gonna put a dent into my yearly music thread (dibs) hoping for 3 replies this year

right now in rap: kendrick lamar is a motherfucking monster

is this good or bad?? I'm into some recent rap but haven't checked out Lamar beyond that one popular dis track that was pretty bad.

Good Kid MAAD City is a really awesome album

warning: this is a No Rock Allowed post.
 
http://youtu.be/yoJ8lt4Ldak
 
don't know much about him, only heard the yugen ep which this is from. he's from glasgow, so i hope i find him playing live somewhere soon.
 
http://youtu.be/ktoaj1IpTbw
 
i'm conflicted about whether i enjoy this or not. it's catchy and pretty, but they feel like imitators. they're from glasgow, also, and i think they're probably gonna be very popular. their first album is out in a few weeks. i've heard a few demos, pretty similar stuff. all right on the edge of being too affected, regularly spilling onto the wrong side of it.
 
http://youtu.be/lD3RHpVfMdI
 
i really like this song. the album it's from is pretty good, but i might've forgotten about it by now if this song hadn't gotten its hooks in me for whatever reason.
 
http://youtu.be/WOZFVFF-ATw
 
i saw dirty beaches live a few months ago and while he's got melodic and varied kinds of songs, the whole set was just stuff like this. i really enjoyed it but my friends got a bired bored and thought it was monotonous. i liked the constant pulsing rhythms. he was pretty intense on stage, i dunno if i would enjoy the album this is from as much if i hadn't seen it performed well live, though.
 
i feel like i've posted a lot of what i still listen to before though, like twin shadow who i have on my phone most of the time, or otherwise that everyone has already heard or made up their minds on like kanye so i won't post a bunch of that stuff since i dunno how much use it would be to anyone. i have some new things on my phone just now that i'm listening to but haven't made up my mind about yet.

I'll check it out. new kanye is junk/pitchfork album of the century literally believe he's jesus

Speaking of Miley:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXYWDtXbBB0

If any of you have any bladerunner-esque electronica to send my way I would be appreciative. I have been badly abusing the Kavinsky album OutRun in the past few weeks. It only occurred to me the other day that the main track is used in the intro to Drive.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV_3Dpw-BRY
 
Another OST that I have found entertaining is the Dredd remake. If you haven't seen the film it is actually worthwhile as it has some pretty incredible slow-motion cinematography. The music is done by the same guy who used to do the music for the BBC spy series 'Spooks' which was cheesy as heck but this stuff is from another planet. I guess if you liked the soundtracks from the social network (TR) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (also TR) then you'd find this more musical and more fulfilling.
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NViqegD3WmA&list=PLF6tW055Hhxf6aEcVRfATH73OXY65hlQD

Another OST that I have found entertaining is the Dredd remake. If you haven't seen the film it is actually worthwhile as it has some pretty incredible slow-motion cinematography. The music is done by the same guy who used to do the music for the BBC spy series 'Spooks' which was cheesy as heck but this stuff is from another planet. I guess if you liked the soundtracks from the social network (TR) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (also TR) then you'd find this more musical and more fulfilling.

 
I love Dredd, and I like the ost. I was listening to it pretty regularly for a few months and I still sing the music to myself.
 
 
 

am i the only one who actually liked yeezus? 

 
I liked it. It isn't my favourite Kanye album, but I think everything he's done since graduation has been interesting, even parts of watch the throne in spite of jay z. his first two albums are on and off for me. yeezus doesn't really feel like a complete album though, and everything feels underdeveloped but I just took it as a rough idea he had and then spat out half formed. the album doesn't really stick to its core ideas, second half is all over the place, and the lyrics get in the way of taking any of the aggression or darkness from the music that seriously, so it's pretty mixed up i think but yeah, i like it.

the only ideas I noticed seemed to be taken either from other artists/current rap trends or his super tiresome egoism front that doesn't seem like it went anywhere from last time, but I don't know that much about kanye or rap. parts felt like Yonkers-etc run thru a kanye filter and I remember we both didn't like yonkers jaime.
 

Macklemore is a white indie rapper

there are lots of white people in the rap game right now, huh? do you have an opinion on any of the others?

i don't listen to enough current rap to understand trends, so while i knew there was some death grips in there, and that generally dark sounding beats like that exist, i couldn't pinpoint any particular thing i felt like he was imitating. when i heard black skinhead i thought it was gonna be an album of him deciding to be angry about race relations in his own superficial VMA talking about elite media figures kind of way, but none of the tracks are really about anything. the lyrics are just usual kanye pretty much. which i don't mind because i don't find his ego stuff tiresome, partly because it brings out the occasional really funny line whether he intends it to be funny in the way it is or not. i like kanye's whole persona. plus i like almost all of the music he makes in terms of the composition too, and that carries on to yeezus as well even though that part of that album actually is a bit different. i mean he's a lunatic, and a lot of what he says is despicable sure, but i don't really care. yeezus is a bit tossed off. minor kanye west...he's the least boring megastar around. nobody in the UK listens to him, you never hear his songs hear, so i don't have much context for him. i just imagine him sitting in penthouse hotel suites drinking lethally expensive alcohol ranting on about some incoherent nonsense to a room full of half-conscious security personnel, models and whatever kind of posse he has until he gets arbitrarily bored and decides to leave the country for a safari trip or something. mindless excess guided towards nothing in particular, but for some reason he thinks it's all crucially important.
a big kid with no filters and no limits to fulfilling his desires, hurtling towards boredom as an artifact of the fucked up way the world works. best way i can elucidate his appeal to me at this moment. or maybe i just mean i think he's a fun guy. that kanye sure is a fun guy.
 
i've been listening to good kid maad city and yes i do like that album. i also downloaded earl sweatshirt's new album 'doris' and it's okay. there are a few songs i like, but i feel like he isn't saying much and his delivery isn't entertaining enough for that to be okay all the time. it's a bit boring, probably will switch it out soon. but i like chum and sasquatch on it. maybe i will let it sink in a bit more.

 
i don't listen to enough current rap to understand trends, so while i knew there was some death grips in there, and that generally dark sounding beats like that exist, i couldn't pinpoint any particular thing i felt like he was imitating. when i heard black skinhead i thought it was gonna be an album of him deciding to be angry about race relations in his own superficial VMA talking about elite media figures kind of way, but none of the tracks are really about anything. the lyrics are just usual kanye pretty much. which i don't mind because i don't find his ego stuff tiresome, partly because it brings out the occasional really funny line whether he intends it to be funny in the way it is or not. i like kanye's whole persona. plus i like almost all of the music he makes in terms of the composition too, and that carries on to yeezus as well even though that part of that album actually is a bit different. i mean he's a lunatic, and a lot of what he says is despicable sure, but i don't really care. yeezus is a bit tossed off. minor kanye west...he's the least boring megastar around. nobody in the UK listens to him, you never hear his songs hear, so i don't have much context for him. i just imagine him sitting in penthouse hotel suites drinking lethally expensive alcohol ranting on about some incoherent nonsense to a room full of half-conscious security personnel, models and whatever kind of posse he has until he gets arbitrarily bored and decides to leave the country for a safari trip or something. mindless excess guided towards nothing in particular, but for some reason he thinks it's all crucially important.
a big kid with no filters and no limits to fulfilling his desires, hurtling towards boredom as an artifact of the fucked up way the world works. best way i can elucidate his appeal to me at this moment. or maybe i just mean i think he's a fun guy. that kanye sure is a fun guy.

that makes sense, and probably the real difference. I'm bored to heck with his persona.
 

Quote from: barret's esophagus on September 05, 2013, 09:50:45 pm

there are lots of white people in the rap game right now, huh? do you have an opinion on any of the others?

they're all corny as fuck. macklemore and mac miller are kinda harmless in their corniness, but then you have shit like riff raff which may as well just be a dude wearing blackface. i think the only new white rapper i liked was that one kreayshawn song. 

I listened to maybe 3 tracks by riff raff, it seemed like he might be interesting. I dunno, it's hard to tell at this point. he might be a manufactured twitter celeb, which I don't dig. I didn't think of his style as blackface, more of a representation of an existing white subculture. I saw an interview where he said he's a mix of redneck and idk gangster or something, and that's a good description of some people from my rural hometown who grew up in a working class family.
 
I never listened to mac miller and it doesn't sound like I should. there's also action bronson and iggy azalia, tho I haven't really listened to either. and die antwoord