March 2011
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February 2011
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WatchDaVinci “Blame Game” (2011)
This isn’t a freestyle. This is Yeezy-flips-Aphex-Twin interpolated with some added Bay Area thump (love the clavs in there — on that Too $hort flow), and DaVinci continuing to show why he one of the best lyricists in the West right now.
Pushin’ them Rosetta Stones / You don’t speak my language?
Produced by Al Jieh (1/2 of Drums...
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Mr. Lucci ft. Twista & Bohagon - Bout Gone →
jordansargent:
This is an anthem about smoking weed.
FREE BOHAGON
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Rap Atlas: Oakland →
by Eric K. Arnold
(This has the potential to be a great feature from Complex. Strong start.)
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Turf Talk f/ Mistah F.A.B. “Bay Boy”...
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willystaley:
N-Pire Da Great, The Jacka...
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The Imminent Decline of Southern Rap? →
mobbdeen:
Interesting read.
Even though you didn’t ask for it, here’s my take.
At the risk of sounding like a bitter old head, I’d carefully suggest that Southern Rap has been creatively bankrupt for a minute. At least on the mainstream level. The gifted MCs that lack wide exposure often garner critical acclaim due to strong East Coast influences or production. Not that there’s anything wrong...
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Datamining Hip-Hop’s History →
Like the Rap Genius blog has shown, there is value and entertainment in projects like Tahir Hemphill’s latest data-driven rap analysis, but just like the short-comings of the Rap Anthology (NB: Harvard’s Hip Hop Archive is involved here, as well), parsing rap lyrics comes at the price of viewing the genre myopically. For example (Wired writer’s words):
The idea is so that...
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hateinmyhart asked: are lil b & young l's S.S. mixtapes worth listening to? i've been trying to get more young l material (sans lil uno/stunnaman), but don't have anything outside of loose tracks with B and his L-E-N mixtape. i know he's also has the young squad, but did they even ever release a full project? anyways, i know those mixtapes are dated (2007, right?) and i'd rather hear a...
themarcdog asked: Hi. I'd like to know about the finer points of post-#based Youtube raps. Educate Me.
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"Recording the Rap: Jive Talk at the Top of the... →
The rap is hot. It is the newest craze among the 14-to-21-year-olds, the record-buying majority who are putting rap records on the national charts and making money for the nightclub disc-jockeys capitalizing on a bit of New York City party culture. Rap records are big among young adults too, those in the 21-35 age range who bop into the disco on Friday night ready for good music and fast...
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SurgicalGloves: Lil B - Free Music: The Myspace... →
surgicalgloves:
So someone just compiled all of the myspace music from B’s secrete & rare pages into one giant mixtape (676 songs). It’s split up into 3 huge files but if you get the Mega Manager helps to download things quicker. Although this does take away from the essential experience of finding each page…
I don’t know where this came from, but #salute.
THE BIGGEST UNSIGNED...
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World Of Kooter: Look at how a 2 or 3 year-long... →
gnarlytooth:
worldofkooter:
Look at how a 2 or 3 year-long great recession has transformed once complacent millennials into icy, calloused young people with nothing to lose. They barely have expendable income, but access the most advanced of what humankind has achieved technologically, manipulating…
More tracks on these mixtapes…
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Waka Flocka: PETA spokesman →
“Animals should be treated the same as you would a kid. Would you want someone just to walk up and skin your kid? Hell no!”
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mobbdeen:
50 Cent - When It All Goes Down...
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Black Rob - Banco Popular's Dirty 30 →
By The Martorialist:
…consider this collection a Black Rob sandwich which uses 1991’s Automator production The Smoothness as the top slice of bread, the Whoa-device revisting Up North from last year as the bottom slice, and 28 personal favourite joints which range from guest appearances, album cuts, mixtape joints and unreleased gems as the filling. Everybody gotta eat, yo, so...
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