Now We Only Care About Rap

[shai faithe]

A lot of people liked Codeine Cowboy.  I remain unconvinced - he's competent, but he's not doing anything that is getting me really hyped up.  The sheer depth of his drawl is pretty impressive though.

2 chainz' line
"promethazine, contraband,
told them folks we a country band"
=
my favorite thing right now

that pastor troy synth is not the same as "bang" though it might be pitched up a full octave.

sort of bummed out that tru realigion is mostly lex synths and drippy droppies. 2 chainz sounds better over more diverse production. see, uhh, EVERY good playaz circle track.

asap's live love would've made a better short player. dude needs some more boy scout buckles for switching up flows. a lot of filler. why you drink so much lean rocky? why you say things like "talkin 'bout no diamonds cause that shit is a facade / times is really hard, i fucked a couple broads"?

antero, was that gibbs tape cold day in hell? looks like there's more jeezy/gibbs work on the real is back 2.

word is that tm 103 is finally dropping next month. i'll believe it when i hear it, but there it is.

[Antero]

Yeah, Cold Day In Hell.

I swear to god that Pastor Troy song has the same synth line as "Bang" just faster.

That 2 Chainz line is pretty great.  That drawl.  "Country band" and "contraband" are homonyms.  Remember last year when his name was still Tity Boi and it was hella awkward?

[Antero]

No, it definitely is.  I'm fucking sure of it.

[shai faithe]

ha ha ha.
then why'd you ask?

i thought tity boy was a hilarious name. y'know because tity means money, duh.

[dieblucasdie]

It sounds like a drag name.  At a recent event, my wife did a whole "Rapper or Burlesque Dancer?" thing, where she'd read a name and people would have to guess.  It was impossible.  They definitely got Shady Blaze wrong

[shai faithe]

so...burlesque dancer is wrong?

[dieblucasdie]

There's definitely a well-known NYC burlesque dancer named Clams Casino.  She used to have the Clam God beat on google, but now I see she's way down on page 1, behind even the actual food

[Thermofusion]

This makes me want to become a cutting-edge underground hip hop producer named Jonny Porkpie, just to banish the real one into google oblivion

[dieblucasdie]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/reviews/albums/16026-liveloveaap/

Sigh.

[Antero]

i thought tity boy was a hilarious name. y'know because tity means money, duh.

It does?  This is the first time I've heard that.

[Antero]

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/reviews/albums/16026-liveloveaap/

Sigh.

"A triumph of immaculate taste"

We don't want artists any more, we want to feel like we put together a good iTunes playlist.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

well i would call last train to paris a triumph of immaculate taste

[Antero]

I loved that album, but that's a very different sort of meaning to attach to the same phrase.

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

also i think the drake record's going to get the same essential reception.

"this dude is actively bland all over this record but oooh the pretty submerged sounds that he curated"

[Antero]

Speaking of that Drake record, BigGhost got at it first.

Ayo...kinda like ya boy Big Ghost...son goes by many names b...Drizzy or Aubrey or jus Aubs...n the Artist Formerly Known as Wheelchair Jimmy nahmean. But yalls might know him as The Kitten Whisperer aka The Harvester of Pauses aka The Taio Cruz of Hip Hop aka Young Garnier Fructis the pre-cum baby aka Jennifer Aniston's favorite emcee

Also calls Drake "the Human Electric Slide."

[Thermofusion]

That blog is the best thing on the internet

[Antero]

His endless disses for Drake are priceless.

Ayo I bet this nigga got little seahorses swimmin around in his bloodstream b.

Ayo Im pretty sure this nigga is afraid of beer yo.

But that hook son. Ayo is this nigga still attached to a placenta sack b?

No dignity whatsoever b. None. ZERO son. Not a single solitary snowflake of fuckin decorum left in this nigga.

[dieblucasdie]

the human croissant

[Antero]

God, that just made me lose my shit at work.

[nonotyet]

Im pretty sure that son gets up in the morning n plays his harp for his cats n then slides down the muthafuckin banister in his satin man nightie n has a full glass of breast milk before he goes to the studio n hammers out some pooned out shit like this b.

[Antero]

This nigga wasnt born yo....he was blossomed.

[fishjim]

+1 for fandom of Big Ghost.

Who is this maestro? And why does he end sentences with a lil b, b?

[Black Amnesia of Heaven]

my friend stephen wrote a really incredible thing about a lil b show he saw: http://sshhiittttyy.com/post/12615859354/oldtobegin-thank-u-based-god-this-is-my

[shai faithe]

stumbled on this blog over at metafilter.
same voice as BIGGHOSTFACE, and according to the dates, is older. maybe the same author.

re: asap as curator rather than artist.
hip hop is a necessarily curatorial form of artistry, these are the same arguments that are made when speaking of hip hop as a meta genre. kool herc, steinski, and hank shocklee are, before anything else, excellent curators. the create galleries of wax, on wax and deliver to the listener their exhibitions. it's difficult to make the leap from that sort of producer...via producer/emcees such as pimp c, triple 6, mf doom, krit, oddisee, obviously kanye, to an interesting extent lil b (if you've read how he chooses producers), and so on and so on...because he doesn't produce his own records. for me, this reads as a lack. back when kala was released, diplo disparaged m.i.a. as a great curator of her own records, and this is instructional. we can draw comparisons here (even though kala is a far superior record and moves beyond its own limits as a curatorial exercise). we can appreciate asap's beat selection, while understanding that he, as an artist, is only tangentially responsible for what we're hearing, far less than a mixtape dj who spends countless hours blending and respinning, sampling out loops, often working to create a cohesion rather than an assortment. (this is the difference between pastiche and collage, a split that finds rocky on its decidedly former half.) it's frustrating though to see "works" such as these lauded for the qualities that any reasonably learned critic immediately understands as derivative. though they'd never admit it, and cringe when they realize, even critical circles have their candy corn.

[dieblucasdie]

For me, I mean, I'd just rather hear another rapper over those beats!  Shit, I would enjoy the hell out of hearing Soulja rap over "Bass."  As a critic, I do not think that I'm asking the moon, here