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Daily Discussion Thread 05/07/2020 - HipHop

Daily Discussion Thread 05/07/2020 - HipHop

Daily Discussion Thread 05/07/2020

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:10 AM PDT

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Hype Thursday: Post songs by artists that haven't gotten more than 50 upvotes on HHH

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:00 AM PDT

Rules

Artists qualify if they're never gotten 50 or more upvotes on /r/HipHopHeads (counting features)

Formatting:

Artist - Title

Description: no character minimum but some things that might be good to include: where the rapper is from, what subgenres they might fall into, have cosigns they might have, what their influences are/who they sound like.

Example:

Aaron May - Let Go

17 year old Houston Rapper, biggest influences are J Cole and Nas.

WIFIGAWD - SIPPIN ON DRANK

Underground rapper from DC. Has cosigns from Pitchfork, Fader, and Earl Sweatshirt (Earl brought him out during his set at both the DC and Baltimore stops of his last tour) among others. If you like this, Scope is probably one of his most popular songs, and he dropped a new project called Heat Check Vol. 2 this past week

Zeroh - BLQLYTE

The album is very good. Seems like blogs are catching on too. Here's the BandCamp piece:

On "Hydro," the fourth track from Zeroh's debut album BLQLYTE (pronounced "black light"), an unidentified individual asks a question over ticking chimes and wailing strings: "Of all the substances you've done, which is the wildest?" His tone is mischievous—as if he expects a story that ends with trashing a hotel room.

Instead, the experimental hip-hop artist reframes the question: "I think my biggest reaction to a drug happened to be…" What Zeroh took doesn't matter; high-pitched squeals censor the exact name. What matters is what he says next: "I hallucinated and lost complete sense of my body."

Zeroh doesn't mention how he studied kinesiology to better understand why psychedelics affect him so profoundly. He isn't alone in his fascination; decades after 1970's Controlled Substances Act and the cultural baggage it wrought, neuroscientists are once again studying the psychological properties of hallucinogens. Still, in person, Zeroh speaks of his experiences carefully, as if to ward off any lingering stigma. BLQLYTE is a far headier exploration into the possibilities, as Zeroh poses a question all debut albums must answer: "Who am I?"

The answer started taking shape in 2014, when Zeroh first made BLQLYTE's opening track. The Long Beach, CA native, who grew up listening to Ludacris and Pharrell, became part of the L.A. beat scene at the intersection of rap, electronica, and everything in between. (He's since become a go-to mixing and mastering engineer, with credits alongside Ras G and Low Leaf, who appears in BLQLYTE.) Zeroh already had a standing offer to release an album on Matthewdavid's Leaving Records, an imprint with ties to Stones Throw, whose releases modernize New Age music.

When he's featured on songs by other artists, Zeroh often plays the role of easygoing confidant, as he does on Jonwayne's "Afraid of Us." But as his mixtape compilation 0 Emissions reveals, over time his production style has grown increasingly turbulent and distorted, obscuring his growling voice in gusty layers of sound. It was Arca's avant-electronica that inspired such world-building. "[She] doesn't necessarily care if you understand," Zeroh says. "That type of fearlessness is strong in me. I really fuck with that, even though at times it is very frightening."

On BLQLYTE's third song "Metacine," the shamanic rapper Busdriver appears as part of a duo with Fumitake Tamura, called FR/BLCK/PR ("free black press"). He offers historical context for BLQLYTE's turbulence: how suffering can define his and Zeroh's existence ("When crack cocaine hit, we were welfare queens and gangbangers in the streets…"). As the album progresses, Zeroh realizes that this past doesn't have to consume him; The epiphany arrives in the album's eighth track, "The Lord & Nature," as Zeroh's raps take off sprinting over a frantic piano:

"N—s talk and walk/ I've been watching, wishing humble feelings on them," he raps, kicking off a free-form exploration of the ways he is both indebted to and independent of different facets of African-American culture—including hip-hop.

"These things don't feel right to say but maybe need to be said," Zeroh says. "There's probably a lot of artists, African-American artists, who just repeat these often cliché themes in rap music. They've got ho's or cars or clothes or whatever it is. That's not who they are. But they're being a mirror for the culture at large.

"Even me at times, the way I express things is in the black American language. I'm merely a mirror of our culture. I was raised around it. I grew up listening to it. But that's not necessarily who I am. And I definitely discovered that in psychedelics, when I had a hard reset. I was like, whoa, I've beyond color in real life. My spirit is beyond color, but I am in color form."

It's an idea that connects back to the album's larger thematic thread: psychedelics offer what neuroscientists call "ego dissolution," or "ego death." We become less concerned with self-referential behaviors, like being good enough or smart enough, and instead channel our energies toward feeling present. "I thought I was being hyper-spiritual, digging deep and all that stuff. But really I was preparing myself for real-life issues, trying to become more resilient," Zeroh says. Still, the storm that brewed in "The Fade" and erupted between "Mudblood" and "Sworn Free" passes by the album's end. Zeroh's voice still sounds imposing, but he can be heard clearly, as he says, "For the first time in my life, I feel free." The search for identity doesn't need to consume him; he can simply be. "Sometimes, I get caught up with this idea that I need to do certain things in order for it to be good or impressive, in order for it to sound like me," he says. "Anything that I do will sound like me. It doesn't even matter anymore."

throwback thursday / oldschool underground edition

Godfather Don - Status (1996)

Miilkbone - Keep It Real (1995). the beat has become much more iconic than the original song, with people like Jay-Z/Big L and Logic going over it.

The Beatnuts - Off The Books (feat. Big Pun, Cuban Link) (1997)

Jevon - Henry the 8th

Probably the most talented up and comer in the uk at the moment, has also done production for the likes of Nines and recently did a collab with Big Zuu. He's a real all rounder who does everything really well, beats, bars, and melodies are all on point this guy has serious star potential imo.

Frayser Boy - Flickin

A relatively unknown part of Hypnotize, and he didn't have too many hits to speak of, but this one was a banger and a half. If you had subs in your car in the mid-2000s, this was the song to show them off. It's fucking insane on a beefy system. I had a Kicker L7 in the hatch of a tinyass Mazda and this damn song nearly pushed the glass off the seal.

Heavily recommended: If you post a song, listen to another song and comment on it. Otherwise it doesn't rly work that well.

Feel free to add any feedback on what could make these threads better.

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[FRESH ALBUM] NAV - Good Intentions

Posted: 07 May 2020 08:50 PM PDT

Apple Music | Spotify | Tidal | Deezer

Tracklist

  1. Good Intentions (Intro)
  2. No Debate (feat. Young Thug)
  3. My Business (feat. Future)
  4. Turks (feat. Gunna & Travis Scott)
  5. Brown Boy
  6. Status (feat. Lil Uzi Vert)
  7. Codeine (feat. Gunna)
  8. Saint Laurenttt
  9. Coast to Coast
  10. Run It Up (feat. Pop Smoke)
  11. Spend It (feat. Young Thug)
  12. Recap (feat. Don Toliver)
  13. She Hurtin
  14. Overdose
  15. Did You Wrong
  16. My Space
  17. No Ice (feat. Lil Durk)
  18. Proud of Me?
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6ix9ine just announced he’s dropping a song tomorrow at 3 pm via the biggest billboard in Times Square. And also claims he’s still the King of New York. He also going live on ig at 3 pm est tomorrow.

Posted: 07 May 2020 04:04 PM PDT

[FRESH] Tm88, Southside, & Moneybagg Yo - Blue Jean Bandit (feat. Young Thug & Future)

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:05 PM PDT

Fetty wap sent me a message saying he checked my music out and that it’s heat and he wants to get me on a mixtape he’s working on and I need to send him $500 to lock in a spot but the whole thing sounds kinda sketchy, should it do it?

Posted: 07 May 2020 10:14 PM PDT

Here's proof and I'm split on what I should do. Part of me wants to do it because I've worked really hard on my music and if it's legit I may never get another opportunity like this again another part of me feels kinda sketched out by the fact that an established rapper would reach out to me for a spot on a mixtape then make me pay for a spot. What do you think?

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[FRESH ALBUM] Kehlani - It Was Good Until It Wasn’t

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:00 PM PDT

[FRESH] NAV (feat. Pop Smoke) - Run It Up

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:05 PM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] RAMIREZ - THA PLAYA$ MANUAL

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:07 PM PDT

[FRESH EP] Lil Tjay - State of Emergency

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:00 PM PDT

Freddie Gibbs Says He's Making More Music With Madlib, Shares 'The Diamond Mine Sessions'

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:24 AM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] Lil Durk - Just Cause Y’all Waited 2

Posted: 07 May 2020 05:57 PM PDT

[FRESH] Nav - My Business (feat. Future)

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:01 PM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] Bishop Nehru - Nehruvia: My Disregarded Thoughts

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:09 PM PDT

[FRESH] RMR - DEALER (Feat Future & Lil Baby)

Posted: 07 May 2020 12:33 PM PDT

[FRESH] Roy Woods - I Feel It

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:05 PM PDT

[FRESH] Lil Durk - Just Cause Y’all Waited 2

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:00 PM PDT

Ty, Mercury prize-nominated UK rapper, dies aged 47 of coronavirus

Posted: 07 May 2020 12:21 PM PDT

[FRESH] Lil Tjay - Zoo York (feat. Fivio Foreign & Pop Smoke)

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:01 PM PDT

Anderson .Paak - Brother's Keeper (feat. Pusha T)

Posted: 07 May 2020 10:58 AM PDT

Westside Gunn - Wrestlemania 20 (feat. Anderson .Paak)

Posted: 07 May 2020 06:16 PM PDT

[FRESH] Nav - Saint Laurenttt

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:04 PM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Lil Xan x Gawne - DEATH TO MUMBLE RAP 2

Posted: 07 May 2020 04:22 PM PDT

[FRESH EP] E-40 - The Curb Commentator Channel 1

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:08 PM PDT

[FRESH] Lloyd Banks - Cold Summer (Freestyle)

Posted: 07 May 2020 10:04 PM PDT

[FRESH] Sheff G - No Suburban (Part 2)

Posted: 07 May 2020 09:01 PM PDT

Chance The Rapper - My Peak (feat. Future, King Louie)

Posted: 07 May 2020 08:13 PM PDT
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