So smooth. Love it.
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MuddyDonut
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Cesare Borgia
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While these are interesting and well produced, does anyone else feel like there is also an ugly ghetto anthropology aspect to them. They always send the whitest, most cornbread hipster nerd to inner cities, let black people incriminate themselves, and then profit off it. The ATL videos were especially galling for me as a white man due to them sending the most petite white dude I've ever seen in my life to interview Migos and their goons. The young man looked like he couldn't open a can of Coke, and looked so fragile that even the smallest female model might cause internal damage to him by straddling him during sex.
Discotheque
Banned
Lmao nah it's been mentioned before in this thread. The issue also comes up about vice documentaries as well
His next album is going to be so good
I think more than anything they want to send someone in who really wouldn't have any prior experience with the scene or culture. Not unlike a Louis Theroux documentary. I see your points, but I don't think it merits some of those extrapolations. As far as the self-incriminating aspect. They mostly touch on aspects of life that turn up in the artists songs or parts of their life that they wear on their sleeves anyways.
RPS37
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Emeryville [Prod. By Linzi Jai] by Sylvan LaCue (QuESt) https://soundcloud.com/sylvanlacue/emeryville-prod-by-linzi-jai
Discotheque
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3 for 3. dude is killing it. man his next album has aoty potential.
Flying Nimbus, this, and what was the third one again? I forget.
I have to wonder if we get that feeling because that is the feeling living there. These videos seem to focus on that "trap" aspect of these communities. It's hard to say with vice to be honest. Can anyone speak on this?
He's murking everyone
Yeah. Even seeing photos/videos from '98 to '00 is extraordinary. On another note, Chris Rivers is actually really fucking good. Can't wait for him to blow up.
Like everywhere there are shitty places / people. The documentaries are turning the plight of poor disenfranchised young people into a well edited spectacle.
I was more suprised Kendrick agreed to be interviewed in the environment he was, specifically because of the way it was portrayed.
I was more suprised Kendrick agreed to be interviewed in the environment he was, specifically because of the way it was portrayed.
I see you're point. Vice doesn't seem to take any political imperative when it goes into these areas. They're trying to get their footage which will earn a profit. No denying that.
I think the video for Kendrick feels a bit different than the rest. Because the others have mostly been well known artists who they end up follow around for a day or two. This was more of a deep dive into the lives of people that caught up with various setbacks, who happened to also grow up with Kendrick.
The problem is less that they send some skinny white dude, but that all these dudes don't have much else to say other than. "Yeah, that's really bad." All while the subjects of the video take their time to host the crew.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Not sure if people just skip over it since it's sort of obscure, but fucking Five Fingers man. That song is INSANELY fun to listen to.
I think you're talking about Getaway Car, which I like a lot but yeah it's the weakest song on the album. Probably because the first verse is insanely boring and underwhelming. Cage is pretty overrated, anyway. Lot's of energy in the music though, which is why I like it.
If i had to pick a favorite song off the album, Catacomb Kids is the one, which may be one of my all time favorite Aesop Rock songs. In fact, I may make a top ten favorite Aesop Rock songs. Should make for an interesting list.
richardhawk
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Taking the train through Compton when I was living in Long beach it's definitely a bit rough. Not saying I ever felt scared or whatever but theres a real shift in what the area looks like when you pass through it. I've never lived in that part of Los Angeles but it's very easy to tell when you hit the area. If only based on the rundown buildings.
IrishNinja
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DO IT
fuck, i need to complete them & eric b/rakim discogs on wax sometime
harsh but fair
it worked tho
aw see that sounds like some coli shit i missed
Uno Venova
Banned
FZ & UA are all I've been able to find but my knowledge isn't as deep as some here. I do like Denzel Curry's sound in comparison though.
Cesare Borgia
Banned
Pete Rock's production was definitely some next level shit.
Bodega Bamz?
Glass Rebel
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Capital Steeze, ILLFIGHTYOU, Ratking, Joey Bada$$, Mr. Muthafuckin eXquire, Villain Park, $ha Hef, Bishop Nehru, Crashprez
oh and Cult Mountain
Finally listened to that No Health Insurance, pretty damn raw, but it's almost too lo-fi for me. Still pretty damn cool tape, but I can barely listen to it in the headphones. You should check out the little Cult Mountain EP I posted if you've never heard it too. Kind of a similar style.
IrishNinja
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well, this is a masterpiece
That shit is the zoo breh. It aint like they making it out to be something that it aint.
IrishNinja
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how you finna top Blowout Comb though
Easy; Reachin' does.
Viruz
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lmao I read this URL and thought it was gonna be some herp derp parody of the Ye/Tidal controversy
It's got that Jeremiah Jae/Beauty of the Beat aesthetic going on and yeah, it's a bit muddled. I'll check out Cult Mountain.
Classic thread forever
Andrew Korenchkin
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Yeah, I'm already doing it.
Necessary for any adversary to worry
The legendary, primary, never secondary
Dip in Peru, overdue in Honolulu
Now if you knew the preview, could bubble like shampoo
Outclass the mass so we'll look in the hourglass
Talking about the theoretical, isometrical
Alphabetical rebel, a dissect-the-devil
Unveil a tale in detail, the third rail
Read it in braille, a bigger male leave a trail
#barz
Andrew Korenchkin
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Really? His stuff is pretty lucid to me.
Psychological Intellect
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thought this was the fake electronica twitter lmao
posted a new updated version of a previous hit mix titled Brass https://soundcloud.com/yungsnuggles/brass
it's still a WIP but also recently made a new one titled Napalm
Ice is the next one
Or maybe the Young Thug mix
it's still a WIP but also recently made a new one titled Napalm
Ice is the next one
Or maybe the Young Thug mix
IrishNinja
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ehh
ehhh
ill revisit that one soon & report back
i hear this a lot lately, but he's often on a theme - honeys, clout etc so i don't think it's as random as some make it out to be...i mean, it's also a weird knock on an MC from that era, as if it was a rare trait or something
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