babylon sherm

2y

Lmfao nah man 30 is on the horizon and closing in fast

babylon sherm

2y

I mean it’s truly indefensible but I’ll try regardless:

On a personal level, I just have such deeply fond memories of it. It’s a perfect right place, right time thing where I had just moved to New York for college as it came out, I was super into streetwear, Mishka drops it with the flash game for Who’s That? (Broooooown) and everything just clicks. For the first time I feel like I’m right there where the art is happening. Odd Future was on the opposite end of the country when I was in high school stanning, Wale was the local star and we had Clipse/Missy to idolize from VA but that didn’t really count, they were southern artists and I was right outside the capital which is in the north of Virginia. But now, its like “oh f*** - that’s Dapwell on the other side of the street, holy s***” and that locality felt cool and unique and edifying to the reasons I came to NY. Mad Decent was a big part of my high school days too and their involvement put stars in my eyes.

Bars-wise, it resonated with me and honestly when I play it back it still holds up. I like the humor, it felt in line with what I found funny at the time and I still do tbh. It was so heavily referential towards cultural ephemera that I was geeked to catch all the nods to other s***, whether it was Dipset deep cuts or obscure old commercials. I grew up on Mystery Science Theater 3000 in a major way, using insanely insular niche s*** as a punchline appeals to me greatly. I like smart alec energy, and I liked it even more back when the hipster era waned and I was younger. And I think it doesn’t come at the expense of the actual raps, at least not enough for me to grow tired of it now. It helps that the flows are so elastic, which I think is an unsung element of their chemistry as a group. Hahahaha JK is a masterclass of flows in my opinion

The beats are largely good-to-outstanding in my opinion, I think they’re weird and distinct in how they approach melding different strains of influence. You’ve got blog rap stylings (real blog rap, like Pac Div, not what the kids think it was) meshing with Adult Swim bump type beats like Rapping 2 U. Ghostface type beats like Rooftop jut against weird dance-rap tracks like Irresponsible. I think they either still hold up today or work as time capsules from when NYC truly didn’t know the sound to come next.

Plus it exposed me to a ton of artists and art in general, first time I heard Fat Tony, Roc Marci (!!!!), Despot, a lot of underground people that lead me down different rap rabbitholes

proper

2y

we got it for cheap vol 1-3
dedication 2
Drought 3
There is no competition
Chicken talk
Live love asap
From the west side w love
Future d*** s***sounds
OG dom kennedy
So far gone

these prolly some of my most played tapes but tbh I haven’t played any of these in a long time. But when they dropped I played the s*** out of them.

babylon sherm

2y

Lmfao nah man 30 is on the horizon and closing in fast