Critics have also derided Westwood's apparent emulation of Black British pronunciation and dialect, which is claimed to be at odds with his middle class British origins.[25] In response to this Westwood stated "Honestly, baby, I get love out there, pure and simple".[26] His father, Bill Westwood, was the Anglican Bishop of Peterborough until 1996 (and was himself a prolific broadcaster).
In interviews, Sacha Baron Cohen has stated that Westwood, including his supposed fake Caribbean accent, was an inspiration for his fictional Ali G character.[27]
Westwood has been accused in the press of giving false statements about his age and background.[28] In 2000, at age 43, Westwood insisted to a Guardian journalist that he was aged 27.[29]
One of the few nerdcore songs I like is about that guy.
i have heard a few things by this dude
he seems funny, but i'm sure that hearing more than two of his songs in a row would become grating
I got Flattery Not Included when it came out (I think, anyway) and can confirm this. It's kinda funny but not very interesting to listen to and some of the jokes are rather esoteric unless you're a deep old school hip-hop listener.
As far as "chap rap" artists go Professor Elemental is better, but not by much.
"It's almost tragic that El-P can produce a handful of the world's best and most innovative records of all time, regardless of genre, yet still barely be lucky enough to make Pitchfork's illustrious best new music footnote. When Kanye West decides it's fucking brilliant to combine industrial and electronic influences with hip-hop, suddenly the music we've already been hearing since 1997's Funcrusher Plus is bukkake-worthy. But instead of crying about it on twitter, Killer Mike and El-P (fuck boys, think about it) release a short, 33-minute record absolutely brimming with ten of the hardest bangers known to man.
In an interview with New York City’s Hot 97, Big Boi revealed that the day after the elections, a white woman approached him at an airport and congratulated him on "his win last night" (Referring to Barack Obama winning re-election), to which Big Boi responded, "Bitch, I voted for Gary Johnson."[27][28] He has since confirmed his libertarian political ideologies.
This is hilarious but I'm really disappointed that Big Boi is a libertarian.
i hear way more about kanye's clothes than his music
plus yeezus sounds a lot more like death grips than anything else
half the fun on yeezus it watching kanye drag in like a laundry list of producers who have nothing to do with abrasive electronic music of any sort and trying to get these specific sounds out of them that they don't quite grasp correctly and having the end result forced into a pop album
The best thing I can say about Yeezus is that it was visionary in the traditional sense (as in, he had a very strong vision for the album) and it got a lot of people talking about important things.
That said, I might respect the album on some level, but I don't plan on ever listening to it again after the two or three spins I gave it earlier this year.
The best album to come out of GOOD this year was My Name Is My Name by Pusha T.
my name is my name has a cool cover, haven't listened to it at all. maybe i'll fix that now
also i wanna know exactly what thought process takes you from "i want to get some ABRASIVE ELECTRONICS" to "I'm gonna get daft punk to produce some tracks"
is it weird that the DP-produced songs on Yeezus don't sound anything like any of DP's own work to me?
like, at all?
no, because they don't.
There's some interview where Travi$ Scott and HudMo say that Ye basically tampered with outside contributions to such an extent that they're pretty much indistinguishable from everything else (the way they say it they make it sound like a positive, but that's not how I interpreted it). It's kind of the opposite of DP's last album in that regard.
It's kind of a shame because with HudMo on the project I was really expecting to hear Kanye West and maybe an illustrious guest or two spit over something like "Furnace Loop" but that didn't happen.
the super abrupt cutoff on that yeah sample + that kinda plunky noise are both A+ choices
AND IT GETS BETTER i love that off in the distance choir
im so buying this.
im gonna walk to Target tomorrow and pick this up
"Numbers on the Board"? The entire album doesn't sound like that but I liked the whole thing a lot. The Rick Ross feature on the one track is one of his best verses in a long time.
the super abrupt cutoff on that yeah sample + that kinda plunky noise are both A+ choices
AND IT GETS BETTER i love that off in the distance choir
im so buying this.
im gonna walk to Target tomorrow and pick this up
"Numbers on the Board"? The entire album doesn't sound like that but I liked the whole thing a lot. The Rick Ross feature on the one track is one of his best verses in a long time.
the super abrupt cutoff on that yeah sample + that kinda plunky noise are both A+ choices
AND IT GETS BETTER i love that off in the distance choir
im so buying this.
im gonna walk to Target tomorrow and pick this up
"Numbers on the Board"? The entire album doesn't sound like that but I liked the whole thing a lot. The Rick Ross feature on the one track is one of his best verses in a long time.
Sweet Serenade
also apparently the man singing was Chris Brown?
Yeah he's on one of the tracks somewhere but who cares tbh. He's gotten to the point where whenever he appears on a mainstream record it's as a faceless backup vocalist a la John Legend or that Tony guy.
I still think that "Daft Punk" by Pentatonix is better than Daft Punk's entire output, but I'm in the minority.
An understandable (if alien) preference.
Like I dunno I like some of their earlier stuff but everything off of their last album I've heard (I still have not heard the whole thing) has just not impressed me. Were it not for the robotic bit on the very end of "Get Lucky" I would've never even known it was them.
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OK like I'm sorry, I like Ready To Die as much as any hip-hop fan, but I would not want a Biggie Smalls blanket, that's just fucking weird.
As far as "chap rap" artists go Professor Elemental is better, but not by much. That's still kinda weird. Especially the one on the left.
This is hilarious but I'm really disappointed that Big Boi is a libertarian.
a review of Run The Jewels, apparently.
That said, I might respect the album on some level, but I don't plan on ever listening to it again after the two or three spins I gave it earlier this year.
The best album to come out of GOOD this year was My Name Is My Name by Pusha T.
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also, MNIMN is probably the best coke rap album since Port of Miami.
There's some interview where Travi$ Scott and HudMo say that Ye basically tampered with outside contributions to such an extent that they're pretty much indistinguishable from everything else (the way they say it they make it sound like a positive, but that's not how I interpreted it). It's kind of the opposite of DP's last album in that regard.
"Paper Rock Scissors" by Don Trip & Starlito.
I need to find a copy with a version of "Suicide" that isn't damaged.
hm.
also I thought Beyonce's album was actually like called Self Titled, am I incorrect?
of course now I'm listening to MNIMN again, but I'll hear that eventually.