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What have you been listening to this week? / Last.fm thread - February 03, 2021 - HipHop

What have you been listening to this week? / Last.fm thread - February 03, 2021 - HipHop

What have you been listening to this week? / Last.fm thread - February 03, 2021

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 08:30 AM PST

This is the weekly thread to share what you've been listening to recently and/or post 3x3 collages. Make sure to write some shit about what you listened to in order encourage discussion.

To make 3x3s:

Import from Last.fm:

Make yours manually:

Make sure to re-upload your picture on a site like Imgur, otherwise the 3x3 posts change.

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I AMA a producer and engineer for some of the biggest acts in music. Ask me stuff!

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 12:28 PM PST

Hi Reddit! My name is Greazy Wil and I am an engineer, mixer and producer in Los Angeles. For the past ten years my clientele have been the A listers of rap and rock. A lot of this has been because I happened to be in the right place at the right time when 10 years ago I was asked to assist on a session for an mostly unknown artist named Frank Ocean. Since then I have used that as a resume of sorts to weasel my way onto some of the most iconic albums of the last decade. I've spent months with Jay-Z and NoID while they worked on 4:44 and I was working on Vic Mensa's first album. I worked on the sessions for Justin Timberlake's 20/20 experience with Timbaland and JT. I've worked with Pharrell multiple times with various artists. I consider myself extremely lucky to have been able to work with so many of my own personal heroes but make no mistake, I've worked extremely hard to get here as well.

Last year, at the beginning of the pandemic, an artist reached out to me from somewhere in the Midwest and sent me his songs. He couldn't afford to work with me but I saw his potential and so I worked with him anyway and last August we released his first song, which has already hit over 2.5 million streams on Spotify. His second single premiered on Beats 1 with Zane Lowe yesterday. I'm so very proud of all the work he's done but also, this is exciting for me because since I got to the top I haven't gotten the opportunity to see the beginning of a career happen nearly as much.

So today, in honor and promotion of his release, I thought I would come here and answer your hip hop head questions. There are many artists on my list that value their privacy a lot (I.e. zdlr and ) and in honor of that I will not be answering any questions that violate their privacy but any other questions are fully welcome and I will answer as many of them as I can. I'll be here from 1PM PST until PM but I'll check back and answer more questions throughout the day. For your viewing pleasure please feel free to check me out on Instagram u/greazywil and please listen to my new artist Unusual Demont on Spotify! Unusual Demont

Edit: this post is randomly getting steam way late but I'm on a session so I will try to answer as the night goes on. Feel free to ask questions and I'll get to them when I can

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Heres a short list of some of my more famous clients :

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Swizz beatz

Pharrell

Jay-Z

Timbaland

Justin Timberlake

Justin Bieber

DaBaby

Damon Albarn

No ID

Mike dean

Travis Scott

Vic Mensa

Zack de la Rocha and RTJ

Marshmello

Frank Ocean

Akon

Kaytranada

Ariana Grande

Alex da kid

John Mayer

MGK - Travis Barker

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The Weeknd Announces Rescheduled 2022 Tour

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 08:21 AM PST

Former Chicago rapper Chief Keef hospitalized with mystery medical issue

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 08:29 AM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] Tierra Whack – Freestyle 02/02/21

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 01:42 PM PST

Benny The Butcher - Rubber Bands & Weight (prod. by The Alchemist)

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 04:00 PM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] Westside Boogie - Said Sum [Freestyle]

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 12:33 PM PST

Freddie Gibbs - Rob Me A N*gga

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 01:26 PM PST

21 Savage & Metro Boomin - No Opp Left Behind

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 03:43 PM PST

(FRESH) Westside Boogie - Said Sum [Freestyle]

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 01:14 PM PST

Ghostface Killah feat. Wu-Tang Clan - 9 Milli Bros. (PRODUCED BY MF DOOM)

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 11:53 AM PST

Daily Discussion Thread 02/03/2021

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 06:18 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?")
  • general hip-hop discussion
  • meta posts...e.g. ideas for the sub

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

Weekly/Monthly Threads

Other ways to interact

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

New to /r/hiphopheads or hip-hop in general?

Check these out:

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Atmosphere - God's Bathroom Floor (Official Audio)

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 10:47 AM PST

[FRESH VIDEO] Megan Thee Stallion - Cry Baby (feat. DaBaby)

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 07:08 PM PST

Madlib - Sound Ancestors [Fantano Review]

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 07:01 PM PST

Biz Markie and the Beastie Boys - Benny and the Jets (Elton John Cover) (Live) [2009]

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 10:01 PM PST

Quelle Chris & Chris Keys - Sudden Death

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 01:58 PM PST

Tha Alkaholiks - Killin' It (Featuring Xzibit)

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 08:10 PM PST

[FRESH] Curren$y - Misty

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 05:15 PM PST

[FRESH] Tkay Maidza - Kim (Feat. Yung Baby Tate)

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 09:39 AM PST

Chris Travis - Stayin' True

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 06:48 PM PST

Eminem - Yah Yah (feat. Royce Da 5'9", Black Thought, Q-Tip & Denaun)

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 12:44 AM PST

88-Keys & Kanye West - Stay Up! (Viagra) (Official Video)

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 03:58 AM PST

Michael Aristotle - Vices feat. JID

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 06:16 PM PST

Rihanna - Diamonds Remix ft. Kanye West

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 02:29 PM PST
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Top Ten Tuesday: Saint Jhn - HipHop

Top Ten Tuesday: Saint Jhn - HipHop

Top Ten Tuesday: Saint Jhn

Posted: 01 Feb 2021 11:52 PM PST

Here's how this works:

• One song per comment.

• The thread will be put into contest mode (randomized comment order).

• Upvote the songs you like.

• Please don't downvote!

• Artist must be main credited artist in the song unless specified otherwise

• Search/use ctrl+f to see if anyone posted the song already.

• Try to limit yourself to posting one or two songs.

• Please post a link with your song.

• The 10 songs with the most upvotes will be HHH Top Ten.

• Have fun!

Here is is our spreadsheet with all past results, made by /u/elektrikg33k.

Our upcoming schedule:

2/9/21 - Busdriver

2/16/21 - Big Pun

2/23/21 - The Beatnuts

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Jhn

please take 5 seconds to ctrl+f the thread to see your song has already been posted

and as always pm me if you want to see a certain artist here

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Hype Tuesday: Post songs by artists that haven't gotten more than 50 upvotes on HHH - February 02, 2021

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 07:30 AM PST

Rules

Artists qualify if they're never gotten 50 or more upvotes on /r/HipHopHeads (counting features)

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Formatting:

>Artist - Title

>Description: no character minimum but some things that might be good to include: where the rapper is from, what subgenres they might fall into, have cosigns they might have, what their influences are, who they sound like.

Example:

>Aaron May - Let Go

>18 year old Houston Rapper, biggest influences are J Cole and Nas.

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Heavily recommended: If you post a song, listen to another song and comment on it. Otherwise this thing doesn't really work that well.

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Feel free to add any feedback on what could make these threads better.

Previous Hype Tuesday posts

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Freddie Gibbs ft School boy Q song dropping Friday

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 08:17 AM PST

Vince Staples Remembers Sophie: ‘She Was Never Afraid’

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 08:10 PM PST

Daily Discussion Thread 02/02/2021

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 08:15 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?")
  • general hip-hop discussion
  • meta posts...e.g. ideas for the sub

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

Weekly/Monthly Threads

Other ways to interact

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

New to /r/hiphopheads or hip-hop in general?

Check these out:

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People Under The Stairs - Acid Raindrops

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 06:29 PM PST

Denzel Curry - SpaceGhostPussy (feat. Lofty305, XXXTENTACION & Ski Mask The Slump God)

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 08:44 AM PST

J. Cole & DaBaby Co-signed Rapper An Industry Plant?

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 12:59 PM PST

Wu-Tang Clan T-shirt sparks diplomatic incident between Canada and China

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 07:37 AM PST

New Brent Faiyaz interview: Talks about music inspirations, what he's currently listening to, and chances for a new album this year

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 02:23 PM PST

The-Dream - Shawty Is da Shit (featuring Fabolous)

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 05:07 PM PST

Keith Ape - "It G Ma" (feat. JayAllDay, Loota, Okasian & Kohh)

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 09:34 PM PST

Soulja Boy Feat. Lil B - Bay To The A (Audio)

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 07:19 PM PST

Madlib's 'Sound Ancestors' Is All About the Ecstasy of Discovery: The wildly inventive rapper-producer teams up with electronic musician Four Tet to create an album that lives in the space between the past and the future. | Jeff Ihaza reviews in Rolling Stone

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 08:15 AM PST

[FRESH] JAHMED - WIPE

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 09:26 PM PST

[DISCUSSION] How much money do you realistically think you’d be spending a month on music if we still bought $9.99 albums and $1.29 singles?

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 09:51 AM PST

I've been thinking about how much streaming really broadened my palette of music just because I don't have to buy every album or song I want to give a try anymore. Streaming has also increased not only output of almost artists but also given a widen range of great artists an opportunity to be heard easier. Depending on the month I'd say I'd be spending around $35 a month on music, I'm curious what you guys think though.

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[FRESH] Marlon Craft - Get Off My Yard (prod. 6ix)

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 09:23 PM PST

Vic Mensa dropping a song with Chance The Rapper & Wyclef called “Shelter” this FRIDAY

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 05:20 PM PST

Feels like 2013

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Brother Ali - Before They Called You White

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 08:19 PM PST

[FIRST IMPRESSIONS] th1rt3en (Pharoahe Monch with guitarist Marcus Machado and drummer Daru Jones) - A Magnificent Day For an Exorcism

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 11:27 AM PST

Dean Van Nguyen's review:

Since emerging from South Jamaica, Queens as one-half of Organized Konfusion in the late 1980s, Troy Jamerson has hewed closely to a recipe of complex rhyme patterns, intelligent social observation, and near-total lack of commercial compromise. For his tenacity, he's been rewarded with a dedicated fanbase and the tag "underrated," which sticks to him like spray paint to a wall. His audience will always be extremely loyal, so Monch's first album in seven years—and first real crack at rebuking recent American nightmares—is a tantalizing prospect. What he delivers is a strange and in many ways confusing project that will test the limits of even his most devoted followers.

On paper, a Pharoahe Monch rap-rock hybrid album isn't a totally outlandish prospect—his music has sometimes bared a hardcore edge. Previous project P.T.S.D. (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) was a concept record about mental health that deployed heavy guitar lines to help depict the disintegration of the cerebrum. A Magnificent Day For an Exorcism eschews beats for a live band set up, as Monch teams up with drummer and Jack White collaborator Daru Jones and guitarist Marcus Machado to form the band Th1rt3en. The musicians thrash out blood-raw rock instrumentals for Monch—taking up the role of frontman—to rap, sing, and croon over. Promotional material connected to the record even shows the 48-year-old with an overgrown beard, kitted out in leather jacket and bandana. It's all a bit "Kids, your father is in the basement, jamming with his friends."

The Th1rt3en sound lands somewhere between Sabbath-esque metal, Onyx's hard-moshing hardcore hip-hop, and Kid Rock. Machado's guitar is turned way up in the mix and Jones' drum thwacks land forcibly. But the predictable riffs and cheesy solos make for stodgy rap instrumentals. When Monch tries a rapid-fire flow over Machado's fret-wrangling and Jones' drum solos on "The Magician," the whole thing collapses into a mess. Then Monch starts shouting "voodoo" and "magic," as if to invite the spirit of Jimi Hendrix to come through and help out.

Take "Fight," featuring Cypress Hill, a takedown of police brutality on Black Americans, with B-Real describing a cop removing his body cam before aiming a gun at the rapper's head. The righteous anger is sapped away by the repetitive and clichéd guitar riff lurching underneath.

On top of unfurnished instrumentals there is unfocused songwriting. Opener and single "Cult 45" promises an admonishment of Donald Trump's presidency that strangely dropped just days before the inauguration of Joe Biden. The cult of MAGA remains, of course, and ripe for probing, yet Monch's shots are disappointingly shallow. "Nauseating, I'm angry, Bill Bixby/Exorcist, make the president's head 360," is a fun piece of wordplay but hardly thought-provoking. "Racist" does feature one of the album's most interesting loose bars as Monch takes a rare stance for a rapper and criticizes US drone warfare, something that predates Trump: "Send the drone strike to a school, call it political/Use Obamacare to get my brain operated on." Sections of the song see Monch inhabit the persona of an American racist by parroting offensive language without taking the opportunity to go any deeper, and referencing Trump's Muslim ban, revoked by Biden two days before the album's release.

The saving grace is Monch's performance. His flow, naturally funky and with a light lisp reminiscent of Kool G Rap, still embodies classic New York street-rap cool. The brain-bending flows of "Triskaidekaphobia" spark thoughts of Aesop Rock and confirm that even at this stage of his career, Monch absolutely loves rapping. At times he proves an adept rock vocalist too, and there are some interesting experiments on the record's final third—the made-in-the-garage soul of "Amnesia"; the Japanese arcade sounds of closer "Kill Kill Kill"—hinting at promising future directions for Th1rt3en.

The most impressive song, though, is "Oxygen." Monch croons an ode to perhaps god or maybe the air we breathe (or both), sounding like a holy man as he yells, "I need you in my life like oxygen/Holy water come and wash away the sins." There is no direct reference to the death of George Floyd, but with the words "I can't breathe" rippling through the social consciousness, Monch's inclusion of these words in the chorus feels timely and pointed. Here, the band sounds tight and well-drilled, helping Monch navigate the corridors of his brain. Magnificent Day may be rough going at times, but he has chemistry with this group, and in the best moments, you can hear why Monch wants us to follow him down this particular path.

RYM review:

Pretty good political battle tunes

Well this is probably some of Pharoahe's weakest stuff ("Got ice on my watch, like an undocumented immigrant," I cackle internally), but it's driven by real feelings, passionate and focused in its delivery and is with its time in a way Prophets of Rage could never think of. Its highest moments, like Cult 45, see Monch in his most usual form on this album calling to the general antifascist/antiinjustice/antiTrump themes with the mind-splitting wordplay and masterfully complex bar crafting Monch has mastered over a career now touching five decades. There is some incredible tension drummed up (literally and figuratively) in Triskaidekaphobia and Racist as Mr. Monch delivers narrative devices in his own chilling manner; his signature erratic flow, in timeless form. But other moments of this record wear quite thin, especially on the instrumental side, and really feel redundant when certain songs on here are done so well. This record functions pretty well as a rap album, and pretty ok as a rock one. Interesting nod to Hand of Doom. But I'll never pass up on some new Pharoahe Monch, especially where he is tastefully embracing his rock band dreams. Which he's firmly hinted at to this point throughout his solo career, always leaving me wanting more of that. It's not Internal Affairs, but I'd for sure play this at a protest.

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Vic Mensa, Chance the Rapper, Jeremih & Wyclef Jean linking up to release “SHELTER” This Friday

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 01:10 PM PST

Bea Miller, Aminé - FEEL SOMETHING DIFFERENT

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 11:58 AM PST

[FRESH] Marlon Craft - Get Off My Yard

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 09:09 PM PST

[FRESH] Page Kennedy ft. Elzhi & Method Man - Pain

Posted: 03 Feb 2021 12:03 AM PST

[FRESH] YoungBoy Never Broke Again - Toxic Punk

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 07:23 PM PST

[DISCUSSION] DJ Fresh & Curren$y - The Tonite Show with Curren$y (One Year Later)

Posted: 02 Feb 2021 08:37 AM PST

RYM Review:

Currensy easy-going on pretty nice jazzy beats realized by DJ Fresh. The production's simple, essential, sometimes dope. Currensy prefers quantity to quality, critically it doesn't pay. This LP format and production are designed to an high-level project, with some better weighted bars and outlined rhymes it'd have been a pretty solid record, if not more.

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