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Archive for January, 2009
29
Jan
09
CONTROVERSIAL POST!!! #1
Gucci Mane’s “Sun Valley” video feat. Frenchie
This was originally on the Mr. Perfect mixtape under the title “ghetto supastar,” and could easily have been on some shit before that I missed — only 4345728301324382 Gucci mixtapes dropped in ‘08 so
Hope yall checked the OJ Da Juiceman album — more on Gucci soon I swear ….
Trap Squad Cartel – “Pop Tags”
Trap Squad Cartel are from Dallas. They are called Trap Squad Cartel and they have a song called “Pop Tags” and another called either “Icey” or “So Icey”, which you can request at your local radio station. Their mixtape is called On My Grind Vol. 1. The whole thing should be the most generic rap exercise in the universe, yet “Pop Tags” is, uh… completely bewildering and the most exact opposite of tedious.
Basically, I think dudes infiltrated my brain cells since four of the five verses on here are from guys that sound like Lil Boosie, Fabo + AutoTune (yes), Gorilla Zoe + Autotune and Gorilla Zoe again. Then on top of it someone cooked up this fucked up beat of Mannie Fresh snare rolls, Trill Ent synth blasts and keyboard drip-drops and this dagger of a sample that sounds like a millisecond snip of the “Still Tippin” violins. The chorus — I POP/ THEM TAGS/ SO THEY JOCK/ MY SWAG — is straight rap-libs shit but it ends up scraping the anthemsphere last entered by “Pop Champagne”.
Then as if it couldn’t get any better, the Gorilla Zoe dude tries to one-up “Wipe Me Down”:
JEWLERY, GEAR, NOTES
CHECK
MONEY, WHIP, HOES
CHECK
He fails of course, but only barely.
25
Jan
09
Beer And Rap Podcast #1!!
Posted this on my own blog but I’m also putting it up here so feel free to peep game.
Ok so I finally got around to recording a little Beer And Rap podcast show. I’d been meaning to do this for a while, just do a recording of songs, not a mix or anything but more like a radio show. Just wanted to play songs and throw in a little commentary. I’m going to try and keep this going at least once a month. If I can pull it off more than that great but I’m trying to be realistic. It’s about a 1.5 hours, maybe should have played shorter songs but I didnt. The mp3 is kind of big so if you’re still using telegraphs to communicate you may be waiting for a minute. Anyways yeah peep game, to subscribe to the podcast just use this url for the feed: http://beerandrap.com/atom.xml If you’re not to smart just go in to itunes and under Advanced you have the option to subscribe to podcasts. Select that and add the feed url so that it will update on it’s own. I have dumb friends so I need to explain unnecessary bullshit to people.
If you can’t do that then just download it here directly
The tracklisting is listed under the lyrics of the file if you’re curious
25
Jan
09
dogg pound ‘09
This is sorta like Prodigy sampling Pac for ‘mac 10 handle’ but fuck it, this track is banging — go to Daz Dillinger’s myspace and check out “On & On” (currently track 2).
They also just uploaded a song that features Maroon 5 which is one of the weirdest fucking tracks I’ve had the ‘pleasure’ of hearing.
EDIT: reposting cuz this dude found a zshare for it & says the beat is a soopafly/daz collab.
Beat Flippaz did this track. That high pitched submarine sonar noise is pretty hot esp. when he starts fuckin with the rhythm of it, or if you open the Beat Flippaz myspace at the same time yr playing the song & it starts doubling up and echoing all over the place like a pinball. Shit would be a lot of fun to DJ with if u had doubles bcuz you could just fuck with the instrumental/chorus a whole bunch, flipping back & forth between the records and messing with the delay to drive folks crazy with that beeping noise.
Its good to hear Tum Tum is still killing it too.
25
Jan
09
I wanna be your coool thaaaang
So this new Skyzoo joint uses a sample that has been worked a few times already, including my favorite Potna Deuce joint “Cool Thing” <– Free download there. Potna Deuce was three rappers, Chezski, Ruby Rascal and Baby Beesh — better known nowadays as Baby Bash. LOL.
For real though Welcome to da Hilt is a pretty classic bay area record. It was largely produced by Johnny Z, a real underrated producer in the game pictured here rollin in his 6-2:
He got a production deal with Profile records for N2Deep in the early 90s & this was one of his projects. Had a big role shaping the bay area mob sound. The dude that does rapreviews.com has a good rundown here. Honestly i think it deserves 1-2 more ‘lyrics vibes’ though.
And for kicks here’s the video for their single “Dats my Partna”
24
Jan
09
D4LOL
Yeah this beat is pretty hot & I would like to see a meaningful remix, but D4L without Fabo is not the same as D4L without Shawty Lo — and I dig Shawty Lo alright on a limited basis — however this is like the beatles without john lennon or some shit. There’s even a big space before the chorus in the middle where Fabo’s verse was supposed to be or something. Not really sure what these dudes are hoping to do here.
23
Jan
09
mistermiyahhhgi mistermiyahhhgi
Gotta give it up to muzikfene for consistently upping some great rap music & keeping with a consistent perspective on new street rap (meaning no blogger hype rappers or keeping it dilla etc). But best of all he threw up “Mr. Miyagi,” probably the best new rap song I’ve heard this year.
Although I can’t find an production credit for “Mr. Miyagi” Playa Shaw seems to be working primarily with Nitti of ITS A NITTI BEAT renown. “Boo Boo” has an insistent hook & some harder-than-usual steel drums; “In Da Kitchen” is solid too (9th Ward Gucci has a nice verse).
In Da Kitchen ( 2oo8 ) – Playa Shaw Feat. Nitti
He only has 307 Myspace friends, get on the bandwagon now dudes.
22
Jan
09
im still repping for trance rap
This is good enough. I dont think it really complements Keak’s style too well but im not mad at it either, it’s very of its time.
