why oh why do none of these rap acts put shit out on vinyl no more???????

Rob, what do you think about the following songs?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ho64pS1kTRk
https://youtube.com/watch?v=njSDwD6Gg8Q

Because streaming is the stupid ass future of stuff.

It's funny, isn't it? Just a couple years ago, even AS streaming was really becoming the standard, vinyl surpassed CD sales and for a while there it seemed you were more likely to find new albums on LP than CD.

Now, all that vinyl buzz has culminated in a premature ejacultion, because guess what? Surpassing CD sales is not that big of a feat anymore. Vinyl costs significantly more to manufacture than files on Spotify (which cost, like, nothing to manufacture.. literally).

Vinyl is for niche market music enthusiast types. Average listeners (like most rap fans) are perfectly happy with Spotify. Jam is a jam after all.

I like songs about drugs and degeneracy and fringe shit.

DopeMan is a decent track, mellw and boomin, good for a saturday cookout (at least with MY peeps)

hahahah

I have not listened to much Tory Lanez. the second track, anyway, is more of a snoozer. I would probably not listen to it again.

My issue is that Hip Hop sprang forth from vinyl records. I wish I could find full LP's on vinyl. I guess I will just download the hot releases, and pay for shit transfer to a vinyl plant in Taiwan and then sell the trap bootlegs on vinyl and make myself a BOSS

He's inconsistent. I can't really sit through an entire mixtape from him but his standouts blow me away. I really want him to put out a solid project already.

"DopeMan Go" is definitely one of those songs that show his potential.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REBFAZSITgk

This one is amazing!

like trap for lovers..... ha!

Yeah, he's pretty much a bad boy version of Drake, with a more pleasant voice (to my ears anyway). If Drake fusion danced with Travis the outcome would be Tory.

Drake's voice is brutal. Like a bad joke.

He sounds like Spongebob.

Yes. This is true and accurate. He sounds like rich guy farts. I Fucking hate his voice. It's the most lethal aural toxin I've ever come across. Damn near ruined "Fuckin Problems." He sounds like George Cloony at the Oscars. He sounds like the kid who punches himself in the face and then tells everyone YOU hit him, and cries and whines and then smiles when you get scolded.

Drake is terrible.

Kanye is reportedly recording a new album on top of a mountain in Wyoming.
I'm not sure why, but I really want this to be true.

Also, apparently Cruel Winter is done, and is not the album in question.

Here's some words from Pigeons & Planes

Vince Staples has a new album coming out in 1 month. It's called Big Fish Theory (dumb name) and it won't be as good as DAMN., but it will likely be the second best major rap album of the year unless Pusha T drops something.

http://pitchfork.com/news/72066-vinc...test-and-video

Accurate.

I still buy CD's.

DAMN. is still making a huge impression on me. I feel like I lived with the first half of the album for a month (plus DUCKWORTH.) and now I'm starting to really let the second half sink in. "LOVE" and "FEAR" and "GOD" and "XXX" are all such great songs. I feel like Kendrick's personality is finally coming through on this album... like, his sense of humor and his real bare-bones self. I've loved him for a while now, but I've seen him as a rapper, limited to bars even if they're great ones.

Now it's like there's more there. Maybe just because I have listened enough to feel like I understand his personality a bit more now, but he's coming across much more like a full-fledged artist and less like just a technical wizard. I feel like I can finally relate to this album's more universal themes of conscience and morality and self-scrutiny, whereas his previous albums have been hard for me to relate to as a middle class white nerd.

I think this might be his best album. It's been stuck in my head pretty much since it dropped, and I'm still listening to it a month later and finding new shit to like. DAMN. is just a really strong fucking album all around — not just a good rap record.

I can't stop spinning From The D to The A https://youtu.be/-S0aea777jM


love hearing lil boat with no autotune.

No offense, but you have worse taste in hip-hop than anyone ever. ;)

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