Kendrick Lamar will kill your favorite rapper for money

easier to admire than to... i'll shut up

"poetic justice" is a good radio song (even if i don't like the way they shoehorn the title in the lyrics, the janet original is better, and drake adds nothing). curious what they'll try as a radio single beyond that.

"money trees" is the next one but apparently they cut the jay rock verse

ha so they're gonna work the "ya bish" song w/ all the "ya bish"es taken out huh

First time I align with deej in weeks. Anyway urban radio here only started playing SP in the last six weeks, so I dont hate it yet.

Anyway urban radio here only started playing SP in the last six weeks, so I dont hate it yet.

― the little prince of inane false binary hype (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:21 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

nah they were rinsing that when i was down there around halloween

jay rock verse totally best part of that song btw imo

ha so they're gonna work the "ya bish" song w/ all the "ya bish"es taken out huh

― some dude, Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:21 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

maybe "ya bish" skirts the censors?

ehhh doubt it

haha american saying "rinsing"

is that a british thing? i had no idea i def picked it up from ilx tho

lol

s@arge, now it's on overdrive. Power 96 picked it up too.

http://rinse.fm/

my fav part of "money trees" are those vocal gun sounds they brought over from "cartoons & cereal"

http://rinse.fm/

― 乒乓, Sunday, January 13, 2013 4:27 PM (27 seconds ago) Bookmark

hmm i never put two and two together

A posh upper class form of a gold digging. When a man showers a woman with expensive gifts and money for strictly no sexual flavors in return

quoting KL lyrics?

try rapping it in triplets

http://www.djklusta.co.uk/index.php?id=62

Money Trees was my #1 from the beginning, continues to be my fav. It's a classic. No question about it. Love how "Hot sauce all in our Top Ramen" line doesn't even sound like english

"money trees" is the next one but apparently they cut the jay rock verse

― J0rdan S., dimanche 13 janvier 2013 22:17 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

smh

ya. that jay rock verse is easily best moment on the album.

hold on

lol the entire album?

yea, for me at least

it's up there

the contrast of a voice like Jay Rock or MC Eiht cutting through the middle of the album is used to great effect, definitely think those are standout moments

it hadn't occurred to me that people who have difficulty parsing american argot/slang/accent might not be able to glean the """CONCEPT""" on this album
thanks for making me listen to z-ro again today

Enough time has passed to ask this question: Do you guys return to this album very often?

I played it a bunch for the first few weeks. Now just returning to my favorite songs a couple times a week.

I play something from this at least once a week, usually daily

haven't really returned to it at all

i let it sit for a month and am now finding it on repeat front to back about two or three times a week

Still spinning it frequently enough that putting it at #7 on my EOY already feels too low.

I burned out on it in a week (which isn't all that unusual with albums I review), and haven't really revisited it b/c of its length and blockyness.

That distance hasn't really hurt my opinion of the album, though. Some friends played some album tracks on a satellite jukebox in a bar a few weeks ago and they sounded amazing.

I still don't believe it's a "classic" rap album as much as its a "substantial" one. Those aren't quite the same thing in my mind, though they're both certainly something worth celebrating

"i let it sit for a month and am now finding it on repeat front to back about two or three times a week

― an old penis drawing is now "new and notable" (forksclovetofu), Monday, January 14, 2013 4:45 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"

yep. fwiw this happened to me with Section.80 as well

I do sit-ups every other day and make chicken fricassee once a week.

Section.80 is easier to break into bite-sized pieces, so it's the more re-playable album in my mind

seriously what's wrong with some of you in that you can't even conceive of listening to songs on this album in isolation

did you guys also play the entirety of De La Soul Is Dead front to back every time so as not to divorce it from the context of its skits

Not a fair comparison. De La Soul Is Dead was zippier and less thematically rigid

idk man he's just got a weird voice and a questionable ear for pop, i get why people dig his whole persona i guess but i don't need to hear weird crap like "swimming pools" on the radio

the contrast of a voice like Jay Rock or MC Eiht cutting through the middle of the album is used to great effect, definitely think those are standout moments

― some dude, Monday, 14 January 2013 16:44 (5 hours ago) Bookmark

definitely, eiht sounds like the voice of god when he comes in. embodies all of the certitude and lustre of gangbanging that agonises kendrick and his neurotic flow

i loved the story i read in one of the listicles at the time where one of the black hippy dudes was saying eiht is always exactly like he is on record like writing "jyeah" in text messages and stuff

Not a fair comparison. De La Soul Is Dead was zippier and less thematically rigid

That's incredibly dumb IMO; it's like saying you can't listen to an aria from an opera, or a number from a musical, without listening to the entire thing. If you've already heard an album, you already know the themes and the context for the songs and you really shouldn't NEED to listen to the whole thing in order in order to understand/appreciate the function and meaning of the songs on it.

Now, sometimes you just WANT to listen to large stretches of an album because the whole thing works so well; that's an entirely different proposition and usually not one that I look upon as "a problem" because the end result is that I'm listening to music I really enjoy.

I mean, nobody's saying you NEED to listen to the whole thing. It's just that one is a Calvin and Hobbes comic collection and the other is a John Steinbeck novel. Both are great, but one is a lot more inviting to just pick up and page through from time to time

i don't come back to this album super often (really did gorge on it at the time) but i'm finding i underrated its replay value still - otm what was said upthread about the basic hookcraft shining through past context and journey narrative and whatnot

"Now, sometimes you just WANT to listen to large stretches of an album because the whole thing works so well; that's an entirely different proposition and usually not one that I look upon as "a problem" because the end result is that I'm listening to music I really enjoy."

it's closer to this for me imo. some of the stuff on here--like the good kid/m.a.a.d city duo, Real, Swimming Pools--just feels incomplete to me without the preceding and following tracks for context. dunno what it is, but a few of those tracks are just sorta boring to me in isolation (while Art of Peer Pressure, Money Trees, BDKMV, etc. all work in or out of context)

after i'd gotten used to major label rap LPs getting shorter the last few years, the 68 minutes can be a little daunting even if it's justified. plus you get into such a deep rabbit hole by the 2nd half that just dipping in for a track or two at a time tends not to have the same effect.

I play "Swimming Pools" and "Backseat Freestyle" to psych myself up in the mornings

^ alcoholics anonymous employee of the month