You mean Esoteric.
You mean Esoteric.
Yes, indeed. That is what I mean. Thanks for catching that. I can never remember that guys name. I love his rappin’ tho’.
I’m the worst! This is the song about food poisoning...
This was my favorite track from that CZARFACE album:
It did move the needle for CZARFACE being full on dad music.
A new PE album with some amazing guests! George Clinton, Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys, PMD Run DMC:
New Lloyd Banks?!?!
Look how young Chuck looks back then. I love this so much! Sister Souljah! Yeah!!
A new PE album with some amazing guests! George Clinton, Cypress Hill, Beastie Boys, PMD Run DMC:
Dude!! This album is great! I’m still going back to this over and over. This album has really made an impact on me. It’s one for the ages. This is the best hip-hop album to come out in many many years.
There’s many songs on this album which cannot be ignored. I’m going to link a bunch of them here.
Ok. So this video doesn’t show LL Cool J. Maybe there are some permissions issues. I don’t know. Please correct me if I’m wrong, but verse 2 which starts “From the tippy tippy top never taking the L” is LL Cool J, right? The video implies that it’s Run, but from my estimates the only thing Run is doing in this song is at the very end with the “It’s like this y’all! Like this y’all!” part. Anyway please let me know what you think about that. Also some some of the lyrics are not accurate. Here’s the video…
The updated Fight the Power 2020 has some amazing guest rappers. Nas. Rapsody. Black Thought. And that Bob Marley sample! One of the most amazing uses of a sample ever!! It’s from the chorus of I Shot the Sheriff by Bob Marley. Don’t be ashamed if you’ve never recognized it. The way it was recontextualized is the best example of the right way to sample a well known recording.
Smash the Crowd has a super dope 16 bars by Ice-T.
You’ve all probably heard this one already. STFU was the first single from this album and for good reason. THIS IS PURE HIP-HOP!!
DJ Premier. THAT BEASTIE BOYS SAMPLE!!! It’s from Slow and Low. let yourself “GO!!!”
I mentioned recontextualized samples. One of my favorite examples of this is from Jump by Chris Cross. The source of the sample is from The Jackson Five. The song Jump recontextualizes the piano sample from a major key in the original to a minor key for Jump. I love this!!
Mean muggin’ kids is so cute!
Mrs Rawk got me the Smithsonian Anthology of Hip-Hop for my birthday. So many great memories and rediscoveries.
Warning: Lots of profanity
I think I’m going to rip the audio from this video. It’s a very entertaining mix.
I mentioned recontextualized samples. One of my favorite examples of this is from Jump by Chris Cross. The source of the sample is from The Jackson Five. The song Jump recontextualizes the piano sample from a major key in the original to a minor key for Jump. I love this!!
The YT channel Tracklib does some awesome Sample Breakdowns:
Between stuff like this and WhoSampled, I've discovered so much more music through what some of my favorite hip-hop tracks have sampled.
Also, seriously, if you're now following DJ Jazzy Jeff's livestreams, what are you even doing?
Or, alternatively, the wonderful SkratchBastid:
Who Sampled is soooo great! I do the same as you. Look up my favorite beats and put the source materials in a playlist labeled Funk Friday with Soul.
This came out last week. Debut album by a young rapper named Solemn Brigham. It’s really good and has a unique sound.
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Arise thread!
Tyler, the Creator is genuinely on top of his game in a way that is just amazing. "Call Me If You Get Lost" was a fantastic album already, but the songs that didn't make the cut that he's releasing now would easily be the best songs on other people's albums.
Some classic hip-hop
Arise thread!
Kendrick Lamar is a sicko and I would like to never, ever, ever get on his bad side. Holy shit.
I remember "Hit em' Up," and this may genuinely be the most hateful piece of music ever made.
Like, this is not a diss song. It is a HATE song.
EDIT: The stuff in the picture? Those are Aubrey's prescriptions pills and his Ozempic.
Kendrick is f*ckin' evil dude.
I remember "Hit em' Up,"
5 shots couldn't drop me, I took it and smiled.
I miss him.
But yeah these last few days have been something else. I saw an interesting tweet last night:
Kendrick doesn’t seem to be doing this to entertain. Meet the Grahams feels more like he’s trying to get an investigation launched. It’s like Spotlight, if the Boston Globe released a track about the church scandal instead of a paper.
Kendrick Lamar dropped another track about half an hour ago and based on early impressions, this is an all out nuclear strike:
He is the f*cking boogeyman.
Holy sh*t.
This man has dropped FOUR absolutely obliterating diss tracks in 72 hours. And the last one is going to be in the clubs all summer.
If Drake comes back from this, he's the greatest rapper ever. Full stop.
EDIT: I am pre-emptively working on a Kendrick apology track, just to keep my ass covered.
Metro Boomin just announced a contest for who can make the best verse for his "BBL Drizzy" beat.
And the beat goes f*cking HARD.
This is the most insane hip-hop weekend of my life. By far.
EDIT: Again, I should make clear, I have never, ever heard a diss BEAT.
If this is actually Kendrick Lamar trying to goad law enforcement to go after Drake, the next diss track is just going to be him reading from Canada's penal code.
I wonder how many Google Map searches for Park Ln Cir there have been in the past 24 hours.
Does anyone have any idea why 6:16 in LA was only released on Instagram?
I must be old because all this new commercial shit sounds like hot garbage.
/slinks back to the underground.
I must be old because all this new commercial shit sounds like hot garbage.
/slinks back to the underground.
Melle Mel released a diss track you might like.
Metro Boomin just announced a contest for who can make the best verse for his "BBL Drizzy" beat.
And the beat goes f*cking HARD.
Man is getting cooked in MULTIPLE DIFFERENT LANGUAGES.
Someone said Metro did a "Make a Diss Foundation" for Drake and I am screaming.
The feud has a Wikipedia article that feels like reading up on the Battle of Hastings. This part's almost like an Order of Battle:
Celebrity reactionsLamar has since been supported by Future, Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, Rihanna, A$AP Rocky, Rick Ross, Megan Thee Stallion, and Kanye West.
Drake has been supported by Uma Thurman and Azaelia Banks.
That last cosign Kendrick got is probably... not one he wants in this, considering Drake's background.
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