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I’m home sick today (differentiated from my “home healthy” days only by how guilty I feel about procrastination) and decided to post some new rap music.
Pill – “Back Outside“
from 4180: The Prescription
Grind Time Rap Gang affiliate (Gangsta) Pill goes in over some Issac Hayesish moody loops. (via Blvd St.)
Playboy Tre – “Bleachers“
from Liquor Store Mascot (Coming Soon)
As B.O.B. moves further into space rapping and not-rapping territory his vastly underrated homie and hypeman Playboy Tre keeps getting closer and closer to RAP RAP purism. “Bleachers” breathes off palm to the lunch table simplicity.
Mack Maine – “Vitamin C“
from This Is Just A Mixtape (Mixtape, 2009)
“Vitamin C” is the only track on this new tape that sounds like the old Mack Maine. Or, at least, what I imagined the old Mack Maine to sound like. When the Young Money second stringer started getting attention he was being positioned as the backpacker of the camp. But ever since one time Wayne Mini Me Curren$y split, Maine has been swapped in as Weezy’s anonymous foil. And now Curren$y is making lyrically lyrical lyricist tapes (poorly). The point being that Maine is probably better suited for this sort of rambling boom bap battle rap than going all autotune “maack maaine on dem hoes.”
Myka 9 f/ Busdriver – “Chopper“
from 1969 (Fake Four, 2009)
Like he did with “Viles,” Mikah throws his old fans a single life preserver in the form of a hardcore chop shop fast rap track in the sea of hippie dippie love the universe singing that is his new album.
Daddy-O – “Dorm Room“
Not to be confused with the Stetsasonic frontman, resident Philly eccentric Daddy-O has been rapping weird in a city where weird rapping doesn’t usually happen. No mp3 on this (yet?) but here’s a youtube bonus beat of dude freestyling over what sounds like a damn Maestro Rhythm King. (via Emynd)
Attitude & Jackie Chain – “Money“
Not sure who produced this, but I am going to assume it was the Block Beataz, given their penchant for unexpected sample sources. This was touched on briefly over in the G-Side comment section (now featuring DIPLO) but one of the interesting things about that production team is their willingness to dig for untouched beats. It seems most current day sample based music is either built on nostalgic UBB flips or just grasping for cool points with hipster signifiers (Daft Punk, MIA). Sure, the Dilla/Primo progeny are still digging for whatever garbage they can get their hands on (these are the dudes who bought all the ten cent Mantovani records at my old work) but they usually render their sources unrecognizable by way of the chop. Besides they only rock vinyl, son! There is 20 years of basically untouched and obscure music sitting in CD cutout bins and Soulseek folders – failed folk pop songstresses, crappy trance, rock rap, whatever. All that is ripe for the picking. Alabama must have some great pawn shops. (via Blvd St.)
Jay Electronica & Che Grand – “Hagler“
Why are Jay Elect’s songs always so short? Write a hook or something, man. Produced by Denaun Porter, who is a beast.
Fabo – “Spaceship Man“
There’s a simple formula for Fabo’s style: ODB x Kilo. Here he raps about spaceships. He should rap more frequently. (via So Many Shrimp)
24 Comments, Comment or Ping
MAYNHOLUP!
mayn dis boy Attitude be on sum bullshit righ now!!! de boy be killin it maynnn! i done heard all deze songs mayn but at leass u back to postin new music steada drunken “I like 808s no matter how hard i try to hate it” shit mayn.
Bigger Than Rap, which is gittin slept on, is by far de song uv de year so far mayn dat track got me sayin mayn hol up grippin crome in de whip fo i git back and put on The Fly mayn!
Jan 23rd, 2009
MAYNHOLUP!
besides de Ro track, uv course, which i wud link yall sleepers to if Noz wunnit trynna quiet de revolutionary thinker dat i iz mayn why cant i be postin dem links mayn?
Jan 23rd, 2009
noz
“steada drunken “I like 808s no matter how hard i try to hate it” shit mayn. ”
Haaah.
You heard Daddy-O and Mikah?
Jan 23rd, 2009
noz
Mayn – drop me an email cocaineblunts@gmail.com MAYN@MAYN.MAYN or whatever you put in obviously doesn’t work.
Jan 23rd, 2009
MAYNHOLUP!
i heard de mIkah track i used to fuck wit dat boy not so much lately cuz Ro is betta so i rather juss listen to dat mayn. but yea mayn u bout to git dat email uv sum new Rother dat’ll have YOU sayin mayn hol up
Jan 23rd, 2009
ANU
did you heard “one of these mornings” by palyboy tre ?
i’ve high expectations for “liquor store mascot”
Jan 23rd, 2009
noz
“did you heard “one of these mornings” by palyboy tre ?”
Yeah it’s great.
Jan 23rd, 2009
TSF
Finally checked out the Goodbye America tape and that shit is fucking out of this world!! Liquor Store Mascot is my most anticipated right now.
Jan 23rd, 2009
MAYNHOLUP!
Playboy Tre is a fiend mayn i thought dat record wuz top 3 or 4 lass year mayn (behind only Killer Kille an de Ro tapes mayn)
Jan 23rd, 2009
Gerard
“Alabama must have some great pawn shops”
Its true, about 97 in Birmingham alone.
Jan 23rd, 2009
Tray
These songs are all good, but I would quibble with this:
“Vitamin C” is the only track on this new tape that sounds like the old Mack Maine…The point being that Maine is probably better suited for this sort of rambling boom bap battle rap than going all autotune “maack maaine on dem hoes.”
I only heard him use autotune about twice on the tape, and it seemed to me like a lot of it sounded like the old Mack Maine, or at least Mack Maine circa “I do Pushups On My Money”… like Man Cry or Payin Homage, even Girl You Nasty (great Zoe verse) is a reasonably backpacker take on the subject matter. Not that any of it’s that good, of course.
Jan 23rd, 2009
noz
You might be right Tray, but the production mostly was generic and rapping boring so not classic maine to me.
Jan 23rd, 2009
modi
had no idea busdriver was still cranking out jams! i think i heard him first in a tony hawk video game. flow was so intense.
Jan 23rd, 2009
TSF
“Alabama must have some great pawn shops.”
You betcha! You can get a sick-ass Romanian AK at one in The Gump.
Jan 23rd, 2009
TSF
And cot-damn! Fabo is sick as hell on that track, glad I voted for him in the last poll.
Jan 23rd, 2009
Jay (d)eff Kay
Great bunch of tracks.
Btw, you know that ridiculous verse on ‘Open Shop’ off of Weezy’s ‘The Drought is Over 5′ ? The one where dude goes on about stabbing you with the antlers of an antelope, drinking tap water, chopping bags & scraping plates just to cop bathing apes? Is that really Mack Maine?? Coz people told me it was, and since that verse was easily one of my faves from last year, I checked out his mixtapes. But I was pretty disappointed. So yeah, is that really Mack Maine? Coz that verse is just a little too great to be a random, once in a lifetime, lucky shot.
I wanna hear more from whoever did that ‘living like its 88′ verse.
Jan 23rd, 2009
Tray
Oh, I agree that it was generic and boring. The only song I really liked on the tape was the Soulja Slim. I need to get up on him.
Jan 23rd, 2009
ANU
mack maine’s verse on swing ya rag remix is really good
Jan 24th, 2009
Maurice Garland
i was at Playboy Tre crib last night…..let me hear stuff off Liquor Store Mascot….FIIIIIIRRRREEEE!!!! Reminded me of the feeling I’d get when I’d hear new dope ass 8Ball/MJG material around 95-96
Jan 24th, 2009
marcus
check out RYNO featuring K-rino and KB = clip in the strap
http://www.zshare.net/download/5471317576cb69be/
Jan 26th, 2009
sevenDAZE888
MAN…THAT JAY ELECT..WATCH OUT 4 THIS DUDE HES DANGER,CATS ANT FUCKN WITDUDE,AN IM BLACK!
Jan 28th, 2009
BLAO
hell yeah playboy tre jam absolutely rules
Feb 7th, 2009
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