fwiw this is still probably my favorite Kanye West track that doesn't have extensive appearance from someone else (Luda has the chorus and that is all).
i remember it being inconsistent in terms of the music, though i do not recall it well enough to speak about the quality and delivery of the lyrics
Ludacris' more recent efforts have been spotty and the last mixtape by him I listened to was actually like, really bad. It contained the phrase "MySpace hoes", in 2012.
Bro fell off.
I already did my AOTY list and am now thinking about what to do for songs of the year.
because it fits on neither list, I will posit Busta Rhymes & Q-Tip's The Abstract & The Dragon as the most disappointing release of this past year.
At best he's a decent but unremarkable pop rapper (see something like "Started From The Bottom" or his verse on "Forever" a few years ago), at worst he writes douchey manchild ballads that I can't honestly imagine anyone appreciating.
i'm not like talking about consistency in terms of quality, i remember the beats being good/decent, they just seemed all over the place in a really jarring way
actually Drake getting pissed for no reason might be my favorite thing about Kendrick Lamar's "Control" verse and almost justifies the pointless faux-controversy it created.
i'm not like talking about consistency in terms of quality, i remember the beats being good/decent, they just seemed all over the place in a really jarring way
that's a relatively common problem in pop-rap albums actually, especially ones from the early to mid 2000s. Result of having a lot of talented but not necessarily flexible producers on the same project at once.
if you get rid of Hold My Liquor, Blood On The Leaves and Guilt Trip you get roughly a half an hour of good tracks that work together nicely.
Why didn't they just cut those out of the final release, make it a solid EP as opposed to an iffy album?
i dun geddit
I get the impression that the general public just doesn't like EPs as much as albums. That if the CD is too short then you're not getting your money's worth; that EPs are the dumping ground for material that was't good enough to make it onto an album.
I used to have that attitude, but no longer. In particular, when it comes to musicians I really like, I find myself enjoying their EPs even more than their albums. Because the perception of the EP as a "lower stakes" release frees the artist up to experiment and to go with their gut rather than second-guessing the life out of their songs.
And ~30 minutes is a perfectly respectable length for an album.
At best he's a decent but unremarkable pop rapper (see something like "Started From The Bottom" or his verse on "Forever" a few years ago), at worst he writes douchey manchild ballads that I can't honestly imagine anyone appreciating.
me and my little sister spent 20 minutes last night seeing who could do the laziest/most mumble-y rendition of Started From The Bottom
not sure who won
and then we tried to find the shittiest cover of the song by a white girl on an acoustic guitar
At best he's a decent but unremarkable pop rapper (see something like "Started From The Bottom" or his verse on "Forever" a few years ago), at worst he writes douchey manchild ballads that I can't honestly imagine anyone appreciating.
me and my little sister spent 20 minutes last night seeing who could do the laziest/most mumble-y rendition of Started From The Bottom
not sure who won
and then we tried to find the shittiest cover of the song by a white girl on an acoustic guitar
honestly it being a mumbly mess is the only thing that makes "Started From The Bottom" sort of entertaining.
hipsters like drake because they are huge on blunt, raw, painful authentic honesty type dealies
and as nobody would make a song about being a douchey manchild unless he had nothing else to write about (*so it must be honest*) and listening to such things is painful, they can't get enough of it
hipsters like drake because they are huge on blunt, raw, painful authentic honesty type dealies
and as nobody would make a song about being a douchey manchild unless he had nothing else to write about (*so it must be honest*) and listening to such things is painful, they can't get enough of it
my first experience with the wu-tang clan was that time i was stuck with only that limp bizkit album to listen to at my dad's place for a week while my mom was drinking
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As somebody who's not really a pop listener I don't think you necessarily have the proper context to appreciate it in that way, no offense.
Yeezus was a weird album for me and my opinions on it remain very mixed.
fwiw this is still probably my favorite Kanye West track that doesn't have extensive appearance from someone else (Luda has the chorus and that is all).
I just like the big riffs
Bro fell off.
I already did my AOTY list and am now thinking about what to do for songs of the year.
because it fits on neither list, I will posit Busta Rhymes & Q-Tip's The Abstract & The Dragon as the most disappointing release of this past year.
At best he's a decent but unremarkable pop rapper (see something like "Started From The Bottom" or his verse on "Forever" a few years ago), at worst he writes douchey manchild ballads that I can't honestly imagine anyone appreciating.
I used to have that attitude, but no longer. In particular, when it comes to musicians I really like, I find myself enjoying their EPs even more than their albums. Because the perception of the EP as a "lower stakes" release frees the artist up to experiment and to go with their gut rather than second-guessing the life out of their songs.
And ~30 minutes is a perfectly respectable length for an album.
(Said EPs were D.A.I.S.Y. Rage by Kitty and Rival Dealers by Burial, ftr)
better than the originals.
there were a lot of good posse cuts this year.
I think Hitboy might be a magician. Or a time traveler.
Unless you're just relating a personal experience for no reason, which I have done before and thus understand.
This is all I have so far. Hmm. :/