TREE thread
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TREE thread
Needs his own thread, don't understand how he doesn't have one yet.
A gifted rapper/producer from Chicago whose style has been dubbed soultrap. His mixtape Sunday School is one of the best releases in a year filled with incredible releases.
http://soundcloud.com/mctreeg/sets/sund ... e-version/
His new EP, The Lit, dropped last Friday:
http://www.mediafire.com/?scuxbahr950hzcb
A bunch of other goodies are available here: http://guttercity.blogspot.com/
TREE
(Respect due to Drizzle for putting me on via Steadybloggin)
A gifted rapper/producer from Chicago whose style has been dubbed soultrap. His mixtape Sunday School is one of the best releases in a year filled with incredible releases.
http://soundcloud.com/mctreeg/sets/sund ... e-version/
His new EP, The Lit, dropped last Friday:
http://www.mediafire.com/?scuxbahr950hzcb
A bunch of other goodies are available here: http://guttercity.blogspot.com/
TREE
(Respect due to Drizzle for putting me on via Steadybloggin)
Last edited by Versive on Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:12 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Ight, but with like 3 albums and 2 eps out, I think it's OK we give him his own thread. Plus, nobody checking that thread.
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1. he's from the north side, cabrini green is (was) north -> division aves.
2. fixed:
Tree discography:
The 3rd Floor LP
Sunday School LP
Tree - Pluto mixtape
Tree - The Tree EP
Tree & Fatboi aka Big Wiz - Wizardtree
Tree & Nemesis - The Johnson & Johnson EP
Tree & Tony Baines - The Lit
He was also in Project Mayhem, weirdly enough, whose tape "Mayhem Machine" is a great one, much better than the aite joint they dropped this year.
I think he's a great artist, producer, rapper, genuinely original sound, not really regular-guy raps at all imo. great storyteller too. here's an interview with him: http://fearlessradio.com/component/k2/i ... o-07-10-12
2. fixed:
3. He has 2 LPs, one mixtape of him rapping over industry beats, and 4 EPsA gifted rapper/producer from Chicago whose style has been dubbed soultrap by Tree .
Tree discography:
The 3rd Floor LP
Sunday School LP
Tree - Pluto mixtape
Tree - The Tree EP
Tree & Fatboi aka Big Wiz - Wizardtree
Tree & Nemesis - The Johnson & Johnson EP
Tree & Tony Baines - The Lit
He was also in Project Mayhem, weirdly enough, whose tape "Mayhem Machine" is a great one, much better than the aite joint they dropped this year.
I think he's a great artist, producer, rapper, genuinely original sound, not really regular-guy raps at all imo. great storyteller too. here's an interview with him: http://fearlessradio.com/component/k2/i ... o-07-10-12
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I need to go back and listen to some other stuff. I liked the latest EP, although it was super short. I check Sunday School earlier this year and felt that same way as blast. Seems like a great dude, but the music itself was the epitome of ZZZZZZZ. Can anybody point to like 3-4 songs that might make me turn the corner here? Definitely willing to give it a try.
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My Ether off 3rd Floor is awesome.
My Ether off 3rd Floor is awesome.
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So regular. And I am riding for this chi town shit. Sheffield and Halsted stand up!!!! Find me in Kincades on karreeoke night. I just feel like there are 100 versions of this dude in every city.david111 wrote:<object width="640" height="360"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/D_I_QuNRv60?ve ... ram><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/D_I_QuNRv60?version=3&hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="360" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed></object>
My Ether off 3rd Floor is awesome.
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i'm a big fan of this guy, obviously. been posting tons of his stuff to steadyb
i got into him via the Tree EP, after liking a few random loose songs. I still like that EP a little better than Sunday School, but i enjoy both very much. the new EP too, that shit is fantastic. i'm not as well versed in his catalog prior to all that
i was mostly drawn in by the production initially, he is one of the very few people who's doing unusual and interesting things with soul samples these days. then after a spin or two of the EP i came to really appreciate his approach to rapping as well
at his best, there's a great correlation between his rapping style and his beats. both seem scattershot and chaotic and maybe even arrhythmic at first, but the more you listen the more you start to see a method in his madness. sometimes when he raps it seems like he's just throwing out random lines just to say shit over the beat, but then you realize all this seemingly random stuff links up into a coherent narrative
i see blast's point maybe as far as his subject matter, there are indeed tons of other people rapping about similar things. but none of them in the same way that he does it, none that i know of at least.
i got into him via the Tree EP, after liking a few random loose songs. I still like that EP a little better than Sunday School, but i enjoy both very much. the new EP too, that shit is fantastic. i'm not as well versed in his catalog prior to all that
i was mostly drawn in by the production initially, he is one of the very few people who's doing unusual and interesting things with soul samples these days. then after a spin or two of the EP i came to really appreciate his approach to rapping as well
at his best, there's a great correlation between his rapping style and his beats. both seem scattershot and chaotic and maybe even arrhythmic at first, but the more you listen the more you start to see a method in his madness. sometimes when he raps it seems like he's just throwing out random lines just to say shit over the beat, but then you realize all this seemingly random stuff links up into a coherent narrative
i see blast's point maybe as far as his subject matter, there are indeed tons of other people rapping about similar things. but none of them in the same way that he does it, none that i know of at least.
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Very well put.drizzle wrote: at his best, there's a great correlation between his rapping style and his beats. both seem scattershot and chaotic and maybe even arrhythmic at first, but the more you listen the more you start to see a method in his madness. sometimes when he raps it seems like he's just throwing out random lines just to say shit over the beat, but then you realize all this seemingly random stuff links up into a coherent narrative
I don't really see how his music could bore anyone. It's extremely energetic and definitely in its own lane.
That being said, if Sunday School didn't grab your attention within the first few songs then you probably aren't going to get into it. But again, I can't imagine not digging any of those first few tunes.
Excuse my mistakes about the exact discog stats. Up until yesterday I hadn't heard anything but Sunday School and The Lit. DL'ed msot of the rest last night and will be checking it out soon.
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found the tree thread finally
http://soundcloud.com/mctreeg/01-karl-malone-by-tree-mctreeg
This is good, and so was The Lit ep, but I wish he'd return to producing more. Then again, he's dropped tons and tons of self produced music on top of tons of quality music over somebody elses beats, so I really shouldn't complain.
http://soundcloud.com/mctreeg/01-karl-malone-by-tree-mctreeg
This is good, and so was The Lit ep, but I wish he'd return to producing more. Then again, he's dropped tons and tons of self produced music on top of tons of quality music over somebody elses beats, so I really shouldn't complain.
http://www.steadybloggin.com - some of these are my thoughts yo
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Good work, been looking for this for a minute.
Obviously I've totally come around on dude. Don't know why I found it so uninteresting originally, I think I just kind of got swept up by other shit earlier in the year. Regardless, dude is killing it this year. Sunday School is dope, The Lit is dope, and I'm definitely looking forward to his other projects this year. Tree featuring the City should have more of his production, and I think Soul Trap will as well (even though he's tapping J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, S1, and Hit-Boy for that as well)
For those who might be interested, I did a belated review of Sunday School: http://hardwoodblacktop.com/2012/09/11/ ... ay-school/
and an interview with him too: http://hardwoodblacktop.com/2012/09/19/ ... e-mc-tree/
Obviously I've totally come around on dude. Don't know why I found it so uninteresting originally, I think I just kind of got swept up by other shit earlier in the year. Regardless, dude is killing it this year. Sunday School is dope, The Lit is dope, and I'm definitely looking forward to his other projects this year. Tree featuring the City should have more of his production, and I think Soul Trap will as well (even though he's tapping J.U.S.T.I.C.E. League, S1, and Hit-Boy for that as well)
For those who might be interested, I did a belated review of Sunday School: http://hardwoodblacktop.com/2012/09/11/ ... ay-school/
and an interview with him too: http://hardwoodblacktop.com/2012/09/19/ ... e-mc-tree/
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Those who are waiting for Soul Trap and haven't yet checked out his pre-Sunday School material should definitely do so.
http://www.datpiff.com/Tree-The-Tree-Ep ... 77915.html
http://www.mediafire.com/?2sqcvr1r2abquam
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=3vv64f7r4i35d
http://www.mediafire.com/?mereekawo1a8x7i
etc. etc. The Tone Skeeta album is fire also. It's all up at http://guttercity.blogspot.com/
http://www.datpiff.com/Tree-The-Tree-Ep ... 77915.html
http://www.mediafire.com/?2sqcvr1r2abquam
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=3vv64f7r4i35d
http://www.mediafire.com/?mereekawo1a8x7i
etc. etc. The Tone Skeeta album is fire also. It's all up at http://guttercity.blogspot.com/
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Yeah I think I like the Tree EP and the Tone Skeeta joint the best out of those.
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The Tree EP is probably my favorite from what I've heard of his stuff prior to Sunday School, that's the one that got me into him anyway. On some days I lean toward the EP actually being superior to Sunday School, but that's not a definitive call at all
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I prefer Sunday School but it's damn close between those two. And they're all really good.drizzle wrote:The Tree EP is probably my favorite from what I've heard of his stuff prior to Sunday School, that's the one that got me into him anyway. On some days I lean toward the EP actually being superior to Sunday School, but that's not a definitive call at all
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i like the best of '3rd floor' more than tree ep or sunday school
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Is everything from those LP's/EP's posted above produced by mr. Tree himself?
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pluto is industry beats; the Wit ep is prod. by tony baines. the johnson & johnson tape has one (two?) non-tree beats
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Something a little different than what we're used to hearing Tree rap over, these off the latest Mishka release, a collaboration between Chicago production duo Supreme Cuts and 16-year-old Barbados rapper Haleek Maul.
http://mishkanyc.bandcamp.com/track/rol ... -wiseblood
http://mishkanyc.bandcamp.com/track/ball-feat-tree
http://mishkanyc.bandcamp.com/track/rol ... -wiseblood
http://mishkanyc.bandcamp.com/track/ball-feat-tree
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not the guy from the primeridian i guess?
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I can't get the stream working on my home computer or at work. How is it?
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