The Illest of the Ill

So, firstly, I'd like to apologize for my recent dry spell of babbles. Seeing as I make about one every week now, and sometimes not even that frequent, I feel bad. Especially since my weekly babble doesn't normally have any quality. Well this one, I hope, should have some nice quality to it rather than being a brief complaint, a verse of an unfinished rap, or any other short shit that I put up here.

Now if you couldn't tell, this post is going to be about music. Besides just my usual, babbling about rap, I'd like to make a proclamation. MY BROTHER IS MOVING ON WITH HIS MUSIC CAREER. That looks a lot more special that it truly is. By him moving on, I mean he's making his debut open mic night at a restaurant near my house. Honestly, he's a pretty skilled G-tarist but I don't know what to expect. His usual is heavy music riddled with profanity, or atleast listens to. And his writing? Well I don't normally hear lounge type music, more of a screamer or a some rap song mixed with electric. He does have some mellowed out songs though. You can check them out here : (I'll put it in when I find it myself, he had it posted but he deactivated his facebook, or maybe blocked me but I doubt he blocked me)

So to the bulk of this post though, RAP. Yes, as you predicted I wanted to blab about the infamous genre that makes up most of what I listen to. Currently besides Flatbush Zombies and The Underachievers I've been listening to other not so well known rappers. By not so well known, I mean rappers that have never been mentioned here, or are still relatively new to being mentioned here. Also there's the new Eminem album, really loving it. Well it has a bit of a different tone in a lot of songs. I do like Bezerk and as of yet need to listen to the rest of the album. The tone in Rap God, which is still well written, is the one that I'm talking about. A low, slightly underlyingly depressed tone that makes me think he's not just bragging but moping also. As for the other rappers. Right now my preferences are for ScHoolboy Q and Ab-Soul. They've done work with Kendrick Lamar but they haven't achieved the hardcore publicity that makes rappers better known. There's also Joey Bada$$. All pretty sick rappers. Personally, of the two songs I've listened to by ScHoolboy Q, who I found through a Youtube Mix, are pretty sick. THere He Go and Collard Greens are nice. Of course, THere He Go is more of a bragging song, but Collard Greens is just a chill song where you could just drift off listening to. Ab-Soul's song Terrorist Threats is great. Especially the line, "If all the gangs in the world unified, we stand a chance against the military tonight" ScHoolboy Q and Ab-Soul are label mates with Kendrick Lamar, which explains the collaborations, but they also belong to a group called Black Hippy. As for Joey Bada$$ I can't pick out a specific song that I like by him, mostly because I listen to him on Youtube mixes and never looked at the titles, but he's done some nice work. Actually now that I look through my history, there's one he did with Captial STEEZ called Survival Tactics. Although he goes with a popular metaphor right now, the BITCH I'M A MARTIAN, thing I'd say he's pretty original. With the start after the gun shot I got hooked. Now the final rapper I have to talk about is Chance the Rapper, I haven't listened to much of him and still have to listen to more of him, as I do for the rest of the rappers, but the song he does with Hoodie Allen is pretty nice. Now that I think about it I need to download some YONAS also. Now for 5 or 6 videos.