Welcome to Insult to Injury, the place where the Noisey editors gather every week to discuss what they've been listening to. For this edition, we were joined by a very special guest: Ty Dolla $ign. We love Ty and Ty loves orgies, so we talked to him a lot about them last week. And if you haven't picked up Beach House EP, do so today.
I’m currently listening to a couple albums. I’m listening to this guy from Australia named Ta-ku. His album [50 Days for Dilla (Vol. 1)] is sick. It’s got sick beats and he gets other people to come sing on it. It’s a vibe how he starts it off. It’s that old soul sample, that’s like, [begins singing] la da dah dah dah. I can’t remember the name of that song, but then he kills that off and goes into some other shit. So I’m digging his shit and I hope I get to work with him one day. I been listening to the album for a couple months but I finally looked at his Wikipedia yesterday and found out he was from Australia, so shout out to that dude. I’m also on some old shit right now, D’Angelo’s Voodoo. That is one of my favorite albums and I’m about to listen to that right now.Ty Dolla $ign
Ty on Twitter
"I ain't fight my way to the top of the food chain just to be a vegetarian," Killa muses on "Humphrey," the first drop from his Federal Reserve EP with A-Trak, coming soon on Fools Gold/Poppington/Dipset. I've listened to this song probably a hundred times since it hit the internet, and I'll probably listen to it a hundred more before the weekend ends. At his best, Cam spits with the effortless flair that most of us mortals can only achieve in dreams of flight. You can almost hear him meditating, preparing to morph into the Super Saiyan he truly was for a good half-decade, in the first half of the track, exploring A-Trak's triumphant, Heatmakerz-esque sample, only to explode at the one-minute mark. But his is is a combustion borne of love: of craft, of Harlem, of running circles around the competition despite never appearing to move at all.Drew Millard, Features Editor
Drew on Noisey | Drew on TwitterTotal Control Henge Beat
Considering how many promos are on my desk, it is fucking IRRESPONSIBLE how much I love Henge Beat. This goddamn record is more than two years old but for some reason I cannot, and will not, escape from it. Out of all the records that have come out in the years since, Total Control's most recent LP is still one of those albums that stays rotation, joining Mobb Deep's The Infamous in my pile of records that I'll listen to at least once a month. If you're a fan of Suicide, goth-y post-punk, garage, synth-punk, or any combination therein, you owe it to yourself to devour this LP.I gotta get back to this pile of promos.Fred Pessaro, Editor-in-Chief
Fred on Noisey | Fred on TwitterThe Front Bottoms - "Twin Size Mattress"
Please let me do some old man complaining for a minute. I drove out to Long Island to see these dudes for the first time last night and they were great. But the average age of their audience was fetus. I’ve never felt so old in my entire fucking life. At one point, the Front Bottoms dude found a wallet because there were about 500 kids jumping on stage and taking selfies as they stagedove. 2014: What a time to be alive. So anyway, Front Bottoms dude opens the wallet to see who it belongs to, revealing that it is a fucking VELCRO WALLET. At that point, I felt like I was the chaperone for a punk field trip. I tried to treat myself to IHOP on the way home but it wasn’t open past midnight, apparently. IHOP, Long Island, and the youth of America: Get your shit together.Dan Ozzi, Contributing Editor
Dan on Noisey | Dan on TwitterEyedress "Teen Spirits"
Things that are great about this video and this song:1.The pairing of the doomy synhs with star-gazing vocals.
2.The kinda busted bedroom beats.
3. Pretty girls accessorizing and making out.
4. Drinking wine in the pool.
5. The sight of bikinis while we sit through this frigid winter.
6. Vengeance.
7. The befuddlingly brilliant lack of narrative.
8. The fact that Eyedress is a 23-year-old Filipino named Idris Vicuña.
9. The lyric: "When we die/Will you still be mine/In the afterlife/Till the end of time.?" Good question.
10. Everything.Kim Taylor Bennett, Style Editor
Kim on Noisey | Kim on TwitterTaking Back Sunday "Flicker, Fade"
I, Ezra Marcus, and definitely not Drew Millard, am really into the new Taking Back Sunday song. Why is Taking Back Sunday putting out legitimately based and inspiring #emorevival tracks? Why stunt on the jumbotron like that? Why put a comma in the title of this song? The answer to all of these questions and more is when the world's on fire and there's nothing left to burn, you might as well scream, and throw a mandolin into your comeback single for good measure.Ezra Marcus, Guest Editor
Ezra on Noisey | Ezra on Twitter
Hey guys, Eric Sundermann here. Definitely, 100% me. I am from Iowa. I live and love in Greenpoint. I like wrestling, because again, I am from Iowa, which is in the midwest, which is a place where they like wrestling. This song, performed by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and "Slick" Rick, is about The Rock trying to buy a piece of pie from Slick Rick. Slick Rick then plays a woman who tries to seduce The Rock. It's pretty incredible. If you jabronies out on the internet don't like it, you can kiss my ass.Eric Sundermann, Managing Editor
Eric on Noisey | Eric on Twitter
Young Thug's "Dead Fo Real" was my most played song on iTunes last year which means absolutely nothing besides the fact that those 2 minutes were EUPHORIC anytime I put it on. It worked in every situation: taking a shower, walking to the train, that moment when you realize you're too high and you start to get really cold and walk outside to smoke a cigarette. EVERY. MOMENT. He's having an exciting year already, which you probably already know, so when I got home Tuesday night to the news that Nicki—yes, I'm writing about her again this week and hopefully every week for a few months—hopped on his remix, I was ecstatic.I have no doubt Drake tuned her into it—that's not doubting Nicki's taste, it's because I have mobile alerts on her Twitter and she tweeted at him minutes after it dropped. She snatched the auto-tune and Thug's flow—something I find entertaining for a quick remix—and talked about fucking your wife, Jessica Biel, and DROPPING A MIXTAPE AND ALBUM. We want it, we get it, we'll wire the money, we'll never think twice. Hearing her on "Danny Glover" was refreshing—if only for the fact that she's really in mixtape mode, something people (and some fans) have been begging of her since Pink Friday dropped and it wasn't as rap-centric as Beam Me Up Scotty. But again, much like "Boss Ass Bitch" or her verse on YG, she sounds calm and readied for the storm—which we'll hopefully see in a week and a half.Lauren Nostro, Guest editor
Lauren on Noisey | Lauren on Twitter
Ta-ku 50 Days for Dilla
I’m currently listening to a couple albums. I’m listening to this guy from Australia named Ta-ku. His album [50 Days for Dilla (Vol. 1)] is sick. It’s got sick beats and he gets other people to come sing on it. It’s a vibe how he starts it off. It’s that old soul sample, that’s like, [begins singing] la da dah dah dah. I can’t remember the name of that song, but then he kills that off and goes into some other shit. So I’m digging his shit and I hope I get to work with him one day. I been listening to the album for a couple months but I finally looked at his Wikipedia yesterday and found out he was from Australia, so shout out to that dude. I’m also on some old shit right now, D’Angelo’s Voodoo. That is one of my favorite albums and I’m about to listen to that right now.
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Ty on Twitter
Cam'ron & A-Trak - "Humphrey"
"I ain't fight my way to the top of the food chain just to be a vegetarian," Killa muses on "Humphrey," the first drop from his Federal Reserve EP with A-Trak, coming soon on Fools Gold/Poppington/Dipset. I've listened to this song probably a hundred times since it hit the internet, and I'll probably listen to it a hundred more before the weekend ends. At his best, Cam spits with the effortless flair that most of us mortals can only achieve in dreams of flight. You can almost hear him meditating, preparing to morph into the Super Saiyan he truly was for a good half-decade, in the first half of the track, exploring A-Trak's triumphant, Heatmakerz-esque sample, only to explode at the one-minute mark. But his is is a combustion borne of love: of craft, of Harlem, of running circles around the competition despite never appearing to move at all.Drew Millard, Features Editor
Drew on Noisey | Drew on TwitterTotal Control Henge Beat
Considering how many promos are on my desk, it is fucking IRRESPONSIBLE how much I love Henge Beat. This goddamn record is more than two years old but for some reason I cannot, and will not, escape from it. Out of all the records that have come out in the years since, Total Control's most recent LP is still one of those albums that stays rotation, joining Mobb Deep's The Infamous in my pile of records that I'll listen to at least once a month. If you're a fan of Suicide, goth-y post-punk, garage, synth-punk, or any combination therein, you owe it to yourself to devour this LP.
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Fred on Noisey | Fred on TwitterThe Front Bottoms - "Twin Size Mattress"
Please let me do some old man complaining for a minute. I drove out to Long Island to see these dudes for the first time last night and they were great. But the average age of their audience was fetus. I’ve never felt so old in my entire fucking life. At one point, the Front Bottoms dude found a wallet because there were about 500 kids jumping on stage and taking selfies as they stagedove. 2014: What a time to be alive. So anyway, Front Bottoms dude opens the wallet to see who it belongs to, revealing that it is a fucking VELCRO WALLET. At that point, I felt like I was the chaperone for a punk field trip. I tried to treat myself to IHOP on the way home but it wasn’t open past midnight, apparently. IHOP, Long Island, and the youth of America: Get your shit together.Dan Ozzi, Contributing Editor
Dan on Noisey | Dan on TwitterEyedress "Teen Spirits"
Things that are great about this video and this song:1.The pairing of the doomy synhs with star-gazing vocals.
2.The kinda busted bedroom beats.
3. Pretty girls accessorizing and making out.
4. Drinking wine in the pool.
5. The sight of bikinis while we sit through this frigid winter.
6. Vengeance.
7. The befuddlingly brilliant lack of narrative.
8. The fact that Eyedress is a 23-year-old Filipino named Idris Vicuña.
9. The lyric: "When we die/Will you still be mine/In the afterlife/Till the end of time.?" Good question.
10. Everything.
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Kim on Noisey | Kim on TwitterTaking Back Sunday "Flicker, Fade"
I, Ezra Marcus, and definitely not Drew Millard, am really into the new Taking Back Sunday song. Why is Taking Back Sunday putting out legitimately based and inspiring #emorevival tracks? Why stunt on the jumbotron like that? Why put a comma in the title of this song? The answer to all of these questions and more is when the world's on fire and there's nothing left to burn, you might as well scream, and throw a mandolin into your comeback single for good measure.Ezra Marcus, Guest Editor
Ezra on Noisey | Ezra on Twitter
The Rock feat. Slick Rick "Pie"
Hey guys, Eric Sundermann here. Definitely, 100% me. I am from Iowa. I live and love in Greenpoint. I like wrestling, because again, I am from Iowa, which is in the midwest, which is a place where they like wrestling. This song, performed by Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and "Slick" Rick, is about The Rock trying to buy a piece of pie from Slick Rick. Slick Rick then plays a woman who tries to seduce The Rock. It's pretty incredible. If you jabronies out on the internet don't like it, you can kiss my ass.Eric Sundermann, Managing Editor
Eric on Noisey | Eric on Twitter
Young Thug f/ Nicki Minaj "Danny Glover (Remix)"
Young Thug's "Dead Fo Real" was my most played song on iTunes last year which means absolutely nothing besides the fact that those 2 minutes were EUPHORIC anytime I put it on. It worked in every situation: taking a shower, walking to the train, that moment when you realize you're too high and you start to get really cold and walk outside to smoke a cigarette. EVERY. MOMENT. He's having an exciting year already, which you probably already know, so when I got home Tuesday night to the news that Nicki—yes, I'm writing about her again this week and hopefully every week for a few months—hopped on his remix, I was ecstatic.I have no doubt Drake tuned her into it—that's not doubting Nicki's taste, it's because I have mobile alerts on her Twitter and she tweeted at him minutes after it dropped. She snatched the auto-tune and Thug's flow—something I find entertaining for a quick remix—and talked about fucking your wife, Jessica Biel, and DROPPING A MIXTAPE AND ALBUM. We want it, we get it, we'll wire the money, we'll never think twice. Hearing her on "Danny Glover" was refreshing—if only for the fact that she's really in mixtape mode, something people (and some fans) have been begging of her since Pink Friday dropped and it wasn't as rap-centric as Beam Me Up Scotty. But again, much like "Boss Ass Bitch" or her verse on YG, she sounds calm and readied for the storm—which we'll hopefully see in a week and a half.Lauren Nostro, Guest editor
Lauren on Noisey | Lauren on Twitter