Last.fm Thread: What Have You Been Listening To This Week? - August 09, 2017 - HipHop

Fairly often in threads where the boy$ get brought up I see people asking the same question, "Where do I start to get into $uicideboy$?". This guide has been created to answer this question. We have included a roadmap of albums for new listeners to guide them through some projects so they can get a feel for the $uicideboy$. Another way to get familiar with the boy$ is to listen chronologically from the earliest to latest project, and in this guide we do just that, highlighting notable tracks along the way. Although this will probably soon be out of date because of how prolific the boy$ are, it should still provide a good starting point, and by the time you've listened to everything in here you'll be enough of a fan to catch up on the new releases yourself.

BACKSTORY

The $uicideboy$ consists of two cousins from New Orleans who go by $crim and Ruby Da Cherry. They grew up in the 7th Ward, New Orleans where they got into music at an early age. Before $uicideboy$, Ruby played guitar, drums, and bass in local of punk bands whereas Scrim got into DJing at 13 eventually gaining a residency at a club. Through his DJing, Scrim started to host mixtapes for local rappers. He didn't start producing until he was 19, and started rapping later on after Ruby convinced him. For a while before joining up as $uicideboy$ they worked together on a couple of solo projects on their record label, G*59, however, none of these took off. The first song they did together, before "$uicideboy$", was "$moke a $ack" on $crim's project "Patron Saint of Everything Totally Fucked" in 2013.

The $uicideboy$ music is heavily influenced by older dirty south acts like Memphis group Three Six Mafia. Whom they sample in a majority of their songs. As well as acts from their hometown like the Hot Boys and other early Cash Money artists. Much of the themes in the boy$ music center around subject matter similar to Three Six Mafia such as satanism and drug dealing/use. (for a deeper look at their musical influences, check out this guide to Memphis hip hop and this guide to New Orleans hip hop) The other, most prevalent, themes in their music are those of depression, drug addiction, and suicidal thoughts. $crim has struggled with an opiate addiction throughout his life, and Ruby struggles with depression. $uicideboy$ was born from a particularly low point in the cousin's' life, where they felt they had nothing to lose. Making a pact to either succeed or die, they created $uicideboy$ by combining $crim's production talents with their shared rap skill. (for a deeper look at their life and motivations, check out their interview with No Jumper)

RESOURCES:

To Find all of their music, visit their Bandcamp or their Datpizz Page for downloads (with occasional bonus tracks), and their Soundcloud to stream. here's a helpful guide to the samples they've used and their many names here's a guide to $crim's hair, not sure why it exists but it does

NEW LISTENERS ROADMAP

The $uicideboy$ have a huge discography and it can be daunting when trying to get into them. This roadmap is here to help guide you through a few of their projects to get a taste of what the $uicideboy$ are about.

Projects:

A good, general path to follow:

$outh $ide $uicide > Eternal Grey > My Liver Will Handle What My Heart Can't > DIRTIERNASTIER$UICIDE > High Tide in the Snake's Nest > I No Longer Fear The Razor Guarding My Heel (Part III)

If you want hard, banger-centric projects follow this path:

Radical $uicide > DIRTYNASTY$UICIDE > DIRTIERNASTIER$UICIDE > Kill Yourself Part XI: The Kingdom Come Saga

If you want more depressing/emotional projects follow this path:

Kill Yourself Part XIII: The Atlantis Saga > My Liver Will Handle What My Heart Can't > High Tide in the Snake's Nest > Now The Moon's Rising > I No Longer Fear The Razor Guarding My Heel (Parts I-III)

SOLO PROJECTS

Their solo projects predate the "$uicideboy$" group. They haven't released any solo work since these projects.

$crim: These projects are interesting as a stepping stone for $crim, but honestly they're pretty corny throughout and aren't very enjoyable to listen to.

Narcotics Anonymous (9/11/2012):

Patron Saint of Everything Totally Fucked (?/?/2013)

Ruby: Ruby's pre $B work is much more enjoyable simply because he started off as a better rapper than $crim, the boy$ have developed to be at a similar skill level now and have a nice balance together, but $crim was a good producer before he was a good rapper. I recommend checking out Pluto for some early Ruby, it has some great songs.

The Jefe Tape (?/?/2012): this one's just instrumentals

Digital Diseases (2/29/2012) [released under the name "Neighbors Ate My Zombies"]

Pluto (3/14/2014)

FEATURES

Here are some of the $uicideboy$ more popular features.

GHOSTEMANE - $EPPUKU: $uicideboy$ only feature with underground rapper Ghostemane, goes hard and every fan of these artists wants another collab.

RAMIREZ - SARCOPHAGUS II: Second track in the Sarcophagus series and only one on a Ramirez project, it's a little more slow and evil sounding. $crim has a CRAZY storytelling verse here.

POUYA - BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE: track 3 off of Pouya's "Underground Underdog", banger with some nice flows.

POUYA - FAT HOES: huge underground posse cut with, this shit is a crazy banger and Ruby's verse steals the show here.

DENZEL CURRY - NARCOTICS: not actually a feature but the beat was produced by $crim. Has $B's memphis sampling and goes hard.

GERM - FUCK Y'ALL HOES: This song has a really catchy sample and a HEAVY beat. Goes hard with some nice verses and to be honest feels more like an $B song featuring Germ.

GERM - RUKUS: More recent collab with Germ on his Badshit Bootleg tape, basically everything you'd expect from a $B x Germ track. Filthy banger with nice flows and some quotables.

GETTER - 2 HIGH: high energy banger off of Getter's "Wat the Frick EP", Ruby's flow switch up is crazy and $crim does his thing. Features a sample from "Danny Brown - Blunt After Blunt" as the hook.

LOOSIES

$uicideboy$ only really have two loose tracks, and they're both good enough to highlight here.

KILL YOURSELF (PART IV): This is the fourth installment in the Kill Yourself song series, it has a nice beat and both boy$ switch flows to create a very dynamic song.

BROKEN KRYSTAL BALL: this is a mysterious solo Ruby cut, probably produced by $crim. It's uploaded on a few random soundcloud accounts. It has a nice simple violin driven beat and Ruby sings over it with incredible emotion and skill.

$UICIDEBOY$ PROJECTS

The KYS SAGAS:

The first series of projects released by the group are a series of short EPs, each with a distinct theme and sound. They're a good starting point as they're pretty short and listenable.

KILL YOUR$ELF PART I: THE $UICIDE SAGA

Release Date: 6/16/2014

The first project released as the $uicideboy$. Probably their most (semi-intentional) lo-fi release to date. $crim's production here is serviceable and uses a lot of female vocal samples, a staple of super early $B, but it's progressed a lot since then. Similarly, the rapping is vanilla compared to later releases. Still thoroughly enjoyable.

Notable Tracks:

KILL YOUR$ELF: The first in a series of songs that is currently ongoing, the production on this song is distinctively old-$uicideboy$y and it is a nice introduction to their early style. A remix is available as a bonus track on this ep and has a [music video](.

MAPLE $YRUP (FEAT. BONES): The Boy'$ only collaboration with underground legend and later rival (maybe) Bones. Not much to say, just a good song, although Bones has the best verse it's a good show all around. A remix of this is available as a bonus track.

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