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

This music video always cracks me up, with the clips of the dude in the wig getting chased down. Him shaking in fear at 1:50 is some solid physical comedy.

What do you think is coming up behind it? I’ve been sort of feeling the same thing but I’m so out of touch with any popular music outside of rap that I don’t have any clue what to expect. My kids who listen to music heavily (18 and 15) either listen to rap or like…vaguely sad indie rock, so I’m very out of the loop.

I don’t spend a ton of time online, besides listening to music and posting here, but it has to be mostly old school guys I’d think. Like Nas and Lil Wayne. Though Wayne used to have his own little band of haters back in the day.

Of modern artists…maybe 21 Savage? I feel like I know people who don’t fuck with his music, but they acknowledge it is just personal preference.

That is just the internet though right? It is so easy for a few people to band together and get their voice amplified on here, even just a few loud haters can start a whole thing.

I’ve been listening to this guy, and the band he was in previously called Seeed. He does (and they did) sort of a electronic, reggae, rap mix. This is my favorite song of his but

Dancehall Caballeros when he was with Seeed is an sick dancehall/reggae track. I have been learning a bit of German, but it would for sure be enjoyable if you didn’t understand a single word.

Now I feel like I missed out on a cultural moment by not checking this when it first dropped.

“You had to be there” is a real thing and maybe this album just falls under that category.

This is the most recent album we’ve done so far, hoping people enjoyed it! I’d never listened to this album before last week, Cardi B isn’t my normal type of Hip Hop. Overall, this is the first album we’ve done for these threads that I thought was just kind of mediocre for me.

Started off strong, Get Up 10’s beat has me moving and starts off pretty interesting. Goes a bit off the rails topic wise as the song goes on but I still liked it. This is sort of the direction of the whole album. The entire album has the hardest beats, makes me want to put some subs in the trunk and drive around. Also there is Be Careful, which has a whole different, lighter vibe to the beat that was a breath of fresh air when it came on the first time. There is something to be said for Cardi’s cadence and voice too. She could probably rap some goofy shit and still sound good doing it. I don’t know if this is a skill you can train or if you have to be born with it but she has it.

Besides Get Up 10, I think my favorite tracks were probably Be Careful, Thru Your Phone and Bickenhead. Thru Your Phone was for sure the most interesting song to me. The topic, the hook and the emotion expressed really worked for me.

Least favorite tracks were Best Life and Money Bag. I really did enjoy Chance’s verse on Best Life, but I have a soft spot for Chance. Money Bag is just boring. It probably could have been saved if the beat went as hard as some of the earlier tracks on this album but here we are. Honestly, the entire album was just less interesting after Be Careful.

My whole thing with this album is that a lot of it is so uninteresting topic wise. Sometimes she brings up something interesting, like talking about being embarrassed by her teeth on Best Life and the whole start to Get Up 10’s, but otherwise she isn’t saying anything a million other rappers hadn’t said before. I guess that is the nature of making an album aiming for commercial success, you are probably going to stick to what has been proven to work.

Question for the end to build off of something I mentioned further up, did anybody else feel this album was really front loaded? I know artists frequently start off an album with the stronger tracks but I can’t figure out if I was just getting bored with the album or if this was a really bad case of it. I personally think Cardi is just an artist who works best on an individual song and can’t string together a whole album.

Honestly no, I’ve never been to anything close to this size. Usually my wife and I go to smaller shows in ~1000-2000 person venues.

It is for sure a different energy though. Small venues are nice because even from the back you are pretty close to the stage but the feeling of >15,000 people singing along with somebody live is sort of indescribable, you know?

Do you like to go to a lot of big shows like that?

I’d have killed to do something like that for senior week haha.

Weird question maybe, but did they have the Hurricane when you were there? And did it go way too fucking fast? I rode it with a friend and I thought I was going to die. Best ride there haha

EDIT: The pic isn’t of the actual ride, just the same type of ride at a different park. I couldn’t find a pic of the actual ride

I completely missed Wednesday this week! Travel has my internal calendar all messed up.

This is good stuff. Spanish rap always seems to flow very effortlessly. Does anybody know what the beat is sampling? I know I recognize that little 6 note loop that goes through the whole song but I can’t figure out where from.

That is a wild beat, I’d kill to hear somebody to flow over this in English so I could understand it as they went. Cool find!

Here is the lyrics translated if anybody is curious.

If Drake’s whole album was like this I’d be very excited.

That “not on no hetero vibe” bar needs to go though

Don’t have a good one on Lemmy for my area yet sadly, but you are probably right. It was pretty big though, they sold 50k tickets per day for all 3 days. I talked to people from as far away as Wisconsin and Texas, with most of the people there being from all up and down the east coast.

I was with my wife and some friends, so 7 of us total. Truth be told it was mostly my wife and I by ourselves though and then we just met with everybody at the AirBnB at the end of the night and talked with the other people. My wife is pretty hardcore so we were leaving before everybody else every day and getting back last every night haha.

And it was in Ocean City, so literally right on the coast. We were coming out of VA so we drove up the peninsula. It was a pretty fantastic location honestly. The little amusement park in the center was free for anybody attending the concert, except for a select few rides (giant slingshot most notably) so we were able to ride the Ferris Wheel and stuff if there was a gap in the shows we wanted to see.

I’ll check out both of those, thank you for the suggestion! The two weeks before Halloween are pretty traditional rap albums so maybe something kind of off the rails could be fun.

I’ll check out the Halloween Havoc tapes! Thanks for the suggestion. I can go with a classic if nothing else jumps out cause you are probably right about the general audience of this sub.

That said, the 2 albums before Halloween are both certified classics imo so we will see haha

It was a 3 day music festival in Maryland! It was right on the beach, two of the three stages you were standing in the sand. Artists there people are most likely to recognize are Jack Johnson, Alanis Morissette, Jimmy Eat World, Weezer and The Lumineers. Lots of other stuff too though. My favorite was Fitz and the Tantrums, though Jack Johnson’s set was crazy good. Man puts on a really good live show.

I am assuming he won’t be able to go to bed at a decent time. I wake up at 6:30am most days and I know I couldn’t go to bed at 6:30pm. If he woke up at 3pm, it would be a tall order to fall asleep before ~4am I’d figure. Which gives him ~3 hours of sleep.

Unrelated to this weeks album, who has suggestions for our October 31st thread? I wanted something horror-core to fit with Halloween, but I’ve never been in to that sub-genre of Hip Hop really. Or if anybody has a Halloween theme album that is legitimately good. Let me know. I don’t want to just look up “best horror-core rap albums” though I can do that too if nobody has any suggestions.

I am currently traveling and will have to update this later to be more thorough. Short version though, this is one of the albums that I used to listen to on repeat when I was in my “old school” phase. I ended up liking Naughty By Nature and 19 Naughty III better as albums, but this was my first Naughty By Nature album so I probably heard it more than those two combined. I mention this because I know I have some bias towards loving this album. That said, probably hadn’t listened to this in 10 years when I checked it out during my drive this weekend to prep for this week. I was pleased with how well it holds up, despite sounding very much of the mid 90s. I don’t know how something can sound so solidly “90s” and still not sound dated in 2023 but I feel that way about this album personally.

My favorite song is probably Craziest, though my wife hates it with a passion. Second favorite would be Klickow-Klickow. Least favorite song is probably Slang Bang, though I still like it. Something just has to be the worst, even if it is still good overall… Special shout out to the skits on this album. They were pretty standard in this era and I skip them on a lot of albums but not here. Special “why does this exist” to the track Shout Out because it sucks. I listened to this album 3 times this weekend and I didn’t want to skip tracks on principle, but this shit does not need to be here. I don’t call it my least favorite song because it barely qualifies as a song. I specifically remember leaving this track off when I burned myself a CD of this album as a teenager.