Turntech Talk: Hiphop General

A thread to talk everything hip hop! Share the music you love and the music you hate, dig into the lyricism and gossip about the news-as-of-late, push your personal projects -- put it all on the plate! #################### As a starter, here's 3 tracks I like: Mick Jenkins -- Wars and Rumors of War

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=JHAumc-wjFE At the start of the year, Joey Bada$$ made a song called The Ruler's Back taking shots at (the conversation around) Kendrick Lamar post-beef and post-GNX, saying there'd been "too much West Coast dick lickin'" lately, asserting that Joey was going to correct things. Amid some heated LA responses, Mick (from Chicago) simply replied that Joey's track was not strong enough to support that kind of talk and threw out a very cool, very dense freestyle dismissing basically everybody involved in the beef and positioning himself as the real MVP -- the track succeeds where Joey failed, imo. "PLACEHOLDERS OUT HERE CLAIMING RULER, WE GOING YARD // FERRIS BEULLER GOT NO REGARD FOR THE NEW SCHOOL, I'M SO APPALLED" is a good summary. Ominous beat courtesy of Smino. JPEGMAFIA & Danny Brown -- God Loves You

https://jpegmafia.bandcamp.com/track/god-loves-you Goofy ass dirty talk from Danny on Peggy's otherwordly gospel beat. "IF YOU ON YOUR PERIOD, CALL ME MOSES -- CAUSE I'M ABOUT TO SPLIT THAT RED SEA" is precisely the kind of sacrilegious audacity I'm here for DOECHII -- ALTER EGO (feat. JT)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tJkPh2vluFQ Her radio hits this year have been more in the boom-bap and pop lanes, but I got introduced to Doechii rapping over this kickass house cut that dips into some 90's synths. Really precise control of the aggression dial: Doechii barks over shotgun blasts, JT delivers her contempt in a low drawl, and Doechii returns crooning over luxurious strings to assure you that this aggression is just her Alter Ego. And between verses the chorus taunts maniacally "NANANANANA BOOM BOOM BITCH YOU DEAD TO ME!!!". Good, good shit