Hip Hop '11

Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
DannyL said:
He's on one of their other tracks (can't recall which one off the top of my head) so I'd guess this is them. Looking forward to listening but damn, stuff comes out at such a rate of knots it's hard to keep up.
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It's horrifying, I agree.

In the past month or so alone: Ferrari Boyz / Writing On The Wall 2 / Definition Of Fuck Shit 2 / XXX / Weekend At Burnie's.

My only solution is burning CDs and walking around with a discman cos otherwise I can't concentrate on one thing at all.
 
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Phaedo

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Just got XXX, really enjoying so far.

How does Hybrid differ? Tempted to download but cba if it's just gonna 16 more tracks really similar to XXX.

Edit: "Scrap or Die" is amazing. The whole album is brilliant!
 
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Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Corpsey said:
I feel like Danny could make a classic he just needs the right beats.
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Not saying ''XXX'' is a classic but this remark by yours truly seems amusing to yours truly in the wake of what Crowley (rightly) said about it being a great album at least partly because its so WRONG.

It's so all over the place sonically but that completely fits Danny's aderall-addled persona/tendency to go ballistic with the cartoon voice/disgusting imagery. ''The Hybrid'' was generally quite a strong album but it was fairly conventional beat-wise... I dunno, it seems easier to fail conventionally because you've got these golden standards (Alchemist/Primo/RZA etc.) to live up to. Anything short of that (and, actually - a lot of stuff by those (typeof)producers) is going to sound backpack-ish.

Whereas if your object is to sound weird and off-kilter you can make something pretty 'mehhh'-ish and still succeed in your object. Or maybe its just that Danny's persona sort of assimilates even average weirdness into something much greater. Anyway, the more outre stuff is actually kept to a minimum, it's more the jumping from style to style that seems appropriately erratic.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
Incidentally, I quite like it when Danny does do something a bit 'straighter' cos he's a strong enough rapper to make it interesting... and it does get on my nerves sometimes when he does the strangled peg-on-the-nose voice. But its more interesting when he flits between both. I.E.


straight


whispering/smooth (slightly subversive though, just as on ''drinks on me'')


off the wall


He touches on 'the voice' in this interview, talks about how when he's talking he's got one voice for when he gets over-excited, one voice for when he's chatting a girl up etc.

Although I definitely have my reservations about this album, I still feel that its a much more interesting and 'worthy' album than 'The Hybrid', as much as I like some of the stuff on that.
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
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DJ Drama + Curren$y - Verde Terrace

01. Curren$y - Job
02. Curren$y - The Jet Business
03. Curren$y - Pinifarina
04. Curren$y - Hennessy Beach
05. Curren$y - Car Talk
06. Curren$y - Smoke Sum'n
07. Curren$y - Run Dat ****
08. Curren$y - One For Da Wave
09. Curren$y - Sky Miles
10. Curren$y - Crack BC
11. Curren$y - High Tunes
12. Curren$y - Music To Ride To
13. Curren$y - My Life Is A Movie
14. Curren$y - Ways To Kill Em

Haven't listened to this yet, but I bet it's good. Mixture of original tunes and popular instrumentals (i.e. ''Why You Do That'' by the Wavy one).
 
Corpsey

Corpsey

bandz ahoy
http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSele...=showall&boardid=41&threadid=84989#msg2230717 I found the ILX rap thread at last (by dumb luck). Might be useful, though probably not as useful as a proper rap forum.

I listened to a bit of ''Watch The Throne'' today at work - I was surprised at how much I liked the tracks I listened to. Not the rapping, though - Kanye completely outshines Jigga (everytime Jay finished a verse I suddenly remembered he'd just been rapping). I might have to go back and listen to Kanye's previous work, perhaps I can get over my loathing of his personality and malign influence on mixtape rapper's flows?

It's all about the production on it, really. Its blockbuster production. Of the tracks I heard (about five or six) I liked the one featuring Frank Ocean (for the Frank Ocean bit), ''H.A.M'' is alright (opera sample embarassing but nice to hear a Lex beat mixed down so pristinely, and they both sound pretty confident on it) and the Pete Rock produced one sampling Curtis Mayfield is sehr gut.

To be honest I'm not that much of a Jay fan and I couldn't tell you the difference between him then and now (though he seems to have adopted a number of contemporary conventional flows on this album) but I dunno... he seems pretty anonymous on what I've heard. Weightless. Kanye has enough snarl and absurdity to stick out.
 
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blacktulip

blacktulip

Pregnant with mandrakes
4linehaiku said:
Yeah I actually bought it off itunes purely because of that, so if it was a cunning ploy then it worked. I like it quite a lot. It's a shame he wasn't about when I was an angsty-ish teenager, I think I would have been totally obsessed.
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Shit I just posted damn near the same thing on another thread some days or two back.
 
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CrowleyHead

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Saw Main Attrakionz live not too long ago. Was the closest I've come to a religious experience.

Hearing "Perfect Skies" over a soundsystem... lawd.
 
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trilliam

Well-known member
listening to that clams casino - instrumentals tape, nice vibe

lil b has a new tape out today, will check it out for the production.
 
Tentative Andy

Tentative Andy

I'm in the Meal Deal
As someone with only a passing interest in hip-hop, can I just stick my head round the door and say how much I'm enjoying XXX by Danny Brown?
 
pattycakes_

pattycakes_

Can turn naughty
anyone else over OFWGKTA yet?

was never blown away by em to start with but now it just seems pretty tired and empty
 
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