| What have you been listening to this week? / Last.fm thread - October 13, 2021 Posted: 13 Oct 2021 08:30 AM PDT This is the weekly thread to share what you've been listening to recently and/or post 3x3 collages. Make sure to write some shit about what you listened to in order encourage discussion. To make 3x3s: Import from Last.fm: Make yours manually: Make sure to re-upload your picture on a site like Imgur, otherwise the 3x3 posts change. submitted by /u/HHHRobot [link] [comments] |
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| 33 Musicians on Their Favorite Albums of the Last 25 Years: includes Bun B, Lil B, Thundercat, Timbaland, Tony Di Blasi (The Avalanches), Vince Staples, Zach Hill (Death Grips) and more Posted: 13 Oct 2021 10:55 AM PDT Pitchfork asked a bunch of artists their favorite albums from the last 25 years Bun B Radiohead's OK Computer (1997) Summer 1997. I was in a very strange place at this time. I was more famous than I'd ever been due to the recent release of Ridin' Dirty. I was also in the first year of the relationship with my now-wife Queenie. So there was a lot of professional as well as personal stress on me. I couldn't find anything to relax me. Then one night, watching MTV, I saw the "Paranoid Android" video. Suddenly, for some reason, this calm washed over me. It seemed like this song was speaking to me. I bought the album the next day and everything about it made sense. While very dense and layered at times, it was still very melodic and easy to listen to. And a lot of what they spoke about then still resonates to this day. So even now, when life starts moving too fast, OK Computer is still there to help slow it down for me. Dave Portner/Avey Tare (Animal Collective) Quasimoto's The Unseen (2000) The summer of 2000 was a high point for AC. Creatively, we were at the start of what would become our most free and exploratory era and on the cusp of a journey that continues today. It seems almost serendipitous that The Unseen appeared just before the summer kicked into full gear and became our soundtrack. It was lo-fi, it was mysterious, it was part sound collage, part hook-ridden hip-hop, and part mushroom trip. (Rumors circulated that Madlib mixed the whole thing while tripping.) We felt a kinship with the record-digger personality who could easily sample Alice Coltrane's free piano and place it beside the soundtrack to La Planète Sauvage, making it all groove while still being a bit unhinged. It was transportive and alien but also grounded and familiar in the traditions of jazz, rap, and psychedelic music that it adhered to. It gleamed in so many of the ways we wanted to present AC: mysterious characters from another world who would infect the current trends with our own personalities and something a bit different. Never wanting to be copycats, we just hoped we could make something as personal and special. We still do. Lil B Pastor Troy's We Ready I Declare War (1999) This album is a super-special, self-produced, all-around classic. I always come back to this tape and listen and hear something new! It's a very inspiring tape to me, and something I will always keep with me and around me. Really, you should listen to every song from front to end because it's a movie! I love the sound, the production, the rapping on it; it's just the most honest album I have heard and still stands relevant to this day. My favorite song on the album is "Ain't No Sunshine." Thundercat Slipknot's Slipknot (1999) I remember discovering this album with Cameron and Taylor Graves, Ronald, and Kamasi around the same time. We were teenagers, of course, and it sent us (more so Cam, Tay, and I) on a metal quest (lol) that actually led them (Cam and Tay) to play in the band Wicked Wisdom with Jada Pinkett Smith (lol). The cool thing about discovering this album—and there never being anything like it before or after, and still to this day it stands alone—[is that] when my daughter came of age, I hand-passed that album down to her (Sanaa, my daughter, who I have given a nickname "Derp Cobain" lol), and it's awesome to watch her ears and mind expand and grow from hearing the awesomeness that is Slipknot. Rest in Peace, Joey Jordison. Timbaland OutKast's SpeakerBoxxx/The Love Below (2003) OutKast's album Speaker Boxxx/The Love Below was always one of my favorite albums. They brought a whole new sonic to the game and changed the game with "Hey Ya!" and "The Way You Move." It was just groundbreaking at that time. Tony Di Blasi (The Avalanches) J Dilla's Donuts (2006) J Dilla's cut-up sample masterpiece is a spiritual experience to listen to. There is something more to this than just music. A layer of otherworldliness. He accesses another dimension that we intuitively know resides in us all. The way the compression is used adds a kind of breathless feeling. It's haunting, surreal, experimental, and heartbreaking. Layer upon layer of hidden sample meaning unfolds the deeper you dive in and the longer you spend with this record. Donuts feels like both darkness and light at the same time. Sitting at the point where joy and sorrow meet. Dilla transmuted his final time on earth into a work of art that will remain eternal. Vince Staples Lauryn Hill's The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998) This album has been a constant throughout my life. It's really unique. Nowadays we get a combination of singing and rapping in a lot of music. But back then, it was a risk. So for her to sing like that early on, combined with the subject matter, the arrangement of the album with its throughline, and how it just flows with you… it's definitely a classic body of work. It's a spiritual thing. The music feels like you're being brought towards it. You can feel the point of view. Black music to me is rooted in spiritual connectivity. If you look at rock and roll or blues or soul, we have been through so much, and that's being translated into music. When you listen to "To Zion," when you listen to "Nothing Even Matters," you feel the emotion put into it. As a whole, the album is just perfect. The War on Drugs (Charlie Hall) Meshell Ndegeocello's Ventriloquism (2018) Every five years or so, a record comes along and becomes a constant companion, a weekend guest who never leaves and simply becomes part of the family. Just as the Clientele Suburban Light and the Radio Dept.'s Clinging to a Scheme before it, Meshell Ndegeocello's Ventriloquism turned me upside down and inside out. This is a record for any time, any day. Songs like "Don't Disturb This Groove" and "I Wonder If I Take You Home" and "Private Dancer" all reveal new emotional depths in Meshell's hands (to say nothing of this absolute monster of a band—Abe, Chris, and Jebin. The spaciousness of the grooves and the delicacy of the playing have inspired me both musically and spiritually. It's pretty wild to hear an artist you thought you knew, playing songs you thought you knew. But it turns out to be beyond the magical beyond. In attempting to illuminate these songs, Meshell actually illuminates herself. Meshell belongs in the pantheon. The War on Drugs (Dave Hartley) D'Angelo's Voodoo (2000) Voodoo by D'Angelo is the one album that held my hand and helped me shake off the toxically masculine rock music with which I had been inundated in high school and early college, that opened a gateway in my mind to several galaxies of music, that completely turned my head around as a bass player, that still sounds fresh as a fucking daisy, that is at once welcomingly accessible and impossibly deep, that has never left the car-visor Case Logic CD organizer of my mind. Zach Hill (Death Grips) U.S. Maple's Acre Thrills (2001) I first saw U.S. Maple live in San Francisco opening for Pavement. This was at the Fillmore in 1999. Their album Talker had recently come out. Watching them that night, I could feel that I was gaining an access to myself that wasn't available to me beforehand. In performance, they were second to nothing I'd ever seen. I said to a friend afterward it was like a big pregnant snake on stage squeezing all the air from the room and doling out oxygen when it hissed. Then Acre Thrills came out in 2001, and I was consumed by it. As a fan, I consider their entire discography a consolidated masterpiece, but Acre Thrills fully peaked me. In 2002, my band Hella opened for them at their Sacramento show date and I went on to reference that Fillmore performance when writing the lyrics to a Death Grips song called "Hacker": "I got this pregnant snake, stay surrounded by long hairs, a plethora of maniacs and spiral stairs"—the pregnant snake being their performance, long hairs in reference to their first album Long Hair in Three Stages, and Spiral Stairs being the second guitarist in Pavement known as Spiral Stairs. Very influential. submitted by /u/TheRoyalGodfrey [link] [comments] |
| Being Young Thug - Inside the wildly unpredictable life of rap’s most eccentric superstar Posted: 13 Oct 2021 12:15 PM PDT |
| Josh The Author- WHIPDEMBRICKZ! (Feat. Lil B) Posted: 13 Oct 2021 10:51 PM PDT |
| Five reputed gang members charged in RICO conspiracy that includes slaying of Chicago rapper FBG Duck Posted: 13 Oct 2021 10:15 AM PDT |
| Complex's Young Thug Week so far: "Why Young Thug Is an Icon", "Inside the Wild Studio Life of Young Thug", "How Young Thug Brought His Own Family Into His Rap Empire", and "Young Thug’s Best Outfits of All Time" Posted: 13 Oct 2021 01:25 PM PDT Why Young Thug Is an Icon: We're kicking off the week with an essay about the importance of an artist like Young Thug, and how he's already become an icon at the age of 30. "Young Thug has been rapping for just under a decade, and in that time he's helped inspire a generation of chart-topping protégés, sold millions of units, won a Grammy, and affirmed just how left-field hip-hop can go," writes Complex staff writer Andre Gee. Inside the Wild Studio Life of Young Thug: Did you know Young Thug records in a studio with snakes, tarantulas, and even a Bengal cat? That's only one of the many things that make his studio sessions so memorable. Complex staff writer Jessica McKinney speaks with some of Thug's closest collaborators for a story about how he cultivated one of the most unique studio experiences in rap. How Young Thug Brought His Own Family Into His Rap Empire: Rap is a family business for Young Thug. He's signed his own brother and sisters to his label, and even put his eight-year-old daughter on Slime Language 2. Complex staff writer Jessica McKinney spoke with some of Young Thug's siblings about what it was like growing up with him and how they joined his rap empire. Young Thug's Best Outfits of All Time: At this point, it's undeniable: Young Thug is a style icon. From wearing a dress on the Jeffery album cover to starting his own clothing line, Thug has always turned heads with his outfits. The Complex Style team put together a list of his very best outfits. submitted by /u/TheRoyalGodfrey [link] [comments] |
| [FRESH VIDEO] Maxo Kream - GREENER KNOTS Posted: 13 Oct 2021 09:48 AM PDT |
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| Daily Discussion Thread 10/13/2021 Posted: 13 Oct 2021 08:54 AM 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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10/15 - Young Thug - PUNK [ATL Trap, pop punk?, 300 / Atlantic]
- Gucci Mane & The New 1017 Records - So Icy Boyz [Trap, Label Album, Atlantic]
- PinkPantheress - to hell with it [2-Step, Alternative R&B, Parlophone]
- BONES & Cat Soup - ForbiddenImage [Cloud Rap]
- DOM KENNEDY - From The Westside With Love Three [West Coast Hip Hop, OPM]
- Loski - Censored [UK Drill, Since 93]
- Kacy Hill - Simple, Sweet, and Smiling [R&B, Independent]
- Offset Jim - Rich Off The Pack (featuring EST Gee, ALLBLACK, Babyface Ray, Kenny Beats & Aitch) [Post-Hyphy, Play Runners / EMPIRE]
- Baker Boy (🇦🇺) - Gela [Australian Hip Hop, Island]
- BLACKSTARKIDS (🇦🇺) - Puppies Forever [Indie Hip Hop, Dirty Hit]
- DB.Boutabag - 2 Klocks, Vol. 2 (featuring Young Slo-Be, Ralfy the Plug + more) [Sacramento Gangsta Rap, Bag Klan / Thizzler on the Roof]
- SD - Hated by Some, Loved by Plenty [Chicago Drill, Truly Mafia]
- Xenia Rubinos - Una Rosa [Neo-Soul, Art Pop, Anti]
- LaikIke1 & Soulpete - Killin EP [Polish Boom Bap, SORAW]
- Grafh & DJ Shay - Stop Calling Art Content (featuring Benny the Butcher + more) [Boom Bap, Team Bang Dope Gang / Black Soprano Family]
- Speak - We Left the House for This? [Mexican-American, co-wrote "Gucci Gucci", Steak Worldwide]
- Big Twins & Cuns - Hood Stories [East Coast Boom Bap, Tuff Kong]
- Steven Bamidele - Uncrowded EP [Soul, Park the Van]
- Mykill Miers & Pawz One - Double Homicide [West Coast Hip Hop, Boom Bap, Below System]
- DJ Alex Funk & LiL WooFy WooF - The Chronic EP [G-Funk, Independent]
- Various Artists - Pokémon 25: The Album (featuring Post Malone, Vince Staples, J Balvin, Tierra Whack, Lil Yachty, Katy Perry, Mabel, ZHU + more) [Soundtrack, Capitol]
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