ayo best coco yayo maco wacko no-fi schmoundcloud dooblebob vine rap thingy of 2014

no flex

lifestyle

both good choices

http://lu00000000.tumblr.com/post/106382903088

dunno if there's a way to edit, but second Rae Sremmurd shoudl = No Type, yah?

Ranked:

Rae Sremmurd - "No Type"
Rich Gang ft. Young Thug - "Lifestyle"
Snootie Wild ft. K Camp - "Made Me"
Tyga ft. Young Thug - "Hookah"
Dej Loaf - "Try Me"
Rae Sremmurd - "No Flex Zone"
Bobby Schmurda - "Hot N****"
Metro Thuggin - "The Blanguage" (dont really get why this is in the list but w/e, cool enough)
Fetty Wap - "Trap Queen"
Snootie Wild ft. Yo Gotti - "Yayo"
Travi$ Scott ft. Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug - "Mamacita"
Father ft. ILOVEMAKONNEN & Key! - "Look at Wrist"
ILOVEMAKONNEN - "I Don't Sell Molly No More"
Shy Glizzy - "Awwsome"

really getting to the dregs here

OG Maco - "U Guessed"
ILOVEMAKONNEN ft. Drake - "Tuesday"
O.T. Genasis - "CoCo"
Riff Raff - "Tip Toe Wing In My Jawwdinz"

might put 'look at the wrist' up over 'mamacita' and 'yayo' actually

it must be hard rap blogger work pretending these 18 songs aren't like 3 songs in different variations

either "no type" or "lifestyle" which uh don't resemble each other at all, is that 2/3 whiney

"it must be hard rap blogger work pretending these 18 songs aren't like 3 songs in different variations"

lolwut

hookah is like 30bpm faster than no type

shmurda has no hook and try me is all hook

made me is three notes plucked on a single icicle and lifestyle is a fully blown out smooth jazz instrumental

if all rap sounds the same to you maybe it is time to get a job at rolling stone magazine

these songs are definitely representative of "all rap," thanks for the advice!

"lifestyle" is so fuckin lush

lifestyle vs try me

both have perfect sounding bass

Unpopular opinion round these parts, but I voted for Maco

oh right i forgot about run the jewels xp

maybe if they put zach de la rocha on the blanguage remix

I FUCKED UP THE SYSTEM THEN WAShED OFF MY DICK WITH THE CURTAINS INSIDE OF THE BUNKER

Lifestyle = song of the year. Unless Chuck D dropped a single and I slept on it.

i'm sure one of you posted in last year's goon thread that trae that truth/young thug's "try me" was blowing up. completely love it but since then have not seen a single mention of it anywhere

of these, "no flex zone" easily, "hot n*gga" is a classic as well, "no type" and the snootie wilds are great too

cannot see what everyone else does in "lifestyle", just the sound of it is so trying to me

like, it's so tinny and sickly at the same time

Voted Hot N because it's the most '2014' to me

i kinda hate coco

this is honestly one of the worst thread titles in ilx history and i never would have noticed it or opened it had whiney not pointed it out to me off board

He was asking for Joey Bada$$' contact info so take his goon-thread hardmanning with a grain of salt

a number of these songs have nothing to do with vine or soundcloud

"the two snootie wild songs have nothing to do with vine or soundcloud"

for instance "i don't fuck with you" is as much a soundcloud/viral hit as "no type"

snootie wild in particular came up the way southern rappers typically have, there's nothing viral about him

he had a few mild radio hits and not a single drop of cum came from the dicks of anyone that works at noisey

irl lol

as someone who has written about snootie wild on noisey, i can verify that my dick was dry at the time

Rolling Chuck D picks the winners in twenty fifteen thread.

--songs i really love

Rich Gang ft. Young Thug - "Lifestyle"

number 1 song of the year -- the best hook, a catchy beat of its own and some of the best lyrics. the total package.

Dej Loaf - "Try Me"

got stoned and listened to this song a lot because it sounds like some candyland lullaby

Bobby Schmurda - "Hot N****"

this one made me happy for new york

Snootie Wild ft. K Camp - "Made Me"

snootie had the most underrated verses of the year on this

--songs i like

Tyga ft. Young Thug - "Hookah"

heard this coming out of a store the other day and it made me wish it was a hit, if it was a solo thug song it probably would've been ... or maybe smoking hookah is not relatable or aspirational

Fetty Wap - "Trap Queen"

just a great song, though when i heard it on the radio it sounded less weird than i thought and more like a particularly good cash out song. i think seeing his wonky eye in the video tripped me out. this beat is pretty wild though.

Rae Sremmurd - "No Flex Zone"
Rae Sremmurd - "No Type"

these are both good radio hits but i can't really get that excited about these guys for whatever reason. i guess as rappers i don't find them compelling, i like "no type" as an extension of the downer party anthem aesthetic mike will established on "we can't stop" but the verses are kind of a snooze.

Shy Glizzy - "Awwsome"

for a straight gucci mane rip off this is pretty good as long as you don't think too much about the lyrics. his voice sounds great on this though.

-- remixes i can't abide by

ILOVEMAKONNEN ft. Drake - "Tuesday"

non-remix version of "tuesday" is a true original, standout track. drake version is straight bullshit.

Snootie Wild ft. Yo Gotti - "Yayo"

this is another song dulled terribly by the inclusion of a rapper who should have been kept far away from a rare flower of a song.

-- these songs are fine

Metro Thuggin - "The Blanguage"

i never really understood the love for this one ... verses are pretty good, i wish there was a hook though. a pretty middling young thug song, imo. also not sure we need young thug making explicit drake sequels.

Father ft. ILOVEMAKONNEN & Key! - "Look at Wrist"

i like the father axis in atlanta as a millennial update on dem franchize boyz (when their beats were blocky not snappy) but the rapping lets up too much. i like "nokia" more than "look at wrist" but even that is like 60 seconds of a good song. i'd like to hear father produce for some other rappers though.

-- eh

OG Maco - "U Guessed It"

i should prob like this song more but it never grabbed me. great beat though.

O.T. Genasis - "CoCo"

this song is weirdly inert to me. i don't like the beat at all, and the hook feels actively weighed down? the verses are pretty funny though.

Riff Raff - "Tip Toe Wing In My Jawwdinz"

really annoying hook. verses are actually decent. terrible video too. decent distillation of riff raff in all his glory at least.

ILOVEMAKONNEN - "I Don't Sell Molly No More"

annoying.

-- fuck travis scott

Travi$ Scott ft. Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug - "Mamacita"

fuck travis scott

the singing on "lifestyle" is so bad. like, i can't even get through the hook. i get what's good about the sentiment and the words but it's just unlistenable

Hookah is a hit, it's in the hot 100 at any rate

the thing about hookah i never rly came to terms with is when tyga abruptly comes in with the flat staccato cloudmatic / mathematics line sounding like a wu guy or someone else i can't quite recall

Coco is totally the song I would never play at home but I totally dig when I hear it out on the street

https://scontent-a-atl.cdninstagram.com/hphotos-xfa1/t50.2886-16/10842701_528243050612261_1370437345_n.mp4

Carlos Gomez otm

thing is i'm kind of p much at the kindly grandma stage of rap appreciation now so i was quite happy to accept kids finding coco fun and expressing themselves and all that cutesy shit. but then busta popped up and made it unbearably corny

"No Type" or "Lifestyle" for me. Though I feel like I possibly prefer "No Type" over "No Flex Zone" for what are probably corny fuxxy reasons.

i'd be v much done with 'no flex zone' by now if it wasnt for irresistible "gold BEzel?! so SPEcial?!" karaoke squeaky backing vox duty

I don't remember if we got into this in the funny voiced rapper poll thread (I can't remember that thread title), but a big part of the reason I love so many of these Internet-y hits is that they create a perception, real or imagined, that the door to rap stardom is open to anybody, even the most unlikely outsiders. I love that fantasy, and the sense that there are no gatekeepers, and that rap is truly a responsive, bottom-up genre where fans decide what deserves radio play. That's not a sense I get from any other format. Obviously the reality isn't as idealistic as all that, but every time I hear Thug or Rae Sremmurd or even Makonnen on the radio I get a charge like, shit, anything is possible.

it's always kinda been like that, i mean what's 'ice cream paint job' or 'this is why i'm hot' or 'laffy taffy'

or 'crank dat'

True, true. And that's always been part of the appeal; it just feels like the process happens a lot faster now, and that the artists benefiting from it are a lot more outside the box than they used to be. Where Mims and Dorrough just seemed like B-list copies of bigger name rappers cashing in on already popular sounds, a lot of 2014's crop seem like they're popularizing their own template

well in part that's bc there's no industry to work on artist development w/ young rappers

if it wasnt for irresistible "gold BEzel?! so SPEcial?!" karaoke squeaky backing vox duty

totally the best part of the song

https://soundcloud.com/thizzler/99-percent-shabooyah-naenae-x/sets

er, http://vimeo.com/89834853 rather

"No Type" or "Lifestyle" for me. Though I feel like I possibly prefer "No Type" over "No Flex Zone" for what are probably corny fuxxy reasons.

there are other reasons for preferring "no type"?

Maybe not!

'no flex zone' = swae lee roth, 'no type' = swae lee scratch perry

that's kinda otm

Unpopular opinion round these parts, but I voted for Maco

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, January 5, 2015 1:17 AM (3 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is there a maco thread bc his last ep is fucking awesome and nothing like "u guessed it" which is also cool

this poll winner is the true #1 single of 2014 fyi

Great poll. As much as I like CoCo, Trap Queen is the best, unquestionably.

Made Me is also good. No love for "Cut Her Off"?

'no flex zone' = swae lee roth, 'no type' = swae lee scratch perry

― r|t|c, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 10:23 (3 weeks ago) Permalink

classic thread title

it's amazing that "pass the mayo" doesn't appear anywhere in it

In light of out tweet war 2day I want to be clear that anyone denying Keef's impact on the rise of this sound is lying to themselves and God

Further that coco is a blatant drill record & radio conspires against Chicago artists

still not sure what I'm gonna vote for but I had to post here just to show off my new DN

went with lifestyle. thug's (?) delivery on the third line provoked such a visceral reaction of horror from my g/f that I can't help laughing whenever i hear it.

You really think radio CONSPIRES against Chicago artists, deej? That's kinda... huge. From my persepective it looks a lot more like radio is letting anyone with a NYC affiliation (Shmurda, Genasis) get spins.

for the first time in history, Chicago is the victim and not the perpetrator of widespread corruption

loooooooool

revenge for JFK obviously

http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2014/07/sad-jack-white.jpg

D-40 listening to the radio

lol we've had this debate on here before i already pointed to the tweets of radio djs talking about how PDs refused to play chicago artists bc of the 'controversy' over violence, it's no conspiracy or secret

just like they stopped playing Bobby Shmurda and T.I. records the moment they caught weapons charges

New York and Atlanta werent caught up in the media hype about a "violence epidemic"

Stop playing dumb

idk enough about the radio to comment but it does seem p obv even from afar that if king l was from ny the reax would be completely diff

i wouldnt buy that shmurda specifially has been unfairly elevated tho, unless having experienced management counts as cheating

Shmurda seems p natural considering his hit was literally a mixtape-style "freestyle" over an existing song

people have constantly tried to use controversy to suppress the commercial success of gangsta rap for 25 years, i supposed it's possible that it actually worked once

eh its a lil from column a, a lil from ...

those kinds of from-the-block organic viral videos weren't taking off before chicago's stuff broke through in quite the same way, Shmurda got a deal off rip & Epic capitalized immediately, clearly benefitted from what happened in chicago. i don't think it was inorganic or anything. Like ... "Dont Like" was out in spring 2012 but didnt end up radio until 'ye remixed it, 'love sosa' came out in fall but didn't get a radio push until spring. 'hot' though was channeled straight to radio nationally

like i could see it popping up on shazam in Los Angeles w/in days of it getting posted on blogs, definitely didn't work like that for any of these earlier artists

ditto with Dej Loaf

i mean there's still dudes who have like over 4-5 million views in chicago who arent even getting label attention, ppl were scared basically ... & maybe rightfully so in some instances!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w38MidKsWqE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDct4NU3hQI

part of the reason i think ppl latched on to herb & bibby (even though herb for ex still seems to be involved in street shit) is bc they werent as tied to beefs w/ 300/600/OTF

is it possible Epic is just a better label than Interscope to sign to these days? Interscope only released i think 2 rap albums in 2014 (Schoolboy and the Shady comp).

lol are Dej Loaf and Shmurda appropriating Chicago culture like Iggy's US accent

ha obv not appropriation (although influence isnt a stretch at all obv) but i dont think its a coincidence that Lyor Cohen/Todd Moscowitz's label for scouting street talent & getting them on radio (cf Fetty Wap, Shy Glizzy, etc.) is called "300" even if they claim it's named for the movie

They WANT to be associated with the violent gangs of Chicago? Or is it all subconscious?

it's not the street gang part that interests them

Say what you will about them, but "Coco" and "Yayo" are probably the two catchiest songs of all these

*gazes at list of catchy songs*

BAKING SODA

the other day at the grocery store i passed by an employee carrying a load of baking soda boxes to the baking aisle and he was rapping that line to himself

i want to believe

it actually happened, it was the best thing

was the guy delivering the tropicana singing "no juice"

i dont think its a coincidence that Lyor Cohen/Todd Moscowitz's label for scouting street talent & getting them on radio (cf Fetty Wap, Shy Glizzy, etc.) is called "300" even if they claim it's named for the movie

― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, January 28, 2015 4:54 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ehhhh a million rappers have referenced that movie, it's like The Matrix of its era

the era of seven years after the matrix

I still don't get what the non-coincidence consists in. But whatever. deej will be deej.

ehhhh a million rappers have referenced that movie, it's like The Matrix of its era

― some dude, Tuesday, February 3, 2015 3:19 PM (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know yr on this quest to prove that no one cares about chicago and chicago doesnt matter but come the fuck on

it was the biggest major label deal for a new artist in YEARS ... it was not a minor thing ... and his price only got that high bc a label couldn't get to him before the general public did ... which is what the "300" label is now concerned with fixing

So... the new new conspiracy is actually signing rappers before they manage to get famous on their own and start costing labels money? Devious.

what 'conspiracy' thats how labels work

thats how they signed young thug for 15k

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

guess raccoon got his vote in before he got banned

no flex zone is in no way part of this trend imo

"out here like a possum i'm so i'm so awesome" was a fine lyric deserving of at least one vote tbh

no flex zone is in no way part of this trend imo

― flopson, Thursday, 5 February 2015 00:29 Bookmark

***RANKING KANYE***

yeah this is a "trend" like the people in the year-end tracks poll thread are like "i don't know about all these rap songs with DRUMS and SYNTHESIZERS, i'm not down with this PHASE rap is going through"

Classic rtc post, hate you had to link it yourself

wasn't "no type" in this poll? where has it gone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E4gsXrcMMc

this thread title continues to give me heart palpitations

if you can't stand stand a year of rap novelty hits as William CarleS. Burroughs poetry, then check KanyeToThe.com for open registration

kanyetothe is also the one other place on the internet besides this thread that people will cop to liking og maco

Rick Rubin recognizes game

Y'all need to hear og maco's undefeated. It's got the hypest carmen sample of all time.

http://ak-hdl.buzzfed.com/static/2015-04/17/16/enhanced/webdr11/enhanced-16096-1429303854-11.jpg

RIP when vinyl of hit rap songs didn't only exist as collectables for white yuppies ;_;

blame buzzfeed, i'm just the white yuppy messenger

oh good my white label 12" is all scratched up

Ot's new single is a blatant mash up (theft) of "run Ricky run" and "dis ain't what you want"

"run ricky run" was kind of a knockoff of "u guessed it"

every time i look at this title it gets worse

somehow hadn't noticed "schmoundcloud" the last 50 times whatever the hell it means

hahaha same here

The eye goes right to 'doodlebob'

somehow hadn't noticed "schmoundcloud" the last 50 times whatever the hell it means

― lex pretend, Tuesday, April 28, 2015 3:13 AM (8 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao

remy boyz

how do we feel about the dual "nasty" takeover of 2015

every generation gets the whoomp there it is they deserve

pretty much every line in Top 10 single "Nasty Freestyle" is the end of rap music

fu whiney whoomp is a classic

yeah, but millenials aren't

whoomph you are old

aren't you scant years older than "millenials"

almost 40 bruv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WO23WBji_Z0

mental note: we need a "lordy lordy ilxors 40" thread if there ain't one already

I remain skeptical of the idea all millenials are the same, but some lazy demographics mongers (demographicians?) just say millenials were both 1980+.

SCANT YEARS

i though millennials were supposed to have been born on or at the turn of the millennia, hence millennials
imo if you're over 20, you ain't millennial

was hoping we could have another place on the internet to have this totally pointless, pedantic debate

I always thought you took advantage of aggressive balding to act like a member of the old garde

tbh it was Whiney who brought up "generations" and "millenials" thinking it's an important chronological/generational divide in tastes to further himself from whatever he's against today

FP'd

that may be my first! thanks :)

xxxphttp://hellowackylemondotcom2.files.wordpress.com/2014/06/how-rude.png

even more rude: I posted that I FP'd and THEN FP'd

i was talking (giffing?) to mh!

well, I did ask for it

can we just start saying "kids these days?" it definitely encapsulates the real attitude we're expressing

tbf, i am pretty sure whiney was on a "kids these days" kick when he was in his teens
i know i was

that's what I was saying!

i though millennials were supposed to have been born on or at the turn of the millennia, hence millennials
imo if you're over 20, you ain't millennial

― “audience participation” otherwise known as “touching” (forksclovetofu), Friday, May 15, 2015 3:40 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is not at all the definition of millennials lol

tell us about your world of young people oh sage of the common man

ha forks how cn u be on the internet so much and not know which generation millennials refers to

I learned about this very excellent ca 1981 quasi-rap song in the depths of rateyourmusic and I think an old TofuHut post helped its tiny fanbase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XxF4WPh3ME

lol, i was kinda proud of that

slapping google ads on that blog on my way out the door (and fucking up the comments section by doing it) is a long standing regret
also not sticking around long enough to properly sell out

I def wanna play that song out

If this thread is to be bumped continually it really needs to be retitled

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRzHbQEXjlY

tbf I think this thread title is very apt

thanks og cook

Will imago's post be the one that finally shames whiney

i just imagine all these hype young things rolling around expensive studios muttering 'shmoundcloud' and 'doodlebob' in their best elmer fudd voices, just to themselves, like it was a tic or something

ha lex

i just imagine all these hype young things rolling around expensive studios muttering 'shmoundcloud' and 'doodlebob' in their best elmer fudd voices, just to themselves, like it was a tic or something

― imago, Friday, June 19, 2015 11:20 PM (11 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

CONTEMPLATE THIS POST WHINEY G. WEINGARTEN AND RETHINK YOUR CHOICES

i <3 u all rly

when i like rae sremmurd by the end of the year nobody will remember any of this

i like to cha cha

Me too. ;)

Those guys in that bacon video really don't know how to cook bacon is v irritating to watch

'in love with the coco' really is one of the worst major hits of the past few years

im glad fetty wap came along and made everyone forget about it

It felt less like a song than a DJ tool, I rarely heard it except as a 60 second palette cleanser between better tracks. And I dunno, I'll take it over this year's "Flicka Da Wrist"/"Cha Cha"/"Sum Shake" lot.

wtf sum shake is so legit

As intentionally, cynically dumb as "Coco" is, it's still probably the most catchy, infectious song out of any of these as far as I'm concerned

Maybe "Flicka Da Wrist," actually, a song I can honestly say I've probably never heard more than 30 seconds but, like, KNOW the chorus

It is a very catchy song but not only is it one dimensional, morally suspect, with a beat that rips off "hate being sober", it's also just deathly cynical

those are all good arguments for it being my jam

It doesn't surprise me that ppl responded much more favorably to fetty his music is so much more human/genuine/non cynical

i don't know if that bacon thing is so awful that it's hilarious or so awful that it's infuriating or both or neither

i'm mostly just dumbfoundedly slack-jawed that people still think that it is a good idea to make things like that

people are... bad

"coco" makes me feel like when ethan made this thread party like a rockstar tribute thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dREafkocDkU

^dad used to play this around the house all the time when i was a kid and i caught some shit for singing I'VE GOT COCAINE... RUNNING AROUND MY BRAIN in grade school

no matter where i treat my guests
you see
they always love my kitchen best

lol that the bacon guys are rapping in french
lol at me for letting the video play

https://twitter.com/CraigSJ/status/619529654865657856

deej was otm in this thread

it's been known that og maco is a total condescending asshole

he seems like the ultimate nemesis of ilx goon squad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rz-_mstXfr0

sorry, should have linked to the original https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPC9erC5WqU

"it g ma" is cool but there's a worrying number of beats right now that are direct rip offs of "u guessed it"

"it g ma" is cool but there's a worrying number of beats right now that are direct rip offs of "u guessed it"

in retrospect can we all at least agree that brisk god on vine will permanently remain a top 5 dead or alive rap crit/curator

doodlebob rap def became the dominant paradigm

this is still one of the most confounding polls in the history of this board

wld be a good mix

if all rap sounds the same to you maybe it is time to get a job at rolling stone magazine

― based grandpa (noz), Monday, January 5, 2015 1:48 AM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol burn

amine's "caroline" feels very post-dooblebob to me

schmurda not really doodlebob imo

hahaha i never noticed that the poll option says "schmurda"

Prescient thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YwAaNFJwRA&t=24s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YwAaNFJwRA&t=

www.tiktok.com/embed/6599587682718846213

this is good btw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyQHNwRlulc

doodlebob rap def became the dominant paradigm

― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, October 31, 2016 12:20 PM (six years ago) bookmarkflaglink

red solo cups, nirvana shirts, nickelodeon references, face tattoos, weed, dadbods

rip og maco

pic.twitter.com/PDLbhvU2rR

— OG MACO (@OGMACO) December 27, 2024

man what the fuck