roxanne shanté?
― lex pretend, Monday, 22 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
Lolita Shanté Gooden on November 9, 1969
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
notorious BIG really was big
― all mods con (k3vin k.), Monday, 22 October 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
god i'm STUPID haha
erick sermon
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
lol @ me he was even in the same crew as keith
wow if you said one of lolita/roxanne is her stage name and the other is her birth name...most would not have picked correctly
― lex pretend, Monday, 22 October 2012 20:11 (eleven years ago) link
this is a good album but everytime i listen to it i start to get kind of antsy and end up waiting for it to be done or changing to something else before it's over
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
ugh i only have 200 words to review this nooooooo
― king louie riel (rennavate), Monday, 22 October 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link
oof that would be a tough album to sum up in 200 words
― terrell sug (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 22 October 2012 21:31 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i lobbied for 500-600 words but newspaper industry failing and so on...
― king louie riel (rennavate), Monday, 22 October 2012 21:32 (eleven years ago) link
can't decide if the lyric "You hired me as a victim" is classic or a little on-the-nose corny
― boxall, Monday, 22 October 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
His Al Sh1pley is Kendrick Lamar Duckworth, fwiw
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Monday, 22 October 2012 21:57 (eleven years ago) link
i had 300 to review this and actually found it kinda freeing
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 October 2012 21:58 (eleven years ago) link
dm the link to your review j0rd
― king louie riel (rennavate), Monday, 22 October 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
it's not running until tomorrow i think
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 October 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
ahhh fair play
― king louie riel (rennavate), Monday, 22 October 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
is fairplay gunplay's new name?
― lex pretend, Monday, 22 October 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
help I keep listening to the Drake song
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Monday, 22 October 2012 23:52 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure this will be all on the radio in a couple months and I'll get sick of it, but I don't even care right now.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Monday, 22 October 2012 23:55 (eleven years ago) link
It's the most attractive Drake's been, like, ever.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
yeah it's the kind of relatable drake we don't hear as much of lately in the midst of all his "no lie"-type gangster posturing
― king louie riel (rennavate), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:08 (eleven years ago) link
I've never found Drake relatable for one second. But he's not embarassing here.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:15 (eleven years ago) link
the drake song is the one moment on the album where i cant help but tune out kendrick for some reason
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:48 (eleven years ago) link
like, the meaning of the words he's saying.
I don't find many artists relatable but it's one of the few times on innumerable collaborations/duets/appearances when he sounds buoyed by the company.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
anyway, great record i probably wont play that often outside 3-4 tracks
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
:/
― boxall, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:11 (eleven years ago) link
I'm furious that I likely will be buying an album with Drake on it because I really, really like this
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:12 (eleven years ago) link
― boxall, Monday, October 22, 2012 11:11 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hardly a criticism its the nature of 'album-albums' like this
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:14 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah didn't mean it as 'u mad' more like 'it's sad' but prob not untrue, for now I love it and that's enough.
― boxall, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:16 (eleven years ago) link
fwiw several listens in, this is a much more coherent and appealing "album of the year" critical orgasm candidate than either My Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Fantasy or Frank Ocean's album
― The Owls of Ja Rule (DJP), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:19 (eleven years ago) link
agreed
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
at the risk of being crucified what is it about drake that riles everyone so much
― monotony, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:51 (eleven years ago) link
he's pretty terrible for one
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:52 (eleven years ago) link
as a personality he can be really aggravating and as a pure rapper he's pretty average but in terms of vision for his music/sound he's kind of unparalleled in contemporary rap
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 04:53 (eleven years ago) link
but what do you mean by "pretty terrible"
i dunno i am pretty much a rap dilettante but stuff like "over" and "lord knows" is pure ear candy to me :|
― monotony, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 05:07 (eleven years ago) link
9.5 p4k
― Evan, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 05:35 (eleven years ago) link
I don't find many artists relatable
Interesting. I'd say for me, listening to music is primarily an empathetic experience, and if I can't relate on some level I don't have any interest in listening at all.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 05:36 (eleven years ago) link
haven't had time to spend with this yet. i love that gunplay's POWPOWPOW still appears in the background on 'money trees'.
― tpp, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 07:43 (eleven years ago) link
"lord knows" is not exactly a representative drake track
― all mods con (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 09:58 (eleven years ago) link
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Tuesday, October 23, 2012 1:36 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that in itself is interesting to hear from someone who seems to listen to a lot of instrumental or dance-oriented music (although to be fair i have brought in the katz many times in my own life).
― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 10:43 (eleven years ago) link
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 05:14 (6 hours ago) Bookmark
idk i could just be a little burnt out on it now but it seems to me fair comment that this album's rescreen (<- i use this word deliberately) value may be pronouncedly more limited than most (not that this detracts from its quality or that longevity should be a part of a critical toolkit)
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 11:04 (eleven years ago) link
dunno why pitchfork invented themselves an unnecessary imaginary deadline for that review, if you aint got anything insightful to say yet then maybe chill out and wait?
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 11:08 (eleven years ago) link
5/5 from fact too
― monotony, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
The Observer review is one of the most content-free reviews I've ever read. I know this is an impossible record to capture in a capsule review but it genuinely tells you nothing.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 11:51 (eleven years ago) link
haha, love the illuminating quotes
isnt that one of dom's special admirers iirc
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:27 (eleven years ago) link
saw the fact reviewer and skipped it
i know that guy probably tries his best more than most but sorry, just burn him with fire
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:30 (eleven years ago) link
itt non writing man bitches everyone out
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:31 (eleven years ago) link
obs capsule rvw word length is 100, grau is 180. it feels like a lot more
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
if you aint got anything insightful to say yet then maybe chill out and wait?
this week has def been pretty awful for showing up the limitations of musicjournalism2012 - makes me a bit sad that we're getting these kneejerk encomiums/judgements on lamar and swift instead of more considered appreciations after people have lived with them for a few months
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 12:39 (eleven years ago) link