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

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

Posted: 09 Jul 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.

Levi Hinson

HELL SONG

Levi's a rapper from Oklahoma. Track has a Navy Blue/Medhane vibe to it. If you're into that wave of lofi, definitely check this out

CHIKA

SONGS ABOUT YOU

CROWN

I've got absolutely no idea about how Chika hasn't blown up on this sub. Potential XXL freshman with great flow, great singing, and absolutely phenomenal production. Fans of Chance (pre-I Love My Wife) and early Kanye, make sure to check her out.

dalanes

birthday cake 1.5

it's his birthday today and it would be dope if everyone gave him a listen

he's from the bay area and has a ton of work but this is the latest check him out!

Bob Vylan

RIYL: slowthai, Denzel Curry, grime, City Morgue

His song "We Live Here" came out recently. He's like a more punk version of slowthai. Here's a BandCamp Daily interview:

Grayness descends over a London fish-and-chips shop as a man in a Crass shirt and Doc Martens hoists a middle finger at the camera. This might be a well-worn act of defiance where punk is concerned, but this particular middle finger doesn't belong to a white man decrying the ills of capitalism or railing against the banalities of the workaday world. It belongs to Bobby Vylan, and he's calling out every bigot in England. "We didn't appear out of thin air," he jeers, half screaming, half sneering. "WE LIVE HERE!"

So goes the chorus of Vylan's strident anti-racist anthem "We Live Here." Equal part grime cadence and punk attitude, the song decries a localized history of racism that includes the fascists of Britain First, the racially motivated 1993 murder of 18-year old Stephen Lawrence, and the first time Vylan himself—the son of a Jamaican father and a white mother—was called the n-word on the playground.

"I think all Black people have that story about the first time they were called 'n—r'," Vylan says. "They'll probably remember it forever. I mean, I couldn't tell you about the third time it happened—or the most recent time—but definitely the first time. And in my case, I asked my mum, who is white, what it means. And her response was, 'It's a bad word.'"

The London-based Vylan was raised in Ipswich, a little over an hour's drive from the capital. It's an area with an eclectic musical history that includes '80s punk favorites the Adicts, ubiquitous pop cherub Ed Sheeran, and grindcore progenitors Extreme Noise Terror. Vylan grew up listening to pirate radio and grime sets by Dizzee Rascal, Skepta, and Stormzy.

"I started out by emulating and mimicking rappers and developing that skill over time, but I was always open to new genres and subcultures," he explains. "I was experiencing black music but also punk music and folk and country as early as I can remember. That's what made me want to be a part of it."

We Live Here—and its take-no-prisoners title track—was inspired by Vylan's young daughter, who randomly announced, 'We live here!' one day while playing in the family's front room. "She often says very beautiful things with very little reason behind it," he explains with a laugh. "But I knew it was going to be the title for something. Eventually, I came to the conclusion that she'll have the same experience that I did. One day someone will call her 'n—r,' and I can't shield her from that."

While the song addresses racism specifically, the album We Live Here is a sweeping indictment of Vylan's homeland and its ridiculous monarchy, as evidenced by tracks like "England's Ending," "Lynch Your Leaders" and the serpentine "Intro," on which Vylan intones, "The price of life is on the rise/ And this country is making a killing.

"This is the England I know," he explains. "I was born here, but when someone calls you 'n—r' at a very young age, you realize you're never gonna be English in that sense. I'm in this country, but not of it. You have to come to grips with that. But the other side of that is, 'No—fuck that. This is my country.' There's no 'Go back to where you come from.' This is where I come from. I am England. This is what England looks like now."

Vylan isn't alone in his ideas. In fact, he isn't even the only Bob Vylan. While Bobby handles vocals, guitar and production on We Live Here, the other Vylan—Bobbie—plays drums. Meanwhile, Jason Aalon Butler of American rapcore trio Fever 333 makes a cameo on "Pulled Pork." "If their music is any indication of their political stance, it fits quite well with us," Bobby says of Fever 333. "Theirs is the American approach, which works for their country and obviously translates amazingly well over here."

As people around the world have taken to the streets to protest the murder of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Vylan has joined the London protests. While citizens everywhere rally for an end to police brutality and systemic racism, Vylan has a similar vision for England.

"Great Britannia is no longer," he says. "It's not fly the flag and crusade. Let's get over that. It's the reggae parties and the warehouse raves with garage and grime music. It's the backstreet pub with indie music; It's the curry houses; it's a multicultural land. Whether they like it or not, I'm here to stay. And there's plenty of people like me. So I've got to figure out how I'm gonna make this place better."

YSV

YSV - Run

YSV - Cheatcode

Trappy based music. Without auto tune. Like a Jay Critch or Pardison Fontaine. Heard this guy after he paid money to air it on a stream. Usually laugh at the idea but he had some flames. So now I'm his biggest fan. Dunno who he is.

Vote for your favorite of these artist's from last week's post

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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Daily Discussion Thread 07/09/2020

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:29 PM PDT

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

This thread is for:

  • objective questions with right/wrong answers (e.g. "Does anyone know what is happening with MIXTAPE?", "What is the sample in SONG?")
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[FRESH ALBUM] Legends Never Die - Juice WRLD

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:00 PM PDT

[FRESH] Kid Cudi & Eminem - The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:00 PM PDT

[FRESH] Kid Cudi & Eminem - The Adventures of Moon Man & Slim Shady (Lyric Video)

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:01 PM PDT

[TMZ] Pop Smoke Murder Investigation Yields Five Arrests

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:46 AM PDT

T-Pain tells story of Travis Scott falling asleep while standing in the studio

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 02:47 PM PDT

[TMZ] Kanye West in Midst of Bipolar Episode, Family Concerned

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 03:15 AM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] Boldy James & Alchemist - The Price of Tea in China (Deluxe Edition)

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:02 PM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] Terrace Martin, Kamasi Washington, 9th Wonder, Robert Glasper- Dinner Party

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:21 PM PDT

Forbes Releases Audio of 3 Kanye West Freestyles, including shots at Donald Trump

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 11:21 AM PDT

[FRESH] Rich Brian - Love In My Pocket

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 04:35 PM PDT

[FRESH] StaySolidRocky & Lil Uzi Vert - Party Girl (Remix)

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:01 PM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] UnoTheActivist - 8

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:05 PM PDT

[FRESH] Black Thought - Thought Vs Everybody

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:04 PM PDT

[FRESH] Kid Cudi ft. Eminem - The Adventures of Moon Man and Slim Shady

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:11 PM PDT

Dominic Fike announces new album “WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG” dropping July 31st

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:19 AM PDT

[FRESH EP] Tory Lanez - The VVS Capsule

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:01 PM PDT

[FRESH EP] Summer Walker - Life On Earth

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:00 PM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] Apollo Brown & Che’ Noir - As God Intended

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:16 PM PDT

[FRESH] Kaytranada - Look Easy (feat. Lucky Daye)

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:21 PM PDT

[DISCUSSION] YGTUT - Preacher's Son (5 Years Later)

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 01:15 PM PDT

P4k:

Sundays in the South are quiet—streets sit empty, as shops still close before sundown, and FM Stations that were playing the most explicit rap at night roll into early hours of gospel. On Preacher's Son, Chattanooga rapper Tut inhabits this scene: the tape opens with a brief news item about police seeking the help of a church to capture a man accused of murder. Tut positions church as a place where a community comes together even in the most trying times. On "Corner Stories", he raps: "Remember sitting in my uncle's kitchen, I was 8, though/ Whipping up a little something for the pesos" and then contrasts the scene to himself in the same house innocently playing with Legos. He spins a tale of a small-time drug dealer and a simple robbery that turns into something more complicated and touches on other community ills, and even when he restrains the narrative detail, he humanizes acts both right and wrong.

Preacher's Son is produced primarily by Ktoven and avoids common Southern rap styles (Snap or Swag) and trendy producers (Metro Boomin or Zaytoven). Ktoven creates lively and warm beats that recall when blues and funk were still embedded in Southern music's DNA, bringing to mind a time when hearing a horn section ("Hangin'") or a guitar ("Holy Water") was the norm, not an exception. The uniformity gives the tape a cumulative force, but some tracks towards the middle blend together as the style gets too comfortable within its own groove.

Tut struggles throughout trying to understand the issues that ail his community and figuring out what he should do, even as he's trying to avoiding repeating his own mistakes. The tape returns back to church with an excerpt of sermon on trying to decide whether one is just of this earthly world or joined the heavenly ranks of Christ and the Lord. Tut then closes with "Sunday Service", highlighting a great irony of church mornings in that so many in the pews just spent the night sinning ("Damn, we gotta hurry/ Late to the Sunday service/ Last night I hit the town/ Late, I was on the screw juice swervin'"). The track is also laced with light ad-libs from fellow Chattanooga rapper Isaiah Rashad, whose presence loomed heavily over the tape even if he was never officially mentioned. But where Rashad's Cilvia Demo from last year appeared lost with its place in the world, Preacher's Son knows where it stands within the church aisles. Tut just needs to pull his head up and decide which path to travel.

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[DISCUSSION] SahBabii - Barnacles

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 06:57 PM PDT

It's been 24 hours, what are your thoughts?

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[FRESH] Juice WRLD ft. Marshmello, Polo G, The Kid LAROI - Hate The Other Side

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:23 PM PDT

Bad Bunny Is Not Playing God: He’s solidified his place in the Latin hip-hop pantheon while subverting the genre’s machismo via his inclusive sound, message and look. But beneath Bad Bunny’s trap-god exterior, the 26-year-old from Puerto Rico is just trying to get it right | Playboy Profile

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 07:47 AM PDT

[FRESH] Lil Tracy - WYA?

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:05 PM PDT

[FRESH VIDEO] Dominic Fike - Politics & Violence

Posted: 09 Jul 2020 09:07 AM PDT
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