Are Migos the Thelonious Monk of nu-rap?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d20KPaHcTTI

Well, you needn't sleep put it on round midnight hit em with the 44 make em fold in walked bud smokin 2 glocks on my hip like tomb raider my dear

I don't know, are they?

i guess considering we have that terrible Kendrick lamar thread title, this can be the migos one

Lmfao

http://d12vb6dvkz909q.cloudfront.net/uploads/galleries/2157/3-amigos-1.jpg

I think they are, they are usually in shades, they remind me of Monk in how they rap.

And I just saw this youtube comment on one of their great vids, d'oh!

http://i.imgur.com/82yGaJe.png

they remind me of Monk in how they rap.

thx for expounding on the thread title

Thelonius Monche is my favourite rapper.

Mine is Cecil 4 Taylor

haha ok i'm back leaning towards "sock puppet" now

The Thelonius Das EFX of rap.

Migos thread title vs Kendrick thread title vs Shabazz thread title

Migos Play on Stage For Money: Most Important Musical Moment Since Thelonious Monk at the Five Spot?

Mine is Cecil 4 Taylor

― my jaw left (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:50 (3 hours ago) Permalink

man,

i never liked migos but 'all good' off the new 1 is awz do they have other jams like that pls sirs

Real talk tho, I'm glad someone finally started a Migos thread even if it's that ferocious creature that hides under your porch.

had No Label 2 and Rich Nigga Timeline on repeat for weeks now

a lot of 'fun singles artists' type rappers have made full-length albums/mixtapes i enjoy but Migos mixtapes just become an endurance trial for me really quickly. especially the new one. that opening track at the top of the thread is 6 minutes for some reason, and it's like 8 tracks in before you get to anything that even resembles the kind of songs they're famous for.

Agreed

this thread made me laugh a lot, thank you all

this thread def goes in the 'probable sock' column for raccoon tanuki

I made a rough draft of a checklist of characteristics the Thelonious Monk of rap would have:

1. Other rappers and critics think they can't rap, but they're actually very technically gifted. Their early works attest to the fact that they can rap straight.

2. Has a hard-to-detect sense of irony in the formal aspects of their performance rather than simply in the text of their lyrics.

3. Subverts rhythm and flow in off-kilter, sometimes subtle ways.

4. Melodically inventive.

5. A handful of well-regarded verses and hooks are "borrowed" from others or otherwise have a murky provenance.

I'm open to revisions and additions.

thanks bamcquern

gonna be honest at first glance i thought this was a numbered list explaining why racoon tanuki is or is not a sock

3 out of 5

Are you a big sock boy or a little sock boy? It is a picture of my post, my glistening post. I want to drown in the sea of FPs.

bamcquern describing chief keef not migos

raccoon tanuki still a sock tho

xp haha that was my first thought.

"I made a rough draft of a checklist of characteristics the Thelonious Monk of rap would have:

1. Other rappers and critics think they can't rap, but they're actually very technically gifted. Their early works attest to the fact that they can rap straight.

2. Has a hard-to-detect sense of irony in the formal aspects of their performance rather than simply in the text of their lyrics.

3. Subverts rhythm and flow in off-kilter, sometimes subtle ways.

4. Melodically inventive.

5. A handful of well-regarded verses and hooks are "borrowed" from others or otherwise have a murky provenance.

I'm open to revisions and additions.

― bamcquern"

Good points although I would disregard all the bit about lyrics as theyre the least important part of rapping and point 1 i disagree with as Monk wasn't technically gifted and that tells you all you need to know about the standard accepted qualia and of techincal gifts and the worth they have

http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/736x/9a/ca/92/9aca925d1ed353b9bb9068bc92f5f174.jpg

damn

has r. tanuki ever questioned why the majority of the board responds to his posts calling him a sock?

the moment i knew for sure is when he said there was nowhere to eat in london except bodeans heh

Ok RT, I'll grant that he might not have been "technically gifted," as I put it, but I will say that he was "technically capable," and I know he had a fair amount of classical, formal, and informal training, which is more than can be said of others who were more outwardly pianistic, such as Hampton Hawes.

looking for the poll options mods

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3vmuEgIIAEk0J9.jpg:large

http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1059698/thumbs/o-RACCOON-HARP-facebook.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/5/4100/4933880128_2c0f8436bc.jpg

I don't really have an opinion on whether Migos are the Thelonious Monk of nu-rap but I'm enjoying the raccoon pictures, all future ilx socks should be obligated to take the name of a cute animal to facilitate this kind of thing

recalcitrant socks to be issued with a cute animal name by the mods

"Ok RT, I'll grant that he might not have been "technically gifted," as I put it, but I will say that he was "technically capable," and I know he had a fair amount of classical, formal, and informal training, which is more than can be said of others who were more outwardly pianistic, such as Hampton Hawes.

― bamcquern, "

Stick to topic please

https://vine.co/v/h03FzurZYtd

wow incredible find lmao

lol perfect

I made a rough draft of a checklist of characteristics the Thelonious Monk of rap would have:

1. Other rappers and critics think they can't rap, but they're actually very technically gifted. Their early works attest to the fact that they can rap straight.

2. Has a hard-to-detect sense of irony in the formal aspects of their performance rather than simply in the text of their lyrics.

3. Subverts rhythm and flow in off-kilter, sometimes subtle ways.

4. Melodically inventive.

5. A handful of well-regarded verses and hooks are "borrowed" from others or otherwise have a murky provenance.

I'm open to revisions and additions.

― bamcquern, Saturday, November 29, 2014 11:36 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

6. Hat collection

xxxpost incredible work there goon

someone add this audio to that vine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HsVnUpl2IKQ

monk x migos vs tanooki mashup: http://youtubedoubler.com/?video1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DHsVnUpl2IKQ&start1=&video2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DKshrtLXBdl8&start2=&authorName=snoopsagan

dying @ that vine

Thanks to Vine, throwing dead raccoons at each other is fun again.

lmaooooo it's so easy to troll deej, though I did genuinely think "T-Shirt" was an obvious hit without even reading this thread

― lex pretend, Saturday, February 4, 2017 8:50 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

If I'm literally quoting the u mad meme to describe myself u probably shouldn't be patting yrself on the back for being the 42nd person to take the popular bad opinion

https://twitter.com/realdonaldtrump/status/330359969813770242?lang=en

I didn't catch that line but these are the same guys who wrote "Chinatown". :/

Carrie Battan in the new yorker disagreeing with deej on the T-Shirt debate:

The follow-up to “Bad and Boujee” is a single called “T Shirt,” another piece of drug slang. On the hook, Quavo offers reassurance that the Migos haven’t wavered from their initial premise. “Seventeen-five, same color T-shirt,” he says coolly, talking about buying a kilogram of cocaine. The song is full of esoteric references and off-kilter improvising. “Real mob ties—mob / Real frog eyes—frog / Real whole pies—whoa / All time high—high,” he raps. It creeps along stealthily, Quavo singing behind a fog of reverb. There’s something eerie and sphinxlike about it. In other words, it’s a hit. ♦

enough:

Migos, "T-Shirt"

theres the same extremely obvious adlib in tshirt after "same color tshirt" and in call casting "white boys in the game call em andy milonakis" which is kinda dumb on its own but becomes funny in repetition WHITE

idg what the point of highlighting the ad libs is, from a music writer pov... 99% of the time they're just repeating the last or second last word

adlibs are so crucial to migos music + generally function as musical —memes— that travel outside the songs, so yeah theyre worth talking about

bad n boujee wldnt be a hit w/o the constant adlibs

MOMMA!

see also Black Beatles

ive listened to culture a bunch and its good but i do feel a lil frustration when sensing the outline of a classic rappity rap album that cldve been

i'm still listening to it every day and i think it's perfect tbh

I gave it a try right as it came out, didn't click. Earlier this week put it on again, have been listening to it every day since. I'm completely enthralled by the drums on a track like Get Right Witcha.

heard t-shirt twice while driving around yesterday and it's actually stuck in my head now

we should really make the 'T Shirt' thread the new migos thread. this title... u_u

it's grown on me, this title

so bad its good

culture is a one-trick-pony album but it's a really good trick and I like it a lot

Thelonious "Shirt" Monk

poll the migos

dab of ranch is amazing

xps- it's at LEAST a two-trick pony come on

black t-shirt and the sinner lady

this is fast becoming a classic album for me, although I rarely seem to make it to the end cos the first 4-5 tracks are all so incredible

I'm allaboutt the vibey Chicago sounding back half now

Takeoff possibly RIP…

Confirmed…

man this sucks. you should be in the room the first time a kid (talking here about my kid, ten years old) hears a a migos tune -- just instant response. all the word is this was a quiet guy who just loved making music. thanks to d-40 over on twitter for holding the line on how it's bullshit to be amplifying pictures of a man's dead body and rest easy to a guy who made music a whole fuckin lot of people loved.

Absolutely wretched news to wake up to. RIP.

unbelievable :(
Guy was 28, what a terrible waste.

Terrible news, what a tragedy

rip

Oh fuck no. This is terrible

aw fuck, this is awful

FUCK

what a waste. crushing.

fucking sad.

completely horrifying. i guess i never realized that he was a teenager when they first popped.

feel so terrible for the entire atlanta rap scene, a whole generation dead or in jail

damn. There's literally something like this once a month or so.

kinda didn't wanna chime in on this specific thread but yeah this is very sad

Culture, along with Tribe's last album and Miranda Lambert's The Weight of These Wings, is forever linked for me to that November '16-January '17 interregnum before Trump took office. I felt a kind of wistfulness and a growing dread

yeah, that sounds familiar

i listened to the heck out of culture, love that work

RIP, awful news.

horrible, tragic news. rip.

wtf

Too sad.

He really stole the show on loads of tracks.

Only Built 4 Infinity Links, while overlong like all streaming age hip hop albums, is really good