Monthly Archives: April 2009

OJ Mix

Posted by Jordan on

In the past week or so, four songs have leaked with incredible OJ verses, and it really seems to me like he’s stepped his game up from even just last year. He sounds remarkably confident to me right now, like this little buzz he caught from Gucci and probably even Soulja Boy has really emboldened and solidified his style. He just seems like he belongs right now, and even when he’s on a song with Fabolous and Juelz he doesn’t seem out of place— in fact, guys like that seem lost in OJ’s dust to me. And that’s not to prop up OJ as more than he is, but I think he’s gotten to the point where his style isn’t a substitute for his rapping. Instead it’s a totally unique and singular flow used by someone who is also a great rapper and who just so happens to be blowing everyone else on tracks out of the water.

So, I made this mix of the four verses. This is the first time I’ve ever blended tracks into each other and I did this in about 45 mins on GarageBand so the blending is truly horrible. These are the songs:

“Hustlers Anthem 09 (rmx)” -> “Hottest in the Hood (rmx)” -> “Superman High” -> “Gold Grill Shawty”

OJ Mix

Why?

Posted by SergDun on

Justyn Case ft. Clyde Carson – Choosin Season

I don’t know shit about Justyn Case, I only checked this song because it featured Clyde Carson from the Team who were making dope ass music back in 04 before hyphy music got killed off. Anyways I click this link and get slapped in the face with rave synths that build into an epic climax of guitar strumming and mediocre raps about picking up some girl to close her eyes and sip on patron. Then after that crapfest of rap you get broken off with some auto tunes about owning a condo and biting mangos, oh yeah and a little throwing money in air with a raincoat. Clyde comes in and drops a hot throwaway verse about nothing laced with dumbshit like escaping for the weekend and love peaking. It’s really touching if you’re a ten year old girl dreaming of becoming a coupe’s wifey. The worst part for me though is the end, it ends with the sounds of the beach? Really? WTF, was this an idea they got from The Dating Game? Long walks on the beach fucking predictable bullshit that makes up the fantasy of a fucking prepubescent fuck who wants lose their virginity to candles and roses. Fuck that hallmark card bullshit, this song sucks.

If it’s a shitty idea, it’s in this song.

god I hate love songs

Beer And Rap Podcast #4!!

Posted by SergDun on

Just banged out a real quick podcast this afternoon. This one is all metal, mostly thrash shit. Some old, some new just what has been running through my headphones for the last month or so. Yeah it doesn’t fit with all the rap shit on here but I don’t give a shit, it’s what I’ve been listening to lately and decided to put it up so peep game because the shit bangs.

direct download link here

Tracklisting
1) The Misfits – Bullet
2) Violator – Thrash Maniacs
3) Bonded By Blood – Feed The Beast
4) Warbringer – Hell on Earth
5) Death Angel – Thrashers
6) Annihilator – Schizos (Are Never Alone) (Part I)
7) Evile – Burned Alive
8) Municipal Waste – Beer Pressure
9) Municipal Waste – Guilty Of Being Tight
10) Municipal Waste – Mind Eraser
11) SSS – Hammerhead
12) Sodom – Obsessed By Cruelty
13) Overkill – Kill At Command
14) Violator – United For Thrash
15) SSS – Thrash With A Small Moustache
16) Vio-Lence – Serial Killer
17) Micro Chip League – New York (Dancefloor Cut)

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.

ignorap

Posted by David on

I’ve long been a big fan of some old school hard-headed ignorant rap music. I think more rap fans need to be honest about where theyre coming from on this count. The new CNN album was some really solid ignorant shit, & no it’s not War Report level, but it is a real solid echo of that LP. I even wrote about it kinda ignorantly — real talk, it’s not my best-written piece. “A lot of knocks”? Anyway I reviewed it for hiphop.com a few days ago.

I guess folks are kind of wary bcuz of the kind of condescending, racially suspect attitudes that make ppl have towards (supposedly) ‘dumb’ rappers, and there is a fine line here no doubt. I’m not feeling a lot of the ways folks talk about Gucci’s music, for example; I think tracks like “time to eat” have a lot of nuance & style. But some rap is like heavy drinking; both the listener & the artist embrace the stupid & accept that its a part of the experience of it, what makes it *work*. On some level, you just have to call some dumb thuggish shit what it is. And if Alfamega, Noreaga & other archetypal thuggish hardheads arent out there making stubborn roughneck raps then I dont want to be listening to rap. Really this is some ‘well duh’ shit I suppose but I think it bears repeating.

If u were feeling that LP too then make sure to peep It’s Him (The Black Hispanic)’s “Who You” with CNN. Video just leaked and the track is some real epic NY shit. “Let my dog doo doo on you.”

Gotti, Zoe, Boosie, etc.

Posted by Jordan on

Cocaine Music 2

Yo Gotti’s always been a sort of nomadic soul amongst pseudo-underground Southern rappers. Despite being from Memphis he never really got entrenched with the major rap forces there (someone else could probably fill in the background better than I) and he never really felt right at TVT, where he released two albums this decade but never fell in with the crunk era there. In the past year or so he started showing up pretty frequently on songs alongside Gucci (most notably on “Bricks”) and I started to wonder if he would see any boost in popularity while Gucci was away in jail. As far as I can tell that didn’t happen— if anything that boost went to OJ, who had an actual promo push and a single and shit.

In any event I still have no idea what’s going on with him because Cocaine Music is basically an album of songs that, based at least on the amount of “Free Gucci” chants, probably have been laying around for a bit, and in the first song he says that he isn’t signed. It’s a really good bunch of songs, too. I haven’t seen production credits but everything sounds like Zaytoven or FATBOI.

“Shoot Off”

Sometimes I feel like Gotti can seem a little detached, like he’s a little too comfortable playing the raspy stoner. “Shoot Off” has a really quick-moving beat so it forces Gotti to ratchet up his urgency and he raps for basically four minutes straight about deals he’s done and whatever, but it stands out for two reasons. One, he’s earned the cynical veteran role that he assumes here, and the indignant and simmering tone he raps in sets the tone for the tape as a whole. Secondly, it’s a surprisingly detailed and varied track as far as these things go with Gotti rapping at Gucci about his incarceration (my interpretation, at least) and about why he didn’t join a gang and about moving coke in Toshibas.

“Sold Out”

“Sold Out” is about selling all your drugs, and so Gotti tries his hand at Jeezy’s kingpin swagger-rap, and it actually works really well in the same way “Welcome Back” did, with the caveat that no one can really replicate the way Jeezy turns into Godzilla on some tracks. But this is still impressive, from the way it makes an overdone ploy— “Showtime, mic check, 1, 2/ *girl screams “I love you Gotti”*/ I love you, too”— exciting to the way its chorus, like the one on “Make the Trap Say Aye”, is almost like an original playground chant.

“Drum Play” (ft. All-Star)

This one flips the gun play conceit pretty coolly: “Gun play, gun play, you don’t want no gun play/ hit em with that chopper, make it sound like a drum play”. Then the first verse: “Drum play, drum play, bitch I got a hundred rounds/ shoot that bitch a hundred times I bet you make a hundred sounds/ Tommy Gun, Mac 11, we can make a drumline/ Hit his ass with one shot, I bet he pray a hundred times”. It goes on pretty much like that, and never gets tiring.

Gorilla Zoe’s disco AutoTune album

“I Got It” (ft. Big Block)

The one thing I’m taking away from the truly weird Don’t Feed Da Animals is something that I kind of suspected ever since “Hood Nigga”, and that’s that Gorilla Zoe has a pretty good and pretty unexpected ear for a catchy melody. A lot of the songs, like “I Got It”, have Zoe sing-rapping in this loopy lullaby cadence, and it’s not exactly always a great look but it makes for an interesting quasi-pop album I think, especially when Zoe is singing all nonchalantly about you “leaking red plasma”. Makes me wonder what his “inspiration” was, and if there’s anything to it beyond trend-hopping, and if it was just him getting caught up in the AutoTune Era, I wonder if he just lucked into these often great tracks or what. There’s a song called “Shit on Em” that’s a pretty graphic song about shitting on dudes but it’s pretty melodic. I guess lots of people hate the album but personally it leaves me with lots of interesting questions. Lots of them are about weed.

Superbad

“Sunshine” (ft. Webbie)

Mad late on this one I know but Boosie basically leaked his album right? I can’t recall ever seeing anything about T-Pain or Bobby V collabos, and Superbad had been floating around for a while as the name of his album. I sort of talked about this in my last Boosie post, but there is basically no trace of “Wipe Me Down” in the guy’s music anymore. Everything is either super-aggressive like the T-Pain joint that leads off the tape (“If you ain’t down with Boosie Boo/ Fuck y’all”) or the pensive, bluesy shit like on Da Beginning that’s like the best rap music around. “Sunshine” is a song about clothes, watches etc. but it’s still restrained, if not somber, and it gives the song a really earned feeling. Webbie, by the way, is an incredible rapper.