Recommended If You Like thread - January 29, 2022 - HipHop

Recommended If You Like thread - January 29, 2022
Album Of The Year #34: Dave East & Harry Fraud - Hoffa
What’s a terrible line you’ve heard from an artist you like?
John Cena Rap Battles A Fan (1993)
EARTHGANG reveal Ghetto Gods tracklist, says "It's coming to streaming soon but we want y'all to get this album live and in person"
Freestyle By Kid cudi and Asher Roth 2008
Daily Discussion Thread 01/29/2022
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Jack Harlow - Rotten (Feat. EST Gee)
Dreamville - Spin Move (feat. Bas, Saba, Smino & The Hics
"I Was Manic With a Lost Cause": An Interview With YUNGMORPHEUS and Eyedress – Patrick Johnson connects with Eyedress and YUNGMORPHEUS for last year's 'Affable with Pointed Teeth,' an album shrouded in the shadows that still manages to enlighten.
Open Mike Eagle - Unfiltered feat. Danny Brown
[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] Babyface Ray - FACE
[FRESH] Fmb Dz - 2k22 (Official Video)
[FRESH ALBUM] Rob Vicious - Fearless
Trina ft Kelly Rowland - here we go
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Ben Reilly- Maytag (Tax Free). Sounds just like Kendrick
That time Fabolous got threatened over the radio on air live
[Fresh] dean blunt & vegyn - rap.mp3

Posted: 29 Jan 2022 08:00 AM PST

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.

Previous RIYL posts

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Album Of The Year #34: Dave East & Harry Fraud - Hoffa

Posted: 29 Jan 2022 08:03 AM PST

Artist: Dave East

Album: HOFFA

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Background:

Born David Brewster in 1988 in Harlem, Dave East was raised as more of an athlete than a musician. He played AAU basketball with athletes such as Ty Lawson and Kevin Durant, eventually earning himself a scholarship at Richmond and later Towson. After continued trouble with his coaches at Towson, David Brewster left following his junior season and decided to pursue a career in rapping, releasing his first mixtape 'Change Of Plans' in 2010, a clear reference to his shift in focus from balling to rapping. Dave continued to release mixtapes quietly gaining little attention eventually releasing the Black Rose mixtape in 2014 which gained widespread appeal and critical acclaim and gained the attention of Nas who quickly signed the artist to Mass Appeal records.

Following the Mass Appeal signing and the rerelease of the Black Rose mixtape Dave had garnered enough attention to earn him a spot on the 2016 XXL Freshman Class gaining him even more attention than before. With his career at an all time high East released two more mixtapes, Kairi Chanel, and Paranoia: A True Story. These mixtapes marked the first time Dave East was able to breakthrough to the Billboard charts with Paranoia peaking at #9. Finally, in 2019 Dave East released his debut studio album Survival which received generally positive reviews among critics but mixed reviews among fans with many people thinking it lacked cohesion and that the production was a step away from his more traditional boom bap style and instead utilizes more trap beats. Despite his lyrical improvement to this point in his career fans have been continued to be left wondering what East would sound like over a more focused project.

Enter Harry Fraud, a New York producer who came up with French Montana and more recently produced for people like Curren$y, Benny The Butcher, Larry June and Jim Jones. Harry Fraud is known for his jazzy, sample heavy, sometimes gritty, boom bap production style. Following projects like The Plugs I Met 2(Benny), The OutRunners (Curren$y), and Keep Going (Larry June), Harry Fraud has arguably been on the best run of his career. Given his production style and his recent prolific run of solid projects Dave East fans were reasonably excited to see if Harry Fraud could deliver that more focused project. After the 2017 single Maneuver ft French Montana both Fraud and East have stated interest in working with one another and were finally able to link up to work on an album 4 years later. Add art curated by Westside Gunn and you get the finished project, HOFFA

One final thing to mention before getting into the album is the story of the man it's named after, Jimmy Hoffa. Hoffa was the leader of the Teamsters labor union between 1957 to 1971 this union focussed on personal transportation and is still one of the largest unions in America. During this time Hoffa was one of the most powerful men in America and was known for being influential in both the public eye and in the American underworld, having allegedly made deals with the Italian Mafia. In 1975 Jimmy Hoffa met with two members of the Mafia at a restaurant and has not been seen since. Conspiracies range from the mafia, to the FBI, to him faking his own disappearance. Nobody was ever found guilty, no body has ever been found, Hoffa was proclaimed dead in 1982.

Review

HOFFA opens with "The Disappearance", a slow jazzy sounding beat in which East reflects on his career and where it has taken him over one singular verse. Mentioning his acting career and the death of his friend Kiing Shooter as reasons why he has taken a brief break from making music. East follows this up with stating that even through the setbacks he is committed to music and grateful for where it has taken him to this point with the rest of the verse embodying a rags to riches story with powerful hard hitting lines like

I seen roaches fall on the toaster before the bread rise

Funny I'm alive but I'm only concerned with dead guys

The next track "60 For The Lawyer" features one of my favorite beats on the album it sounds tough but at the same time relaxed giving a real "business as usual" kind of attitude to it. East compliments the beat well as he nonchalantly raps about wealth and luxury while still managing to have enough bravado to deliver over the production. Great one liners all over this track add to the atmosphere. One moment he's "Flamboyant like Big L smokin the L on Lennox" and the next he's "walkin' on the beach, Dior slippers with the sand on 'em". Everything about this song just oozes extravagance and I love it.

Next up we have Diamonds a song with an exquisite sounding beat where Harry Fraud loops a Renée Geyer sample to great effect. This is a song where the production carries for me but that doesn't mean East doesn't do his thing over it, comparing his new found success and lifestyle to the hate people like KD or Harden received when they left their respective teams to upgrade their situations become more successful. This track leads nicely into Just Another Rapper a song with a bouncier beat that continues the rags to riches theme of the early part of the album. Dave East flows over this song so we'll and it seems to be a track he's just having a lot of fun making this one throwing plenty of ad libs throughout the track.

This is followed with Go Off teaming up with his 2016 XXL Freshman classmate G Herbo. The song has a dark and moody atmosphere to it that just fits Herbo's voice perfectly and both Dave East and Herbo provide great verses over it. However, as much as I love Dave East, Herbo steals the show for me on this one. His voice just fits the beat so much better and it's a good change of pace on the album.

Dave East continues the eerie sounding tracks on Uncle Ric with Benny the Butcher a track where both rappers reflect on their time before fame with plenty of hard hitting one liners littered throughout the track whether it be Dave East with lines like

When that paper flowing, party for a month straight, like Rick James

The Feds is askin' bout him, I just know him by his nickname"

Or Benny comparing himself to MJ

Put us on lists, comparing our greatness

But I'm like Mike, I feel like n***** couldn't ball in the era I played in

Simply put Uncle Ric is a track that slaps and one of my favorite tracks on the album

As the sample from Uncle Ric fades out it leads into The Product, a song with a simpler beat then others and a track that provides a faster flow where he discusses selling weed over slinging crack and it marks a good halfway point for the album.

Money or Power is next up and a track that I think drives home a lot of the themes the album puts forward. The beat, along with most of the others on the album, is elegant as fuck sounding and Dave's rapping over it drives home the themes present in the album with lines like "My passion make me work, know that grass feel different When you get tackled on turf just pay me back by the first" and showing off his connections in the hip hop game with "Drizzy sent me a coat, then Yeezy sent me his Boost Then J. Cole sent me his shoes I got ties with the idols in this shit" all of this eventually leads into an interlude which in my opinion summarizes the point of the album

Suggesting that in a choice between power and money You'll always choose power

Rather than selling out and attempting to go pop Dave East is content being someone who is respected. Someone whose accolades isn't measured by their money alone.

I Can Hear The Storm is a song where the beat perfectly fits the mood of a storm Dave does a good job rapping over it but overall this track is slower paced and outside of the gloomy sounding production this track does not do a whole lot for me. Not a bad track but not a standout by any means. Dolla And A Dream is next up and also in a similar boat the beat is the standout here and is reminiscent of some early 2000s rap beats and Dave East's performance on it is great. The mood is noticeably picking up again after a string of slower sounding songs

Tryna fade us with that quarantine

Admittedly I hate this line and it made me dislike Count It Up because of it. However, the more I listen to this album the more I get past it and damn this song bangs. French Montana's chorus is absolutely fire outside of one line and Harry Fraud is at his absolute best with a complex beat with jazzy undertones and a mesmerizing piano in the foreground. Dave East delivers a smooth sounding verse and commands respect as he flows over it. French Montana's verse is as catchy as his chorus making this a song that went from one of my least favorites to one of my favorites.

If the beat on Count It Up is great the beat on The Win is even better and easily my favorite beat on the whole album on an album where the production shines. Dave East delivers one of the best verse on the album rapping circles around this elegant ass sounding beat with lines like

Walked right through the front and kill you, where I'm from no back door (Boom)

Before the .40 clapped off put Spaldings on the backboard

Wired jaws from punches, everybody don't react the same

Like ten years in the game, I realize these n***** rap the same

The chorus is one that celebrates the heights they've reached discussing waking up in yachts in Barbados, combined with the beats it conjures up mental images similar to Jay Z in the Big Pimpin video. Cruch Calhoun is a rapper I know little to nothing about but his verse adds a nice change of pace and I enjoy his abrasive sounding voice.

Next up is Yeah I Know featuring the late Kiing Shooter, on a track with a gloomy sounding beats the beat sounds like it's almost an ode to Kiing Shooters death while the lyrics reaffirm that 'business as usual' kind of attitude. Overall the song gives off almost a melancholic feel.

The album comes to a close with Red Fox Restaurant named after the restaurant Jimmy Hoffa was last seen at. The song has a really chill piano beat and Curren$y's rapping over it on the first verse does a really good job of making the album feel 'final.' Something about Curren$y makes him the perfect guest artist to close an album with and he delivers in what is one of the best verses on the album for me. Dave East comes in on the second verse almost as calmly as Spitta promising to make people disappear like Hoffa and reflecting on how his life has transformed from public housing to being signed by Nas bringing the whole album full circle and to a close.

Favorite lyrics

La Musica de Harry Fraud

- Various

My attitude was passive before I opened the package (Uh) Fiend in the living room high, noddin' to Gladys I seen roaches fall on the toaster before the bread rise (Facts) Funny I'm alive but I'm only concerned with dead guys

The Disappearance

I'm investin' in stocks, no longer invest in the block The one you helpin' be the next one to plot (Next one), so while they talkin', I watch

60 For The Lawyer

I just wanna make it home, so I'ma take the chrome I'ma go the longer route, don't wanna make it known See, I'ma take the stronger route, don't wanna fake with homes

G Herbo, Go Off

When that papеr flowin', party for a month straight like Rick James (Rick James) The feds is asking 'bout him, I just know 'em by his nickname

Uncle Ric

But I ain't scared, I'ma say it, niggas took our manual, tearin' out pages (I know) Put us on lists and comparin' our greatness But I'm like Mike, I feel like niggas couldn't ball in the era I played in

— Benny the Butcher, Uncle Ric

Heroin deals, bricks weighin', background, my lyrics playin' Just loud enough so nobody hear what they sayin'

— Benny the Butcher, Uncle Ric

I catch a flight just to pick up the product (Uh) I can never be a sponsor N***** had crack, but we had the weed I knew a few that got rich off of ganja

The Product

The last place I'm tryna sleep is pine box (Uh) We would link up on dime blocks I started with fifty, my n**** that's nine shots My life had my mom hot (Boom, boom, boom) I pick and roll on any opposition I was feelin' like John Stock but these rhymes got Move right up out of them trenches, I sat on them benches Was feelin' like, "Why not?"

The Product

My passion make me work, know that grass feel different When you get tackled on turf just pay me back by the first

Money Or Power

I been critically acclaimed, n****, you just a critic

Jim Jones, Money Or Power

With money came division, shit broke us down to a fraction

Dolla and a Dream

Tried to give her the world, she's sayin' she needs space now

Yeah I Know

The high life, every night, we livin' like the ball drop on New Year's But that ain't firecrackers that you hear Best believe there's candy stashed beneath them trees Them boys will blast you, then they'll flee the scene

Curren$y, Red Fox Restaurant

You had your own dream, you could've went and did your thing Didn't have to hate about it There so much I could say about housin', just glad I made it out it

Red Fox Restaurant

Talking Points

Do you agree that this is Dave East's best release? Where would you want to see him go from here?
Harry Fraud had a prolific 2021 where does this project rank for him among this current stretch? Who do you want to see Harry Fraud collaborate with in the future?
Did Dave East do a good job tying the album to the theme of Jimmy Hoffa's life or did it get lost along the way?

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What’s a terrible line you’ve heard from an artist you like?

Posted: 29 Jan 2022 06:45 AM PST

I was listening to Lil Wayne the other day and he said

"She know how much I hate pantyhose I know how much she love animals But she let me stomp on her camel toe, damn"

Bonus: Montana of 300 just released his "rap god" album and on the intro track he said "in my prime like I'm Amazon, dropping bombs on 'em Palestine" like yeah bro let's try to make a bar out of millions of Palestinians' having been killed by Israeli forces which is STILL ongoing.

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John Cena Rap Battles A Fan (1993)

Posted: 29 Jan 2022 09:05 AM PST

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EARTHGANG reveal Ghetto Gods tracklist, says "It's coming to streaming soon but we want y'all to get this album live and in person"

Posted: 29 Jan 2022 04:55 AM PST

Source, from Spillage Village's Instagram

Ghetto Gods
Billi (feat. Future)
LVLD Up
Hey Boo
Amen (feat. Musiq Soulchild)
All Eyes On Me
Ambeyonce (feat.Smino)
Lie To Me
Jean's Interlude
Black Pearls (feat. Baby Tate)
Neezy's Walk
American Horror Story
Power (feat. CeeLo & Nick Cannon)
Zaza
Smoke Sum
Strong Friends
Run Too (feat. Ari Lennox)

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Freestyle By Kid cudi and Asher Roth 2008

Posted: 29 Jan 2022 11:00 AM PST

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Daily Discussion Thread 01/29/2022

Posted: 29 Jan 2022 08:40 AM PST

Welcome to the /r/hiphopheads daily discussion thread!

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1/31: Lord Jah-Monte Ogbon & Sadhugold - The Black Möbius [East Coast Hip Hop, Vinyl Exclusive, Copenhagen Crates]

2/2: Ivy Sole - CANDID [Philadelphia Hip Hop, Indie Rap, Les Fleurs]

2/4:

2 Chainz - Dope Don't Sell Itself (featuring Lil Baby, Lil Durk, Roddy Ricch, NBA Youngboy, Moneybagg Yo, Swae Lee, 42 Dugg, Stove God Cooks, Sleepy Rose, Jacquees + more) [Trap, ATL, Gamebread / Def Jam]
Korn - Requiem [Nu-Metal, Loma Vista / Concord]
Yo Gotti - CM10 (featuring DaBaby + more) [Memphis Trap, CMG / Inevitable II]
Yung Gravy & Dillion Francis - Cake and Cognac (featuring T-Pain & Tommy Cash) [Pop Rap]
Saba - Few Good Things (featuring Krayzie Bone, G Herbo, Eryn Allen Kane, 6LACK, Smino, Mereba, Pivot Gang, Benjamin Earl Turner, Fousheé, Black Thought + more) [Chicago Rap, Conscious Rap, Pivot Gang]
Adekunle Gold - Catch Me If You Can (featuring Lucky Daye, Davido + more) [Afrobeats, Afro Urban Records]
Tank - R&B MONEY [R&B, Atlantic]
Sam Tompkins - who do you pray to? [R&B, UK, Island / UMG]
Yung Kayo - DOWN FOR THE KOUNT (featuring Yeat & Eartheater) [Plugg, Young Stoner Life / sevensevenseven]
EBK Jaaybo - Rrari Forever [Stockton Trap, Thizzler on the Roof]
FMB DZ - Back On Track (featuring Sada Baby, RMC Mike, Louie Ray, G.T. + more) [Michigan Trap, Fast Money Boyz / EMPIRE]
Myles Bullen - Mourning Travels (featuring billy woods + more) [Alt-Rap, Fake Four]