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Daily Discussion Thread 01/18/2020 - HipHop

Daily Discussion Thread 01/18/2020 - HipHop

Daily Discussion Thread 01/18/2020

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 06:25 AM PST

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Album of the Year 2019: YG - 4Real 4Real

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 09:14 AM PST

Artist: YG

Album: 4Real 4Real (In Loving Memory of Nipsey Hussle)

Spotify

Google Play Music

Apple Music

YouTube

Background:

Keenon Daequan Ray Jackson also known as YG is a Bompton born and raised rapper that has been known in the mainstream for about a decade now. The single 'Toot It and Boot It' which came out in 2010 was the first song that made YG start garnering popularity. YG released a few mixtapes (the most popular being the Just Re'd Up /2) leading up to his debut studio album 'My Krazy Life' which is mainly produced by Mustard and also has features from Drake, Kendrick, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock and others. 'My Nathan' would go 4x platinum and 'Who do you Love' would go 2x platinum. His sophomore studio album would come in early 2016, 'Still Brazy' which garnered major critical acclaim and made most end of the year top album lists. It combined both 90's GFunk with a more modern trap sound. In 2018 YG released his Junior album 'Stay Dangerous' which had a lot to live up to, following two certified west coast classics and arguably a modern classic in 'Still Brazy'. 'Stay Dangerous' was largely a huge disappointment both sound wise and content wise.

Sadly, leading up to '4Real 4Real' album rollout and YG's Coachella set West Coast legend and YG's best friend Nipsey Hussle was murdered in front of his own clothing store. This led to YG's senior album to be delayed for about a month. YG wanted to delay it longer but was getting pressure from his label and Blacc Sam (Nipsey's brother) was reassuring YG that Nipsey would want him to release the album. At his Coachella set YG announced that his album would be coming out in May and debuted his song Stop Snitchin. On BigBoyTV, YG announced that Nipsey's kids would be getting a percentage of each song on the album. YG prefaced it by saying "when they turn 18 they're going to be getting a bag from me."

YG has been successful because he reminds people of the gritty, funky, reality rap 90's West Coast hip hop. Certainly there are bigger artists from the West Coast at the moment like Tyler and Kendrick but neither do the job of bringing back the classic West Coast sound quite like YG does.

Track Review

Hard Bottoms and White Socks: The albums starts off with a different type of energy. We aren't used to hearing YG on a slow, somber beat but his tone and flow really pulls this song all together to make it a good intro. The whole song revolves around YG being the face of the West Coast. "Talkin' 'bout the West Coast, I'm the face of it" At the end of the first verse YG ends it with

Pac ain't the only motherfucker with the juice

Call Dre, call Snoop, call Game and Kendrick too.

When you think about the West, it's me and Nip, red and blue

I haven't heard Dre talk about YG, but I know Snoop, Game and Kendrick have all praised YG and if you asked any of them they would probably say that YG and Nip were the faces of the West Coast (Kendrick kinda ascends 'West Coast'). Snoop Dogg has talked about YG on his GGN podcast. All the kids on his youth football team say that YG is their favorite rapper. Also Snoop picked YG to perform with him at the Rock and Roll induction ceremony commemorating Tupac. The two performed '2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted' with YG playing the part of Pac. Snoops shows love to everyone though so you can take that for what you want.

Bottle Service: The first song on the album produced by Mustard. In my opinion YG's best work is when collaborating with Mustard. The Interlude of the song is a women who we can assume is a stripper berating YG for being at the strip club but not spending money on bottle service and not being charitable with his cash donations. The song is a back and forth between the stripper and YG. Whenever she berates YG, he answers back by bragging about all the wealth he owns and how he can get a badder bitch then her.

In the Dark: This song was originally going to be the lead single for the album. It was actually released the night after the death of Nipsey Hussle but was quickly taken off of streaming services (within the hour). This left a lot of people confused and what most likely led YG to announce that he had a surprise album set to release right before his Coachella performance but was postponing it because of the death of Nipsey Hussle. The song delves a little bit into YG and his relationship with Alcohol. YG loves Tequilla and typically performs live with a bottle in his hand. I hope that YG's drinking is something he talks about more. I think a lot of people from his background struggle with alcoholism and could use a strong voice to represent them. Also the hook implies YG is a fan of Scorsese? wild.

Go Loko: This song came about when YG and Tyga were in the studio with Mustard working on Mustard's album 'Perfect Ten'. Mustard played the song for the two and forced them to get in the studio and make something out of it and it basically confirms that somehow Mustard, Tyga, and YG will have a summer song each year no matter how much you think they have fallen off. Not familiar with Jon-Z but his voice was pretty unique, I didn't think he added much to the song though. From what I've seen around Twitter a lot of people wish YG had a more prominent latino rapper on the track. This was the second single from the album and it hit the Hot 100 that week. The song brings a good energy that celebrates Mexican culture. YG went to Paramount High School which is mostly Latino, YG has a lot of respect from that community and shows a lot of respect that way.

Stop Snitching: This song was debuted at Coachella. While performing the song at Coachella the monitors behind him showed Tikashi 6ix9ine's mugshot. I'm not going to go into a deep dive of the beef between the two but a lot of West Coast rappers feel some type of way about 6ix9ine and the way he carries himself. On top of that since the 6ix9ine trial we literally have a popular meme that is about him snitching on others.There is also a lot of symbolism in the music video. The music video showcases slaves trying to escape their masters, the night the slaves are trying to escape, one of the house slaves snitches on them which in return gets the runaways captured, beaten, and killed. Pretty heavy symbolism for a song that is repetitive in nature with lyrics that don't take that deep of dive into the subject of snitching. Also there is a remix with DaBaby which goes hard. I'm hoping for more collabs between the two in the future, their energy goes well together.

I Was On the Block: A song where YG copies Valee's flow, but that's okay because Valee is a feature along with fellow Compton rapper Boogie. I think everyone on the song does a good job and has a good mellow flow that fits the tone of the song. The song delves into each rapper point of view of "being on the block" and Valee brings in his perspective as a Chicago rapper.

I was on the block when the homie sack flipped (Flipped)

I was right there when he got his new whip (Whip)

I was with a six-piece, he had a cool bitch (Bitch)

I was right there when the homie got rich (Rich)

I was wearing the fade when the homie had the braids (Braids)

I was right there helpin' homie with the plays (Plays)

I was in position because I would never hate (Hate)

Now it's my time, and I'm gon' throw it in your face

In the song YG watches his friend gain wealth and flaunt it on the block and years later now that YG is that guy, he is going to shove it back in his face. Reasons like that is probably why YG has been shot at despite making it out of the hood. People envious and don't know how to properly release their anger.

Kiesha Had a Baby: Is an ode to Tupac - Brendas got a Baby. YG has had a lot of misogynistic bars in the past, but YG does a good job of telling a story of a woman named Kiesha and her life being a good looking woman in Southern LA. The story is one that I think a lot of women in LA have lived or know someone that has lived. Kiesha started seeing a guy named Ray. Ray was a great guy, the two were great together. Well when she was with Ray she started seeing an NBA player. She left Ray for the NBA player and got pregnant by him. Well that NBA player fucks around with other girls. Kiesha leaves his ass and tries to go back to Ray. Ray turns her down and Kiesha is now stuck, with a baby and doesn't feel like she has anyone to go to.

This track stands out to me because it feels like the first genuine story telling song that YG has done. It reminds me a little bit of Mona Lisa by Lil Wayne. Songs on 'My Krazy Life' tell a story but the story is overshadowed by the production and over the top lyrics ('Meet the Flockers' for example). I hope that YG continues to give us songs like this and even experiments with a concept album in the future, I believe he has the pen game to do it.

Heart 2 Heart Probably one of the most important songs on the album. The song has both YG and Meek having a heart to heart with the people in their city. Each rapper talks about a different person from their respective city. In this song YG reminds me a lot of the way Nipsey speaks. Giving brotherly advice, helping guide people to their own success.

Whatever you wanna do, just put your mind to it and do it

Calculate your steps, draw your blueprint, get to it

*Find some helpin' hands that's gon' contribute to your movement

'Cause anything is possible, just look at me, I proved it

Focus on improvement, results, no excuses

Stick to the script, know your vision, never lose it

Meek talks about someone from Philly that he knows. The person kills someone over something stupid. The man is going to be locked up for most of his life now and Meek hopes that he gets the mental health treatment he needs. I think rappers like YG and Meek should make more songs like this, it's good advice to people from their city that inspire to be them.

Do Yo Dance: Is a callback to YG's 'Twist my Fingaz' on 'Still Brazy' an old school GFunk sounding song. Do Yo Dance is loaded with friends of YG's from the West Coast and has a similar GFunky sound that matches 'Twist my Fingaz'. I think the song has too many features and is dragged out too long. Ty Dollar Sign to me is always a hit or miss and I think he is a miss on this. I am looking forward to hearing more from Mitch who is signed to YG label.

My Last Words: Is the audio of YG eulogizing long time friend Nipsey Hussle at his memorial service at the Staple Center. YG and Nipsey both came up in the industry together. Hell, Nipsey makes an appearance in the Toot It and Boot It music video. Often collaborating and really helping bring a new wave of energy to the West Coast. Although repping separate colors that wouldn't let that stand in the way of being business partners, music partners and best friends. I'm going to delve more into the relationship between YG and Nipsey Hussle for a writeup I'm doing on /r/NipseyHussle to commemorate the life and legacy of Nipsey on the anniversary of his death.

Conclusion

I think 4Real 4Real was a major step up in production and content compared to 'Stay Dangerous'. YG has a mix of hard hitting reality rap, party rap and story telling on this album. It is by no means comparable to 'My Krazy Life' or 'Still Brazy', but I do think that it tells us that 'Stay Dangerous' was a fluke and that YG isn't on a downward trend. Mustard was a lot better with the production on this album, a lot less experimental choosing to come back to what works with him and YG bass that makes our socks fly off. Lot's of people skipped this album because of the disappointment of 'Stay Dangerous', if you did skip this album I would urge you to go listen to it, YG opens up on this album about where he feels his place is in the rap game, how keeping connections to his previous life has haunted him and how he has nothing left to prove that he is a West Coast legend.

The West Coast has been on an uphill trend as of late, most notably Roddy Ricch surprising everyone selling 100k and having a major hit on Billboard charts (thanks TikTok and shitty Justin Bieber single). I think YG has played a big part in bringing the West Coast back to the main stage. I'm excited to see what's next from YG. There's been talk for years about a collab album with Nipsey. I wonder if anything will come from that? Also heard rumors that him and Meek Mill have been in the studio together. Would love to hear more from those two. To me YG is always a must listen, despite his flukes I feel like he always brings energy to a track that no other artist on the West is capable of bringing.

Interviews

BigBoyTV

Breakfast Club

Favorite Lyrics

Hard Bottoms and White Socks

Pac ain't the only motherfucker with the juice

Call Dre, call Snoop, call Game and Kendrick too

When you think about the West, it's me and Nip, red and blue, nigga

In the Dark

I'm in the dark goin' brazy

I'm in the dark throwin' twenty past eighty

I'm in the dark, it's a movie, Scorsese

I'm in the dark, that's how life been lately

In the dark

I Was On the Block

Yeah, I had a meeting with Kanye (Yeah)

Yeah, we had a good convo (Yeah)

These was the words from Kanye (Yeah)

"Fuck bein' humble, act a asshole"

I Was On the Block

Boogie

Fuck it, I'm gon' remix it, bitch

'Cause I'm a deep feelin', lease livin'

Weave stricken, wish I seen different

But I couldn't, I done had it bad

Heart 2 Heart

"Whatever you wanna do, just put your mind to it and do it

Calculate your steps, draw your blueprint, get to it

Find some helpin' hands that's gon' contribute to your movement

'Cause anything is possible, just look at me, I proved it

Focus on improvement, results, no excuses

Stick to the script, know your vision, never lose it

Discussion Questions:

  • Do you think YG redeemed himself with this album after the disappointment of Stay Dangerous?
  • After their long history of working together do you still find that YG excels on Mustard production?
  • Do you think YG is the face of the West Coast like he claims in the intro of the album?
  • What do you think is YG's favorite Scorsese film?
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The interview with Jay-Z where two chicks are eating each other out to his left

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 06:25 PM PST

Kanye West joins two prominent anti-LGBTQ crusaders as one of twelve headliners of prayer rally ‘Awaken 2020’ happening today in Arizona

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 10:04 AM PST

Article:

Kanye West will be featured as the headliner of Awaken 2020, a 10-hour-long prayer rally in Arizona, which is being billed as the "first epic evangelical stadium event of the decade."

West has announced that he will bring his gospel choir Sunday Service to the Jan. 18 event, which will take place at the Sun Devil Stadium in Phoenix, Ariz.

The appearance by the hip-hop mogul is being seen by many in the Evangelical community as a way which will be used by God to "help spark the next national spiritual awakening in the United States," according to Arizona-based conservative news site The Western Journal.

According to the event's page, organizers of Awaken 2020 are inviting participants to "open the door and enter into a new era, a new decade, of revival that is bringing a movement of signs and wonders, healing of the sick, and preaching of the gospel."

West will join a roster of high profile anti-LGBTQ cusaders in the "monumental movement launching a new decade of awakening America back to God at a critical time in our nation's history."

The long list of Evangelical celebrities include:

  • Ardent Trump defender Guillermo Maldonado, who has said that having same-sex relations is "clearly prohibited by God" and "invites unclean spirits into our lives," according to the Advocate;
  • Ché Ahn, who has said that LGBTQ equality "is not a civil rights issue" because they never had "rights taken from them," as reported by Right Wing Watch;
  • "Prophet" Cindy Jacobs of Generals International, who has warned that passage of legislation to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity, the Equality Act, could lead the nation to "come to a place of civil war;"
  • Lou Engle, one of the more prominent players on the American religious right, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center, who has called homosexuality a "spirit of lawlessness," was a vocal proponent of Uganda's "Kill the Gays" bill, and once claimed Nazism was fueled by homosexuality.

Cindy Jacobs and Guillermo Maldonado are two of the 12 keynote speakers, including Kanye. Others include Daniel Kolenda, Brian "Head" Welch, Jerame Nelson, Jake Hamilton, Jeremy Riddle, David & Stephanie Herzog, Eddie James, and Steve Swanson.

Daniel Kolenda is a missionary evangelist who has led more than 21-million people to Christ face-to face through massive open-air evangelistic campaigns in some of the most dangerous, difficult and remote locations on earth. As the successor to world renowned Evangelist Reinhard Bonnke, Daniel is the president and CEO of Christ for All Nations; a ministry which has conducted some of the largest evangelistic events in history, has published over 190 million books in 104 languages and has offices in 10 nations around the world. He also hosts an internationally syndicated television program.

Dr. David & Stephanie Herzog are the founders of David Herzog Ministries.

Brian Welch, also known by his stage name Head, is an American musician, singer and songwriter. He is one of the guitarists and founding member of the nu metal band Korn. After becoming a born again Christian, Welch left the band in 2005 to focus on life as a father and to pursue his own solo career.

Jerame Nelson is a prophetic revivalist and the founder of Elisha Revolution. He is an author, as well as a well-known international conference speaker. It is Jerame's passion to equip the body of Christ in hearing God's voice and in walking in the supernatural power of God in every day life.

Jake Hamilton is an American Christian praise & worship singer and songwriter. Hamilton released the album entitled Marked By Heaven in 2009, which was his first full-length live album.

Jeremy Riddle is an American Christian musician, songwriter, and worship leader.

Steve Swanson travels around the world leading worship and training a generation of worshipers into abandoned joy and fullness of glory.

Engle appears to have previously been a headliner but is no longer shown on the website. Same for Ché Ahn.

Livestream

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Royce Da 5’9” turned down $250,000 + unlimited free Dr. Dre beats from Aftermath, instead signed with Tommy Boy for $1 million

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 03:11 PM PST

Royce da 5'9" - Boblo Boat ft. J. Cole

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 02:18 PM PST

Sacramento rap pioneer Homicide has passed away.

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 03:10 PM PST

Homicide was one of the first rappers to release music out of Sacramento, the first to sign with a major and the first I heard rep Oak Park (Lil Tim/Mozzy, June, C-Dubb, etc.) Throughout his career he was signed to Black Market Records, Mercury Records, Priority Records (first artist signed and/or managed by Ben Baller) and Ruthless Records. He was also a member of The 9one6 Alliance, Sacramento's version of groups like The Stop The Violence Movement ("Self-Destruction") and The West Coast All-Stars ("We're All In The Same Gang".) The Alliance's single "Silence the Violence" was the first release from Black Market Records, the label that would later release the debut albums of X-Raided and Brotha Lynch Hung. Before founding Black Market Records, Cedsing was a member of Homicide's J.A.K. Squad and produced his debut album. Details about the cause of death haven't been posted anywhere as far as I know, I've only seen posts on social media from people who knew him.

Some Homicide songs (all good, but my favorites are in bold):

Features:

Marvaless: "Rest easy Homeboy💞💓💗 #SACLEGEND #HOMICIDE" (via Instagram)

Cellski: "TELL NUT I SAID WHAT UP BIG BRO...RIP HOMICIDE...OAK PARKS FINEST...IM SICK....#riphomicide" (via Instagram)

X-Raided: In 1990 a fifteen year old boy from South Sacramento had a dream of being a real rapper. It was just a fantasy because there were no rappers from Sacramento at a level where someone else could believe they could do it too. Then while laying on a bed in juvenile hall, that boy heard a song on the radio called "Dhog House," made by a brother named Homicide from Oak Park. He had a booming voice. He told stories in his verses about streets the boy knew well. That fifteen year old was inspired and came to believe that a rapper from Sacramento could not only make music, but could do it just as good as anyone. Months later the boy would drop an EP as X-Raided. A year after that, Psycho Active was born. Sacramento rap pioneer Homicide made me believe it was possible. Rest In Peace to the brother with the big voice from Oak Park. #916 #sacramento #SacramentoLegend #LearnAboutIt #RIPHomicide 🕊 😇 #XRaided (via Instagram)

Big Omeezy: R.I.P To My Folks #Homicide @westcola456 #Sacramento #priority #Legend 🙏🏾💯 @priorityrecords (via Instagram)

Big Drawz (2-Illeven): Wow! Sleep well my friend. You will be missed and never forgotten. #HOMICIDE #BIGHOMIE #REALONE #DAYONE #BLOOD (via Instagram)

Cedsing (Black Market Records CEO/Member of J.A.K. Squad): Rest in Power, last night my old friend Justin Moorer aka Homicide was found unresponsive and pronounced dead and I am heart broken. I have known him since he was 16 years old. My connection to him was like a brother. He had fallen on bad times in the last few years and he was unable to shake the darkness that he had fallen into. Our last few conversations were not good ones but it never changed the love I have for him. I will not remember that I will remember the other 90% when we were on the same page and path. The battles me fought together to make something out of nothing to make an impact in music. I will miss you my friend because I know you loved me also despite your troubled heart. (via Instagram)

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Lupe Fiasco tweets "Yo Joe Budden Lemme get yo slaughterhouse spot"

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 10:19 PM PST

This is definitely just a joke, but one could imagine.

https://twitter.com/lupefiasco/status/1218760434276294662?s=21

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J.I.D Freestyle — 2018 XXL Freshman

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 09:59 PM PST

[FRESH] Eminem ft Anderson .Paak - Lock it Up

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 01:25 AM PST

[FRESH] Eminem - Farewell

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 05:35 PM PST

[DISCUSSION] The Game - The Documentary (15 years later)

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 07:16 AM PST

On January 18th, 2005, The Game dropped the West Coast classic The Documentary.

It features artists like Nate Dogg, 50 Cent, Eminem, Busta Rhymes and has producing credits from Dr.Dre for most of the album but also Kanye West ("Dreams"), Havoc ("Don't Need Your Love"), Timbaland ("Put You On The Game") or Just Blaze ("Church For Thugs").

Songs like Hate It Or Love It are considered as one of the best hip-hop tracks of all time, this track and How We Do are still the biggest hits he made to this day.

How do you feel this album aged 15 years later? How do you feel about the Documentary 2 / 2,5, do you feel like they honor the name of the original?

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Video of Da Baby pushing a hotel worker.

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 10:14 AM PST

Video on Tmz

DaBaby likes his fans, but only so much, because when they ask for too much he might attack. Check out the video ... from a security cam at a Bev Hills hotel. We're told the guy in the video is a hotel employee who followed DaBaby outside the lobby to get a pic. We're told DaBaby turned the guy down, so he walked back in the lobby

Why is Da Baby so mad?

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[FRESH VIDEO] 070 Shake - The Pines

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 11:21 AM PST

Nardwuar | If I Interviewed The Weeknd

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 07:52 PM PST

Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment - Warm Enough (feat. Noname & J. Cole)

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 07:50 AM PST

Happy Birthday Mac Miller

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 10:40 PM PST

[DISCUSSION] Aesop Rock & TOBACCO- Malibu Ken (1 year later)

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 10:22 AM PST

Suprised there's no thread for this one. it's been a year since Aes & TOBACCO release their self-titled debut as malibu ken. What are people's opinions a year on? Pretty much all of it's still on heavy rotation for me.

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Maxo Kream - Big Worm

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 05:51 PM PST

Mixing Engineers for Jay Z and Kendrick Lamar sit down at NAMM and talk audio

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 03:46 PM PST

[FRESH] Rick Ross - Future Bright (feat. Bryson Tiller)

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 11:33 AM PST

[LEAK] Juice WRLD - Runaway

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 12:28 PM PST

[FRESH] Peso Peso Ft. Maxo Kream - I Was Trapping

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 08:07 PM PST

Can anyone ID the song and the performer from Yams day 2020? (My bad bout my voice)

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 06:09 PM PST

J Cole verse on Bas “Night job” ����

Posted: 18 Jan 2020 11:35 PM PST
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Hi! We're the producers and directors of Hip-Hop Evolution, ask us anything! [1PM ET] - HipHop

Hi! We're the producers and directors of Hip-Hop Evolution, ask us anything! [1PM ET] - HipHop

Hi! We're the producers and directors of Hip-Hop Evolution, ask us anything! [1PM ET]

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 07:52 AM PST

UPDATE 2:14 PM ET: We'll keep responding throughout the day, so keep asking questions. We love you HHH, keep it a millionnnnnnnn

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We're the producers and directors of your favorite Hip-Hop documentary series, Hip-Hop Evolution [applause].

Our fourth season starts airing today on Netflix.

Ask us anything about the series, hip-hop history, hip-hop in general, making documentaries, whatever.

We've also just started our own production company, Scenario (yeah, Tribe), so pitch for fun or for real. But we accept no responsibility for this material!

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Album of the Year 2019: OOFIE by Wiki

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 11:01 AM PST

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Listen:

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Apple

Spotify

Youtube

Artist: Wiki

Album: OOFIE

Label: Wikset Enterprises

Background by /u/GhostofRimbaud

Patrick "Wiki" Morales is a voracious, exuberant Irish-Puerto Rican rapper from New York City, spitting truths and rude musings through a broken tooth for the better part of the past decade. Pat is an avowed rap purist that puts his heart in the art, claiming he does it simply because "I love to do this shit." As a prodigy in the NYC art scene, Wiki was given his sobriquet through a duo with a kid named Googs (after Google and Wikipedia) and eventually started putting out videos & raps. Later, he saw success with the Wikispeaks video and the critically acclaimed albums WIKI93 and So It Goes from gritty, city kid triumvirate Ratking. He's also known for a popular verse on Earl Sweatshirt's AM//Radio, and a series of recent solo projects and collaborative EP's.

Through live performances and recorded songs, Wiki has proven himself a capable freestyler and songwriter with a punk sensibility, known to smack himself in the face with mics at live shows when "losin' hype!" He's one of the stalwarts of good, grimy, do-it-yourself NYC boom bap, holding on resolutely in the face of NYC radio's commercial landscape. Wiki's a part of the same underground-adjacent NYC scene as Your Old Droog, Tony Seltzer, Princess Nokia, sLuMs, and others. He's even a newly independent artist, having parted ways with XL Recordings before the release of this album, after his original A&R left the label.

Wiki has a history of multimedia output beyond music, having sold indie zines filled with drawings, the ubiquitous wiki tag, original lyric notes, and photo collage. Even the cover of WIKI93 by Ratking is a painting from his high school art class, while the cover of Lil Me is a collage featuring sketch books and one of his own shoes. His involvement on OOFIE is no different, as Wiki previewed the whole album on Instagram, each song with an adjoining drawing, as well as an album cover illustrated by the Leppy Coqui himself.

His last album No Mountains in Manhattan, named after dialogue in Scorsese's 1973 Mean Streets, is a study of Wiki's external world in NYC. It's a personification of the Rotten Apple in all its grime and glitter, a love letter to the concrete jungles, Chinatown dumpling spots, screeching subway cars, and summertime parks of New York City. NMIM boasts a vivid, visual acuity echoing Walt Whitman's own exuberant lyrical celebration of Mannahatta. It represented an outward look at Wiki's electric city, while OOFIE flips the lens, magnifying the internal workings of the NY emcee.

Review by /u/GhostofRimbaud

OOFIE shows Wiki exploring his emotional world, relationships, and personal history with disarming honesty and vulnerability. It's an album of catharsis and rap therapy, showing the reality behind being an underground success. The album's temporal scope is broad, as he reflects on his past, present, and where he may be headed. He examines his age and place in hip hop, as well as his own experiences with addiction and depression. No stranger to self-deprecation, Wiki uses brutal introspection to probe and expose his darker thoughts and feelings about himself. He turns these insecurities into a kind of kindling for a phoenix rise, morphing his troubles and successes into one victory cry, determined to persevere despite the stresses of trying to pay NYC rent off underground rap records.

1. Tenacity in the Face of Defeat

After a fitting sample ("he wears the same shit every fucking day, breath stinks"), Wik begins "Intro" spitting in a labored cadence, addressing his haters, spurned friends, and critics: "Tell me shave my uni-brow, I'd rather shave my balls/Nah, fuckers always talkin', never takin' charge/I wanted this shit since like seventh grade, and that's on God/You couldn't do it then so ratin' me became your job." From the onset of the project, Wiki emphasizes originality and artistic action, painting himself as someone who took the plunge and was talented enough to come out the other side of rap alive. Still, he acknowledges the characteristics that make him strange to some, while imparting humor and a willingness to forgo his ego.

In the following song "Downfall", he ponders the risk in dedicating his life to art, "Y'all ain't seen my downfall yet/Down with a motherfucker til he down on his ends/Til he down on his luck/Travel town to town for the bucks/I made pounds with the pen/Hit the ground and just went." It's commentary on contemporary culture, where people pile onto a person's faults at the slightest provocation. Still, this is one of many surprisingly triumphant songs on the album, where Wiki confides his troubles in the listener, while maintaining the personal tenacity and effervescent spirit that's gotten him this far.

The lead single "Pesto" (featuring an all-green music video) is one of the main bangers on the album, with a stuttering Tony Seltzer beat of rolling hi hats, punching kicks and a hypnotic, warped xylophone-esque loop exuding an off-kilter urgency. It's discombobulated yet on-point, like a charismatic drunk.

Wiki vacillates between the personal and flex shit, sometimes between songs and sometimes within songs, making sure there's something for everyone even if you're uninterested in his inner life. The energy behind "Pesto" is irrefutable, and works to balance the slower, darker cuts. Wiki still keeps the theme consistent with lyrics like "Reviews strong, but not enough views on the song", voicing a frustration with being a critically acclaimed artist that doesn't see many record sales from his output.

"Grim", with hard as marble verses from Lil Ugly Mane and Denzel Curry, continues the momentum, featuring a pitched-up piano loop, with skittering drums and washed-out, rusted music-box effects between verses. The song feels like a Secret Circle song, substituting Denzel in place of accused rapist Antwon.

The banger songs on this album, including 4 Clove Club, show confidence and perseverance in spite of the nihilism and superficiality of the music industry. This is Wiki's most cynical album yet, but if you listen between the lines, you see a visceral, dogged resolve to keep pushing despite all the bullshit that life, and himself, may throw at him. There's prevalent themes of self-sabotage throughout the record as Wiki wrestles with the hopes, doubts, and pressures of his path.

2. Melancholy Nostalgia

Wiki continues to rap with sporadic, wandering flows, riding hype beats expertly, while using a slower, pained cadence for the others. He's always wielded surprise like a sword, capitalizing on an unpredictable, singular voice no matter the beat. Personal songs, like "The Act", show the vulnerability below the surface, with Wiki on the verge of tears and emotional breakdown at certain points, his voice cracking, wailing, and briefly falling off beat.

"Way That I Am" returns to that former determination. The song has a simple kick, rapid snare pattern over a loop singing "what makes you do?", with a Your Old Droog verse [REDACTED]. The soaring soul sample mirrors the triumphant lyrics, seeming to ask the listener "what makes you do what you do?" The chorus testifies to Wiki's vehement individuality, as he claims, "It's just the way that I am/It's how I live, I do what I do/The way they are pisses me off/The way they talk, the shit that they spew."

Later, Wiki asks the listener to "pardon me, don't be startled by the honesty/don't start with me the blood that runs in my arteries." On this album, Wiki plumbs new depth picking apart his life and self in the context of his art, wondering if he'll be "successful or just the one with the most potential." He finds freedom in creative expression while cognizant of the anxieties, battles, and pitfalls of a musician's life. This album is a murky diary, showing listeners every angle of Wiki's daily emotional experience.

"Back Then" is the most blatantly nostalgic of these songs, depicting Wiki as a mentor to the kids running in the streets, a pack he was once part of. But he also reminisces on his own youth, using the song as a document of "times back then" when "you was always late to your classes/had to wake up at 6 just to make it to the motherfucking train and catch it/you was Uptown, school was in Brooklyn/explain why you missed that shit, don't mean to be so nostalgic but oof."

The song is a good summation of the project, imparting a "hindsight is 2020" feeling. Wiki half-admonishes his younger self, while looking back with equal parts fondness and anxiety, worrying the best years have passed him, "I was on one when I was so young, I was so dumb/everything in front of me now it seems like everything's done." The back half of the first verse catalogues the changes in his city, where his memories are the only things remaining of "the spots we grew up and grew close to."

"The Routine" follows that concept with more levity, as Wiki accepts the changes that come with age while imparting wisdom to the next generation of juvenile delinquents, starting on fun, swaggering lines "Bitch don't cool-guy me/I'm too high for that bullshit talk, I'ma walk, I'm gone/Shit, you need a new ID/I see it in your eyes like visine like I'm your motherfuckin' mom." The dynamics of his adolescence have switched, with Wiki playing the part of his own parent, admonishing and sonning mischievous kids that just don't know better.

"Dame Aqui" (trans: give it here) is yet another collaboration from Wiki and his ex-girlfriend Princess Nokia. This is the most fun, light-hearted song on the project, with the lyrics and production conjuring far-off beaches and Caribbean grooves. Wiki recounts a funny, drunken memory of sleeping in Stockholm jail because he "punched the window in the Euro club when they played DMX." Sometimes energy gotta come out.

Despite the levity, Nokia echoes the main themes of the album, "Been around the world and I'm two times back/Three passports and a few new stamps/I miss MTA bus pass/Ever since I got famous I been stuck in a cab/Traveling is sure not easy, I love that fettuccine", showing the road's rigors may not be easy, but how else is a starving artist supposed to make money and eat some fettuccine? It's another good example of the "between a rock and a hard place" mentality of the album.

3. Stepping Back from Rock Bottom

The penultimate "Promises" holds some of Wiki's most poignant writing of his career, over a bright, drifting beat comprised of a string loop and soft drums, with a lilting chorus courtesy of duendita. Wik weaves together autobiographical lines about his family history, picking through his past to make sense of the present. Most of all, he opens up about his drinking problem, something that caused him ulcers near the release of Lil Me.

This song explores the cyclical trappings of substance abuse, where Wiki needs weed just to eat, then pukes because he doesn't eat enough to offset the alcohol in his stomach (even though drinking on an empty stomach will give him more bang for his buck in terms of getting fucked up, relatable lol). This song is Wiki completely transparent, lamenting that he needs to get his shit together or else end up a fucked up, red-faced bum on the block:

"Tryna find my peace, keep my mind at ease/I'ma beg and plead, when will the cycle cease?/I need weed to smoke so I can eat/Just so I can drink, what's wrong with me?/What I need, brew to think honestly/Next day I'm puking up, obviously/'Cause I ain't ate enough and drank too much/Start again, now I need weed to puff/You see I'm stuck, am I changing enough?/I don't wanna be the neighborhood drunk."

Throughout OOFIE, Wiki shows alcohol to be a coping mechanism for anxiety, agoraphobia, and depression, like "The Routine": "When you around me, shit, you are not on/Everyone walk around like they the one/I don't wanna walk around unless I'm drunk/Is he the talk of the town or he just a punk?" He paints himself as someone who sometimes struggles to leave their house sober, despite making a living rapping in front of crowds.

Melodically, Wiki adapts his flows and lyrics masterfully to the instrumentation of the album, like when he shifts his inflection to fit the feel of the beat change at the start of the "Rugrat turned club rat" verse in "The Routine". So much of this album is concerned with lost youth and innocence, with knowing when the party's over, and learning how to pick up the pieces of a past life without cutting yourself on the broken glass.

The last song "Freaks" features strangled horn hits, meandering bass, and jazzy piano lines, as Wiki claims he "did it for the freaks." Though he feels an outsider at times, he doesn't try to change in any disingenuous way. He's learned to love his authentic self, showing this album to be a work of self-acceptance, like a compromise between past and present. At the end of the day, he's secure knowing there will always be freaks like him that appreciate what he's doing creatively, and those are the kids he does it for, because he knows what it's like to be them.

4. Uptown Train

Wiki does lots of looking back on this record, but with an eye on the road ahead and self-improvement in the present. There's a cathartic light at the end of the subway tunnel despite the darkness of creeping cynicism. He paints a picture of gratitude, perseverance, and yearning. Wiki's not just a loudmouth NY kid with bars, and OOFIE shows his range as an artist able to access a deeper side without seeming saccharine or forced. Though he's only 26, he's earned his spot as a battered veteran of the rap world, the perennial underdog, underrated and under-appreciated. He wants his flowers while he's here, and who can blame him?

Despite his personal and professional battles, things are looking good for everyone's favorite Celtic-Boricua MC. With a recent song "Eggs" produced by Madlib, and rumors of a food-themed project on the way, Wiki is an artist you can always count on for authenticity and originality. Patrick Morales is one of the most compelling, believable, and hard-working voices in hip-hop today, so grab a Ballentine and throw OOFIE on, just don't end up the neighborhood drunk. Yerrrrp!

Score: 8/10

Favorite Lyrics

Pesto:

Let go, ain't you seen, turn my style pesto

Green this, green that, green fit, green hat

Even got a green bitch with a green ass

​

Grim, Lil Ugly Mane:

Floatin' down the River Styx, countin' daffodils

Ignorin' all these e-mails from Complex and Mass Appeal

Thinkin', "If I wasn't such a pussy, I'd have had a deal"

When I die, play my failure on the blooper reel

​

The Routine:

Rugrat turned club rat

Old head wanna be a young cat

This the city that we live in

I just wanna kick some wisdom to the kids that's finna run that

Time passed, time that you'll never find back

Trust that, settle for the fun past, fuck that (huh)

But really whatchu thinkin' man

Cause everything centered where the drinking and the drugs at

​

Back Then:

Back then, half the time anybody rapping man they talking bout the past tense

Laughing 'cause everything is better now

Nah, back then, it was better how?

You never got ass then, you was always sad then

You was always late to your classes

Had to wake up at 6 just to make it to the motherfucking train and then catch it

You was uptown, school was in Brooklyn

Explain to me why you missed that shit

Don't mean to be so nostalgic but, oof

I was on one back when I was so young, I was so dumb

Everything in front of me, now it seem like everything done

When I was Lil Wiki 550 split a dime and a dutch just to get me a blunt

You know what feeling I miss?

When you get outta school on a Friday and everything lit, nobody givin' a fuck

Whole city at our disposal, we run the streets and we roast you

We would get high, we would try any fucking drug that we was exposed to

We knew the delis that sold you brew but now all them delis is closed too, huh

Along with all of the spots we grew up and grew close to

​

Promises:

Tryna find my peace, keep my mind at ease

I'ma beg and plead, when will the cycle cease?

I need weed to smoke so I can eat

Just so I can drink, what's wrong with me?

What I need, brew to think honestly

Next day I'm puking up, obviously

Cause I ain't ate enough and drank too much

Start again, now I need weed to puff

You see I'm stuck, am I changing enough?

I don't wanna be the neighborhood drunk

​

Discussion Questions:

  1. How do you think this measures up to Wiki's previous output? Where do you hope he goes from here? Where do you realistically see him going from here? What's your rating?
  2. What are your favorite lines or moments from the record? Least favorite?
  3. Do you think he's underrated, overrated, or right where he should be? What do you see for his career in the future? What will Wiki be doing 5 years from now?
  4. What do you think about Wiki's mindstate on this record? Do you think he's in a good place?
  5. How excited are you for the possibility of more Wiki x Madlib joints? Any other artists you want him to work with?
  6. Favorite memory of delinquent mischief? How is your life now?
  7. Favorite brand of blunt wrap and 40oz?
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Things that rappers are hotter than (part. 2)

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 03:50 PM PST

7 years ago /u/UkranianLimbs posted a list of some things that rappers said they were hotter than.

I figured we're due for another, so I spent a bit of time combing through Genius for some examples.

"I'm hotter than" is one of the most cliche things in hip-hop, but sometimes rappers can get creative with it.

So without further ado, let's see what rappers are hotter than.

edit: fixing mistakes and adding more

2 Chainz

  • Mississippi in summer of 1950s
  • A brush fire
  • Six n****s in a Pinto with the vents closed
  • An inmate on the conjugal visit
  • A blowtorch
  • The Gates of Hell

2Pac

  • The fourth of July
  • The wax from a candle

50 Cent

  • A tea kettle
  • The gun after that clip done
  • The sauna

A$AP Ferg

  • A fucking sauna
  • A sauna
  • a kettle

Action Bronson

  • A leather in the 6 in the summertime
  • The sun in June
  • When Bow Wow dropped in the summer
  • An oven mitt

Big K.R.I.T.

  • Molten lava that burn their summer down
  • My leather in the summer with the windows up

Big L

  • Cali
  • The Bahamas
  • Heat
  • Florida

Big Pun

  • Lava

Black Thought

  • Weapons-grade plutonium
  • When Shaft in Africa
  • Sacks of boom in my room at the Ramada
  • A box where the bread bake

Blueface

  • Who they wanna be hotter than

B.o.B.

  • A sauna
  • The summer

Bobby Shmurda

  • A bitch

Bow Wow

  • Papa bear porridge
  • A summer
  • Them California Raisins

Bryson Tiller

  • The sun

Bun B

  • Fire
  • A sauna

Busta Rhymes

  • A microwave
  • A toaster
  • A stove top

Cardi B

  • A Somali

Chamillionaire

  • A black pepper
  • A furnace
  • A torch

Chance The Rapper

  • A pot roast

Chief Keef

  • A fucking furnace
  • The summer

Childish Gambino

  • A lighter
  • Some rifle spit
  • That propane

Danny Brown

  • A hot pocket out the devil's microwave
  • My sleeve
  • Andre Rison with Left Eye
  • Your new shit

Diddy

  • Acid
  • The sun

DMX

  • Lava

Drake

  • The 6 in the summer
  • Standing inside rocking outerwear

E-40

  • Hot coals

Earl Sweatshirt

  • The blocks where we be at
  • Hot combs
  • Lit parliament singeing your fucking arm, in the parking lot of a Target
  • At least five heaters, in the middle of the summer with a sleeved wife beater
  • A motherfuckin' summer spent in Mexico
  • The pocket where he carry chronic
  • The last name on my alias
  • Denny plates

Eminem

  • A set of twin babies, in a Mercedes Benz with the windows up, when the temp goes up to the mid 80s
  • The hottest block
  • My dick is when I piss and it burns
  • You

Fabolous

  • August weather

Fat Joe

  • A skillet

Freddie Gibbs

  • These damn streets

French Montana

  • Fish grease

Future

  • A flame
  • The Sun
  • A matchbox
  • A sauna
  • A jolly
  • Some lava

The Game

  • June
  • The beginning of my career with 50, Dre and Em there
  • Acid
  • Pablo Escobar's stove
  • A fucking chinchilla
  • A rude boy that goes after rasta... faraian

G-Eazy

  • The air inside dryers

Ghostface Killah

  • Diseases that overdose the venereal
  • A plate of pasta

Gucci Mane

  • A stolen coupe
  • A candle be
  • Runnin' water
  • The hottest summer
  • A sauna
  • Cooking with lard
  • A hula dancer
  • A campfire

Guru

  • Sex and candlewax
  • The cops on your block

Hopsin

  • A UV ray
  • The thought of Nicki Minaj naked

Ice Cube

  • Cayenne pepper
  • Tobasco

Inspectah Deck

  • The tropics
  • A ex-con dodgin the pens
  • A summer day sunray

Jadakiss

  • You think
  • Broadway

Jaden

  • The pot up in the kitchen
  • Some furnaces
  • An iron

Ja Rule

  • Harlem
  • Burners

Jay Electronica

  • The motherfucking sun

JAY-Z

  • Even holdin' work at the Days Inn
  • Pajamas

J. Cole

  • Ike Turner temper

Jeezy

  • Fish grease
  • Crisco

Joey Bada$$

  • Magma
  • Volcanic craters near the equator
  • The days it don't get dusk 'til eight
  • A tropical climates

John Cena

  • A sauna

Joyner Lucas

  • A fuckin' sauna
  • Riding inside of a driver seat at Leh and Ladakh

Juice WRLD

  • The sun

Juicy J

  • Them all

Kendrick Lamar

  • The earth core

Kevin Gates

  • I ever been

Kodak Black

  • A sauna
  • A torch

Kool G Rap

  • Chilli

Krayzie Bone

  • Hell

Kurupt

  • The sun in Sudan

KYLE

  • These rappers my age

Lil Dicky

  • A mothefuckin' crowded bus

Lil' Kim

  • A Pop Tart fresh out of the toaster
  • Tabasco sauce

Lil Uzi Vert

  • Wasabi
  • Summer days
  • A fuckin sauna

Lil Wayne

  • The weather in July
  • The sun
  • Honolulu
  • The peppers Peter Piper ate
  • Riding through the desert on a camel back
  • Soup
  • A Devil
  • Summer rain like Carl Thomas
  • A frying pan
  • The Sun-day after Saturday
  • A cactus
  • The others
  • Zimbabwe
  • A tub steaming
  • Going to Hell
  • Fire
  • Uganda
  • Etha
  • A motherfuckin' Hot Boys reunion
  • The Peter pan to a wet bare hand
  • Kettles over the stove in the morning
  • A fire on the end of the fo'
  • Them other boys, standin' by the heater in the summer with the oven on
  • A semi
  • A Arizona missile
  • A crown Victoria
  • A damn blowtorch
  • A mother fucker
  • A summer day in Hell
  • An oven
  • Papa Bear's porridge
  • Summer rain
  • The bullets in the Nina
  • Wasabi
  • Ya hottest gat
  • You
  • A n***a in a suit

Lizzo

  • The stovetop

LL Cool J

  • A helicopter crashing in lava
  • Heat

Lloyd Banks

  • A laser
  • Your "S"'s be

Logic

  • Havana
  • Lucifer
  • Satan, when he was migrating from heaven to hell
  • Taking shots of tabasco
  • Hades
  • The steel cages after the solder

Ludacris

  • Nevada
  • Hot shhh...
  • Lava
  • The burn in the 3rd degree
  • A sauna

Lupe Fiasco

  • The fire that into which Koopa falls
  • Red with a head full of lye

Mac Dre

  • Fish grease

Machine Gun Kelly

  • A hat on a giraffe sittin', in the slizzab sittin' on 30's
  • A summer down in New Orleans

Mac Miller

  • Chinchillas
  • The lines on the equator

Meek Mill

  • Wasabi
  • An oven get
  • The devil be
  • A double sun
  • You n****s like a thousand times

Megan Thee Stallion

  • Them hoes that you chill with

Method Man

  • Lava
  • A hundred degrees with my coat on

MF DOOM

  • An oven get

Moneybagg Yo

  • A sauna
  • May
  • A takis

Mos Def

  • Tales of crack peddling
  • Candle wax
  • Reno when discovered by Bugsy Siege
  • A summer at Kajasa
  • The red light district

Mystikal

  • Hell

Nicki Minaj

  • A Middle Eastern climate
  • The D.R
  • Vacationin' and layin' out
  • In Pakistan
  • Islands
  • Noon in June
  • A soup kitchen
  • 100 degrees
  • A skillet

Offset

  • A fever

Paul Wall

  • Warm piss
  • A Popeyes four piece

Pitbull

  • Miami
  • The sun

Plies

  • You and your city

Prodigy

  • Hellfire

Project Pat

  • A fuckin oven

Pusha T

  • A molotov

Quavo

  • Zulu

Q-Tip

  • Havana

Raekwon

  • Hot tamales in Toledo

Redman

  • Your thermostats
  • The Globetrotters in the Bahamas

Rich Brian

  • Some shit your mom cook in a sauce pan

Rich Homie Quan

  • A fever

Rich The Kid

  • The Summer

Rick Ross

  • The fucking devil
  • The last verse (note: this was the first verse of the song)

Rico Nasty

  • A match stick

RiFF RAFF

  • A freezer
  • A soup bowl
  • A fever
  • Your bitch shopping for me at Almeda Mall

Royce Da 5'9"

  • The flash from the click, when the hammer slaps the bullet on the ass from the clip
  • Texas at three
  • A pair of boots and a coat
  • Denaun milly
  • A fever

Run

  • A fire

Sheck Wes

  • Land in AZ

Skepta

  • Trinidad and Tobago
  • A sauna

Ski Mask The Slump God

  • A pepper, no mint
  • Some chicken grease, the pot's stove, made from Crocker
  • Some sun on the beach when you're tryna tan
  • A sauna

Slim Jxmmi

  • Whoever or whatever, it don't matter

Snoop Dogg

  • A batch of fish grease in a skillet

Soulja Boy

  • Plasma, magma, lava!
  • A bitch

Talib Kweli

  • Rocking a peacoate
  • A light show with the pyro-techniques

Tech N9ne

  • Hell's pit
  • Brimstone
  • Them bitches sitting up in the free clinic
  • Mixing 151 with grain and fireball

T.I.

  • A sauna in the summer

Tory Lanez

  • Blue flame
  • An iron on a kettle
  • All of these young n****s
  • An iron four

T-Pain

  • Africa

Travis Scott

  • The summer
  • LaFlame

Twista

  • A oven
  • The city like Bambaataa
  • Any temperature on fahrenheit is

Tyga

  • The end of fucking August
  • Tucson
  • Middle East is
  • The mufuckin devil red Beamer
  • Jacuzzi
  • A bowl of momma porridge...
  • A two dollar pistol from a Rasta
  • Magenta

Tyler, The Creator

  • Madonnadoo-doo mama back-up dancers with the windows rolled up inside the Honda driving through Nevada during summer
  • A volcano

Vanilla Ice

  • The third degree

Waka Flocka Flame

  • A fuck

Wale

  • You
  • A snotty nose
  • Butane
  • A boiler room

Wiley

  • Water from a kettle

will.i.am

  • Them girls in the videos

Will Smith

  • Any you other cats get

Wiz Khalifa

  • The devil himself

Xzibit

  • About a buck shot your carne asada
  • Hell's Kitchen

YBN Cordae

  • A Travis Scott concert moshpit

Yelawolf

  • You in the middle of the summer, sitting in a sauna under the sun up in a Alabama street
  • Blue steel for Dru Hill
  • The bottom side of a whistlin' kettle
  • A preacher's daughter
  • Dry leaves in August
  • A fat bitch in tube socks

YK Osiris

  • Phoenix

Young Buck

  • A flame

Young Dolph

  • Hotter

Young M.A

  • A fucking beach chair

Young Thug

  • A taki
  • The Summer
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 04:26 PM PST

Almost a day now and the og thread is full of "DON TOLIVER??????" or "what a surprise! WOW." So, thoughts on it? Best feature(s)?

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[Transcript] Jon Brion's comments on songs on Circles

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 09:10 AM PST

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EDITORS' NOTES

The first time that Mac Miller and Jon Brion formally met, Miller was already hard at work on what would become 2018's Swimming, an album that Brion would sign on to produce. "He comes in and he plays five or six things," Brion tells Apple Music's Zane Lowe. "There was more hip-hop-leaning stuff, and it was great and funny and personal—the tracks were already pointing someplace interesting. After a couple of those, he goes, 'I've got these other things I'm not sure what to do with.'" Those "other things" were the beginning of Circles, a now posthumous LP that Miller had envisioned as a counterpart to Swimming—one that finds him exploring levels of musicality, melody, and vulnerability he'd only hinted at before. It feels more akin to Harry Nilsson than hip-hop, and the breadth of Brion's CV (Kanye West, Fiona Apple, Janelle Monáe) made him the perfect collaborator. With the support of Miller's family, Brion completed Circles based on conversations the two had shared before Miller's death in September 2018, adding elements of live percussion, strings, and various overdubs. Here, Brion takes us inside the making of some of Circles' key songs and offers insights on what it was like to work so closely with Miller on something so personal.

Circles

"That's what he played me. I added a brush on a cymbal, and a vibraphone. Throughout all of his lyrics, his self-reflection is much more interesting than some other people's. 'Circles' and a few other songs on this record: You hear him acknowledging aspects of himself, either that he doesn't feel capable of changing or things he thinks are questionable. Things you'll hear in the lyrics directly—'I'm this way, and I think other people might not understand how I think, but actually I'm okay with that.' It's so pointed. I was just a hundred percent in from the get-go."

Complicated

"I think that vocal was done, if I recall correctly. He'd play me things in various states, and the whole batch, meaning both albums' worth of songs. He'd play things, and I might just go, 'That's great. All it needs is for the low end to be a little better.' Almost every time I'd make a suggestion like that, he'd go, 'Oh, I'm so glad you said that. I just didn't know how to do it with this type of thing.' Other times, I might listen to something and go, 'I love it. I love what you're saying. I like that vocal. I like the rhythm. In this case, about halfway through, my mind wanders, and I don't want the listener's mind to do that, because what you're saying is great.'"

Good News

"It was him singing over a very minimal track. The lyrics were incredible. It didn't have the chorus. He said, 'I just think you should play a bunch of stuff on it.' I gingerly asked, 'Do you like the chords that are there?' He's like, 'No.' I'm like, 'Okay. Well, I'm going to play, and every time you hear something you like, let me know.' I did with him what I've done with a bunch of directors, which is watch the body language, when somebody's happy or not. He came into the control room, and he was really excited. He started singing over it in the control room, and he sang the chorus. I'm in the middle of the keyboard over top and I look up and go, 'That's great. Go run onto the mic.' After he first did it, he came in and he was still a little unsure, like, 'Yeah, I don't know, maybe that's a different song.' And thank god he lived with it and saw the sense in it. Again, that's not something I created—that's something he was doing. I think I did say to him when he was walking around in front of the speakers and he was singing that, like, 'Look, there's a reason that came to you right now.'"

I Can See

"It's not fair to give words to the heaviness of it, but I can tell you that the week I had to listen through stuff was a torture and a delight. Torture because of the loss. And then 'I Can See' would come up and I'd be beyond delighted because I'm like, 'This is good by anybody's standards, in any genre, this human being expressing themselves well.' It would turn back to a torture because you're like, 'Oh my god, you were capable of that. I didn't even get to hear that one yet.' I could sit there and wonder, would I have? Was it something he was nervous about, or because it was already so complete, did he not feel a need? No idea. You can ascribe all sorts of things to his sense of knowing. But people are going to have that experience because he was already self-aware and was unafraid of expressing it. But beyond that lyrical wonder of honesty, the melody just made me cry."

That's on Me

"He had come back from Hawaii. I was sideswiped by the song and the feeling of it. He usually said, 'Oh, you should just play everything.' I'm like, 'No, you're already great, I'll play along with that.' Inevitably, he'd finish a take and say, 'Was that all right?' And all I could do is honestly go, 'Yeah, it was great. I'm having a blast.'"

Hands

"He wanted it big and expansive and cinematic, had no idea how he had one keyboard pad implying that. I said, 'Oh, I've got this notion of Dr. Dre-influenced eighth notes like he would have on a piano sample. Instead of it being piano or a piano sample, let's take the influence of that era, but I want to do it on orchestral percussion but a lot of different ones. So it's sort of subtly changing across the thing.' And he was like, 'Just put everything you want on it.' So that's one where I went to town. He was really excited but had no idea how one would even go about that."

Once a Day

"He came over, played two or three things—that was one of them, and it had a little mini piano or something. I couldn't believe the songwriting. I looked forward to his visits so much because every time, there was this new discovery of, 'You're hiding this?' Honestly. I don't know what else he's got undercover, but this thing is fully fleshed out. It's personal. It's heartbreaking. I went through the rigmarole to get him to play it and I did what I thought was the right production decision. I left the room, but I didn't close the door. I didn't leave, not even slightly. I stood in the door, basically a room and a half away from the control room with the door open. And he started playing and the vocal was coming out and I wasn't having to be in the room and he did a pass and I could hear there was something on the keyboard needing adjustment. It needed to be brighter or darker, and I just sort of came running in like, 'Oh, sorry, just one thing.' And I went back out and I stood in the hallway and I listened to a couple of takes. And this is how I can tell you I'm not looking at it with the loss goggles: I bawled my eyes out. Heard it twice in a row. I kind of poked my head around the door and said, 'Oh, I heard a little bit of that. That sounds good. Just do a double of that keyboard just right now while the sound's up. Okay, cool.' Boom. Ran out into the hallway and cried again and dried my eyes out and went back in and sat through the usual 'Was that good? Are you sure you shouldn't just play it?' Maybe it's something the rest of the world wouldn't see and I will be blinded by personal experience, but I don't f**king care. It's what happened. It's what I saw, and I just think it's great and doesn't need any qualifiers, personally. So there."

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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] Mac Miller - Circles

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 04:29 PM PST

Been almost 24 hours! What's everyone's thoughts? Favourite tracks?

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I Am Moneybagg Yo…My newest album Time Served is out now…Ask Me Anything

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 10:04 AM PST

[FRESH] Mac Miller - Blue World

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 02:06 PM PST

Pop Smoke Arrested on Federal Charge for Interstate Transportation of Stolen Rolls Royce

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 10:46 AM PST

article

Update: he's facing a 10 year max sentence

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[Discussion] Future Hndrxx Presents: The WIZRD (One year later)

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 03:38 PM PST

What are your thoughts on the album Future called the end of an era? While working on the album with Juice WRLD (WRLD On Drugs) he realized his actions are influencing the world, as Juice told him Future was the reason he tried codeine.

This was likely his reason to get clean and start anew, as the newer Save Me EP and his recent single with Drake definitely have a different vibe IMO.

My top 5:

  1. F&N
  2. Promise U That
  3. Jumpin on a Jet
  4. Tricks On Me
  5. Going Dummi
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[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] 070 Shake - Modus Vivendi

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 08:25 PM PST

on first listen i enjoyed the overall vibe, cant wait to get deeper in with a few more go's. production all over this thing is crazy and Guilty Conscience might be one of the dopest songs ive ever heard. thoughts?

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[DISCUSSION] James Blake- Assume Form (1 year later)

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 09:23 PM PST

James Blake's studio album "Assume Form" was released, with a variety of features from legendary rapper Andre 3000, star producer Metro Boomin, Travis Scott, and Latin pop star Rosalía. Blake has been a major player with many hip hop artists, featuring on Travis Scott's ASTROWORLD and Kendrick Lamar's collaboration tape "Black Panther"

In my opinion, this was one of the best R&B outings of the year, with beautiful production over incredible singing from Blake. Mike Hugh features one of the best features from Travis Scott, and Barefoot in the Park is one of the most beautiful love songs I've ever heard

TRACKLIST:

Assume Form

Mile High (feat. Travis Scott and Metro Boomin)

Tell Them (feat. Moses Sumney and Metro Boomin)

Into the Red

Barefoot in the Park (feat. Rosalía)

Can't Believe the Way We Flow

Are You in Love?

Where's the Catch (feat. Andre 3000)

I'll Come Too

Power On

Don't Miss It

Lullaby for My Insomniac

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[FRESH LIST] Top 200 Albums of the 2010s - Anthony Fantano

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 10:55 PM PST

Kodak Black - Transportin’

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 12:22 PM PST

Jamie xx ft. Young Thug, Popcaan - I Know There's Gonna Be (Good Times)

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 07:41 AM PST

New Frank Ocean merch

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 08:17 AM PST

New Music Friday: January 17th, 2020

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 08:11 AM PST

Albums

Mac Miller - Circles

Eminem - Music To Be Murdered By

Dreamville - Revenge of the Dreamers III (Directors Cut)

070 Shake - Modus Vivendi

Madlib & Oh No - The Professionals

Theophilus London - Bebey

Stunna 4 Vegas - RICH YOUNGIN

lojii - lo&behold*

IceJJFish - Emotions for You

Sir Michael Rocks - Broken Window of Opportunity

Ovrkast. - Try Again

Yung Pinch - Back 2 The Beach

Big Ghost LTD - Carpe Noctem*

Big Baby Scumbag - Big Baby Earnhardt

DigDat - Ei8ht Mile

Lil Quill - Don Quillion

EPs

Raekwon - The Appetition

MadeinTYO - You Are Forgiven (Deluxe Edition)

Tech N9ne - ENTERFEAR Level 2

Singles

Lil Wayne leaks (10 new songs)*

Thundercat - Black Quails (feat. Steve Lacy)

Lil B - I'm Kanye*

Pop Smoke - Christopher Walking

645AR - 4 DA TRAP

TOKiMONSTA - Fried for the Night (feat. EARTHGANG)

2 Chainz - Dead Man Walking (feat. Future)

Royce Da 5'9" - Overcomer (feat. Westside Gunn)

Ant Clemons - Beep

Ufo361 - Big Drip (feat. Future)

Three Loco - ARROGANT AMERiCAN FREESTYLE REMiX

Antonio Brown - Home from the N.O.*

Lucki - Whats New (Plu2o Nash)*

dvsn - A Muse

Wiley - The Game (Freestyle) / Sizes*

Drakeo The Ruler - Ion Know Nothin (Remix) [feat. ALLBLACK, G Perico, & Ohgeesy]

Kasher Quon - CNN News*

blackbear - me & ur ghost

Key Glock - Mr. Glock

Dre A.M. - Serotonin

Polo G & Lil Tjay - First Place

Rvssian - IDKW (feat. Swea Lee, Young Thug & Shenseea)

Valee - Not Playin'*

Novelist - Pay What Is Owed

Ebenezer - Flaws and All

Gab3 & KILLY - Fast Life

IAMDDB - God's Work (feat. iLL BLU)

Yammo - Bad Habits (feat. Guapdad4000)

Rayven Justice - Not That Serious (feat. Guapdad4000)

Plu2o Nash - Live at the Roxy (feat. Drego & LUCKI)

The Colleagues - Red Vans (feat. Freddie Gibbs)

Che'Noir - Prey (feat. Ransom)

J. Period & Black Thought - RAGE IS BACK (Freestyle)

Jgreen - Rugged (Remix) [feat. Mozzy]

Blockhead - Tiny Bubbles

H.E.R. - Slide (Remix) [feat. Pop Smoke, A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie & Chris Brown]

Mozzy - Overcame

Rich The Kid - Money Talk (feat. YoungBoy Never Broke Again)

* means not on streaming

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Moneybagg Yo's "Time Served" sells 64K First Week (5K Pure). Quando Rondo's "QPac" sells 20K First Week (Less than 1K Pure).

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 04:07 PM PST

Rank Artist Album Label Pure Sales Sales + Streaming
1 Moneybagg Yo Time Served N-Less/Interscope 5,312 64,099
2 Quando Rondo QPac Warner 352 20,348

Top 10 First Weeks of 2020 Across All Genres

Rank Artist Album Label Pure Sales Sales + Streaming
1 Selena Gomez Rare Interscope 59,070 116,409
2 Moneybagg Yo Time Served N-Less/Interscope 5,312 64,099
3 Quando Rondo QPac Warner 352 20,348
4 Various Artists High School Musical: The Musical: The Series (Original Soundtrack) Walt Disney 3,611 18,378

FAQ:

Q: Source?

A: http://hitsdailydouble.com/sales_plus_streaming

Q: How is this list sorted?

A: It's sorted by sales + streaming

Q: What are pure sales?

A: Pure sales are purchases of the album (itunes, amazon, physicals, etc)

Q: Where is X album?

A: Only albums that make the top 50 in sales+streaming for their debut week are counted

Q: Why do some albums show exact sales numbers while others do not?

A: The albums that do not show exact numbers are the ones that have had sales corrections from Billboard

Q: Where can I find last year's list?

A: 2019 list, 2018 list, 2017 list, 2016 list

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Kanye Will Headline a Prayer Rally in Arizona Featuring Anti-LGBTQ Leaders

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 11:11 PM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] Royce 5'9 - Overcomer (ft. Westside Gunn) - Official Video

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 10:13 AM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] Jhene Aiko - P*$$Y FAIRY (OTW)

Posted: 17 Jan 2020 05:00 PM PST
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