rap radio hits of the first half of 2012

fuck

top 10: same damn time, ayy ladies, i do, dance (a$$), nobody's perfect, gotta have it, cashin' out, round of applause, magic, sabotage

bottom 10: rack city, you the boss, no church in the wild, the motto, HYFR, stay schemin', take it to the head, bag of money, another round, crew love

1. shot caller
2. gotta have it
3. the motto
4. rack city
5. a$$
5. nobody's perfect
6. stay schemin
7. cashin out
8. mercy
9. ayy ladies
10. beez in the trap
11. magic
12. take care
13. round of applause
14. can't get enough
15. supafreak
16. up
17. HYFR
18. faded
19. drank in my cup
20. no lie

looking at this list, it's been a pretty good year for rap radio

yeah it's been aight, all things considered

you not fucking with "same damn time"?

not really one of my favorite future songs tbh

i mean idk i like it as much as anything i put in the 15-20 range

"supafreak" was a song that i really underrated

not on that list, i just mean in general

"supafreak" is pretty whatever to me, i leave it on when it comes on the radio only if i don't feel like flipping around to other stations.

cashin out and mercy

cashin out better for the summer
mercy better for soundtracking stunting

there are a lot of artists on this list i've been actively avoiding

"beez in the trap" or "magic" or "a$$"

are all those jeezy singles off the recent album? god that was dreary

"the motto" is obv amazing apart from any version of it with drake or wayne on it

i guess i'd really love "rack city" and "drank in my cup" if i'd had to hear them everywhere but i haven't so i don't really care

"the motto" is obv amazing apart from any version of it with drake or wayne on it

― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Thursday, June 7, 2012 4:47 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

so...the instrumental?

the funkystepz remix is the shit

yeah the funkystepz remix where drake is pitched up to sound like a gremlin, also the kalenna freestyle on her mixtape

any other remixes out there sans the two tiresome original protagonists let me know

eh i hate that beat and the "Rack City" beat, all these timid clean little bass and drum demo-sounding beats can fuck off.

i like them cuz they sound like travis porter songs

i mean travie songs are often more musically dense than that/what most people would give them credit for, but still -- it's the same sorta stripped down, strip club thing

the 3 Travis Porter singles produced by FKi are the greatest sounding things, i WISH there were any other songs by them or anyone else that sounded like that (xpost)

i like them cuz i like stuff that seems to be about how crunk you can get on as little as possible (cf "oh" but in a different way)

the 3 Travis Porter singles produced by FKi are the greatest sounding things, i WISH there were any other songs by them or anyone else that sounded like that (xpost)

― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, June 7, 2012 5:03 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

it was really disappointing that fki didn't have a single new song on the album

yeah seriously! some of teh other beats are really good but it's like what the hell. i was disappionted enough just to find out that the guy who did those beats wasn't a member of the group.

1. ass
2. same damn time
3. cashin out
4. drank in my cup
5. hyfr

worst: lotus flower bomb

I was hoping that Travis Porter album would be better

the FKi beats on Differenter Gang are so tight

that whole tape is kind of a minor classic

i think the travie album is getting unfairly hated on in our general circle, but yeah it could've been better. solid, like, 7.5 album i think

reminds me of like when the state vs radric davis didn't have a single new zaytoven beat on it

can you please not say "travie," they're not the gym class heroes

i like it in a "reclaiming an epithet" sorta way

1. cashin out
2. same damn time

the rest

surprised al is hating on stay schemin tho that song is cool w/ me

+ coinage of 'fanute the coupe'

Literally the exact same ranking for me right now, too, D-40. Though I might ultimately give the advantage to "Same Damn Time" since I'm probably less likely to tire of that one.

stay schemin & shot caller

i really like the akon remix of "cashin out" (obv)

shot caller would be #3 probably
i also like beez in the trap & stay schemin

i know it's not big around here but i like 'take it to the head' a lot

J. Cole f/ Trey Songz – “Can’t Get Enough”

cant believe this was still there this year, but i also like it

all the jeezy stuff is pretty generic & terrible to me in retrospect. 'i dont really care' is also imo a pretty awful waka song

"Cashin' Out" has kinda gotten old for me quick, verses are pretty nothing and the beat just kinda makes me wish "Ain't Gon' Let Up" had been bigger.

lotta people fronting on "I Do," sure it's a retread of a very familiar UGK song but that shouldn't bother a bunch of Big K.R.I.T. fans

hehe

I really don't hear another great single on that Waka album, unfortunately. Nothing tops "Round of Applause," and not much of it tops "I Don't Really Care"

doesnt sound v similar to me although 'aint gon let up' was actually pretty big around here

xxp

lotta people fronting on "I Do," sure it's a retread of a very familiar UGK song but that shouldn't bother a bunch of Big K.R.I.T. fans

― shipl.de.al (some dude), Thursday, June 7, 2012 4:57 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hasnt everyone been pretty critical of krit
but still i cant listen to andre any more its painful

idk the ones with tyga or b.o.b could be "no hands" territory

xp to evan

that shit where hes talking to a woman about how one day they'll have a daughter & she'll make the club swoon, its just creepy imo, like hes fantasizing about how hot his daughter will be

xxps to self

im not a big sean fan by any means but hes such an overhated dude at this pt

― littledotheyknow (D-40), Sunday, June 17, 2012 1:23 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

no not really, he's a terrible rapper getting increasingly popular. there's nothing wrong with hating him.

^^^^^^^^

'asstate' is such a pained bit of wordplay that there's no RIGHT way to set it up, but there are certainly ways that would've been less unapologetically lazy than "built a house up on that ass, that's an ass-tate"

first twenty times i heard "mercy" i thought he was saying "ass-stake" like "mistake." which was confusing but i thought maybe he was negging the girl in question.

which i think has caused me maybe to value the "ass-state" pun too highly because at least it's better than my moronic interpretation

i like that song a lot, even though i couldn't tell you why, but would have voted "cashin out" because:

RIDIN ROUND WITH THAT NINA!!!!!!!

― crüt, Saturday, June 9, 2012 2:41 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

first twenty times i heard "mercy" i thought he was saying "ass-stake" like "mistake." which was confusing but i thought maybe he was negging the girl in question.

― horseshoe, Sunday, June 17, 2012 8:49 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

i love the idea of big sean rapping about when he accidentally built a house on a girl's ass

"ah yes... *takes a ship of whiskey* that was one of my biggest investment ass-stakes"

i am an idiot

synthetic fabric material covering her butt, that's ass-tate

big assio mistake

i love the idea of big sean rapping about when he accidentally built a house on a girl's ass

― lamborghini persie (J0rdan S.), Sunday, June 17, 2012 8:53 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

just to spell out my dumb logic, i thought he was saying that it turned out to be an insubstantial ass.

insubstantial foundation for an ass-house

i like this latest ass-tangent

put some zit cream on that ass, that's an ass-tringent

ass-issted living

ass-emble head in sunburst sound

in the bay at the moment. so great hearing all ma jams on the radio. they play 'adorn' all the time!

rap radio thoughts

- clyde carson 'slow down' was prob my fav bay area rap radio banger
- 'dope bitch' sounds real nice on the radio when the suns shining
- that rick ross & usher joint is jammin'
- that tyga song they kept playing (make it nasty) is so so shit. rehashing his own shit
- i quite like that j. cole joint with missy elliot (actually and 'work out' too)
- 'ayy ladies' is brill and i still listen to the travis porter album all the time
- i think i might be starting to like e-40 O_o

i need to repent for not repping for "same damn time"

i like french montana "pop that" ft lil wayne rick ross & drake a lot

who doesn't like e-40 !?

i like french montana "pop that" ft lil wayne rick ross & drake a lot

― flopson, Friday, September 14, 2012 12:27 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark

i like this song but lil wayne ruins it

who doesn't like e-40 !?

― listen to that wu-tang whistle blowin' (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, September 14, 2012 4:36 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

his name is tpp

xp ya i guess his verse is awful, idk with 'pop that' i feel the way you guys seem to about, like, "i'm on one" or something, just a great beat

wayne's verse is stupid but so is everyone's on that song, his at least kinda matches the energy of the beat more than the others

also kinda lol but mostly sad that there are apparently radio station somewhere playing "make it nasty"

it's crazy how "Turn On The Lights" somehow makes more sense to me as a single than it did on the album

xp ya i agree with that, my biggest complaint about 'pop that' is how little french montana there is on it

it's crazy how "Turn On The Lights" somehow makes more sense to me as a single than it did on the album

― Evan R, Friday, September 14, 2012 2:02 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so obv an album highlight what r u smokin

Eh, I never fully drank the Future Kool-Aid. What other critics saw as charming, I just thought was kind of lazy. I could appreciate the songcraft and to a lesser extent the vision, but the half-awake rapping was a deal breaker for me. And until the latter was a single, I always preferred "You Deserve It" to "Lights" anyway.

("Same Damn Time" is one of the year's highlights, though, obviously)

we should def do this poll again

lol i'm sure these songs will be polled to death at the end of the year

I think second half 2012 is already shaping up to be better than first half. Rap radio is in a real special place right now

eh some good stuff right now but i dunno if i'd say that. fwiw these are songs that have peaked more recently that'd have been options if i made this poll now:

Chief Keef f/ Lil Reese - "I Don't Like"
DJ Khaled f/ Kanye West and Rick Ross - "I Wish You Would"
Driicky Graham - "Snap Backs & Tattoos"
50 Cent f/ Alicia Keys and Dr. Dre - "New Day"
French Montana f/ Rick Ross, Drake and Lil Wayne - "Pop That"
Future - "Turn On The Lights"
Juicy J f/ 2 Chainz and Lil Wayne - "Bands A Make Her Dance"
Kanye West f/ Big Sean and Jay-Z - "Clique"
Lil Wayne f/ Big Sean - "My Homies Still"
Meek Mill f/ Drake - "Amen"
T.I. - "Go Get It"
2 Chainz f/ Kanye West - "Birthday Song"

eeee, yeah, I guess I feel victim to selective memory; there's a lot of trash on that list. Paired with all the current big R&B hits, though, urban radio has still just been a joy to listen to for the last few months

yeah lotta good r&b singles out

the original 'bandz a make her dance" is incredible imo. totally slept on that one.

so apparently the main vocal sample in "mercy" comes from some random rapper http://rapgenius.com/Yb-lambo-lyrics

lol at the lyrics they cut out so they could get the sample they wanted

OK Lamborghini Murci
Your chick she's so thirsty
Yeah my name is James
But with these hoes I am not Worthy
Can you please not chirp me
These petty niggas irk me
I'm in that two seat Lambo
With your girl
She's trying to jerk me

haha i just assumed from the overuse of "your chick"/"your girl" that it had to be 2 Chainz

they played "Pop That" at like three different sets at Made In America

haha i just assumed from the overuse of "your chick"/"your girl" that it had to be 2 Chainz

― some dude, Monday, September 17, 2012 1:23 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i always just assumed it was him as well

well god for YB that he got rich off a song no one in the world cared about. the kia shine route to making millions.

haha at least he wrote the lines they used! kia shine ran a fuckin shell game

'take it to the head' really grew on me

weren't you raving about it when it was new?

whenever that song comes on i think it's "Another Round" or "You Da Boss" or "By Your Side" or one of the other dozen boring songs by the same people

nah. i think i might have said i liked it at one point. but its grown on me more since & it sounds refreshing on radio

still want to do this one more time

chainz' "i'm different" is a new-ish song that sounds really good on the radio right now

yeah "I'm Different" is a joint

will prob do another poll in early december when billboard's year-end lists drop