TREE thread

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:28 pm

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)

peanut butter · Post by **peanut butter** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:47 pm

Chi rapz talk

http://www.philaflava.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=128806

PEACE

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Wed Aug 01, 2012 9:56 pm

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.

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:38 am

Can't get into it. Regular raps have no place on my life. Kinda good producer but I can't make it through the album without feeling sleepy. Seems like a nice guy. A great ambassador for the south side.

david111 · Post by **david111** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 1:46 am

1. he's from the north side, cabrini green is (was) north -> division aves.

2. fixed:

A gifted rapper/producer from Chicago whose style has been dubbed soultrap by Tree .

3. He has 2 LPs, one mixtape of him rapping over industry beats, and 4 EPs

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

B. Ware tha Siniq · Post by **B. Ware tha Siniq** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:13 am

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.

david111 · Post by **david111** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 2:19 am

blastmaster · Post by **blastmaster** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:35 am

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My Ether off 3rd Floor is awesome.

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 · Post by **david111** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 3:50 am

find me one

ANU · Post by **ANU** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:23 am

one of my fav song this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz67HFwUBs4

ardamus · Post by **ardamus** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 6:51 am

i found one of his joints on a blog i check out periodically. i know i've got that Sunday School project somewhere on my comp. regardless, its good stuff. lol @ it being regular.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 11:52 am

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.

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Thu Aug 02, 2012 12:12 pm

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

Very well put.

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.

catfish hunter · Post by **catfish hunter** » Wed Aug 08, 2012 10:59 am

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:31 pm

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.

B. Ware tha Siniq · Post by **B. Ware tha Siniq** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 4:57 pm

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/

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:08 pm

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/

B. Ware tha Siniq · Post by **B. Ware tha Siniq** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 5:41 pm

Yeah I think I like the Tree EP and the Tone Skeeta joint the best out of those.

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 6:05 pm

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

Mindbender Futurama · Post by **Mindbender Futurama** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 8:21 pm

ANU wrote:one of my fav song this year

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sz67HFwUBs4

this shit goes

it aint new but it do what it doo

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Mon Oct 01, 2012 10:19 pm

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

I prefer Sunday School but it's damn close between those two. And they're all really good.

david111 · Post by **david111** » Tue Oct 02, 2012 1:04 am

i like the best of '3rd floor' more than tree ep or sunday school

Yohan · Post by **Yohan** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 3:10 am

Is everything from those LP's/EP's posted above produced by mr. Tree himself?

david111 · Post by **david111** » Thu Oct 04, 2012 9:10 am

pluto is industry beats; the Wit ep is prod. by tony baines. the johnson & johnson tape has one (two?) non-tree beats

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Sun Oct 07, 2012 11:25 pm

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

Employee · Post by **Employee** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 2:49 pm

http://soundcloud.com/mctreeg/something-mean-tree-ft-blanco

jredd109 · Post by **jredd109** » Wed Oct 17, 2012 11:40 pm

not the guy from the primeridian i guess?

drizzle · Post by **drizzle** » Thu Nov 08, 2012 1:49 pm

http://www.spin.com/blogs/first-spin-tr ... pe-trillin\

new mixtape streaming here

Versive · Post by **Versive** » Tue Nov 13, 2012 1:30 am

I can't get the stream working on my home computer or at work. How is it?

B. Ware tha Siniq · Post by **B. Ware tha Siniq** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 7:38 pm

Trillin' is up for download now. Anybody listened yet?

http://store.grimeyleague.com/music

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