rolling scambaby shotta flows 2020

stuff we heard on tiktok

key glock - look at they face

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

sada baby ft. king von

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7qgDb-lypA

lil tjay

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM2QRNtkGDg

here we go then

why is kool keith shitting on popular rap in 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXIViMTCb6M

a great song, and another entry into the venerable tradition of rap songs that sound like they might be in 6/8 before settling into 4/4 when the beat drops

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5MWoDQMREE

from 2019 originally, but the video's new

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

kony is back

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aM3rwY9afw

very mozzy-esque on that one

many xps
this kool keith record is amazingly good!!

this knocks. bass mixed so high it distorts their voices lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNG66Pq-IPA

Pop Smoke killed in home invasion, 20 years old

It's like a whole generation of rap is going to be gone before 30, poor kid

Fucking hell, that's terrible.

jesus

really awful shit.

they're all so damn young :(

Pitchfork just ran this piece like hours ago too:

https://pitchfork.com/levels/brooklyn-drill-rap-live-bk-drip-sheff-g-fivio-foreign-pop-smoke/

Pop Smoke spent most of his extremely short career being harassed by police and prevented from playing shows in his hometown. He never got to have his coronation. This fucking sucks

— SahBabii Yoda (@CineMasai_) February 19, 2020

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

song title speaks for itself lol

new king von is so good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzt31eJTGxo

New Kamsiyah album (mixtape? I don't know what the difference is anymore) is great so far though I'm impatient to get to 1-800-IM-HORNY lol

didn't mention it earlier but 1-800-IM-HORNY has an uncredited appearance from Short Dawg

new nudy album is all what it's about.

Nudy is deathly boring to me as a rapper

agreed, though i do like the sound of his voice

duke deuece energy is infectious
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srK2_Buu7hc

another baby. that voice coming out of this dude is quite the effect lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BVBzNQuk5E

here's a quartet of rappers i cannot tell apart even having listened to a project or more by each, however the song is magical and i could die of joy to it under the right circumstances:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVcxwmWUqPo

drego is the one that goes maaaaaaaaaan

So this one is the talk of the town around my parts today...:

RMR - Rascal
https://youtu.be/gxIEt3KEohk

This link might work better...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxIEt3KEohk

That RMR video is hilarious but also kind of sweet.

fuck them boys in bluuuuuuue

my man has pipes

incredible.

I like that he sings the opening live in the video, just so you know for sure it's his voice.

omg RMR...amazing

this was late 19, but Mally released an album that is real good if yr looking for some more backpacker boho type stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFU2HDME2J8

Planet Asia new album produced by 38 Spesh, PA is really low key a consistent underground dude

Just happy to hear some underground rappity rap shit with DRUMS in in the post Griselda era haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeLHgMx2nys

lol at the RMR, I will be adding that to the week's mix for sure.

the current rap discourse on twitter is making me want to claw my eyes out.

It’s really bad

been off Twitter, what is up?

man i hate that RMR song ... u guys lost me on that

1 dimensional irony around a rascal flatts cover ? no thanks

finally digging into the Boldy James/Alchemist, love it

thats more like it [thumbs up emoji]

lovin this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QW7dsPhZ3hw

that's cool

some bay area(ish) stuff i've been into this year

shootergang kony - "jungle" ... this beat is nuts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_2CBbQuDHE

kai bandz - "big boss status"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4EgiZR6Rro

two similar sounding songs i've been listening to a lot lately... melodic guitar based southern rap, i feel young again

rugrat od - sumtimes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6nhF81Miik

slatt zy - remorse

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMqv87a5y9g

It’s an incoherent criticism imo. The album has a cohesive unique sound and there are no tracks id really skip (tolerance for guests ymmv). People are just being confronted with something new and don’t know what to make of it

Weirdly it’s divided some of his more fervent fans as well, but I think it’s because he’s moved past the sound of “die lit” which despite having self-styled themselves as a vanguard for they don’t really want him to move past

i think another part of it is that the sound whole lotta red pretty distinct from the sound of carti's leaks, which people fell in love with. there isn't anything on here that has the vibe of "pissy pamper," for example.

Yea that’s what I mean .. he’s on some next sound. Tho a couple leaks did make the tracklist iirc

huh I feel like the production has a pretty definite aesthetic, which prompted me to ask if it was one producer (though I see it's multiples)

I don't know anything about him really other than magnolia so it's interesting to hear ppl are upset

People are just being confronted with something new and don’t know what to make of it

In all honesty this is where I am. I haven't given it a full chance yet, but it's a pretty big swerve in style

Thinking abt this Jzone thread

I used to bag on artists making 180 degree change till I hit a point it felt like everything most wanted or expected from me made me want to torch my studio and what I really wanted to do was exactly what they didn't want. With experience now those artists inspire me the most.

— J-Zone (The Du-Rites) (@jzonedonttweet) December 21, 2020

The new Carti is the only rap album I've really liked this year.

it sounds like rico nasty to me

some combination of the first sremmlife and 1000gecs is what keep coming to mind for me. I agree, I like pretty much every track on this and it moves on to the next before anything ever gets a chance to get stale

it sounds like rico nasty to me

― flopson, Saturday, December 26, 2020 11:47 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

its what i wish rico sounded like to me lol

which, same thing, but still

i don't really see it as a big change in style, it sounds like the leaks mixed with the production rico or other soundcloud rappers get.

and of course it's bette music.

better*

i didn't keep up with the leaks or anything but to me it sounds just like he's just leaning even further into his existing idiosyncrasies rather than it being any sort of left turn

really good album

Anyways goodnight y’all pic.twitter.com/vRtQhE4mNy

— Flacko⁷⛷ (@flackoyee) December 25, 2020

I'm listening now and it is really great (maybe a xmas release wasn't ideal? lol). But idk maybe it's cuz I listened to the s/t a lot more than Die Lit, and I've never heard any leaks, but I feel like he's using his voice in a bunch of different ways on this, e.g., his super raspy voice on Rockstar Made.

i mean it just seems like a fairly natural continuation of what he was already doing even though there's new stuff there

Ok yeah that makes sense, it's not like he put out an album of ballads or something

never heard die lit but this just sounds like carti to me

i hope the deluxe is only with the baby voice though

This is way more aggro than die lit or the leaks, come on

There’s a reason stans keep saying the second half is “better” and it’s cuz “place” is the leak aesthetic whereas most of the rest is in the new style ... and I don’t agree that it’s just standard production, there’s clearly a curated sound here that separates it from the earlier stuff

the whole vibe of the album is a midpoint between the leaks and stuff like this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5KSJuec45M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE788mo6_Mc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lC3HF0S-I70

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

I see some common sonic touchpoints but that’s a pretty disparate list of “influences” to suggest it’s a more conservative “midpoint” between the leaks and those. More like a ramped up version of those

Really I think the producer-auteurs prob most responsible for this sound are the working on dying guys who’ve been doing uzi’s shit but they went in a new direction here

it's a great album, no doubt about that

i'm starting to think so too. can't stop thinking about "punk monk"

It’s probably my favorite rap album this year, haven’t been knocked back by something like this in awhile

Yeah this or EA

tempted to stop my end of year listening and slot this in given the collective shine but i think ahma wait for 21

what's our new thread title gon be? i wanna post stuff by los & nutty

Rolling 2021 MF DOOM Memorial Thread

down to use a doom quote but that might confuse people (including me) into thinking it's a doom only thread

rolling rapp snitch knishes 2021

sold

rolling coochie land thread 2020

any more ideas? otherwise, i'm gonna start the thread with the doom homage title later this week?

ride on

Doom homage title is weird to me & counter the traditional spirit of these threads frankly but ppl get mad at me for pointing this out every year and I no longer care

lol i typed & deleted the same thing cuz i didn't wanna come off as a dick but it's true

yeah, this is the main reason why i bumped the thread and didn't just start a new one.

there's gotta be something we can use that doesn't have "coochie" in it

lmao

rolling workin on dying 2021

ok t-minus three hours before we go with rolling coochie land 2020

hahaha

i mean... it's a good one

rolling deluxe edition thread

haha deluxe editions are definitely the zeitgeist jfc

deluxe version of coochie land is very good btw

deluxe edition it is