You took this too far now. Schoolboy was on a lot more tracks too i think.
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also 2 Chainz.
Dikembe beat him out for flash game of the year though.
VVV danny probably had my favorite feature of the year on Terrorist Threats.
yes, YESSSSSSSSSS
Feature killer = Nasir Jones
Hip Hop
Triple Beam Dreams
Champion
Maybach Curtains
Chain Glow
Mirage
Something
This Thing Of Ours
Hard To Love Somebody
Nothing to Lose
Kings & Queens
Man of the year = Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
Might have lost a lot of battles but in the hiphop arena he was strong as ever. With Life is Good he showed maturity, ruthless lyricism and nostalgia turned his losses into victories. Killed features and made the song of the year: Hiphop.
Hip Hop
Triple Beam Dreams
Champion
Maybach Curtains
Chain Glow
Mirage
Something
This Thing Of Ours
Hard To Love Somebody
Nothing to Lose
Kings & Queens
Man of the year = Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones
Might have lost a lot of battles but in the hiphop arena he was strong as ever. With Life is Good he showed maturity, ruthless lyricism and nostalgia turned his losses into victories. Killed features and made the song of the year: Hiphop.
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I was going to agree with HRD...but Detox convinced me to roll with the GOAT
His verse is dope. Everyone came correct on the song, as good as Drake and Nicki can at least. Jeezy just sounds like he is about to die that's the only thing wrong really.
Nah, K. Dot's work this year pretty much starts and ends with GKMC, with a side of Cartoons & Cereal. All his features and other work this year has been largely forgettable.
no stop it slime. he brought the ruckus on illuminate, power circle, catch a fade rtc. plus all the other tracks not on GKMC like cartoons and cereal, westside right on time, recipe etc. Kendrick is easily moty for our genre inside hip hop and out of it. on commercial, cultural and critical levels
I can agree w all of this.
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Cancer 4 Cure might've just snuck its way back onto my top 10.
All those tracks were already on a tape called Good Kid In A Mad City, pretty much a fan-made cut tracks tape early on in the year. Thing is, a lot of the tracks were wack on there too. The minority were the standouts, Cartoons & Cereal, Westside, Right On Time and The Relevant.
I don't think of Kendrick as someone who killed features this year. The most notable ones were Blessed and I'm On anyways. Then there's a bunch of trash like B Boyz, Fucking Problem, 100 (even though the song is good) and I'm sure there were a few poor pop-crossover joints too like the token Rihanna track you do when your a newcomer.
Yup. I loved control system.
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It's pretty high on my list.. got way much better the more I listened to it
I wrote a long post and realized Kendrick is probably man of the year by the end of it. *holds L*
But only because 2Chainz hasn't been too hot feature-wise either, better than Kendrick but not significantly better, otherwise 2Chainz has accomplished much more this year and his story is much more impressive, from nobody to probably one the most prominent figure in rap outside of Ross and legends like Ye and Jay. I just think you need to be more than just Man of Q4 or when your album drops, but I guess the implications of an album like GKMC doing good on hip-hop at large overshadow that. Only evidence of said influence would solidify that.
But only because 2Chainz hasn't been too hot feature-wise either, better than Kendrick but not significantly better, otherwise 2Chainz has accomplished much more this year and his story is much more impressive, from nobody to probably one the most prominent figure in rap outside of Ross and legends like Ye and Jay. I just think you need to be more than just Man of Q4 or when your album drops, but I guess the implications of an album like GKMC doing good on hip-hop at large overshadow that. Only evidence of said influence would solidify that.
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Kendrick is runner up for me, but I personally have to give it to 2chainz and one huge reason is because even on songs he wasn't on I would hear his presence. Quite a few rappers would make references to him in their verses and everything even though he wasn't on the song. Maybe that is stupid to consider for Man of the Year but personally I think it is quite a big deal when you are often mentioned or your lyrics are referenced on songs you haven't even worked on. Not only that but within the same year you have dropped those songs.
Makes perfect sense. I'm also picturing this with dat silky snoop voice, which adds a lot of weight to your arguments.
Also Gucci put in work this year but no one cared apparently.
Goddamnit this post has me reconsidering. This is so damn true.
I think the growth to the force he is in a single year is far more impressive than people thinking Kendrick might flop right up until the album hits because of the uncertainty of him working with Dre. Two tours to attract polarizing ends of the market, getting cosigned by one of the biggest stars in the game and being featured on the biggest song of the summer, being part of one of the biggest posse movements all year, being featured some of on the biggest tracks all year, the list goes on. Kendrick's list of accomplishments is impressive too, but the biggest stuff and much of the anticipation occurred on the tail end of 2011, including the Dre cosign.
If we could, TDE would be man of the year.
Despite me not liking Control System, they've owned this year with H&C, Control System and GKMC. My top two are TDE releases, I'm just curious whether the rest of the team can carry the momentum into 2012 and whether Interscope/Dre will support the rest of them as well as they did Kendrick.
The rise of TDE was amazing. They went from barely being on my radar to being my favorite clique in a year (other than Jay Rock who I think is kind of boring but I haven't given him a huge chance).
2Chainz is man of the year because I had no idea who he was in January and since then, he has shown up on tons of major songs with basically every major artist (Kanye, Drake, Nicki all being HUGE hits) AND he was on Mercy, which I would call the biggest hip hop song this year, and he had arguably the most memorable verse (besides Big Sean talking about asses in the beginning).
2Chainz's verse on Mercy made him, in my opinion.
And he capitalized on all that momentum with a decent album with good singles and the most classic cover in hip hop since the 90s.
When I think of this year, I think of the rise of TDE, Danny Brown, and 2Chainz. The first was a gradual build, but a wave of music you couldn't ignore, they ran the game. The second was the backseat master, destroying features, becoming so much more prominent and really finding his place. 2Chainz literally came out of nowhere and destroyed it.
Biggest flops this year was Rick Ross IMO. At the beginning of the year he had so much more star power, now he means so little. Dude is done. Also Flocka and Gucci are pretty much done, which sucks. Also mainstream NY punchline rappers, all of them, except French.
2Chainz is man of the year because I had no idea who he was in January and since then, he has shown up on tons of major songs with basically every major artist (Kanye, Drake, Nicki all being HUGE hits) AND he was on Mercy, which I would call the biggest hip hop song this year, and he had arguably the most memorable verse (besides Big Sean talking about asses in the beginning).
2Chainz's verse on Mercy made him, in my opinion.
And he capitalized on all that momentum with a decent album with good singles and the most classic cover in hip hop since the 90s.
When I think of this year, I think of the rise of TDE, Danny Brown, and 2Chainz. The first was a gradual build, but a wave of music you couldn't ignore, they ran the game. The second was the backseat master, destroying features, becoming so much more prominent and really finding his place. 2Chainz literally came out of nowhere and destroyed it.
Biggest flops this year was Rick Ross IMO. At the beginning of the year he had so much more star power, now he means so little. Dude is done. Also Flocka and Gucci are pretty much done, which sucks. Also mainstream NY punchline rappers, all of them, except French.
Gucci wasn't relevant enough on the major stage.
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I feel like this is even more of a reason why 2chainz is man of the year.
Even if its true, thats irrelevant in considering 2012.
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I might get shit for this but fuck it: I'm no 2Chainz fan overall but dude has some of the best punchlines and lines in rap right now. Dude reminds me of MF DOOM to a degree, I'm not even joking, in terms of how he plays with his lines and lyric expectation:
I'm drunk and high at the same time drinking champagne on the airplane
He constantly has lines like that, that make me smile
I'm drunk and high at the same time drinking champagne on the airplane
He constantly has lines like that, that make me smile
Someone on the GAF-Hop podcast mentioned this I think, he has lines that just get stuck in your fucking head. Right now for me:
Standing on the block selling h'nard, I be goin' dumb, I be goin' retard.. TRU!
I used to hate on dude a lot but then I caught myself being entertained by shit like this and I really don't know how to feel about him as an artist overall, but I respect the hell out of him.
Kendrick had good features this year, and his album sold incredibly well while also being the top hip-hop album critically speaking this year...I think that puts him over 2 Chainz who was featured on more songs, but whose album just didn't have the impact that Kendrick's did.
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so I start the GAF podcast and hear this white dude talking, then realize it's Eschalon
edit: laughing at the god Nasir
edit: laughing at the god Nasir
Kanye went full retard and it was the best thing he ever did.
We feasted on Mac n Cheese for weeks.
2 Chainz blessed us with the best selling rap album of the year.
To top it off, we got the supreme ignant trio at the end of the year. The Keef album, ASAP's masterpiece, and the undeniably SOTY, maybe song of the decade - All Gold Everything by ASAP Trick Daddy. Shit be jammin mane.
We feasted on Mac n Cheese for weeks.
2 Chainz blessed us with the best selling rap album of the year.
To top it off, we got the supreme ignant trio at the end of the year. The Keef album, ASAP's masterpiece, and the undeniably SOTY, maybe song of the decade - All Gold Everything by ASAP Trick Daddy. Shit be jammin mane.
Travel!
Kamsdagawd.
this and straight up 2 chainz album wasnt that tight. i like cuts off it but i wouldnt even put it in my top ten and i like ignorant shit. eating off features is one thing, but you gotta serve me up a nice cut of rap filet mignon when push comes to shove. were never getting that from 2 chainz. and we definitely didnt get it this year
Slim Thug and Paul Wall MURDERED the All Gold Everything beat. IMO, best remix of it yet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=najbuUnmjw0
Chopped and Screwed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YiCcsjssBs
Thugga is still a top ten current rappers IMO. Problem is these days he's so opposed to working with lames and fuck ninjas that he hardly puts anything out. Gotta be my favorite Twitter follow though. Thugga is the twitter king.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=najbuUnmjw0
Chopped and Screwed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YiCcsjssBs
Thugga is still a top ten current rappers IMO. Problem is these days he's so opposed to working with lames and fuck ninjas that he hardly puts anything out. Gotta be my favorite Twitter follow though. Thugga is the twitter king.
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Blackace spinning Bieber in the club
PD needs a chair on the next podcastBlackace spinning Bieber in the club
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Working on my album list and I need GAF Hop to mandate something for me: should BFK be considered a mixtape this year, or an album? It was released on datpiff and labeled a mixtape, but it's also being sold on iTunes...so I'm kind leaning towards putting it on my album list instead of the mixtape list...
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