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HiLife

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Oct 25, 2017
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I actually liked a decent amount of tracks off Dedication 6. Especially family feud with drake. Hoping it'll have more keepers than skips on c5
 

BlackJace

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Oct 27, 2017
5,450
Alright I'm glad we have a solid date for C5. Really looking forward to hearing it.
 
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Catvoca

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Oct 25, 2017
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Yandhi is gonna be another clearly rushed, unfinished mess with barely coherent verses and great beats that are wasted because they're so unpolished and have been mastered in a couple of hours by a high old man.

Good Ass Job gonna be dope tho
 

s y

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Nov 8, 2017
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i know i was just hating on uzi but
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overcast

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Oct 25, 2017
13,404
I only gave it one listen but that new Lupe really didn't stick with aside from like 4-5 tracks... and at this point it's kinda funny how bad an idea a fucking 20+ song album is.
 

Baz

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Oct 25, 2017
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St. Helens
What are some really good hip-hop belt 'em out ANTHEMS?

Had the radio on in the car the other day and Sia's Chandelier came on, which my daughter responded really well to. I want her to like hip-hop though cos I'm a bad dad. Can anyone recommend some similar songs from the world of rap and hip-hop that I can chuck up on Spotify and hopefully she likes them too. She's only 1.
 

OG Kush

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Oct 25, 2017
1,690
This week is the 28th anniversary of ATCQ's Low End Theory
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This and Midnight Marauders were my first hip hop albums. I was coming from a rock music background and believed music made without actual instruments wasn't proper music. This changed all that. Q-tip's production opened my mind, the whole Zulu Nation movement, the back forth between 2 MCs and the story telling through rhymes. This set off me down the rabbit hole of hip hop, which changed my life. Fuck being an emo, I now wanted to go out hustle and get me some bitches.
 

HiLife

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Oct 25, 2017
39,616
This week is the 28th anniversary of ATCQ's Low End Theory
ATribeCalledQuestTheLowEndtheory.jpg

This and Midnight Marauders were my first hip hop albums. I was coming from a rock music background and believed music made without actual instruments wasn't proper music. This changed all that. Q-tip's production opened my mind, the whole Zulu Nation movement, the back forth between 2 MCs and the story telling through rhymes. This set off me down the rabbit hole of hip hop, which changed my life. Fuck being an emo, I now wanted to go out hustle and get me some bitches.

S/O to tribe for introducing you to fishes. Also...classic album.
 

Koozek

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Oct 25, 2017
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This week is the 28th anniversary of ATCQ's Low End Theory
ATribeCalledQuestTheLowEndtheory.jpg

This and Midnight Marauders were my first hip hop albums. I was coming from a rock music background and believed music made without actual instruments wasn't proper music. This changed all that. Q-tip's production opened my mind, the whole Zulu Nation movement, the back forth between 2 MCs and the story telling through rhymes. This set off me down the rabbit hole of hip hop, which changed my life. Fuck being an emo, I now wanted to go out hustle and get me some bitches.
Hehe, nice. Think I'm gonna bump some Tribe later. My fave albums of theirs are the two where Dilla produced most: Beats, Rhymes and Life, and The Love Movement.
 

Bacon

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Oct 26, 2017
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we got it from here... is also amazing

Even more amazing were all the circumstances surrounding it. I would have been surprised if it was even just decent. The fact that it turned out to be a great album is almost unbelievable.

This new thug is his best stuff since Jeffery. He's finally going back to the flows that make him unique. He's been stuck in this fast rapping future type flow for a while which is just not what I'm coming to thug for. This new album though, whew it's nice.
 

Icolin

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Oct 25, 2017
13,235
Midgar
Yeah, that was a really good album. Kinda forgot about it, but I bumped it a lot when it dropped and it even made my AOTY list late.

definitely would've been somewhere in my top 10 of 2016. man 2016 was such a great year for music

Even more amazing were all the circumstances surrounding it. I would have been surprised if it was even just decent. The fact that it turned out to be a great album is almost unbelievable.

This new thug is his best stuff since Jeffery. He's finally going back to the flows that make him unique. He's been stuck in this fast rapping future type flow for a while which is just not what I'm coming to thug for. This new album though, whew it's nice.

correct on all counts here. new thugger doesn't have a single weak track on it, just fantastic front to back
 

Icolin

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Oct 25, 2017
13,235
Midgar
i'm in london got my beat from london

doesn't beat out 'WE GOT LONDON ON THE TRAAAAACK' but its good

also juicy j x travis scott song just dropped and it's real solid
 
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lacer

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Oct 25, 2017
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What are some really good hip-hop belt 'em out ANTHEMS?

Had the radio on in the car the other day and Sia's Chandelier came on, which my daughter responded really well to. I want her to like hip-hop though cos I'm a bad dad. Can anyone recommend some similar songs from the world of rap and hip-hop that I can chuck up on Spotify and hopefully she likes them too. She's only 1.
MBDTF is probably the most sonically similar to Sia-style stadium pop bombast off the top of my head, tho i don't think those similarities will make much of a difference to someone who only recently mastered object permanence. anecdotally kids seem to latch onto shit that's melodic and kind of repetitive, so luckily there's no shortage of good shit to work with in recent hip hop. i'd see if she takes to stuff like Thug or Trippie Redd - catchy, higher-register stuff that little voices can sing along to.
 

Spinluck

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Oct 26, 2017
28,427
Chicago
Okay, yeah, this new Lupe is great! Production is dope. Long, but very coherent. The first Lupe album since Food & Liquor that I like.



Saba - CARE FOR ME (Spotify)
Elzhi & Khrysis - Jericho Jackson (Spotify)
Black Milk - FEVER (Spotify)
Phonte - No News Is Good News (Spotify)
Michael Christmas - Role Model (Spotify; SoundCloud)
Kyle - Light of Mine (Spotify)
Denzel Curry - TA1300 (Spotify)
EarthGang - Royalty (Spotify; SoundCloud)
Sy Ari Da Kid - Better Safe Than Sy Ari (Spotify)

Trap-ier shit:
Don Toliver - Donny Womack (Spotify; SoundCloud)
Travis Scott - ASTROWORLD (Spotify)
Nav - RECKLESS (Spotify)
Maxo Kream - Punken (Spotify; SoundCloud)
Key! - 777 (Spotfiy)
KILLY - Surrender Your Soul (Spotify; SoundCloud)
Lil Baby - Harder Than Ever (Spotify)
Gunna - Drip Season 3 (Spotify)
Rick Homie Quan - Rich As In Spirit (Spotify)
Kekra - Land (Spotify)
Trippie Redd - Life's A Trip (Spotify)


Bless up. Been saying this is the new Golden Era for Rap. Check out Lupe's first album Food & Liquor too!

How could you not like The Cool brehs :'(
 

Spinluck

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Oct 26, 2017
28,427
Chicago
yeah the use of that Rocketman sample on the new Thugga is incredible. last time we had a good Elton John rap sample was that 2pac song over a decade ago too....elton da gawd

wasn't feeling On the Rvn EP until the last 3 songs which are all fire. the one before High has the classic Young Thug flow I've missed.

I thought Solid Wall of Sound was dope
 

Heromanz

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Oct 25, 2017
20,202
Thing to thug I relisten to Goodbye Yellow Brick Road', boy is that one hell of a album. Sir Elton John has a top five voice.
 

enzo_gt

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Oct 25, 2017
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Noisey: Young Thug's 'On the Rvn' Is the Rapper Near His Best, but Is That Enough?

I think these last three paragraphs encapsulate a lot of discussion around Thug's career and armchair hip-hop speculation these threads are full of quite well:

Most conversations about Young Thug now sound like a couple of A&Rs plotting out their third-quarter calendars. This has been true since "Lifestyle," really; when Barter 6, an extremely good but small, almost claustrophobic record came out in the spring of 2015, the framing, even in most of the laudatory reviews, was that this was a sort of half-measure in the presumed long arc of his career, given the lack of hits. Thug's music from 2013 through the end of '15 was, on its face and down to its core, engrossing, exhilarating, and relentlessly innovative. He was, during that stretch, probably the best rapper on the planet. There were suggestions—"Lifestyle," "(I Know There's Gonna Be) Good Times," "Best Friend," even "Pick Up the Phone" as late as 2016––that he was ready to take over the pop charts. There were also suggestions, like that infamous video where Lyor Cohen loses his temper at him, that Thug had little to no interest in doing the requisite work to meet his stated commercial goals.

There are larger conversations to be had about the way rap fandom morphed first (post-Get Rich Or Die Trying) into a game of sales-watching and, more recently, became a world of armchair executive work where everyone is prospecting and looking to buy or sell stock in whoever might be hot next. There's little critical space given to artists who failed to become stars but are no longer seen as prospects. It's why—not to over-read Twitter syntax—rappers like Gunna, who are plainly Thug's children, are talked about as "replacing" him, when in reality Thug has just turned 27 and, by all indications, has at least a little more left in the tank.


At its best, Thug's work was volatile and impossible to pin down. That's part of what made it so exciting, and the reason that a massive leak of unreleased material commanded fans' attention for months on end. But as his commercial ascent has stalled, that same feeling—that Thug can't be shoehorned into conventional structures, or marketing plans, or etc.—has been projected onto his career as a whole. This is probably a little unfair, and it reflects some of those strange, exhausting trends in rap fandom that suck attention away from the music itself. But while he's still a good, occasionally great rapper, the music has, in fact, grown just a little stale. Fortunately, the rush of the ticking clock is mostly imagined. Thug is home, and he has plenty of time.
 

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Finally listened to all the new Lupe

Why did I do that? I really didn't like this album TBH.

Re: Carter vs Yandhi

I'm predicting Tha Carter V will be OK, and Yandhi will either be Kanye's best in half a decade or his worst. Probably his worst.
 

Disco

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Oct 25, 2017
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wow, if its fully produced by Alchemist that will be a mad halloween. Scottie Pippens is still a GOAT-tier song

also bracing for Yandhi to be trash. Kanye has been one of the gawds for me. but this last year or so I can barely even tolerate a lazy ass feature from the dude. even on Kids See Ghosts I think it would have been better without him on the tracks. dude is so washed (and dumber than ever)
 
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