sonic,

can u possibly like all those albums? i dont see how

anyway,

rank them from best to worst for me, & draw little lines where they deviate from "A"s to "Bs" to "Cs" to "Ds" (no +'s or -'s)

Maaaaan, Currensy can spit. I love all of his verses on the Young Money Volume 1 mixtape. Did he stray away from Lil' Wayne or what happened with that? I feel like he is no longer linked with him.

And yeah Boobs, I like all of those albums haha. Some more than others, for sure. But I would recommend those to people. I don't feel like making a list for those right now, but why the perplexity? You think some of those albums are garbage? Which ones?

Oh shit, forgot bout this one! i was listing names by memory and this one slipped by. but yeah, Never Better will be up there for sure. "Purexed" and "Savion Glover" are great.


Also forgot bout that Curren$y album, but not sure if it can hang with the years best. maybe it can i dunno, theres just a few too many duds for me to overlook at the moment. even still, i don't think i'll hear a better track this year than this:



^^ Thats the sound of bliss right there.

I'll check this out cuz of the Oddisee connection. Mental Liberation is pretty dope.

Not in order:

A's

Saigon & Statik Selektah - All In A Day's Work
Raekwon- OB4CL2
Mos Def - The Ecstatic
Skyzoo- The Salvation
DJ Quik & Kurupt - BlaQKout
Cunninlynguists - Strange Journey Volume 1
Torae & Marco Polo- Double Barrel
Stoupe - Decalogue
Blue Sky Black Death - The Evil Jeanius Instrumentals
Marvel vs. Capcom 2 Mixtape

B's

J.Dilla- Jay $tay Paid
J.R. & PH7- The Standard
Finale- A Pipe Dream & A Promise
DOOM - Born Like This
Brother Ali - Us
Royce Da 5'9" - Revival EP
Reks - More Grey Hairs
The Grouch & Eligh - G&E
Havoc - From Now On Mixtape
DJ Honda - IV
The ARE - Iran
Oh No - Dr. No's Ethiopium
The Alchemist - Chemical Warfare

C's

Cas Metah & MotionPlus - SomeBuddies EP
K-Os - Yes!
Slim Thug - Boss of All Bosses
UGK - UGK 4 Life
Blue Sky Black Death - Razah's Ladder Instrumentals
Tree City / Black Milk - Black Trees
NASA - The Spirit of Apollo
Slaughterhouse- S/T
MOP - The Fountation
Black Milk x. DJ Slimm - VEGtroit
Drake - So Far Gone EP (I actually really enjoyed this)
Fashawn - The Antidote Mixtape (Prod. by Alchemist)
Atmosphere - Leak At Will
Dead Prez & DJ Green Lantern - Pulse of the People

he was on Young Money for years, but even after "Where the Cash At?" he still couldn't get him to release their album, so he decided to try and build the buzz on his own.

Holy shit this is good. Just released today for free off of their website. Get this NOW.






Outstanding production.

http://rapidshare.com/files/284011366/BSBD_J_A_Y_Z_.zip

"Free Lunch" from the Curren$y album, and Drake's "Uptown" are the main ones I can think of. 08 also had some lackluster Bun B verses. his flow sounds completely different and strange now and it seems clear he's not putting much effort into anything anymore.

The ones Chrono said, but he also had a really uninspired "Kinda Like A Big Deal" remix verse that was the first reference to swine flu and a completely boring one at that.

Also, I like Sonic's list. I agree with the placement of all the albums I've heard up there. I think So Far Gone could be higher. Sure the music wasn't new except for "Fear" but it's still great music.

Oops, didn't mean to have Skyzoo's album in the A range. Should have been in the B's. I'm appreciating it more with every listen, though.

thanks for that post

i'll be checking out all those a's a few b's maybe

Why is it a C then?

QFT.


this is stunning. "The Streets Won't Let Me Chill" is just wow. Thanks for correcting my sleepin ways Dwada. and tho these guys may have the lamest monikers in all of hip-hop (YU & XO?? cmon) they can really rip it.

Because of the seven songs, I "really enjoyed" about three of them. I just expected to dislike the whole thing.

Chrono, you see this?

http://2dopeboyz.okayplayer.com/2009/09/23...ase/#more-58492

This is going to be great:

Ya man that shit is dope. By the way I still have the "Clean" version and have been searching for the dirty version for a little while, do you happen to have a link for that??? I know the album still hasn't officially come out yet though.

And Sonic, I agree. All the songs released from that album so far are good...Life as a shorty, Freedom, On our way, and Sunny, Ca. October got some good releases ahead

fuckkkkk

Nah the clean version is the only one out there. The dirty version is gonna be the one for sale, but it doesnt drop until end of oct i think.

And yeah, that Fashawn needs to leak now. got high hopes for that joint.

Soul/funk/afrobeat band that is the backing group for the Wu-Tang Clan. Here they play some funky Wu-Tang classics with samples and everything.

1. Duel of the Iron Mics
2. C.R.E.A.M.
3. Mystery of Chessboxin'
4. Can It All Be So Simple
5. Uzi (Pinky Ring)
6. Interlude
7. Glaciers of Ice
8. Cherchez La Ghost
9. Criminology Listen
10. Heaven & Hell
11. Bring Da Ruckus
12. Protect Ya Neck
13. Incarcerated Scarfaces
14. Shimmy Shimmy Ya
15. Outro

ALSO I have no idea why I left this off my list...IMO another sleeper like Diamond District would be that new KEV BROWN- RANDOM JOINTS.

i'm going to keep posting stuff like this and pretend people care

need a hug chrono?

nah, i just need Curren$y

I present to you HUDSON MOHAWKE- BUTTER

http://rs18.rapidshare.com/files/286228721/hm.rar

Gracias.

oh shiiittt. nice one dwada.

Exciting possibilities.

good things happening in this thread

Damn to be honest I'm kinda disappointed w this Hudson Mohawke album..ne body else feel the same?? I feel like it's all over the place, even though his music is like that haha

how fucking great is this? getting excited for the casket.

Out of curiosity, Why does HudMo get so much attention around these parts - I don't see the same kind of interest in Teebs, Nosaj Thing, FlyLo, Samiyam, Rustie, Joker, Dorian Concept, Nocturnal, Cinnaman, Exile, Dr Who Dat?, Onra, Fulgeance, Debruit, Mono/Poly, Zomby, Mike Slott, Paul White, Bullion, DJ Maxximus, Made Up Sound, Herrmutt Lobby, Eskmo, Floating Points, Ras G, Lukid, Aardvark etc??

I’m not hating. Beat making is a real passion of mine and I just find it odd that we have this amazing spectrum of artists from the dirty digital experimentations of grime dudes like Terror Danjah through to analog funkopations of Dam and a DayGlo rainbow in-between but HudMo is the name I consistently see popping up in internet "Hip Hop" circles. Is it the way he is being marketed by Warp? Do other dudes just not get the same exposure? It’s like he's set up a cartel with indie-rap bloggers. Dude is very talented but there are so many other talented dudes making exciting electronic beat music right now.

Cheers for the link though Dwada, I really liked it on first listen - never really felt his solo stuff as much as the Heralds of Change releases but this is fun.

I was excited for Casket, until tracks started to leak and each sucked more than the last. now i'm just holding on to the hope that the rest isnt as bad.


And wow, that HudMo is bonkers. i knew it was gonna be wild but Butter really takes it to another level. I agree with dwada that its all over the place, but its kinda doing it for me. for all its hyper absurdity, it all sounds so nice, not to mention unique. i rarely descibe an album like this, but this thing is as joyful as any album ive heard. its like HudMo took aim at every pleasure center possible, and with Butter, hes firing on all cyclinders.

its gonna take awhile to digest for sure, but first impression is its bizarre and wonderful.

i definitely listen to almost all of those artists...but true...we don't really discuss them much here...i think HudMo got dropped in here once and people dug it.

i don't really tend to listen to tracks before the full album leaks normally....but I did hear the track with Kanye and I really dug it.

I take your point, but a number of those names do get thrown around these parts as well. i'd say FlyLo, Exile, Joker, Ras G and others all are well respected amongst hip-hop heads. also, i'm guessing the hip-hop connection comes from the fact that all of the above artists have worked with rappers, whereas some of the beatmakers you name (Zomby for instance) lean more heavily towards the electronic side. not that the two circles are so far off, but you know..

I'll also take some responsibility for reppin HudMo quite hard itt, but to be fair i found him underacknowledged in the electro thread. I mean, Dam and others are pimped pretty hard there, but Hudson seemed to be brushed aside far too often. in my eyes HudMo is fresh for being a genre-bender, dabbling in hip-hop and funk and glitch. While i may not always wanna sit through a Dam album, i still get shades of it here. Butter is a testament to this diversity, a true clusterfuck of different sounds and influences, and yet he pulls it all together in a way that works. So while i agree that others are doing great things and going unacknowledged, i still say he deserves all of the positive buzz hes getting. The kids got talent.

That's cool. I don’t come in here often so I probably just read some misrepresentative pages. I'll be sure to check back in for earnest discussion of the panoply of 21st Century beatsmiths and lively debate about their relative merits

I felt like that HudMo was super spastic and, like many others said, all over the place. Only one listen so far and I enjoy Zoo00OoM or however the hell you spell it.

And Bruegel, I'm not too familiar with a bunch of the artists you have mentioned, but I love all of the ones mentioned that I know. And we praise Flying Lotus pretty heavily (especially Vamos) and Onra is the man and I'm pumped for Exile's album coming out with Fashawn in a few weeks. Also, Ras G and the African Space Program's "Ghetto Sci-Fi" is amazing. I'll have to check out those other artists, as well.

Bruegel and others might enjoy this.



The Find Magazine and DJ Seano - State of the Art

1. Guts – Escuchame
2. Afta-1 – La Samba3
3. Onra & Quetzal – Arts & Policy
4. Quetzal – Morning Pleasure Interlude
5. Dert – Funky New World
6. Exile – In The Night
7. Samon Kawamura – All About You
8. Spon – Go!!!
9. Y Society – In Command
10. DJ Vinroc – Handl’n
11. Es Nine – Who I Am
12. 14KT – Gee Whiz
13. De La Soul – They Dont Know That Soul (B-Side)
14. Ras G & The Afrikan Space Program – Spacewayz!
15. Ruckus Robotics – A Child’s Introduction To Drums

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?zgoav2mtnf5

free download from thefindmag.com

That track with Kanye was ill, especially because it features yet another great Khalil beat. But yeah, every one since has gotten worse. Especially "I'm Good." It's really sad, but I have faith they can pull it together.

About the beatmakers discussion, I don't know many of the artists except Exile. Haven't given a listen to the Hudson Mohawke yet either. Exile's pretty great though. Not always great. Some of his beats are cool in a "wow he made a beat out of that weird-ass sample" but they're not actually pleasing to listen to. No doubt in my mind that his album with Fashawn will be straight fire, though.

The mixtape I've been listening to a lot is the Freddie Gibbs one, midwestgangstaboxcadillacmuzik. It's been gettin a lot of love, even a positive review on Pitchfork. It's vulgar as all hell but in a way that you can tell he's just being himself. Some of the best original beat selection I've heard in awhile on a mixtape, too. "Womb 2 the Tomb" is a great collab with Pill, another one of the most interesting gangsta rappers right now. "County Bounce" is my favorite right now.

Also, any of you guys Playboy Tre at all?

"Moving Dem Keys" is the best song i've heard in ages. It's incredibly powerful and emotional. The rest of the mix isn't as strong, buts its aight too. I can't wait to hear what he does next.

Check it here:

http://www.imeem.com/people/dM07r7p/music/...ed-by-ishereal/

Here's something you guys might find enjoyable.


Released on Rhymesayers, it seems to feature all of their prime signees (minus DOOM, of course). Pretty solid tracklisting, haven't listened yet though.

01. Ivan Tiririca (Intro)
02. Gititit Ft. Slug & Brother Ali
03. Mega Ft. Aceyalone Myka 9 & Abstract Rude
04. Caetano Veloso (Interlude)
05. The True & Living Ft. Raekwon & I Slef Devine
06. Here I Am Ft Phonte Brother Ali & The Grouch
07. Tema Do Canibal Ft The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble
08. Ivan Tiririca (Interlude)
09. Philly Boy Ft. Black Thought
10. Blood Drive Ft. Slug
11. A Day’s Work Ft. P.O.S.
12. Face It Ft. Toki Wright
13. Love Like That Ft. Aby Wolf
14. Hyldon (Interlude)
15. Blue Balls Ft. Blueprint
16. Eighteen To Twenty-One Ft. Murs
17. Call To Arms Ft. I Self Devine
18. American Nightmare Ft. Brother Ali & Scarface
19. Tom Ze (Outro)

^^ Just d/led that off rrt this morning actually, but havent given it a listen yet. Heard the track from 2db with Brother Ali and someone else and it was nice.

this is fucking insane. the hottest in the world no question. i can't vouch for this enough.

jumping on that curren$y now. i'll let you guys know what i think.

word of caution: it is pretty mixtapey, but the beat selection is incredible. "Bring Her Home" is a disco romp about threesomes. "I'm Just Dope" is basically dubstepping. gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous.

I'm surprised if you like that song you won't like other songs on the mixtape. I think it's quite fantastic, barring a few beats. The beat with the Eurythmics sample over and over again is grating, for example. But Tre's a great rapper and a good hook writer too.

Also, I'm definitely interested in that Curren$y. Is it an official album?

Agree that Tre delivers, but the production is way too spotty. That Eurythmics song you mention is a good ex, its just annoying. Tre deserves better than some canned electro to back him.


Also, anyone got this they can slip me...



i've been fiendin for it and had no luck so far. what i've heard sounds dopeee.

Oh baby baby. Finally leaked. Let's hope that Del is able to redeem himself. Everything from this album has sounded pretty solid so far, the single is already better than anything from his last two efforts. I've always liked Tame One, and I don't know anything about Parallel Thought.

Awesome cover, I think?