Rap 2016

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bandz ahoy
Mine too. I feel like THAT VOICE is effective in small doses, sometimes. I mean, he uses THAT VOICE on two of the songs from Atrocity Exhibition that have been released, and I like them both.


 
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forclosure

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for me it works better on "When it Rain" because it sounds like some old nasty ghettotech beat

(how come there ain't no ghettotech on here? what's up Dissensus?)
 
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bandz ahoy
A couple of new albums on Spotify

MICK JENKINS

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TRAVIS SCOTT

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The people's choice (though not mine) off Sremmlife2 has got a video too:


Rae Sremmurd - Black Beatles (feat. Gucci Mane)
 
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bandz ahoy
THROWBACK


To make this relevant, let me observe that when you've listened to about twenty 2016 rap hits in a row it's a blessed relief to hear a good old fashioned breakbeat.
 
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bandz ahoy

2 Chainz feat. Drake - Big Amount (2016)

This has been out for ages but it came up on my shuffle the other day and I was reminded of how much I rate it. One for the sino-grime fans?
 
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sadmanbarty

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I enjoyed atrocity exhibition. Often when macro-genres die they have one last hoorah in which they absorb tons of alien influences; jazz fusion/ poorly titled spiritual jazz, post-punk, post-rock, things like ISB and John Martyn with folk. I suspect Azealia Banks and Danny Brown are part of this final, fertile period of hip hop.
 
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bandz ahoy
Not sure about that, although I was trying to work in a 'post-rap' angle to my review which I didn't have room for (perhaps blessedly). Danny Brown and Azaelia Banks are pretty niche, hipster offshoots of rap music. I think the more fertile (and certainly more popular) area of rap in 2016 is represented by yer Rae Sremmurds, Young Thugs, et al. And I guess they're connected to what Danny Brown is doing insofar as it's less about lyrical experimentation as vocal experimentation. A lot of rappers dressing in a rock starrish way, too: leather jackets, skinny jeans, cross dressing etc. On the one hand you could argue this is a decadent stage for hip-hop, it declining inexorably as a medium for social messages, more intertwined with corporate interests and materialism than ever before, but in terms of the medium itself in some respects it's more inventive than it was in the 90s. I'm sure Crowley will have a more interesting and better informed take on this than me.
 
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sadmanbarty

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sadmanbarty said:
I enjoyed atrocity exhibition. Often when macro-genres die they have one last hoorah in which they absorb tons of alien influences; jazz fusion/ poorly titled spiritual jazz, post-punk, post-rock, things like ISB and John Martyn with folk. I suspect Azealia Banks and Danny Brown are part of this final, fertile period of hip hop.
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I guess it's not the eclecticism per se but rather the fact that it almost entirely removes the the aesthetic cruxes of the macro-genre; On the Corner doesn't swing, The Pop Group doesn't rock, nor do many of the tracks on MBV's Loveless. In fact the macro-genre may only be discernible by lineage; if Dark Magus wasn't by miles davis would anyone call it jazz?, likewise with John Martyn and One World. Tracks like Danny Brown's Downward Spiral or Azealia Bank's Idle Delilah are similarly devoid of Hip Hop's fundamental aesthetic purposes.
 
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CrowleyHead

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I want to be so clear and say that when I hate this album, I wish this man took a cinder block to the stomach for producing such a godawful piece of shit record.
 
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bandz ahoy
I love you for that review Crowley. Mine seems absolutely toothless by comparison, but here it is: http://crackmagazine.net/article/music/danny-brown-atrocity-exhibition/

On the plus side, I think mine might be one of the only negative reviews around.

In other news: http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37545412

Chinese Americans are petitioning President Obama to take action against a hip hop track which they say incites criminals to target their homes.

The controversy over the song "Meet The Flockers" by the rapper YG has even reached China and has inspired rhyming responses from Chinese rappers.

Was YG paying tribute to Ice Cube by attacking Asian-Americans?
 
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bandz ahoy
DJ Mustard - Cold Summer album now on Spotify. Not listened yet but surely a bit of a late release, unless Mustard is making some sort of statement re: climate change?

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Dave East Kairi Chanel mixtape

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rubberdingyrapids

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its not like black korea, which cube can still fuck off for
he says "Find a Chinese neighborhood, cause they don't believe in bank accounts"
its YG giving robbery tips
not that i think this is any better but its not a race-motivated song like black korea

the sampling on the DB album, ghostface did it already on bulletproof wallets
DB has never matched up to the image a lot of people want him to be, but every era needs its own 'crazy black guy!' artist and celebrate him for being so crazy, even when hes maybe not THAT crazy. as its on warp, id have preferred DB produced by hud mo and rustie to paul white again. 6/10. attack is the best thing DB has ever done, and probably will do.

going to sound around 50, but the new kool keith album is better.
 
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