Rap Songs of Interest

chrondog wrote:6ix9ine is a clown.

Yes.

I've encountered Brockhampton somewhere and was irrationally irritated by their name but have no idea what they sound like.

I heard this like a year ago and I liked it.

I was listening to that last night!

This has been stuck in my head for the last two days. It's wonderful.

This guy is the best thing going right now:



44 tracks for your listening pleasure. Shuffle and go to town.

Jeremih keeps doing songs where he sounds like he's in a relationship with the dude he's singing with and I have no problem with it.

Really feeling the old rusty swing break on this:

I didn't post about it at the time, but it's hilarious to me to imagine YeahDuff bouncing to Meek Mill and Yo Gotti tracks. 

I dislike Meek Mill because he's perpetual walking mediocrity with no personality. Jeremih is the best!! Yo Gotti is a veteran who makes good songs but doesn't excite me. Lil Baby is great sometimes!

I was kinda obsessed with this track:

I fucking love Westside Gunn!!



RIYL: classic NY hip-hop with mad loops G, high-pitched rappers who sound like Ghostface

here's a song with a Ric Flair sample at the end that is about as Ghostface-y as it gets:

https://open.spotify.com/track/3PA4a5EjWhjVrEJn4fNWKJ?si=qS60WTFbQxyE-AZsCxfwUQ

I love Westside Gunn!!

chrondog wrote:I didn't post about it at the time, but it's hilarious to me to imagine YeahDuff bouncing to Meek Mill and Yo Gotti tracks. 

I get that a lot in real life.

Duff... wrote:

chrondog wrote:I didn't post about it at the time, but it's hilarious to me to imagine YeahDuff bouncing to Meek Mill and Yo Gotti tracks. 

I get that a lot in real life.

Same! (I'm white)

chrondog wrote:

Duff... wrote:

chrondog wrote:triple LP with a group disc and a solo disc for each member.

These fucking idiots.

I take back any criticism of this concept and these young men.

This is a phenomenal set of records with some amazing songs!!

No idea how this worked out commercially but this is in fact very good. Swaecation sounded particularly lovely on our first nice spring day in Chicago.

It was my most played album of 2018, in about an intense one month burst. Now half the tracks seem foreign to me.

"Guatemala" was a favorite for awhile lol. I also really like "Heartbreak in Encino Hills".

I played out "Hurt to Look" and "Offshore" before the album came out. "Offshore" was jaw dropping to me for a minute, but doesn't hold up super well.

From the joint disc, "Up in My Cocina" and "42" still get occasional plays from me.



Great stuff.

chrondog wrote:
From the joint disc, "Up in My Cocina" and "42" still get occasional plays from me.

Two faves.

I like "Guatemala" even though that's a ridiculous title.

chrondog wrote:

Duff... wrote:

chrondog wrote:I didn't post about it at the time, but it's hilarious to me to imagine YeahDuff bouncing to Meek Mill and Yo Gotti tracks. 

I get that a lot in real life.

Same! (I'm white)

Forget if I relayed this nothing story when it happened a few years ago but I was working out at the empty park district workout room, listening to WGCI, one of the local hip-hop/R&B stations, when a young black man came in and turned the radio off. I told him I was listening to it. He put it back on and I think Keshia Cole was singing and he was like, "You're listening to THIS?"

"Yeah..."

He just shrugged, grabbed the TV remote, and turned on some golf match on mute.

Feel like Lil Baby is on everything right now and I'm OK with that. "Yes Indeed" was a fave of 2018, mostly because of him over Drake. Even that emo bullshit ain't bad though it seems... out of character.

I still can't believe this goddamn beat.

This is really doing it for me right now.

i saw an Earthgang/Phoelix/Smino bill on Tuesday and it was awesome and Smino is the best rapper right now

my fav from his old album:

That track is nice, Jasper, but melodic rap really isn't my thing in general. I'm still digging really hard into French hip-hop right now. Niska is great. I've been listening to his new album a lot when going out for runs. The best that I've found so far though is Youssoupha. His newest album is one of the best rap albums I've heard in a long ass time.


I mean, c'mon...

Oh yeah, and that Rae Sremmurd shit is straight up garbage. I really tried too, but it's just a whole lot of nothing.

Your face is straight up garbage.

WP64 wrote:That track is nice, Jasper, but melodic rap really isn't my thing in general.

Get on it

Does this count? I am loving this so much. This stuff must make conservative French people's head actually explode. Those weirdos have an actual academy that regulates the French language and puts out an official dictionary every year. Fuck em. It's all about having rhymes composed of three different languages like "fuck leur mamma mia."

In all seriousness, this stuff is a really interesting window into the dialectic of modern French identity and its colonial history. If the Le Pen's of the world are so offended by this stuff, they shouldn't have invaded their parents countries and made them learn French.

chrondog wrote:

Duff... wrote:

chrondog wrote:I didn't post about it at the time, but it's hilarious to me to imagine YeahDuff bouncing to Meek Mill and Yo Gotti tracks. 

I get that a lot in real life.

Same! (I'm white)

Also, people who are surprised by white people liking hip-hop are dumb. I used to get this all the time in college too. Hip-hop has been by far the most popular and influential art form for the last two decades in the United States, so yeah, of course I listen to it. The people who somehow live in a world without it are the weird ones. Three 6 Mafia won a fucking Oscar goddamnit!! Get with it.