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Post by Hector Salamanca on Dec 10, 2019 22:18:14 GMT -5
Westside Gunn's Hitler Wears Hermes 7 and Benny The Butcher's The Plugs I Met are some great grimy boom bap tapes that came out this year. A few other Griselda releases too but these two were the strongest in my mind.
Post by Jake Jortles on Dec 14, 2019 23:09:29 GMT -5
If you are listening to a song you haven't heard of before right now in 2019, which rapper would you be most excited to hear begin a verse? Like say someones showing you a song and you don’t know who its by.
If you are listening to a song you haven't heard of before right now in 2019, which rapper would you be most excited to hear begin a verse? Like say someones showing you a song and you don’t know who its by.
A couple years ago I stumbled upon an album that was sort of like a remix of Enter the Wu Tang, except it was more of an instrumental hip hop album that sampled all the same tracks originally sampled in Enter the Wu Tang. For the life of me I cannot track this down on Google but would love to listen to it again. Anybody happen to know the name of the artist/album?
After a playful Twitter Q&A session on Monday, Jay-Z revealed that his song "Open Letter" will be released on vinyl through Jack White's Third Man Records. The song, which didn't make it onto the rapper's album Magna Carta Holy Grail, will be available as a "playable letter."
"It's in a letter. . . you can play the letter. . . it's amazing," Jay-Z told Hot 97 yesterday. "You open the letter, and you can actually play the card."
White's Third Man Records also released gold and platinum vinyl versions of The Great Gatsby soundtrack, for which Jay-Z served as executive producer.
"Jack White, you know, aside from being a brilliant musician, he has this vinyl store so he makes these special edition vinyls, and we're gonna put ['Open Letter'] on the vinyl," said Jay-Z.
A couple years ago I stumbled upon an album that was sort of like a remix of Enter the Wu Tang, except it was more of an instrumental hip hop album that sampled all the same tracks originally sampled in Enter the Wu Tang. For the life of me I cannot track this down on Google but would love to listen to it again. Anybody happen to know the name of the artist/album?
Could be Enter The 37th Chamber by El Michels Affair
The Black Thought verse on that Eminem album is awesome.
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I looked at the tracklist and was immediately drawn to BT and QTip. Also Ed Sheeran, but at this point you have to be expecting songs like that to be on his records.
That song with Black Thought is a good example of Royce sounding try-hard and Black Thought making your head nod uncontrollably while he kills it. I prefer Street Hop era Royce as far as his delivery / flow is concerned. Or maybe even before that with shit like this:
If you are listening to a song you haven't heard of before right now in 2019, which rapper would you be most excited to hear begin a verse? Like say someones showing you a song and you don’t know who its by.
That song with Black Thought is a good example of Royce sounding try-hard and Black Thought making your head nod uncontrollably while he kills it. I prefer Street Hop era Royce as far as his delivery / flow is concerned. Or maybe even before that with shit like this:
I like the way Royce delivers in all these as well, but I still like his flow in Yah Yah. But I definitely prefer the I Will song. Although Crooked probably has my favorite verse on that song and the whole album tbh.
Post by Jake Jortles on Apr 13, 2020 8:43:36 GMT -5
@gno, sang_xcx and I replayed the Rza vs Preemo “battle” in jqbx yesterday and voted on each round. The simple idea thats been going around is that producers just play their most influential/ hard hitting bangers back to back. 20 songs and your supposed to basically judge who has the best set of songs.
I wonder if 8 of us could do a bracket style tournament where we choose a producer and set these battles up with an audience to vote on whos winning each round (you just vote for which beat you like better). You basically building a 20 song playlist and picking and choosing when to use the biggest bangers that your producer has been a part of to “win” 11 of the 20 rounds.
Was thinking Kanye, Dr Dre, Rza, DJ Premier, Timabaland, Neptunes, J Dilla, Just Blaze or Madlib, but you could take whoever you wanted.
Post by Jake Jortles on Apr 17, 2020 12:33:24 GMT -5
Sang, Deto and I are doing the "battles" from the above post. We each took 10+ producers to set up a 32-producer bracket lol. In refreshing myself on each of my producers, I found an interesting pair of reddit posts about Three 6 Mafia's "Mystic Stylez" that I wanted to share.
Ah yes THE essential Memphis rap album. When I first heard Mystic Stylez I wasn't really into it, I couldn't really distinguish the rappers much and the lo-fi aesthetic didn't click with me. However with a revisit not long after everything made sense. This album is like Enter The Wu Tang but instead of loving kung fu they love Satan. And that is cool as fuck to me being a metalhead as a youngin and feeling that same energy from a hip hop album.
Musically this album drags you into the hellish streets of Memphis where these demonic Mafia members run shit. The intro is one of the best in the genre at setting the stage for what is to come, the maniacal laughter and spooky vocals open you into a world of terror. It kicks off perfectly with Break Da Law, giving you a wonderful representation of who Three 6 are. Live By Yo Rep is my favorite diss track ever for the simple reason that it goes so far to just not only diss but threaten lives in the most foul way. The way the beats and flows work together on this album are just hypnotizing, dragging you into a bit of a druggy trance. It took me a few listens to really start appreciating the rapping on this album, Infamous and Koopsta are my favorites, they fit the production so well and lyrically are my favorites. Gangsta Boo is my fav female MC ever too, she fucking kills it on here, especially on In Da Game. This album is just all around incredible and absolutely essential for any rap fan in my opinion just to understand the Memphis sound.
And then more thought-provoking:
This is reminiscent of albums like 36 Chambers or The Chronic, unpolished but packed with originality, but unlike what followed those albums I don't think they ever fully fleshed out their sound. Sure they put out some more stuff like this and even some classics but I think they moved to Crunk before doing everything they could have with the horrorcore sound.
For example Dre refined the formula for The Chronic on Doggystyle and then 2001 until he had pretty much explored it as much as he could. I might annoy some people by saying this but you listen to most artists trying to make g-funk today and they're not doing much that hasn't been done before, the formulas have been figured out.
In contrast I think when the Memphis revival guys listened to early Three 6 they saw potential that hadn't yet been explored. That's why that scene is so fruitful, they're not just trying to recreate what Three 6 did they're also trying to do all the things they didn't do. When Spaceghostpurrp or Denzel Curry or Lil Ugly Mane put out a track you can hear the influence of Memphis Hip-Hop but you're also hearing things that haven't been done before.
Kind of an interesting thought. Like 2001 was a wringing dry of the entire Dre / G-Funk sound to where there was not much room to build upon it. But for almost a decade, those 90s 3-6 Mafia sounds were never fully explored. They shifted to their Mainstream / Crunk sounds before ever putting out a 2001, so it makes sense that so many rappers from the 2010s were drawing from those horror / screwed / trippy sounds.
I don't want to suggest that this is exactly where ASAP's head was at, but it's interesting to think about how that style doesn't have it's "2001"... and that it might still be out there as I don't quite think Mista Thug Isolation is that. ASAPs first mixtape and the Clams sound were sick, but not quite the homerun that I'm imagining.
the chronic is on spotify now. i imagine 95% of music fans are familiar with this record, but if you haven't, jealous that you get to enjoy this stone cold classic of popular music for the first time.