you probably listened to the wrong Chief Keef song then.

2012 was his peak, Back From The Dead is seriously one of my fav tapes from the last few years: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLo-Lw6idVU

even Keef himself admitted his 2013 material was terrible ("My last two mixtapes were mistakes," Keef confessed. "I was on promethazine, all drugged out. I was tweaking. I don't sip the lean no more though").

2014 has been hit or miss so far. he's really weird now and sometimes it actually works for him:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFTI7VOz-gI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o2TZrGkfZA

new Denzel Curry song:

https://soundcloud.com/ashelynnfuson...-curry-ice-age



soo good.

new 50 Cent album is pretty meh. I kind of liked "Don't Worry About It" and a couple others. But a lot of auto-pilot sameness.

yeah, at first i was looking forward to it. "The Funeral" was probably his best song in years. but then i've heard some songs from the album on youtube and decided to move on. lol.

listen to the whole thing once it's not bad just not memorable

Shit, this is just plain the real motherfuckin deal right here.



I"m not gonna lie; I started bumping this because the cover caught my attention when it first came out. I played it and liked it but didn't listen hard enough to notice how excellent a song Young O.G. is. Album qualty... single quality, even. It's just got such a great flow.

Are the other soul tapes any good?

WHERE THE MOTHERFUCKING SHIT IS THA CARTER V?!??! UHN!

Pharrell says Snoop Dogg's next album is going to be crazy and get him a Grammy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loDoD3gNaMo

Louder... Iggy Azalea!

i'll get on that soon.

meanwhile i want you to check out "601 & Snort" by Gunplay, deal?

by the way, Hella Hoes is out now: https://soundcloud.com/asapmob/hella...st-aap-twelvyy

Bros, I fuckin know!!



Shit is real. I think it might be (Gasp) the best hip hop album of the year, next to Freddie And Madlib, maybe... And that Fabulous Fabolous Soul Tape III.

But this album has totally caught me off guard. I bought it on a whim. On a "fuck it I want something material because I'm depressed and empty" and it's got my brain feeling addicted already.


Wait wait... SORRY but Talib Kweli's Gravitas is still the best of the year, and nobody's touched his ass. His totally unpublicized free beginning of the year album still holds up.

but IGGY is a star.

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Apart from the names mentioned above, I'm FUCKING PISSED at this year's hip hop output. What the hell? Even the good albums turn out to be disappointments. Shit, I was so hungry for hip hop that I praised Oxymoron, which is a marginally acceptable effort at best.


WHERE'S YEEZY?
Where's Weezy?
And Where's the mother fuckin Wu Tang Clan??

Shit on it!

Sev im so glad you got that too. I know it sounds crazy but so far i kind of feel like it pron is the best hip hop album of the year. So so good.

"Rolex" is my shiz on there.

also the Rick Ross has grown on me big time. Genius album. I love all the old 90's hip hop throwback shit in there. "Thug Cry" is beyond brilliant.

I don't know. Ross left me a little cold this time around, and I haven't really given him another go. I like the album but more for the collabs than anything.

Seriously that "Maybach music" sample needs to go die in a fire. I am so sick of it.

I don't know if IGGY is THE best, but she's crazily, surprisingly good. And kinda hot but also not, in that Nikki Minaj big thighs and cheekbones kind of way. Both artists make me feel like I'm trying not to be attracted to their voices, and gangs always a losing battle.

On one hand I wish IGGY had gone harder on the production for more of the tracks, but I'm really not at all disappointed that it sounds exactly like it does. She's got an attitude on her too - check the Xxl freshman class interview - hah! And I don't hear that "trying to sound like I'm not trying to sound black" thing from her. I get that from almost all white rappers, and I can't get past it. At least admit you're trying, or you're just being insulting and not paying due credit to your influences.

Sigh.

I'm seeing propaganda for Carter V, and some whack updates about the new Kanye, but I'm still feeling ripped off. "Believe Me" is more Drake than Wayne, and to be perfectly fucking honest I am tired of that guy! He's not great, looks and dresses goofy, isn't clever, and has one of those heads you just want to huck a spit wad at. Seriously, he is not (NOT NOT NOT) great enough to be this big, or to think so highly of himself. Everything he does, someone's done before. The dreampop r&b on his last album? Uhhh Prince, Kanye, Frank Ocean... Everything else he's done? Uhhh... Jay Z, Kanye, Kanye, Jay Z.

We need to get real about Drake. The world needs to get real about Drake and Drake needs to fucking get real about Drake. He's there for lull between albums by Yeezy, Weezy, Jigga, and the like. He is not one of them, he is a stand in. And a lint roller. And ridiculous. And corny. And, again, not clever.

I like some songs and even whole albums but there's nothing with staying power. Nothing I'll be listening to 10 years from now, as I do with ever Jay Z album from the first run.

Makes it hard to like Canada, really. And I do! You can waltz into any drug store and buy narcotics, and they're not dumbasses about guns even though they use them like crazy because half the place is still hanging in the 19th century. Single layer universal health care and weed and all kinds of ok things. But his faces makes me punch air!

I like drake a lot, but i feel we are getting to a saturation point w his material. A break would do some good.

Iggy is way better than Nikki.

http://www.audiomack.com/album/your-...r-old-droog-ep

yo, is this a new secret Nas project?

sounds just like him but with some weird vocal effect.

personally i don't think it's Nas, probably just a new rapper who impersonates him very well.

biggest mystery since Captain Murphy..? hehe. i guess we're gonna find out soon though.

^I don't think so.

his voice sounds different, if it's really Nas then i suppose it was pitched.

after a few listens, i can also tell his flow is way too monotonous and some of his bars are generic. i hope it's not him.

speaking of Nas, here's a new verse from him, off Mariah Carey's new album:

http://www.1200squad.com/2014/05/20/...icated-ft-nas/

Nah, we don't wish today’s game was old again
We just wish it wasn't full of Draconian, Babylonian, phony men
FOH my summation fascinates, we have debates
Who's the greatest living or passed away
I ask MC, see what she has to say
Eric B or Master P, some see it differently
'87 meant to me? I try to describe it, you try to relive it
I try to revive it hoping that you get it, yeah
Something about La Di Da Di got inside our bodies
Something about My Adidas coming out the speakers
Used to do doo-wop or the Pee-Wee Herman
Rest in peace Heavy D, Moneyearnin' Mount Vernon
Let's go

gave me chills. :)

yeah i like it. the production is great on some tracks and Jay is good enough to carry it without really trying. cool album.

told y'all then. The beats are pretty excellent throughout. And yeah, he's not saying much most the time, but shit sounds good.

This reminds of 2001 when Twista came out on those DeathRow Mixtapes and everybody lost their mind thinking Tupac was alive and rapping...

my niggas on the moon

new deth grups

have a sad cum bb

I never heard about this. Funny/weird.

here's the tracklist for Ab-Soul's new album:

Me too honestly. I love it.

Kingdom Come took a minute to grow on me as well, but I think it's a criminally underrated album all things considered. Now I feel the same way about Holy Grail. Yeah he sounds a little bored, but maybe he's trying too hard to sound mature. He'll get it down, and settle into Middle age and learn how to be a domestic dad while still spitting mad verse.

He can't really complain about how mean the streets are, or unfairly being pulled over anymore... I think he should focus on political and social issues. That will bring the fire out in anyone. But as things are he's doing just fine.

We all expect way too much from out favorite musicians sometimes.

seems like Kanye and Hov don't get along anymore. which means we can forget about Watch the Throne II.

they don't get along?

not gonna lie, i got this info from gossip sites.. :p but it makes sense when you come down to think about it.

Why do you say this? I thought they recently performed a song together. Not sure what, though. And I heard another collaboration album was in the works, but that there was no real evidence that it would necessarily be a WTT sequel.

Kanye isn't in to retreading the same old ground anyway. WTT had a certain theme to it, lyrically and musically. If was triumph over adversity, and reflection on what adversity meant to Ye and Jay. Jay loves sequels, clearly, but WTT 2 would probably have to be a massive jump forward, or at least to the side, from the original for Kanye to have any interest, I'm sure.

Besides, the media has a long history of jumping to radical and inaccurate conclusions about their relationship; ever since Kanye became an artist of roughly the same level of popularity, it's been a go-to topic for desperate rumor mill bloggers with nothing else to write about. Personally I would bet the two have never been quite as close or quite as distant as people want to believe.

Jay said very positive things about Yeezus, and Kanye hasn't said anything negative about Jay as far as I know. But maybe you're right.

I just hope that they're willing to record together, because if Ye is truly making a "Born in the USA" to Yeezus's "Nebraska" then it just wouldn't do to not have a few verses from Jigga on there.

out now: http://urbanleakz.net/mike-will-made...he-world-full/

nice song. both Kendrick and Weezy spazzed.

Fantastic Mr Fox dipping into the Yeezy pool with an awesome end result that turns Skit #2 (Late Registration) into a pretty badass beat, which is ultimately worth more than the original skit.

I hate skits. Let me just get that out of the way now. Skits are to blame for it taking 25 years for anyone to think of hip hop as an art form (save for spike lee, and the ninjas who were making the art). But honestly, I'm glad Yeezy dropped them (Chris Rock's "Yeezy taught you well" isn't a skit... It's an essential part of the Blame Game, and it adds to the music rather than serving as a mental "breather" from input processing at that level.

Anyway, Fantastic Mr Fox, everyone!

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=e6dDLFulBcs

Fuck in 2001 its like all ANYBODY in LA rap scene was saying. Tupac is alive, he rapping on this mix tape.. For two weeks even I was almost fooled into believing not that he was alive, but that much like the Makaveli bootlegs that some previously unreleased material was coming out posthumously..

To be sure, on that mix-tape Twista is the only rapper uncredited so it added to the mystique, folks were like, "Who the fuck is that?"

living in New England, The City of Angels is like a fantasy land to me.

I understand what you mean completely, even by New York standards LA is a hip hop cultural mecca

fuck I love Mastermind.

This is for Louder & Sev: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXyFYNiV-9I

not crazy about this new Ab-Soul album so far. his last album was much better.

there must've been a death in this thread?

where you guys at?

not much going on in hip-hop right now, sadly.

i forgot if you've heard Pinata yet? easily my fav album of the year so far, still gets plays almost every day.

Iggy and Rick Ross for me.