Now We Only Care About Rap

[Trousers and Pat]

Continued from here: http://www.lastplanetojakarta.com/forums/index.php/topic,13173.550.html

Basically Drake is what happens when 13 year-old girls are the only people left who pay for music

on the money.

[shai faithe]

we should remember that drake was a lab-grown net rapper that "came up" through the NMC circus before a single 13 year girl knew who he was.

[Trousers and Pat]

he's like the test-tube hamburger of the rap world

[jebreject]

I liked him okay on Degrassi

[JamesSchneider]

I liked him okay on Degrassi

Yup, work of his lifetime.

[howardfinkel]

http://smokingsection.uproxx.com/TSS/2011/10/first-listen-black-milk-danny-browns-black-and-brown-ep

Still kind of sad that XXX had no Apollo Brown productions, but I love it when these two make music together. Downloaded that eXquire mixtape for later too, seems like it could be good.

[JamesSchneider]

It is.

Tonight in the kitchen

Cory Gunz: Son of a Gun

It is a fucking banger.

[Antero]

Have we mentioned Shady Blaze recently?  Obviously Green Ova is the future of the genre and all, and but goddamn he's incredible.  He's like an internet-era Z-Ro, what with the chopper/singer/bluesman thing.

I mean what the fuck.

[dieblucasdie]

Yeah, Shady Business is pretty incredible. 

[Andrew_TSKS]

Dudes, what is this song I'm hearing on the radio with a verse built around a sample of someone going "eee-err, eee-err, eee-err" over and over? It drives me nuts.

[howardfinkel]

Damn that Shady Blaze track is wonderful blunt music. I haven't even had time to hear all of 808s & Dark Grapes, so much out there.

I've been listening to Regulate all day today so I just wrote a story-song about a couple who was listening to Regulate too. http://ge.tt/91ZzEN9

[dieblucasdie]

Dudes, what is this song I'm hearing on the radio with a verse built around a sample of someone going "eee-err, eee-err, eee-err" over and over? It drives me nuts.

Zah?  Whenever I turn on rap radio all I hear is fucking "Headlines," or, if I'm lucky, "Super Bass."  "eee-err" like a donkey or like a siren?

[Andrew_TSKS]

It's a person's voice speaking those two syllables, on a loop. It's not the only sample--like, it's over a beat--but it's really providing the fundamental melodic hook of the chorus. Of your choices, I'd say more like a donkey than a siren, but it's really most like the noise it makes when some cartoon character is waggling something back and forth rapidly.

Sorry, I figured you dudes would totally know what I was talking about. If none of you do, I'm fucked, because there's no way to google something like this.

[Antero]

[Andrew_TSKS]

So I went ahead and googled it anyway, which was a frustrating and time-consuming process, but eventually worked:

Big Sean - Marvin Gaye And Chardonnay

eee-err-eee-err-eee-err-eee-err... aaaaargghhhh. It starts at the 25-second mark of that video and continues throughout all verses.

[Antero]

That's as annoying as fuck, which I guess makes it a good match for Big Sean who is as annoying as fuck himself.

[jebreject]

I LOVE YOU BASEGOD

[jm]

hahaha I tried to find that just so I could +1 Like his response, but I couldn't.

[Brian Doherty]

I guess it's not surprising that the guy who really likes to loves WATCH THE THRONE (me) also totally enjoys Drake? (Or at least the Drake he hears on the radio. In a recent drive across Texas I'd say about 70 percent of hip hop radio was Drake, Lil Wayne, or Drake and Lil Wayne.) I'm not going to even ask why he sucks, I guess. I imagine I can get it. But I enjoy him, and so do the 13 year old girls, I suppose. (I will read explanations tho.)

[Antero]

Drake makes rap music that has absolutely nothing at stake.

[dieblucasdie]

[shai faithe]

the one link for liveloveasap that's EVERYWHERE is down.
 

[Brian Doherty]

Drake makes rap music that has absolutely nothing at stake.

His fame and all the wearying troubles it brings him are at stake!!

(I've always enjoyed the weird meta-quality of these radio rappers---like they are discussing some alternate body of music that we don't ever get to hear, but that apparently is making them very wealthy and famous and is really really great, and the songs WE hear are ABOUT those songs....)

I really like that "drink it til I feel it/smoke it til its done" chorus and the "they know they know" one...and find "moment 4 life" truly moving and lovely, every time.

[shai faithe]

i actually think some of the lyrics of "marvin's room" are on some high stakes shit. they're the most honest rap lyrics i've heard in a hot minute. i haven't heard any of drake's other new-ish stuff.
like this:

(I've always enjoyed the weird meta-quality of these radio rappers---like they are discussing some alternate body of music that we don't ever get to hear, but that apparently is making them very wealthy and famous and is really really great, and the songs WE hear are ABOUT those songs....)

[Antero]

(I've always enjoyed the weird meta-quality of these radio rappers---like they are discussing some alternate body of music that we don't ever get to hear, but that apparently is making them very wealthy and famous and is really really great, and the songs WE hear are ABOUT those songs....)

This is awesome, and reminds me of this.