Stay Hatin

Anonymous asked: Yo Serg. Do you/will you have any more Stay Hatin stickers in the future?

Yeah I’m going to put in a sticker order for 500 stickers this month. I’ll post up about them soon enough. Actually might get 1000 and do a split some of the og style and some a new square version.

Anonymous asked: Why are young people so fucking stupid

We all start out stupid. Babies can’t even fucking read, dumb motherfuckers shit their pants and only know how to get food by crying. Make a sandwich and get a goddamn job already dumbass.

Old people are idiots too though. They wear phones on their belts, have difficulty understanding FB commenting etiquette, they use stamps and ask people to make them fucking cds. 

we can’t win

-Serg

Anonymous asked: What's up with Texas? in the mid-2000s they were running shit, but now their shit seems hyper local. I mean, I like Trae and Z-ro, but they seem to be content doing what they're doing. who is the new talent?

It’s like any scene, there is still shit going on but since it’s not the latest trend bullshit media centers aren’t focusing on it and ny revivalists are holding on to dreams of a comeback to relevance and everyone is looking for more chicago shit.  It’s hard though because almost all the southern rap blogs are so Atl focused and the big ones just post the same shit. Also there just aren’t any big up and coming crew’s like there were 7 years ago when you had BHOz, DSR, SUC, and Swishahouse. Now it seems like everyone is on some solo shit or just not trusting each other so it’s hard to build up enough hype about texas artists. Not to say it can’t be done but that’s part of why it’s not getting as much national attention.

As for people to check, Kyleon might actually finally put out an album. Yellaman and Lil Pooh in Dallas have been dropping some dope stuff. Found a new track by DeLorean today that was cool with Mr.Rogers on the beat so there is hope for his tape when it drops. Yung Nation isn’t terrible all the time and has a new tape. Tum Tum still drops a song ever 3 months. The League out of Austin. That Mobbin No Sobbin tape just dropped. oh yeah Dough Beezy has been on some joints with Kyleon and dude is cool so look for him too. 

I’m sure I’m forgetting more but that’s what came to mind during this hangover.

-Serg

Anonymous asked: I'm glad you guys are keeping this podcast going after Matthew passed on. I used to think Soft Money was an unnecessary third wheel, but he's come into his own recently. His rapport with Serg is great. And he picked some (mostly) quality songs for the latest episode. We at the Marriott, the Marriott.

Aww, gee whiz, thanks anonymous internet denizen and Stay Hatin listener.

I think I’ve said this on the show before, but after someone passes away, you often hear their friends and family talk about doing something “because that’s what s/he would have wanted,” and I kind of always thought that was bullshit, or at least, couldn’t really reconcile the sentiment (because I’m a cold-hearted dick, but let’s leave that aside for a second). 

After Matthew passed, though, and Serg told me he wanted to keep our little corner of Tumblr going, I was relieved, because sitting in my apartment in the days and weeks after the accident, I kept thinking, “We have to keep this going, or else Matthew will be disappointed,” for all the reasons that others have articulated far better than I could ever hope to.

I don’t think I’ve ever really said much “publicly” about losing Matthew, and I don’t plan to really change that because grief is fucking personal and social media is clearly not the place to share genuine human emotions, but suffice it to say that not a single day passes when I don’t think of him and get flooded with incredibly bittersweet emotions. Matthew’s passing changed the way I live my life in many ways - there’s so few people that enter your life, give more than they take, and make you want to be a nicer, better human like them, that losing a friend who does those things basically forces you to take a personal inventory. The cynicism woven in the fiber of my DNA often makes me want to just be pissed and sad about it, but there’s far better, “Matthew Approved” outlets to channel that negative energy into, like hating on creatively bankrupt rap music and sharing great music with real people you care about, which forces you to stop being that emo kid from the locker bay nearest to the art & theatre departments in high school.

Now, to the person who asked about where to start with Max B: I’m not very well-versed in his catalog, but the tumblr tag seems like a good place to start, or check this YouTube playlist.

To everyone reading this: thank you immensely for listening to our podcast, and please don’t fill our ask box with questions about “Soft Hands” Graham and reggae, though.

<3

-Soft Money

Anonymous asked: is SXSW fun for casual rap fans? it seems like you need to be an industry person or know the artists personally to get around. plus it seems exhausting.

Yes but I would recommend copping a wristband if you want to hit up showcases. I’ve had friends roll without wristbands or badges but it makes it tuff to get into official events that have lines as without any of these you become the lowest priority to be let in the venue. The wristband at least gets you in front of the people who just want to go to a show and lets you bounce to other things with out having to constantly wait to pay at the door.

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Anonymous asked: what programs do you use to podcast? I'm tired of censoring rap for my college radio show and I want to podcast instead.

The short answer is this: I play songs off of itunes off my laptop and record on my same laptop using Acid 8. As for getting the podcast online I use the tumblr rss and feedburner.

Actual setup is all this:

 I use an Alesis 8 channel for the mic’s. Before I realized I could just play itunes and record via the usb I was running the laptop output into a channel. I used to use audacity but it had issues loading the Alesis as an external soundcard. I got tired of figuring out what setting was off because it didn’t remember, Acid was no issue, plug and play. You probably don’t need an 8 channel, just depends on what you’re trying to do. I got it because it was the easiest way for me to run 4 mics and play music all at once. I also run a small 4 channel headphone amp to split the Alesis headphone output. I also built a small box to switch the mic’s off and on. The alesis doesn’t have a mute mic button so to turn the mics off when playing music I just wired up some mic cord inputs and outputs with 4 on/off push buttons wired in series for each mic.

At the studio I was running my laptop into the mixing board via the dj mixer aux. Last show I just loaded the songs onto their comp that runs Tracktor which allowed each song in tracktor to have it’s own fader on the mixing board. I forget what software they use to record because they just dump it on a flashdrive for me and I edit it at home with Acid. I have way less editing to do this way though because it’s a studio inside of the Youth Radio station in Oakland so it’s way easier to maintain levels on their mixing board.

hope that helps, if not feel free to ask.

-Serg

trapmoneyhuddy asked: L M A O. That essay response! Keep laughing at us lames player, you're the fucking man!

No problem Trapmonyhuddy. You messaged Stay Hatin and asked us to stop hating so the response was hating, sorry about that I hope you make it out the trap so you can get the tumblr scarfhoodiecloakcape you’ve been dreaming of.

-Serg

Anonymous asked: how is stay hatin the only podcast on the internet? I don't understand!

ME EITHER! WHY ISN’T ANYONE ELSE DOING THIS! IT’S SO PRODUCTIVE AND EXHILARATING! 

trapmoneyhuddy asked: Your propaganda thing slandering Drake is lame as fuck. He's quite obviously one of the best doing it currently and it's just childish to maintain the consistent hate when he's proved to be consistently one of the industries top artists at the pinnacle. Wherein it's the most ugly and deserving of hate, Drake manages to continually produce good rap music. I mean do you guys, but that shit is embarrassing/flagrant.

look I know it can be confusing but here’s a tip, don’t take things that use Comic Sans seriously, ever. Also maybe you don’t understand how humor works but you make fun of things and then laugh at them. Like when I read sentences that say:

“He’s quite obviously one of the best doing it currently and it’s just childish to maintain the consistent hate when he’s proved to be consistently one of the industries top artists at the pinnacle”

you know who is also at the top? fucking Taylor swift with her mommy funded dreams and a bunch of shithead old timey kneeslap fucks called the Lumieres of FUN or whatever the fuck kind of heehaw ass bullshit music you want to champion that I don’t give a fuck about. Drake is a punchline to me and I don’t give a shit about his crybaby rap that you want to put on when you feel like throwing tears at a dollar as you sit there thinking WOW this is good rap music.

If making drake a punch line is flagrant then go ahead and throw me out of this worthless ass game because I’m just over here laughing at you lames anyways.

I MADE A RAP PAMPHLET AND YOU GOT ASSHURT ABOUT IT. DOG I DON’T THINK I’M THE ONE WHO NEEDS SOME SELF REFLECTION.

Anonymous asked: noz and serg! i can feel the bromance growing.

like I don’t have enough people in my life to discuss and push my personal hiphop agenda and/or belief system on.

-Serg

This is what Serg would be doing if he went to SXSW this year. Things he would really want to see are highlighted. Not because they are better than everything but they are acts he hasn’t seen or because he really wants to see them again. You’ll notice Gunplay is highlighted a bit more than the rest and that’s because he fucking should be. That is the one thing that makes me consider just bailing on work and copping an plane to San Antonio to get a cheaper rental car and holler at some homies for a place to sleep in austin.

This is a list of Showcases, for other parties Serg recommends vice party, fader fort (default meet up spot for beers and seeing friends), Thrasher has some dope line ups (the adolescents, the shrine, mammoth grinder, and blackbreath!), Mass Appeal Party has lots of rap ( Kendrick Lamar, Bun B, Pusha T, Danny Brown, Alexander Spit, A$AP Ferg), Beer N Tacos has French Montana and Yo Gotti, Brooklyn Vegan should have dope stuff too, I haven’t seen a line up for the Mess With Texas SXSW party but that’s usually some cool rap worth hittin, oh and check if Full Metal Texas is happening. I’m sure there a lot more but considering I’m not going this year I’m not going to spend the usual hours I do hunting down RSVP’s. I advise you to RSVP to everything even shit you’re not going to because the last thing you want to be is that shithead dude with your friends stuck out side like an idiot begging to get in. Don’t be that lame.

For those that don’t know I advise having lots of options because sometimes what decides what show you go too depends on where you are and who’s got drinks. If you’re real dumb figure out what doesn’t need a badge and if it does go early if you’re on amateur status and can’t make moves. If anyone uses and goes to see gunplay you better fucking jump on someone for me.

Oh and there is suppose to be some punk ass show on the lamar pedestrian bridge saturday night that you’d be advised to peep.

Tuesday, March 12

• 8:00 PM Don Canno
• 10:35 PM Reese 404 Austin
• 11:40 PM L.E.P. Bogus Boys 404 Austin
• 12:00 AM Mikkey Halsted 404 Austin
• 1:20 AM Freeway 404 Austin

westcoastbounce asked: Acouple questions. Where do i start with Max B? his catalogue is overwhelming and I want a good start point. I wasnt to impressed by the new Underachievers, what did you think? I thought it was average and over hyped by people.

Soft Money is probably the one to answer this. I don’t listen to max b, I’ve never got into dipset that much and by the time I heard about max b I wasn’t that interested in going down that rabbit hole.

I’ve only skimmed that underachievers but yeah I’d say it’s average. It’s still in my phone so I’ll probably give it another listen but so far it hasn’t sounded amazing or anything.

-Serg