Comments on: Best Raps 2009

By: Priory of Zion » So Many Shrimp Best Raps of 2009 Mix

Priory of Zion » So Many Shrimp Best Raps of 2009 Mix — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 10:55:42 +0000

[...] So Many Shrimp Best Raps of 2009 Mix. [...]

By: David

David — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:57:18 +0000

rap is a bit strong on gucci right now
i have no idea what tray is talking about in that last post but i havent cared bout either cam or wayne in a few years so

By: LCR

LCR — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 18:41:47 +0000

hahaha, Passion of the Gucci…i wouldn’t necessarily put Mr Carter/Killa Cam/Nas is Like into the same category (not sure how Nas got thrown into the mix + Premo’s production sort of outclasses the group)…that said, couldn’t Heavy be seen in this light?

great mix, a bit strong on the Gucci; but i guess that is more a critique of technique than on content

btw, at first i thought this was the most absurd cover art, but after getting acclimated to the it, i think it’s awesome

Pinky Ring Music is my jam

By: Johan

Johan — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 08:23:52 +0000

How the fuck is Gucci changing the game? He ain’t doing shit Eli Porter didn’t already do better.

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Hiphopen är inte död… « DOGMATIK — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:34:31 +0000

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By: Tray

Tray — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 03:35:13 +0000

Well that’s interesting, how is Gucci much more interesting than Cam or Wayne? I of course subscribe to the dumb “Gucci is the heir to Cam and Wayne’s Weird Rapper legacy” hipster line, but I have started to vaguely get the feeling that Gucci is up to something different. One thing I notice about Gucci is that he shies away from the big grand statement – the ‘Nas Is Like’ or ‘Killa Cam’ or ‘Mr. Carter’ type of track – as if he’s too, sorry, postmodern for it. Which was why I liked the Diplo remix of ‘Danger’s Not A Stranger’ so much, because I was like, finally, the Summum Gucciannum, the Passion of Gucci. There’s a conventional sort of progression and resolution to that remix that you don’t hear in actual Gucci; it somehow imposes an overarching narrative onto what he’s saying. But perhaps his refusal to tie things up with one neat bow, as it were, is what people like you and Brandon like about him.

By: mark p.

mark p. — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:15:56 +0000

I’d say that even for the casual fan it’s worth checking out each and every mixtape/album that Gucci releases as they come out, especially since 90% of it can be downloaded for free*. Gucci isn’t even one of my 10 favorite rappers right now, but I still listened to him enough last year that he is currently #4 on my last.fm.

*I can’t really tell what the deal is with all of the mixtape upload links that you find on blogs, datpiff, etc. Pretty much all of them seem to at least be authorized by the mixtape DJ/label that “released” it, and the artists often give shoutouts to the blogs and websites that are making their shit available, but they also make sure to press up physical copies to sell at shows/record stores/etc, and I’m sure they sell these songs on Itunes as well. So I’m not sure what the legal status of it is. It seems odd that a bunch of rappers and producers that are so obsessed with making money would make so much music available for free, but I guess they might have more of an “eh, whatever” attitude about it right now because less people are buying music than at any other time in history. So if someone downloads their new mixtape, there’s a better chance that they’ll pay to get into a show or buy a t-shirt or something.

By: David

David — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:19:29 +0000

yeah it really doesnt work like that though … there’s a pretty wide variation in his shit from say the movie 1 to burrrpint, or movie 2 to state vs.

but i also think gucci is a much more interesting artist than cam or wayne so

By: Tray

Tray — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:34:40 +0000

I admit to being intimidated by Gucci’s massive discography. So I’ve come to just assume that his mixtapes are all great and interchangeable and that to hear 2 or 3 Gucci tapes is to hear them all. (Since he always is rapping about the same stuff, and stuff.) Seriously though, does one really have to hear, say, The Movie or Writing On The Wall if one’s heard Movie 3 and Guccimerica and State v. Radric Davis? I mean, I used to love Cam and would probably argue that his most interesting work is on the first Diplomatic Immunity… but if someone asked me whether it was really necessary, for his appreciation of rap, to go beyond Purple Haze, I’d have to say no. Because there are some slight differences but they’re really about the same, more or less. Whereas in Wayne’s case, I don’t think you can just listen to the albums and the first Dedication and skip Drought 3.

By: David

David — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:29:10 +0000

ha but i think ppl havent really gotten a good context to appreciate gucci yet … its all been like, “in order to get it you have to download the 6 releases he had this year & hear them all” which is like, wow, intimidating. I think when gucci verses pop up in a mix like this — & i dont know any mixes this year that tried to approach his stuff this year in this way (not saying there arent any) — i think his appeal makes a lot of sense w/out requiring such a huge time investment