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thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
Which young thug gif should i use for my next avatar :allears:

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void_serfer
Jan 13, 2012

This one, of course:



As an aside:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tGf1JlsfgQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COTtMzy5QtQ

void_serfer fucked around with this message at 17:15 on May 18, 2015

Kenshin
Jan 10, 2007
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-LoeQ2WF3VI

Goddamn this album is so good

Yuzenn
Mar 31, 2011

Be weary when you see oppression disguised as progression

The Spirit told me to use discernment and a Smith n Wesson at my discretion

Practice heavy self reflection, avoid self deception
If you lost, get re-direction

Dude is looking more like Xerxes every day

^^Yeah I think it's going to be AOTY

*Edit: What the gently caress is this poo poo http://www.thisis50.com/profiles/blogs/taylor-swift-feat-kendrick-lamar-bad-blood-remix-video

Yuzenn fucked around with this message at 19:19 on May 18, 2015

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

That's my favorite song from it too

Robert Analog
Feb 16, 2008

shyah
I read Malice's book today. The dude is an idiot. The whole book is pretty much him preaching and talking about loving around on his wife who has zero self esteem apparently. Also everything that happens to him is a sign from god. He says his dogs barked at him because the devil was in him. He only has a crisis of faith during two separate HIV scares (because he cheated on his wife nonstop). He blames Pharrell for his career stalling, talks about hustling for maybe 1 page. The book wasn't very well written, he censors cussing but in a very obnoxious way like "B#+%H", he also says "literally" wrong and too much. Any weak slang he puts in quotations like "we went to his house to 'kick it'".

Maybe he's a different person now but he seems simple as hell. Aside from a month of selling crack his whole life has been banging groupies, being bad with money, and being scared of the supernatural.

RBX
Jan 2, 2011

He's a dude that grew up on the streets and that's all he knows what did you expect

Give any regular hustler rap money they're gonna do and be the same

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
I guess it is good that his next career move was to become a preacher then

edit: wait apparently he just quit rapping to become a christian for a while? i thought he at least worked at a church doing something

thathonkey fucked around with this message at 22:27 on May 18, 2015

Wezlar
May 13, 2005



Robert Analog posted:

Maybe he's a different person now but he seems simple as hell. Aside from a month of selling crack his whole life has been banging groupies, being bad with money, and being scared of the supernatural.

RBX posted:

Give any regular hustler rap money they're gonna do and be the same

gently caress give any regular dude rap money and they're probably gonna do the same. Maybe minus the being scared of the supernatural.

Robert Analog
Feb 16, 2008

shyah

RBX posted:

He's a dude that grew up on the streets and that's all he knows what did you expect

Give any regular hustler rap money they're gonna do and be the same

They grew up in a normal middle class home with two parents in the suburbs.

E; I'm not articulating this well sorry. He doesn't really talk about buying nice poo poo as much as debt collectors calling all the time, this is post Lord Willin', and he's talking about banging groupies while going to church and spouting jesus poo poo to others.

He comes off as insincere and hypocritical is what I'm trying to say. I like clipse and him as a rapper.

Robert Analog fucked around with this message at 22:48 on May 18, 2015

Robert Analog
Feb 16, 2008

shyah

thathonkey posted:

I guess it is good that his next career move was to become a preacher then

edit: wait apparently he just quit rapping to become a christian for a while? i thought he at least worked at a church doing something

He was a Christian the whole time it just didn't matter until he thought he had HIV, twice. You may be thinking of Mase? He became a preacher.

Ass Catchcum
Dec 21, 2008
I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER.
Honest question how do people who's lives were just hustling, drug dealing or being in a gang get rap deals? I just don't see the steps from street life to a Sony executives office. Any books out there or articles on how these famous rappers become these famous rappers?

I AM BRAWW
Jul 18, 2014
It's not really going from selling crack since like the fifth grade to being a suit in an office.

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
i dont know but hustling and selling drugs wouldnt take up all of your time so you could develop your rap abilities on the side and eventually, if you have the right combination of talent and luck, build your name up by getting local gigs etc and then get noticed by somebody with enough industry connections to get you a deal

vanbags
Dec 6, 2003

An ape.

thathonkey posted:

i dont know but hustling and selling drugs wouldnt take up all of your time so you could develop your rap abilities on the side and eventually, if you have the right combination of talent and luck, build your name up by getting local gigs etc and then get noticed by somebody with enough industry connections to get you a deal
Or skip the industry entirely and build your own independent label with drug money like Jay, Dame, and Biggs.

Honestly in the age of social media it's as simple as uploading something to the internet. Chief Keef wasn't actively pursuing a deal, he was just a kid on house arrest making music videos for fun with his goons.

A lot of these guys just rap for fun and it takes someone to intervene to get them to focus solely on making money with rap. I know T.I. personally oversaw keeping Doe B away from the hood and 50 Cent did the same with Kidd Kidd to the point he went into his own pocket to move him out of New Orleans.

I wish I could find it, but Young Chris had a really interesting interview about the transition. Being signed to a major label, being considered "put on" as a rapper, but not having any rap money to show for because of delays with label bullshit and waiting on your advance to clear. So he's stuck still hustling in Philly, but the next week he might be in the studio with Beans and Jay.

vanbags fucked around with this message at 23:50 on May 18, 2015

Ass Catchcum
Dec 21, 2008
I REALLY NEED TO SHUT THE FUCK UP FOREVER.
Yeah, I find this aspect very interesting. My default, negative, opinion is that a lot of time rappers back stories are created or embellished for marketing.

t a s t e
Sep 6, 2010

that's mostly true of rap in general, which didn't exist until 2007

ol yeller
Feb 20, 2015
Cool article by Scarface.

Tolkien minority
Feb 14, 2012



this and another chapter from his book ( http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/6531681/scarface-diary-of-a-madman-excerpt ) really make me want to read it. has anyone here done so? dudes quite the author assuming its not all his ghost writer. guess it makes sense considering his natural penchant for storytelling

Robert Analog
Feb 16, 2008

shyah
That was a much more compelling read. Gonna have to get that book.

ol yeller
Feb 20, 2015
i've got it in the mail, i'll post if its worth it once i finish it

Yuzenn
Mar 31, 2011

Be weary when you see oppression disguised as progression

The Spirit told me to use discernment and a Smith n Wesson at my discretion

Practice heavy self reflection, avoid self deception
If you lost, get re-direction

rear end Catchcum posted:

Yeah, I find this aspect very interesting. My default, negative, opinion is that a lot of time rappers back stories are created or embellished for marketing.

I chose to quote you but this goes for anyone interested in the backstory of a lot of rappers, 50 cent summarizes a very street attitude that transitions into a fortune 500 esque business style.

I can link some videos but he honestly does a ton of them.

temple
Jul 29, 2006

I have actual skeletons in my closet
Has anyone seen the wire? That's my favorite show.

THNDRTHF
Apr 14, 2004

so much for
bein' optimistic
yeah its p good

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
It is in my top 5 documentaries for sure

snyprmag
Oct 9, 2005

You guys listen to that new Ka album, Days of Dr. Yen Lo? The beats are more funky and less sparse than The Knight Gamble, but Ka's voice still makes it all sound pretty foreboding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb10u_7mIn4

alansmithee
Jan 25, 2007

Goodness no, now that wouldn't do at all!


snyprmag posted:

You guys listen to that new Ka album, Days of Dr. Yen Lo? The beats are more funky and less sparse than The Knight Gamble, but Ka's voice still makes it all sound pretty foreboding.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb10u_7mIn4

yeah it's real good. someone else handled the production iirc which accounts for the difference. not sure if I like it as much as night's gambit but it's close. slightly different sound. it's also up on spotify if anyone wants to check it (no idea about tidal lol).

THNDRTHF
Apr 14, 2004

so much for
bein' optimistic
the Eric Dingus Mixtape isn't really very good :allears:

https://soundcloud.com/octobersveryown/octobers-very-own-presents-haw-ii-eric-dingus

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012
ayyyyyy gunplay is back:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ntkNWnQ4gk

beat sounds almost identical to one of the songs off YG's album though

Crumbletron
Jul 21, 2006



IT'S YOUR BOY JESUS, MANE
"Wuzhanindoe" sounds like a DJ Mustard song intro shout-out anyway

Robert Analog
Feb 16, 2008

shyah
This scarface book is phenomenal so far

7 RING SHRIMP
Oct 3, 2012

Free my biological father Gucci Mane

HorseRenoir
Dec 25, 2011



Pillbug
So I guess ASAP Rocky is singing now too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEG2VTHS9yg

thathonkey
Jul 17, 2012

EATIN SHRIMP posted:

Free my biological father Gucci Mane

t a s t e
Sep 6, 2010

HorseRenoir posted:

So I guess ASAP Rocky is singing now too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEG2VTHS9yg

nice

GET MONEY
Sep 7, 2003

:krakken::krakken::krakken:

HorseRenoir posted:

So I guess ASAP Rocky is singing now too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEG2VTHS9yg

cool video and the 40 seconds of rap in it is pretty good

new soulja boy is cool too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO44wj5ba9g

im gay
Jul 20, 2013

by Lowtax
Bones is releasing a bunch of tracks over the next few hours.

https://soundcloud.com/teamsesh/bones-aux

Punkin Spunkin
Jan 1, 2010
if you're not listening to young thug right now you might be slowly dying
stay safe

Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

HorseRenoir posted:

So I guess ASAP Rocky is singing now too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEG2VTHS9yg

i'm so glad rocky is making music.

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Marching Powder
Mar 8, 2008



stop the fucking fight, cornerman, your dude is fucking done and is about to be killed.

GET MONEY posted:

cool video and the 40 seconds of rap in it is pretty good

new soulja boy is cool too

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hO44wj5ba9g

it's alright. sounds like a low-rent future

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