Aug 21, 2020 This has given me an idea - take a listen to J Hus - Big Conspiracy. Would love to hear your thoughts on it.
Aug 21, 2020 @Thy #27: Max B & French Montana - Coke Wave [1000/10] Junior year of high school feels like forever ago. College wasn't even a thought, life was moving like molasses, my classmates were bumping Wiz Khalifa of all things in the parking lot. Dipset was slowly slipping out of the status quo, we were looking for another iconoclastic messiah that represented us, we needed...a new wave. The first time I heard of Max B was on those random Jim Jones Byrdgang tapes that used to float around the internet, instantly I was hooked by his captivating flows and off-kilter yodeling, it was reminiscent of what Bone Thugs did but with NY bravado & charisma. Next thing you know I was shouting Wavey in school and it spread like wildfire, it was the same whenever I went back to my old neighborhoods where Max B was becoming an underground hero. Sadly, his explosion was defused with his legal troubles, all we were left was all this untapped potential that was never fulfilled. But in that last year of being a free man, he left us with enough music that could last a lifetime. Coke Wave with a burgeoning French Montana, is probably alongside LiveLoveA$AP & Friday Night Lights my most played mixtape of all-time, I could probably recite this whole thing backwards. Biggavel was at his zenith with his confidence brimming out of every line, while French mirrored his sensei so it was like having a Max doppelgänger on every song. It was a chemistry that reminded me of Puff & Ma$e, where they just reek of charisma and the flows are so d--- mellifluous. Max followed old school 50's formula of tweaking songs with his own twist, the freestyles and original pieces all on here blend together so well that give this whole project a cohesion that we didn't see too often in his other mixtapes. It helps he chooses some of the most brisk instrumentals that allow him & French to effortless glide over. The resignation that Max was heading to jail only heightened the stakes of what this tape represented, it was his encore at his final performance, but what a standing ovation he left with. I miss Junior year, but I'm glad things worked out better than I could have ever envisioned, I just want this dude to still have a 2nd chance to run this game.
Aug 22, 2020 d--- this is such a nice read Never seen a Tape go so smoothly with every song being a 10/10 effortlessly. Max B’s truly a legend. God d---, It Gotta Be and New York my favs
Aug 23, 2020 @SHUDEYE #28: Kerser - Roll The Dice [7.6 10/10] It wouldn't even be an insult to me calling me an uncultured swine when it comes to Australian hip-hop. I've only seen you & Coco rave about this man as the second coming of Christ in the odd post here and there, I'm just thinking heh they must just be on that Down Under Caine again. But at exactly 7:32PM Eastern Time, Sunday August 23rd...my life changed when I hit play... Never before had I experienced at first hand a true virtuoso at work like the way Kerser goes. The way this dude raps, I can just picture Kerser wrestling sharks for his morning workout and then injecting inhuman amounts of Heroin into his bloodstream just cause why not. And while he's on that high, he's spitting venom that would make a black mamba's feel like a brisk summer's breeze. The sort of catharsis I got when I heard this album through was the same as when Saint Paul saw the light on the long, long road to Damascus, we need to spread the word of Kerser all over the universe. Australia is the best, I feel like liking everyone of Joel's posts, digging up @threee wherever the h--- he is and probably do a line of snow with the rest of you crazy fools.
Aug 24, 2020 @King V #29: Animal Collective - Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished [9.2/10] I f---ing love Animal Collective. It's funny you requested this one around that time, cause I was just bumping MPP and Panda's Person Pitch, all part of my melancholic soundtrack when summer's coming to a close. Animal Collective to the uninitiated, can be very daunting to listen to since they're amongst the most experimental and unconventional artists around, however it's so rewarding when they get it right as they've done for the majority of their music. And this album, is where it all started. I still find it difficult coming up with the right words to describe the myriad of noises that imbue from here, I remember first listening to this high outta of my mind in college and it felt like a tonic for my brain. It's sort of like if Aphex Twin took PCP, looked into a kaleidoscope and then went into the studio to exorcise these creative demons inside; it's psychedelic but like if psychedelic had a knife clenched between it's teeth especially during the first portion of the album. The engineering is off the f---ing chains, just when you're captivating by one instrument another one comes out of the blue, all in crystal clear quality (pretty wild considering this is 20 years old now). It's a journey into some warped dimension, but it's well worth the travel, especially when you finally reach the final destination.
Aug 25, 2020 I'd like to see a review on one of two (or both) of my more recent favorite albums from front to back. Polo G - Die a Legend or Denzel Curry - Zuu
Aug 27, 2020 @Genysis #30: A Tribe Called Quest - The Low End Theory [10/10] I knew at some point I'd get one of the seminal rap albums thrown into my direction. I think all of us can recall that mesmerizing first listen, mine came sometime as a kid back in the early 2000's, shoutout once again to my uncle and his fervent love for NY Hip-Hop. Since then, I've never been tired of listening to this jewel, every year you gotta come back to give your flowers to the memories that Phife Dawg & Q-Tip left us. They had one h--- of a debut with People's Instinctive...Q-Tip ripped through the hip-hop atmosphere like an asteroid, we knew what he was capable of with his stuffed nose delivery and nimble poetry, he meant business when Excursions kicked things off. But then this followed right after, was this the same Phife from the first LP!? It was one of the most striking improvements you'll ever see in the genre, together, The Abstract & The Five-Footer deliver a telepathic chemistry for the rest of the album, where they drop quotable after quotable and play off each other's lines effortlessly. Dovetailing with some of the most memorable performances behind a microphone was Muhammad & Tip's jazz-sampling beats, I swear to God this still sounds distinct even 29 years later: the snares & drums still pound and the samples are perfectly integrated into each time signature, it's a rare combo of something sounding so rugged & equally soothing. That's just what Hip-Hop can do, and The Low End Theory accomplishes that combination to a powerful effect, crazy to think they replicated, and if you ask me, the Tribe improved on when Midnight Marauders dropped after!
Aug 27, 2020 It's my favorite polish rapper, I'll give you one song tho, cause listening whole project would be hard lol.
Aug 27, 2020 @SKUXY BANGS #31: Lord Finesse - The Awakening [8.2/10] As a native from the birthplace of Hip-Hop aka the BX, I still feel like we've been overestimated heavily in comparisons to the rest of the Boroughs. Queens & Brooklyn ran wild during the 90s, Harlem picked up at the tail-end of that decade & Staten Island had f---ing Wu-Tang. After KRS sort of faded out, we didn't really have that talisman that could rival everything else, Big Pun tragically left us too soon in spite of the atomic explosion he left in his wake. One group from the BX however left an indelible impact in the underground niche with DITC, to any dusthead they're a gold standard in the NY scene with notable alumni. Lord Finesse was one heck of a producer, his greatest strength was finding these insane jazz samples like ATCQ and then stripping them of any sunshine with some sinister drum loops. Every time you saw a DITC remix with Finesse listed on the credits, you knew it was gonna be a b-----r. When it came to this album, it was like Return of the Funky Man but on steroids as the production was even more otherworldly and it had a much bigger collection of guest verses. I really can't stop raving over the instrumentals on here, how can something sound so crystalline and so evil at the same time!? My one complaint is Finesse himself isn't exactly a compelling rapper, the high points on here are when O.C, A.G or whoever else come in and leave earth on their guest verses. But that isn't to dismiss him like that, what we get is a very cohesive album that maintains a consistent energy from start to end, it's a hidden gem of the 90's in the same vein as how Finesse dug through the crates to find his samples.
Aug 27, 2020 f--k this is tough, love how Europeans weave EDM into hip-hop. @BIGFOOT got me into grime and it's been such a ride going through all of this, all those records you recommended were absolute heat bro!
