"Talk About All Your Favorite Harry Fraud-Helmed Heat In This Post"
Full disclosure: I'm 36 & reduced to mostly Weekend Warrior status these days so some of this shit is likely getting by me and I don't like that.
However I was thinking just off the Morey Boogie Bronson & this Danny Brown joint https://soundcloud.com/rubyhornet/danny-brown-hottest-mc-prod (which has that goes-so-hard-I-wanna-punch-someone-in-the-face quality that I cherish) that both dropped this week I'm sure I lost track of a lot of dope shit along the way over the past couple years so lemme know what Fraud joints made or make you a fan.
Clams Casino's alright but he's kinda one-note to me & that note ain't quite strong enough to fully carry the day, Harry Fraud might be the first truly great producer birthed from the blog-rap/mixtape/post-industry era for me but I gotta think about it a bit.
2. "yeah, Bird On A Wire's a personal favorite, that 'Good Day' flip is weak" In response to Reply # 1
none of those of MC's are strong enough rappers to transcend a rehashed joint like that (and I say that while appreciating curren$y for what he does).
Mac Miller especially should be ashamed of himself for being a white boy who doesn't even know or care what Kurt Cobain's drug of choice was just that it rhymes with cocaine, that kid kinda sucks in general.
I have the Curren$y EP but admittedly haven't given it a real run yet.
6. "man Styles strugglin like shit to ride that track right-its disorienting" In response to Reply # 4
he ain't really bout that life with these young kids' soundscapes plus definitely not putting the work in to be so & as a result sounds mad out of place passing thru.
I gotta give Juicy J credit, I fronted on him for a bit as a solo artist despite being a lightweight 3-6 fan mostly for almost purely production reasons.......but it's pretty obvious that he used the move to L.A. as a networking/career-move & kept himself in tune with what was going on.
He sounds so much more natural on these new beatsmiths' stuff tho I guess part of that is because shit like this Harry Fraud cut you linked is, in keeping with the twenty-year-rules of music/fashion fetishization, is so heavily influenced by that 90's Hypnotize Minds sound anyway with the soul samples here or minor-key-eerie piano loops elsewhere.
He's sorta having his Too-Short-in-ATL-with-Lil-Jon moment right now & 'Bandz' might end up being bigger than 'Blow The Whistle'.
I have seen that song work in so many completely different environments that in one week a few months back I heard that joint when it came on own a Persian hookah bar, an off-duty strippers after-hour house party & my 52-year-old mother-of-two coworker's car en route to a lunch spot.
Mind you that isn't a combination of places any person really needs to be in a 48-hour-or-so period but the fact remains that song is a monster.
East coast legendary MC's like Nas or Redman would struggle in this sector because they wouldn't or couldn't make the adjustment, Jigga could prolly pull it off if he actually started trying again but I feel like we're still a year or two away from the late-career 'yeah, motherfucka I can still rap' moment.
7. "Funny you mentioned Jay..." In response to Reply # 6
I wonder if Fraud might be a good producer for him to work with. With everybody else going Trap, a return to a more boom bap derived sound could be a good look.
10. "If Jay makes the effort I think it could be a great look on both sides" In response to Reply # 7
But he'd be well advised to leave that more mannered 'experimental' version of flow he's been playing with in recent years on stuff like WTT/BP3 & channel more of that cocksure precision-pea-shooter style of spitting from the Pre-Game/Professional2Clue period.
With Hov it's more a question of want, with certain other greats (Nas being the first one that comes to mind for predictable reasons) they might just not have meshed with this sound even at their apex.
15. "I don't really get the "hit or miss"/"inconsistent" digs" In response to Reply # 0
He's 3-4x more prolific than everyone else so of course he's going to have some mediocre joints floating around. He still has more good material out there right now than most. I think as more high profile work comes he will start becoming a bit more judicious as to what he lets out there. Right now it just seems like he just wants everybody to know who he is. _________________________________________ The Combat Jack Show is the best hip-hop related internet radio show http://thecombatjackshow.com/
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