Heavy Rotation

I find a lot of times that even though I don't find a particular album to be that great, I find a song or two that I want to bump a lot. Conversely, I have albums that I think are dope as fuck but have no songs that stand out individually that I put into heavy rotation (Son of Yvonne comes to mind).

I was thinking that maybe we could post some songs here that were in heavy rotation on everyone's respective playlists for the moment. We talk a lot on this forum about how good or bad ALBUMS are but never really discuss hot songs of the moment. If people like this idea, it can be like a Recent Spins thread but for songs. Let's try to keep the lists to a max 15 so it doesn't get too ridiculous. Also, embedding videos may slow down the thread so let's try and use links instead.

Anyway, here's some joints I've been enjoying for 2012 (in no particular order):

Apollo Brown/OC - Peoples Champ
Stalley - Petrin Hill Peonies
Sir Michael Rocks - Slice (Remix)
Nas - Trust
Oh No - Time feat Roc C and Chino XL
Madlib/Freddie Gibbs - Thuggin
Rick Ross - Triple Beam Dreams feat Nas
Frank Ocean - Super Rich Kids feat Earl Sweatshirt
Smoke DZA - Fuck Ya Mother feat Sean Price
Planet Asia - Bruce Lee feat Chace Infinite and Rasco
Big KRIT - Pull Up feat Big Sant and Bun B
Schoolboy Q - Hands On The Wheel feat A$AP Rocky
Jet Life (Trademark Da Skydiver/Young Roddy)- Blow Up
Brother Ali - I Can't Wait
La Coka Nostra - Mind Your Business

Murder World off Masters of the Dark Arts is pretty great.

I just been bumping Billy Woods. There ain't much shit from 2012 I bump. Ive been listening to a lot Jedi Mind Tricks's A History Of Violence --thats really a good album. I dont DL amymore period. So its hard to stay current. I bump what I buy.

2 tracks that i've been listening lots of lately:

Sick Society
Away With Me

Get spotify, trotter.

Yo PKT, that Sick Society track is dope! I've never heard of those dudes before. The Jean Grae track was alright, it was mellow, not the Jean that I prefer. Not that I'm really into her shit either, but she would be my first choice for a femcee.

And Trotter, def get Spotify man. As an unforgiving downloader, it has really changed the way I listen to music. I still download but now I keep it limited to what I have already previewed and I def want to hear in my car. Other than that, it's all Spotify. I pay the $10/month so I can have it on my phone but the reg version is free and it still pays royalties. It makes me feel better about myself as a person, lol.

Oh and that Billy Woods is on deck fa sho. You mother fuckers better not disappoint me, I've heard a lot of hype around here...

parker lewis wrote:

Murder World off Masters of the Dark Arts is pretty great.

Yeah man, I'm updating my top 10 list soon, that whole album is dope to me.

Some of my Best of 2012 selections:

Reks "Autographs"
Nas "Loco Motive"
Kendrick Lamar & Dr. Dre "The Recipe"
K.R.I.T- Wake Up Saxaphone, Boobie Miles, & Praying Man
Killer Mike, TI & Bun B- Big Beast
Killer Mike- Go
Large Professor, Cormega, Action Bronson, Roc Marciano & Saigon- M.A.R.S.
KRS ONE- Tote Gunz
Oh No, Guilty Simpson, etc.- The Guns
1982, Roc Marciano & Havoc- Thug Poets
Ab-Soul & Black Hippy- Black Lip Bastard (Remix)
DJ Khaled, Nas & Scarface- Hip Hop

So with Spotify I can put music on my Ipod?

No, Trotter, no.

Johnny Hoax-Head Underwater
Greydon Square-.7
Yelawolf-Slumdon Bridge
C-Mob-Antidote

Songs from 2012 ive seemed to have been bumping a lot lately:

Madlib & Freddie Gibbs - Shame
J Dilla ft. Esham - Big Thangs
J Dilla ft. Guilty Simpson, Supa Emcee, Nick Speed - DILLATROIT
J Dilla ft. Almighty Dreadnaughts - Ride With It
Killer Mike & EL-P - William Burke Sherwood
KA - Decisions
KA - Chamber
X-Raided ft. Big NoLove, Sav Sicc, Bleezo - Chemotherapy
Mayday ft. Brotha Lynch Hung & Ces Cru - Strange March
Show & AG - Suspended Animation
DJ Soul Clap & Punchline ft. Masta Ace, Stricklin, Wordsworth - Kaboom
ADaD - The Sound is God
Definite Mass ft. Ras Kass & Planet Asia - Its a Problem

The last week has been slow for new good, so been going back in time a little on the heavy ro.

Turbulence - Notorious
Fantan Mojah - Hail The King
Stacee Adamz - Rude Boy
Damani - O.T. ft. Mitchy Slick & Short Khop
Spider Loc - La La Land ft. Papa Smurf
Busy Signal - Kingston Town (Remix) ft. Damian Marley

Dang! Trotter wrote:

So with Spotify I can put music on my Ipod?

Nah but you can stream through your phone.

Actually, iPod touch probably can use Spotify. Not sure.

You can get the Spotify app for iPhone, iPod, and iPad but you have to pay $10/month for Spotify Premium. It's worth it to me because I stream on my phone a lot.

Trotter, Spotify is just a player with a search engine that you download and install that gives you access to a gigantic library of music for free. You can listen to whole albums, make playlists and favorite songs. It also has a radio that works like Pandora and it has a social media function that allows you to access your friends' playlists and see what they are listening to. You can also link it to FB. The free version has intermittent commercials similar to Pandora.

my 15 most heavily rotated songs of 2012:

ScHoolboy Q - Oxy Music
Rampage - Zig Zag Zig (feat. R.A. the Rugged Man)
K-Rino - My Laughs
Brother Ali - Shine On
Kendrick Lamar - Cartoons & Cereal (feat. Gunplay)
Nas - The Don
Big K.R.I.T. - Praying Man (feat. B.B. King)
B.J. the Chicago Kid - His Pain II (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
50 Cent - Can I Speak to You (feat. ScHoolboy Q)
Young Zee - If I Only Had a Brain
Nas - Loco Motive (feat. Large Professor)
Wu-Block - Union Square
Pusha T & Kanye West - New God Flow
Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pool (Drank)
Rick Ross - 16 (feat. Andre 3000) 3K absolutely murks this ish!

16 and 3 Kings are on my Best Of 2012 Itunes/Spotify playlists as well. I just heard New God Flow for the first time today. 2 Thumbs Up for me.

Public Enemy ft. Brother Ali - Get Up Stand Up

Thanks for using links Lund, makes my research easier. I've been meaning to peep that New God Flow, it keeps popping up on my Spotify home page. I was a little turned off at first because they were both fresh off that I don't Like remix...smh.


Also, anybody else besides Highsmith check out that Hip Hop w/ Nas and Scarface? Shit was pretty dope but I thought it could have been waaay better if Preemo actually produced it rather than just scratch on it. Nas' verse is sick, tho. I can see a shit load of remixes to follow soon.

Anyone else think LCN should've credited the third track to Affirmative Action?

Trotter you should check that album (Masters of the Dark Arts).

Get Down - Snowgoons ft. BAM
Malverde Market - La Coka Nostra
I Love It - Hilltop Hoods ft. Sia
The Underground - Hilltop Hoods ft. Classified & Solo
The Legacy - Snowgoons ft. just about everyone
Fast Lane - Alterbeats ft. Main Flow, Access Immortal & Estee Nack
Revolution On My Brain - Alterbeats ft. Reef The Lost Cauze & Freestyle

Yo, I was feeling those Hilltop Hoods tracks. They have a pretty interesting sound, aside from being Aussie that is. I can't really put my finger on it. Good shit.

thelundquist wrote:

my 15 most heavily rotated songs of 2012:

ScHoolboy Q - Oxy Music
Rampage - Zig Zag Zig (feat. R.A. the Rugged Man)
K-Rino - My Laughs
Brother Ali - Shine On
Kendrick Lamar - Cartoons & Cereal (feat. Gunplay)
Nas - The Don
Big K.R.I.T. - Praying Man (feat. B.B. King)
B.J. the Chicago Kid - His Pain II (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
50 Cent - Can I Speak to You (feat. ScHoolboy Q)
Young Zee - If I Only Had a Brain
Nas - Loco Motive (feat. Large Professor)
Wu-Block - Union Square
Pusha T & Kanye West - New God Flow
Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pool (Drank)
Rick Ross - 16 (feat. Andre 3000) 3K absolutely murks this ish!

That BJ and KL joint was fantastic. I was diggin Cartoons and Cereal too. I wasn't that impressed with Swimming Pools, tho. And New God Flow was alright, I liked Pusha's Exodus better. Wayne had a weak ass response to that one, lol.

Wanduras wrote:

Yo, I was feeling those Hilltop Hoods tracks. They have a pretty interesting sound, aside from being Aussie that is. I can't really put my finger on it. Good shit.

I have that album, and State of The Art. I got State Of The Art because I saw they had a new one coming out, which I also ordered. I wouldn't even have known anything about them if an Aussie chick I was chatting with back in the day didn't strongly suggest I check out Nosebleed Section.

Their production is bananas. The emcees are decent enough. Fifty In Five (from State Of The Art) blew my mind.

Wanduras wrote:

thelundquist wrote:

my 15 most heavily rotated songs of 2012:

ScHoolboy Q - Oxy Music
Rampage - Zig Zag Zig (feat. R.A. the Rugged Man)
K-Rino - My Laughs
Brother Ali - Shine On
Kendrick Lamar - Cartoons & Cereal (feat. Gunplay)
Nas - The Don
Big K.R.I.T. - Praying Man (feat. B.B. King)
B.J. the Chicago Kid - His Pain II (feat. Kendrick Lamar)
50 Cent - Can I Speak to You (feat. ScHoolboy Q)
Young Zee - If I Only Had a Brain
Nas - Loco Motive (feat. Large Professor)
Wu-Block - Union Square
Pusha T & Kanye West - New God Flow
Kendrick Lamar - Swimming Pool (Drank)
Rick Ross - 16 (feat. Andre 3000) 3K absolutely murks this ish!

That BJ and KL joint was fantastic. I was diggin Cartoons and Cereal too. I wasn't that impressed with Swimming Pools, tho. And New God Flow was alright, I liked Pusha's Exodus better. Wayne had a weak ass response to that one, lol.

Yeah New God Flow is cool, but my favorite part is the end when the beat breaks down with the hard bass, Kanye goes in (not the drill sergeant lame ish though). I've heard almost every K-Dot fan I know say the same thing about Swimming Pools. Idk I like it a lot.

Kendrick Lamar- Cartoon and Cereal
Killer Mike- Southern Fried
Killer Mike- Untitled
Schoolboy Q- My Homie
Big KRIT- Temptation
Big KRIT- Wake Up
Oddisee- Hustle Off
Apollo Brown & OC- Options
Has-Lo - Secretary
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib- Thuggin'
Freddie Gibbs & Madlib- Deep
Stalley- Petrin Hill Peonies
Sean Born- DrugsAlcohol&Sex
Sean Born- Lights On
SpaceGhostPurrp- Grind On Me
Domo & ALC- Like A Star

Got my copy of SnowGoons Dynasty. Be bumping this for awhile