Fly Anakin is on the tour too

what’s that video where they’re all rapping in the kitchen

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Cool mavi interview, dude tears up in the middle cause mavi dropping hella gems lmfao. Idk if posted

New tape by Goya Gumbani

Oh wow first time hearing this lol

what’s everybody’s top 5 albums of the year from these artists? I got:

1. Navy Blue - Navy’s Reprise
2. Liv.e - CWTTY+
3. Mavi - END OF THE EARTH
4. maassai - With The Shifts
5. MIKE - Disco!

Gumbo’! and True Sky aren’t quite hitting for me but I still love Siifu and AKAI

and what’s y’all’s hopes for ‘22?

I’m hoping for new projects from Maxo, Slauson, and Standing On The Corner

I’d also love for KeiyaA and Liv.e to drop too if they’re ready

Disco! is probably my favorite, followed by Navy's Reprise

pretty much what you said, incredibly hypefor Slauson and SOTC always. Next Keiyaa project prolly gon be wild, and Liv.e also super promising after that amazing single

Earl album (obvs) + Mike x Navy also among my most anticipated, plus Mavi album

top 10

Half God
Navy's Reprise
End of the Earth
BLP2021
This Thing of Ours
Gumbo'!
Negro Deluxe (+ s/o FlySiifu's Deluxe)
Disco!
True Sky
With The Shifts

should also give that Moor Mother album and liv.e EP another listen

not sure if this was posted itt yet, rapper/producer who's on tour with MIKE atm. not completely clicking with me tbch but interesting sound and cover art is hard

semiratruth.bandcamp.com/album/i-got-bandz-for-the-moonlandin

also reminder that today is bandcamp friday, good opportunity to add some tracks / projects to your library and support 🤝

had to google if slausons vergangenheitsbewältigung was this year wtf time flies

hope I still get a ticket for Le Guess Who sunday to see FlySiifu (and Faust, Klein, Claire Rousay ) for sure seeing Negro 6' tho and L'Rain, Keiyaa, Pa Salieu + so so many amazing artists not ready.

anyone going as well?

ok bless ticketswap this was almost too easy to manage

Drumless is a style of Hip Hop production pioneered in the early 2010s characterized by a lack of drums or minimal, subtle percussion typically built around a single, looped sample. Unlike most hip hop music defined by its strong percussive and rhythmic elements, the instrumentals of drumless are stripped down to the bare sample without many additional components. While other sample-based hip hop is traditionally produced by sampling and looping the strong percussion break section of a song, producers of the drumless style tend to rely more on samples that lack heavy percussion or with completely absent drums. The production also lacks the typical use of a drum machine or the addition of heavier kicks, hi-hats, snares, or basslines to reinforce the beat of the original sample. The percussion, if present, is usually left untouched from the original sample and occasionally filtered out from the audio mix.

The style has its early roots in the 1990s and 2000s with the production of the RZA, whose beats would occasionally consist of a single, looped Soul sample with minimal percussion or no additional musical components. The stripped-down post-Boom Bap soulful production and soft percussion of Madlib and The Alchemist's beats, in particular, were also significant influences on the style. The Alchemist became a prominent figure within the genre and had his hand in producing a number of notable songs and albums in the drumless style. Another notable early example is Jay Electronica's Act 1: Eternal Sunshine (The Pledge) which consisted entirely of drumless, looped film score samples.

The genre came to form in the early 2010s with the music of rapper-producers Ka and Roc Marciano, whose albums Grief Pedigree and Reloaded consisted mostly of unaltered loops of 1970s soul and Rock music with soft or minimal percussion and Gangsta Rap lyrics revolving around street tales of urban crime, d****, and violence. The style became a popular sound in the second half of the decade among a number of other gangsta rappers, particularly 'coke-rap' artists whose lyrics revolved around cocaine manufacture and trade, as exemplified by the works of artists associated with the Griselda Records label, most notably Westside Gunn and Boldy James. Producers such as The Alchemist, Preservation, and V Don developed the sound further by relying on samples with near-absent percussive elements. Veteran west coast producer DJ Muggs became a prominent figure in the genre, having prolifically produced numerous collaborative projects with a number of different rappers within the style during the late 2010s and early 2020s. The drumless sound also became popular among some Abstract Hip Hop and Experimental Hip Hop artists, including Killah Priest, Earl Sweatshirt, and Navy Blue, who drew samples from a wider, more eclectic variety of sources.

thought it was stupid at first because I honestly never heard that used before but apparently Roc Marci has for years, as have (at least as far as I can verify through twitter search) Jay Versace, Nicholas Craven and Alchemist...

honestly, this does help highlight a sound which is very much integral to this scene tbh (particularly through the influence of Navy) and it's lowkey the best chart we have now to find more in this lane, although it only covers one of many sounds. It is probably the most prominent tho?

what do you guys think about this? Most of MIKE's stuff only qualifies as an influence, I think it'll still take some time before we have a label for what he's doing

@marcusg @DwindlingSun @Untitled @justynbass @thevoyce @Vox @deepsleep @Notmyfirst @sentient_sherm_bag @sabbatical_ @TRiLLA @mothership @Mama_Sweatshirt @AmoryBlain @cotton_dockers @corbin @SonOfNkrumah @MURKY @CilviaDemo

its a good descriptor but bad name imo

I saw someone call Mike's style Lo-Ny and thought that was hard as s***

It’s just Neo-Dust….

Drumless doesn’t even sound cool :(

that whole lo-fi label in regards to hip-hop is pretty damn cursed tho because of anime girl chill-hop livestreams (and the fact we have "lo-fi hip-hop" as a genre on rym now, meaning chill-hop)

yeah something like "neo-boom bap" wouldn't be bad to describe that whole Marci, Griselda, Alchemist lane. Though honestly you could also just call it boom bap it's not like it's that neo

that particular strain of experimental, glitchy production MIKE is doing still needs a name tbh