Your favorite line in Bob Guccione Jr's paean to Killer Mike's "Michael"

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https://www.spin.com/2023/12/album-of-the-year-killer-mike-michael/

Poll Results

Option	Votes
He gets meaner from there. Deliciously.	8
I’m not a fan of most rap, and of what I do like I prefer old school to new.	4
Mike has several messages on this album	2
He steamrolls those fools.	2
“Shed Tears (ft. Mozzy, Lena Byrd Miles)” and “Slummer (ft. Jagged Edge)” could be time travel visits from Curtis Mayfi	1
It’s aurally inventive, blending classic R&B singing to rapid-fire, sharp raps and gospel music (and some pertinent dia	0
What blathering dreck!	0
Michael is for Killer Mike’s given name, and the album as a concept is partly about returning to some of the innocence	0

― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:35 (one year ago)

Gear was launched and published in the United Kingdom devoted chiefly to revealing pictorials of popular singers, B-movie actresses, and models, along with articles on gadgets, cars, fashion, guy tales of sex, and sports.

― Left, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:57 (one year ago)

oh cool he dated ann coulter

― Left, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 04:59 (one year ago)

(These would be good visits.)

That's good, good time travel visits are good.

― jmm, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 12:55 (one year ago)

When you got time travel visits like Curtis Mayfield in them, you can’t lose

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 13:26 (one year ago)

“Curtis Mayfi”

― Marten Broadcloak, mild-mannered GOP congressman (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 13:34 (one year ago)

this is so audibly dictated and transcribed

― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 14:18 (one year ago)

Honestly I feel like the "SPIN Staff" part of this is even worse than the Guccione part

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 14:37 (one year ago)

Every time I think, "Hm, I should write for SPIN again..." they shit the bed.

― poppers fueled buttsex crescendo (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 14:38 (one year ago)

From the moment he debuted many of the songs at Stubb’s during SXSW, it was impossible not to notice the care, passion, rawness and brutal honesty within the rapper’s lyrics.

Like the use of "within" here alone is a bigger crime than anything Lil B-Gooch wrote.

― Guayaquil (eephus!), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 14:42 (one year ago)

This thing was so bad I remain unconvinced that it wasn’t some kind of troll

― Circus Au Lait (flamboyant goon tie included), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 14:44 (one year ago)

"sensitive sensibilities"

I've gotta get around to reading that one.

― jmm, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 14:57 (one year ago)

He gets meaner from there. Deliciously.

― Ghidorah, the three-headed Explorah (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 15:10 (one year ago)

Mike has several messages on this album. Webster's defines "message" as

― waste of compute (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 26 December 2023 15:21 (one year ago)

the most depressing part is that this blurb is intended as a justification for the album being Spin's best of the year (since I guess that decision is now made according to Guccione's personal preference without even any pretense of it being an editorial consensus).

― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 15:24 (one year ago)

oh wait, I missed the word "we" in the preface. still.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 15:44 (one year ago)

Write in for "my (simple if not humble) opinion."

― BrianB, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 17:23 (one year ago)

I regret not putting that and "sensitive sensibilities" as poll options

― Murgatroid, Tuesday, 26 December 2023 17:52 (one year ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

― System, Thursday, 28 December 2023 00:01 (one year ago)

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

― System, Friday, 29 December 2023 00:01 (one year ago)

not a single vote for "Michael is for Killer Mike's given name", damn

― Murgatroid, Friday, 29 December 2023 01:08 (one year ago)

Still reeling from that news, tbh

― Expansion to Mackerel (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 29 December 2023 01:45 (one year ago)

seven months pass...

follow up album, 'songs for singers & saints', is available for free until tomorrow.

― mark e, Thursday, 1 August 2024 15:24 (one year ago)

lol thread to bump

― Jersey Devil Vance (President Keyes), Thursday, 1 August 2024 16:31 (one year ago)

yeah, i realised after i posted.
i just searched for killer mike/michael, and this thread popped up ..
hey ho, tis done now.
new album is good.

― mark e, Thursday, 1 August 2024 17:02 (one year ago)

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