Dec 8, 2016

@WeezySXN
@YGsxn

 

Nov 26, 2016

jesus christ

feel free to quote your favorite one(s)/add more

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Aug 23, 2016

Yo it's such a pet peeve of mine when u see herbs on the internet talk about "music has been disappointing" "everything is trash" "music these days not good" "crine 2014 was trash"
no such thing !
there is literally an abundance of great music coming out all the time and im convinced noone has enough time to properly listen to all of it and 9/10 the people that say this s--- listen to one maybe two genres usually rap and rnb music
"yikes this year sucks every release was bad: tlop, views, colouring book, p3, anti"
boy if you dont just expand your horizons or at least dont speak so generally about music its seriously always some fire in my backlog i never even get the time to listen to and im an AVID music listener it just bugs me i guess like there so sososososooooo many goat releases this year ALONE that people will overlook cos idk not trending on twitter or something u live in l i t e r a l l y the golden age for music listening everyone in their right minds has apple music by now u have an unfathomable amount of heat at your finger tips and you're complaining bc your 4 artists you bother to listen to dropped mediocre projects im sick
im not even gonna go into the fact you can go back and listen to (again) LITERALLY every piece of music ever made in music history right now whatever u choose to but you complain that music sucks these days idk i just hate people like this the equivalent to complaining that food sucks these days and making yourself a ramen noodle sandwich

 

Jul 25, 2016

@peoplethatlistentovincestaples

edit: new link up

 

Jul 2, 2016

Will post three-five at a time throughout the rest of the day, guesses start now. No Views.

Since I am a kind and benevolent leader, I'm only going to use my group tag once--now. If you'd like to be mentioned each time new albums go up, post in this thread.

@WPGHive

20. Westside Gunn, Flygod
19. Yo Gotti, The Art of Hustle
18. Open Mike Eagle & Paul White, Hella Personal Film Festival
17. Kamaiyah, A Good Night in the Ghetto
16. 2 Chainz*, Collegrove

15. Future, Purple Reign / DJ Esco, Esco Terrestrial
14. Dej Loaf, All Jokes Aside
13. Kevin Gates, Islah
12. Aesop Rock, The Impossible Kid
11. Mistah F.A.B., Son of a p---- 2

10. J-Zone, Fish n Grits
9. Young Thug, I'm Up / Slime Season 3
8. Payroll Giovanni & Cardo, Big Bossin Vol. 1
8a. Kodak Black, Lil Big Pac
7. Vic Spencer & Chris Crack, Who the f--- is Chris Spencer??
6. Boosie, Thug Talk / Bleek Mode / Out My Feelings / In My Feelings

5. Kendrick Lamar, Untitled Unmastered
4. Kanye West, The Life of Pablo
3. French Montana, Wave Gods
2. Elucid, Save Yourself
1. YG, Still Brazy

 

Jun 23, 2016

1. Torch
2. Lord Have Mercy
3. THat Part (feat. Kanye West)
4. Groovy Tony / Eddie Kane (feat. Jadakiss)
5. Kno Ya Wrong (feat. Lance Skiiiwalker)
6. Ride Out (feat. Vince Staples)
7. Whateva You Want (feat. Candice Pillay)
8. By Any Means
9. Dope Dealer (feat. E-40)
10. John Muir
11. Big Body (feat. Tha Dogg Pound)
12. Neva Change (feat. SZA)
13. Str8 Ballin
14. Black Thoughts
15. Blank Face (feat. Anderson .Paak)
16. Overtime (feat. Miguel & Justine Skye)
17. Tookie Knows II (feat. Traffic & TF)

 

May 23, 2016

I always enjoy opening people up to new music. I will post albums/mixtapes that are of the lesser known for you to listen to. Hopefully this thread does well, if it does, I will continue to post more music.

If you do listen, please post and express your thoughts. I would love to hear what you guys think of what I am sharing.

Week 1: Kur - How It Never Was
Week 1: Kirko Bangz - Progression 3
Week 2: Mark Battles - Saturday School
Week 2: Phora - Still A Kid
Week 3: Masta Ace - A Long Hot Summer
Week 3: Slim The Mobster - War Music
Week 4: ​

 

May 18, 2016

Full List​

10. Get Up On My Level



The closing track to Gates' mixtape, By Any Means. Although the hook has a gloating sense to it, Gates can't help but show a level of modesty in his verses. The high point of the track has to be the third verse. It's filled with disappointment towards his old record label and he addresses issues he has had with local rappers, "Came out of prison pursuing my dream now everybody mad at me/I ain't never try to diss y'all/All I ever did was tell the truth/Pray every one of y'all artists make it." Gates also raps, "Want every n----- that rap, from Louisiana to make it," as he sees that people think there can only be one mainstream artist from Louisiana but he does not want to be the only one to hold that title.

This was a great track to close the tape as Gates puts his heart on his sleeve once again and continues to engage us.

9. I Don't Know What to Call It



This is one of Kevin's most introspective tracks to date. He sounds depressed all while rapping about the things he could not do before but now can do thanks to his newly gained success. Gates claims that there is more to him then most people see but does not show it due to his introverted personality, "Introverts can't be too talkative/Now as my heart place all of it/Usually I wear frowns/Ain't no sense in my straight pretending/In a room full of people, I pays attention."

There is not much that needs to be explained about this song as Gates lays it all out on the table himself. From the melodic hook to the sound of his voice during his verses as if he has had strep throat as if he is tired and about to give up, it's great all around.

8. Annie



Probably the least heard song out of all the tracks that will be in this list. The first time I heard this, I fell in love with the hook. Annie is somewhat reminiscent of I Don't Know What to Call It in terms of content. You get a look into Gates' world and his up bringing.

7. Weight



6. 4:30 AM



Kevin's story of betrayal and romance. The aftermath of a stabbing from someone who he thought was his friend, "Puking all of my insides, stab wounds from a old friend/Well at that time we were close friends, they say I killed him in cold blood."

The 2nd verse has Kevin going through girls names like Ludacris went through zip codes. From the name of the girl him and his friend were f---ing, to the name of his friends girl he was f---ing behind the scenes. In typical Kevin Gates fashion, he has no remorse, "No regrets for the s--- I did/That also mean for the n----s I killed."

5. Wish I Had It



This track has one of Gates' best hooks ever. This could probably be argued for the number one spot as well. Two time convicted felon, dumb s---, get at me.

4. The Truth



This track would have never happened had he not kicked a girl in the face at one of his concerts. @Charlie said it back when ISLAH dropped and I can't argue against it, The Truth is one of Gates best songs ever.

Brasi turn back into Kevin sometimes

3. Pride



This is without a doubt one of the best tracks on ISLAH. The hook is mesmerizing and one of the best things that Kevin has done. We get glimpse of his relationship issues and commitment problems.

2. Neon Lights



Face down I'm a gangsta, my heart colder than Chicago.

This is the first Gates track I heard a few years back and it instantly made me a fan. Neon Lights entails of Gates' best rapping yet.

1. IDGAF



This is one of Gates' personal songs. There is even a video of him crying while performing IDGAF live. The song details his struggle and a little bit of where he is currently at in life.

Gates makes it apparent that he is on edge and ready to go while rapping, "God forgive me next n----- play with me I'll probably k--- they mother," and "p---- rapper talking s--- on twitter but out in public it's nothing."

IDGAF has been my favorite Gates track from day one. He's at his most personal and sincere all while still being as aggressive as ever. He doesn't give a f--- what you think because you don't know what he has had to go through or what he has done.

Honorable Mentions

Perfect Imperfection
Roaming Around
Angels
Satellites
Not The Only One
​

 

May 17, 2016

think Narsh beat me to the punch on linking it but



@WPGHive
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Is Chance the Rapper okay? A year ago, he cancelled a string of shows, word spreading via an eerily sterile third-person post on his normally tic-riddled Twitter account. Almost a year to the day before that tweet, he pulled out of Coachella and cancelled a couple of satellite shows. Last week, his scheduled set at a charity concert in New York had to be covered by Joey Badass, Mark Ronson, and Anderson .Paak as Chance checked into a local hospital.

Four days after that third hospitalization, Chance’s third solo mixtape,Coloring Book, was released exclusively on Apple Music. On the cover he’s smiling–beaming–while he looks down at his daughter, who was born to his longtime girlfriend last July. On his hat is the number 3, a reference to his roundly acclaimed verse on “Ultralight Beam,” the opening song from Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo. (“He said, ‘Let’s do a good-a--- job with Chance 3/ I hear you gotta sell it snatch the Grammy/ Let’s make it so free and the bars so hard that it ain’t one gosh-darn part you can’t tweet.’”)

Kanye billed Pablo as an experiment in gospel, and while “Ultralight Beam” defines that album to some, it’s really only joined by the West-less sermon on “Low Lights” and the Biblical reckoning on “Wolves” in exploring that world. (A generous reading might include songs like “Waves,” “Highlights,” or even “FML,” but those mostly grapple with the same pop-morality that’s marked Kanye’s work since the beginning.) As it turns out, it was the protege who dove headlong into the church. Coloring Book is, with a few notable detours, an hour-long act of praise.

But first we should talk about those detours. They’re usually not telegraphed: “Finish Line” is the album’s climax, and it’s supposed to be bright, joyous, redemptive. And sometimes it does sound like a victory lap, like when he raps–at the tail end of a record that features half the industry–”I’ve been getting blocked just trying to make songs with friends/ Labels told me to my face that they own my friends.” But look at this passage from the first verse:

“Scars on my head, I’m the boy who lived
The boy love playing when the boy too sic
Reclining on a prayer, I’m declining the help
I’ve been lying to my body, can’t rely on myself
Last year, I got addicted to Xans
Suffocated my name, started missing my chance”

That’s not the only point on Coloring Book where he mentions pill addiction; on the first “Blessings,” he says “I know them drugs isn’t close, ain’t no visiting heaven.” So despite how bright and breezy it sounds, it’s hard, at least for me, to consider those lines and the hospitalizations, imagine the pressure of being a father, and not pause to worry about Chance when T-Pain sings “All my days, I prayed and prayed, and now I see the finish line.” On the “Blessings” reprise, which is separated from “Finish Line” only by Noname Gypsy’s excellent “Drown,” a chorus of Anderson .Paak, Ty Dolla $ign, and BJ the Chicago Kid singing “Are you ready for your blessings?” has the same effect.

Of course, fear of death isn’t the only reason someone might dive into their religiosity, and Coloring Book is not necessarily a meditation on Chance’s mortality. The converted might argue that praising God when things are good is even more important than pleading when times get tough. The cynic might look to Chance’s political pedigree and wonder if he isn’t just shoring up the base. In any event, the 23-year-old Chicagoan is probably fine, and I’m probably filtering his record through my own neuroses when I think it’s weighed down by his. And unfortunately, I feel comfortable arguing that last point because most of Coloring Book is so blandly, boringly happy.

Acid Rap was about a well-meaning kid being pulled apart at the seams by house parties and shootings and funerals and his first acid tabs. Chance was desperate for answers, desperate for direction–or on a song like “Paranoia,” simply desperate to be heard. On Coloring Book, he has all the answers. From the first song, he’s giving Satan swirlies and making Earl Grey tea. He opens the first “Blessings” by rapping “I don’t make songs for free, I make ‘em for freedom”–a nice enough thought if the ghost of Steve Jobs wasn’t holding the record hostage for two weeks. Too often, the tape makes me feel like I’m being sold something, like I’m on Hollywood and Vine being shouted at by a street preacher.

The overbearing sunniness is seldom given any context or born from any friction. Take the Future-featuring “Smoke Break,” which is a disorganized collection of platitudes and folksy nostalgia. Take the moment in “All We Got,” where he calls his life perfect, then realizes he could probably “merch it.” Maybe it’s a question of worldview; I can’t wrap my head around being this upbeat in the face of death, or even in the face of a long flight or a dentist’s appointment. It’s flat, and despite Chance’s earnest, eager vocals, it’s usually unconvincing.

It’s also, without doubt, a creative problem. There’s certainly nothing wrong with happiness, and while most great rap records put joy of some sort front and center for a couple of songs, there’s a reason Kanye’s verse on Honest was so bad, why Future’s life had to fall apart for him to hit his creative peak, why songs about peaceful domesticity don’t strike any lasting cords. You have to hold the good days in opposition to something–as our Curtis Jackson would say, joy wouldn’t feel so good if it wasn’t for pain.

And in fact, Chance is at his most interesting when he pulls in the conflicts he explored more thoroughly on Acid Rap. “Summer Friends” is about the epidemic of violence (and overfunding of the police) in his hometown, and the excellent, Saba-featuring lead single, “Angels,” references the same phenomenon. On each song, Chance finds a way to be moving in a way that few rappers working today are able to. He’s always been an astute, effective writer when he turns to the outside world and the people in it, and Coloring Book would be markedly better if he spent more time outside himself.

On the album’s B-side, there’s a two-song suite that should have Chance on the radio through the summer’s dog days. “Juke Jam” carries the torch for songs-about-dance-songs, and while Justin Bieber sounds like he misses the warmth of Diplo’s letter jacket, but Towkio gives us the flip of R. Kelly’s “Feelin’ on Your Booty” that we desperately need. “All Night” has an unfortunate, J. Coleian line about farting, but is first to market as an undeniable club song about fake friends trying to crowd your Uber. On each song, he puts the evangelizing on hold and the record flows much more smoothly. There’s also a bit of grit to each, which is sorely missed in all the celebration; I’m much more ready for songs about the night before than the church-and-brunch combo from the next morning.

Chance watches Young Thug float on “Mixtape” while his own nod toDa Drought 3 only serves to highlight how toothless his own record is by comparison. Then Chance, Thug, and the rest of us are forced to grit our teeth through another interminable Lil Yachty cameo. I saw Lil Yachty perform last night, and his hypeman wore a Mike Richards L.A. Kings jersey, which is a pretty damning thing to do, and which you understand if you’re a part of #MemeRapAndAllegedDrugDealingHockeyPlayersTwitter.

There are cuts that never really get off the ground for more technical reasons: “Same Drugs” is a concept with a ton of heft, but the writing is too anonymous to really cut through. Once it gets going, “How Great” has some superb lines (“You meet anyone from my city, they gon’ say that we cousins”) but hears them mostly overwhelmed by Chance’s Jay Electronica impression, and by Jay E’s middling verse. “D.R.A.M. Sings Special” opens like it might be an even more psychedelic version of Makonnen’s “Trust Me Danny,” but ends up being a buttoned-up Debra Laws update. Not my thing, but I hope he got his publishing.

There’s little doubt that the best song on Coloring Book is “No Problem,” the Brasstracks-produced, Lil Wayne- and 2 Chainz-featuring single. For once, the brightness is colored by frustration–”If one more label try to stop me, it’s gon’ be some dread-head n----s in the lobby.” But it’s also buoyed by the guests; the former Tity Boi invokes Petey Pablo and says “Inside of the Maybach look like it came out of Ikea.” and Wayne’s verse is transfixing, arriving by way of a flattened-out, dead-eyed delivery. Yet even within those confines, it packs more emotional weight (“Hold up–get too choked up when I think of old stuff“) than nearly anything Chance raps on the album.

This is the irony about Chance’s work that Coloring Book reveals. He’s an incisive writer when it comes to external forces, and has figured out how to communicate mood in his vocals. But he’s not yet to the point where he can articulate the bluntest feelings–sorrow, joy–in memorable ways. It’s a blind spot in his writing that could, in theory, be colored in, but for now it seems he has little incentive or desire to do so. The Chance on Coloring Book spends a lot of time trafficking in recent-nostalgia signifiers, because they’re neat placeholders for the real thing.

When I was a kid, I would have described my parents as passively religious–we were Anglicans in Calgary, Lutherans when we moved to Minneapolis and the Anglican church didn’t have covered parking. I haven’t been to church except for weddings and funerals in a handful of years. But I was annoyed with my Jewish girlfriend last month when she said she had no plans for us to celebrate Passover. It thought it was a bad omen, and then I went back to WebMD.

For the past few months, I’ve been convinced that I’m dying. It’s the kind of compulsion that leads me down symptom-checker k-holes but keeps me from making all my doctor’s appointments; I’ve been through four- and five-night stretches where I have recurring dreams about hospitals and hospices. I’ll be able to distract myself for a few hours, but that anxiety starts seeping back in, then turns quickly into a sort of paralysis that keeps me from doing anything constructive, or even imagining what that might look like. My mind starts to reel with all the things that might be killing me, then it shuts down completely.

What I’m saying is that I want to believe: in something bigger than me, in an afterlife, in a happy, talented kid from the Midwest. But Coloring Book is too thin, and at points too trite to confront any of the existential questions that it pretends are already answered. So even if unquestioning praise can be hard to critique–who wants to rain on communion?–it’s not quite enough to win any new converts.


http://www.passionweiss.com/2016/05/17/ultra-light-bland-chance-the-rappers-coloring-book/

 

Apr 27, 2016

 

Nov 28, 2015

limit one per lead artist. five at a time.

25. Kevin Gates -- "Really Really"



24. Makonnen -- "Trust Me Danny"



23. Nocando -- "Requiem"



22. Kanye West f/ Allan Kingdom & Paul McCartney -- "All Day"



21. Sean Price -- "Planet Apes"




@Packman @JFK @Peter Parker @Koolo @Narsh @Michael Myers @Skippy @Winter @BigCountry @sawalrath @Fire Squad @captain awesome @Boos @Big Mitch @Grimace @Mike Tyson @M.I.C. @sindy @Nuredin B @Fazers @Meero @Sav @Villain @KnobodyKnows @The Product @Ordinary Joel @Trackz @Final @CoCo

 

Nov 26, 2015

1. Biggie



2. Jay Z



3. Ghostface



4. 2Pac



5. Andre



6. Scarface



7. Nas



8. Lil Boosie



9. MF Doom



10. (tie) Lil Wayne



Cam'ron



@Packman @JFK @Peter Parker @Koolo @Narsh @Michael Myers @Skippy @Winter @BigCountry @sawalrath @Fire Squad @captain awesome @Boos @Big Mitch @Grimace @Charlie Strangelove @Mike Tyson @M.I.C. @sindy @Nuredin B @Fazers @Meero @Sav @Villain @KnobodyKnows @The Product @Ordinary Joel @Trackz @Final @CoCo

 

Nov 21, 2015

He's got a website and a hashtag as well as setting the price to $5 to boost his chart position. About to dox @Luke by accident.

 

Nov 12, 2015

On this date 5 years ago, Cole blessed us with Friday Night Lights. The original tracks on FNL were supposed to be included on his debut Cole World: The Sideline Story. However, label execs at the Roc didn't think the project would sell, so Cole decided to add a few remix's and release it as a mixtape. In The Morning is the only song from FNL that made the cut for CWSS.

What are your thoughts on the tape today? Personally I can't believe it's been 5 years. This dropped during my 1st semester of college, so it was basically my soundtrack the entire year. It's one of the few projects that I can listen to straight through, and IMO it's Cole's best work to date.
@JCN

 

Nov 12, 2015

 

Apr 15, 2015

THIS IS NOT A JOKE, HE f---ing DID IT



MY n----- NARSH

 

Oct 11, 2017

Btw fam seems like I'm gonna be on Lil Kim's new album and Yo Gotti will be on the track too. Her managment say it's a b-----r. I mean, I pretty much don't care about that song, didn't even hear it, but s---'s gonna be my first major placement so it's a step in the right direction