rolling punch-ins 2024

this is the rap thread

454 - "one in a million"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnfFw0xDNTk

sexyy red - "bow bow bow (f my baby mama)" (glomix) ft. chief keef
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK_UxRAX_h0

kp skywalka - "skino flow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NbdIm3Qa6k

myaap & lil rb - "wham"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quGUE4tuBoo

havinmotion - "nobody know"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=68zOdxGj7BI

ralfy the plug - "trophy" ft. itsmanman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Yqh-yQ254

catching up on late 2023 releases. new tape from starlito is typically excellent. he doesn't need to do much to make his style current. a couple tay keith beats here (a lighter, airier sound for him than usual), a couple nocap features there. the song with don trip is vintage. a couple highlights:

"1008" (prod. tay keith)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ebC59hyfoA

"put the gun down craig" ft. don trip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJy8MRw-oKM

G's Us (R.A.P. Ferreira and AJ Suede prod. by Steel Tipped Dove), highly recommended if yr into the Armand Hammer etc type stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0W6a-1gCic

apparently "frankie pulitzer," who has only appeared as a guest rapper on czarface songs, is the actor tom hardy

are we sure it's not "thee tom hardy," a rapper from the blog era?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8ywoDoQLHM

the new rio song they dropped on new year's day is so fucking good, incredible rapping thru a jail phone, stepped out w/ a new flow. he's supposed to get out this year i cannot wait

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA0TSM-iDRs

thanks for sharing i hadn't seen that. no one does it like him.

"movie" and "legendary" are two of the best rap songs of the decade from any region

new bruiser wolf, i love this guy. album coming tomorrow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFFLinTrv7U

kato sossa - "deja vu" (more bass) ft. dropp8

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

tse e2 - "wock junkies" ft. tse vic & jay juice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xpv-ULD8ZBk

New R.A.P. Ferreira sounds great

https://afrolab9000.bandcamp.com/album/the-first-fist-to-make-contact-when-we-dap

that Rio track is sick. one of my music goals this year is to keep up with this thread more.

still love anycia, but idk why she needs beats from jetsonmade. it's a tired sound that it felt like she'd be the antidote to. great latto verse, tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waQyrsQ1sVM

late pass from 2023 but AMAR by BigXthaPlug is fucking fantastic Texas shit, wow

amazing album

speaking of fantastic texas shit, the latest by that mexican ot crept into the lower reaches of the hot 100 last week (and it now sits exactly 1 spot ahead of bigx's "and the beat goes on"-sampling "mmhmm")

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

ot just rules

chuck strangers + alchemist go well together

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q57aXv9Ai5E

funny video

los & nutty's latest is typically good, grimy street stories. my favorite was "the reason," which has a bay area bounce to it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Py5hcbYGK8w

oooh that beat is too smooth almost reminds me of classic warren g

Vic Spencer and Original Super Legend with the delightfully titled "Frog Nuts"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXgN8FDCvcM

been mostly lukewarm about tiacorine so far in her career, but her new project is by far the best i've heard from her. she's spittin! (i can take or leave the baby-voiced one, but sure, she can have a little carti apery as a treat)

"give no fuck"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3xWXCQQtD4

idk where to put this, but this made me very happy. "i look good" is a classic.

https://x.com/D3CHALIEBOY/status/1755318779204997409?s=20

Lil Yachty keeping it real on "A COLD SUNDAY"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cESPACytV4E

first viral rap hit of the year comes from florida's bossman dlow. it's a really good song, imo. dlow has a exaggerated drawl that hits the beat at odd angles. reductive comparison time: he reminds me of a southern e-40

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

yeah i can hear a little e-40 know what you mean

digging this just some good ol nyc street raps (she's rome streetz sister)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oFhAF31lUw

the new Crimeapple/Preservation album is great, I love Preservation, I feel like it's a little more creative and not as stuck in the same rut as guys like Daringer or Conductor Williams

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_aNOZh3suk

preservation is forever classic for his work on billy woods' aethiopes and ka's "i love (mimi, moms, kev)." and his "money in the wild" ft. tree.

and "i-78 / capillaries" ft. mach-hommy

yeah those are great, and the Dr. Yen Lo album

his comp album "Eastern Medicine, Western Illness" a few years ago was great

new daemoney *fire emoji*

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gO-kkRE1g4

i like that!!

maxo kream mourns his dad, who inspired his 2019 album brandon banks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyXAz5Wh_oE

heartbreaking song. lives in a similar sonic space as the new (really good) schoolboy q album

loving the new raheim supreme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENwXzFquv6g

that's a great EP thanks for the heads up

Enjoying the production on Lafandar by Heems & Lapgan: throwback to the early 00s, orientalist, fun, dense enough and clear enough. Album is focused, just over 30 minutes. Rapping is on point.

aight time to run down the rap songs in the hot 100

4. ye & co - "carnival": beyond all the terrible nonsense kanye's been up to, this song just doesn't hit the beats it should. terrible rich the kid verse, a ham-fisted nod to a kanye era where only some people hated him instead of everyone, and a soccer hooligan chant stolen straight from "mo bamba." imagine this would sound terrible on the radio if anyone would play it. still, intrigued by carti's new style and need his album expeditiously.

5. jack harlow - "lovin on me": everything i like about the song comes from the sample, not harlow's tortured s&m puns. it's a really great sample, to be fair

7. 4batz - "act ii (date @ 8)" ft. drake: doesn't move me, don't quite understand why it's taken off the way it has. i thought we left this boring, gauzy rap-n-b back in the original ovo era. call it 2024hrs.

12. doja cat - "agora hills": i liked the 'scarlet' album more than most, and this was one of the highlights. the rap section kind of reminds me of kitty pryde? that def seems to be what she's going for in the video. the melodic parts are standard issue, jhene aiko-esque slow r&b.

22. 21 savage - "redrum": another great sample–was pleasantly surprised to see that london on the track produced this. the shining references are a little dated but it's surprising enough that so few people have used it as a concept for a song yet that i have to give it respect. 21's voice sounds good on the song, but the only line that stuck out to me was "i don't go through tsa to get on planes" lol

32. doja cat - "paint the town red": pasting what i wrote in the year end poll: "was surprised by how much i liked scarlet, but i haven't returned to it. i actually dig the "walk on by" sample, and the hook is sticky, tho i burned out on it after hearing it in a few thousand tiktoks"

34. flo milli - "never lose me": i love flo milli, and don't mind this song, but it makes me sad that this comparatively tame song was her breakout hit, instead of one of the ferocious mean girl anthems that marked her rise. still need to check out her new album.

41. glorilla - "yeah glo": my first full-throated endorsement so far. a true head-slammer, and a nice rebuke to the dummies who thought she was done after not scoring a "fnf"-sized hit in 2023. glo might have the single thickest memphis accent in the game today.

50. travis scott "fe!n" ft. playboi carti: it's not a song that deserves the "n****s in paris" run-it-back-10-times treatment that travis thinks it does. the chair-smashing grammys performance was embarrassing. decent song tho, love the squiggling synth arpeggios and a much better carti verse than "carnival."

59. nicki minaj - "everybody" ft. lil uzi vert: junior senior sample is incredibly grating, nicki's flow is awkward as fuck. she's fighting for her life on this thing.

61. jid - "surround sound" ft. 21 savage & baby tate: confused and somewhat impressed that this 2+ year old song is still charting. another reheated sample. jid's casual virtuosity has always been kinda boring to me. he can spit, but so what? lots of syllables, not much to say. the song gets better when the beat switches at the end–nearly all the memorable lines pop up during that closing verse (".40 on his side, boy you mike alstott").

62. 310babii - "soak city (do it)": the first real deal l.a. rap hit in a long time. of course, like a lot of l.a. rap, it sounds just like detroit, and no surprise, the guy who produced this was mainly known for songs by memey michigan rappers yuno miles and yn jay. he did good tho: the spritely piano riff is def the song's main hook. 310babii is a great story (current high school student in inglewood) but the dead-eyed sex raps don't "do it" for me (sorry).

i'll do the rest tomorrow

great rundown, thx!

The God is back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Q8kUccyXw

love when babytron raps over dance beats. this is kinda footwork-y?

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

i haven't been a huge fan of anycia's but i love the way her verse sounds over this beat & some fun lyrics too

https://soundcloud.com/anycia/up-lit-freestyle

that's one of my favorite babytron tracks in a while. nice to hear him let loose and not feel beholden to the "chemical calisthenics"-style gimmick raps

ok gonna hurry and finish before all the future x metro songs hit the chart next week

63. bossman dlow - "get in with me": another ringing endorsement here. i posted the song upthread a bit ago, and it's only grown on me since. every line is memorable, and his delivery is incredible: the way he phrases the first half of his bars like a question makes it even more satisfying when he lands the punchline. alphonse at pitchfork compared his rapping style to big tymers-era birdman, and while i think he's got more style than that, i hear it.

65. yeat - "breathe": yeat has a very particular set of skills (delivering drugged out gibberish in sticky melodic cadences over video game beats) and while it might've been a wise commercial decision to have him go full travis/yeezus on the new album, this doesn't have any of the spark he had when he started

66. drake - "you broke my heart": he made this song because he was sad that people didn't like his album. the verse is not bad as far as these things go, has a little of the old 'nothing was the same' energy, but the hook is one of his very worst

70. rich amiri - "one call": a slavish imitation of ds2-era future, "i serve the base" in particular. i like it tho, the hooks are fun to sing and there are a few of them.

71. nicki minaj - "ftcu": better than "everybody." nicki is much sleepier than she should be on here. sounds more like a gentle nudging of the club than any kind of fucking up

78. don toliver - "bandit": tame impala sample?? it's a good flip, makes it sound more like queen or a glam rock stomper than the warmed-over neo-psychedelia of the original song. i still prefer the don toliver of donny womack and heaven or hell, but i appreciate him trying to do something different here: he's more deliberate with his melodies, and instead, kinda raps his ass off.

80. bigxthaplug - "mmhmm": bandplay is one of my fav producers in the game and his whispers flip here is really interesting, keeping the double-time bassline from the original song but slowing the percussion down to half time. bigx has a voice that sounds pre-chopped n screwed, and he navigates the push-pull of the beat with panache. when he says "know i'm a stepper, i step with some elegance," it's easy to believe him.

84. cardi b - like what (freestyle): had a slight hope that this would be a freestyle over the beat from problem's "like whaaat," but no, it's a "she's a bitch" flip. this dropped pretty precipitously in the charts after a week, which makes sense–it's charming, but low stakes. doesn't feel like the kind of single that'll lead an album push (not like the album is ever coming, but i digress). here's a take: nicki should've rapped on this beat, and cardi should've rapped on "ftcu"

85. 21 savage, travis scott & metro boomin - "nee-nah": snooze

89. key glock - "let's go": real arena raps. this is on a way to becoming a sports stadium anthem, and deservedly so. will be kind of funny to hear the line, "i told her take plan b and stop playin'" through stadium speakers.

91. ¥$ - "burn": a decent ty dolla $ign song, tbh. ye is less unhinged than usual but he's still annoying ("i burnt 8 billion to take off my chains" - shut the fuck up man)

95. travis scott - "my eyes": interesting that the warmed-over blonde wannabe is the song on utopia with the longest tail so far. impersonal pseudo-confessions, irritating auto-tune warbles, beat switch that does not hit.

99. offset - "worth it" ft. travis scott: after coi leray scored a hit last year when someone mashed up her song with "put your hands where my eye can see," the seals & croft sample returns, this time for some pleasantly bland adult-contempo-rap. to be fair, it's probably what seals & croft would have wanted.

100. ¥$ - "fuk sumn": no.

i meant voice not verse wrt anycia

looking forward to the new Future/Kendrick song bringing a Rodney O & Joe Cooley renaissance in 2024

"verse" is how glorilla would say "voice"

new loe shimmy album is good as hell. for those who like their trap with a strong helping of croaky blues crooning

"pray for peace"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQOnJjVDorI

"dirty soda junkie" ft. veeze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDRfp8Ytbq0

the dmv crank sound has proven to be really malleable, supporting rappers of a lot of different styles. there's the hard-headed poetic street shit a la paco panama, kp skywalka's honking, offbeat situationships, etc. maryland producer sparkheem's 2023 album survivors guilt is a great listen, basically every dmv rapper with a little bit of motion is on there (and i'm just seeing he has a new mixtape out, nice)

paco panama - "contraband"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8_WVWpn00

kp skywalka - "main bitch" ft. eko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVtIC0j0mFE

sparkheem - "made a way" ft. lil gray; the first song i've heard from the new tape, it's good!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9995IcrUqA

some good karrahbooo verses on the lil yachty/concrete boys tape

"not da 2" is my favorite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7P5vaWbE7U

tisakorean - "ucci"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYgUQFmoQQk

have i posted "bad bitty" in here yet? it's one of my fav rap songs of the year. alphonse at pitchfork wrote an article about it today, but it's been percolating for a few weeks. feels like milwaukee's best chance at an actual mainstream rap hit, but it might need a remix to get it over the top.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaPLp6GUSwA

the Kendrick/Drake/Cole "beef" and the attendant online discourse is seriously the lamest shit I've ever seen, who gives a fuck either way

diss tracks/battle rap can be fun spectacle they're instant relics. very rare that a diss track has any type of cultural value beyond the beef in question

also "ether" is probably the most overrated song in rap history

presenting without comment
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSca__bu0is

ether has always sucked, I have no idea why anyone thought it was better than takeover

ha ha yeah when I first heard it I was like, "Wow, Jay-Z rapped over the Doors and Nas has this cheap sounding beat" but apparently calling another rapper gay is what wins the battle.

but he calls jay z gay in so many creative ways like "Cock-a-Fella Records" do u see??

aged like milk

point of order: on "type beat" anycia says, "i fuck your n** to detroit-type beats," but it uses handclaps that should only be in a milwaukee-type beat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2HoXagzpAU

good song either way

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

i love key!

was unfamiliar but saw him on Twitter, very engaging and fun stuff, summer vibes

i think this is the first song i ever heard from him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzDvokT2Gbw

that's great

now that you mention it, i saw a few people talking about him on twitter today. idk what it's about but glad he's getting some flowers

EssJay TheAfrocentricRachet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3UYUkMXPE8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfAM99XQiV0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFfR3558YQs

thanks for this, really like "blick back"

sheff g is back like he never left:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNamx_PKkEM

xpost yeah really enjoying her stuff! honestly, i saw a small reference to her and with a name like TheAfrocentricRatchet I couldn't help but listen

unlikely collab i'm loving it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_AeErMrReQ

(w/03 Greedo)

yeah the mach album (out tomorrow) is something special

the makers of last year's best ny drill song ("bent") have returned with a totally different energy. good as hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLn2SIj1CuA

oooh this mach-hommy album is great

montreal represent

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoV43j6hCHQ

more chill mcvertt from earlier this year that i missed til now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzHil1F3Eqg

Love the two 41 + McVertt songs! They did two of my favorite hiphop albums last year, 41 World and the Bandmanrill/Sha Ek/McVertt album.

that mike shabb song is a journey

the new bigxtheplug crew tape is a lot of fun, with some audacious soul samples, following the trend set by his whispers-sampling hit "mmmhmm"

"meet the 6ixers"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYNYOSbOKg

"the finals"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWLrDP354DE

at the risk of coming off as a complete dilettante... is there a term for the relative looseness in recent flow styles? I realize it goes back some years, maybe even a decade, I hear it applied everywhere from Lil Yachty to KP Skywalka... a talkative off-beat vibe, off the clock

who started it?

Eric Sermon in 87 ?

Erick*

there's def something talk-y in his delivery, but rhytmically I'd say it's tight

DOOM is pretty loose on stuff like "Doomsday" but I'm looking for something... much looser

kp and the rest of the dmv crank rappers got their flow from goonew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uE-s2Nm57U

historically, e-40 claims to be the originator of the offbeat flow, tho he has claimed to be the originator of a lot of things (some probably true, others probably not). there’s a whole host of west coast rappers who grew up on him and suga free

flavor flav on cold lampin with flavor flav is definitely dragging the beat on purpose at times

but overall E40 feels right....also the Hot Boys/early Cash Money

Oh yes, Suga Free! Very impressive how he lands some of those lines

Thx for the Goonew info

I guess there's a lot of potential originators, as always with these things

i remember this feeling really strange and cool when i first heard it, really stopped me in my tracks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ww9VlmXKYgs

It's still wonderfully weird to my ears - and very much what I was looking for

goonew himself got it from hoodrich pablo juan

whatever happened to him? is he locked up?

i have no idea

this is really engaging, nice jazzy Native Tongue vibes

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

this is so good, beat knocks and esp love rowdy racks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gt6ApIv15A

loving that Mexican flow (which I first heard from That Mexican OT but again have no clue where originated)

a bit heavy on the misogyny rowdy?

psyching myself for new RXK tomorrow listening to Slitherman Activated

digging IAMGAWD, beat kinda reminds of Operation Doomsday type beats, good ass rappity rappin

https://nxmedixcre.bandcamp.com/album/more-suede-bs25

41. glorilla - "yeah glo"

heard this in the car yesterday. love it

j.p. ep is out and it's a hell of a lot of fun. was floored by the sample used in the first song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tndfn6llAc

lots of other good stuff on here too

"oh yeahhhhh"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhJF8uDxnVU

"come and see"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaxsU3zVi0o

z money - must i go get it

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

chicken p - people's favorite

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2TvH-j-X7o

41 - tweak

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1KyMjalAwM

bossman dlow ft glorilla - finesse

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

41 consistently picks interesting production. i thought they’d blow up after last year’s “bent” but it can be humbling to see how little of an impact ny drill and sexy drill makes outside of the tri-state area (lame don toliver songs notwithstanding)

Yeah, 41 is my new favorite band. Hate The Real might be my soty. Ambient jersey club, or something like that.

really like "not my problem" by laila!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BuyOKUG8G7c

good cardi verse here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTFS58mHJh8

ok been a while but here are some songs i've been fucking with

chuckyy - "me vs. me"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-Q-59Nmp3c

chicken p - "pyrex"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHnznwj9Yqo

dj quik & jasonmartin - "gurbs and youngs" ft. jay worthy & larry june
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKpk6Y2AWl8

icewear vezzo - "shifter"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IM7teqDsTrw

maxo kream - "eye know"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_BtNF-xkEc

benji blue bills - "1942"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1tY5E1Ot5M

new veeze song is great, amazing beat

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

one of those lines where getting the name wrong makes it even better haha: "i'm ballin hard, i'm gettin fat, i feel like zion williams"

cash cobain problem megamix is out now. it was def more fun as a series of snippets. not everyone can do the sexy drill style, and the punchlines get repetitive over the course of 7.5 mins. the best verses come from cash's regular collaborators, flee and chow lee. lay bankz and yn jay acquit themselves well, big sean, luh tyler, fabolous, not as much. rob49's bit at the end is hilariously unhinged, idk how he manages to not rhyme a single word over the course of 30 bars even with the repeating sample haha.

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

found this really deeply boring as a full song lol. as a sample flip it's effective, as an 8 min posse cut it's kinda torturous

compare this to the game's "one blood" remix and you can see the decline of western civilization happening in real time

fabolous being the lone artist on both songs really says something about his bizarre staying power over the last 15 years...

as an 8 min posse cut it's kinda torturous

― slob wizard (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, August 14, 2024 10:16 AM (eleven minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yes, totally. fun idea, just the wrong song to attempt this with. also still think the best pre-"fisherr" cash cobain songs are "slizzy like" and "jholiday," the longer of which is 2:15

for sure. i mean for me this sorta second wave of sexy drill (the "fisherr" era) is R&B music w/ like... non-singing singing, so the whole thing typically doesn't really work for me. sadly

i think "fisherr" is quite cool ... it also reminds me of t-pain/akon "bartender" in a way that i don't think flatters the former

chow lee "miss beautiful v" is cool too but "jholiday" clears that & "fisherr" easily imo ... i think i was sorta more into cash as someone who was blending the worlds of sample drill & jersey/philly club in a way that was coming out as R&B, as opposed to idk bandmanrill who was doing some cool sample records ("girl w/ the dragon tattoo" flip) but was ultimately pushing it more in a street rap, bronx drill direction. sexy drill as this more distinct spare icy synthy R&B that just kinda hangs in there motionless the entire time... i like the idea when i type it out but then i listen to "rump punch" and it sorta leaves me cold. this might just be more of a my personal taste thing then something true about the quality of cash's music tho

i still think that chow is cash's best sparring partner. "ms. beautiful v," "act bad twin," and " swag it!" are all a lot of fun.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO4jiB8xzMM

i understand why cash is trying to do the auteur producer-rapper thing, prob better for his career in the long run, but i've always liked chow more as a rapper. cash also takes himself a little too seriously these days, while chow is 100% incapable of doing that lol.

haven’t yet listened to the full nocap album that is out today, but i’ve been meaning to post about how good the single “yacht party” is — real balladry

i wish i
could leave my problems
inside the heart of the ocean
but i’m afraid i
might them floating
on a yacht party in miami

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm_lvDln8kE

i am happy to report the existence of yacht rock nocap & rylo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waQY2Ucpbd0

into the new mixtape from lonni monae (milwaukee)

"za & dollars" got a video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vn3c_ZnUIlA

"nu nu freestyle" is my fav ... just great shit talking across the tape

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPmJg2KU4bY

the less said about the lead artist the better but i know we have karrahbooo hive in here and i love her verse over this beat... you can let the hook ride out for a sec after and it's not too bad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YH_mmkBZus

wait what's wrong with bb trickz?

ice spice en espanol? she couldn't find a beat with google maps

i’m not fluent in spanish so maybe she’s a great lyricist or there’s other nuances i’m not picking up on but for me there’s just never really been any there there

"greece or sweden" is great. fun to hear cap and rylo get set adrift on memory bliss like that.

luh tyler album not doing a ton for me sadly but i do really like the song at the end where he slips into this very kodak-y singing voice & then raps over a very chilled out guitar beat, it suits his voice & style better than a lot of the other beats on the album i think

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO3tGQJ_CLU

there are too many bossman dlow-type beats on the luh tyler album but the wavier songs like "met gala" and the title track still hit

“first show” is still one of my fav rap songs of the last few years

I really hope some rapper I like takes the beats from the Pete Rock/Common album and does a mixtape with them, some really great stuff but after the first couples listens I can't get through it again with Common's corny rapping

i saw common perform w/ pete rock at a park a few blocks from my place this summer, pretty fun show tho not really on account of the new songs

Denzel Curry's new tape is great, Memphis vibes

denzel seems like a really genuine dude in interviews, but all of his albums since he told his origin story in 2019's zuu have fallen flat for me. he's obv very technically proficient and good at cultivating a world of his own, but idk, i never find myself returning to any of his verses. i was excited for the new one after really liking the singles (tiacorine's verse on "hot one" is great), and it's a low-stakes good time, but a bit disappointing imo. i still like it a good deal more than denzel's massively overrated 2022 album

some good rage-y soundcloud nonsense by 19-year-old rapper che
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFs5g7q70Vw

latto album is p uneven but ‘brokey’ is a banger. the ‘bound 2’ reference in the hook reminded me of this classic dn

― when a real whiney hold you down, you sposed to drown (The Reverend), Wednesday, 27 November 2013 1:02 AM (ten years ago) bookmarkflaglink

i liked the song with nudy and was amused by the ones where she rapped like luh tyler

kind of obsessed with the new shawny binladen song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbH3Jw6rEVI

feels weird to me that the hbk era was long enough ago to have a nostalgic second wave, but if you're looking for that sort of thing, a p-lo & kool john ep dropped over the summer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eT3llm6R8_Q

this one almost does restore the feeling
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_-UMrHd5Hs

new babyface ray w/ veeze from ray's tape, this friday
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGIwlg4Z1Iw

Really digging Spook from Atlanta, eerie synthwave quality to her beats

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plMPjjV3o7g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GAG-pByEqQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1vw4JK-5Gs

spook is pretty good, sounds like what i was hoping the anycia album would sound like

in other news, nle choppa dropped another "slut me out." i like how they're getting progressively more [trying hard not to say "c*nty" but genuinely can't think of another word] with each version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lFy3xFEUGQ

ray album didn't turn out to be my favorite of his, but dug this collab with king hendrick$
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJWgyq2t_JI

ok spoke too soon, the second half is pretty good. crazy top$ide beat here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FN3g_z2lwUY

can't stand drain gang so i practically jump for joy whenever gud works with a rapper outside that camp. i dug the mixtape gud made with realyungphil, but nothing on there is as good as this new one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jWNFOfAfvU

enjoying the new curren$y x dj fresh. returns to that weekend at burnie's feel ("she don't want a man," etc.).

"1st * 15th" ft. g style and allblack is my fav
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nR8P8aw1Uuc

"press reset" is also vintage
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKmXUE4Wvmg

41 have done it again
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrQ4QGznt3o

also some new star bandz, on her own new remix for "yea yea" ft. veeze, and this song with fellow chicago youngster babychiefdoit (for your own sake, plz don't look up the year he was born)

"too slow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zayaxws7RPg

rio da yung OG's IG story posted today that he's coming home from prison in 1 month 29 days

amazing news

popstar benny - "wiz" ft. vayda & sadboi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60siTI2UIBE

That's really good! Is the entire album as good?

yeah it’s basically all on that level (all 18 mins of it anyway). all the rappers are women too, which i didn’t even realize til it was done

mercury, one of the artists on the popstar benny album, released an album this month too and i liked it a lot. has a similar gooey, melodic, synthy aesthetic to the popstar benny album.

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

LOVE this new Conductor Williams/Rei the Imperial tape...he's from New Orleans and sometimes he's kinda wiggly in a way that reminds me of Camp Lo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjqmc_6nz3s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ4NcfEvQZk

liking the vayda album

Conductor Williams/Rei the Imperial is excellent, thanks!

lol just came to this thread to ask if anyone around these parts likes 454 and I see the first track posted itt is one of his.

Any who, he released a tape a few weeks ago and it's ace. Quite a few songs with more spaced out beats than those on the FAST TRAX series. His hyperactive songs are what drew me to him in the first place, but the spacey stuff is really rich and well produced. Balances the tape in a nice way.

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

His stuff makes me feel like someone swapped my brain with one of these toys and then filled it with those nerds gummy clusters

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51-hJhBgKUL.jpg

haven’t checked out the new soundcloud tape yet but his recent singles “beretta” and “clones” haven’t left my head. he’s always made ear candy but i think he’s getting a lot better at rapping.

the glorilla album is good

new ovrkast ep produced by cardo is a good listen, evocative of isaiah rashad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZFTjlFJ6as

new ceo trayle is unsurprisingly very good. apparently he is signed to larry june now? weird!

"told ya"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZK8xuoF9LE

"happy halloween the outro"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmkeKewi5h0

pablo skywalkin - "dress shoes"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cUHu_7mA3k

new chicken p (“chick james vol. 1”) is amazing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZS0BDcrmsCs

wtf is this sample? i swear to god i know it. anyway, good atl gremlin rap right here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=igEt4STC24k

nice! that's alex kassian strings of eden, massive tune

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZy0Ns4qGgk

wtf is this sample? i swear to god i know it

sounded familiar to me too but idk

that's it! thanks corrs!

another 41 banger

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZ5qC8b6cf4

can the rap thread be called rap thread next year

the glorilla album is good

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, October 24, 2024 2:39 PM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

can the rap thread be called rap thread next year

― budo jeru, Friday, December 6, 2024 3:40 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm sorry, it will be rolling slut me out parts 3-?

lol we already named one thread after shotta flow, so i guess it is tradition

so which thread this year should someone mention the Doechii Tiny Desk on? R & b?

how is doechii r&b?

Someone posted about her there and I was wondering why also. While she sometimes almost enunciates in a more singer like manner , seems like she belongs here. Anyway, her Tiny Desk with her all women band was pretty entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91vymvIH0c

Doechii was on Colbert also & tweeting her hiphop inspirations for the dancing there

This one is for Hip Hop.

I felt heavily inspired by the lineage of Hip Hop and how it contributes to who I am today. This is my first self choreographed performance and one of the most important things I wanted to highlight was my connection to black women through Hip Hop. With… pic.twitter.com/AXd5ydEYrF

— Swamp Princess🐊 (@officialdoechii) December 5, 2024

aight here is a big list of rap projects, albums, eps, mixtapes, etc. that i liked from 2024:

cavalier - different type time
chief keef - almighty so 2
454 - casts of a dreamer
schoolboy q - blue lips
sahbabii - saaheem
mach-hommy - richaxxhaitian
elucid - revelator
nino paid - can't go bacc
loe shimmy - zombieland 2
sideshow - f.u.n. t.o.y.
vayda - vaytrix
future - mixtape pluto
kendrick - gnx
messiah - the villain wins
los & nutty - los x nutty
el cousteau - merci, non merci
ll cool j - the force
ritchie - triple digits [112]
allblack - round 1
babychiefdoit - animals only
ka - the thief next to jesus
semiratruth - the star of the story
feardorian - feardorian (i like this one better than the polo perks ayooli collab that everyone is going crazy over)
boldy james & conductor williams - across the sea
chow lee - sex drive
che - sayso says
baby smoove - young rich bastard
lunchbox - lunchtime.
havinmotion - motion
quadry - ask a magnolia
kjade - the sound that trees make
sexyy red - in sexyy we trust
estee nack - stone temple pyrex
wolfacejoeyy - valentino
03 greedo - hella greedy
that mexican ot - texas technician
cakes da killa - black sheep
mike shabb - sewaside ii
mercury - merczone

and more i'm sure i'm forgetting

I need to listen to that El Cousteau some more

https://pitchfork.com/features/lists-and-guides/best-rap-albums-2024/

Pitchfork's list of 27 rap albums here

catching up on some releases i missed. i posted a babychiefdoit song with star bandz earlier, but hadn't yet checked out the album (which pitchfork lists above). i'm glad i did, cause this is fucking crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdwMYgkj024

also loved this freestyle doit did (hmm) with maryland rapper nino paid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnsWVjaEy34

thanks for the list voodoo, looking forward to checking out some of the ones i haven't heard.

coolin absolutely one of the tracks of the year, the two of them work so well together.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Bj6QCU3Ggg

rio free

OK, turns out that's not quite what he said. Damn. Was "Rio's free," etc. I'll explain in tonight's story. https://t.co/IeNDEXHDDa

— Jonathan Feigen (@Jonathan_Feigen) December 12, 2024

so good, he's still so sharp and you can tell he spent his time in prison coming up w/ new flows

maybe the next thread should be called, "the thread where voodoo chili posts the single single by innovative nyc drill trio 41"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsOjz88B-AE

*posts the -latest- single lol

this is has no business going this hard lol

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

https://www.hearingthings.co/the-aggressive-beauty-of-dmv-crank-2024s-most-exciting-rap-subgenre/

Interesting article on DMV ( dc , Md, va) crank but it never mentions that “crank “ has been used as a term by DMV go-go music people for years.

this is has no business going this hard lol

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

ha, that's great

maybe the next thread should be called, "the thread where voodoo chili posts the single single by innovative nyc drill trio 41"

― now TAYNE i can get into (voodoo chili), 24. december 2024 00:31 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Agreed. New one is great as well, and 'Hate the Real' might be my favourite song of 2024.

is there a 2025 thread yet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yCzj8iWoTY

once i think of a title...

rolling hanging mic w chat snippets 2025

or we can break with tradition and call it rolling rap thread 2025

Yes!

overruled
rolling hanging mic song wars 2025

Passion of the Weiss top 2024 album list had a fair amount of rap but top pick was not rap.