radical. Will report back.


Incidentally, how fucking good is the Rick Ross record? And the Kanye Record? And the Ciara Mixtape?
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #131 on: 22 Nov 2010, 06:45 »

Yeah that track is decent but like, it's a dre track. Compare it to all the other sicc shit that's happening and it's like, this is still a dre track. Sick though.

OFWKTA is totally amazing though. Earl and Tyler are clearly the best of em, but the Radical mixtape is sick.
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #132 on: 23 Nov 2010, 10:19 »

There are too many people on this board to not have better rap discussions, what the fuck.

Anyway that Dre track isn't THAT bad but like, it's a dre track.

Also Odd Future. Just listened to the MellowHype stuff, and I dunno. I mean the only release of there's I'm not super psyched on is the Domo Genesis Rolling Papers mix tape. Gonna bump Jet Age of Tomorrow on the walk home tonight and see but I'm pretty sure these dudes are saving hip hop.
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #133 on: 23 Nov 2010, 11:47 »

Hey Kieff what do you think about the new Kanye West album.
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #134 on: 23 Nov 2010, 19:46 »

I just don't care about top40 hip hop. The beats are good but I can't relate to the lyrical content. I've never been a millionaire, I'm not good with women and I don't understand violence.
I do care about less well known/promoted hip hop. I can understand and relate to the songs because they tend to be about far more diverse concepts.

Here's an interesting mini-debate about sexism in hip hop, worth a watch if you consider yourself a fan.
http://thesocietypages.org/socimages/2010/11/05/black-intellectuals-and-artists-on-sexism-in-hip-hop/
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #135 on: 23 Nov 2010, 19:55 »

I used to think like that but then, really, I don't identify with most of the lyrical content of music I listen to. I mean, I still don't listen to Top 40 hip-hop but that has more to do with how it's pretty much artistically bankrupt and cliché-ridden instead of any whiny liberal outrage.
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« Reply #136 on: 23 Nov 2010, 20:45 »

Hmmm, I'd agree with that also. Lyrics are important though, we are talking about hip hop here, not post rock or metal. Hip hop without lyrics, while awesome (I'm looking at you DJ Shadow/Flying Lotus) is still something of a subgenre and certainly not a major commercial player. I don't think you can disregard lyrics when it comes to hip hop.
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« Reply #137 on: 24 Nov 2010, 01:33 »

I don't think you have to be possessed with 'whiny liberal outrage' to find the vast majority of top 40 rap to be moronic woman-hating neo-minstrel bullshit. And as Rizzo said, it's not exactly a genre where you can ignore the lyrics because the lyrics and how they're sung is like the whole fucking point. Especially in most of the rap I hear on the radio where the beats take 'dull', 'insipid' and 'overused' to new, dizzying, never-before-reached heights.

The reason there's not much discussion going on in this thread is because JC and Kieff have practically said that this thread is not for the discussion of 'alternative' or 'intelligent' rap music, but mostly rap music where black dudes are paid shitloads of money by white record industry execs to play up negative racist stereotypes about themselves for a predominantly white audience.

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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #138 on: 24 Nov 2010, 06:44 »

Hey Kieff what do you think about the new Kanye West album.

I mean I have pretty much always hated Kanye, at least as a rapper, but I love this thing. It's doing everything I liked in 808's (being really catchy but not exactly easy to listen to sometimes) without him tryna swag too hard when he spits. The production is amazing, obviously, and like, if you listen to All of The Lights, or Power, or Runaway holy shit Runaway, you can see that he's not going as hard as himself, but then he lets Rick Ross just tear it up in Devil in a New Dress.
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #139 on: 24 Nov 2010, 07:19 »

As for the rest of y'alls comments, I dunno, man. I think it is pretty incredibly ignorant to say that there is no depth to rap music's lyrics, even the mainstream radio stuff. Like, sure, they aren't rapping about the socioeconomic state of the underprivileged, or the tragedy of life in America, or even comparing various girls they're in love with to various things, but the idea that it's just simple "murder bitch money, check it I talk funny" seems woefully uninformed. The amount of wordplay that goes into, for example, the average Jay-Z track is stunning ("attract money my worst color is light green") and even those Odd Future kids are mad funny, for example "hell's angel, crack christ cross the face with erasers and use based god as his replacement." Based God referring to Lil B, who is another one of those really awesome rappers. The idea of raps continuity is another thing that really appeals to me, that all these disparate artists are working together, in the same universe, and reference each other. It's egotistical but it's also communal, and that's rad. You can like a rapper and think "man I hope he works with ____" and he probably will.

That's fuccin swag, you know?
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #140 on: 24 Nov 2010, 07:19 »

Anyway, downloading the new Soulja Boy, and I'm psyched.
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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #141 on: 24 Nov 2010, 07:20 »

Also part of the reason I like rap music is BECAUSE I can't relate to the lyrics. I have enough feelings of my own, I don't need John Darnielles too, at least not all the time.
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« Reply #142 on: 24 Nov 2010, 08:13 »

Anyway, downloading the new Soulja Boy, and I'm psyched.

One beat, one lyric, repeat ad nauseum.
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« Reply #143 on: 24 Nov 2010, 08:16 »

I think the only rap I listen to that I relate with would be Das Racist.
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« Reply #144 on: 24 Nov 2010, 08:58 »

It wraps up ever Soulja Boy song I've ever heard.

I mean..it was only like two and a half of them, but still. You write a song where you spend about 80% of it going "GUCCI BANDELA!", Sam. Tell me that's a good song.
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« Reply #145 on: 24 Nov 2010, 09:08 »

Do you perhaps mean "bandana?" also comment on solja and nuffink else, rly?
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« Reply #146 on: 24 Nov 2010, 09:17 »

Dude it certainly sounded like "bandela" to me.

As for other rap, I'll agree with Zombiedude that Das Racist are cool shit. And Shad is cool shit (and a pretty nice dude!)
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« Reply #147 on: 24 Nov 2010, 12:17 »

I've been listening to a lot of Big L lately because I've been rocking my iPod on shuffle and letting it choose for me, and I have waaaay more Big L on my iPod than I even realized existed. Classic.

I've also been listening to that Astronautalis album from the MF thread a little while back and, while I certainly hate a lot of aspects of it, I can't help but get hyped on some of the songs. The guitar solo in the beat of the first track "do you believe in life after thugs" is fucking sick, and some of the later tracks are awesome too, though usually for weird reasons.
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« Reply #148 on: 24 Nov 2010, 12:25 »

Anyway, downloading the new Soulja Boy, and I'm psyched.

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Re: Fuck The Rap Game. This that Death of the rap game.
« Reply #149 on: 24 Nov 2010, 16:16 »

hey if you think chart hip-hop across the board is minstrelsy or misogynistic or whatever and you have jstor access then i'm going to suggest that instead of publicly clowning yourself as you are currently doing you should actually look at the broad, vast field of study that's been done on the subject and understand that it's way more complicated than that and the stuff you've been exposed to or intentionally exposed yourself to has been remarkably narrow and that there are arguments to be made but your contextualization of them is seriously lacking. yes khar i am speaking directly to you but also anyone reading this thread. i know these discussions are being held elsewhere because i just wrote up a research proposal on gender roles & sexualities in chart hip-hop and had to do a lengthy annotated bibliography.

also cali swag district is probably my favourite current rap crew i think, their beats are just so awesome and they're such a playful bunch of dudes

e: and like relatability is a weird argument. what do you need to relate to? why do you need to relate to it? do you relate to the immediate & direct content or do you kind of hope for like an aristotlean universal in the particular, rather than just relating exclusively to the particular itself? and why can't the contents of rap express things which are deeply relatable, even stuff that's big on the charts? i have so many questions cause as a critique it just doesn't make sense. like i definitely don't relate to latter-day scott walker or a bunch of parenthetical girls songs or fela kuti, at all, but i love records and songs from those artists.
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