Hip-Hop Thread Genre • Page 1213

haha

 

No Country For Old Men 004: What Do Music Critics Want from Rap?

This is interesting

 

I lol'd at the "women!" subhead. I could have gone for some examples of the final category.

 

New pink siifu

 

hell yeah death to new music friday hegemony

 

My nephew and I reviewed the Central Cee album

 

It's really good. The best actual mainstream rap album in a while.

 

the new Latto and Carti is

 

Unk's 'Walk It Out' defined a fun, hyperlocal moment in Atlanta rap history

“The blatantly Southern hip-hop track dropped in year when local scenes across the country were pushing distinctive styles and sounds; fans were still able to get a sniff of West Coast G-Funk with Snoop Dogg's Tha Blue Carpet Treatment, a raw feel for mid-Atlantic street life on Clipse's Hell Hath No Fury, a taste of NYC hardcore through Mobb Deep's Blood Money, an earful of jazz-sampling soul from the midwest with Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor and hit of Bay Area hyphy through E-40's My Ghetto Report Card powered by the anthem "Tell Me When To Go" (ironically produced by Atlanta's own Lil Jon). Before the immediate accessibility of the internet played a part in spreading the culture wide, and flattening it in the process, "Walk It Out" was a shining example of how a song, and music video, could introduce you to a city and what the people in it actually sound like.”

I have some thoughts:

1) This was a great time and I am sad it ended.

2) It is not the internet that ended this, it worked just with the internet for years. Streaming algorithms and then later TikTok and shortsighted record labels - and artists - ended this.

 

Good release out of Chicago imo

 

Excited to jump into this, MIKE has been untouchable recently

 

MIKE tape is great as expected

 

New MIKE rules

 

Gonna have to peep, I love him on features but always get a little tired of his delivery on full projects

 

Yeah, new MIKE is excellent. Can see this getting a lot of repeat plays.

 

MIKE is so smooth, feels effortless. Definitely could put this on whenever.

 

He always hits

 

Yeah, pretty easily the most I've enjoyed one of his. Anyone got a favorite I should try again next?

 

Burning Desire, Disco! and Beware of the Monkey are his best IMO. All his stuff is great, but the stuff prior to those are a bit darker as he’s processing his mothers death, whereas you can see some lightness breaking through with those three.

 

Definitely backing Burning Desire

 

Yeah all of those

 

Also May God Bless Your Hustle