Ett specialavsnitt av VBDFR där petter417 reppar för sitt Göteborg genom att bjuda in tre av stadens bästa rappare, Sickart, Ivo från gruppen X.O samt Lani Mo, till ett samtal om gbg-rap, gbg-slang och framtiden för gbgs rapscen (spoiler: den ser mycket ljus ut!!).
Inte nog med att…
Nytt avsnitt av Vad blir det för rap?!!
Åker ni buss från Tignes nu?? Det ser fint ut!Detta hus, palats, borg funderade jag och hugo på att köpa för ett par år sedan. roligt att se att det står kvar om vi någon dag tar tag i den saken.
J.Stalin & Young Doe “Champagne & Bright Lights” (2011, Elite Ent. Group)
To start off 2012, I’m exploring Akron, Cleveland, Kansas City and Denver rap in light of the comments section on 100GOMW’s year-end post. On deck for today are Shoboat, Gap, Ren-Fetti, Young Bossi & Bird Money. I’ve heard of a few of these guys by being passingly familiar with Ampichino’s work, but haven’t spent any time with their respective discographies. This Bay Area connection to these Midwestern and Mountain cities has long existed, whether it’s Ampichino’s nearly-decade-spanning collaborations with Northern Cali’s finest, or Mac Dre’s influence in the middle of the country (he was murdered in KC, MO in 2004). It seems that these rust-belt cities share a similar, bleak, post-industrial street-life viewpoint with their peers from the Bay, and an admiration for the region’s storied history of independent hustle. I’ll report back any essentially findings (and I think Thomas has something on the horizon, as well).
First though, check out this track that find’s Stalin teaming up with Denver rapper Young Doe, from their joint project Diesel Therapy.
-SM
(via JuiceManeHugo)
This song is banging as fuck. Wrote about a few weeks ago
http://bayonnaise.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/namn-och-nytt-typ-6/
It has me and a grip of other internets (some of them proper rap blog internets famous) talking about their favourite bay area raps of 2011. Except I just picked the half-decent one that has San Quinn talking to a homeless man.
I’m on that side of the Internet too!
Nu finns det en TUMBLR till den här grejen va
En gång åt tre människor lunch och bestämde sig för att spela in en podcast som inte kommit att heta någonting med swag. Podcasten innehåller tillräckligt med swag ändå då Sanna (@pussymadeofgold och PMOG-blogg) pratar om den obskyra genren goth hop och om goth…
I don’t understand the radio in 2011.
It’s not just that I think it’s fucking worthless and don’t understand why anyone listens to it when you can plug your phone into a fucking car and listen to songs you actually like. Nevermind the ability to tune into good radio stations via internet streams. Yes I know not everyone has a smart phone but really man, I don’t know anyone who likes listening to corporate radio. The only reason I can even wrap my head around in just pure laziness.
Whatever, the point is that today I decided to listen to KMEL. Why? I don’t know, I was bored and curious if they were playing any Heavy D. Which they did so I guess that’s fine but then I got to hear what they told me was the hottest song in the bay. A fucking Drake song where he name drops rappers.
I know people like Drake but really? At first I was just thinking they were on their force feed you corporate america bullshit and just shoveling record label forecasted profits down throats of 5 mile an hour moving traffic on the highway of stagnated growth. Yes I know I shouldn’t expect everyone to have taste like me but it’s fucking Drake. I thought the general consensus was that he was a more bitchmade Ja Rule or I don’t know, Grandmaster B or fucking Snow. The dude is the nickleback of rap, he’s a fucking trainwreck of boring ass bullshit done over and over again. This is shit your mom listens to and thinks is gangster or heartfelt.
I was fine with this assumption until the next song which I believe was a J.Cole track. It was at that point that I came to doubt myself and then realize that I was not listening to some bizarro world of forced commercial radio rape, but rather instead it was I who did not understand. It was I who was out of touch with a world that does want J. Cole and Big Sean hits to pass the time as they rot away inside a car that is worth less than it was yesterday driving to a mortgage that is robbing them of dreams.
Is it that they don’t know better, that they don’t know that the fucking internet exists? They don’t know about live mixtapes? They don’t know how to use google? But really its that humans are lazy pieces of shit. These people honestly enjoy these artists and I’m the weirdo who goes out of their way to listen to no names that they never heard of. And why would they, if you cant even get on the Drive at 5 megamix who cares about your boring raps. These are the people who genuinely enjoy CBS comedy’s or whatever AMERICA’s singing competition is that week.
The reality is that a majority of this society accepts that if it is on national tv or broadcast on major radio then this is the best of the best so why even bother looking for other shit. They have to be doing something right or they wouldn’t be on the radio, right? I mean I work with motherfuckers who think I’m eccentric because I watch A&E dramas. I mean really is Breaking Bad that fucking underground? This is the world we live in where cable television is still fighting for legitimacy among the majority of the public. NBC is the barometer of good programming? Are you fucking kidding me? Those assholes gave us series like Outsourced and fucking Parenthood. Fucking Fox is pushing the bar with their bullshit ass Hipster Bitch Trying to make it in a Douchebag world show that they like to call New Girl.
The point is that today the radio taught me to accept the fact that I am out of touch with society. Yes people really do want to hear luxury rap from Kanye and Jayz. They really do think J. Cole can rap and isn’t some j.crew whitebread toddler line of loafers. They really do think Big Sean is exciting, not a more boring Lloyd Banks (as if that was possible). They really do think Diggy Simmons has a worthwhile music catalog.
The point of this never ending rambling of run-on sentence is that I shouldn’t be mad at the radio because clearly it is I with weird out of touch and just generally shitty taste in music. I do not understand the taste of the public and that is why I put weird things on the internet and complain about music festivals with thousands of attendants who love these headlining car commercial rock bands.
I have given up attempting to understand the taste of humans. All I can do is yell at the sky in my little corner of the world and hope that one person out there bothers to take that into account when they decide to push play.
Well spoken. What annoys me even more than people actually preferring what’s on the radio than making an individual choice about what to listen to, is when the same people that buy into whatever shitty shit plays criticize shit like Twilight or Justin Bieber or whatever tweens like. Yeah youth culture is hella annoying but that’s a collective movement that seems natural to me, young people like to join in with the collective forces because they’re in their forming years, they are yet find out what their individual tastes are. Especially as with Twilight and Justing Bieber which is extra holy for kids that age as it’s something they have entirely for themselves.
When grown ups listen to commercial radio or watch whatever is on NBC they joined in in a bullshit collective movement at a time in their life when they should have been able to develop their own distinct taste in music, or TV for that matter. Of course not everybody feels something for music, or TV. But in that case I’d expect them to get their rewards from something else, like I don’t know listen to a talk book by choice if you prefer talk, instead of just dealing with whatever noise comes out the speakers when they put the radio on. Anyways it annoys the hell out of me when someone just sat through a buncha Drake songs and continues to crack a joke about kids being Twilight fans. You’re doing the same thing they do but you’re a grown up.
