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!

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

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— OG MACO (@OGMACO) December 27, 2024

man what the fuck