Fall back, Spotify!

Your listening recommendations might be deep in this game but you got the finer details of east coast Rap missin' :

Yes, you read that correct : Termanology has two - fucking two! - compilation albums called Cameo King! All those other-people's-songs that Term' the worm came through in his oversized fitted + 3/4 jhorts and then blessed with his track-transforming vocals obviously couldn't fit on one album.

Consider it not a failure, it was more of a practice

Don't really have any fresh takes on $tarlito at this point, nor have I changed my opinion that Don Trip should only ever be allowed to rhyme in the company of 'lito and Yo Gotti because he's far too irritating as a solo presence. Right now, I'm just pleased to have another entry into the canon of $tarlito songs which use the same samples as early noughties QB Thug-Rap :

$tarlito ft. Don Trip - No Rearview
(From Cold Turkey album; 2013)

Dylan, Dylan, Dylan

His days are numbered?

The exact moment when you fall out of love with your favourite Rap writer ever :


Quick reminder that 15 Minutes To 5 might be the most underrated song of 2013.

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10 exclusive diamonds among the dross from very patchy DJ compilation albums full of posse tracks featuring Rappers who should share song time with each other :

Cam'Ron ft. Chinky Brown Eyes - Harlem
LL Cool J - Ill Bomb
Juvenile & B.G. - 187
B.G., Juvenile & Soulja Slim - Gotta Get It
8-Off - Adolf "8-Off" Agallar (Interlude)
Gang Starr - The Piece Maker
Travis Porter & Kirko Bangz - Real N*ggaz in the Building
AZ ft. Doo Wop - Gangsta Shit
Ghostface, AZ & Raekwon - See The Light
Three 6. Mafia ft. Lil' Wyte & Fraser Boy - Who Gives A Fuck Where You From?

You still ain't recoup!

That cool million bucks of Murdoch money G. Rap managed to talk Rawkus into giving him would have probably gone a long way if he didn't have to use 3/4 of it to pay back Cold Chillin' for the It's A Shame video budget!

Kool G. Rap - It's A Shame
(From 4, 5, 6 album; 1995)


The facial expressions the 'hoodrat and G. Rap share between 0:12 and 0:18 are bettered only by the legendary waving scene in Encino Man as far as 90's acting, editing, and cinematography goes, imo.

Das sexist

Lil' Durk's best song of 2013 is a barefaced Meek Mill pastiche, Chief Keef isn't even the new Arab let alone the second coming of Soulja Boy, and Lil' Reese is already finished and forgotten; Wasn't joking when I told y'all Katie Got Bandz was the most talented figure to emerge from Chicago's Drill scene in 2011, thus it should come as no surprise that she's the only artist from that movement whose music still has any spark and/or regional nuance in 2013.

"These bitches fake like Nicki ass
This is not a dis, guns big like Nicki ass"

Katie Got Bandz - Foolish
(From Drillary Clinton mixtape; 2013)


Which makes it all the more appalling that Brendan Soderberg brazenly snubbed Katie in the chick-Rappers 2 watch 4! epilogue of his recent hilarious Is 'Yeezus' the Tipping Point for Rap Misogyny? article. Katie not being mentioned in the piece wasn't a shock because Brendan is renowned for using his professional work to exact revenge on Rap bloggaz who've pwned him in the past at the expense of artists who might have some sort of loose connection to said Rap bloggaz, but to completely ignore a feminist-icon like Katie Got Bandz just because she's my boo and/or David Drake's IRL buddy is very bad form for a writer who prides himself as being the Rap Blog Game That Toadying Dude Who Constantly Posts The ‘Women Should Be Hips & Tits Not Skin & Bone’ JPG On Your Facebook Feed to comically overeager extremes of male guilt :


(As you'd expect, a 10 second Google search brings up countless links to the tagless version of U.O.E.N.O but, look ladies, Duckie here insists on dramatically letting you know that, even he helped brush sexual assualt allegations about Das Racist under the rug, he'd never pay for an MP3 of a song with lyrics about date-rape!)

Here at The Martorialist we have our own theory about Katie's no-show in the piece : it simply boils down to Brendan's mildly-racist tendencies extending to AZN Rappers as well as blk ppl like Mystikal. Soderberg is, after all, a guy who once described Jackie Chain as looking "nebulously ethnic"; to avoid confusing Brendan in future. perhaps Jackie could announce his arrival on songs with the sound of a gong and develop a trademark "no more yanky my wanky, the Donger need food!" ad lib?

Brief thoughts on Shabba by A$AP Ferg & A$AP Rocky

Fair play to A$AP Ferg, he came into the game with the worst debut verse of all time on Get High and has somehow managed to get progressively worse ever since. Fair play to Yams too for still letting his boy Ferg get on the mic after he dropped the worst verse in the history of Rap with his cameo on that song with Gunplay on the A$AP Rocky album where he sounded like a parakeet with its tail set on fire.

A sincere apology to Joe Mo$e$

Please forgive me for ever considering your ass persona non grata or a tolerable distraction on TY$'s shit, mate! After suffering Beach House 2's array of inappropriate guests making nuisances of themselves on damn near every track I now realise that you're the only Rapper who should ever be allowed to grace TY$'s songs with your presence. (*1)

TY$ ft. Wiz Khalifa - I Bet
(From Beach House 2 mixtape; 2013)


Case in point, I Bet here, which is flawless for 2 minutes and 30 seconds before Starvin' Cameron turns up with a sleeprapped 16 to tell us he's so stoned he looks like an AZN for the bajillioneth time (*2). How much better would this song have been if it had Joe rhyming about twitching chocolate starfishes and pussy juice all up in his nostrils instead?

(*1) Wouldn't say no to another collaboration between TY$ and DJ Quik & Suga Free, obviously.

(*2) "Jumpin' out a caravan, eyes like a Chinaman" or GTFOH!