Rap sucks & it makes me sad.
Lito! Lito! Lito!!!: Open Letter
Lil Durk - “Dis Ain’t What U Want” (Def Jam, 2013)
I can’t do no shows ‘cause I’m terrified of my city / they say I terrify my city
Pusha T - ”Numbers On The Board” (GOOD, 2013)
And on the subject of beats that seriously fuck shit the fuck up here is Don Cannon scratching all of the old Neptunes itches with a Roc Marcy box cutter. It’s just too bad he went and wasted it on Pusha’s sad bag handler second childhood.
It helps if you imagine that Push is reciting all of his taunts into a mirror.
Jeremiah Jae & Oliver The 2nd - “Billy Kid” (Hit+Run, 2013)
This beat is seriously fucking me the fuck up right now.
Starlito - “Money Cacti” (Grind Hard, 2012)
Tryna change and simultaneously stay the same
Fat Trel - “Fuk Yo Life” (Youtube, 2013)
More filter madness from 12 Hunna. This recent wave of overtly dynamic production coming from and around the GBE camp has been exhilarating. As recently as a year ago Keef and them were still rocking over tracks that basically operated like on/off switches - the beat drops, the beat cuts, the beat drops again - and now it feels like so much is happening even when not much is happening. There’s an overwhelming internal motion to this style that’s sort of unprecedented for rap production.
Trel sounds pretty subdued for a song about fucking and taking lives but whatever. If he continues to rock with this caliber of beats for SDMG then all will be right with the world.
Quez f/ Lou - “Regular Thing” (Mixtape, 2013)
Here is a fun little song in which Quez from Travis Porter trades bars with Lou Williams, who is still striving to snatch that Best Rapping NBA Player Of All Time But Not Exactly A Great Rapper plaque off AI’s wall. He really said “my check signed by David Stern.”
Suga Free & Pimpin Young f/ Nate Dogg - “15 Minutes To 5” (Empire, 2013)
Suga Free is a national treasure.
Que f/ Migos - “Young N***a” (Mixtape, 2013)
Putting aside the the fact that the title is such a gross cliche that it was parodied before it was even imagined, this track goes. It’s like “All Gold Everything” on “Karate Chop” juice.
