Author Topic: Hip Hop (Read 719893 times)

Fresh Prince · « **Reply #360 on:** April 22, 2010, 07:23:31 PM »

In the cut is awesome- definately grows on you, though the rest is sort of blah.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #361 on:** April 22, 2010, 07:36:51 PM »

One of my fav "new" producers just dropped an album
[youtube=560,345]WG8iKFSwK04[/youtube]

Hasn't arrived in the mail yet, but I downloaded it. Haven't listened to it all, but sounds good so far.

Can't wait for him to finish the next Y Society album. Still listening to the debut, one of the best hip hop albums of the 00s (2007 was a great year for hip hop)

Saint Cornelius · « **Reply #362 on:** April 22, 2010, 07:54:43 PM »

Yeah Damu is nice as fuck on the MPC.

The Dark Shake 3000 · « **Reply #363 on:** April 23, 2010, 12:48:15 AM »

Remember when Himu said modern hip-hop has no redeeming values or messages?

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Real talk, I was listening to this one time and started tearing up and shaking. I can't explain it. I was in a weird place at the time and it hit me like a brick :'(

[close]

ch1nchilla · « **Reply #364 on:** April 24, 2010, 03:03:10 AM »

Beezy - Thanks for that post, I completely overlooked that mixtape despite the huge internet frenzy surrounding it... Loving it so far.

Also downloaded this... and it is good (SO LATE TO THE PARTY please don't hate

):

Eric P · « **Reply #365 on:** April 24, 2010, 08:04:16 PM »

hey ny bore

oh it's free

Raban · « **Reply #366 on:** April 24, 2010, 10:52:15 PM »

Dear God, Q-Tip AND Jeru? Wtf is Charlie doing there? Either way, fuck me that's awesome. Wish I was in NY.

The Dark Shake 3000 · « **Reply #367 on:** April 24, 2010, 11:51:08 PM »

That's the same night as NERD and Jay Electronica :0

But yeah, Ghostface and Q-Tip? I'm going.

EDIT - WTF how do you RSVP on the site? All I see are press links and photos and shit. Help :'(

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #368 on:** April 24, 2010, 11:58:23 PM »

Q-Tip and Ghostface? Fuck why don't I live in NY

The Dark Shake 3000 · « **Reply #369 on:** April 24, 2010, 11:58:52 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on April 24, 2010, 11:58:23 PM

Q-Tip and Ghostface? Fuck why don't I live in NY

Why don't you :'(

Eric P · « **Reply #370 on:** April 25, 2010, 01:11:32 AM »

It's in small print. I'm mobile so I can't see it but it's there. RSVP@ something.com

The Dark Shake 3000 · « **Reply #371 on:** April 25, 2010, 01:12:27 AM »

It says RSVP at the website. I hit up the site and all I get is links to facebook, myspace etc. and press things but no mentions of this show on the actual site. :'(

Eric P · « **Reply #372 on:** April 25, 2010, 02:30:08 AM »

email rvsp@theheavysound.com

The Dark Shake 3000 · « **Reply #373 on:** April 25, 2010, 02:34:17 AM »

email sent

The Dark Shake 3000 · « **Reply #374 on:** April 25, 2010, 05:47:20 AM »

WTF? I got a send error both times I tried to email that address. I NEED to be at this thing. :'(

Raban · « **Reply #375 on:** April 25, 2010, 02:39:06 PM »

Quote from: The Dark Shake 3000 on April 25, 2010, 05:47:20 AM

WTF? I got a send error both times I tried to email that address. I NEED to be at this thing. :'(

I think the e-mail he wrote has a typo. Isn't it RSVP? He wrote RVSP.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #376 on:** April 27, 2010, 06:15:21 AM »

Who Dat
http://usershare.net/2DopeBoyz/r9g5ebqqs4s8

Doesn't sound finished/mastered. Beat sounds like a placeholder or some shit

The Dark Shake 3000 · « **Reply #377 on:** April 27, 2010, 06:40:20 AM »

That song kind of blows.

Eric P · « **Reply #378 on:** April 27, 2010, 01:24:03 PM »

http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=77636

but seriously, the mixtape is awesome

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #379 on:** April 27, 2010, 01:42:55 PM »

i agree with that fucking hipster

Bacchus7 · « **Reply #380 on:** April 27, 2010, 09:27:57 PM »

Eric P · « **Reply #381 on:** April 28, 2010, 03:35:04 PM »

rap is a music
hip hop is a movement

hip hop is more than just rhyming but people have been using hip hop to connotate that what they like to listen to is outside the mainstream of "rap."

hip hop as a genre signifier is nothing more than trying to put middle class airs on what started off as a working class music.

see also, drum n bass / jungle

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #382 on:** April 28, 2010, 05:14:29 PM »

Yea, usually "hip hop" is applied to underground or older stuff, while anything mainstream is labeled rap. It depends on who you ask and what their intention/opinions are. Personally I just say I'm a big fan of hip hop

Liquid Swords is a hip hop album as much as It Takes A Nation is

Eric P · « **Reply #383 on:** April 28, 2010, 05:23:34 PM »

actually, middle class airs is incorrect as a signifier

maybe faux intellectualism to justify why someone likes something considered to be "low brow"

Kestastrophe · « **Reply #384 on:** April 28, 2010, 05:27:31 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on April 27, 2010, 01:24:03 PM

http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=77636

but seriously, the mixtape is awesome

Thanks for posting that before, I've been enjoying the BBU mixtape

Jason Perez

Also liked Shut Up Dude and the JD Era tape that someone posted. I also read your blog from time to time Eric

, found some great records that way

Eric P · « **Reply #385 on:** April 28, 2010, 05:31:00 PM »

thanks!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #386 on:** April 28, 2010, 05:33:21 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on April 28, 2010, 05:23:34 PM

actually, middle class airs is incorrect as a signifier

maybe faux intellectualism to justify why someone likes something considered to be "low brow"

I've heard more people say they listen to "real rap" than saying they listen to hip hop. Which is ironic considering the materialistic and party roots of the genre. Soulja Boy isn't doing anything new

Eric P · « **Reply #387 on:** April 28, 2010, 05:35:04 PM »

shit's been around for 30 years, i'm certain it's like jazz at this point where each school thinks it's the "real" one

speaking of real rap

Quote

:::::::::::Saturday, May 1st::::::::::::

NO SLEEP IN BROOKLYN
Melle Mel from Grandmaster Flash and the Furious 5!!!

10pm BONES HOWELL
1030pm THE SYNDROME
11pm PEEP HOLE
11.30pm YOUNG JIMMY & LADY KAI FEAT.HIP HOP LEGEND GRAND MASTER MELLE MEL
12pm AEON CRUNC
12.30pm DJ M.C. K~SWIFT
rockin out the remainder of the night

Free Beer until....we run out.
BYOB!

Live painting by Lexi Bella, Andre Trenier, Marthalicia Matarrita
http://www.artbattles.com/

10pm til late.
$15. 18 and over.

my neighborhood is bumpin

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #388 on:** April 28, 2010, 05:44:58 PM »

My cousin is one of those "lil wayne is the greatest rapper of all time" types, and likes just about everything on the radio. Same dude who said Illmatic was trash because "it ain't sell, and the beats is weak." I admit I've told him I don't listen to bullshit rap, but in this case I believe my snobbery is totally justified

Eric P · « **Reply #389 on:** April 28, 2010, 06:04:58 PM »

i only listen to dope rhymes from white guys

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Purple Filth · « **Reply #390 on:** April 28, 2010, 09:39:24 PM »

No sure if posted already but Eminem freestyle

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Love the end

Beezy · « **Reply #391 on:** May 01, 2010, 01:28:02 PM »

Em w/o the bullshit accent

King of this honky shit

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #392 on:** May 01, 2010, 01:29:49 PM »

[youtube=560,345]pVQWTSMT0mc[/youtube]

boi1da

demi · « **Reply #393 on:** May 02, 2010, 12:07:11 AM »

Daddy slime linked me to this mashup of rappers + Goldeneye. It's so awesome.

http://bit.ly/df9r7m

Even has some tecca nina

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #394 on:** May 04, 2010, 04:47:35 PM »

Quote

You Sold Out, Homie: B.O.B.

The release of B.O.B.’s long awaited/delayed debut album The Adventures Of Bobby Ray has inspired me to resurrect this short lived series from my glory days at that other site. Basically here’s the premise for those that missed the pilot: nobody in the hip hop media calls a sell out a sell out anymore. Go pick up a back issue of a rap magazine from the mid 90s. When a major artist sold out there were long think pieces on the societal and business ramifications on the hip hop world. I am bringing that the fuck back because sell out rap sucks.

My one time bossman at that same gig now claims that “we off” the sellout. When The Roots made that horrible record with The Fall Out Boys that the internet hated their drummer Questlove took a similar stance. That the we, the people, were beyond sellout. Now this logic is understandable in the I’ll still sell my song to Nike even though they have sweat shops or whatever sense. Hey, make money off of your art in anyway possible since nobody is paying for the physical product anymore. No shame in product placement. But the opening of this path makes the B.O.B./Fall Out Roots school of sell out all the more detestable today. Because there are so many more lanes for an artist to make off of art, Pure Art, in today’s landscape if your business is in order. Look at Wiz Khalifa or Stones Throw or hell The Roots themselves, who now play J Dilla instrumentals nightly on network TV. (Not to mention any number of upper echelon Pitchfork indie bands who have almost already guaranteed a lifetime of mid-sized venue touring off one or two buzz heavy and eccentric albums.) So the idea that it’s somehow admirable to churn out this sort of near Miley Cyrus tripe is truly offensive. Because lane carving has never been easier, especially for a talent of B.O.B.’s level. So save the Sprewell family values.

The Adventures Of B.O.B. isn’t simply a sell out record. It might be the most selling outest sell out rap album to ever sell out. It’s not just pop rap. It’s unabashed pop music that happens to have rapping on the verses. It’s pure Disney Radio shit, Now That’s What I Call Music music. It’s got that sick sort of slightly twisted upper lip Blink 182/Avril Lavigne brand of Hot Topic cool kid rebellion pop feel to it, which didn’t seem particularly rebellious or cool when I was actually a teenager. I can’t even wrap my head around the same guy that wrote smart and subtle songs like “Daddy” and “Life Of Sin” turning around and signing off on these ideas. What hurts the most is that dude is still rapping pretty well here. He’s just burying good rapping in bubblegum music. I’m trying to be kind. Or at least the kind of writer who can look at a well constructed pop record and admire it. I’m not qualified to make that call but I certainly can’t argue with numbers. Bob’s got two hits right now thanks to everything but his rapping. Fennessey seems to think that this turn is at worst essential (I disagree) and at best representative of the artist that B.O.B.’s always aspired to be. Which raises the questions: can pure intentions wash away the sell out stench? Does honesty negate tastelessness? Whatever the answer it needs to be said: you sold out, homie. Spend your earnings wisely.

http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=5993

I haven't listened to the album, but everything I've heard from it sounds like manufactured pop rap. Which is odd because BoB is a talented musician and plays multiple instruments. There was a lot of excitement when he got signed, and I remember people assuming the first single was just the radio song, and a good deal of the album would be like his mixtape stuff. Instead more than half the album is radio stuff apparently.

Fresh Prince · « **Reply #395 on:** May 04, 2010, 06:22:57 PM »

People like money. Huge surprise.

Seems to be going for the crossover market going by the guest appearances.

pollo · « **Reply #396 on:** May 06, 2010, 12:02:11 PM »

I'm going to the Clipse concert tonight at Highland.

Tickets are still available at $25 a pop (with surcharge)

Gonna be a good show, I've seen them 2 times up in Boston. Can't wait.

Eric P · « **Reply #397 on:** May 06, 2010, 12:06:27 PM »

Ninjasonik is opening and i love them.

I'm curious how Freddie Gibbs and XV are live.

pollo · « **Reply #398 on:** May 06, 2010, 12:09:30 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on May 06, 2010, 12:06:27 PM

Ninjasonik is opening and i love them.

I'm curious how Freddie Gibbs and XV are live.

Lol i'm going at 11.

Going to try to skip all the bullshii before Clipse.

Eric P · « **Reply #399 on:** May 06, 2010, 12:10:52 PM »

smh

that's a damn shame

pollo · « **Reply #400 on:** May 06, 2010, 12:28:46 PM »

I'm too busy bro, plus i have a final at 8:30.

Haven't been able to keep up with music as much as I want to. Just certain groups. Ah well.

Beezy · « **Reply #401 on:** May 06, 2010, 12:57:03 PM »

I'll be there too with some friends. This will be my first time seeing them.

Eric P · « **Reply #402 on:** May 06, 2010, 01:04:08 PM »

Quote from: pollo on May 06, 2010, 12:28:46 PM

I'm too busy bro, plus i have a final at 8:30.

Haven't been able to keep up with music as much as I want to. Just certain groups. Ah well.

nah it's entirely understandable, but i'd check out Freddie Gibbs's mixtapes

http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2009/05/freddie-gibbs-the-miseducation-of-freddie-gibbs

Ninjasonik is hella fun party jams, but because they run with the Bikes in Kitchens crew, they get dismissed unfairly as "hipster bullshit" unfortunately their mixtapes kind of suck, especially compared to them live. Tellie, the main rapper lays down records using this horrible mock baritone slow flow that he doesn't use live.

XV is pretty fun and prolific w/ a ton of mixtapes, like the 40 Days 40 Nights series.

edit: and i just got asked to write up the show but i can't because i'm still sick. this week has been a total washout

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #403 on:** May 06, 2010, 01:17:07 PM »

XV is good live. Saw him at MSU awhile ago. Seemed like many people in the crowd weren't feeling him, but I guess it was because they didn't know his material. But then again I did hear a couple people say "nicca sounds gay"

Beezy · « **Reply #404 on:** May 06, 2010, 08:36:22 PM »

The trains are running like ass. I'm probably not gonna get there until like 9:30.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #405 on:** May 06, 2010, 09:06:13 PM »

I've never been to a rap concert that started on time

Smooth Groove · « **Reply #406 on:** May 06, 2010, 09:11:37 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on May 06, 2010, 09:06:13 PM

I've never been to a rap concert that started on time

SMH Blacks are so lazy that they don't want to show up for work even when it's just talking into a mic.

brob · « **Reply #407 on:** May 06, 2010, 09:19:01 PM »

I've never been to a concert that wasn't at a festival that started on time. Musicians are lazy ass niggaz regardless of skin color.

Beezy · « **Reply #408 on:** May 06, 2010, 09:40:29 PM »

Who sings a song called tight pants? I'm not feeling them too much.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #409 on:** May 06, 2010, 09:47:31 PM »

pause

Eric P · « **Reply #410 on:** May 06, 2010, 09:49:18 PM »

that would be Ninjasonik

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Beezy · « **Reply #411 on:** May 06, 2010, 09:50:53 PM »

Well XV is onstage now.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #412 on:** May 06, 2010, 10:13:01 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on May 06, 2010, 09:49:18 PM

that would be Ninjasonik

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

$:-\$

Beezy · « **Reply #413 on:** May 06, 2010, 10:21:17 PM »

Corny ass Charles Hamilton onstage now...smh. XV was cool though.

Eric P · « **Reply #414 on:** May 06, 2010, 10:24:22 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on May 06, 2010, 10:13:01 PM

Quote from: Eric P on May 06, 2010, 09:49:18 PM
that would be Ninjasonik

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]
$:-\$

yeah, that's like the first thing they ever did back when it was all party jams built around simple loops

[youtube=560,345][/youtube]
[youtube=560,345][/youtube]

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #415 on:** May 06, 2010, 10:26:31 PM »

obligatory

[youtube=560,345]vmmAzVAaKPY[/youtube]
[youtube=560,345]UYvua4o2tmM[/youtube]

Buddy of mine used to work for Interscope and said Hamilton was a complete asshole when he was on the label.

brob · « **Reply #416 on:** May 06, 2010, 10:30:37 PM »

How does Charles Hamilton even get work? $:-\$

Beezy · « **Reply #417 on:** May 06, 2010, 10:36:43 PM »

This dude is so fuckin corny.

Beezy · « **Reply #418 on:** May 06, 2010, 10:44:29 PM »

Chiddy Bang just came out. They're real hype. Seem to be better than everyone else so far.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #419 on:** May 07, 2010, 12:01:54 AM »

[youtube=560,345]fFDY62oZv_4[/youtube]

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Author Topic: Hip Hop (Read 719893 times)