♫♪  t o p $ - “too much [dumpster ver.]”

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It was only a matter of time before MPC addicts and serial sample archivists — y’all know, the folks who can tell the difference between AK-47 and Girl Scout Cookies, tabla and sambal, Meinl XVT Signature Series 21” ride and the Zildjian equivalent, Amnesia Haze and Blue Cheese, an AKG D112 or the Sennheiser e602, Grandaddy Purp and Blueberry Bayou Snuffleufagus — began to mine troves of muzak floppy discs (those shits held like 800kb (I’ve never ever held one in my life!) so like an opening alto solo and refrain @ 128kbs?) to char grill along with heart-attack helpings of beefy beat tape patties. The hip-hop breaks of the post-internet age.

What is post-internet? It is beautifully rendered watermelon halves on a platinum platter, floating down one of those miniature hotel-suite rivers from Oceans build 13 (the one where they steal everyone’s personal data). For a better example, stop by the Tiny Mixtapes office, where the collective “we” can be found churning out thinkpieces and adjusting the curve of our black Nike-mom caps. So does t o p $ (or topdollarsign, a clever nod to at least three different rap crews) manufacture ear friendly background beats for the squad to write juicy clickbait in $100 tapered sweatpants to? Or is he trying to make a grander statement? Peep “too much [dumpster ver.], the snarl of commodity, all bark and no bite, practically falls off the bone. Here, commercial hip-hop is stripped away to reveal the nothingness underneath.

• t o p $: https://soundcloud.com/topsdollarsign

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