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This is enjoyable, just a little something something on kanye. For the video they spell it "kanYe" with a capital "y". Is that a thing? I've never seen it done that way and frankly I don't really dig it. Unless that's how you actually spell it of course, in which case, I can't take back that you know I don't like it but forget it, it's none of my business. Before you watch this video make sure you keep in mind that though it's fun listening to what music journalists have to say about kanye, don't take anything nerds say about rap seriously. They don't know how to feel music. They just listen and think about it through a nerd prism and get all the ideas wrong. Look at how happy they are when they're talking about kanye though.

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Truth is that montreal has had various moments in the sun. There was the era when we were the go to city if you wanted some pretentious indie rock music. There was also the montreal beatmaker boom from a couple years back, though that may still be happening, I couldn't tell you. Unfortunately though, ever since I stepped off the plane from north carolina like 15 years ago the rap scene has been stagnant and truthfully, generally untalented. It's definitely worth pointing out that I'm strictly talking about the english rap scene. I have no real gauge as to the quality of french rap because, well, I never listened to it. This is for several reasons but the two most important ones are,  A: I don't speak french and B: Their flows were terrible. Here we are in 2016 though and it looks like we're finally coming into our own. In fact we got a bunch of people who are actually doing some real good sh*t. I was inspired to do this mix/blend after I began seeing some montreal compilations popping up around the internet. The problem was that I wasn't seeing any of my sh*t on them. I don't want to go full kanye or anything but the idea of a montreal rap conversation without me involved is laughable. It should be noted however that I'm not laughing. Anyway, here it is, hope you dig that sh*t.

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I've been with this boogie sh*t since I first heard "bitter raps". He particularly kills this freestyle right here. This is how it's done. Where in the hell was this recorded though? The sonic quality is f**king crazy. Sounds like a solid steel bunker party. I saw an australian movie on netflix with a scene in a bomb shelter right under where a wild end-of-days party was going on. It wasn't a bad film. I'll let you know what it's called when I remember.

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She goes by the name of outrageous karina. She's from san jose and I've considered it but I don't think that's what makes her outrageous. I'm all about that second verse with the rap personally, I'm glad we've finally reached a point where women can rap about lady things, as opposed to when they used to only be permitted to rap about lady parts. You know, their vaginas and such. Also, the quickest way to get hella respect from me is to do something like that long ass echo at the end.

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Remember when chuck inglish was in the cool kids?  They ended up being a weird group historically speaking, having the distinction of being one of those kinds of artists who never really took off in a major way and yet are silently responsible for huge shifts in culture. I wonder how many of those kinds of people have existed? it's hard to quantify, being that sneakiness is such an big part of it. The way the current hip-hop fan dresses is like a f**king straight line back to the cool kids. The way the average person dresses is a straight line to hip-hop. You do the math. In a world where people seem to be more concerned with fashion than any era I've been a part of, the cool kids should be gods. There should be statues erected in the streets with f**king 20 foot supras. Their breakout internet hit "black mags" dropped in 2007. Soulja boy's "crank that" dropped in 2007. Look at that sh*t! One time I was in a band with two punk dudes and I swear to god, the only rap music they seemed to know was the cool kids. I wasn't really with it at the time, too much nostalgia for a forward thinking motherf**ker like me. Yet here I am cosigning this track right here. I guess I just didn't relate to that other particular brand of nostalgia. This I can get behind. A 12 year old me wasn't riding bmx's, a 12 year old me was watching bass music videos and fantasizing about freaknik. I never figured out how to order one of the videos off the internet without alerting my parents, though in hindsight, I don't think it would have been a thing.

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Let me tell you what my favorite sh*t is. I love when a hook sounds kind of funny the first time it runs. You're just not entirely sure about it you know. It's sort of on the verge of being dope but there's something a little bit strange about it. And then then it rolls around a second time and boom that motherf**ker bangs and somehow you know all the words already. I love that sh*t.

Here's miguel for a column called "The toughest song I wrote". What it is exactly that keeps miguel perennially overlooked is beyond me but he's got to figure that sh*t out, I don't know if you've heard his last album "wildheart" but it's pretty damn good. Unfortunately the song he chooses for the column is easily the worst on the album. I wondered if I should hate on a song about the pains of growing up mixed race but considering I fit the description, I'm going to give myself a pass. The article is still worth reading though haha.

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This is some vintage lana del rey right here. California! Now with 808's! Remember when lana del rey dropped during that "indie" boom? She had those video's that she purportedly made herself on her macbook with found footage and photobooth or whatever, but then it came out she was on a major label and all the nerds felt so betrayed? hahahaha. I read a year or so ago about the person who actually made those video's, I forget who though. I'm not a video dude. Then again I've always been a sucker for some slow over exposed stuff so I do dig this one. Supposedly that's father john misty as the main fella there. Whoever father john misty may be.

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I've been having lots of conversations about timbaland recently, which believe me, is as unusual for me as it is for you. There's been conversations about his merits as a rapper (divided opinions), conversations about his contribution to pop music (more than anyone has the right to ask for), to one particularly uproarious laughing fit with my lady centered around the difference in his attitude from jermaine dupri (jermaine's all about getting respect for what he's done, timbo's more like "fuck everything I've done, I'm dope now!"). While all that was going on timbaland actually went reinvented himself. This sh*t is dope. I don't know where these dudes are from but they're seriously old school atl flowing like a motherf**ker on here; And I wasn't really watching the video but judging from the thumbnail, yeah timbo is still making those faces.