Dec 23, 2015

Lol u gettin old my friend

Defintely check out SS 1 and 2. If these are your concerns, and you like songs like paradise, you're gonna love tracks like U Digg

 

Dec 23, 2015

Pacifier is the most underrated track of the year

 

Dec 23, 2015

Huh?

 

Dec 23, 2015

i missed this s--- the first time around lol. how can you listen to halftime and think he's not "rapping well" or that he has the vocab of a "12 year old." he's talked about how he specifically goes into the studio to use new words he learns lol. ive heard thug say everything from "phallus" to "therefore" in a bar.

but its fine. once it clicks, you'll revist the s---. and you'll get it. lol.

 

Dec 23, 2015

15. f---in' Up the Count - Freddie Gibbs
The Wire is the best show of all time. Freddie Gibbs is one of the best rappers of all time. Despite switching up his style, driving head first into the gritty after Pinata's more polished veneer, Gibbs's storytelling is as tight as ever. He makes you listen, has you at the edge of your seat, and throws you into the middle of a couple young gunners f---in' up the count. But you feel safe, protected by his insight and his sage words. He doesn't leave you to fend for yourself -- he's here to show you what he's been through, and how he's become the man he is now. The more melodic Gibbs becomes, the better he gets. And, of now, he doesn't seem to have a ceiling.


14. Calling Your Name - Young Thug
Come on, who else could do a f---in' Ellie Goulding cover besides Young Thug? It might only be for the hook, but it's just more proof that Thug can literally do anything he wants to. Anything. He can take 1 god d--- line from a pop track and morph into his own heartfelt ballad. If that's not creativity at its finest, I apparently have no idea what I'm talking about. He conjures melodies out of nothing, adds extra letters to words just to make them rhyme ("you cant see me like mask(e)s"), sings (at the top of his lungs) about "weiners" in "beamers," and its all just so blissful. None of it seems forced. On the same track he's crooning about "you know we can get away," he's growling about puttin' that "p---- in saran for you." On the same track where he's urging you to "s--- that d-ck, peppermint," he's reminiscing on how it felt to be "so broke that you got jokes." This single track has a dozen flows, a dozen voices, a dozen melodies and, above all, is endearing to a fault. This should be a hit. But we aren't ready for it. Young Thug is "important like pedialyte" (oh come ON, that's f---ing great). He just wants to take care of his family, and make sure if your jewelry is "sunny" his girl's is "windy."


13. Raw - Young Thug
What can I say about this track that hasn't already been covered? From urging himself on during the bridge ("sing to em...that's how you mofuckin' sing to em") to his soul-baring declaration of "L O V EEEEEEEEE," this man is f---ing dangerous. He threatens everything this entire genre has clung onto for decades. He exposes the genre's insecurities. He melds violence with romanticism, croons about pullin' up to "stain lil cuz," and screams his love for his fiancee. His harmonizing, his ability to tap into the exact mood of any given track, his genuinely curious mind...they all contribute to making him the most interesting artist alive, bar none. And he's an incredible writer, on top of that. "A wise man told me...nothing -- he said them snitches they get stitches. I just spent a Bentley on my kidneys. Sayin' I gave my bro the address, the road to riches..." and this is on the same track where he says "hop inside that p---- like a trampoline, boing boing..." It shouldn't work. But it always, and I mean always, does. My favorite part of the track may be "I dropped ten thousand ones on ones on ones," simply for how warped he manages to make that straightforward line sound, and because he follows it up with "I told her to "come on home, hun...you can have my son."" I don't think he'll ever cease to surprise me.

"My love is so big she can't lose that..."


12. Flaws - Young Thug
I've already said all there is to say about this track tbh. This might be the best song out of the 50+ leaked tracks from earlier in the year, and I just managed to get it to the semi-finals in the elimination game just by never shutting up about it lmao. It's absolutely one of the best rap songs of the year, and I'm surprised myself that its this low on my list of favorite tracks from this year. Might be because I played it out months ago, but anyways. From the soaring hook ("Rose goin' right inside the kiiiiitchen") to the fantastic verses, there is, ironically, not a single flaw about this song. It's near the very top of Thug's expansive discography. "Baby I love you, In a house full of grown folks, baby I love you/Swear to god you're my bread and butter/You can still be my all, even if the Feds destroy us" is one of my favorite rap lines, EVER. I loved the line "...they know I'm prince of the city" so much that I mistakenly quoted it in my Barter 6 review (the leaks came out around the same time as I was reviewing the album). Song is flawless.


11. Norf Norf - Vince Staples
"b---- you thirsty, please grab a Sprite..." Vince Staples is one of the most focused rappers in the game right now. And that's why he's f---ing deadly. He can convey any given message without a shred of pretension, and, even better, he can make the most personal of anecdotes accessible to any passerby. He's a bard, a storyteller, a man of letters. But he's also from Northside Long beach and has never run from anything but the police. He's a "gangsta crip, f--- gangsta rap," and his "bandana brown like the dope that he shootin' in the kitchen," but with an ever-sober mind, Staples is able to paint vivid portraits of his upbringing. Although he should be peering out the same window Nas and Kendrick have been noted for lurking around, it seems as if he's never once shied away from being in the center of the commotion. He finds it easier to observe amidst the horrors rather than utilize his privilege of being one-step removed. He's a product of his environment, and he doesn't seem to shun his influences in the least bit.


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Dec 23, 2015

Norf Norf

 

Dec 23, 2015

Calling Your Name might have my favourite vocal work on any song

 

Dec 23, 2015

 

Dec 23, 2015

 

Dec 23, 2015

Glad Norf Norf made the list dope as f---

 

Dec 23, 2015

flaws is flawless

 

Dec 23, 2015

YOUUUU KNOW WE CAN GEEET AAAAWAAAAAAY

BECAUSEIMCAAAALLLINGYOURNAMEEEE

that lean i need i need got me lookin like the mayor

 

Dec 23, 2015

So true

 

Dec 23, 2015

 

Dec 23, 2015

YOU KNOW U CAN GO AWAAAAAAAAAY

 

Dec 23, 2015

have u realized you're wrong about Raw yet m8?

 

Dec 23, 2015

It's been growing on me lately.
Still think it's not as great as the other tracks on the project though.

 

Dec 23, 2015

The f---ing high note on "because I'm calling your name" is inhuman.
And the delivery on "She's callin' me Jeffery, I protect it like a seatbelt"

 

Dec 23, 2015

its top 3

 

Dec 23, 2015

edit:
i have multiple videos of calling ur name lmao