106 & Park Begs More Questions Than It Answers (aka rapping miami vice)

There's a thread about Umbrella. Rihanna is Barbadan, btw, with no connections to Miami that I know of. I have no idea who produced it.

I haven't caught 106&P in a hot minute, what else was on?

ilm is not my friend

I'd get last year's DJ Khaled album if you haven't already. I'm sad no one responded to this since I love this production style and I have a feeling I'm missing out on a lot of good shit.

Yeah I don't think this is necessarily a Miami thing in anything but the most abstract sense (the only Miami artist on the countdown right now is Rick Ross on "We Takin' Over"), although it kinda feels like every rapper in the world spends half the year in Miami these days so maybe it's some kind of vague pervasive vibe. Cool & Dre and The Runners and the Diaz Brothers are definitely developing a certain Miami production aesthetic that kind of matches what's described above, but the only song any of them have had on 106 & Park lately is Jeezy's "Dreamin'" by The Runners, which isn't really sparkly or 80s or whatever. I guess I could see "Get It Shawty" and "Umbrella" and "Buy U A Drank" fitting into whatever this crackpot theory is, though.

ok excellent. you should see me downloading - so beautiful.

so in so far as one aspect this crack pop theory is the relationship between this new music and some type of 80's cocaine inspired hitz... uh, i guess what i'm trying to ask is let's say you were making a mix that had umbrella and welcome to miami on it - what songs from the 80s would you put on there. anymore contemporary song suggestions, also appreciated.

i kinda feel like maybe there's some detroit techno that could flow w/this?

fergie 'glamorous', nelly furtado 'say it right', diddy + keyshia cole 'last night' sounds really 80's to me.. lots of polow da don tracks, but he's atlanta not miami

the 80's style is really everywhere now, though - lots of the teenagers i see buying clothes in h&m downtown dc are wearing bright colors, 80's silhouettes and hairstyles, chunky jewelry including those big gold chains a la run dmc

10th anniversary show!

free & aj are back & they have tigger hosting in LA

trey songz opened

now marques houston is being interviewed

this is delightfully random

right now they're interviewing bobby valentino, yung joc & keri hilson

terrance j & bobby v are talking about running their hands thru free's afro

i totally missed the julissa era but she's in a mall in north carolina

plies is in the building

it legitimately sounds loud as fuck

loooooooooooooool

there was an ultimate fan contest

it was won by a man named donald

he gets to interview plies

first question

"plies, what keeps 106 & park so hot?"

they're asking every single guest "what's your favorite 106 & park moment" and they're all like "uhhh... first time i was on 106"

ne yo is doing "one in a million" or w/e this song is called

def a good joint

oh he went into "miss independent"

I REMEMBER WHEN

he's laying the MJ on a bit thick

JA IS IN THE BUILDING

now ashanti is performing

i'm really loving this

not this performance per se but

oh yeah i should note that at the beginning of the show when they were teasing all the artists to appear at the end they said "AND LADIES......... CHRIS BROWN!!!!!!"

oh hey it's dipset (minus cam)

lol freeky doesn't even have a mic, he's just standing there

juelz talking about 106: "other shows tried but they couldn't immolate it"

oh hey it's ciara!

welcome

it's............ginuwine!

okay!

his favorite 106 moment is the first time he got to come on 106

ugh the reverence for chris brown is for real fucked up

NELLY IS DOING "COUNTRY GRAMMAR" WHAT ARE THE CHANCES

well he did the chorus at least

oh hey it's the "E.I." chorus

sixth grade!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

the "E.I." first verse!!

someone kill him before he gets to his new song please!

such a pure time

hot in herre!

he stopped at "hot in herre"

that was fun

oh he had the first #1 video in the history of 106 & park

michael e. lee (?) & evan ross

what the fuck

oh, micheal ealy (?)

jamie foxx is an asshole

meth got pillows banned from the 106 couch cuz they used to have pillow fights but then someone got hurt

DEEEEEEEEE JAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYYY KHHHHHHAAAAAAAAAAALLLLLLLLLLEEDDDD

lol russell simmons commercial about carbon footprints

BOW WOW

AND

LIL ROMEO

AND

CHRIS BROWN

holy shit bow wow is TINY

lil romeo isn't there btw

FAB IS DOING BREATHE

his lex luger single sucks balls tho

who is lil zane

lol bow wow is doing 'fresh az i'm iz'

i only remember who lil zane is cause he got to take a verse on the craziest fake-timbaland beat ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk7PcG9gBG8

oh right

pretty sure i heard a song of his own once. i don't remember it.

RIP DJ Megatron; amazingly fucked up and pointless killing over the weekend.
They forced the hosts of 106 and Park to soldier through the episode and it was INSANE television; both Terence and Rocsi were coming apart at the seams, visibly falling apart and near hysterics but BET was launching their big 106 and Park iPad app and all this new branding and Wale and Mindless Behavior and Mary Mary were on so they pasted on lost smiles and dead eyes and oh my god it was astonishingly fucked up television.

Ouch. RIP young guy and father.

I wish I'd known Jordan was live-commenting the 106 anniversary when I was watching it. Bow Wow really is weirdly tough-and-tiny.

Re: Megatron, seriously sad. It's also been bugging me to notice that this gets reported in about 8 billion places that would never have considered anything the guy actually did newsworthy. Or maybe not "bugging" me -- I understand why it works out that way -- but it's depressing and misleading.

i have never seen people try to do a puffball show where they START this way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oUqxkwJkqI

like a half hour later on what's more or less a live show, they're asking mindless behavior what touring with janet is like.
terence and rocsi looked so dead inside.

really ridiculous that they chose to air this episode; utterly insane.

4.31
this guy is a clown but man, really feel bad for him that they forced him into this position.