Viper
January 18, 2015 9:02 AM Subscribe
Buried deep within a labyrinthine maze of broken links, hastily formatted webpages, Youtube videos with less than 5,000 views, there is transcendent internet magic just waiting for someone stumble onto it and share it with the world.
Enter Viper and “You’ll Cowards Don’t Even Smoke Crack,” which the Chicago Reader highlighted last week both for its idiosyncratic sonics and creative approach to grammar. It’s a title that demands attention but it’s also a hell of a trip, a hypnotic anchor oozing with ominous, sluggish menace via Viper’s tar pit bubble of a voice and that glitchy, needle-stuck-on-the-record “beat.”
sure is /mu/ in here
posted by Sticherbeast at 9:25 AM on January 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Sticherbeast at 9:25 AM on January 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
Given he's from Houston, the whole thing 'makes sense' if you correct it to "ya'll cowards don't even smoke crack".
This is much better than I would have imagined it to be.
posted by el io at 10:02 AM on January 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
This is much better than I would have imagined it to be.
posted by el io at 10:02 AM on January 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
" I’ve done every drug there is to do and even though I’m a successful real estate dealer I dabble in a few drugs every now and then with my gang brothers or friends just to show I’m still in touch with the streets."This quote! (Emphasis mine, of course.)
posted by raihan_ at 11:11 AM on January 18, 2015 [3 favorites]
If you have a little time to kill, this will give you the essence of Viper in just 10 hours.
Oddly relaxing.
The /r/Hiphopheads thread was interesting. He's made 333 mixtapes! In one year!
Here's a partial listing:
"Cops Can't Read III"
"Fuck Tha World It Ain't Real I Bend Tha Spoon Wit My Mind 2"
"Put Sum Relish and Musta on It It Ain't Extra 2"
"A Loyal Illuminati Memba II"
"U're Such a Dumby"
"I Be Real as Gold 4 Sho II"
"I Sell Tha Best Crack II"
"The Rocketship Bus 2"
His music is great when you're in the mood for extremely narcoleptic rap. Really is quite relaxing.
posted by honestcoyote at 11:56 AM on January 18, 2015
Oddly relaxing.
The /r/Hiphopheads thread was interesting. He's made 333 mixtapes! In one year!
Here's a partial listing:
"Cops Can't Read III"
"Fuck Tha World It Ain't Real I Bend Tha Spoon Wit My Mind 2"
"Put Sum Relish and Musta on It It Ain't Extra 2"
"A Loyal Illuminati Memba II"
"U're Such a Dumby"
"I Be Real as Gold 4 Sho II"
"I Sell Tha Best Crack II"
"The Rocketship Bus 2"
His music is great when you're in the mood for extremely narcoleptic rap. Really is quite relaxing.
posted by honestcoyote at 11:56 AM on January 18, 2015
I've been half meaning to make a Viper post for a while; glad to see it happen here. He's like a way more listen-able Wesley Willis.
posted by Itaxpica at 1:28 PM on January 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by Itaxpica at 1:28 PM on January 18, 2015 [2 favorites]
The new BasedGod?
posted by Saxon Kane at 2:24 PM on January 18, 2015
posted by Saxon Kane at 2:24 PM on January 18, 2015
If you'd actually like to hear something like witch house + rap, I'd highly recommend Bones. His latest mixtape is a beautiful thing. Really, anything from TeamSESH goes great in this vein.
posted by honestcoyote at 10:35 AM on January 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
posted by honestcoyote at 10:35 AM on January 19, 2015 [2 favorites]
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