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Hip-Hop Era |OT| Bless Up

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cb1115

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lacer

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torre_avenue said:
Alright, my school is hosting Young Thug for a concert for $15.

Is it worth it to go?
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15$ is a paltry sum for a chance to see Thugga in the flesh. Someday you might one day tell your grandchildren about the time you got to see SEX live.

Koozek said:
Hearing Weeknd's voice and corny-ass wannabe-MJ inflection annoys me so much, ugh. And he's featured on what feels like every fucking album of the last years.
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Finally a Koozek opinion worth reading
 
Habino

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Trilogy vibes? Gesaffelstein, Skrillex, and Mike Will on production? Hurt Weeknd? 6 for 6?

Classic
 
Inkvoterad

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Hold up

Gesaffelstein is on this project?

Thats like my favourite dude in electronic stuff, now i HAVE to check thr album out
 
Inkvoterad

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The Weeknd stuff is aight, might grow on me more.

A more gesaffelstein sound on those 2 songs with weeknd vocals would have been insane, but they're okay.

If anyone of you havent heard Gesaffelstein, shits godly

 
Disco

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I would have never guessed Gesaffelstein produced these two tracks if his name wasn't listed as a feature, there's some siren noises though at least. still, great EP. I think I'll go back to this a lot more than the previous few Weeknd albums, he's back to the slow and more moody tracks. Hurt You my favorite on the EP

gonna check out this Rich the Kid soon, got some good features and I really fucked with that "Dead Friends" track and Plug Walk
 
Ninjadom

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DMVfan123 said:
Yep
Think it's going to be the best album I hear this year
It seems to be positively received almost universally from what I see on social media
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Yeah, best album so far this year!! It's been out almost 2 months and I still play it almost every day.

Today is a great day for releases. So far today I've copped:

The Weeknd
Meyhem Lauren album (can't ignore Harry Fraud productions)
Quelle Chris & Jean Grae
DJ Esco
Czarface & MF Doom
Rich the Kid
Yung Fume & Zaytoven

Also last week I listened to the 88 Glam album, it's great! Canadian hip-hop with Nav on it.
 
Disco

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anybody else think Trippie Redd's feature on this Rich the Kid song one of the best features this year? reminds me of Young Thug from a couple years ago


really liking that flow, its basic shit but the melody is dope
 
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Disco said:
anybody else think Trippie Redd's feature on this Rich the Kid song one of the best features this year? reminds me of Young Thug from a couple years ago


really liking that flow, its basic shit but the melody is dope
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i wish somehow the part where he says early mornin trappin was the chorus of the song. That part always gets me hype
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slim jxmmi got the best verse on that remix
 
enzo_gt

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Icolin said:
Tinashe just dropped a single with French Montana and Ty Dolla Sign

And it's gotta get overshadowed big time. The MOST Tinashe thing ever, looooool
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Yep, it's sad.. she really can't catch a break.

The song sucks though, poppy in all the generic ways and the chorus sucks:



Dereck said:
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Not for me, but I think this has potential to be big. Offset def on notice tho.

Koozek said:
ok dis nice

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The original >>>>>>> the remix.
 
Icolin

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Disco said:
anybody else think Trippie Redd's feature on this Rich the Kid song one of the best features this year? reminds me of Young Thug from a couple years ago


really liking that flow, its basic shit but the melody is dope
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I've been saying this!!!!! all over this track since it dropped back in November or whatever on WSHH. It bangs so damn hard
 
Storm Chamber

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And now for the most pretentious album description in 2018, possibly 19:



When you hear the phrase, "everything's fine," we immediately understand it as emotional shorthand. In daily life, we depend on those perfunctory clichés (hope all is well, good to hear from you, etc.) to spare ourselves from the psychological unpacking that the truth requires. For that, there's art. For that, there's Everything's Fine from Jean Grae and Quelle Chris, a jagged, acerbic odyssey that brilliantly riffs on this dystopian zeitgeist.

The thing is, anyone without a lobotomy and a toxic red hat understands that things are definitely not fine. The crush of modern anxiety, the late capitalist scramble to survive, and the brain warp rot of social media has left most of us half crazy.

"We have a dickhead for a president, and before our eyes, racial, religious, and sexual identity rights are moving backwards," says New York's (by way of Detroit) Quelle Chris. "Money is still a thing (I'm waiting for Star Trek life to start). There's war, your kids may be sick, but if someone randomly asks "how's it going?" most people will say "fine."

Released on Mello Music Group, this album replaces that reflexive cliché with honest and eloquent tangents. It's specific and subtle in its execution, achieving equilibrium between lackadaisical detours to smell the flowers and the frantic acknowledgement that there's an inferno raging outside.

If the great political albums are often grim polemics, Everything's Fine achieves its goals partially through withering satire. See the opening skit, a Prince Paul-style game show in which three contestants (including a futuristic robot) numbly croak that everyone's fine despite flying high on every imaginable drug, crying themselves to sleep at night and being unemployed for a decade and a half despite having a Master's in Fine Arts. I promise it's much funnier than it reads off a screen.

"We're both perfectionists in different ways," Jean Grae describes their working relationship. "We both see huge pictures and concepts. So while listening, pay attention to the subtleties, the nuances, the dissonance and the harmony. The conversations and pieces of ourselves in the words, the flows, the beats. All of the open spaces. .Be uncomfortable and be okay with that. Be layered and be okay with that. Be angry and be okay."

It's rare to find a record where two rappers are so seamlessly intertwined. Yes, that's partially a by-product of the teamwork that goes into being in any normal relationship where you wake, sleep, and dream together. But the album also bears the hallmarks of two singular creative geniuses trading bars, collaborating on beats, and combining fun with internal therapy and external observations. It features indelible cameos from Denmark Vessey, Grammy Award winner Anna Wise, Your Old Droog and Big Tone, as well as comics Ashok "Dap" Kondabolu, Michael Che, Nick Offerman, and Hannibal Burress.

In the streaming era, we tend to naturally overlook albums that require multiple listens. This is a record that will grab you on first listen, but it's greatness only reveals itself through its careful construction, slick wordplay, and esoteric allusions.

On "Zero," Jean artfully references Rachmaninoff and The Donner Party in the first two bars. With "Scoop A Dirt," she name-drops the Babadook alongside the truth bomb that Friends was little more than a whitewashed rip off off Living Single. Meanwhile, Quelle balances boasts about bags of cash the size of Chris Christie with poignant existential laments. Somewhere in between, Jean will stealthily slip in jewels like, "it took me until my 30s just to put my finger on it, once you accept the knowledge/solace doesn't follow/honest."

It's a record with only a couple antecedents: De La Soul is Dead, Organized Konfusion's Stress: The Extinction Agenda, Blackstar, and maybe Cannibal Ox's Cold Vein. Yet it doesn't sound remotely like any of them. It's spontaneous and free, yet refined and meticulous. Even if everything is abject, it's a reminder that music can transcend.

"This album is full of our minds. Our hearts. Our love for production, and words. flow and a lot of musicality," Jeans says. "We don't approach topics, issues, writing, or making beats in the same way. I'm harsh, blunt, quick, technical, I arrange classically and play more than I sample. I make joints with 80 tracks. I'm layers upon layers upon layers. Quelle is patient, he's kinder. More loose and minimalistic. He makes sounds work together that shouldn't fucking work. How? I have no idea. These are dreams within dreams."
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Illithid Dude

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Speaking of FYF, they just released the line up. Interested in Skepta and MBV. Everything else is wack. This is gonna be the first year I don't go. Pretty bummed.
 

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A lot of crossover with other fests but FYF is still the best "somewhat unique" festival lineup among the big ones. it's definitely got the best alternative/indie sorta lineup.

MBV, St. Vincent, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Unknown Mortal Orchesta, The Breeders, Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks, Car Seat Headrest, glassjaw, and Destroyer in an era where festivals are getting increasingly more pop, rap, and electronic centric is actually amazing. Especially since it's only a two day festival.
 
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