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

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Hahaha, I hadn’t noticed that

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This is off of Blac Sabbath by Blacastan, which is the topic this week for our Weekly Book (Album) Club.

If only so I can see how they get him/her inside Air Force One, yes.

Honestly, him dying is very real concern to me. If Republicans keep the House and he passes away, I can certainly see somebody trying to do something to Kamala Harris, as the Speaker of the House is next in line after the Vice President.

That said, I’d vote for Joe Biden if he was fucking 110, if the other option was Donald Trump. Or any Republican honestly.

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

Maybe one of these two? First is the video on a different channel, second is just the song without the video

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Not my GPU but my friend’s. He has nothing but good things to say about it. $600 USD which translates to ~£540, but obviously buying it over there the price might be different .

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.

I’ll check them both out, thanks!

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