I've really turned the corner on rocky I think. When he first came out, I liked where he was coming from cause I could tell we liked the same music but it felt like he was just regurgitating sh*t at me. I don't know what changed really. I do know that with all this talk about the ownership over the term/idea of "wavy", rocky is the only motherf**ker out that I would really classify as wavy for real. Or wavy af, if you will. Maybe it's just something intrinsically harlem? who knows, let's not pretend either of us do. This sh*t is dope, though it didn't need that third verse. I like to give a grace period of two to three songs where I don't judge you for congratulating yourself for trying to be different. Hahaha. You know what I mean? you know how many rappers congratulate themselves for trying to be different? a million rappers connected by this one strand, this one common denominator. As soon as you stop doing this one thing, you finally become that one thing you've been hollering.
I was watching this movie that I'm not naming because it was trash and this song was playing in the background during a sex scene. My good shit sensors are remarkably on point and I was like "what's that british bullsh*t right there?" and I looked it up and here it is, in it's actually norwegian glory. I love music in english by non-native english speakers, sometimes you get weird turns of phrase or sh*t that just doesn't translate right but ends up sounding dope. Not saying that's the case here, but whatever, you get it.
I never thought I'd be all up on an earl sweatshirt song. With me not usually being with that rappity-rap sh*t and all that. But this is dope, homeboy's new york flowing all over this sh*t. There's definitely various clues as to who produced this and they lead to either the alchemist or some other motherf**ker that really loves the f**king alchemist.
Try this sh*t out. Next time you're watching the aux cord as if it's a snake about to fall off a cliff and you finally get your chance, come back and play this joint right here. Halfway through, your people will probably say "oh shit, who is this?" and you'll say "tree". Next time you find yourself with that aux in your grubby hands again, come back here and play this track again. If your people say "oh shit, who is this?" don't f**k with them no more.
ooohhh sh*t, kano's back! I remember when I first heard kano, in the days when you had to be searching for a british rapper to ever hear a british rapper. I'm telling you it was not easy to find a british dude that wasn't rapping double time, and I was officially over that around then. Jay z had recently cemented his position as the f**king best to ever do it and they were calling him "the uk's jay z" and so you know, that was a good cosign. Eventually he rediscovered his grime/garage? roots and I discovered guitars and that was that, until jay lindsay put me on to the tv show "top boy" in which he had/has? a principle role. If you haven't seen that shit you're bugging. It's been three years since the last season but there were two years between the first two, so who knows. The british are wild with their tv shows man, 3 episodes a season, years between seasons and all that crazy sh*t, absolutely no respect for the audience. That's all whatever though cause IT'S 2016 AND THIS SONG IS CRAZY! kano's still rapping double time but I've come to terms with it. My own issues man, my own issues.
Is morly the best thing to come out of minneapolis since prince? I couldn't tell you, at this point I've only heard this one song and I haven't researched who's from minneapolis. I do know that this track goes from good to f**king beautiful at around a minute forty-seven. Don't skip to it though, you need the backstory.
New future?! I think it's his sixth project in the realm of two years, which is pretty much definite proof that this motherf**ker is crazy. Allow me to help if you're starting to find it hard to differentiate between his sh*t. That song right up there is a jam. This song is perfect for when it's time to punch faces. This song will probably be your/my favorite eventually. And in my experience, this song is the kind you make usually riiiiiiight before taking a break from drugs.
My second favorite TDE-er right here. This beat is f**king great, very reminiscent of style of rap production they don't do anymore, along the lines of some pre-"crossroads" bone thugs n harmony or even "the diary" era scarface. By the time that chorus kicked in I was fully with it. There's just an earnestness or something in this motherf**ker's voice that really gets me.
This is the first track we released as DEEPHEAD. Drugs part one is a lil kim song from the hardcore album. We all loved the original song when we were kids, but it's one of those joints, the f***ing nineties man, where the first verse keeps going, and going, and going and it loses hella steam. You're pretty much about to hit that dreaded fast forward button and sit in silence for thirty seconds when then the hook kicks in and it's f**king amazing again. I'm not saying ours is better, I mean there can't be a part two without a part one and all that, but ours doesn't lose any motherf***ing steam.