First installment in our new quarterly rap-up special! Featuring writing from myself and HumbleGold, we wrote about our favorite 25 releases released thus far this year. This is numbers 25-15 of the series, the rest will drop in the coming days.
Spaceghostpurrp - Gxx xx Bxxxx Vol. 1 (Raider Klan, 2012)
Spaceghostpurrp drops the long awaited follow-up to Blackland Radio, and what is also the first installment in his God of Black series. The audio quality is a lot better here than it has been on past releases, and Purrp’s rapping has come quite far since last year. Just another great project to have dropped in the last couple days.
Spaceghostpurrp - Blvck Lipstick (S.A.N.D. 2012) (Raider Klan, 2012)
baby, I love your face/you use it well/suck on my dick, suck on my dick, for 2012.
Spaceghostpurrp - Best Of Blackland (Self-released, 2012)
courtesy of Atrilli.net and Purrp himself, these are Purrp’s favorite tracks from Blackland, along with some other choice cuts, remastered. Includes some of my personal favorites like Mac Named Purrp and Grind On Me, this is certainly worth grabbing.
Spaceghostpurrp - The Truth (Internet, 2011)
Oh, Purrp. It’s been so long since I’ve written about you. Despite dropping one of my favorite projects this year (and last year), I really haven’t covered a lot of Purrp’s music post-Blackland. His career has been something of a rollercoaster, and lately he’s found himself to be the center of Twitter controversy. The funny thing is, Purrp’s message as of late has been more positive than it’s ever been - God of Black is almost certain to be his least cynical album yet from the episodes that have leaked. I’m not mad at that - Basedghostpurrp is every bit the rapper as the evil doppleganger found on Blackland. I’d be lying if I said I haven’t been missing his more raunchy, audacious musical affairs though.
The Truth was one of the first tracks to leak after Blackland, and the reaction was a bit mixed. The fact that he was using almost the same flow as on Been Fweago threw some people off, and it didn’t seem too progressive after that lyrical ability displayed on My Enemie (sic). I was a bit judgemental of it at first too - the beat was one of the hardest he’s done to date, but the rapping wasn’t connecting and the lack of a second verse disappointed me.
But I revisted the Truth later on, after a tough summer, and that shit just socked me right in the jaw (ayo). It made me realize what I’ve always been so drawn to about Purrp, and it’s the completely isolationist vibes that he carries in his music. Purrp is an extremely young man, and for him to have such harsh, pessimistic views on love and the world is a bit frightening. Feelings that, unlike his peers, aren’t merely empty insults and misdirected misogyny, but weathered views of a brilliantly bitter young man. While it’s not completely excusable, it is ridiculously understandable when you know where he’s coming from.
Purrp does this raunchy sex talk and harsh cynicism better than most rappers right now, and it’s because he immerses himself in his beliefs instead of shouting M.O.B. carelessly to seem ”rebellious.” There’s a genuine honesty in The Truth (no pun intended), and that’s what makes this easily one of the highlights in his young discography. I would say that I hope he doesn’t completely abandon this side of him, but I realize that he’s grown as an artist considerably from the time this was released.
Juicy J - Blue Dream & Lean (Mixtape, 2011)
Uncle Juicy stays trippy with features from Wiz Khalifa, Spaceghostpurrp, and ASAP Rocky, among other blog favorites.
SpaceGhostPurrp - NASA Phonk1996 (Mixtape, 2011/20101996)
I wrote about Spaceghostpurrp’s NASA mixtape all the way back at the beginning of the year, when I’d gone on a week-long binge of nothing but it. It’s still an amazing project that I listen to my favorite songs from every now and then, but the audio quality certainly left a lot to be desired (not that I minded). He’s brought back NASA now in an all new remastered form, with a slightly revised title and new artwork. I hope he does this same clean-up on this year’s Blvcklvnd Rvdix as well.
(Source: scandalswithsavages)
The second quarter is over, which means we’re half way through the year. 2011 has been a great year for rap, despite the fact that the album format is little more than a distant memory. It’ll be interesting to see what the rest of the year holds for us.
Spaceghostpurrp - My Enemie (NASA Records, 2011)
While we all continue to bask in the dark glory of Blvcklvnd Rvdix, Purrp quietly drops the first track from his next project, Blvck Mvrdxc. #Really
My Enemie (sic) features the best pure rapping Purrp’s done yet, proving that there’s more to his repoitoire than previously thought. As an ever evolving 20 year old rapper and producer, Purrp shares some great company with other rappers of his age range, but with little more than a low-quality audio recorder and a box full of Playa Fly tapes, Purrp is perhaps the most promising of them all.
Spaceghostpurrp - BLVCKLVND RVDIX 66.6 (NASA Records, 2011)
If you’re anything like me, seek help you were waiting for two projects to make their way onto the internet anyday now. One of them is GOBLIN, which apparently is hidden underneath Big Ben and guarded by monks next to the original copy of the bible. The other is SPVCXGHXSTPVRPP’s (affectionately known without all the Raider language as Spaceghostpurrp, Muney Jordan, or simply Purrp) Blackland Radio project. I reiterated what some bloggers already wrote about Purrp in the past, but Blackland is twice the size of NASA and the production has taken an even greater leap in quality. This is definitely a recommended listen, with some dope headphones and a syrofoam cup.
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