Carter V could either do like 30K or 150Kcarter V, new logic, and new kanye this week, it's gonna be interesting to see the numbers
Carter V could either do like 30K or 150K
Logic is gonna do really well
Yahndi will do well if "I Love It" is on the album, god forbid. I maintain that Yahndi is about to be terrible
Mike Dean should put some respect on clean vocals.
I don't know if y'all are watching "Maniac", but you all should be.
This week is the 28th anniversary of ATCQ's Low End Theory
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.This week is the 28th anniversary of ATCQ's Low End Theory
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.
Butter is in the running for the smoothest hip hop song ever.Excursions is in the running for greatest opening track ever
and then it goes into buggin' out
I don't know if y'all are watching "Maniac", but you all should be.
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.
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.
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.
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.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.
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!
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.
Man, I don't know. I really tried back then, but couldn't get into it coming from F&L which I absolutely loved. I might relisten to it later.
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.
Because he should have use the mlb as a exampleThugga said "I wanna fuck her but she play more games than the nba"
Tell me why he's not the GOAT
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.
I think there is a way he can do it.
IF there is a will there is way
Yeah, this is pretty on-point.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: