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Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
That's his whole thing now innit, pretending to be a "top boy". Thing about Drake is I really like a lot of his production and I actually do think he's one of the most charismatic rappers around but his whole bad boy schtick is so cringeworthy in light of who he really is that I can't get along with it. He's like a mirror image of suburban nerds like me trying out gangsta postures, and I feel the rage of Caliban looking into the mirror.

I haven't girded myself yet for the Meek album. I like a bit of Meek but his screaming triple time thing gets old for me really fast.
 
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Pandiculate

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The meek album is fucking dire

and as cringy as drakes patois is, doesn't Toronto have a comparable Caribbean community to London? I've ready their slang is actually surprisingly similar. I think Drake using it is as much him chilling with Popcaan as it is with Skepta.
 
luka

luka

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They do and people underestimate how much of what we think.is London slang is just taken from Jamaica but drake is definitely on a london buzz right now
 
Benny Bunter

Benny Bunter

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ah i see, didnt really know that about toronto tbh. drake is impossible to take seriously but at this point its difficult to imagine the rap landscape without him, a bit like kanye.

this vince staples album is sounding good on first listen. not that interesting as a rapper but the beats/production are excellent. bit of a maxinquaye vibe to it.

slowly coming round to young thug. i dig this new one

 
Glacial 718

Glacial 718

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Toronto slang is very similar to London's but it's not really as widespread; you definitely hear it in Toronto hip-hop less often, which is why people from other places are often surprised by it. as notable as London's identity crisis with people acting American is, this is much more pronounced in Toronto.


Drake's patois comes pretty directly from an infatuation with London. he has a weird obsession with road stuff, see: him posting about Top Boy, London gang documentaries, Sneakbo, etc. it does make a sort of sense because of the cultural overlap and there being a sizable London immigrant population in Toronto. Sneakbo, Section, K Koke, Nines, Skrapz, et al have a little hood following here for the same reasons.

tbh, Drake's interest seems genuine and even sort of "organic" (sorry) from here, though because he is seen as soft / suburban / a vulture I think people are more ready to scrutinize his intentions and call him a beg.
 
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Pandiculate

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mistersloane said:
I really like SupaSavage 2. It's everywhere I wanted Reese to go, just such an unbelievably sad, regretful sound.
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Definitely a grower, glad I forced myself to give it a second chance.

Anyone find their attention span for music getting really low? With stuff like soundcloud you have a never ending stream of music and it's so easy to skip the track if it doesn't grab you in the first 30 seconds.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I've actually found Spotify (with ads) quite good for this. I can't skip tracks which sometimes is awful but sometimes means I let things grow on me. We definitely live in an overloaded time, especially if you're a bit of an obsessive nerd like me.

TOP 5 RAPPERS ATM

King Louie
Future
Young Thug
Fabolous
Roc Marciano

Based on who I will always listen to a track by and by contribution to rap music over last few years.
 
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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
Pandiculate said:
Definitely a grower, glad I forced myself to give it a second chance.

Anyone find their attention span for music getting really low? With stuff like soundcloud you have a never ending stream of music and it's so easy to skip the track if it doesn't grab you in the first 30 seconds.
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I like pretty much every track except for the Thug track, it's a very welcome surprise, very very soulful, in the Otis sense of the word.

I was trying to get at that with the "how do you find out about music thread", the sifting process can be really exhausting. I find myself downloading / grabbing alot of stuff then sifting through it via ipod now, cycling around.

PS if you reverse the order of the Reese album, it works really, really well.
 
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mistersloane

heavy heavy monster sound
Corpsey said:
I've actually found Spotify (with ads) quite good for this. I can't skip tracks which sometimes is awful but sometimes means I let things grow on me. We definitely live in an overloaded time, especially if you're a bit of an obsessive nerd like me.

TOP 5 RAPPERS ATM

King Louie
Future
Young Thug
Fabolous
Roc Marciano

Based on who I will always listen to a track by and by contribution to rap music over last few years.
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I don't know anything by Fabolous since his first era, what should I look for? I'd imagine I've missed alot.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
I actually don't know that much of his output generally I'm basing my love of him on his recent freestyles over classic instrumentals. Most of my other favourite rappers these days aren't punchline specialists so I find his style a welcome throwback to that classic NYC era where they all had loads of charisma and nonchalance to their style.

I would have stuck Fetty Wap in there in terms of 2015 rappers to check for but I have only heard about five songs (three of which I LOVE).

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yyaldrin

yyaldrin

in je ogen waait de wind
Not sure if it fits in this topic but I'm really curious about your outsider perspectives on Dutch hip-hop. Somehow feel that its getting better and better. Pretty interesting to see how many languages are being used as well, it switches between English, Dutch, Sranang, Papiamento and Arabic. Here's some tracks I really like at the moment:

Bartofso ft. Mojnoen & 3robi - Hasj Uit Marokko
I especially like 3robi

Teemong ft Mocromaniac - krakaka
This was kind of a meme around an interview that went viral but I think its actually really good. Love it when the beat switches at around 2:00

Sevn - Mrowen ft. AMG Domina & MS Serry

SBMG - Oeh Na Na
This one is really catchy I think. Perfect.

Broederliefde - Labanta
Not really hip-hop this one but wanted to include it anyway cos I think it's the perfect summer hit

Snipa - Apart Ft. Lio1OOO & Rezzemade
Second guy is really boring I think but the rest is amazing.

3Robi ft. Hakim - BOUCHANS
Absolutely love this beat.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Who needs lean when you've got Skywalker OG Kush anyway? (Must get back to Amsterdam soon.)

DS2 - I listened up to about track 8 on this last night and I was not over-enthusiastic about it. He's gone super gnarly aesthetically recently, which is cool, I just get a bit bored of that style and I want the ''Turn on the Lights'' style Future back. Saying that I listened to it again today and it's growing on me. Plus I still haven't heard half of it. I did think Monster was a wicked tape though. What do you think Trilliam?

Thought It Was A Drought is great ("I just had a piss and seen lean coming out"), so is that "I Serve The Base" (which is like "Monster" and "Move That Dope", super gnarled out beat with distorted 808s and jump-up DNB style synth riffs)... "Slave Master" is good too. Oh and "Lil One" is utterly demonic in a Chiraq style.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Had a quick look through Audiomack yesterday and here's some things I was feeling

Dej Loaf feat. Big Sean - Back Up
Chief Keef - Earned It
Fetty Wap - Again
Kevin Gates - Kno One
Capone And Noreaga feat. Tragedy Khadafi - UMAR
Lashaun Ellis - 30 Thousand
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Also this is a banger

Meek Mill feat. Future - Jump Out The Face


And this Keef tune just came up on my shuffle

Chief Keef - Keef Chamberlain

 
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