Hey, NewChief -- just came across this interview/lecture by Clams Casino: http://vimeo.com/32616502

Cool. I was watching another interview last night with him. He's pretty down to earth. It's funny, because he doesn't even really know or hang with any of those rappers (or at least he didn't at the time of the interview I watched). He just sends them beats and they use them. It's a little shorter as well, though the interviewer kind of hogs the airtime.

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This is kind of cool. A 2011 sampler. 10 "discs," 183 songs, 13 hours of music from 2011.

http://www.fluxblog.org/2011/12/flux...011-survey-mix

My List:

(Spoiler Alert: No Metal)

Honorable Mentions:

Cults - Cults
Real Estate - Days
PJ Harvey - Let England Shake
TV on the Radio - Nine Types of Light
Panda Bear - Tomboy
Atlas Sound - Parallax
Washed Out - Within and Without
The Vaccines - What Did You Expect From the Vaccines?
Death Cab for Cutie - Codes and Keys
The Joy Formidable - The Big Roar


20. St. Vincent - Strange Mercy
19. James Blake - James Blake
18. M83 - Hurry Up We're Dreaming
17. Drake - Take Care
16. The Black Keys - El Camino
15. The Pains of Being Pure at Heart - Belong
14. My Morning Jacket - Circuital
13. tUnEyArDs - WHOKILL
12. Jay-Z and Kanye West - Watch the Throne
11. Wilco - The Whole Love
10. Bright Eyes - The People's Key
9. Das Racist - Relax
8. Fleet Foxes - Helplessness Blues
7. Radiohead - The King of Limbs
6. The Decemberists - The King is Dead
5. The Antlers - Burst Apart
4. Yuck - Yuck
3. The Weeknd - House of Balloons/Thursday/Echoes of Silence (I cheated and put them together)
2. Girls - Father, Son, Holy Ghost
1. Bon Iver - Bon Iver

why do people like Watch the Throne someone please explain it to me like do they not listen to rap ever

I also like Kendrick Lamar, but I'm much more likely to listen to Watch the Throne. I don't know. I see it as a record that actually lived up to a massive amount of hype, which is increasingly rare of late.

Weird. I get deeply bored whenever I try to listen to Watch the Throne. I find it rote and lacking in any sense of energy or urgency, especially when it comes to the beats. Hov's lyrics are often pretty damn good, but he delivers them with all the swagger of a mailman.

The lows can be pretty damn boring (My "Deluxe" version is at least 5 songs too long), but Otis, N*ggas in Paris, and New Day make up for it.

I'm drunj off Bourbon Barrel Quad and I would like to hear arguments as to how any rap producers can be in the same realm as Block Beattaz. If you aren't Clams Casino, Kanye, or Lazerbeak then you are not at Block Beattaz' level. Listen to those two G-Side albums, you buttholes.

Do you like to get Crunj, per chance?

No. I hate dancing.

HEY HAVE YOU SEEN THE YOUTUBE VIDEO WITH MAC LETHAL IT'S AWESOME BECAUSE HE RAPS ABOUT PANCAKES

I actually do think that rap is awesome because he rips the shit out of Chris Brown. What is not awesome is that he labels himself a "nerdy white kid" to market it. Or he'll maybe it's brilliant to do so, but it just feels like pandering.

Yeah, that's ****ing stupid, but I guess it's the gimmick he wants.

He knows how to get hits on YouTube, and that titling is part of it.

And hey, now he's represented by Ari Emmanuel's talent agency and he has a book deal for Texts From Bennett. So he's obviously playing the game correctly.