Saturday, June 27, 2015
Tek.Lun - The Crusade [EP Review]
Thursday, June 25, 2015
Nerds (Still) Like Rap Too?
Hey, fam.
When I come to this blog, I feel really guilty. When I think of about when I started it some 3 years ago, it feels as if it's been so long. A lot has happened in these past 3 years. Not regarding this blog, but in life in general. I was a junior in high school when I started the blog. I just finished my first year of college (on the deans list too ayye). A lot of my favorite indie dudes don't rap that much and/or aren't as consistent (but I've come to notice a few starting to get back into the swing of things). Some dudes are really gaining traction (if you don't follow Tae Miles fka WiseGuy., you should start). Soundcloud has grown to crazy heights compared to where it was three years ago, but by trying to go the YouTube route (thus trying to fuck over a lot of indie artists), but labels don't fuck with it so much, so they've really fucked themselves. GoldLink James has re-emerged as GoldLink. He and Shy Glizzy, putting on for the DMV heavy (two different styles of people in DMV of course), have made it to the XXL Freshman cover (proof that DMV is almost at the point of being recognized). King Los just dropped an amazing album, is at the top of the charts, and even got the best 5 Fingers of Death Freestyle on Sway In The Morning. While I've moved out of the city for the greater part of the year (I go to school at UMBC), I've been continuously stumbling into more and more music from our area. It only gets better. There's a reason why the Rolling Stone says Baltimore has the best indie music scene. I have my license now. There's a free album on iTunes right now. Kendrick Lamar dropped another project. Tek.Lun and Hi$to have become two of the dopest producers in the area (crazy because at one point in time, I didn't think producers like that would come out of this area). FL Studio has gone from like 9 to 12. Jay Verze (the first artist I wrote about here) has shared a stage with Cam'Ron. Lor Scoota and Young Moose have been become staples in Baltimore street music. Bossman became Travis Davon. The new generation of Baltimore club artists like Mighty Mark and Abdu Ali have changed and rearranged everything (and it sounds amazing). Freddy Gray was killed hardly a few miles from me. So much has happened. So much progress from everyone. I've learned a lot.
So, I come back to this blog again, and feel guilty. Why? Because throughout it all, I always have these fleeting thoughts and stuff I want to say, but never say. There's a lot of stuff that I'll say under my real name, but I try to keep it PC there. When I want to get gritty and just express raw thoughts and feelings (can't do that under my real name---niggas don't have feelings), I just sit around and think them up. I think I should write. I think I should make a song about it. I end up not though. I don't think I've gotten lazy. I think for a long time, my brain thought more than I could handle. I have more things in my mind that I have to do than I really have to do. I want to do so many things that I don't know what to do. Looking back, I've felt too creative for my own good. I feel stigmatized by my own thoughts and my lack thereof voice. I guess I've been letting myself almost eat myself from the inside for the past few years and I've been blaming school work, and when the summer came, I'd blame actual work. I don't know words to describe it, but I don't want to keep getting into this.
A lot of energy has been revitalized within the past few months. Been sticking to a lot of resolutions and this was one of them. I'm starting this blog again, and I want to thank all of you guys whoever read. I'm looking at the stats and this blog somehow had over 13k views with my little more than 50 posts. that's dope.
#WaverlyWednesdays #comethru #everywednesday #bwoy
follow me on twitter @WaverlySpades
blog updates
1. please don't send me shitty music. I used to get pretty overwhelmed looking at the submissions and trying to write stuff because I would actually try to review EVERYTHING. I thought that would help everybody. You get a blog post (even though it's a shitty rating). I get a little bit better at writing. You also get constructive criticism. Didn't really work out that way tho. Nobody shares a post when I trash the music. And no one's looking for reviews of an indie that no one knows and I'm here publicly bashing/criticizing thier shit. The post is essentially a waste of space and time on this blog. On top of that, there's only so much shitty music I can handle. I ended up not really writing about all of it. I have like 30 drafts of bad songs/mixtapes that I was gonna critique, but just couldn't bring myself to finish, so yea. Go ahead and send me anything, but it may or may not get posted depending if I deem it of quality or not. That being said, you can email me and just ask for my opinion and not a blog post and I will oblige. I may even reply to the emails turned down telling you why I don't like the songs, but at the end of the day, it's your music/art. My opinion doesn't matter. Just as idgaf if you fuck with this blog or not. With all of that stuff, I will try to post as many dope things that I come across here.
2. the title is Nerds Like RAP Too, but it's going to be a LOT more than rap/hip hop and it's culture. As I've diversified as I've grown up, I want to diversify this content. You are allowed to submit literally anything that seems cool. Films, dances, fashion (not the best critique of fashion, but I admire it), contemporary art, whatever, fam. I'll look through all of it. My one promise to you.
When I come to this blog, I feel really guilty. When I think of about when I started it some 3 years ago, it feels as if it's been so long. A lot has happened in these past 3 years. Not regarding this blog, but in life in general. I was a junior in high school when I started the blog. I just finished my first year of college (on the deans list too ayye). A lot of my favorite indie dudes don't rap that much and/or aren't as consistent (but I've come to notice a few starting to get back into the swing of things). Some dudes are really gaining traction (if you don't follow Tae Miles fka WiseGuy., you should start). Soundcloud has grown to crazy heights compared to where it was three years ago, but by trying to go the YouTube route (thus trying to fuck over a lot of indie artists), but labels don't fuck with it so much, so they've really fucked themselves. GoldLink James has re-emerged as GoldLink. He and Shy Glizzy, putting on for the DMV heavy (two different styles of people in DMV of course), have made it to the XXL Freshman cover (proof that DMV is almost at the point of being recognized). King Los just dropped an amazing album, is at the top of the charts, and even got the best 5 Fingers of Death Freestyle on Sway In The Morning. While I've moved out of the city for the greater part of the year (I go to school at UMBC), I've been continuously stumbling into more and more music from our area. It only gets better. There's a reason why the Rolling Stone says Baltimore has the best indie music scene. I have my license now. There's a free album on iTunes right now. Kendrick Lamar dropped another project. Tek.Lun and Hi$to have become two of the dopest producers in the area (crazy because at one point in time, I didn't think producers like that would come out of this area). FL Studio has gone from like 9 to 12. Jay Verze (the first artist I wrote about here) has shared a stage with Cam'Ron. Lor Scoota and Young Moose have been become staples in Baltimore street music. Bossman became Travis Davon. The new generation of Baltimore club artists like Mighty Mark and Abdu Ali have changed and rearranged everything (and it sounds amazing). Freddy Gray was killed hardly a few miles from me. So much has happened. So much progress from everyone. I've learned a lot.
So, I come back to this blog again, and feel guilty. Why? Because throughout it all, I always have these fleeting thoughts and stuff I want to say, but never say. There's a lot of stuff that I'll say under my real name, but I try to keep it PC there. When I want to get gritty and just express raw thoughts and feelings (can't do that under my real name---niggas don't have feelings), I just sit around and think them up. I think I should write. I think I should make a song about it. I end up not though. I don't think I've gotten lazy. I think for a long time, my brain thought more than I could handle. I have more things in my mind that I have to do than I really have to do. I want to do so many things that I don't know what to do. Looking back, I've felt too creative for my own good. I feel stigmatized by my own thoughts and my lack thereof voice. I guess I've been letting myself almost eat myself from the inside for the past few years and I've been blaming school work, and when the summer came, I'd blame actual work. I don't know words to describe it, but I don't want to keep getting into this.
A lot of energy has been revitalized within the past few months. Been sticking to a lot of resolutions and this was one of them. I'm starting this blog again, and I want to thank all of you guys whoever read. I'm looking at the stats and this blog somehow had over 13k views with my little more than 50 posts. that's dope.
#WaverlyWednesdays #comethru #everywednesday #bwoy
follow me on twitter @WaverlySpades
blog updates
1. please don't send me shitty music. I used to get pretty overwhelmed looking at the submissions and trying to write stuff because I would actually try to review EVERYTHING. I thought that would help everybody. You get a blog post (even though it's a shitty rating). I get a little bit better at writing. You also get constructive criticism. Didn't really work out that way tho. Nobody shares a post when I trash the music. And no one's looking for reviews of an indie that no one knows and I'm here publicly bashing/criticizing thier shit. The post is essentially a waste of space and time on this blog. On top of that, there's only so much shitty music I can handle. I ended up not really writing about all of it. I have like 30 drafts of bad songs/mixtapes that I was gonna critique, but just couldn't bring myself to finish, so yea. Go ahead and send me anything, but it may or may not get posted depending if I deem it of quality or not. That being said, you can email me and just ask for my opinion and not a blog post and I will oblige. I may even reply to the emails turned down telling you why I don't like the songs, but at the end of the day, it's your music/art. My opinion doesn't matter. Just as idgaf if you fuck with this blog or not. With all of that stuff, I will try to post as many dope things that I come across here.
2. the title is Nerds Like RAP Too, but it's going to be a LOT more than rap/hip hop and it's culture. As I've diversified as I've grown up, I want to diversify this content. You are allowed to submit literally anything that seems cool. Films, dances, fashion (not the best critique of fashion, but I admire it), contemporary art, whatever, fam. I'll look through all of it. My one promise to you.
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