Eminem - Killshot

Artist: Eminem
Song: Killshot
Album: Single (2018)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language: Strong

Well I would be a bad blog if I didn't highlight the response to Rap Devil that Em dropped yesterday.  Like, yo, this is a brutal song.  I knew I had said some really solid thing about MGK's track, but there's no way it held up to what Eminem had to say.  It's a shame, but Eminem is an incredibly literate person who is ready to throw a dictionary at you, and he did here.

I look forward to seeing how this develops, but realistically this is probably the last entry in this beef.

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Gucci Mane - I Got The Bag

Artists: Gucci Mane feat. Migos
Song: I Got The Bag
Album: Mr. Davis (2017)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language: Strong

So I just love taking any moment I can to promote my own stuff, so here's a plug at my podcast!

The entire episode (the best one we've done yet actually), my friend Jackson talked about how he had just rewatched Austin Powers.  I've never seen it, but I'm generally familiar with the idea of it.  Anyway, he just kept slipping into The Voice and saying baby.  At the end of the episode he started trying to sing this song's hook, but in the Austin Powers voice.  It was hella amusing, I might try and get it put together honestly, a crappy recut of sorts.

The song is really good as well, I'm starting to become a bigger fan of Migos, and I feel like all of Gucci's new projects are pure gold.

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Eminem - Not Afraid

Artist: Eminem
Song: Not Afraid
Album:
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language: Strong

Freaking heck, hi, my name is Noah and I can't get a post out on time to save my life.

But for real, I'm super sorry about that.  Tomorrow's will be out on time, I promise.

I figured today I'd feature one of the references MGK made in his diss track.  I kinda like it, and it's a cool message he's coming with, ya know?  Good song.

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MGK - Rap Devil

Band: Machine Gun Kelly (MGK)
Song: Rap Devil
Album: Single (2018)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language: Strong

This is kinda dumb, but I'm super happy right now cause there's some more heavy rap beef going down.  We had Drake and Pusha T just a month ago, and now we have some legit bad blood flowing between MGK and freaking Eminem.  Known angry individual, Eminem isn't one that usually takes part in stuff like this anymore, but he decided to take offense.

I was gonna post Eminem's track first, but it's been a disaster trying to find a good copy of the song for streaming.  It's called Not Alike and can be streamed on like, Spotify, but I can't find a good video right now.

Yo, such a good song though, MGK handles the whole thing since his initial dig at Eminem was back in 2012.  So, like, that was old news.  His comeback I feel is on a better track, and he doesn't get so caught up in the kind of stuff Eminem does like throwing out syllables all over the place.

I dunno man, I liked Eminem's track, but MGK seems to have taken it in the same way that I would by just throwing back insults and not really taking it too seriously.  In the song at least, I can't wait to see where it goes to next.

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21 Savage - X

Artist: 21 Savage feat. Future
Song: X
Album: Savage Mode (2016)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language: Strong

Well here I am, falling back into my heavy Hip Hop rotation from 2016 and 17.  I had managed to put "hood Noah" to bed for a while just cause I wasn't around people that gave a crap about this music, but I've been listening to it again recently and it's just been so fun.

I love the beats, the good ones that just smoothly flow are great to have on in the background when I'm working on stuff, and some of them have some heavy emotions behind them.

Like this one, 21 is clearly shook up about some breakup in his past, and I feel like this is a cool window into his coping with it by just showing off what's he's attained from his Rap career up to this point.  Giving context, this album is when he really took off.  It had a couple strong hits on it, and he partnered with Metro Boomin', one of the bigger producers in the Trap community.

I dunno, it's just kinda cool, ya know?

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Gucci Mane - Met Gala

Artist:  Gucci Mane feat. Offset
Song: Met Gala
Album: Droptopwop (2017)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language: Strong

As a fan of Gucci's work, I feel like it's a decent time to throw one of his songs back up here again, epseically since this is 15 hours late in going live, haha

The way this video is edited at times makes it really hard to watch, it's super trippy.  I'm a fan of the style, it's just difficult to keep track of anything since the image looks like it's bleeding into other images left and right.  I watched through the whole thing to see if I could catch a glimpse of his house arrest anklet, because most of his videos that were filmed in his house were done when he was under house arrest.  Couldn't spot it though, so that probably means it was filmed after.

Super solid beat though, and Offset taking the first half of the song gives us a really strong start.

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Eminem - Till I Collapse

Artist: Eminem feat. Nate Dogg
Song: Till I Collapse
Album: The Eminem Show (2002)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language:  Strong

Gotta love some old Eminem, yeah?  Not a huge fan of his newer stuff, but these older tunes are ones I can get behind.  I've tried to like his newer stuff since I'm a firm believer in moving forward and not holding the past on a crazy pedestal.  That being said, some older things are just better, and Eminem's career is a perfect example of that.  I like angry Eminem, and unfortunately drugged out angry Eminem is better than sober angry Eminem.

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Tech N9ne - Roadkill

Artist: Tech N9ne feat. Excision
Song: Roadkill
Album: Special Effects
Genre: Rap, Dubstep

Today I felt like some driving music that'd wake up up would be a good call.  Spent time with the extended family last night and it absolutely wiped me out, so here's something to get me going today.

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Childish Gambino - Redbone

Band: Childish Gambino
Song: Redbone
Album: Awaken, My Love! (2016)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop

So I've been thinking for a little while now, and I think it's time to wrap up this project.  Come September this marks a 4 year run, and I feel like it's a good time for it all to come to a close.  While I still love exposing people to new music, I also feel like my main passion has shifted, you know?

I guess I just love audio as a media outlet a little more now.  The fact that I get to interact with friends of mine while I do it is just a blast, and I really enjoy audio editing as a whole.  I feel kinda bad since it's so far been an uninterrupted 1417 posts we've had here (or so my spreadsheet tells me), but it just feels like a good time to stop.  It's a new time in my life, and as long as I'm changing things I may as well change this too, yeah?

We're gonna end at either the anniversary date in September, or on New Years Eve as the last day.  Feel free to make your opinion on that one known, I'll happily take it into consideration.

Enjoy this kinda sad sounding song, haha

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Lil Pump - Esskeetit

Artist: Lil Pump
Song: Esskeetit
Album: Esskeetit (single, 2018)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language: Strong

While I won’t for a minute try to say Lil Pump is a conventionally good musician, I find him to be incredibly enjoyable to listen to.  There’s something about his simple and repetitive music that’s just attractive to me, ya know?

This song for example, it’s such a plod the Pump just mumbles his way through.  Despite that I just love it, and I’m not even sure why.  I assume it’s cause it’s fun to listen to dull repetitive music to turn your brain off for a bit.

I re-wrote this like 3 times now as I changed songs, but when I went to get the video link for D Rose I found this newer single instead.  It's actually super catchy, though I think that not including the obvious feature of Smokepurpp is sad, considering his catch phrase is Esketit.

In other news, I’m writing this post while in my first laundromat.  It’s quite a time to be sure.  It’s 12am, the place is flooded with fluorescent light, and I have no internet connection, so it’s a pretty bomb time.  Oh, and there’s a lot of country music playing, but not any of the artists I happen to like.  Guess I should have expected this moving way out to as small a town as I did, but still, haha

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2 Chainz - Ghetto

Band: 2 Chainz
Song: Ghetto
Album: Daniel Son; Necklace Don
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop
Language: Strong

I wanted to throw out one of my favorite rappers real quick, the one and only 2 Chainz.  I'm not sure what exactly it is about him, but there's a lot of his stuff that I've found I really enjoy.  Shoutout to my dude Luis for helping me experience more of his music that the 2 or 3 songs I had heard a few years back.

I remember watching one of those Mean Tweets clips that 2 Chainz was featured on, and they said he looked "like a whack ass Whoopi Goldberg", which I just can't stop thinking of every time I see a picture of him.

So yeah, I'm moving today!  I'm gonna be moving out to where the barbershop is, which I'm absolutely loving.  I know there's no way my car is gonna be able to swing the 40 minute drive on unplowed roads in the winter, so I'm pretty pumped about this.  Rent is cheap, I'll have privacy to record stuff still, I'm excited.

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Tupac - California Love

Artist: Tupac
Song: California Love
Album: Single (1996)
Genre: Rap, Hip Hop

Woo, it's a bad night y'all, this is gonna be a little half effort.  I'll make up for it with the album review this weekend (that you should totally vote for here)

Music video trivia!  There's some stories that, while filming this video and scouting locations, Dr. Dre came across Burning Man.  There's letters and stuff where the experience was talked about.  This is FALSE, the letters are fake, dude hadn't even heard about it till the last 10 or so years.

I've had problems finding albums of Tupac's on Spotify.  I've realized that's probably because a lot of his music was released as singles and not albums, so most of what you find in the early ages are Greatest Hits and the like.

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