Guess who’s back with the random-ass mixtapes? Tracklist and link down bottom.
1. Charles Is Wack 2
2. Cozy
3. Dreamer Friends Are Pretty
4. Feisty Scholarship Fund
5. Over 36 Hours
6. Pharmacutical Pedicure
7. Public Domain Music
8. Yit Tit Tee
DOWNLOAD: Charles Hamilton – Snap Crackle Pop (FreEP)
dis ninja lame
does anyone actually give a shit about CH anymore NOPE!!!!!!
quality not quantity
I was wondering when CH was going to release a new mixtape.
I like that it is all freestyled, but on the other hand I can’t keep up
i’d rather have him put out 1 good mixtape with class A aterial then 76 of these nonsense freEP’s n mixtapes.
nice n fuk all hatin ass niggas y u here. yall bitchniggas like roaches
Serious question……have any of these random ass mixtapes been worth the d/l? let me know
256 kbps , not 256 bits per kilo-second charles..
@Guy The Binge Vol. 3, Well This Isn’t Akward, Autumn Harvest, Gynophobia, Atlantis And A…, 10 Things I Hate About Me, The L Word II, Segahamilton.blogspot.com, Grow Wing Pains, The Charles Hamilton Project, Hamiltonstrumentals, Where is Charles Hamilton?, Spelling Bee, Starchaser Radio (CH/H2),(for your locker) 3-Song High School/Campus, Sonic the Hamilton 2: HD, reIntervention, reInstrumentals, Snap Crackle Pop
WERE ALL RELEASED IN 2010… thats 19mixtapes in a year idk what ur talkin bout
i guess he doesn’t realize no one cares about his need for attention anymore. back to Mickey.
i guess i’ll try to like but more than likely this will be more crap
Co-Sign @txican “Quality over quantity”
CH’s problem is he releases too much, Jay’s problem is that he doesn’t release anything…
this dude sounds like he’s deepthroating the mic or something. all these tapes like he no longer wants to make unique good music and would rather just put out tape after tape full of generic rap. fall back charles
” Feisty Scholarship Fund ” is a crazy freestyle!Charles can freestyle better than most rappers out
i think charles puts out this much music all the time is because he has nothing better to do. idk how he makes a living, but apparently he never leaves the studio.
the WHOLE TAPE was FREESTYLED OFF THE DOME
won’t be going up on Gud Skunc . com
nickr ur a retard dude was CLEARLY being sarcastic
Only thing good from charles this year was the binge 3 (that was a properly thought through project) and maybe that shit that should have been an album. after he released those 6 random tapes in one day i was like WHAT THE FUCK.. im not downloadin your shit anymore guy… keep it QUALITY mr. charles. 10+ incohesive tapes/projects maybe? (guessing).. I respect the hardwork but seriously now
^ Did u even listen to those 6 random tapes? Those were recorded in about 6 month span and charles stays in the studio like everyday. Theres was way more quality than anything. Charles is killin shit off the dome and written
Any of ya’ll have a link to the new Waka Flocka album?
Guy^^^^ I downloaded it and schemed through the shit… If you would seriously even consider listening to 6 tapes that you have just downloaded you are probably a huge fan or u need to be in mental inst.like charles was… He’s freestyling is fucking awesome I will admit.. But i prefer people to have more structure in there work. Just My Opinion
BTW the stuff i did hear i wasn’t impressed with
Just to let you guys know this is a all-freestyle mixtape
# 6 is amazing
HARDEST WORKING RAPPER
Who let him release this???????
please download to witness a train wreck.
this guy does music all day and everyday each project has a new feel to it charles is very creative im about to check this out
the thing is, this has always been CH’s style
i used to complain about him being Mr.RapidFireMixtape
but if you truly understand Charles’ “i dont give a fuck” attitude
then you’ll respect his view more
like…this music shit is what’s keeping him alive
he’s said it more than once
…so i respect the grind
…cant wait for a truly solid project though
this is Beast!!!!!!!!! there all freestyles and there dope for real take a listen
@ Hermes I am a huge charles fan or what he calls a starchaser and yes I do need to be in a mental inst. Charles drops some mediocre stuff at times but hes the best out imo showing skill
2dopeboyz sucks dick. they didnt post reIntervention, Sonic the Hamilton 2, and others. and u give negative comments about CH saying “another random ass mixtape” f*ck that shyt, post sum more gay ass Drake and other wack n*ggas
I love 2dopeboyz, really, but this time I gotta cosign with 2dumbboyz, really what’s wrong guys? Charles is insanely talented like it or not and his works are always honest deep and conceptual (no stan shit trust me)… and you wrap all that up with some “random ass mixtape” shit? WTF? M/A/T/E was one of Charles’ most important works, his final written album… random ass mixtape… HOW ABOUT TAKING A RANDOM ASS LISTENING TO THE FUCKING MUSIC SOMETIMES…same thing for all the quality over quantity guys… but well everyone has his taste I guess…
COMPLETE CO-SIGN of comment directly above me.
“more random ass mixtapes” lol 80percent of his tapes are themed. WHy do the dopeboyz hate so hard on charles? id post all his “random” projects before alot of the whack BS yall post.
@MelvinBurch how can i get some of your instrumentals for non profit stuff?
Smfh yall dont post half his projects anymore and when you do you sign them off as Random Ass Mixtapes. There all themed and most of them are PROJECTS or ALBUMS dont random ass mixtapes douchebag..M/A/T/E was Charles’s final album and had an great theme to it and you just put the no mirrors thing in quotes and tried to make it sound gay and wrote off the first track as str8 outta lil b’s playbook. And this project is straight freestyles recorded from Ustream. wouldnt take the extra effort to write that. You know his shit is all public domain now his profit is the personally rewarding expiernce of making music, and you guys have a lot of influnce on the c-section dont just call it trash without a listen
and smh at everyone that just says “quality over quanity” every charles post WITHOUT even listenin to 1 song
@guest i’m a charles fan myself and I will say 90 percent of all the shit he has put out in the last month has been complete SHIT. it upsets me to see how horrible his projects have been. dude has all the potential in the world, but his musical style is going in the wrong direction now.
2000 mixtapes a year is too much
I don’t know why people are saying these are random…if they saw his blog they would know this is The Re-Hamiltonization
Nobody cares enough to check his blog therefore leaving his career screwed. You can’t manage your entire career over the computer godamnit
keepin it real charles.
How about the ‘starchasers’ explain (and this means give examples of his lyrical ability and/or why the poor sound quality is worth listening to) instead of just saying the same old canned phrases like “you’re just not LISTENING to his lyrics” or “low quality is just his sound.” because it sounds to me like his die-hard fans just want to sit on their high horse, pretending they’re understanding what he’s talking about and doing, when he’s really not being coherent at all.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not a hater, but before his hiatus I ranked him at least Top 3 in the ‘Most Original Hip Hop Artist’ category. He wasn’t rapping about the money, clothes and hoes that’s so prevalent in the mainstream, but he also wasn’t constantly dissing the mainstream, talking constantly about being in the hood and political issues which seemed just as prevalent in the underground scene. He rapped about mental and personal issues and thought that goes way beyond what most people would define as ‘conscious rap’ and that, along with his undeniable work ethic and quirkiness, was what drew me to him in the first place, and I’m sure it’s the same situation for a lot of other people who don’t seem to blindly support everything he does and says.
There’s a lot that I don’t feel in regards to his ‘new’ approach and sound. First off, the lyrics themselves; I’ve listened to the vast majority of the tracks since the hiatus, and nothing seems to be sticking, at least not with me. It could be because he’s talking gibberish, or it could be because I can no longer relate, both things I consider to be factors. It could also be going over my head, but I’m a pretty sharp guy, and Lupe is my favourite rapper, so it’s not as if I don’t know my way around the English language. There’s so much of his earlier stuff where what he talks about is easy to follow, but still satisfies my appetite for lyricism: “Straight crack, got rockers boppin’/great rap, got hip-hoppers moshin’, knowledge droppin’/like your brains gettin spashed on the curb, I rap for the ‘burbs and them cats flippin’ birds.” and “Burger King birthdays as a youngin’/Back when I wasn’t sure that I could be somethin’.” were just some of the lyrics that really resonated with me when I heard them. With the newer stuff, I can’t think of any quotables or standout tracks, except for ‘Order My Steps’, ‘There’s Nothing Like It’, ‘Some first single type ****’ and the 3rd verse of ‘Speak No Louder’ (since the first 2 were old, to my knowledge).
Then there’s the sound/inspiration. Again, this is something I’ve found increasingly harder to grasp over time; Well Isn’t This Awkward is my favourite concept mixtape to date and My Brain Is Alive is my favourite mixtape, period. I loved the little audio clips at the end of most/all the tracks in Intervention and the very end of ‘Desperate Tears of Certainty’ really wrapped everything up almost perfectly. Compate with M/A/T/E…WHY are mirrors the enemy? What effect (if any) would not looking at them throughout the recording process have on your sound? Then there’s the sound itself. Yes, what Charles has done recently with his vocals and instrumentals is absolutely original, but just because something is ‘original’ and ‘different’ it doesn’t means that it is GOOD. Something which is unoriginal is normally that way because the approach has worked in the past, or has been tried and tested. Now let’s look at Starchaser Radio, almost any way you look at it, lowering the vocal quality to the level that he did there is a bad move, ESPECIALLY in a genre that is as lyrically focused as rap (or as he’d call it, Nu-Hop, just to further clarify that I’m not just an ‘ignorant hater’). Why make it harder for people that are interested in what you have to say to hear what you’re saying? This is probably where someone would say “But The_Anon! You have to listen to it in headphones, the way Charles intended!” True, it sounds better in headphones, but so does most other music, and it still sounds pretty bad in my opinion, most stuff on stereo has more clarity than that. I can’t understand the thinking behind making something awful to listen to on stereo and just passable to listen to on headphones when it’s possible to make something sound great on both.
Then it’s the release of the mixtapes themselves; it’s random to anyone that doesn’t have his blog as their homepage, and is probably random to some of those too. I found it enjoyable, if a little bit fast during the Hamiltonization process, and even after that, because although he didn’t announce their release they’d come out at a reliable pace, lots of sites also responded and as a result it was easier for me to get a hold of and know what it’s about/wherever people liked it or not. The cover art was often good too, and that along with the regular releases and the tracks themselves gave me the impression that even though he released tracks at an blistering pace compared to others, he cared about his work, not just about the lyrics, but the whole package. That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, but there was a bit of structure when he was regularly releasing tracks before the single.
I think what I’ve said above outlines why a lot of people and sites have stopped checking for him and his projects, which is a shame because lots thought him along with other capable of bringing a new sort of subject matter to the mainstream with his lyrical ability, though B.o.B isn’t doing too bad for himself in that regard.
If Charles is doing music just for his sake, then more power to him, I can really respect that he’s doing what he wants to do instead of feeling pressured into going for commercial success, but if he wants to spread his message, gain listeners and “change the way consumers buy music” like he said in one track, then he really has to work to achieve that; instead of working hard as he always has done, he needs to work smart too.
And since someone will no doubt ask, writing something this long is nothing to me and I’m pretty bored, it’s pretty ironic that the type of people that would diss me for writing something this length would fancy themselves as a sucessful rapper.
Guess what guys…… Another mixtape from Charles Hamilton
This time its called “One” and he says its his last CD of 2010
He also go download reIntervention. I think that’s one of his best of 2010 so far(next to Autumn Harvest, Atlantis, Awkward and SC Radio)
CLICK MY NAME FOR THE LINK TO IT.
2DOPEBOYZ ADMINS NEEED TO PUT THIS ONE UP.
i absolutely 100% agree with The_Anon about CH…even though i didn’t read the entire essay. haha
TRASH PLEASE TAKE THIS DOWN
@The_Anon .. EPIC. I wish everyone read your comment
This one of the best yet. wish he went over his own beats tho
overall, im a pretty big CH fan. This is definetly one of the more solid mixtapes or whatever you wanna call it. Not shit quality either
The Anon with the wisdom. Props homie agree with you
“CH’s problem is he releases too much, Jay’s problem is that he doesn’t release anything…”
Tone Riggz said this on September 27th, 2010 at 3:53 pm
^^THIS^^
“If you’re not listening, then I got to give them a different spitting climate, but since a barbies who needs to climb it, how bout metal has a bout with hell and melt with plastic, and I come back with a belt for blacking”… so thats not raw? if you really think about it. and it was off the dome
last mix tap was fucking garbage lets hope this one is beter
@Jalen haha if they take garbage down 2dobeboyz will be up all night for 3 days
people need to take note this is freestyled. and u can tell its one take freestyles not wayne styled. this is a really good freestyle tape, lames.
its type wack how this dude makes so much great music and gets dissed by the blogggers and the ppl… on a side note he needs to stop with so much material i just started getting into growing pains he can make some real great “Classic” genius stuff and some just plain horrible shyt
sonic is dope a ORIGINAL hip hop artist we don’t have many of those people
2DBZ needs more people like @The-Anon
I’m saving that feedback and will from this post onwards will be found on every CH feature.
stop frontin like he aint the man
@The_Anon I totally get your point, if you have any questions Icould try to answer them. I’ll do my best.
And btw, your comment was awesome… finally someone who just explain why he has a problem with CH instead of just saying “this is wack or this is gay” and shit… well done.
@The_Anon and others…. CH is often about Context. A lot of the newer stuff was NOT made for you or to get him out their like that. Its for Starchasers (um its called Starchaser Radio) who have the proper context to understand the “stranger” releases. TRUST ME (I think I’m right). If you listen CAREFULLY you can figure out what kind of project your listening to. Try to hunt the context.
I understand this is asking a lot of the hip-hop community which is part of the reason he is releasing them in the way he is. IF you think about it all it makes sense. Dude is still shitting and more importantly CAPABLE (as he’s proved OVER AND OVER) of fucking 99% of the game up.
No disrespect anywhere.
Ok, lets look at this all CAREFULLY
1.CH comes out and puts out ton of amazing music FOR EVERYONE (early stuff – crash landed and the process, etc)
2.People who don’t really listen to his music say HE’s WACK , a liar, etc, while his fans or “starchasers” are all watching it go don and laughing at dummies who missed “it”.
3.CH continues this abuse of the general stupidity in our “community” (folks just generally not knowing what the fuck they are talking about in Hip Hop…..surprise) until he runs away for a long ass time leaving “true” Starchasers looking for him and the music THEY like.
4. And when dude comes back the Mainstream and many of YOU expect him to cater to their ears and likes even though SOME OF THE VERY SAME COMPLAINERS TURNED THEIR BACKS ON DUDE and sit back and allow HATERS to make dumb ass comments about some of the best music out today. If half of you liked his music half as much as you say you do CH would probably be in a different place in more ways than one.
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To be honest (just read, the read that sounds like “red” to prevent misunderstanding, the current comment above me by DJBLACK, which I probably will touch on, and The_Anon’s) I only check this blog to see what other people have to say about my favorite artist’s music. I don’t get mad, I just go: “Wow.” Some people are way bigger fans than me, but because I have and listen to almost everything C.H. has made public, I’ll take the label “Starchaser.” I went from a somewhat suicidal mentality, to a “Well, I don’t really care if I die, but it won’t be from some dumb *s-word*.,” type *s-word*. Just from music, mostly C.H.’s music. It gave me someone/something to relate to, the feelings related to everyone being against you, people not wanting to see you happy, failing to meet expectations that you didn’t even know existed, etc. Not saying that I’ll go back to my old self if his music stopped, only because it had that big of an effect. Well, not only because of that, because he exposed other genre’s and musicians through his sampling craft. And even that music is what I think is better than nearly everyone I hear my peers recite at school (high school). But it’s my opinion, everybody has them. Similar to what Dillaheads say (“Dilla changed my life.”): “Charles Hamilton changed my life.” Didn’t forget what I said…
“If half of you liked his music half as much as you say you do CH would probably be in a different place in more ways than one.” -DJBLACK. Yeah, he would, many great people would, but people would rather burn their money when they die rather than give it to a family that needs it. Somehow “that’s just how it is sometimes.”
For what The_Anon said, most of it is your opinion, at least from what I can see, and I respect it, nothing else I can do, right? I disagree for what was said about “StarChaser Radio” (“haha”, not in a disrespectful way). I don’t think anything is wrong with the sound quality, it’s just how he (C.H.) makes his music. Kind of how people dress, like how people wear their shirts. Some like them baggy, some like them fitted.
I didn’t write my college essay question response thing or do my monologue (which both were about something that makes you who you are today), but I wrote this… “L.O.L. what?!”
Thanks for the feedback @ :P, Jay, Kal and Answer Me!
ZeNiTH: I wouldn’t even call it a problem I have with him, I realise that he has since gone in a different creative direction. But when you begin to differ creatively it’s inevitable that some people won’t be able to appreciate the new direction, and I consider myself one of those people, I don’t see it as a reason to hate on him at all, but I also don’t see a reason to continue supporting what he does, just because it’s Charles. Just like when a band splits up for individual ventures. You have no right to hate on their decision, but you also have no obligation to continue to follow or promote what they do on their own or after they change.
@DJBLACK: Ah, I understand you on the context thing, again, its something that I can’t see as a good idea. If he wants to make his music just for his ‘Starchasers’ then that’s fine, it’s just that he can’t expect support from those that have been shut out by the barrier he now puts around his music, when previously there wasn’t one. The only MC I can think of that is more esoteric in his lyrics is Lupe Fiasco; the difference between Lupe and CH is that I can always figure out the context and hidden messages in Lupe’s tracks by listening hard/often enough, while it seems to me I need some special nugget of knowledge posted up to Charles’ blog or twitter to be able to have a chance of understanding what he’s talking about on the tracks. There isn’t really any other MC that doesn’t want to be as clear as possible to anyone who hears them, and since I consider articulation as a vital MCing skill, along with flow, techniques and punchlines (amongst others), CH gets a low score for me in that regard.
Was point 4 addressed to me? I don’t expect Charles to cater to my ears at all; it’s just that when he came out he was talking about bringing change to hip hop (the track with Asher Roth and B.o.B, etc) and now it just seems like he’s completely backpedalled and is just in his own niche. I can accept that his goals may have since changed, but it seems he still wants a bit of the spotlight because he’s been doing stuff like tweeting Royce and wanting to spark a discussion on who’s the better underground artist, doing tracks with J.Cole and recently trying to get in contact with Wale and Blu; all artists which are infinitely more affiliated with his older, more conventional style than his new one.
It’s a shame from my point of view, but I can understand it; best of luck to Charles in his future endeavours but I don’t think I’ll stick along for the ride.
Just seen Emphy’s comment:
I can respect your opinion about Starchaser Radio, but I don’t think the shirt analogy is completely accurate, it largely doesn’t matter how you wear your shirt, unless it you’re in certain social situations.
I’d like to think that it’s a fact that music is made to be listened to. Breaking that down further, rap or ___-hop music has a particular emphasis on the lyrical content being listened to and understood. The beat is mainly there to supplement the lyrics. When you add noise to the music or degrade the quality, it becomes incresingly harder to understand what is being said; something counter-productive for something such as rap or ___-hop.
I think a better analogy is this: People wear footwear, different people prefer different types (trainers (or sneakers as you call them over there :p), boots, converse etc), and different colours, but the basic, most vital function of footwear is to protect the feet, not to look good. What I think Charles is doing is akin to putting on whatever footwear you like, deliberately not doing up the laces and having them so loose that they nearly fall off after each step, and you’re constantly tripping over yourself.
THIS NIGGA USE TO BE MY FAVORITE RAPPER….BUT NOW ITS JUST BEEN BULLSHIT AFTER BULLSHIT
This Sh1t Gooooeeeesssss
i wil no longer downloads this cats music until he proves himself worthy again
The_Anon, Emphy (expecially in the first part) and DJ Black… Huge cosign guys… what else can I say… I’m happy that there still are people who can make their point clear like that… Now those are some kick-ass comments! And about Charles, I think he just puts all of his essence in his music: the lyrics the beats, the sound… everything has a deep meaning… and yes lately the music he releases is more hard to appreciate than the past but I think its because he got even deeper with it… so its harder to get.
With that said we all have our tastes and opinions, so…
ihink that his “One” album was better than this
^ *I think*
after giving each song 2 listens (just to make sure that i was listening…), TOTALLY DISAPPOINTED. whether it’s freestyle or written is not the point… WACK IS WACK, and it’s sad for me to say that the 2010 charles hamilton is STRAIGHT GARBAGE.
since NORMALCY, the only projects that i felt from him is ’10 things i hate about me’, ‘tafietu’ (after listening to it 3 times) and ‘atlantis and a…”
sigh… but it is what it is, that’s how charles hamilton hustles. i just wish that he could put out quality shit again. even though he put out a lot of shit in 08/09, at least over half of it had quality. but this year, i’m totally disappointed.
if that “one” project isn’t on his 08/09 level, then i’m done listening to dude until i hear a single that’s on “brooklyn girls” potential or better.
p.s. PLEASE CHARLES GO BACK TO WRITING.
The “One” project has good lyrics…but the quality in some songs are still annoying. His last instrumental track on there is okay..it be better if he didn’t mix it down the way he did. (thinkin of remastering it tho lolz)
New Charles Hamilton…. CDQ
Click my name for the link.