Yeah, I agree with that; the verse is not Dre's voice (in so much as Dre even has a voice these days). I give it a pass, though, just because his presence is so iconic and it's a key part of the song's Visit L.A. sales pitch
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Dre's verses have always been karaoke
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
u sound young
he used to be better at hiding it
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
thats silly. ppl used to criticize his rapping all the time & they were wrong then too
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
xpost I dunno, 2001 was pretty much all Dre karaoke and it was awesome in part because of that (this was the beginning of his "so what if I use ghostwriter? no shame in it phase.") I think the problem is he's never had a ghostwriter with a voice as distinct as Kendrick's
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:07 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, he used to seem less slavish in his imitation of his writers. i kind of put the fault on kendrick for writing dre something so obviously in his own voice tho.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
eminem?
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:08 (twelve years ago) link
xp i don't buy that. jay-z, eminem, snoop, cube, doc?
yeah, eminem/snoop/cube were all strong voices too, obviously, but their personas heavily overlapped with Dre's in a way that Kendrick's doesn't. They all have their quirks, but there are a lot of interchangeable verses among the four of them. Kendrick is a real outlier
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:17 (twelve years ago) link
i kind of put the fault on kendrick for writing dre something so obviously in his own voice tho.
yeah, this is kind of true, but I give him a pass since I like the verse well enough anyway
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
i dont think kendrick is an outlier, its just a new voice'forgot about dre' is super obviously a bunch of em verses in like every way, we just give it a pass cuz we heard it a bunch & its a dope song
― littledotheyknow (D-40), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i don't know how you could consider kendrick's flow more distinctive than now "eminem" dre's verse in forgot about dre was
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:30 (twelve years ago) link
i dunno, maybe it's just that i didn't realize he didn't write his own raps at the time, but dre sounds way more "himself" on the chronic and 2001 to me.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
totally agree; the ghost verses on "Forgot About Dre" were all angry and defensive, so they played on the popular image of Dre in a way that was believable enough
― Evan R, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:42 (twelve years ago) link
it must have been hard for eminem to channel than angry and defensive vibe dre wanted
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:44 (twelve years ago) link
for me it's less about the content than the rhythms
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 22:47 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― Number None, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
some spin on the ball here:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwamhuY6Yy8
― Reg, Monday, 13 August 2012 14:07 (eleven years ago) link
i like this guy's stuff.
― sorry for asshole (dog latin), Monday, 13 August 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
This guy is the new Nas
Take that as you will
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6krHJGimets
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
i really like him. take that as you will.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 August 2012 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
Doing a track with Lady Gaga apparently
― Number None, Thursday, 16 August 2012 09:10 (eleven years ago) link
i'm actually looking fwd to that quite a lot, doesn't seem like a natural fit
― lex pretend, Thursday, 16 August 2012 09:25 (eleven years ago) link
i like him too. i also like nas
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 09:26 (eleven years ago) link
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Wednesday, August 15, 2012 7:34 PM Bookmark
This could mean practically anything.
― The Reverend, Thursday, 16 August 2012 10:01 (eleven years ago) link
ie maybe he is literally writing the songs on the new nas record
― very sexual album (schlump), Thursday, 16 August 2012 11:01 (eleven years ago) link
i dont see how that could mean practically anything; he holds a very specific place in hip hop
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
so specific, in fact, that calling anyone else "the new Nas" is utterly meaningless
― some dude, Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:17 (eleven years ago) link
well, you can take it as you will.. you must guess at D-40's own appraisal. and if you guess wrong, BAM in the dunk tank you go
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:22 (eleven years ago) link
lol seriously
― some dude, Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:33 (eleven years ago) link
i dont really see what's so hard to understand about that parallel
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:01 (eleven years ago) link
who's putting anyone in the dunk tank?
i mean, it seems evident to me Kendrick is a really talented rapper who's talent is so uncontroversial that he becomes a stand-in for 'quality rap' -- focus on skill above all, dry rap style, this kind of focus on purity of rap as a technical skill
you guys really cant figure that shit out on your own?
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
track in the OP = the new biddybiddybop
― bert yansh (Hurting 2), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Section 80 was a lot weirder than that description suggests. Not too mention stuff like Cartoon & Cereal
― Number None, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTsKXc3Cixg
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
haha Nas is about 2 billion times weirder than kendrick
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
"Not too mention" christ
― Number None, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:11 (eleven years ago) link
matt otm
i assumed deej's post was a comedy copy&paste due to the capital letters. guess not :/
― ticagrelor rotini (k3vin k.), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:15 (eleven years ago) link
kendrick and his pals are kinda the kinder gentler odd future in a way. your mom would like kendrick! but he's got the goods! and he is totally interesting to listen to. you want to hear what he has to say. and in that way he is nas-like definitely.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
it's to the point now where it makes it hard for me to listen to nas...am i'm one of the boring ones that thinks illmatic will always be the greatest hip hop LP ever....but yeah he's got such a heavy vibe of just being fucking nuts now, he weirds me out....and it's not in this like Lil' B/Kool Keith way where their persona is being kooky (B) or insane (KK) but there are always like 25 throwaway o_O lines on any Nas album (if not more) where you're like what the fuck are you on dude?
like some dude pointed out on twitter the weird "b3stiality p0rn" reference that comes out of nowhere on the new album
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:18 (eleven years ago) link
haha you're overstating it a little but that creeping strangeness and oversharing is part of what imo makes post-Illmatic Nas continue to be worth listening to
― some dude, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
yeah maybe!
i like the new one pretty much
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:20 (eleven years ago) link
omg google upper mississippi sh@kedown and find bestiality porn
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
Lol
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:26 (eleven years ago) link
i attribute those weird nas throwaway lines less to weirdness per se and more to a certain tone-deafness about how to say things, which is obviously an odd thing to say about a rapper, but i finished his latest album feeling vaguely sorry for him
― lex pretend, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, that's otm about Nas' tonedeafness.
My point earlier is there are so many different points of Nas' history and facets of his character that have come and gone that "the new Nas" without any other explication is pretty much a Rorschach Test.
― Vagelis (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know if there's an elegant way to say women love it when you fart in your face because you are psychic
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
― Vagelis (The Reverend), Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:20 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
im thinking more in critical reception & less in music although probably musical presentation
― protected by kl0pper. stand back (D-40), Monday, 20 August 2012 02:10 (eleven years ago) link
Drake can't even watch the weather forecast anymore pic.twitter.com/5vokNK1uZE— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) June 21, 2024
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Saturday, 22 June 2024 03:03 (four days ago) link
Drake's next song is going to be called "I'm Not Owned!"
― Iacocca Cola (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 June 2024 03:08 (four days ago) link
"Not Like Us" is a collection earworm lines, his delivery is such that somehow I have a bar like "1-2-3-4-5 plus FIVE" stuck in my head
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:26 (yesterday) link
the one that’s been rattling around my brain is, “say drake, i hear ya like ‘em young”
― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:29 (yesterday) link
the voice he does that one in is so good
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:31 (yesterday) link
its kinda olde timey
― lag∞n, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:32 (yesterday) link
same (xpost, re: they're not slow) ^
i am far too busy for such a task, but i am tempted to do a poll of this song's earworms some late night after everyone else is asleep
― alpine static, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:34 (yesterday) link
oh wait, i just realized i read that wrong.
"like 'em young" is good, too
but the one i can't stop saying is
"hey drake, they're not slow"
but honestly, there are like 30 of these in this one song
to me, the very best of the bunch is:
BEAT YO ASS AND HIDE THE BIBLE IF GOD WATCHIN'
― alpine static, Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:35 (yesterday) link
my son immediately latched onto "Baka got a weird case, why is he around?"
The Atlanta verse almost sounds like KRS could have rapped it on Edutainment:
Once upon a time, all of us was in chainsHomie still doubled down callin' us some slavesAtlanta was the Mecca, buildin' railroads and trainsBear with me for a second, let me put y'all on gameThe settlers was usin' town folk to make 'em richerFast-forward, 2024, you got the same agenda
― A So-Called Pulitzer price winner (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:36 (yesterday) link
“Bear with me for a second, let me put y'all on game” = I know this is a diss track, but for the moment I’m taking you to school
― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:39 (yesterday) link
yeah totally KRS
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:40 (yesterday) link
all eyes on me and I'mma send it up to PAC
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:41 (yesterday) link
first couple times I heard:
Pole on him, extort shit, bully, Death Row on him
as
Pole on him, extort shit, Willie DeFoe'n 'em
which i still like a lot
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 19:42 (yesterday) link
kind of wish there had been a 'let my little homies on ride on you' section to one of the track. Bring out Baby Keem for some absolute garbage.
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:28 (yesterday) link
He could do an extended version with three or four guest verses like that. Give Rick Ross one.
― paisley got boring (Eazy), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:31 (yesterday) link
Baby Keem is definitely the Memphis Bleek of Top Dawg
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:31 (yesterday) link
Pull a "Dear Summer" on Baby Keem's next record
― papal hotwife (milo z), Tuesday, 25 June 2024 20:34 (yesterday) link