Kanye West Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris [The Rap Thread]

[dieblucasdie]

all my cars black, you would think i was racist.

black diamonds, apartheid

Man, how often does he make a variation on that joke? (A joke that Wayne has made, better, like 4 times)

[shai faithe]

booooo.
dammit, i will stand my ground as the lone 2 chainz apologist.

[Antero]

all my cars black, you would think i was racist.

black diamonds, apartheid

Man, how often does he make a variation on that joke? (A joke that Wayne has made, better, like 4 times)

Black and white diamonds, no segregation

[shai faithe]

actually i should also note that the "all my cars" line is brilliant to me mainly because of the "race-ist" wordplay.
also, the second example depends entirely on if he pronounces apartheid correctly.

[Antero]

I feel like that analysis might split linguistic hairs a bit too finely for a dude who apparently had no idea whatsoever that "Tity Boy" was a car crash of a stage name until he had a deep and awkward conversation with a def jam PR representative.

[shai faithe]

i still remember reading in an interview that tity means money.
jussayin.
also, not incredibly relevant, but did anyone else read that fader article? he seems like such a laid back, down to earth, unconcerned dude who's just happy finally be living with the notoriety that years in the game sometimes never comes with. so i mean, maybe he never cared about the name until he decided to give it one last college try?
like, some rappers you want to party with, some rappers you want to be the ga facilitator at your consensus-based tactical response committee, some rappers you want to be your uncle. i wish 2 chainz was my uncle. word to that.

[Antero]

i still remember reading in an interview that tity means money.
jussayin.

I heard that too, I'm just saying that a guy who went a decade and a half without realizing that it sounded like his stage name was "Boob Guy" is probably not engaged in sophisticated wordplay with nested double meanings.

Uncle 2 Chainz would be cool, but not as cool as Uncle Snoop.

[Antero]

Oh look, Na'Tee has a new tape.

[cold before sunrise]

some rappers you want to party with, some rappers you want to be the ga facilitator at your consensus-based tactical response committee, some rappers you want to be your uncle. i wish 2 chainz was my uncle. word to that.

cue canned television laughter.

[JamesSchneider]

Is anyone else having a hard time getting past the R.A.P. Music/ Cancer4Cure 1-2 punch. Infinite spins.

Edit: Obviously I should read this thread back, but I'm on my phone. Sorry if I'm on well tread territory.

[shai faithe]

Is anyone else having a hard time getting past the R.A.P. Music/ Cancer4Cure 1-2 punch. Infinite spins.

Edit: Obviously I should read this thread back, but I'm on my phone. Sorry if I'm on well tread territory.

yes
this guy
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cue canned television laughter.

i don't get it.

laughs

[fishjim]

You KNOW we're like two months away from a Grimes/A$AP Rocky collab

What's the board's feeling on Grimes? Haven't listened to her yet but the wikis make her sound quirky & possibly groovy.

[Nick Ink]

I've only heard one Grimes song (Blood Diamond, on the radio), and I thought it was pretty terrible. Breathy vocals and an irritating melody. Not for me.

[Killdozersnakeboy]

I like Visions a lot. I'm usually suspicious of anything hipped by P4K but that is a great little pop album. I'm not sure how anyone can resist Oblivion. Both the song and the video. I love how the keyboard bassline is kinda shoddily played.

[davy]

I like Visions a lot. I'm usually suspicious of anything hipped by P4K but that is a great little pop album. I'm not sure how anyone can resist Oblivion. Both the song and the video. I love how the keyboard bassline is kinda shoddily played.

Seconded.

[dieblucasdie]

Oh, I wish her no specific harm, she was just the pfork flavor-of-the-month at that point, and A$AP was the obvious choice for the first (for lack of a less gross term) "Swag Generation" rapper to collaborate with a pfork flavor-of-the-month. I mean, Lana Del Ray ended up beating her to the punch (looooooooooooooool), and now we got Lady Gaga hugging Kendrick Lamar and whatnot, but I like seeming prescient.

[ellaguru]

Speaking of Pitchfork flavour of the month, I listened to TNGHT this morning, and I liked it.

[dieblucasdie]

So Lady Gaga has a feature on Kendrick Lamar's new album. We're never gonna get a proper Black Hippy record, are we?

[ellaguru]

Guys, guys! There's some great stuff on Angel Haze's Revelations.

[howardfinkel]

Mykki Blanco - Wavvy
Le1f - Wut

[shai faithe]

i actually find those both really stylistically fascinating, and i'm glad that that's something that's happening as online hip hop gets more diverse.
the beats aren't bad at all.

[shai faithe]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myH02DPy_vA
oh my god.

[Antero]

If the music industry knew what it was doing Trouble would be a superstar.

I continue to be somewhat uncomfortable about the fact that Travis Porter is a group rather than a person.

[shai faithe]

I continue to be somewhat uncomfortable about the fact that Travis Porter is a group rather than a person.

THIS.
and the gucci verse. i just. i can't stop. crying.

[Nick]

Yeah, that's the best Gucci verse I've heard in awhile, and it really makes me happy. "More trouble than Trouble, more gutter than Gudda" is some solid Jeezy rooms-got-rooms style silliness, and "passed Mariah the blunt; now Nick Cannon don't trust me" made me laugh out loud. I'm now bumping some Burrprint: The Movie 3-D because this got me in a Gucci mood.

Travis Porter are cool but I think their appeal stems more from all the FKi beats they get than from their actual presence(s) on the mic.

Here's an ultra-aggressive Trouble track y'all might enjoy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALl0L2_SJvs