Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

Shit, I haven't checked my mail in a Grizzly Bear.

THAT'S TWO WEEKS

lol

haha whiney

lmbo

bwahaha

the meek isnt as good as the kendrick but its not really that much worse either. its grown on me, i think initially i found it underwhelming but its much, much better than DC2 imo

yeah disappointment made me think it was pretty bad, but it has really good moments. (i p much think the same about DC2)

DC2 felt way emptier to me

(don't get what you mean)

i also think the sequencing on D&N is terrible.

the content of his lyrics felts less personally significant to him on DC2

thats horribly worded. it sounded like his lyrical content was more detached / less personally significant on DC2

i think he's yelling more and the beats are def meaner, which helps get that across too

maybe it's all the deflated early responses but DAN is sounding pretty awesome to me atm

i even like the not-the-point songs like 'layup' and that R&B joint near the end (actually that might be one of my favorite tracks)

"Young and Gettin It" is really really terrible tho

also the like diarrhea / i'm the shit lyric is offset by following it up with the line about how he hasn't given a fuck since his dad was killed :-(

i was about to say even "young & gettin it" sounds good in album context, compared to as a single. verses on mary j song are great too.

i think i just hate meek mill sex raps

i like the mary j joint

john legend joint should've taken a cue from kanye's "blame game" and had an extended outro of a robot girl voice going "rozay calls my pussy maybach curtains"

its

like diarrhea / i'm running shit

poor fellow

jordan's review : http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/17315-dreams-and-nightmares/

it's a great review

j0rdan is truly like diarrhea

Lil Wayne - so much to answer for.

this the meek mill thread huh

the intro is about something real, and makes a change from dubious capsule histories in other p4k lead-ins i've read, but the logic is perhaps confused. is playing "both sides of the field" really an exception and a recipe for success? & didn't waka just make choice 1? it seems like good career moves and good records are conflated, i don't really know which j0rdan is talking about at any point. again it's the rap writer's uneasy relationship with populism & judgement, reportage & critique.

In other news, I'm starting to like the Meek Mill album. It felt so uninspired next to GKMC that I didn't feel like playing it much at first. But it's coming into its own.

have you read this thread recently?

this the meek mill thread huh

the intro is about something real, and makes a change from dubious capsule histories in other p4k lead-ins i've read, but the logic is perhaps confused. is playing "both sides of the field" really an exception and a recipe for success? & didn't waka just make choice 1? it seems like good career moves and good records are conflated, i don't really know which j0rdan is talking about at any point. again it's the rap writer's uneasy relationship with populism & judgement, reportage & critique.

― zvookster, Thursday, November 1, 2012 2:10 PM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark

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Did the Meek Mill come out just this week? I've still not made my mind up on DC2 yet.

yeah dropped on tuesday

i was one of the defenders of DC2 a few months ago but the album is better imo

have you read this thread recently?

― fanute da croupier (D-40), Thursday, November 1, 2012 6:43 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yes, deej. Yes. I have.

undecided on whats better between D&N and DC2, the latter has his 2 hits of the year (amen & burn) good street bangers (flexin & lean with it) & stuff like 'used to be' & 'the ride'.

tbf the album has "Amen" and "Burn" too (the latter just a bonus track but w/e)

Burn not being on the regular version is a real bummer.

obv you can tell this by what i've rated the two but i think this and D2 aren't too far off

DC 1 is still the best to me

nothing on either of these records is touching 'im a boss' or 'house party' in the singles dept.

i hate to do the whiney "uh the album is clearly mastered" thing but

is there a single rapper alive that deej wont ride for some mixtape over an actual album?

re what zvookster said, I wasn't trying to conflate good records & good career moves (and I don't think I did)... I was talking about the latter (I don't give a shit about j cole's album, for instance)

I don't think playing both sides of the field is really a path to success, that's pretty unique to nicki and idk maybe wiz kahlifa or something at a lesser level. Waka wasn't too far off "choice 1" but definitely was not the same as someone like Travis Porter where it was like "now it's time for the debut major label album"

is there a single rapper alive that deej wont ride for some mixtape over an actual album?

― Mr. Zone A (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, November 1, 2012 5:20 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's barely a difference! any of these songs could have been mixtape tracks or album tracks, its almost interchangeable

one thing both mixtapes have over the album is upbeat bangers. it needs more tracks like "believe it." they should've cut the blustery MMG comfort food beats for harder shit

yeah deej is right aside from mastering

is the "burn" bonus track better quality than the mixtape version? that's one of my favorite rap songs of the year

I'm guessing the fact that none of the upbeat banger ones from DC2 really blew up like that is the reason why there aren't any on here?

i will concede that the best meek mill track, "A1 Everything" is a mixtape track

and features Kendrick Lamar so there