Post by tinyfolk on Jun 12, 2009 15:16:58 GMT -5
A few dudes I've been into lately. Sorry for the weird ads on the youtube videos. I guess proboards does that?
Roach Gigz - Apparently Roachy Balboa has spent the past two years or so rappin' up a storm as half of bay area rap group Bitch I Go along with Lil 4-Tay (son of Yay legend Rappin 4-Tay), but now he's gone solo and really stepped it up. His mixtape comes out soon. For lovers of weird, batshit rappers who have more swagger than sense. Oh yeah and he's white, I guess.
Lil B - The Lil Boss has been a member of (the fun, ridiculous hyphy group) The Pack for years. But, uh, I guess something happened, because the self-proclaimed "Based God" (your answer is as good as mine as to what that means) has spent the past year doing a series of "based freestyles" that have been posted on each of his myspace pages (of which he has over 100). At some point in making these freestyles Lil B decided to eschew all the conventions of what rapping actually involves, and started doing some sort of weird rhyming one-man theater spoken word pieces over beats that didn't seem to make sense to anyone but him. Oh yeah, and they're absolutely delighful to listen to, though it's beyond challenging to try to wade through all the myspaces to hear it all. Either way, Lil B is a genius of some sort. Best I can figure out, the concept of being "based" is some sort of pseudo-spiritual, pseudo-moral, pseudo-sinful state that was invented by The Pack. Figuring out whether or not Lil B is serious is probably impossible, which is just the way I like it.
Gucci Mane - Gucci keeps on hearin' voices tellin' him to buy all kinds of Porsches. And they're gorgeous. With his Bart Simpson bling and earnest non-sequitors, Gucci Mane is kind of the Tracy Morgan of the rap scene right now, as far as I can tell. And it's gorgeous.
Roach Gigz - Apparently Roachy Balboa has spent the past two years or so rappin' up a storm as half of bay area rap group Bitch I Go along with Lil 4-Tay (son of Yay legend Rappin 4-Tay), but now he's gone solo and really stepped it up. His mixtape comes out soon. For lovers of weird, batshit rappers who have more swagger than sense. Oh yeah and he's white, I guess.
Lil B - The Lil Boss has been a member of (the fun, ridiculous hyphy group) The Pack for years. But, uh, I guess something happened, because the self-proclaimed "Based God" (your answer is as good as mine as to what that means) has spent the past year doing a series of "based freestyles" that have been posted on each of his myspace pages (of which he has over 100). At some point in making these freestyles Lil B decided to eschew all the conventions of what rapping actually involves, and started doing some sort of weird rhyming one-man theater spoken word pieces over beats that didn't seem to make sense to anyone but him. Oh yeah, and they're absolutely delighful to listen to, though it's beyond challenging to try to wade through all the myspaces to hear it all. Either way, Lil B is a genius of some sort. Best I can figure out, the concept of being "based" is some sort of pseudo-spiritual, pseudo-moral, pseudo-sinful state that was invented by The Pack. Figuring out whether or not Lil B is serious is probably impossible, which is just the way I like it.
Gucci Mane - Gucci keeps on hearin' voices tellin' him to buy all kinds of Porsches. And they're gorgeous. With his Bart Simpson bling and earnest non-sequitors, Gucci Mane is kind of the Tracy Morgan of the rap scene right now, as far as I can tell. And it's gorgeous.
