CrowleyHead

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I like some of it, but it's hit a kind of weird rough patch. I'm not into Pop Smoke admittedly.

It's also weird because there's a lot of disparate camps in NYC rap (the weirder alt-backpacker stuff, Queens swag rap, LES/Harlem dark alt-rap) and so it's bizarre that it was a relative late comer in Drill that became the biggest star the city produced since Tekashi (who for all his flaws, somehow a better rapper?)

There are guys in BK Drill still doing it or who did it and rather quickly fell off I figured would have a bigger shot, but things just never work out for them.
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
Why do you think he did blow up? If there's any rhyme or reason to it, beyond one great hit song. (Still gutted by this, haven't gone back to the tape yet).
 

DannyL

Wild Horses
He doesn't have the disadvantage of out the gate obnoxiousness which 6ix9ine had. Least surprising nonce conviction since Klaus Kinski.
 

CrowleyHead

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I mean the beats were really good. I don't think the 'grimey' (as in Garage, not say Onyx) sort of bass-licks are something your AVERAGE New Yorker were acquainted with and like Abra who I compared him too p. quickly there is an obv. vocal character. But I wasn't so interested in his vocal character because he was so rhythmically boring and not even any sort of real presence on record beyond his vocal tone.

@craner

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DannyL

Wild Horses
Shawny Binladen is possibly the greatest rap name I've ever heard. That Flee track is supernice as well.
 
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CrowleyHead

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Anyway since v. little of the thread has had rappers besides Smoke in here

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Corpsey

bandz ahoy

Guys I'm really really sorry if this has already been posted 12 pages ago. It's old but it's also tremendous af
 

CrowleyHead

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Remembered this record recently which is v. much a proto-BK Drill record w Desiigner on it, and more and more I wonder if in some ways Desiigner should be considered more of a precedent for Pop. I always remember Martorialist in particular describing "Panda" as less like Future and more like a Giggs tune.

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