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CyHi The Prynce AMA - HipHop

CyHi The Prynce AMA

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 11:23 AM PST

HHH Book Club - Initial poll - what to read first.

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 12:10 PM PST

Hey!

The mods have been super cool and have allowed me to sticky a poll for us to vote for the first book in the HHH book club. I plan to have a new thread up this Monday (13th) announcing the book.

The format will work like this:

  • Book thread goes up (around the start of the month - exception for this month!). There will be a poll in that thread regarding what book to read next. All current book discussion will happen in that thread (use spoiler tags appropriately!). This will repeat at the start of each month.

I'm all open to suggestions. PM me if you have book suggestions to save starting too many threads. Books from all sorts of walks of life, be they close relatives of Hip-Hop or perhaps more distant ones. If you have ideas for how this should be run feel free to comment or PM me as well.

Anyways, lets get to the voting for out week one book, and I hope you all enjoy!

Poll: http://www.strawpoll.me/12297259

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Migos Not Cool With Support of iLoveMakonnen’s Homosexuality: “That’s Wack, Bro”

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 09:18 AM PST

Album of the Year 2016 #24: Kanye West - The Life of Pablo

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 03:12 PM PST

Artist: Kanye West

Album: The Life of Pablo

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Background

The Life of Pablo is a loaded title. Almost as loaded as our expectations. Does our brother Kanye really have the audacity to compare himself to the greatest painter of the twentieth century, the most notorious drug dealer the world has ever known and the author of half the New goddamn Testament in four short words? Yes. Yes he does. It can be hard to be shocked by Yeezus nowadays, but regardless of your thoughts on the album itself, you cannot deny it is one of the most important albums of the past few years. From the messy rollout, to the second Taylor Swift controversy, from the twitter rants to the subsequent tour, the Louis Vuitton Don's ever changing, scattershot cubist thesis was an event album. The kind that rarely exists anymore.

Already famed for his outspoken media personality, and following six of the most acclaimed hip-hop albums of all time, pushing gangster rap from the mainstream, reinventing RnB for the masses, and general making and doing dope shit, Kanye's eighth album, and seventh solo album was one of the most anticipated albums ever. In the three years since his uncomfortable, experimental masterpiece Yeezus, Kanye had refocused. He dropped three loose singles with Paul McCartney, created an excellent arthouse music video with 12 Years a Slave director Steve McQueen, and performed a couple new songs live, but other than that, he appeared entirely focused on bringing up his two children with ubiquitous media personality Kim Kardashian-West, his announcement that he'll inevitably run for Preezy and making an impact of the fashion industry with his unique, gender-defying styles and iconic Adidas shoes, the Yeezys. You can't walk a mile in a metropolitan area without seeing more than a few Yeezy clones. And the same is true of music industry, with literally hundreds of notable, successful artists citing Kanye West as a key influence. In January 2016, things seemed to be going well for Mr. West.

Starting from the new year, each week heralded a new GOOD Friday single from Kanye West. Beginning with withthe underwhelming, Metro Boomin'-produced Nike diss track Facts, Kanye followed up the introspective and personal Real Friends and the bouncy, bar-for-bar, boom-bap Madlib and Kendrick Lamar collaboration, No More Parties in L.A.. Starting with the braggadocios, and ending with the more pernicious aspects of his fame, it was clear that Kanye was doing what he did best, making you empathise with him. Placing you so firmly into his mindset and point of view that it was hard not to feel what he felt. But these songs, while two out of three are great, are messy. Real Friends is the sonic equivalent to one of Kanye's more coherent rants, while No More Parties lacks anything resembling basic song structure.

If this didn't clue us into Kanye's mindset at the time, the constant name changes should have. Originally announced as the shamefully now-cancelled So Help Me God, to the braggadocios Swish, to the controversial reference to his influence in Waves. A now infamous Twitter rant ensued when Wiz Khalifa, Kanye's ex-girlfriend's ex-husband and baby daddy, stated that Ye had pilfered his new title from the imprisoned Max B. Kanye's response, was, well, less than civil, but more than a little hilarious. "I am your OG and I will be respected as such," is not in the top ten most narcissistic things Kanye has ever said, but it might well be my favourite.

And so came the iconic tracklist, two equally meme-worthy variant covers, [1] [2] and proposed release date for "the best one of the best albums of all time… Out of respect for Q-Tip, Puff, Hov, Lauren, Pharcyde, Mary, Stevie, Michael, Hendrix, James, Pete Rock, Pac, Marvin...." Kanye West had announced that he would debut his lean, three act, ten track album, TLOP at his gorgeous Madison Square Garden Yeezy Season 3 Fashion Show offering free Yeezys and tickets to anyone who correctly guessed the identity of the album's acronym's letters. So, on February 11th, myself, along with many, many others, tucked into our local cinema to watch the live stream of this event. And this was an event.

And it went well. The actual fashion and show (looks weird), but the album sounded good. Vic Mensa and Sia were missing from the SNL-debuted Wolves, but otherwise the album was pretty great. The gospel influence Kanye announced was present, but not the full-blown gospel album Kanye promised, rather just an expansion of the religious themes seen in his earlier works. The exception being in the beautiful outro and Pitchfork Best New Music, Ultralight Beam. A wonderful gospel-influenced track with a stunning guest verse from upcoming rapper, and soon-to-be 2016 MVP, Chance the Rapper, affecting vocals from Kelly Price and The-Dream, a superb outro from gospel artist Kirk Franklin that stirred hip-hop animosity in the gospel community, an unusually powerful Vine sample and quite possibly a sample from Counter Strike: Global Offensive. Keep doing you Kanye.

So after the show, Kanye and his GOOD Music affiliates passed around the aux cord and played banger after banger. Vic Mensa and Young Thug both debuted new tracks and Kanye himself played a much, much improved remixed version of Facts, produced by new mystery producer Charlie Heat and I think Lil Yachty got chips or something. I dunno, he's a bit of an enigma. Kanye also debuted his yet unreleased video game about his late mother's celestial ascent. The crowd reacted with laughter. Assholes. And as we all left the cinema, we all eagerly awaited the release of The Life of Pablo onto Jay Z's new "for-the-artists" streaming service Tidal. For £20 monthly, Hov was taking the piss, but it was worth it for his exclusives. Earlier Rihanna's and later Beyoncé's fantastic albums both debuted as exclusives to Tidal.

But the album was delayed. Why? Blame Chance. Partially responsible for the album not showing up until two days later for want of an additional track to be mixed (Waves), however I find it hard to point the finger his way when Kanye himself not only added an additional six tracks and split Father Stretch My Hands into two songs and reordered the entire tracklisting. (be warned: that article has the most ironic of titles). To keep us satisfied, however, he did release the reflective 30 Hours onto his Soundcloud account.

On the Saturday succeeding Yeezy Season 3, Kanye went on NBC's Saturday Night Live to perform Ultra Light Beam and the Young Thug-featuring Highlights. A historic show where not only did an artist named Young Thug performed in from of an audience of millions, but Chance the Rapper became the first unsigned artist to ever perform on SNL. And a few hours later the album dropped.

Well, kind of. Kanye referred to the initial Tidal release as "living, breathing art," but those in the video gaming community mockingly referred to the incomplete album as a beta release. Almost immediately Kanye went to claiming "Ima fix wolves," in response to fan disappointment for the absence of Vic Mensa and Sia hinting at the many future updates that came to the album. The majority of the album's tracks, were modified slightly between the initial Tidal release, the April 1st digital download and other streaming services release and then the final version released in mid-June with a brand new song, first debuted at Yo Gotti's listening party, Saint Pablo. The album became a great success and although listening numbers were never divulged by Tidal, it became the first album to ever chart without a physical release and the heavy sampling of the song Panda from new GOOD music signee and resident weirdo ball of energy, Desiigner, helped catapult him and his adlibs to number one.

This unusual release structure prompted a lot of criticism from listening, some preferring older versions of songs and others left dissatisfied with the answer to "is The Life of Pablo done yet?" Many questioned whether it would ever be complete and whether or not it was acceptable for an artist to keep returning to and modifying their art.

For the most part The Life of Pablo received good reviews. An A from the A.V. Club, 9.0 from Pitchfork, four and a half stars from Rolling Stone, an A- from Robert Christgau and was praised as "highly listenable," a "beautiful mess" and a "masterpiece," however a lot of criticism was leveled at it for it's unfocused nature, however Rob Sheffield praised it for just that, claiming "West just drops broken pieces of his psyche all over the album and challenges you to fit them together." He also asserted that it's very nature as a messy album is deliberate, a source of contention between the album's fans and detractors. The New York Times stated "this is Tumblr-as-album, the piecing together of divergent fragments to make a cohesive whole." No Tumblr account is deliberately constructed to convey the owner's own personality and reality, but it's hard to deny they usually end up that way.

Many listeners were critical of the length of the album and the track structure, claiming the number of tracks to be a greedy move on West's part and the song order to seem incredibly thoughtless, especially compared to the three act structure of the earlier track listings. Many people came up with alternate listening orders for the album, often choosing to remove some tracks altogether or include some songs from what would have been So Help Me God. Many believe that So Help Me God would have sounded closer to tracks like All Day, but with a much heavier gospel sound than we ended up with in The Life of Pablo. Songs often included are Famous, Wolves, Ultralight Beam, Real Friends, the Paul McCartney loosies Only One, All Day, FourFiveSeconds, leaks such as I Feel Like That, Fall Out of Heaven, Awesome, or tracks that ended up on other artist's albums such as Travis Scott's Piss on Your Grave and 3500, Rick Ross's Sanctified, Theophilus London's Can't Stop, Big Sean's All Your Fault and The Weeknd's Tell Your Friends (which Kanye uploaded a remix of to Kanye's SoundCloud with an epic Mike Dean guitar solo). There's a fantastic compilation of these songs here that I recommend checking out for my fellow stans.

Many remixes of the songs appeared online. Many artists like Stefan Pounce and DJ Premier released remixes of the acapella track I Love Kanye. Easily the best though was J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League's cinematic reimagining. Tyler the Creator and A$AP Rocky hopped on the Freestyle 4 instrumental for the blast of a song What the Fuck Right Now. Producer Ludlow along with Chance the Rapper's young brother Taylor Bennett remixed the skit Low Lights turning it into a complete song. Heir to the Dirty South, Big K.R.I.T freestyled over both Real Friends and 30 Hours. Madlib collaborator, Freddie Gibbs completely bodied the beat for No More Parties in L.A.. Producer Lido remixed the album in its entirety into one great track called The Life of Peder. A Japanese producer attempted to recreate the entire album without ever hearing it due to Tidal's Asian absence based entirely off the Wikipedia samples list and feeding the lyrics through a text-to-speech application. It's pretty interesting Some /mu/ members composed a fascinatingly weird and equally dreamlike plunderphonics album called The Death of Pablo. I hope the mods don't mind this link too much. Darkly intimate, The Death of Pablo puts you into this warped soundscape that is Kanye's mind.

Redditors /u/Dorian_Ye and /u/TheRealBlockaShotya both compiled entire new versions of the album made up of leaks, extended samples, unofficial remixes and covers. The Life of Paul chose to focus draw from sources that Kanye himself had a hand in whereas The Life of Pablo [Extended Edition] pulls from a variety of artists and producers who remixed and covered the album.

If you are a Yeezy Stan, The Death of Pablo, The Life of Peder, both extended editions of The Life of Pablo and Section 80's theorised Swish and So Help Me God mixtapes are must-listens. Props to the Kanye fan community for adding so much to the initial album that I still, almost a year on, haven't settled on my TLOP playlist.

So the album came out, and for the most part it was very good. Kanye kept being Kanye though. He engaged in several more Twitter rants admitting to being in $53 million dollars of debt, begging Mark Zuckerburg for money. He announced he had forty songs with Young Thug and forty songs with Kendrick Lamar that have yet to surface and his intention to put out six collections and three albums this year. He had a very eye opening interview on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, that devolved into a rant about how he wants to help people be themselves and be happy.

The Ellen interview is something that very much disappointed me. Outside of his music, Kanye has never been the most articulate of people, but the ideas he's had, for the most part, have been both incredibly well-meaning and actually quite smart. The Ellen rant is full of insightful comments about personal self-esteem, black representation in the media, the influence of art on people and how it can open doors for future generations and how the media influences public perception of celebrities negatively. And I was so impressed. Coming from a mixed race family, he was saying shit that my brothers and sisters knew, but didn't have the words for, or the tone, or the platform. And here he was, on daytime television, presenting this realness with the same emotional conviction you can hear in his finest work. Yet, people chose to focus on his fragmented, slightly incoherent and a little rambly method of communicating these issues. Take this, frankly disgusting, video from a political comedian that I myself am a fan of. Not enough people took a moment to think about what was being said and why he was saying it, instead focusing on his way of speaking. His black way of speaking. A lot of the dismissal of Kanye West seems to stem from the fact he is an arrogant black man who talks like he's from the southside of Chicago, and like how the dismissal of Kim Kardashian has serious misogynistic undertones, sometimes the dismissal of Kanye can feel similarly ignorant. And I don't see how anyone could mistake this arrogance for a self-involvedness unless they're not truly listening to what's being said, but instead how he's saying it. With an accent.

And it's hard to tie all of his public persona to the album, because he is such a multi-faceted man. Everyone knows that his mother passed away and that changed a lot inside of him. He became much more outspoken, and artistically experimental, to the point that it was grating to people. But he also began to suffer from depression, rapping about lexapro and suicide and it's hard not to feel at least a twinge of sympathy for him when he's expressing his willingness to die for his family.

The balance of these personas are what the title - if not the whole album - is about. Is Kanye Pablo Picasso, the groundbreaking artist whose impact is still seen a hundred years later? Is he Pablo Escobar, the celebrated criminal and villain the media makes him out to be? Is he Saint Paul, the apostle who was so deeply connected to Jesus Christ that he personally preached the word of his God in a world that persecuted him for it? Or is he none of these men?

We will see how each song could potentially represent a different aspect of Kanye's life later on as we go through the album track-by-track.

Post-Release

In the meantime, let's jump ahead a couple of months. Kanye West has announced two new albums, the video game/vapourware inspired TurboGrafx-16 and the sequel to 2012's Cruel Summer, Cruel Winter and unveiled its first single - banging posse-cut Champions - in an hour long interview on Big Boy in the Morning. He also hinted at collaboration albums with both Lil Chano and Drake. I for one think Kanye is in too different a place from Chance for a coherent collaboration and Drake is ass so I hope that shit never happens (fight me). Over the summer, Kanye hoped on many songs showcasing some diverse and unique new flows such as on THat Part by ScHoolboy Q, Pussy Print by Gucci Mane or the Tiimmy Turner remix by Desiigner. Many praised him for him energetic bouncy style, whereas overs - perhaps fairly - accused him of phoning it in. Personally, I have no doubt that he phoned it in, but who cares when it's all so hype?

In late June, at a Tidal exclusive event, Kanye debuted the infamous Famous video]( www.vevo.com/watch/kanye-west/famous/USUV71601791). The video depicts the aftermath of a party, with the camera intimately inspecting the sleeping, naked bodies of George W. Bush, Donald Trump, Anna Wintour, Rihanna, Chris Brown, Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Kim Kardashian, Ray J., Amber Rose, Caitlyn Jenner, and Bill Cosby. The end pans out to reveal them all in the same bed posed as in Vincent Desiderio's painting Sleep. Bit weird, but an interesting commentary on the lack of privacy of fame or however you want to interpret it. Werner Herzog has an interesting interpretation of it that's very much worth watching, if only to hear a 74 year old German man analyse a rap music video feature a naked Kim Kardashian and Ray J. (Props to Herzog though, guy's a legend. r/TrueFilm represent.)

Kanye popped up in Frank Ocean's Boys Don't Cry magazine with an, um, interesting poem about fast food. It's not really relevant to anything, but I love it so much I'm going to make you read all of it.

*The McDonald's Man*

Calabassas, California

McDonalds man

McDonalds man

The French fries had a plan

The French fries had a plan

The salad bad and the ketchup made a band

Cus the French fries had a plan

The French fries had a plan

Interesting first stanza. Let's see how this plays out.

McDonalds man

McDonalds man

I know them French fries had a plan

I know them French fries had a plan

The cheeseburger and the shakes formed a band

To overthrow the French fries plan

I always knew them French fries was evil man

Smelling all good and shit

I don't trust no food that smells that good man

I don't trust it

I just can't

OK...

McDonalds man

McDonalds man

McDonalds, damn

Them French fries look good tho

I knew the diet Coke was jealous of the fries

I knew the McNuggets was jealous of the fries

I could see it through his artificial meat eyes

And he only be there some of the time

Everyone was jealous of them French fries

Expect for that one special guy

That smooth apple pie

This generation's closest thing to Einstein everybody.

The MTV 2016 Video Music Awards, the show that has a controversial history with Kanye West, gave him a full four minutes to do whatever the hell he wanted. He took seven. Coming out to a certain set of lines from Famous, and greeted by chants of "Yeezy" from the audience. "I am Kanye West." Cheers. "And that feels especially great to say this year." I'm sure that feeling lasted. He made some touch points on fame, but mostly focused on the violent struggles on inner-city Chicago. "Last week, there were 22 people murdered in Chicago." "My friend Zekiah told me there's three keys to keeping people impoverished: that's taking away their esteem, taking away their resources, and taking away their role models." He believes that to be his job, to help those in need by being a role model and giving people the means to good self-esteem. He may have articulated it in a sort of messy and uneven way, but his point, was a good one. Here he debuted the video for Fade, inspired by Flashdance and starring Teyana Taylor. Warning to those of you who haven't seen it: it's a tad weird.

At the end of August he launched a now iconic tour based entirely off the ending scene of Mad Max: Fury Road, Saint Pablo. For those of you who don't click links, the entire show was performed atop a floating stage. Pretty cool, right? Named for the introspective closing song of The Life of Pablo, the Saint Pablo tour went all over North America and was mostly a success. Mostly. It's a bit hard to explain, but here we go. Like most of his tours, Saint Pablo featured many weird and some very unusual rants (including a very hypocritical one complaining about streaming exclusives). Kanye West has never been the most mentally stable of hip-hop artists, but this tour may have been where it reached its peak.

It started pretty well, until Kid Cudi mentioned Drake and Kanye in a twitter rant implying they are unoriginal artists (which, let's face it, Drake isn't). Kanye stopped one of his tour shows for his first rant. "I birthed you," he screamed to the crowd about Cudi, followed by a particularly hype performance of Can't Tell Me Nothing. Drake targeted Cudi's mental health issues in a pretty dumb diss track as his response; "You stay xanned and perc'd up, so when reality set in, you don't gotta face/Look what happens soon as you talk to me crazy/Is you crazy?" I know that dissing people means nothing should be off-limit and what Cudi said to him was pretty bad, but I think it's pretty hypocritical for someone who made his career off the same brand of whining Cudi did to criticise him for being unwell and he really is encouraging this terrible mental health stigma in the black community that I myself have been victim to. I think Two Bird, One Stone's ghostwriters should have put a bit more thought into that one. Though I'll never claim Cudi is a great artist, he really spoke to a lot of young, black men going through similar depressive issue and helped them. While this has been a bit of a tangent, I couldn't pass up an opportunity to paint Drake an asshole. While I'm at it, everything he does is super-derivative, his voice is dull, his lyrics are cringy Instagram hashtags, and as someone who is both Jamaican and English, I'd really appreciate it if he could stop pretending he's one of us. Sorry, I'm done now.

Not long after, Cudder checked himself into rehab for his depression and the thirty-eight year-old, eight year-old publically apologised, dedicating the hook to Father Stretch My Hands Pt. 1 to him at another show. Drake made no such grown up action.

(Edit: I had some details about Cudi wrong.)

In early October, Kim Kardashian was robbed at gunpoint of $4.5 Million, causing Kanye to abruptly cancel midshow to fly over to Paris to see her. Many people were very impolite towards Kim in the aftermath of the shooting - as they usually are - and afterwards, she took a strategic retreat from her public presence. Kanye returned to touring, but appeared more shaken up than ever. Apparently his sleep cycles got decidedly worse and his rants got more and more frequent. He suffered much public scrutiny for the nature of and length of his rant. One night he criticised Jay-Z and Beyoncé for not getting into contact with the Kardashian-Wests after the robbery. He begged Hova "not to send his shooters."

The anniversary of the death of Donda West was around this time.

Another notable rant involved him seemingly announcing his support for Donald Trump. Granted the speech explicitly states he didn't vote - and the fact he donated to the Clinton campaign - and his interests in The Donald were more an admiration of his aesthetics than a resounding political endorsement, but I doubt the general public really looked into it that much. Not many people payed much attention to his rousing desire for change in the system, down to abolishing the two party system, desegregating schools and acknowledging people's distrust in the government. People sort of overlooked that and focused on the headline "Kanye West Would Have Voted Trump." Sure, he cancelled the show after only four songs, but he gave a refund and he clearly wasn't feeling to hot as you'll see.

Not too much later, Kanye was handcuffed and forcibly admitted to hospital for "sleep deprivation," and "being a danger to himself and others." Many speculated that this was the result of a possible suicide attempt, something which he had previously alluded to in his music. He was in hospital for nine days.

When he came out, Kanye joined his wife on the down low. He reemerged with as Blonye, supposedly for the new Frank Ocean video and laid low. Doing a couple shows here and there, but being otherwise quiet. You know you're entering a new era when Ye switches up his style. He met with then President-Elect Donnie T to discuss "cultural issues." He garnered a lot of flack for this, which again I feel was really unfair. No one criticised Leo for meeting with him to discuss environmental issues. I hope over the next four years, people on my side of the political spectrum learn that the best course of action is to talk to people from all sides. At least, in my opinion.

(It's worth noting since then Kanye has deleted all of his Trump-related Tweets and seemingly has retracted all apparent support for him.)

As 2016 came to a close and Kanye appeared on many, many, many best of lists (warning: download link) and was nominated for five Grammys included Best Rap Album. So that was a year in The Life of Pablo. I hope people don't mind how long I spent examining the context surrounding the album before examining the individual tracks. I feel like when an album like TLOP comes out and is a reflection of such a busy and active creator, it's important to know everything that's going on in his mind to help make sense of these twenty tracks. Perhaps art should stand-alone, and maybe that's why Pablo won't stand the test of time as well as My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, but we've got it right now, so let's just enjoy it. I mean, if you want to. There's many perfectly valid reasons to not enjoy this album; if you can even consider it an album.

Track-by-track breakdown

I admit, I went a bit wild and ran out of space here. Please see the comment section below.

Now, we enter a new era. No longer the abomination of Obama's nation, the sherbert haired and more reclusive, post-hospitalisation, post-Pablo Ye suggests something new coming. Whether it's previously promised TurboGrafx-16 album or GOOD Music's new collab, which will likely feature exciting new (kind-of) signees such as Migos or, um, Tyga or whatever dope shit he has down the line. I will be there, first in line, every time and I hope y'all be joining me.

Get well soon Mr West.

Questions

  • Favourite tracks?
  • Favourite lyrics?
  • Favourite features?
  • Does something as not cohesive as The Life of Pablo function as an album? Was it a deliberate homage to the refracted perspectives seen in the Cubism movement that Pablo Picasso himself was a member? Is this and some of the messier albums of last year, such as Views and Blank Face LP, indicative of hip-hop moving away from the traditional album format, such as Frank Ocean suggested he wanted to do?
  • Where does this rank among Kanye albums? There's such a wide range in his eight albums, most people have different answers.
  • Would you have liked for So Help Me God to have officially been released? What if it was instead of The Life of Pablo?
  • Kanye hasn't lived in Chicago for well over a decade, can he still rap from the perspective of a Chi rapper?
  • What is your preferred tracklisting?
  • Do you think it was right for Kanye to continue updating the album after its initial release? Do you think all of the changes were made for the better?
  • Has Kanye's lyricism actually gone downhill since My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, in spite of his use of ghostwriters? Has he gotten more efficient at using words to elicit an emotional response or is he just embarrassing himself? Has No More Parties in LA not convinced you he can still spit?
  • Here to start a fight: which extended version of The Life of Pablo is superior? /u/Dorian_Ye's or /u/TheRealBlockaShotya's?
  • Bonus Question: What do you think of Kanye's features as of late? Has he been phoning it in or do you think his experiments with flow in songs like THat Part and Pussy Print are exciting and innovative?
  • Bonus Question: Best Kanye nickname?
  • Bonus Question: Best /r/Kanye meme?
  • Bonus Question: Why did it take until February for the HHH logo to get rid of its Santa hat?

I will try and respond to every comment on this thread. This album is a controversial one, so I expect there to be a great level of discussion stemming from this. I hope you don't mind my references to my own personal politics, faith and thoughts on Drake, I didn't want to seem arrogant, but I felt it was important to express myself to understand my views on this album. And please do forgive the novella, but did you expect any less from a sub filled with crazy Kanye Stans like me?

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[FRESH] Waka Flocka - Was My Dawg

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 06:54 PM PST

Migos respond to Makonnen incident

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 02:14 PM PST

[FRESH] Paul White feat. Danny Brown - Accelerator

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 06:29 AM PST

Watch "NOISEY: Atlanta with Migos, Killer Mike (Full Episode)" on YouTube

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 08:09 AM PST

[FRESH] CyHi The Prynce - Legend

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 06:46 AM PST

Anderson .Paak performs "Come Down" with a Gospel choir

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 08:14 AM PST

CyHi confirms Cruel Winter coming (Most likely Feb 15)

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 05:46 PM PST

CyHi said in his AMA below its coming:

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Also some sources saying release will be at the fashion show on Feb 15, this also confirms when travis said it will be released feb months ago...

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Desiigner will be premiering Outlet tomorrow on Beats 1

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 02:31 PM PST

21 Savage: "#IssaAlbum very very soon!"

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 10:32 PM PST

[FRESH] The Underachievers - Cobra Clutch

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 08:44 AM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] SiR - All In My Head

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 10:31 AM PST

[FRESH] Kyle - Want Me Bad feat. Cousin Stizz

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 12:09 PM PST

Daily Discussion Thread 02/08/2017

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 09:55 AM PST

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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  • meta posts...e.g. ideas for the sub

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  • Please be helpful and friendly.

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[FRESH ALBUM] Two-9 - FRVR

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 09:22 PM PST

[Fresh] Rick Ross "Summer 17"

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 08:08 PM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] Kemba - Already

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 10:36 AM PST

New Lupe Fiasco track to be revealed during Street Fighter V character reveal

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 10:39 AM PST

[FRESH] LUCKI - New To Me

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 07:49 PM PST

Jazz Cartier Freestyles Live on Sway in the Morning

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 03:14 PM PST

ATCQ and Frank Ocean to headline Wayhome 2017 (north of Toronto)

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 08:17 PM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] M.I.A. - P.O.W.A

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 01:01 PM PST

Big Sean: I Decided Pitchfork Review | 6.3

Posted: 08 Feb 2017 10:08 PM PST
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[ANNOUNCEMENT] CyHi The Prynce AMA @ 2pm EST - HipHop

[ANNOUNCEMENT] CyHi The Prynce AMA @ 2pm EST - HipHop

[ANNOUNCEMENT] CyHi The Prynce AMA @ 2pm EST

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:07 PM PST

His debut album will be released this summer on Sony Red, executive produced by Kanye West! :)

AMA will be in r/hiphopheads

beep boop

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[FRESH] Migos - Dab of Ranch

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:09 PM PST

Vince Staples’ New Album Out Soon - Copies of the new CD come with VIP packages for Vince's Life Aquatic Tour

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:00 AM PST

New Injury Reserve EP coming this year

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 01:08 PM PST

Travis Scott - Piss On Your Grave (feat. Kanye West)

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 08:41 PM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] SZA - Where The Hell Have You Been (Road to CTRL)

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:13 AM PST

[FRESH] Freddie Gibbs, BJ The Chicago Kid & G-Wiz - Friends (prod. by iLL Brown)

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:49 AM PST

Daily Discussion Thread 02/07/2017

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 03:59 PM PST

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?")
  • general hip-hop discussion
  • meta posts...e.g. ideas for the sub

Thread Guidelines

  • Do not create a separate self post for these types of discussions outside of this thread - if you do, your post will be removed.

  • Please be helpful and friendly.

  • If a question has been asked many times before, provide a link to a thread that contains the answer.

Other ways to interact

There are a number of other ways to interact with other members of HHH:

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Cyhi The Prynce releasing new song tomorrow. Debut album coming spring/summer

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:27 AM PST

[FRESH] Smino - Anita

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 08:10 PM PST

Kyle has signed with Atlantic Records

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:11 PM PST

New Underachievers tomorrow

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 06:39 PM PST

How Many Bad Albums Before Giving Up On An Artist? - DEHH

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 02:54 PM PST

Lil Yachty remade It Takes Two with Carly Rae Jepsen

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 12:41 PM PST

[FRESH] Blac Youngsta - Hip Hopper (feat. Lil Yachty) [Prod By MikeWillMadeIt]

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 11:16 AM PST

r/hiphopheads Essential Album of the Week #80: Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:58 PM PST

Welcome to the new and improved Essential Album of the Week discussion thread!

Every Wednesday we will discuss an album from our Essential Albums list

Last Week: Notorious B.I.G. - Ready to Die

This Week: Outkast - Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

Stream/Purchase

Spotify

iTunes

Google Play

Songs/Singles

Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik

Player's Ball

Git Up, Git Out

Background/Description (courtesy of allmusic.com)

It is on OutKast's debut album that the fledgling production team Organized Noize began forging one of the most distinctive production sounds in popular music in the '90s: part hip-hop; part live, Southern-fried guitar licks and booty-thick bass runs; and part lazy, early-'70s soul. The album was not only artistically successful but also thrived commercially, leaping into the Top 20 album chart on the back of the outstanding hit single "Player's Ball" and eventually going platinum. Although a little bit too dependent on overly simplistic and programmed snare beats, the music is unconditionally excellent, with languid, mellow melodies sliding atop rapid, mechanical drums. Organized Noize already had their distinguishing sound figured out, down to the last twanged, wah-wahed note. But what makes Southernplayalisticadillacmuzick such a wonderful album has even more to do with the presence of its rappers, Dre and Big Boi. No one sounded like OutKast in 1994 -- a mixture of lyrical acuity, goofball humor, Southern drawl, funky timing, and legitimate offbeat personalities. Few rappers of the '90s have displayed such an inventive sense of rhyme flow either, and few rap artists in general have ears as attuned to creating such catchy melodic and vocal hooks. Almost every song has some sort of tuneful chant or repetitive hook that marks it as instantly memorable. There are occasional dull and mediocre spots, such as "Call of Da Wild" and the overlong "Funky Ride," that can't even be elevated by a head-nodding bassline or a tricky rhyme. Such low points, however, are far outshined by the brilliant moments. Already an extremely strong showing, OutKast would continue to develop into one of the finest, most consistently challenging (not to mention booty-shaking) rap groups of the decade.

Guidelines

This is an open thread for you to share your thoughts on the album. Avoid vague statements of praise or criticism. This is your chance to practice being a critic. It's fine for you to drop by just to say you love the album, but let's try and step it up a bit!!!

How has this album affected hip-hop? WHY do you like this tape? What are the best tracks? Do you think it deserves the praise it gets? Is it the first time you've listened to it? What's your first impression? Have you listened to the artist before? Explain why you like it or why you don't.

DON'T FEEL BAD ABOUT BEING LATE !!!! Discussion throughout the week is encouraged.

Next week's EAOTW will be Scarface - The Diary

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SZA's Website Updated With A Teaser For CTRL

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:20 AM PST

inglewoodSiR tweets out front cover and track list of upcoming project, Anderson Paak will have a feature

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 12:18 PM PST

The project will be called "Her Too," and will be (hopefully) released this Friday

https://twitter.com/inglewoodsir/status/829057526096285696

https://twitter.com/inglewoodsir/status/829058876951498753

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Nujabes ft Shing02 - Luv(sic) Part 6 (Grand Finale)

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 10:42 AM PST

Tyler, The Creator Interviews Seth Rogen

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 10:18 AM PST

MF Doom's Special Herbs & Spices Beat Guide

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 07:22 AM PST

2nd Grade Students Cover Nujabes "Aruarian Dance"

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 06:34 PM PST

[THROWBACK] Big Pun ft. Black Thought - Super Lyrical (RIP Big Pun)

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 04:27 PM PST

Nujabes - Aruarian Dance

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 10:51 AM PST

[FRESH] Smino - Anita

Posted: 07 Feb 2017 09:06 PM PST
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