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[torre_avenue]

Welcome to GAF-Hop. If you're here, you must really enjoy hip-hop music, enough to search out a hip-hop thread on a gaming forum. If you're looking for a great community of people who love music of all genres and fuckery of all types, you would have found one here. But we're all gone now.

Cheddahz said it best:

”Let's ask the question "What is GAF-Hop, really?" again. It's a community of hip-hop nuts that has somehow survived five years on a gaming forum and damn, we should be celebrating this achievement.....but all we'll do is bitch and moan about how Schoolboy Q is much more successful than your favorite underground rapper or we'll laugh our asses off at the every other day Danny Brown mental breakdown (in which he complains about not being successful or whatever) and shit, we'll discuss plans on how to "hack" Just Blaze's Motorola, just so we can get our hands on the long awaited Jay Electronica album and you know what? The diversity of topics and the numerous artists/albums that we are able to discuss on a daily basis is how GAF-Hop has survived for the last five years and personally speaking, I've only been a member of the community for a year now and I'm thankful that I have a community I give two shits about on this forum. Let's not fall apart like Maybach Music and let's make the next five years even better than last five years (and hell, we might actually be discussing Jay Electronica's album by then)"

I lurked GAF-Hop for years before I worked up the nerve to get an account. I was there during its heyday, but I joined a little bit too late to take part in those times. Even then, I still found a community of good people, willing to discuss, shit-talk, and generally talk about everything music related. I honestly thought I'd be one of those people sadly celebrating 10 years on GAF, but I suppose life has a way of subverting your expectations.

This is an elegy to GAF-Hop, a community of people that made a random dude's life a lit bit more worthwhile. This was Gaf-Hop. We may be gone, but hopefully we won't be forgotten.

 

[Team Jones]

NAVIgating Hip-Hop

 

[Numb]

Just another day

P.S we don't deserve NAV

 

[Bronx-Man]

We really in this mf

 

[perfectchaos007]

I'm already looking forward to the 2018 XXL Freshman Cypher. Love these up and comers

 

[Numb]

Fuck a XXX tho

 

[Vorheez]

I just want to be on the first page for reasons that I don't even understand

 

[Bronx-Man]

Fuck a XXX tho

Fuck a beat, I was tryna beat a case

 

[Numb]

Fuck a beat, I was tryna beat a case

"The only thing i beat is pussy"

Nigga

 

[overcast]

Kendrick Lamar is a very good rapper.

 

[Numb]

That Pop-Gaf edit
Almost had a heartattack

 

[perfectchaos007]

Kendrick Lamar is a very good rapper.

He finds emo XXX to be deep and thoughtful

 

[Team Jones]

Off break I like LE$ 'Midnight Club' to 'Summer Madness' it was more motivational, tranquil, and his voice blended better with the the production... and the production was better. 'Midnight Club' was my album of the summer, and it's hard to top a favorite. on that note...

...still playing 'Summer Madness'

 

[Vorheez]

Good job Torre

Everybody clap for Torre

*clap*

 

[torre_avenue]

He finds emo XXX to be deep and thoughtful

Did he say that? All I got from his cosign was that he liked what XXX was doing musically, and I can see why. X's emotional sad and depressed music is in the same vein as "u", but it's not a good look for Kenny.

In other things, check out a show called "The Mayor." It's executive produced by Daveed Diggs of "clipping." fame, and its about a rapper who becomes a mayor. Daveed cameos as a rapper named "Mac Etcetera", likely an homage to Mac Dre, but it's a nice little show with hip-hop elements. Pilot is available for free on ABC's (the American one) website.

 

[overcast]

I don't get the /mu thing

 

[HiResDes]

Really dope thread

 

[HiiiLife]

I'm lowkey mad I didn't get the last post and the first post.

 

[CRS]

Why isn't this in Off-Topic?

 

[Catvoca]

Great OP! Shout out to Enzo for the title too.

I don't get the /mu thing

It came out of this exchange

Th anti-Fantano crowd tries way too hard to paint him as this bad man, even with his flaws.

go cry about it on /mu/, idgaf if it hurts you.

GAF-Hop |OTXVII| go cry about it on /mu/, idgaf if it hurts you.

GAF-Hop |OT17| I don't really care if /mu/ cry

 

[guava_tin]

Blazed listening to Danny's XXX, what's good Gaf-Hop?

 

[Lemon Crest]

Damn. is a very good album.

 

[torre_avenue]

Damn. is a very good album.

Starting early with the hot takes, I see.

Blazed listening to Danny's XXX, what's good Gaf-Hop?

It's all good. Feel free to ask around for more albums in the vein of XXX, if you desire more.

Also, Armie Hammer is with the culture.

 

[shoelacer]

yeezus
808s
graduation
mbdtf
late registration
cd
pablo

 

[shoelacer]

also as drunk as ive been im pretty stoked ak didnt get the reigns here

 

[Koozek]

Great OT, torre Thank you! I'm glad you appreciate NAV too and don't just dismiss him as a meme.

We should have more Top 10's in the OT. Get on it, brehs.

 

[Discotheque]

Jay Electronica album coming soon

 

[torre_avenue]

Jay Electronica album coming soon

Please, the album is a concept the Yakub created to limit the artistic freedom of black men & women. All it does is chain the creativity & spirituality of music to an archaic box created by those in power.

 

[Nibel]

Thank you Torre 👌

Another 400 pages of the worst opinions on the internet bless the fuck up

Why isn't this in Off-Topic?

You wanna attract even worse opinions on rap music or what

 

[Eos]

Great job torre!
Nav would be proud

 

[Andrew Korenchkin]

Yay, new thread!

Here we go

 

[MoodyFog]

good thread

 

[enzo_gt]

Fantastic Hall of Shame idea.

Here's hoping Nav makes it to OT18.

 

[NipplesAndToes23]

Thanks, I wasn't aware L'Orange was releasing an album this year. Been slipping the past couple years, but got better this year. Still want to find more Reggae. Looking forward to Laila's Wisdom and Don't Ever Get It Twisted.

 

[Team Jones]

yeezus
808s
graduation
mbdtf
late registration
cd
pablo

...and it starts.

mdbtf
pre mbdtf
post mdbtf
808

 

[Fevaweva]

MBDTF
808s
Yeezus
Graduation
CD
TLOP
LR

Put WTT inbetween TLOP and LR if it counts.

 

[Bronx-Man]

I always find it weird that people put in WTT with the rest of Ye's albums but never Cruel Summer.

 

[cb1115]

Graduation and TLOP over LR

 

[HiiiLife]

MBDTF #1.

TLOP #7.

 

[Bronx-Man]

TLOP vs LR is a harder decision than I thought now that I think about it.

 

[Koozek]

TLOP vs LR is a harder decision than I thought now that I think about it.

wat

 

[Catvoca]

Thread's already on Kanye rankings. When's OT 19

 

[Bronx-Man]

wat

Both have about the same amount of great songs. Addiction, Touch the Sky, Gold Digger, Heard Em Say, Diamonds From Sierra Lione, Drive Slow vs FML, Fade, Saint Pablo, Wolves, Real Friends, Ultralight Beams

 

[Koozek]

Both have about the same amount of great songs. Addiction, Touch the Sky, Gold Digger, Heard Em Say, Diamonds From Sierra Lione, Drive Slow vs FML, Fade, Saint Pablo, Wolves, Real Friends, Ultralight Beams

Each of the LR songs you named is on its own better than all of the good tracks on TLOP together.

 

[Catvoca]

Both have about the same amount of great songs. Addiction, Touch the Sky, Gold Digger, Heard Em Say, Diamonds From Sierra Lione, Drive Slow vs FML, Fade, Saint Pablo, Wolves, Real Friends, Ultralight Beams

Your LR list is missing Roses, Gone, Hey Mama, We Major, We Can Make It Better (on the UK version) and My Way Home. I like TLOP but LR has more great songs.

 

[cb1115]

Each of the LR songs you named is on its own better than all of the good tracks on TLOP together.

hold on now

ULB slander will not be tolerated

 

[Bronx-Man]

Each of the LR songs you named is on its own better than all of the good tracks on TLOP together.

C'mon son

 

[torre_avenue]

Ultralight Beams is the song of 2016.

I'm tryna keep my faith.
But I'm looking for more.
Somewhere I can be safe

 

[HiiiLife]

Each of the LR songs you named is on its own better than all of the good tracks on TLOP together.

Fact.

 

[Catvoca]

Ultralight Beams is the song of 2016.

I'm tryna keep my faith.
But I'm looking for more.
Somewhere I can be safe

Chance's best ever verse

You can feel the lyrics, the spirit coming in Braille
Tubman of the underground, come and follow the trail
I made Sunday candy I'm never going to hell
I met Kanye West I'm never going to fail