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Recommended If You Like thread - May 08, 2021 - HipHop

Recommended If You Like thread - May 08, 2021 - HipHop

Recommended If You Like thread - May 08, 2021

Posted: 08 May 2021 08:00 AM PDT

If you're looking for a recommendation give a description/music link/artist so that other people will know what you want.

Example: "I want to hear an artist that sounds like old Kanye production" (you can get more specific but usually enough). And then someone will respond with recommendations X, Y, and Z.

You can also leave a top level comment recommending an artist/project/scene that you think others might like if they like X, Y, and Z.

Example: "You guys should check out DJ Mustard's mixtape Ketchup RIYL (recommended if you like) post-hyphy and minimalistic west coast beats"

Remember, the point of this thread is to share music, try not to post stuff that's already really popular unless it answers someone's question.

The more descriptive you guys are with your posts, the easier it is to help you find what you want. Just stating an artist's name isn't that helpful since you might only like one specific aspect of that artist's music.

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Previous RIYL posts

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[DISCUSSION] NAV - Good Intentions (One Year Later)

Posted: 08 May 2021 05:55 PM PDT

Good Intentions is the third studio album by Canadian rapper Nav. It was released on May 8, 2020, by XO Records and Republic Records. It follows his second studio album, Bad Habits, which was released in 2019. The album features guest appearances from Young Thug, Future, Gunna, Travis Scott, Lil Uzi Vert, Pop Smoke, Don Toliver, and Lil Durk. The re-release of the album, titled Brown Boy 2, the deluxe edition and a sequel to his 2019 unofficial Brown Boy EP, was released three days later, on May 11, 2020. It features additional guest appearances from Quavo and Lil Duke.

The album was met with lukewarm reviews from contemporary critics. At the aggregate site Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from professional publications, the album received an average score of 54, based on 4 reviews, indicating "Mixed or Average Reviews".

Background

On April 27, 2020, Nav announced the follow-up to his sophomore studio album, Bad Habits, which was released on March 22, 2019. Alongside the announcement, he revealed the album's trailer with teased potential features from American rappers Lil Uzi Vert and late rapper Pop Smoke, showing clips of him talking to both rappers.

"I had goals written down of going No. 1. I had a vision board in my room with all the things I want. This year, I pretty much got all of them. I believe in [the] law of attraction a lot."

Dani Blum in Pitchfork:

Nav didn't like his first album, either. He claims he's learned now, that he's self-aware—in the trailer for his new album, he announced with a straight face that he'd made a "vision board." There are hints of this fledgling growth throughout Good Intentions. Adjusting for expectations, this is his best album yet, one in which he makes half-hearted stabs at "maturity" and occasionally tries to be in on the joke.

There's still plenty of standard Nav fare. "Turks," the lead single, is a stale, neon attempt at a Wheezy banger. "No Debate" is diet trap music anchored in plodding 808s. Throughout, it's unclear whether Nav is trying to be funny or if his flexes are just too odd and specific to land. He clarifies that he rummages through his fridge for lean, not Sunny D. He invites a woman to quarantine with him, clad in all designer. "I'm part of the money-making committee," he announces on "My Business," a clunky boast that highlights his tendency to write garbled work-arounds of generic rap tropes. Nav repeats the same ideas over and over again—he likes drugs, he doesn't trust women, look at all his money.

When he lurches towards something like maturity, it's a reprieve from both our boredom and his. This mostly takes the form of limp apologies, confessions that wither by the time he reaches the chorus. "I act the way you see on purpose," he admits on "She Hurtin," a quasi-love song where Nav transparently uses a new girlfriend to make an ex jealous. He moans about having "too many options" for lovers on the forgettable "Did You Wrong." He proves incapable of discussing women without talking about what he can buy them, or, horrifyingly, how he wants to procreate ("If I come inside, she got a king inside her belly," he warbles, not 30 seconds into the album). The lens is equally narrow when he turns it on himself; in "Brown Boy," a song weird enough to almost be interesting, he sings about himself from the perspective of a third-person observer, whining about the size of his rings and how his music "feels like drugs." (He pulled the same trick on 2017's "Did You See Nav," and he released another song called "Brown Boy" in 2014.)

The apex of his flexing is that he's friends with Young Thug, who pops up on the album twice and easily overshadows him. The most fun moments on the album are the ones where Nav gets out of the way. On "My Business," he's content to mumble occasionally in the background while Future gallops over the beat for a full minute. Lil Uzi Vert salvages "Status" with a vibrant verse that distracts from Nav rhyming "caught caught caught" with "rocks rocks rocks." It's genuinely shocking when the late Pop Smoke appears, his gravelly voice slower and softer than we've heard before; Nav wastes the opportunity by rhyming about wearing mink to go ice skating.

Travis Scott appears only briefly, and his AutoTune-slathered influence seems to have waned. Instead, Nav tries to imitate his executive producer and label owner The Weeknd, reducing Abel Tesfaye's haunted gloom to generic darkness. "Saint Laurentt," whose extra "t"s seems intended to avoid confusion with the better Wale song, is a corroded, moody heartbreak track, with pitched-down vocals to convey the emotion Nav's voice can't carry. He references addiction throughout the album, but uses the glut of pills and bottles more to create an aesthetic than to consider their implications. "When I get depressed, no one can help me," he squeaks on "Overdose." "Sometimes I hope I overdose." It's a disturbing admission, one that seems to crystalize the sulking despondency that fueled his earlier music, but Nav doesn't go deeper.

The record ends on "Proud of Me?" a diatribe presumably aimed at people who comment on his social media posts. "I just want to fulfill my dreams," he chirps, achingly earnest. For a 30-year-old rapper who only recently stopped complaining about his teachers, any semblance of self-actualization seems like growth. But intentions alone aren't always enough.

  • How does this stack up in NAV's discography?
  • What do you think about what he did with Brown Boy 2?
  • Best feature on this record?
  • Best NAV verse?
  • Best hook?
  • Worst song?
  • Worst NAV bar? Best NAV bar?
  • What intentions will the next NAV album be? Mid Intentions?
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Shelley Wants You to Remember His Name: The artist formerly known as DRAM has a new name, a fresh purpose, and a more soulful sound. | Audiomack World interview by Dylan Green

Posted: 08 May 2021 05:39 PM PDT

Chief Keef - I Just Wanna (feat. Mac Miller)

Posted: 08 May 2021 07:31 AM PDT

JID - NEVER (Alternate Studio Session)

Posted: 08 May 2021 12:00 PM PDT

Flume - My Boo (ft. Vince Staples, Kučka, Ngaiire & Vera Blue)

Posted: 08 May 2021 07:55 AM PDT

[FRESH ALBUM] Knxwledge - WT.17

Posted: 08 May 2021 10:12 AM PDT

[DISCUSSION] Dr. Octagon - Dr. Octagonecologyst: 25 Years Later

Posted: 08 May 2021 08:06 AM PDT

Kool Keith's debut album is 25 years old!

Rolling Stones article

From Wikipedia:

Dr. Octagonecologyst is the debut solo studio album by American rapper and Ultramagnetic MCs member Kool Keith, released under the alias Dr. Octagon. Originally titled Dr. Octagon, it was released on May 7, 1996, on Bulk Recordings in the United States and Mo' Wax in the United Kingdom. The album was later reissued with a different track listing by DreamWorks Records in 1997 under the title Dr. Octagonecologyst. The album was produced by Dan "The Automator" Nakamura and featured the work of turntablist DJ Qbert. KutMasta Kurt provided additional production work. The artwork for Dr. Octagonecologyst was drawn by Brian "Pushead" Schroeder.

Dr. Octagonecologyst introduces the character of Dr. Octagon, a homicidal, extraterrestrial, time-traveling gynecologist and surgeon. The album's distinctive sound crosses genres such as psychedelic music, trip hop, old school hip hop, horrorcore, and electronic music. Thornton's lyrics are often abstract, absurd, and avant-garde, using surrealism, non-sequiturs, hallucinatory psychedelia, and horror and science-fiction imagery, as well as sexual humor, absurdist/surrealistic humor, and juvenile humor. The unique sound and lyrics of Dr. Octagonecologyst helped revitalize alternative and underground hip hop, gaining more attention than any contemporary independent hip hop album "in quite a while".

Kool Keith's lyrics and Nakamura's production were highly praised, as was DJ Qbert's innovative scratching. Dr. Octagonecologyst has since been ranked as one of the best hip hop albums of the 1990s. The character of Dr. Octagon has also appeared in Kool Keith projects like First Come, First Served (1999) and Dr. Dooom 2 (2008), both of which contain tracks in which Octagon is murdered by Dr. Dooom. Kool Keith later stated that the album sold around 200,000 copies without any major promotion or marketing budget.

  • Share your thoughts on the album
  • How do you think it aged?
  • Is it Kool Kieth's best work?
  • What are your favorite moments on the album? *
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Ski Mask The Slump God - Bird Is The Word

Posted: 08 May 2021 01:27 PM PDT

Madlib Talks To Talib Kweli About Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) & Producing The Entire 'Black Star II' Album | People's Party Clip

Posted: 08 May 2021 10:42 AM PDT

Sneak Pop Out For Isaiah Rashad

Posted: 08 May 2021 04:29 PM PDT

The Underachievers – Allusions

Posted: 08 May 2021 05:51 AM PDT

Conway The Machine Hanging Out With Benny & West On Instagram Live 5/8/21

Posted: 08 May 2021 09:26 PM PDT

Daily Discussion Thread 05/08/2021

Posted: 08 May 2021 06:48 AM PDT

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

This thread is for:

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[FRESH] BLACK KRAY AKA SICKBOYRARI - ## HUNNED MILL ## - HOOD VAMP

Posted: 08 May 2021 11:25 AM PDT

Czarface- Czarwyn's Theory of People Getting Loose

Posted: 08 May 2021 10:19 AM PDT

Eminem - I'm Having a Relapse

Posted: 08 May 2021 04:56 PM PDT

Pop Smoke - Foreigner (feat. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie)

Posted: 08 May 2021 10:16 PM PDT

[FRESH] Tha Alkaholiks & Ol Dirty Bastard ft DJ Quik (Hip-Hop Drunkies) DJ Larry Bird Remix {Drunken Master Music Video}

Posted: 08 May 2021 04:45 PM PDT

[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] Cochise - Benbow Crescent

Posted: 08 May 2021 05:57 PM PDT

via hnhh:

Palm Bay rapper Cochise has become one of the hottest new kids on the block, showing off his eclectic voice, inventive ad-libs, and sharp flows over spacey beats. We've heard the rapper float on his latest few singles but he hadn't yet come through with a full-length project before today. On Friday, Cochise released his debut project, titled Benbow Crescent.

The new project serves as an homage to Cochise's Jamaican roots. Down to the cover art, the anime-loving rapper made sure to let his fans know where he comes from on his debut, which includes eighteen featureless songs.

Production was handled by the likes of Archie Cordella, ProdLouis, ProdbyCarlos, and Cochise himself.

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Three 6 Mafia- Life or Death (Chapter 1 The End 1996)

Posted: 08 May 2021 11:24 AM PDT

“Don’t Take Life for Granted:” An Interview With TruCarr – After the tragic passing of his daughter, rising Watts rapper TruCarr poured his soul into his music. On 'Based on a TRU Story' he finds his voice. | Passion of the Weiss interview

Posted: 08 May 2021 11:49 AM PDT

Guerilla Maab – Nothin’ Left 2 Live 4

Posted: 08 May 2021 06:34 PM PDT

Lord Finesse talks Mac Miller lawsuit, Mac's camp making things worse, and eventually making amends with Mac

Posted: 08 May 2021 09:09 AM PDT

Mr. Lif - Iron Helix feat. Insight

Posted: 08 May 2021 09:50 AM PDT
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