Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

*PLOP*

what is this thread I dont even.

yeah i think for a lot of these rappers it's not that they're having sex with a girl but that they're having sex with YOUR girl, which is a) a dominance alpha-male thing, i.e., i'm so sexually desirable that your girl wants me more than she wants you but also b) really insecure, like you have to have girls who already are taken wanting to fuck you too? are you that in-se-cuuurr about your masculinity that you must encroach on the partners of other guys? that's supreme douche move there...

Well, 2 Chainz sounds as if he's having fun when he's taking advantage of my girl. Q is just doing it to be nasty.

she's just not that into you

DJP, was that you fainting, or...?

ren otm

Schoolboy Q is def some of the most unpleasant and joyless 'smart' 'good' rap i've ever heard, can't stand that guy

Part of the problem for me, I think, is the sheen of "realness" or no-bullshit-ness or kind of endearing honesty that the crew can exude (something that, I'd wager, also is a factor in people throwing out the "backpacker" thing in relation to them, just like upthread). The problem is, if you buy into that as being part of where they're coming from, when faced with stuff like Q's other-dudes'-girls obsession, you have no choice but to admit that the person in question is actually just, well, kind of a fucking prick.

(x-post BTW)

Hahaha

DJP, was that you fainting, or...?

That was a terrible ILE inside joke

brb having sex w/ all of this girlfriends

Schoolboy Q is def some of the most unpleasant and joyless 'smart' 'good' rap i've ever heard, can't stand that guy

― Victory Goon (some dude), Tuesday, October 30, 2012 6:56 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"joyless" is a good way to put it. There's a sort of surgical, pathological detachment in the way he describes his sexual exploits that goes beyond joyless and into the realm of creepy for me.

Q is pretty goofy a lot of the time tho! I mean, if you're listening to "Druggy's With Hoes Again" and going omg so serious I think you need to take a step back for a second.

Joyless otm.

I like Q in small doses. Haven't been able to truly appreciate Habits as an album though.

GKMC sold 242k in its first week apparently.

whoa that's a fuckin lot of records

I don't mind Druggys Wit Hoes, really, but that detachedness is there in full force. You get the sense that sex doesn't really make him exuberantly happy, that it's not a life-affirming thing for him. Coochie anhedonia.

whoa that's a fuckin lot of records

― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, October 30, 2012 7:27 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

...in 2012

ive been trying but i dont really like this record

whiney 242k was always a lot of records - if you think there was this "if it didn't go gold it doesn't count" mentality in the 70s you're wrong. there was a brief overinflated blip around the Nirvana boom when people started talking like anything under a million didn't count but those people were morons, if you scan 242k at any time in the soundscan era then you have sold a fuckin lotta records

yeah i mean the fact that he sold 20% as many units as Taylor Swift last week is pretty remarkable for almost anyone besides Taylor Swift, especially a rap album and especially a debut album

not to mention more than Ross's album

whiney, it's the best first-week sales since Eminem in 2002, and anyone who considered Em's an anomaly then was inured by Backstreet Boys-Nsync.

Swift's, that is.

whiney wasn't talking about swift, though

in fairness whiney is just randomly hating at this point

it's only a lot of hate if you factor in the lower hate threshold of post-wedding era whiney, not really impressive by 2009 standards

some dude cruising 4 bruising w/dual "mellowed by love"/"mellowed with age" combo. watch this space for fireworks

ha i just mean he's been relatively chill this week!

242,000 in sales would make it the 10th-biggest debut of 2012. Second-highest rap debut after Roman Reloaded.

"Second-biggest," that is. (Minaj sold 253K in her first week.)

Schoolboy Q is def some of the most unpleasant and joyless 'smart' 'good' rap i've ever heard, can't stand that guy

― Victory Goon (some dude), Tuesday, October 30, 2012 6:56 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

feelin this

Q can be boring in his lesser moments, but I don't get the "joyless" thing at all.

Usually he sounds like he's just having fun messing around with weird adlibs and whatever.

And I've never taken him for someone trying to be a "cerebral" rapper in the vein of Kendrick.

he makes my fav individual songs although i didnt really get into the one from this yr as much

"hands on the wheel" is one of my least fav rap "hits" of the year

hits? that's not even in the better half of the album at any rate. tbh "Druggys With Hoes Again" might be my favorite rap song this year and "Nightmare On Figg St" isn't that far off.

Guys rap basically sucks now so take what you can get when you can get it, take it from the guy that's just spent the night getting drunk and listening to the new neil young record

what about that one song

"hands on the wheel" is one of my least fav rap "hits" of the year

what's wrong with it!

i cant stand that song either tbh

it's really pleasant ear candy to me

It's a song I feel like I should like but don't really. Habits is a pretty good album and Q is a good rapper but I can never get all the way through it for some reason. I think the reason is that Q lacks imagination. His world is so small.

And he raps with a frown.

Schoolboy THERE HE GO

I prefer Q and Ab soul to Kendrick but I know I'm in the minority on this

All three will prob make my singles list this year tho

And what about jay rock, i always thought about him as the fifth wheel, but his great verse on money trees is making me reconsider this.