ladies and gentlemen, the gangsta yankee hotel foxtro--
― don't trust the lil b in apartment 23 (fadanuf4erybody), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
there it is
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
you mean the backpacker hotel foxtrot
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:09 (eleven years ago) link
huge lols @ shyne having the balls to say someone else's major label debut did not deliver on the hype
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 22:10 (eleven years ago) link
"collect calls" is absolutely stunning
― lex pretend, Thursday, 25 October 2012 10:18 (eleven years ago) link
lol at terrace martin on the making of 'real'
“It was kind of a special night, and we had cheap wine — like $2 bottles of wine and a bunch of girls that looked horrible and Brazilian music going on, but it worked out. It was Compton Brazilian music. Then we came back to L.A. and Dr. Dre mixed the hell out of the record. God, it was so loud."
― r|t|c, Thursday, 25 October 2012 12:09 (eleven years ago) link
in lamar's nardwuar interview, nard drops a wc and the maad circle album on him and lamar is appreciative and familiar; gotta assume he knows the connection
― let's have sex and then throw pottery (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Thursday, October 25, 2012 7:09 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
dying
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Thursday, 25 October 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
first verse on "maad city" is http://www.esreality.com/files/placeimages/2010/75958-headbang.gif
― all mods con (k3vin k.), Friday, 26 October 2012 00:45 (eleven years ago) link
yup
― Number None, Friday, 26 October 2012 02:59 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gO0cFx0fVo
BDKMV
― O-Jah Da Lionmane (longneck), Saturday, 27 October 2012 16:31 (eleven years ago) link
holy shit that was fantastic
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Saturday, 27 October 2012 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
nice
― We do live in a fallen, depraved world destined for the fire. (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 27 October 2012 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
here's the studio version that was actually sampled
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut5D6FXE2dM
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:28 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, I just prefer the live version.
― O-Jah Da Lionmane (longneck), Saturday, 27 October 2012 20:32 (eleven years ago) link
realize this is probably too soon or too corny but just going to throw this out there & see if anyone else is willing to take the bait: this is the best rap album in years
― flopson, Saturday, 27 October 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
i'd put it right up w/ take care, flockaveli & book of david for best of the decade so far
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 October 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, to me it's distinctly better than "take care," but that's also the most easily comparable of those three; doesnt really make much sense to compare it to something as monolithic as flockavelli. 2 me this takes a lot the things that blew me away about tc (lush production, bummed out introspective vibe, as youve noted the entire aesthetic package) but much more in step with rap tradition esp west coast rap albums, it reminds me of reasons that i love rap, some that i havenèt thought about or felt in years. whereas tc was more a rejection of a lot of these traditions
― flopson, Saturday, 27 October 2012 22:57 (eleven years ago) link
prefer blaqkout (of /recent/ records) but this is still p.good
― MVP ("most viking poster") 2012 (cozen), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:04 (eleven years ago) link
i think you could make analogies to both take care (sonically, point of view) & flockaveli (vision, singularity)
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol take care
― extremely loud and incredible hulk (some dude), Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
i don't think this is anywhere near as singular as flockaveli. the miracle of the flock imo is that it's 70 minutes of relentlessly aggressive and repetitive music & yet is a total pleasure to listen to all the way thru the millionth time, good kid mad city is so cinematic
― flopson, Saturday, 27 October 2012 23:21 (eleven years ago) link
I will absolutely take that bait
― Gandalf’s Gobble Melt (DJP), Sunday, 28 October 2012 03:11 (eleven years ago) link
so will I. This and The Book of David (my favorite album of 2011) easily in my top whatever.
― the ones that I'm near most: fellow outcasts and ilxors (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 28 October 2012 03:13 (eleven years ago) link
the voice is still a huge roadblock for me, dude sounds like Kirko Bangz
― extremely loud and incredible hulk (some dude), Sunday, 28 October 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link
It's been driving me nuts who he sounds like sometimes and it just hit me: beldar the weedsmoking alien from that devin the dude song
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 October 2012 13:06 (eleven years ago) link
lol
― the man with 2 BRAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINZ! (some dude), Sunday, 28 October 2012 19:47 (eleven years ago) link
fucking dammit, i was waiting to post that for three days >:(
― croup the color of mayonnaise (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
i'm still on my honeymoon technically, so I'm not posting about how Kendrick sounds like Zeldar even though I've been sitting on that comment for three days now so
― croup the color of mayonnaise (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:08 (eleven years ago) link
omg
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Sunday, 28 October 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
Haha yeah that's probably the biggest issue for me too at the moment, love everything else about this album.
― Tim F, Sunday, 28 October 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
i'm cool with his voice honestly. he's fluent and interesting.course, i love zeldar. and he shops at wal mart.
― We do live in a fallen, depraved world destined for the fire. (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 28 October 2012 21:26 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, I love Kendrick's voice but the Zeldar thing is so on-point.
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Sunday, 28 October 2012 22:18 (eleven years ago) link
Ha ha sorry I almost feel bad now, sorry whiney, congrats btw...but it's perfect in some way that you were sitting in that
― seasonal hugs (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 28 October 2012 23:33 (eleven years ago) link
That was gonna be my big comeback post u_u
― croup the color of mayonnaise (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 28 October 2012 23:43 (eleven years ago) link
Christ this record is great
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
writers all like it bc he thinks like a writer
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:34 (eleven years ago) link
this Boom Clap Bachelors album is pretty dope tbh
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Monday, 29 October 2012 03:44 (eleven years ago) link
in spite of their terrible name
Yeah, the VOICE. And the chameleon thing he has going on, they throw me. He had a verse on Schoolboy's last album and his voice was so scabrous and scratchy that I wanted to reach into the album and hand the guy a bag of Ricola
As a consequence I dunno if I can take the whole album in one shot - bought "Swimming Pools" on iTunes tonight. Also a Trae tha Truth song about being from Texas which is awesome.
― Raymond Cummings, Monday, 29 October 2012 04:10 (eleven years ago) link
writers all like it bc he thinks like a writer― fanute da croupier (D-40), Monday, October 29, 2012
― We do live in a fallen, depraved world destined for the fire. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 October 2012 04:25 (eleven years ago) link
Human beings like him because he thinks like a human being too.
― O-Jah Da Lionmane (longneck), Monday, 29 October 2012 06:46 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6glR0bSb_4
― We do live in a fallen, depraved world destined for the fire. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 29 October 2012 07:06 (eleven years ago) link
― O-Jah Da Lionmane (longneck), Monday, October 29, 2012 1:46 AM (37 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah but that applies to lots of rappers
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Monday, 29 October 2012 07:25 (eleven years ago) link
Lol
― Tim F, Monday, 29 October 2012 07:51 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, and I don't disagree with your assessment. But it's rare to see the almost universal support this album is getting. And I think what Noz wrote about it being easier to admire than to enjoy is factually wrong. From what I can tell, this is getting a lot of play from a lot of people who do actually enjoy it and enjoy it a lot. To me, it's one of those rare albums that I can put on at almost any time. It even works after the Sunday brunch with the wife and kids.
― O-Jah Da Lionmane (longneck), Monday, 29 October 2012 07:52 (eleven years ago) link
Is it cool if I mentally append "...ya bish!" to the end of every post itt?
― Cap'n Hug-a-Thug (The Reverend), Monday, 29 October 2012 08:08 (eleven years ago) link
And I think what Noz wrote about it being easier to admire than to enjoy is factually wrong
i don't think this is the sort of statement that can be factually wrong? where did noz write this?
i'm deeply suspicious of the rapturous 5/5 encomiums it's getting based on less than a week of listening but the across-the-board praise isn't surprising, it'd be very hard to argue that this is a bad album in any way - even the dissenters from the 5/5 praise (and there are some, thankfully) just think it's flawed or uneven.
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 October 2012 08:37 (eleven years ago) link
i'd put it right up w/ take care
right up there! lol.
blaqkout >>>>> any of the albums you were mentioning
i don't think this is even the best rap album of THIS year
― lex pretend, Monday, 29 October 2012 08:38 (eleven years ago) link
True. "Factually wrong" was overstating it.
Noz:
It's a completely exhausting listen, one that might prove easier to admire than enjoy. But at the very least, it's never anything less than fascinating. A master craftsman should be entitled to some degree of self-indulgence.
http://www.spin.com/reviews/kendrick-lamar-good-kid-maad-city-interscopeaftermath
I do think, however, that the writerly concept-album approach is something that allows this album to become really emotional and affecting without being too in your face/sincere. The epic distance that the storyline creates is liberating and in some paradoxical way makes this album more direct and, yes, lovable, than the no-filter approach of Section.80 could accomplish.
― O-Jah Da Lionmane (longneck), Monday, 29 October 2012 08:50 (eleven years ago) link