Muscians I wanna hang out with

New York- Okay so I'm a little late to the party to break down a best of 2011 music piece so ill take it a step further. What follows are all artists that I discovered within the last 365 days who's music I enjoy, but more importantly I wanna hang out with. That takes a lot as I generally hate people, yet at the same time fear their disapproval. This has lead to many friendships I wish I didn't have, but we'll save the inferiority complex for the unfortunate soul who does my psych evaluation during my inevitable prison bid. These are artists who's music makes me want to put all prejudice aside and spend time with them cracking jokes and probably trying to pick up chicks. Gotta give a ton of credit to baby bro for most of these, because of all his many faults, taste in music is not one of them Before your ADD kicks in ill move onto the list.

HOPSIN

This dude has lost his damn mind. I first heard him as a feature on the Tech N9ne track Am I a Psycho? with B.O.B. Here he is with the King of Independent Hip Hop Tech himself. You should know something is a lil off with a guy when he makes a reported devil worshiper look the normal one in the picture. From what I can tell hes a suburban Cali kid who makes up the craziest stuff he can think of from his childhood bedroom. In the time before YouTube he would be just another pimple faced quiet type who would probably get arrested for beating up an old lady at a cross walk. Now he gets to rap about his fantasies involving Nicki Minaj naked and blowing the minds of hipster rap fans to the tune of millions of views. Definitely a dude I wanna buy a beer for and see what happens.

Dylan Owen

Every high school has a Dylan Owen. That dude who goes to your nearest major city and performs at comedy clubs at 16. He writes poems to girls he wants to bang, and actually does through with it. He's the type of dude who knows what he wants, puts the work in an gets it. Definitely, the type of dude I wanna kick it with and have a chat with. Dude would straight up motivate me, hes lived out just about every dream hes had to this point in his life. If we could all be so lucky I would already have a swimming pool filled with Kool Aid at all times, but I'm no Dylan Owen. It doesn't hurt that hes a fan of real rappers right now, some of which are on this list. Kids just a cool up and comer I recommend to everyone I speak to. 

Mac Lethal

Now, most people know Mac either from his days at Rhyme Sayers with Atmosphere and his boys, or from the 8,000,000 YouTube videos he has talking about crazy white boy things. I personally got on him off the Dylan Owen album, a feature that was supposed to validate D.O. not the other way around. Its crazy how things work out, but I'm glad they did. I latched onto Mac and fell in love with his ridiculous cadences. He is a battle rappers wet dream able to spit bar after bar after bar of potent punchlines in a 1 minute round. It would be hard to beat him if you could understand every word. I don't know about you but as a suburban white boy I got really turned to Rap by Eminem and I'm not ashamed to admit it. Em made his career from battle rapping, and Mac seeks to do the same. For that reason alone I would love to hang out with him just cracking jokes and looking for the best way to calculate punch lines. If he could do that while making pancakes that would be dope too.

Miles Fisher

Try to tell me you don't like this track. I know I tried to convince myself I hated it the first time I heard it. But once again baby bro rears his pretty boy head and I'm stuck with this song on repeat for days in my car. The beat is infectious, the lyrics so bubbly and simple. It's a cover for Christs Sake, but dude straight owns it. I know none of his other work, or if he even has any, but this video where he nails Christian Bale to a T and rocks out American Psycho status makes me want to give this guy a glass of red wine, throw on some Huey Lewis and compare business cards. Well that and if I do try to pick up chicks with anyone on this list, hes option #1.

Timeflies

Speaking of being late to the party, it took me a year to get into my high schools Dylan Owen. I'm an unabashed homer, but even if I wasn't it would be hard to omit Cal and Rez. These dudes OWNED 2011 from an independent standpoint in the sense that I've paid to see them twice and bought their album, legit can't say that about any artist other than Tech that's pulled that off from me int he last 5 years. P.S. Tech is now doing tracks with Lil Wayne, just sizzlin. These dudes are fun, funky fresh and I make it a point to find the hottest girl I can at their shows and discuss how pretty Cal is and I've seen these same girls frantically searching for whether or not the band left yet WHILE THE HEADLINER IS STILL PERFORMING. Dudes can def pull groupies, which is more than enough justification to want to chill with him. Unfortunately, I don't get to hang with him cause hes to busy having his music play at the ending highlight reel for the Big 10 Championship to show up to our townie Secret Santa party, but I do get to talk smack to him in 2 fantasy leagues so that's gotta count for something right?