Just saw Spring Breakers today. As a simple experience, I think it's one of the best movies I've seen in a while. I love the cinematography and the soundtrack, it feels almost like a 90 minute music video. I thought the amount of repetition made it feel really hypnotic and dream-like, nearly every line some repetition. Also the fact that everything they did was so unreal, all the robbing without any real punishment, the exaggerated partying, the compound raid without either girl getting hit once. It's just a gigantic, sadistic, fantasy of Spraang Break Forevaaa.
As far as race issues go, I feel like Archie and his crew weren't really given enough attention for us to really feel anything about them. Except perhaps that they're the ones with a reason to do all this crime while the two girls are just indulging in some absolutely sadistic fantasy. Archie's whole "my baby gotta eat" line emphasized that: it might have felt little ridiculous, but Archie has a family to feed, while the two girls and Alien are basically robbing people so they can smell the money and use it to buy drugs and shit.
A really bizarre, fantastic movie.
Yeah, I wish we could get Doggystyle Snoop back, but that's probably not going to happen. That's why I was thinking I'd rather see him do country than Reggae, since at least that could bring out that drawl.
Copy Paster is just a blatant troll who says whatever he can to get people angry with him. I'd rather not have to see his idiocy, since it reduces my faith in human intelligence.
You have a consistent philosophy, so that's fine and I don't care. I think you're wrong, but I if that's what you think then fine. Though no-one's forcing you to read articles about pop music, so maybe you could skip all the articles about musicians you don't like. I do that with those articles about Pro Era or The Strokes or whatever.
Wait a minute, where is he shouting me out?
Just got the leak of the new album, "Beat The Shit" with Gunplay is so great. Have yet to go through the whole thing, though.
After looking at the cover for about the tenth time, I just realized that the birds are shitting all over. not a metaphor for the album though, because this is awesome.
I'm going to a Future concert in a month, and this is really encouraging. I just hope he's not one of those rappers who raps over recordings with their own voice, but I'm really excited.
http://www.xxlmag.com/news/2013/03/gucci-manes-management-claims-his-twitter-account-was-hacked/
Gucci's management is claiming he was hacked. Hopefully this means they'll resolve differences rather than beefing.
Also, the thing you bring up about how you could easily make a great label reminds me: what the fuck happened to great Southern rap labels? I mean now, when Rap has least pop crossover it's had in years, is exactly the time where we need a Rap-A-Lot or a No Limit to let these dudes sell their music on their own terms instead of having to deal with major label bullshit.
Yeah, I don't know how you're defining recent, but Trap Back was awesome. The track he did with Waka on that tape, "Walking Lick" along with "Get it Back" have both been on repeat for me at multiple points over the year, and the sequel just came out tonight, though I have yet to give it a full listen. Also the single he came out with recently "Hell Yes", had Gucci trying out the Future/Young Thug sort of auto-tune style, and it actually fits pretty well to my ears. But yeah, my biggest fear is that they both could escalate this to levels where it ends in some crazy violent shit and someone gets hurt. I guess Gucci has had plenty of beefs before that haven't ended up too bad, but a defection/firing from his own crew is a lot more intense than any of that.
Young Thug is probably going with Gucci, and I already like Guwop a little more, so I guess I'm team Gucci, but the fact that we need to take sides on this sucks.
Oh god, here come the Weezy haters. It's debatable whether Wayne was the best rapper of his generation, but he's changed the rap game in undeniable ways. He really was the biggest reason mixtapes have become so popular, and certainly the first to prove that mixtape hype could translate into sales for the studio album he was trying to promote.
Also, for that stretch from Carter 2 to Carter 3 he was one of the best rappers in the world, and even in the Hot Boys he was pretty great.
dude, homophobic youtube commentators are not part of rap culture, they are on every youtube video regardless of genre. there are maybe 5 comments I have seen on that entire website that are not completely braindead.
Honestly most rapper reactions to Frank Ocean's coming out were in support, across the board: his Odd Future buddies, Waka Flocka, Action Bronson, Russel Simmons, Cormega. Plenty of average people were homophobic, but Rap is defined by the people making the music, and a majority of those making the music aren't homophobes.
The entire thing where these assholes blame Rappers for spreading violence or materialism or homophobia is absolute horseshit. Rappers just talk about life as they see it, and if we actually got up off our asses and decided to help the communities in the ghetto there would be no Chief Keefs left for the Bill O'Reilly's of the world to whine about. And until you can prove to me that Macklemore actually criticizes anything that isn't directly related to Rap culture, he will continue to be just as backwards as O'Reilly in my mind.
Current E-40 is so much better than current Jay (He's also done a few songs with Kendrick, and I'm pretty sure this is the song where Kendrick talks about listening to Big Ballin wit my Homies). Also Scarface hasn't done anything in a little while, but isn't he supposed to come out with another amazing grumpy old-man album soon?
I just hear a lot of those sorts of generalizations in there. I mean, these are valid subjects to criticize, but first of all it feels like he brushes over the fact that every rapper comes from a different place and talks about different things, making it feel like he thinks rappers in general are homophobic. At this point in time, that's not even close to true. The Odd Future guys throw homophobic slurs around intensively, but outside of that the only examples I can think of currently or older conservative christian types.
But also, the main issue for me is that he's so focused on criticizing Rap culture in particular, as an outsider, to an audience of people who mostly aren't Rap fans. The fact that he wrote his anti-drug song about Syrup stands out to me. Here you have a guy whose audience is more likely to snort coke or do meth than sip syrup, and he decides to make a song criticizing a very specifically "Rap" sort of drug. This is where it starts to feel like some Bill O'Reilly shit. There are so many problems in America, with politics and violence and poverty, and here we have this middle-class pop-rapper so intent on criticizing Rap culture to an audience that mainly doesn't know shit about Rap, and soon they'll be criticizing Rap culture for all these social ills, just like their older, conservative, O'Reilly-watching counterparts have been doing forever.
I think it's ridiculous that I make similar points in both these posts, but people (or robots) apparently freak out when I talk about Waka Flocka. Anyway, I'm down for a fiery debate over Macklemore, and I promise I'll be moderately respectful.
Also, the whole generalization of rappers talking about their hats or whatever is just the sort of bullshit I believe that Macklemore spreads. Look at Kendrick, who's one of the most popular new rappers right now, and who takes on alcohol and poverty in a way where he doesn't act like he's above it.
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