Nov 1, 2017

just Pharrell:



Rihanna feature:

 

Oct 28, 2017

Hello all!

This is my personal documentation of my favorite musical releases of 2017. I thought it might be a good idea to show what I've been listening to this year, in hopes i put someone on to something they might have otherwise not found on their own.

With that being said, here are my lists. I decided to split it into a rap and non rap list so more albums could get the spotlight they deserve.

NOTE 1: Honorable Mentions were limited to 15, so if an album you really liked didn't make my list or the HM section, @ me, and I'll let you know 1. Whether I've heard it or not, and 2. What I thought of it.

NOTE 2: It should be noted that I limited each artist to one spot on my lists (including Honorable Mentions, yes), to make sure that as many artists as possible get some recognition. For example, I loved all of BROCKHAMPTON's projects this year, but I'm only including SATURATION II on my list, as that is my favorite project by them this year, even though had I included SATURATION I and III on my list, they would have taken up two more spots within my top 10.

NOTE 3: Run the Jewels 3 will not be included on this list, as it technically was released in 2016. However, it should be well noted that I love that project.
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Top 10 Non rap (genres also listed)
1. Scott James - Shelter Island Heights (Indie Folk, Dream pop, alternative, Dogrock)
2. Moses Sumney - Aromanticism (Soul, Rnb, Indie pop, folk)
3. Rina Sawayama - RINA (Dream pop, twinkle pop, glam-Rnb)
4. Daniel Caesar - Freudian (Rnb, Soul, Funk)
5. Raveena - Shanti (Dream pop, twinkle pop, glam-Rnb)
6. Gabriel Garzón-Montano - Jardin (Rnb, Soul, Funk)
7. JOME - Mountains (indie pop, dream pop, electronic, alternative, art pop)
8. James Chatburn - Damen (soul, rock, neo soul)
9. Mac DeMarco - This Old Dog (Dogrock, j***-jazz, chill rock)
10. Bruno Major - A Song for Every Moon (Rnb, Soul, Funk)
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Honorable Mentions (Non Rap)
Lorde - Melodrama (Pop, electro-pop)
Nai Palm - Needle Paw (Rnb, Soul, Funk)
Ravyn Lenae - Midnight Moonlight (Soul, Rnb)
Kelela - Take Me Apart (Soul with some electronic elements, PRnb)
Sampha - Process (Soul, electronic)
Father John Misty - Pure Comedy (Indie-folk, folk rock)
Cosmo Pyke - Just Cosmo (Rnb, Soul renaissance, funk)
Sonder - INTO (Rnb, soul)
Japanese Breakfast - Soft Sounds from Another Planet (Rock, alt/indie rock, dreamy smooth rock)
Corbin - MOURN (Rnb, sadboy)
Fog Lake - dragonchaser (alternative, emo rock, acoustic)
Matt Champion - HARLEY (Pop, alternative Rnb)
ELHAE - AURA II (Rnb, trapsoul)
Choker - PEAK (Alternative, Dream pop, experimental Rnb)
SZA - CTRL (Pop, Rnb, soul)
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Top 10 Rap
1. Open Mike Eagle - Brick Body Kids Still Daydream
2. Marlon Craft - The Tunnel's End
3. BROCKHAMPTON - SATURATION II
4. Tyler, The Creator - Flower Boy
5. Kendrick Lamar - d---.
6. Katori Walker - Ignorance
7. Big K.R.I.T. - 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time
8. Epik High - We've Done Something Wonderful
9. Jaden Smith - SYRE
10. Brother Ali - All the Beauty In This Whole Life
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Honorable Mentions (Rap)
Smino - blkswn
IDK - IWASVERYBAD
MIKE - MAY GOD BLESS YOUR HUSTLE
JAY-Z - 4:44
Vince Staples - Big Fish Theory
Sean Leon - I Think You've Gone Mad (Or the Sins of the Father)
EARTHGANG - RAGS
Princess Nokia - 1992 Deluxe
J.I.D. - The Never Story
Young Thug - Beautiful Thugger Girls
2 Chainz - Pretty Girls Like Trap Music
Members Only - Members Only Vol. 3
Rapsody - Laila’s Wisdom
Woo Wonjae - Anxiety
Lou The Human - Humaniac!
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Once again, thank you for reading the list! Hope I helped you find some new music to listen to.

What's your list? do you like/dislike any of the albums listed? Feel free to discuss below? If you have any album recommendations, I'm open to suggestions.

happy new year!

- waste

 

Sep 18, 2017

l

Chamillionaire dropped Ultimate Victory.

Very underated album & I can't believe it is out 10 years.

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Note from Loyalty: yes I'm hijacking this thread and featuring it since I love this album and it's long forgotten about since Cham fell off the face of the earth

For all you youngins out there, give it a listen if you haven't heard it and let us know what you think. Here are a few stream links or you can PM @Loyalty and I'll give you the album


https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/ultimate-victory/id264105646

 

Jun 16, 2017

This 4:44 campaign did its job by getting people talking. People found out that it was linked to TIDAL and the immediate speculation was that it must be a new Jay Z album. But then a trailer was released and it was confirmed to be a film of some kind. Some still hoped that a Jay album could be the soundtrack and it looks like they might have been close.

Sprint confirms album dropping June 30.

TENTATIVE ALBUM COVER


'ADNIS' SNIPPET

 

Apr 24, 2017

Holy f---

@MigosSXN

 

Mar 28, 2017

It should be obvious, by this point, that the artist formerly known as Tity Boi is one of the genre's most colorful writers.
It's none of my business if you can afford to spend time on a yacht this summer, but there are new records from Drake and Rick Ross available on your phone, right this second. There's a new Kendrick Lamar album due out in exactly two weeks; Future's already dropped two this year. There are more, but suffice to say we're not starved for A-list rap releases.

We're also in a boom time for true underground rap releases: Quelle Chris has already put out an exceptional album in 2017, as have Roc Marciano, P.O.S, Elucid, Starlito and Don Trip, among a whole host of others. Then, of course, we can get into the mid-level stars, the Chief Keefs and Yo Gottis and etc. I'm leaving plenty of rappers out. Things fall through the cracks.

So you might be forgiven for missing one important truth: for the past two years, 2 Chainz has been one of the best rappers in the world. He's whip-smart, he's hysterically funny. When you've been lulled into a sense of security by those qualities, he reaches inside you and f---s with your heart. And he's been making remarkable music at a remarkable pace, catching a third (fourth?) wind in his career, to the point where very few people on planet Earth can be considered his peer.



Look, for some reason the NCAA selection committee has Kentucky and UCLA playing in the Sweet 16 tonight, so I don't have the time to rope in people who think 2 Chainz is a Bad Rapper, full stop. The culture wars over whether a guy who owns jewelry can rap well aren't going to be re-litigated today on Noisey dot com.

But it should be obvious, by this point, that the artist formerly known as Tity Boi is one of the genre's most colorful writers. This has been the case for more than ten years now, since he was eating spaghetti on the celly with Pirelli on the tires, counting fetti in the telly watching Belly or The Wire. (If you need some money, Magic City's hiring.) You no doubt remember Playaz Circle, the duo comprised of 2 Chainz and his longtime friend Dolla Boy, for "Duffle Bag Boy," the comically incredible single that's best known for Wayne's hook, but also has plenty of vintage Tity verve.



You can't find the Playaz Circle catalog on any streaming service (the fallout of a copyright lawsuit over the group's name), which is as close as you're going to get to a metaphor for 2 Chainz's time on Disturbing Tha Peace. From there, the transition is pretty well documented: formalizing the name change, dropping some world-building mixtapes (Codeine Cowboy especially begs to be revisited), then popping up as a guest on every song under the sun. Again, you can find all of this on Spotify, and you've probably had plenty of it beaten into your head via your car radio, any strip club or dinner club or country club, or every house party you stepped into this decade.

Ubiquity isn't the point. Starting with Trap-A-Velli Tre, released in August of 2015, Mr. Chainz began effectively synthesizing all the best threads from his past work—the cartoon luxury, the somber naturalism, the quiet, earnest hope that the Braves will somehow get it together again. Take, from Tre, the Kevin Gates-assisted "I Feel Like," where having your truck stolen from a Benihanas parking lot, wearing a mink coat during sex, and, for a split second, breakdancing on scraps of cardboard all feel like acts of self-improvement. In fact, one of Tre's signatures is that 2 Chainz finally figured out how to transpose the careening energy from his highest-profile guest spots into a slow, steady crescendo. It's a writing—and vocal—approach that would go on to underscore the sorts of affecting verses littering his career since its beginning.



Speaking of careening energy and high-profile guest spots, remember "Mercy"? In 2012, the best way to deploy 2 Chainz was as an exclamation point, a reminder of how deep your Rolodex was or how unexpected your stunt casting could be. But just over a year ago came Collegrove, officially a 2 Chainz album issued by Def Jam, really a collaborative effort between him and Lil Wayne, obscured just enough to keep the lawyers at bay.

Here he sweats Wayne back down to his playing weight, coaxing out some of his best material since his stint in prison (and sending him on an upward trajectory after his lukewarm 2015 material). For 2 Chainz, Collegrove is a canvas for pop Hail Marys ("MF'N Right"), breathless wizardry ("Bounce"), and surprisingly touching moments of friendship (the opener "Dedication," an ode to his collaborator).



Last year also saw a full-length record that was all 2 Chainz's own. Daniel Son; Necklace Don is brief but brilliant, packed with so many punchlines and Daliesque images (a mansion that exists only to s---t dice in) that, if the tape were any longer, they might have a numbing, paralytic effect. At the risk of plagiarizing myself, pause for a second on that line from the Drake-featuring single "Big Amount": "Patty melt with the hash browns/ Trying to avoid all the pat-downs." That's a scene rendered in fewer than 15 words, complete with details you can smell and taste, with an eye to how routine is interrupted by catastrophe, with dread. Toward the end of the record, disappointment in his mother's eyes recasts all the trappings of his, well, trapping. DS;ND is superbly structured, where all the technical minutiae is arranged in order just so.



There was also a pair of minor projects in 2016, released nine months apart: January's Felt Like Cappin and October's Hibachi For Lunch. Neither is as laser-focused as DS;ND or Collegrove, but each has a handful of songs that show a master at work. Take Cappin's title track, with its stripped-down, undeniable bounce, where everything but Tity's sunburn has been peeled away. It's a perfect showcase.

To this point—and if you're discounting Collegrove—2 Chainz has yet to precisely channel his brilliance into a studio album. There are defenses to be written for large parts of both B.O.A.T.S. and B.O.A.T.S. II (the former being the sole Atlanta rap full-length of its generation to have gone platinum), but each one is overstuffed and overcooked the way major label fare can be. His new record, Pretty Girls Like Trap Music, is out later this spring. Maybe this time you'll be paying attention.

While you're getting mad, Paul Thompson is getting rich. Follow him on Twitter.

 

Mar 18, 2017

iTunes .m4a, without Travis Jacques Scott



like for a PM

@DrakeSXN

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UPDATES:

Portland (Quavo Only Version)

Portland (w/o Drake)

 

Mar 7, 2017

@WPGHive

 

Feb 28, 2017

​

I've long teased this for some time and considering he will--if things go as planned--be out in a few more years, it wouldn't hurt to spread some awareness about one of my favorite rappers of all time.​

What I'm planning is doing a Top 10 countdown, my criteria varies for the picks but my objective is to make you a fan if you aren't already. The updates will be sporadic but for anyone interested in keeping up with this thread just let me know if you want to be mentioned.​

Biggavelli Discography

Spoiler

Studio Albums
Vigilante Season

Mixtapes
Million Dollar Baby (2006)
Public Domain: Million Dollar Baby Radio (2006)
Public Domain: The Prequel (2007)
Million Dollar Baby 2 (2008)
Public Domain 2: Rise of the Silver Surfer (2008)
Million Dollar Baby 2.5: Da Appetizer (2008)
Public Domain 3: Domain Pain (2008)
Wavie Crockett: Return Of The Wave (2008)
Domain Diego (2008)
Coke Wave (w/ French Montana) (2008)
Goon Music 1.5: The Doomship (2008)
Quarantine (2009)
Goon Music 2.Owww (2009)
Public Domain 6: Walking the Plank (2009)
Coke Wave 2 (w/ French Montana) (2009)
Million Dollar Baby 3 (2009) Dopeman (2010)
A Wave Called Yes (2010)
Waviest (2010)
Library Of a Legend (24 vol / 2011)
Hook King Vol 1 & 2 (2013)
*The ones in bold are my suggestions to start off with*

Imma be on some Narsh s--- and hit ya with a long Honorable Mention so feel free to dig through some personal favorites of mine:
HM:

Spoiler

Objectively Factual Top 10 List

Spoiler

#1 - Where Do I Go (BBQ Music)

#2 - Porno Musik

#3 - Never Wanna Go Back

#4 - Stake Sauce

#5 - Why U Do That

#6 - Lip Sing

#7 - Blow Me A Dub

#8 - Gotta Have It

#9 - All My Life

#10 - Dom Perignon

​

 

Feb 23, 2017

 

Dec 21, 2016

this song, in its entirety, is the pinnacle of rap

this song as I told some of my bredren, can greatly be compared to a luxurious sexual experience

it starts off real slow with the smooth sounds of birdman giving the listener some very relaxing foreplay.

"oooooooooo" the foreplay intensifies as we finally get the first taste of what we're working with here

the song then escalates as thug caresses the listener while slowly thrusting. not giving us a whole lot to work with but the way he glistens and skates over the beat

he finally starts to pick up the pace halfway through the verse. he gets away with himself and just really really gives us something to work with before slowing down..he wasn't tryna c-m yet

"no guys listen, I got more, gimme a few seconds to get back where I was at"

and he does just that and the second the verse ends and london gives us a sudden airy instrumental to listen to, we hit our plateau and he hits his music orgasm

one can only sit there afterwards and ponder on the greatness one was just heard before throwing into repeat

 

Dec 16, 2016

no features

 

Dec 7, 2016

I know i said i would go to bed and s---, but this might be real and we about to get a baby Cole aka Young Goat aka J. Goat idk

 

Dec 4, 2016

Article: http://hiphop-n-more.com/2016/12/mannie-fresh-lil-wayne-start-this-s----off-right-new-song-carter-v/

 

Nov 30, 2016

I'm gonna do this as a countdown over the next week and half or so. Let me know if you want a mention. Will have #20 up by at least tonight or tomorrow. #ListSZN in full effect.

 

Nov 7, 2016

Usuually T-Pain, Lil Wane, and Kanye are credited with birthing autotune by their respective delusional stan bases but as I found out while watching some classic television, it was really that's so raven that popularized it.



As you can hear in the song she auto tunes her adlibs like "yeah" and "oh-oh-oh", this was back in 2001-2002 long before Kanye dropped his debut album, Wayne had started the Carter series, or T-Pain ever thought about crooning strippers. Raven Simone should be credited with her accomplishment in this space, but alas we know you guys will never do it.

 

Nov 5, 2016

 

Oct 26, 2016

"but he got a #1 song on the radio & I want you to sing so he can hear it"