This video is half the reason I started liking Waka Flocka. Shit is so funny to me

But pretty much only on !hiphopheads@sopuli.xyz

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Not somewhere I had considered looking but we have one nearby, I’ll check it out

I was actually looking in to that last night. I’ll probably try it once but I do wonder if the time it would take would be worth the money saved.

This is a neat idea, I’ll give it a shot next time we have some!

We are very much not local, but I see they have some stuff 20% out so we might check it out! Thank you!

I’ve experienced that at a friend’s house and I don’t prefer it over just using our existing wax burner, if we are going to do something flameless. They were very pleasant smelling though!

This is the route that we go too actually, I just hate having to wait for sales haha

Honestly, we normally burn them for ~6-7 hours at a time when we light them. We both work from home and I’ll usually light it up the first time I get up from the computer. It doesn’t happen with nicer candles, but some of the cheaper 1 wick ones we get from Walmart or Aldi will tunnel like that even with the long burns.

Megan is just sort of eh to me normally but I love the production on this. Wish more artists would do rock/metal elements on their beats. Whoever produced this killed it.

I really like Tierra, she is always doing something different. The Pop/R&B/Rap trio of EPs she dropped were super fun.

On topic, the music box sample on this really shouldn’t work, but I love it.

This is a busy day/week for me at work, so I’ll have to keep this short.

This album is very much a product of the time, so before I start I’ll mention some obvious stuff that doesn’t hold up super well. The beats can be repetitive and the rhymes/flows, my modern standards, are terrible. If a modern rapper came out sounding like this, nobody would buy that album.

Now that that is out of the way, I love this album. When I first got in to rap (outside of weird underground stuff), this is the sort of stuff I listened to. I was in my “modern rappers just rap about bitches and money, old rapers rapped about real stuff” phase. While I outgrew that phase, it is nice to hear some blatantly political rap. I checked and this was the fifth best selling rap album of 1988, beaten by “Straight Outta Compton”, “Eazy-Duz-It”, “He’s the DJ, I’m the Rapper” and “Life Is…Too $hort”. Not bad to be behind NWA, Eazy-E, Will Smith (and DJ Jazzy Jeff) and Too $hort. I also fucking love the scratching on some of these beats. That old school sound of a DJ scratching records always gets me hype.

Favorite track is Bring the Noise and Show 'Em Whatcha Got. Bring The Noise is a classic and I just really like what they did with the saxophone sample on Show 'Em Whatcha Got.

Much appreciated! That will be part of my weekend I guess

Musically, these Griselda guys really don’t miss

Peedi Crakk

He is new for me, any particular project you would recommend to get started?

My top 2 are Lil Wayne and Waka Flocka Flame. Wayne speaks for himself. He is one of the best to ever do it and has like 20 or 30 mixtapes. I heard T-Wayne for the first time recently and it reminded me how good Wayne is.

Waka is different though. Guy doesn’t rap like Wayne, guy gets you hyped. He only had 3 albums but almost as many mixtapes as Wayne. Also worth noting is that while his last album was in 2012, but he has dropped at least 10 mixtapes since then. He doesn’t need the money, he just loves making tapes. A surprising amount of them are on Spotify too if you have never given them a listen. I won’t pretend they are all amazing, but I recommend I Can’t Rap and Twin Towers. Again, don’t expect lyrical rap. Waka is for when you need to get unreasonably hype.

Honorable Mention to Nicki Minaj. She is mostly known for her pop-rap stuff, but she raps hard on Sucka Free,

I was looking up Daveed Diggs after seeing this. He has done so much. He has awards for rapping, acting (stage and TV), writing (TV and Movie), and was nominated for a Hugo. Some people are just better. He is basically a less famous Donald Glover, which I mean as a huge compliment.

Also, I listened to Visions of Bodies Being Burned last night, but I had my wife with me this time. I really enjoyed it, in the same way I liked There Existed an Addiction to Blood. Meaning I found it kind of unpleasant and enjoyed that haha. She hated it sadly, but was nice enough to sit with me through it anyways. I’ll have to listen to it by myself at some point because I think her being there made the experience less nerve-wracking than it would have been otherwise. Favorite track was probably Pain Everyday or Enlacing. My wife’s was Check the Lock I think. I think she liked it most because it was a relatively straight forward rap song.

Gorillaz always has great shit when they work with rappers

Thank you for making the recommendation! I almost went with something classic like Three6, since @mob@sopuli.xyz suggested and I knew I’d like listening to it, but I’m glad I gave this a shot. It was very different from what I normally listen to.

My kid has soccer practice again tomorrow so I’ll probably listen to Visions of Bodies then haha