Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

did that have the version with the ali sample that i think got pulled?

I don't think I did)... I was talking about the latter

yeh that's what i thought but it's not explicit, and it says "better, more accessible versions of the early songs" so by the time u use these problems to explain the rarity of the "good-to-great" major record there was room for confusion for me at least.

hopefully in 20 years, there will be (re)masterd re-editions of classic mixtapes.

― sisilafami, Thursday, 1 November 2012

sadly this will never happen

roach gigz brought out a p sweet double CD of roachy balboa 1&2, anyone pick that up? seems to be gone now

"champ is here" had the ali sample but i never heard anything about it getting pulled. they played that joint on the radio!

sadly this will never happen

― zvookster, Thursday, November 1, 2012 5:54 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

figured they're already doing that to Gucci's catalog, thats why you cant get half his tapes w/out doing serious online hunting

what? Warners has always been terrible about pulling 'official' non-label Gucci mixtapes offline, seriously doubt it's because they want to put out remastered retail versions

meek's gonna move b/w 160-180 first week

salad days are here again

yeah i saw that, pretty impressed that he did better than 2 Chainz' first week (and pretty much any non-Kendrick new artist since, i guess, J. Cole)

imo he had the potential to do better than kendrick lamar... don't know if sandy is has any significance in these numbers..

what? Warners has always been terrible about pulling 'official' non-label Gucci mixtapes offline, seriously doubt it's because they want to put out remastered retail versions

― some dude, Thursday, November 1, 2012 5:58 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

you can't get almost any pre-cold war gucci mixtapes on datpiff

yeah, that's what i was saying?

oh i misread. but yeah imo it makes sense that theyre tring to hold onto intellectual copyright idk

"champ is here" had the ali sample but i never heard anything about it getting pulled. they played that joint on the radio!

― some dude, Thursday, November 1, 2012 5:56 PM (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ah i thought i heard a version w/o it, thought the when we were kings ppl had it yanked, could be wrong

you probably just heard the actual song from jada's album ("time's up") that they took the verses for "the champ is here" from?

sample clearance issue sorta rings a bell for me too but idk i guess it's probably more likely that everyone just assumed that was the case

yeah who knows, some dude is probably right, just a vague recollection i had

i would like to think will smith would keep the lawyers off jada out of respect of the game but maybe he was like "aw hell no, kool & the gang made me pay up so now it's your turn!"

i think i need to buy this meek mill album

i did! you too!

ok man

as soon as i can afford it or get an itunes card i'm on this

listening to it on soundcloud now

ha ok listening to dreamchasers 2 now...i've totally heard Amen a bunch of times on KMOJ The People's Station ("Bringing Unity to the Community")...but i didn't know to it was called Amen i just thought of it as "Church"

even tho they say amen a bunch too

they arent' very good about telling you what songs they just played

Have we talked about "the jig is up" yet

this is the Meek Mill thread now, the window has passed

The Meek Mill album is not fun at all

i bought the album. i love it. a couple of people left my store in a hurry while it was playing, but art sometimes creates casualties. middle school teacher who brought his photography students in didn't seem to mind it.

Meek Mill album is what I consider fun, nasty fun

the only 'fun' song on the meek is 'layup'

its also not a very immediate record although he's a very immediate rapper. but the songs arent v pop at all

still think its p good tho

Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous is pretty bad.

that song is def not what is good about the album but i actually like it & it only reinforces the intensely depressing feel of the record

he sounds so checked out and noncommittal on the pop songs, which is weird, since Dreamchasers 2 proved he could do the shameless pop thing pretty well.

the whole album strikes me as a little weird, actually. I can appreciate how austere it is, and it's all very competent, but "depressing" really isn't the lane that suits him best, or what anybody wanted to hear from a Meek Mill album

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People seem to forget that Kendrick's whole "from the LA streets but not OF the LA streets" was basically Coolio's lane in the 90s.

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You're pretty dumb, as usual. Coolio made some dope albums

But by all means point to another artist besides Kendrick and Coolio who had as much success with "I'm going to vividly describe LA street life, but will go on to say how it doesn't define me"

he sounds so checked out and noncommittal on the pop songs, which is weird, since Dreamchasers 2 proved he could do the shameless pop thing pretty well.

― Evan R, Friday, November 2, 2012 11:28 PM (29 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

don't understand what 'shameless pop' means in this context

i think he's saying that meek mill will kill your pop-rap shame for money

like rtc upthread or somewhere, what i kinda wanted was a meekaveli, but more than anything else i feel like the album isn't sinister enough - it feels depressive in a more conventional way than his best stuff

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEba1H_Dtd0

this was the first meek song i heard and it stopped me in my tracks and there's nothing like that on the album. beatwise or performance-wise

Depressive in a conventional way sums it up I guess.

Rass Kass?

http://vimeo.com/53053348#

Gaga's mix for BDKMV. I can see why it was left off imo

Definitley. Doesn't work at all. Good call from Kendrick & crew.

damn, I'd even go so far as to say the bish killed his vibe

i think it sounds good... if it was a gaga song i'd be intrigued. obv we're all used to the original, also that's probably unmixed and i'm sure the vocals wouldn't have been as prevalent if that version had made the album

yeah, i don't mind the gaga on it... like j0rdan says, we're all used to the album version now so anything else seems off.. then again, kendrick doing his own hook really does work on the track, especially in the way it doesn't seem that differentiated from the verses at first, i really like that

I actually kind of dig the gags version?

not more than kendrick's but i thought it was striking.

it's one of the most boring songs on the album to start with and she makes it neither demonstrably better nor worse