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GAF-HOP: New Official 2010+ Thread of "hiphop ain't dead"

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Recon

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siddx said:
Recovery was an average album worth a few listens, far from classic, far from awful
I am convinced Gucci Mane is mentally handicapped
Devin the Dude is awesome. I love rappers with unique voices.
Charles Hamilton is whiny little bitch who won't ever have a hit album and will fade into obscurity.
Royce>Budden
Jay Sosa keeps wandering into this thread on accident and contributing exactly nothing to the discussion.
yo mama's got a peg leg...with a kick stand

There we go, now I'm caught up on the all the latest hip hop gaf topics.
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Ahh, a gentleman and a scholar. :)
 
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Mann-Buzzin-500x500.jpg



Mann Featuring 50 Cent - Buzzin (Remix)
https://usershare.net/2DopeBoyz/jalds3s0hujz
http://www.mediafire.com/?cwe3zfz7fuym9ki
http://www.thisis50.com/profiles/blogs/50-cent-buzzin-remix-new-hot (Stream)

This song is stuck in my head, god damn one of the best songs i've heard in a while.I love J.R Rotem's Production! :lol
 
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Complex Shadow

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I tried to YouTube buzzin remix ended up listening to "hate it or love it" :D

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ThePrivateCookie said:
http://www.yk2daily.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Mann-Buzzin-500x500.jpg[IMG]

This song is stuck in my head, god damn one of the best songs i've heard in a while.I love J.R Rotem's Production! :lol[/QUOTE]
wow this is was surprisingly good:lol
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damn, I remember like 10 years ago when I started visiting the okayplayer boards, and seeing the equivalent of girl-age posts by Von Pea. Now he's got albums and accolades and shit!

I've been on the internet too long :lol
 
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Recon

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From the wiki of Souljah Boy's first album:

"The album received poor ratings and negative reviews from Rate Your Music users, but CD Baby users gave more favorable criticism to the release this however did not change the album from being utter garbage."

That made me smile.
 
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Imm0rt4l

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Pinko Marx said:
Hopefully 50 will teach Soulja how to write some competent rhymes while they're working together.
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Or he could commission Eli Porter to ghost write for him.

I'm being serious
 
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OrangeGrayBlue

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Does anyone else think that percussion is becoming less prominent in hip-hop? I've noticed a lot of songs recently, even popular ones, that either lack percussion completely or downplay it a lot. It's an interesting trend I see popping up...
 
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effzee

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Pinko Marx said:
Hopefully 50 will teach Soulja how to write some competent rhymes while they're working together.
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All 50 would teach him to do is work in teflon don and twist man to be pronounced like mayne.

Competent rhymes and 50? Ha!
 
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Kimosabae

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OrangeGrayBlue said:
Does anyone else think that percussion is becoming less prominent in hip-hop? I've noticed a lot of songs recently, even popular ones, that either lack percussion completely or downplay it a lot. It's an interesting trend I see popping up...
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Yes, which is part of the reason the underground Midwest production is so special in my eyes. No one's keeping that mid-late nineties New York sound alive better than they are IMO.
 
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Pinko Marx

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OrangeGrayBlue said:
Does anyone else think that percussion is becoming less prominent in hip-hop? I've noticed a lot of songs recently, even popular ones, that either lack percussion completely or downplay it a lot. It's an interesting trend I see popping up...
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I kinda dig the trend a bit. Its playing with conventions, taking the road less traveled, etc.
 
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It's a love/hate relationship for me. I like that it emphasizes lyrics, but I think it takes it's own power away. MC's would typically have the percussion cut out for a few bars when they really want you to hear a certain part of their verse and emphasize those few lines. When percussion is nearly absent in a song, though, it puts italics on their entire verse, so to speak. It's hard to have any rise and fall in the power of their words without some serious instrumental hutzpah, which few producers have the talent for.

For instance, I think it works really well in this song due to the content and structure:
http://potholesinmyblog.com/macklemore-ryan-lewis-otherside-remix-f-fences/

I have mixed feelings about it in this song, though, because it doesn't allow for poignancy in the verses where they could use extra emphasis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB6GToWJRN8
 
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soul creator

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so yeah, it's been talked about enough already, but I'm really feeling that that Death Is Silent. and the instrumental album has me writing tons of verses again, which I'm very happy about.

goddamn
 
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Pinko Marx

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effzee said:
All 50 would teach him to do is work in teflon don and twist man to be pronounced like mayne.

Competent rhymes and 50? Ha!
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I dunno what you're on man, but 50 is a decent rapper in the very least. You might not dig his music but you can't deny that the man knows how to make a catchy ass song and he knows how to ride a beat, talents that Soulja has yet to display.
 
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Banzaiaap said:
Wow.. Why didn't I discover Slaughterhouse before, it's fucking epic! Any similar recent albums? (Already have Black Milk's EP)
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Crooked I's - Mr Pig Face Weapon Waist (At Least Get The Title Track)

Vinnie Paz - Season of the Assassin

Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design

Roc Marciano - Marcberg

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II

Scarface - Dopeman Music

Ill Bill - Black Metal

Black Market Militia

Also any Wu-Tang Clan or Boot Camp Clik album.
 
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HiResDes said:
Crooked I's - Mr Pig Face Weapon Waist (At Least Get The Title Track)

Vinnie Paz - Season of the Assassin

Jedi Mind Tricks - Violent By Design

Roc Marciano - Marcberg

Raekwon - Only Built 4 Cuban Linx II

Scarface - Dopeman Music

Ill Bill - Black Metal

Black Market Militia

Also any Wu-Tang Clan or Boot Camp Clik album.
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You forgot the best of them all (recently speaking, anyway) -
Diabolic - Liar and a Thief

K.Jack said:
Yeah this track has no heart.
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It's the best pairing of mainstream and underground in years, though. Gorillaz and MF Doom also comes to mind. I hope it becomes a single. I'd love to see a bunch of teeny-boppers rapping along to a Cage verse :lol
 
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HiResDes said:
Word up on the latest Diabolic album. :D...
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Glad I'm not the only one who loves it!


Pinko Marx said:
I know this is old but I want to post this again cause its that amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkP4mzOJ98M
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Just like everything he's done Post 2002, it's garbage. His use of samples on this track is simply amateurish and uinspired compared to Endtroducing. What a predictable way to use a voice sample! Modern DJ Shadow constantly impresses me with how much he can regress. At least RJD2 is experimenting and rediscovering his sound. No idea what the fuck DJ Shadow is doing anymore.
 
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PBY

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HiResDes said:
Oh shit I forgot to rep the new Skyzoo, you guys ever give it a listen? I think it's his best work ever.
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Yeah, its really good... also props for mentioning Roc Marciano, I thought his album was amazing, one of my favs this year
 
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Recon

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soul creator said:
so yeah, it's been talked about enough already, but I'm really feeling that that Death Is Silent. and the instrumental album has me writing tons of verses again, which I'm very happy about.

goddamn
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Ive been doing the same, great production!
 
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JEKKI

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anybody in here a fan of Reks?!?!

he's this dood from Boston. IMO, he's one of the best emcees I have heard in the recent years. If you have listened to Statik Selektah's albums, you have heard him.

dood has 3 albums out, Along Came the Chosen, Grey Hairs, More Grey Hairs, and they are all bangers!!

samples;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gz9T0m7r9Wc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4q3J2TvYlaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whQPHUQdhi8

the reason why I am posting this is becoz I am very excited that he will be performing here in Los Angeles!!! I've been a fan since I heard Grey Hairs and really look forward to seein him live!!

he's on the bill for the Termanology & Statik Selektah show this saturday for their release party thing for their 1982 album.

in other news... that new Termanology / Statik Selektah album is comin out soon...
 
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HiResDes

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From the Hood to the Highrise is one of my favorite songs of the year, although I don't know what album it's off of...I thought Reks had some new shit coming out.
 
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OrangeGrayBlue said:
Has anyone checked the new Foreign Exchange album? Not exactly hip-hop, but it's good stuff.

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The Foreign Exchange - The Last Fall
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Loved their last two but too much shit dropping/coming out slid this past me. I knew it was coming but I just missed it. Probably won't check it for a couple months still. Still got the deluxe edition of their last one with the instrumentals sitting on my desk :D
 
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Pinko Marx

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Tokubetsu said:
Just like everything he's done Post 2002, it's garbage. His use of samples on this track is simply amateurish and uinspired compared to Endtroducing. What a predictable way to use a voice sample! Modern DJ Shadow constantly impresses me with how much he can regress. At least RJD2 is experimenting and rediscovering his sound. No idea what the fuck DJ Shadow is doing anymore.
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