rolling thread 2021 (deluxe edition)

let's get it

popp hunna - "mud baby"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpH1OC4emv4

pooh shiesty - "back in blood" ft. lil durk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-Tm65i96TY

ssgkobe - "fnf"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeKMtxppckM

los & nutty - "better at da crib"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTNi-NBA2c0

just rolling everything?

rap

:)

should have been coochie deluxe but whatever

guess we should've made a coochie plan

this fucking sucks

Rio Da Yung OG has been sentenced to five years in prison https://t.co/WsHFcGswP5

— Pitchfork (@pitchfork) January 8, 2021

fuck

los & nutty is the best rap group right now

never not gonna lol @ "rolling thread"

i liked these local (to me) guys big kahuna og + monday night's album last year called thug tear

they just released this: https://schemeteamallstars.bandcamp.com/album/shark-report

liked big kahuna og's alb with fly anakin a lot, i'll check this out

good beat flip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jb8rserCaiA

it’s weird that the can-i-bus album has a reputation for bland beats, but i’ve never thought so. maybe it does compared to black on both sides or internal affairs, idk

that one los & nutty song reminds me a bit of jimmy wopo (RIP)

the canibus song deej linked made me think about how rare it is to hear steel guitar in hip-hop, but lo and behold, the big kahuna mixtape that roxymuzak linked has hawaiian/steel guitar on my fav song from the tape

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

late pass on this carti album. so weird on first listen, nearly experimental.

maybe it's the sonics and vocal experimentation, maybe it's the way it proudly wallows in toxic solipsism (with occasional vulnerable moments), but the album i keep thinking about when i think of whole lotta red is future's monster

it's "wesley presley" thee album

better than monster imo

big fan of this apocalyptic bandplay beat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6YAoOYQkvo

new pharaohe monch is great

didn't know there was one; thanks for the heads up!

new breeze brewin is pretty great

rylo rodriguez is so good. sounds like future-meets-gates on this new omb peezy track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRIt2frUYSQ

i thought his album was pretty disappointing, the leaks were much cooler/more distinctive to me. but i'm still really interested in what he's doing generally

jeff weiss has been tweeting about this guy and uh as you might expect i fucking love the shit out of this

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

the album was a little patchy, i agree, but still had some bangers, especially "home run" and the title track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erBR3olroG4

never been a huge g. perico fan, but i'm loving this right now. sounds like if suga free did his own "cell therapy."

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

new breeze brewin is pretty great

― ANU (sisilafami), Saturday, January 30, 2021 6:25 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

honestly shocked at how good this is lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilcWHbbVwF4

I think we all owe deej an apology lmao

^8:28

haha

yeah this breeze brewin is amazing! love it

he was so great on A Prince Among Thieves, had found that CD a couple months ago and was listening to it a bunch

haven't checked the whole tape yet but Pooh Shiesty "Neighbors" is dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtJauZnp3xY

damn, rip ketchy the great, always loved his verse on pippi long stocking

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekLp0gZQUlA

re: pooh shiesty, his tape is pretty solid front-to-back, but besides "back in blood" there's nothing on it as good as this cut from 2019

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

idk “guard up” is a pretty great single imo... “back in blood” is nice too & has the durk feature boosting it but i actually like “guard up” better

babyface ray's latest ep got a lukewarm p4k review, but what can i say i just like the dude, and it was cool to hear him over different styles of production (tho he always had a broader sonic palette than a lot of his detroit peers). i get where the review is coming from, considering how good ray can be at his peak (2019's mia season 2 is one of my fav rap albums of the past five years)

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

lord help me, i'm enjoying a jim jones song in 2021 (the terrible mix is part of the charm haha)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xazMGbfLw8

hopping on the rxpapi bandwagaon, along with the rest of rap twitter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhV8-SCltCc

it's amazing how many styles he tries and succeeds with and still manages to make everything quotable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDEM3KcR3jc

this song is hard as fuck (the whole album is, tbh), and my mind exploded when i placed the stooges sample lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rd6rwwFawAY

wow this album rules

It's hopelessly old-school, but DJ Muggs & Rome Streetz's Death & the Magician really scratches that 90s hardcore rap itch.

Don't know what to make of Duke Deuce the name but the music's really solid.

what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu

crunk ain't muthafuckin dead!

xpost - yeah DJ Muggs is consistently putting out great music and collaborations, great second act to his career

rome streetz has a little Big L in him

no ones having as much fun as duke deuce it seems
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZhvZrMo4Ao

Halfway through 'Gangsta Party', yeah this album rules.

I liked the sound of that at first, but it quickly felt like someone yelling in my ear too much, does he have other modes?

yeah i was gonna say i think he's kinda... uh... the plug. haha

ahhhhh okay that makes perfect sense didn't know that

i kinda like the new one, it's got a certain charm like a local rapper with a list connections

yeah he’s a bay area guy and he models his music off a lot of the more lyrical, low-key street guys from the area, like jacka

i was doing a story on wiz khalifa once and berner showed up a few hours before the show w/ two huge black duffle bags and was escorted around the premises like he was the president. now, i don't know what was in the duffle bags but nonetheless i did feel like it gave me some insight into the berner phenomenon if you know what i mean

lol

So… what were your favorite rap releases this year, fellow goons? Asking because I hope I’ve missed out on some truly great stuff, lol.

I played Punk quite a bit but it does not feel essential.

off the top of my head, i really loved:

mach-hommy
est gee
42 dugg
boldy james
bruiser wolf
isaiah rashad
drego
quadry
duke deuce
key glock (solo & w/ young dolph)
lucki
papo2oo4 & dj lucas
g herbo
topaz jones
tisakorean (mrsillyflow)

didn't pay syper close attn to rap this year but i liked bfb da packman, pooh shiesty, pharaohe monch, ceo trayle, rxk nephew, max b, uniiqu3

stupid fruity crazy swag 4ever

travis porter - like dat

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cxkcp1E8ILg

oh yeah big co-signs on packman and ceo trayle

also: bandgang lonnie bands’ album was v good

new doe boy song is ridiculous and also great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fIgUhyg6_s

I played Punk quite a bit but it does not feel essential.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, December 4, 2021 7:42 AM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

punk is easily his best album since idk when. if the previous ones were more 'essential' that's bizarre to me

No, I agree it’s his best album since Barter 6. It still doesn’t feel essential.

I guess I don't know what essential means lol

"essential" = fueled by copious amounts of essentia-brand alkaline water

Essential as in particularly memorable, or as in a definitive artistic statement. It’s cool. I listened to it more than any other rap album this year. But it lacks magic.

I'm so terrible at remembering what I listened to but

Boldy James - Bo Jackson
Solemn Brigham - South Sinner Street
Rome Streets - Death and the Magician
Playboi Carti - Whole Lotta Red
Random RxPapi songs on YouTube
Armand Hammer - Haram
Mach-Hommy - Pray for Haiti
Defecee and Messiah Muzik - Trapdoor
Your Old Droog - The Wolf on Wall Street
Ka - A Martyr's Reward
Conway the Machine - La Maquina

oh also
Deuce Ellis - ACID

JUS - God Goku Jay-Z

roddy album is mid :/

not again…

RIP Drakeo, the greatest West Coast artist of a generation, a legend who invented a new rap language of slippery cadences, nervous rhythms, and psychedelic slang, who beat life twice only to suffer the most tragic fate conceivable. The Ruler, once, always, and forever. 💔 pic.twitter.com/WKKjMV9PML

— Otto Von Biz Markie (@Passionweiss) December 19, 2021

Essential as in particularly memorable, or as in a definitive artistic statement. It’s cool. I listened to it more than any other rap album this year. But it lacks magic.

― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, December 17, 2021 6:02 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

mystifying sentiment to me. are you sure the 'magic' isn't just 'hyperbole on the internet from my peers'

Yes, deej. I'm sure.

but you listened to it more than any other album??

More than any other rap album this year, yes. It's good. Just not YT 2013-16 good.

Punk is not bad, but no way is it better than Jeffery or Beautiful Thugger Girls, which I see as the end of Young Thug's godlike run. It seems to me that the best of that era is what Punk is aspiring to repeat, and just sort of approximating.

I 100% think it is better than both of those albums, which were overrated at the time due to what he’d accomplished immediately prior

Not sure I hear it

For me it has the same problem as So Much Fun (which is OK), a sort of no-beginning, no-end plateau, nothing horrible but nothing jumping out of the stereo either

A sort of MOR Thug. And the Fun guy - no

I'll listen again and see if I can hear what you're hearing, I do want to like it.

there's a tastefulness to the production but if you're keyed into what he's saying rather than general 'bonkers' vibe its more rewarding imo

I'm a beats and production-first listener and being charitable most of the production is not for me

I'll try to key in more on what's being said

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HdwTfzyqoc

i love duke deuce

He’s hilarious

it's new thread title time

rolling gangsta walk wednesday 2022

i'm cool w that

i ain't worried bout it!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgw7EeDRqLU

rolling rage beats 2022

im cool with that one because it describes an actual trend happening and isn't just a joke about one artist

man RIP Traxamillion

xpost i like rage beats

though i'm still unclear as to exactly what the definition of a rage beat is

idk the precise definition but it's the kind of sound with complex, distorted synth melodies (sometimes they're trance-y, sometimes they imitate guitars) and blown-out percussion, kind of like "die4guy" or "king vamp" on whole lotta red or the entirety of yeat's album up 2 me

anyway: rolling ragë bëats 2022

haha legit the most unsearchable title you could possibly come up with. hats off

haha, maybe i'll ask a mod to remove the umlaut from rage.

or maybe not!

honestly could you? i'm not good at keeping up my bookmarks and i have to search "deluxe edition" pretty often

just search 'rolling rag'

xp i requested on the mod request forum, fingers crossed

awesome thank you! could hardly deprive all of you another year of sub griselda bandcamp street raps posting

trippie red's 'trip at knight' is only rage beats.