Every time someone posts a video or song that Lil B went "hard" on, i usually listen and wonder what the fuck they were smoking to think that.
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Every time someone posts a video or song that Lil B went "hard" on, i usually listen and wonder what the fuck they were smoking to think that.
This will probably be the best blend of hip-hop/R&B.
Also, Nujabes' Far Fowls reminded me how awesome the guzheng (I think that's what was used.) is. Best example of it, Gorillaz - Hong Kong / Live
Hey Shinobi, since you're the only world music connoisseur that I know, do you have anything similar?
Also, Nujabes' Far Fowls reminded me how awesome the guzheng (I think that's what was used.) is. Best example of it, Gorillaz - Hong Kong / Live
Hey Shinobi, since you're the only world music connoisseur that I know, do you have anything similar?
Haha, real talk, I'm sitting here doing exactly that. I'm going through all this shit and can't find it at all.
e: I'm sure he was wearing a turban or some shit... I really can't find it at all.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
suck a dick for 20111111111
TheKaeptain
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It's called playing along with the joke.
I rather not listen to shit music. Again, fans making excuses for shit music.
Glass Rebel
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I don't know about the guzheng specifically but onra did chinese inspired beats on chinoiseries 1 and 2. Also some DJ Krush stuff would probably fit.
Edit: oh, you didn't mean hiphop. No idea then haha. House of Flying Daggers and Hero OSTs
That was pretty fucking amazing. Undun AOTY.
FantasticMrFoxdie
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Thanks. Crazy didn't know that was a sample from India. Sounds like a kung fu flick sample.
Dat climax. I need new pants.
BTW, heres their Tip the Scale performance too. Literally tipping the scale, musically, there.
IrishNinja
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gonna watch that roots video later, blazing through Spiritual State now...wow.
FUCK SCHOOL
FUCK SCHOOL
Glass Rebel
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Cop Dr. No's Oxperiment and Ethiopium too if you dig it, might be right up your alley, it's just a bit heavier I guess. (lots of stuff on that Mos joint is from Oxperiment I iirc)
Was this posted?
New Slick Rick produced by DJ Premier for the soundtrack of “The Sitter“: Need Some Bad. Rick is crazy talented, why isn't he releasing new albums?
New Slick Rick produced by DJ Premier for the soundtrack of “The Sitter“: Need Some Bad. Rick is crazy talented, why isn't he releasing new albums?
IrishNinja
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Spiritual State = AOTY hands-down. even the MCs are good, prolly the best pics of any single hydeout album ive heard, honestly.
1 track left, too. Undun was top 5 also, i hope Com delivers.
1 track left, too. Undun was top 5 also, i hope Com delivers.
Tokubetsu
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Because he was in prison for six years and just doesn't really care enough? His time was kinda passed man but that's okay Adventures of Slick Rick is one of the few golden age hip hop albums that has actually aged really fucking well. Slick Rick can rap circles around most dudes to this day (as that track shows). Dudes like him and Rakim will always be gods.
Even the OVOXO shit seem people to be doing now.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Nah, they went fucking amazing on that. HAM is an insult.
...you really, really don't understand it. Damn.
Lil B has nothing to do with A$AP Rocky, there are no similarities between them besides they use Clams Casino beats. And even then still, the ones Lil B gets are better. Rocky is an absolutely atrocious rapper, much worse than Mac Miller, and if y'all are listening to him just for the beats, well let me direct you elsewhere for some of that and more.
Going to give this a try:
I am going to start asking people to post in here for me by proxy.
nah Rocky's a pretty good rapper (check his freestyles and guest verses), but he just focuses on making good songs, which ultimately is the most important skill any new rapper in 2011 needs to have and he has it in abundance.
Explain it to me then genius. You are the second person to say i dont get it, yet no one explains it. Yall are just fucking insane. Also, Asap sounds very similar to Lil B.
ShinobiFist
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Yo! My man. They don't even say the same shit, or flow the same way. One is being a clown, the other is just saying shit.
Ill give him the benefit of the doubt. I have only heard a few Rocky tracks that were posted. But what i heard it sounded like a more chill, coherent Lil B. Maybe it was the beats, or something. Still doesnt explain this Lil B joke im not in on.
spindashing
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Weren't you going to stop with the whole "Gucci is shit blah blah Lil B is shit" charade?
I thought it got you bitches.
It does, but now im with a female that doesnt listen to that bullshit. I can go back to calling a turd a turd.
ShinobiFist
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ASAP only has one good track, everything else is trash.
Oh ok, so it is another one of those artists that inexplicably has a big following. Like Lil B.
spindashing
Banned
haha
Well, at any rate... Subject change: That Blu x Pete Rock joint was pretty smooth but I hate it when rappers give me a shimmer of hope when I won't agree with 70% of their next ventures.
Rocky is definitely co-opting Lil B's swag with that "pretty motherfucker" shit. They don't really sound anything alike, though. I find them both enjoyable.
ShinobiFist
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Yup.
Naw A$AP Rocky has some good tracks, he flows adequately enough, but at times it does seem like the sum of the track owes more to the producer than to him. Brand New Guy really exposed what a hungry rapper could do over one of those beats. The comparisons to Lil B mostly originate in his swag, I don't think it's a comparison of their rapping styles, which are much different.
And just for Recon, I'll break down why I really liked Lil B' at one time in all seriousness, though that like is dwindling:
Lil B' is a sort of walking parody of various ridiculously fun eras in rap. He's like one of those awkwardly shaped circus mirrors, being held at different angles against some of the more swagged points in rap.
A$AP Rocky's multi-coastal, multicultural approach to rap and his entire pretty boy swag is taken almost directly from the Lil B' blueprint. It only seems to be working better, because Rocky's a passable rapper, whose flows sound effortless, yet you can tell he puts a lot of effort in them. While Lil B's BASED raps are purposefully brain-dead, and require him absolutely no thought.
And just for Recon, I'll break down why I really liked Lil B' at one time in all seriousness, though that like is dwindling:
Lil B' is a sort of walking parody of various ridiculously fun eras in rap. He's like one of those awkwardly shaped circus mirrors, being held at different angles against some of the more swagged points in rap.
A$AP Rocky's multi-coastal, multicultural approach to rap and his entire pretty boy swag is taken almost directly from the Lil B' blueprint. It only seems to be working better, because Rocky's a passable rapper, whose flows sound effortless, yet you can tell he puts a lot of effort in them. While Lil B's BASED raps are purposefully brain-dead, and require him absolutely no thought.
Ok, i feel like I have always got this then. I just dont agree with the sentiment that Lil B is in on the Joke too.
He is definitely now, and it kind of ruined the appeal. Like if you were watching The Room or Troll 2 and one of the actors suddenly went "this is funny huh?"
Alright. I admittedly stopped paying any attention to him. So if im getting this right, he was a glorious train wreck, but became self aware, thus ruining his appeal?
Goddammit Yelawolf:
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 11/20/2011
#4. Drake - Take Care - 90,000 (894,000)
#6. Mary J. Blige - My Life II: The Journey Continues 72,000 (228,000)
#7. Rihanna - Talk That Talk - 68,000 (266,000)
#22. Trey Songz - Inevitable - 27,000 (27,000)
#24. LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking - 26,000 (332,000)
#28. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV - 23,000 (1,776,000)
#54. Wale - Ambition - 14,000 (269,000)
#57. Yelawolf - Radioactive - 12,000 (53,000)
#79. Mac Miller - Blue Slide Park - 9,100 (194,000)
#148. Jet Life - Jet World Order - 4,200 (4,200)
Hip Hop Album Sales: The Week Ending 11/20/2011
#4. Drake - Take Care - 90,000 (894,000)
#6. Mary J. Blige - My Life II: The Journey Continues 72,000 (228,000)
#7. Rihanna - Talk That Talk - 68,000 (266,000)
#22. Trey Songz - Inevitable - 27,000 (27,000)
#24. LMFAO - Sorry For Party Rocking - 26,000 (332,000)
#28. Lil Wayne - Tha Carter IV - 23,000 (1,776,000)
#54. Wale - Ambition - 14,000 (269,000)
#57. Yelawolf - Radioactive - 12,000 (53,000)
#79. Mac Miller - Blue Slide Park - 9,100 (194,000)
#148. Jet Life - Jet World Order - 4,200 (4,200)
The most surprising to me is that Rihanna isnt doing better.
Glass Rebel
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I didn't like Yela's songs but I could see the guy got some skills in that BET cypher. The fucktard Wale making more is just sad.
Lil B came up through the web. Rocky came up through the NYC underground. Two totally different influences.
The NYC underground is one of the biggest scenes in the states currently. This is why Rocky is hot.
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