Monthly Archives: January 2009

Couple of randoms I’ve want to put out there

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I’m throwing up a couple of joints older joints that I’ve been bumping in my headphones lately and was thinking they should get out there. All these tracks are on some macho ass going hard shit so if you like to be a bitch and listen to kanye’s tears dripping down your balls then maybe you shouldn’t check these; if not then jam these motherfuckers.

CIN – Jocin My Team
This one is the leading track off of C.I.N.’s 1996 Richmond Roulette album. It’s got that mid 90′s bay sound, laced with pianos and that gfunk squeal running throughout. That classic bay area flow, stressing those vowels between bursts of fast raps with a little bit of the east bay twang.

Prophet Posse – Orange Mound ft Kelo & K-Rock
Angry memphis rappers with chants, threats, repetitive yelling incorporated into the beat and a chorus laid over some s&c’ed vocals. Yeah that’s a fucking winner. It’s off that The Return pt 2 mixtape they dropped like over a year ago. The mixtape had a whole mess of bangers but fools just slept on that shit hard.

Bottom Tenn – Whoop Ya Ass
Some dudes out of Black Haven going hard on a Sleepwalker track. I don’t think I really need to bother explaining what the point of this song is, the title is pretty self explanitory. Al Kapone put it out on that Memphis Drama 4: Crunk Roots.

Triple 6 – Walking Assassins
Triple 6 was a group that Dre Dog was involved with in the early 90′s. This is off this short 5 track ep/tape called Nothing But Reality. All the beats are pretty basic and stripped down. The rhymes are nothing to crazy but fuck it. There is something to be said for cut in choruses, simple raps over a steady break and some bass with a blessing of tape hiss.

404 Soldierz – Swang On A Nigga ft Mannish Mann
This is the last one for today. I don’t know why this never made it to Hard As Fuck 4, it was sitting around but yeah it’s got all the elements of hiphop: headbusting, swanging, throwing thangs, banging, never being scared, guns, fists, simps, whats, yeahs, beams, and yelling. It’s got all those positive vibes and conciousness that kufi lovers everywhere support.

This new Fabo

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Here’s the mp3: Fabo – “Spaceship Man”

Cherish new rap’s original weirdo streamlining his outlandishness into an actual song, a kind of rap/kind of singing thing that’s more in the vein of quicksilver modern r&b like Janelle Monáe or John Legend’s “Green Light” (an André 3000 feature) than snap or post-snap or whatever. Just as much as we love Fabo wilding over empty spaces in his schizophrenic hyena howl, it’s just as nice to hear him doing a fully-formed song that doesn’t sacrifice that singular personality and vision. Pray for reign.

David also posted about the song here and got sad when no one commented

FREE THIS BEAT

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I get the point of mp3 blogs, duh: post mp3s, get linked, maybe a bad rapper will hit you with an exclusive track or if you’re the luckiest maybe an exclusive mixtape. But still, how is the whole internet gonna post this new Juelz track without admitting — no contrarian Dipset hate here, by the way — that Juelz is a. no longer a good rapper and b. that he’s completely ruined this incredible beat.

For one, I’m surprised that people are still checking for new Juelz verses, but beyond that, did no one think by the time that Juelz was dropping played out napalm and BAPE references ten seconds into his first verse how much better it would be if a good-in-2009 rapper was on this beat? Something this vintage, this creeping and grimey (yet still elegant) deserves better than a dude who jumps on and implies that he sticks his whole head inside vaginas. Where is the clamoring for Jada or Freeway or Twista? Imagine Big L or Mobb Deep. I can’t believe that people actually think he went hard on this beat, so why hasn’t anyone said it? I know, I know. But, still.

In order to end this post on a positive note, I’m posting this classic Rap City freestyle from the Big Tigger era of The Dips blazing the “My Block” beat. Jones and Juelz are WEARING THROWBACKS and Cam is in all pink and raps his verse while counting money. The good days.

Here’s another dope Juelz freestyle over that Lloyd Banks song “The Cake”. Lol @ Juelz saying I Can’t Feel My Face was coming soon. In 2006.

Bombs over Baghdad

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When yr named after an Outkast song, like to play guitar & have some genuinely creative, kinda out-there instincts, drop an acclaimed mixtape and know how to mix it up, sometimes it can be very easy to veer a little too close to the sun.

I’m not gonna link to it cuz it is very WHAT. EVER. But the new B.O.B. single is such an epic Angelous maneuver that it can’t be anything but disappointing. It just feels so stale and heartless, so safe. A real disappointment in my opinion but I guess it was inevitable Andre 3 stacks would inspire Andre .3 stacks –

(That’s not all dude is, to be fair — check the A+ Curtis chopping on this joint for some real lyrics.)

But u know who really knows how to carry the spirit w/out the forced sense of pledged allegiance, is FABO. The passion & fun & spirit of some classic ‘Kast right here. Explosive up-tempo real nu-hip-house without the pretense, and with a massive injection of energy and real love. This isn’t his “Hey Ya” but its as close as he might get. Good way to avoid getting your wings burned by the sun is to say ‘fuck wings’ and grab a spaceship.

Juice

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OJ Da Juiceman: “Trap Work”

Working out why I like Gucci understudy OJ Da Juiceman hasn’t come easy to me. On one hand, dude is almost like an elaborate joke, just some ad-lib crutching no-name co-signed by the right ATL people to see exactly what we’re willing to accept in our post-Jeezy, post-snap rap landscape. Juice’s ad-libs sound like Chappelle’s Prince being punched in the gut, and his flow is so flagrantly one-note it’s basically celebratory. But on the other, Juice has emerged as a dude to watch in 09, another in a lengthening line of trap-not-rap stars reveling in the understated brilliance of post-D4L everyman rap.

If Juice is not a pure Gucci facsimile then he’s unabashed about copping style. He loops his raps in that same singsong playground cadence that Gucci settles into when he’s really got a foothold in a beat, but Juice’s flow is a little more stilted, and in a way it’s kind of got the same lockstep qualities of a marching army battalion — predictable yet dope. If anything, his songs are hypnotic in a way, at once because they all kinda sound the same and because Juice raps non-stop. The tape has a propulsive quality that basically every other mixtape lacks these days, and Juice raps his ass off like rap might get him somewhere, which I guess isn’t totally unique but it still jumps out off the speakers.

As far as the rapping goes, Juice doesn’t stray far from trapping and its benefits (also touches on fucking), but he’s got a trap star’s flair for making the old seem just a little bit new again, or at the very least still (dope boy) fresh. And maybe most importantly, he sounds like he’s having a great time rapping, and if that’s not his most redeeming quality then it’s eminently notable, cause I’m not getting tired of ATL good times rap anytime soon.

BONUS FOR BUDDING OJ DA JUICE FANBOYS: The FADER meets up with Juice at a French restaurant or something and let’s dude speak his mind. He seems like a good dude. More people should do this.

high note video

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One of the best tracks off the legend’s album is now in NSFW music video form (RIP BET Uncut). White Van Music, the album that dropped this year from “High Note” producer Jake One, was a solid album that I was feeling altho I never really got obsessed w/ it — but this track was strong enough to make me want to give a new listen to the entire thing. Take a played out conceit like “sex moans over sex song” and tie it to a played out concept like “sampling classic soul” and somehow u have a … classic track? I don’t know it reminds me of my most-listened to album right now which is Juvenile’s uptown nolia boy mixtape (more on this later). Many of the tracks are conceptually clever, not just generically ‘banging’ but actually unique in some regard. It’s easy to get caught up in alliances towards/against different cliches and stylistic choices in rap music i.e. ‘man do i hate that autotune!’ but for the most part that stuff all falls away because there are so many exceptions to the rule when someone takes a particularly nimble approach. This is a track that really differentiates itself by being great — transcending the stylistic cliches but not rejecting them.

That said, did not need shirtless Scarface winking @ the camera while ostensibly boning.

Betcha Can’t Do It like We Do It in The D

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This past weekend I finally got Trix Mixx 3 in the mail (off equalizer’s myspace) and this shit is banging. It’s a cumbia mix with some rap joints sprinkled through out. I’m kind of riding for this shit hard right now, twenty years ago I would never have fucked with cumbia, that was some ranchero shit that my drunk uncles would jam while they hated on me listening to rap but lately I ain’t mad at it, especially when you put some Big Tuck on it. My mom might even like this shti. Anyways the Krunk Krew dudes are from Dallas and go hard for the cumbia/hiphop shit. One of the dudes in the crew, Dj Panik has a record out on Bersa Disco so peep game. The later part of the mix goes hella hard on the cumbia. Considering how many latinos there are in texas I’m not surprised to hear this stuff, but I’m curious if there are any s&c’ed cumbia mixes. This sound is kind of infiltrating the rest of the country within the last year but who knows what the possibilities are for it. I’m just glad that it’s not reaggeton. Anyways here’s a couple of joints to peep off the mix

Betcha Can’t Do it

Tussle Cumbia

Muevete Negra RMX – Aniceto Molina

Get Mexican!