life after death - c or d

Disc 1
Life After Death Intro - N/A
Somebody's Gotta Die - classic
Hypnotize - Classic
Kick in the Door - classic
#! *@ You Tonight - dud
Last Day - dud
I Love the Dough - classic
What's Beef? - classic
B.I.G. Interlude - classic
Mo Money Mo Problems - classic
Niggas Bleed - dud
I Got a Story to Tell - classic

Disc 2
Notorious Thugs - classic
Miss U - classic
Another - dud
Going Back to Cali - classic
Ten Crack Commandments - classic
Playa Hater - dud
Nasty Boy - classic
Sky's the Limit - classic
The World Is Filled... - classic
My Downfall - classic
Long Kiss Goodnight - classic
You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You) - classic

He sounds like he's performing while sitting on a comfortable couch. He never sounds as excited as he was on GIMME THE LOOT. But of course he doesn't. He's in a different place. Fortunately, though, as William Wiggins mentioned, he didn't forget to inject fascinating details into his songs. It's a mainstream/gangster rap album that GZA might dig. Niggas Bleed!!! It's literature on wax.

Niggas Bleed - dud

wtf

#! *@ You Tonight - dud
Last Day - dud
Niggas Bleed - dud
Another - dud
Playa Hater - dud

ban deej

agreed

still dont really love the first two of those tho

another is underrated as fuck

gets stuck in my head all the time

i always start singing "playa hater" out of nowhere for no reason

whattaya do if yo bitch is untrue
do you cut the hooker off or find some, one new

so far I'm liking but prefer Ready to Die, I like his voice with more hardcore beats....

still dont really love the first two of those tho

it may help you to like them better when I tell you that I agree with you on this point

He sounds like he's performing while sitting on a comfortable couch. He never sounds as excited as he was on GIMME THE LOOT. But of course he doesn't. He's in a different place. Fortunately, though, as William Wiggins mentioned, he didn't forget to inject fascinating details into his songs. It's a mainstream/gangster rap album that GZA might dig. Niggas Bleed!!! It's literature on wax.

-- dreamsonvhs, Sunday, November 18, 2007 5:56 AM

FALSE XGAU

ive never totally liked this album. various tracks that i think are good on it, but never much liked what biggie did with his flow on it.

challops troll

what did he do with his flow

rap?

life after titchy

actually, IS this a challop? or would it only be a challop if what hes saying was in some way received wisdom instead of an attempt to challenge?

i thought either...

deej = cock wrangler.

lollllll

life after deej.

yr a weird fuckin dude

11 classic posts in a row

'Rime of the Ancient Mariner'!

yr a sad fucking dude

titchy's first post too vague to be a challop surely.

noooo, anything that isnt in line with deej and his fluffers' patented smug contrarianism is clearly challopy.

the reasons i dont really like LAD that much, other than ones that i hope will annoy deej, are that the production overall is somewhat bloated, big's flow seems a bit choppier/quicker, and his actual vocals seem to be lighter, less imposing/intimidating than before. yeah, theres a lot of 'detail' and overall 'cinematic' (zzz) elements, but its more perry mason than the godfather.

More Colombo I reckon.

The Notorious K.I.M. = Murder She Wrote.

deej and his fluffers' patented smug contrarianism

ha u rite it's sooooo contrarian to like LAD

http://media.canada.com/idl/vapr/20061003/32117-12518.jpg
L-R: deej, BIG HOOS aka the steendriver

Seriously man: you hold some decidedly non-canonical opinions. Big fuckin deal, I don't give a fuck if you jam Edan all day at the expense of LAD, but don't act all affronted and surprised when you get clowned by rap purists for not "getting"/liking revered shit.

its not just that he doesnt like it, its that his comments are so vague as to be meaningless. "his flow seems choppier" like wtf is he even basing that on? you and i can look at a building from different sides and describe it differently, and titchy would look at it and say its a cow

i mean what it comes down to is

production: 'cinematic'/expansive vs. 'bloated'
flow: light on his feet, deft & complex vs. "lighter, less intimidating, choppier"

what side you on i guess

Cause to me that same lightness is some Dizzy Gillespie shit, dude is remaining super-complex but feinting and darting like cray.

was that a misspelling or a shortening of 'crazy'

typo

This album has the funniest skit on any hip-hop album ever.

"wtf is he even basing that on"

er, the album? fwiw, i dont dislike all of LAD - theres plenty of songs on it i do like (mmmp, fucking you tonight, beef, notorious thugs, kick in the door, nasty girl), just as a whole, i prefer ready to die a 100 times more. this is just my opinion obviously, when i post im not thinking 'ooooh im being so different', this is just what i genuinely think. lol@being vague. if i had said 'i dont like this album cos big wasnt dope, he lost it, he wasnt on it like he used to be' THAT would be vague. but i didnt. anyway, you carry on liking lollipop, and ill keep on not liking LAD so much.

why does he shoot Maxi Priest in "Niggas Bleed"???

lol - dude with dreads iirc

Every once in a while the verses from "Niggas Bleed" will just pop into my head and I have to listen to it for days on end

haha at this exchange

Cause to me that same lightness is some Dizzy Gillespie shit, dude is remaining super-complex but feinting and darting like cray.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, July 4, 2008 1:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

was that a misspelling or a shortening of 'crazy'

― deej, Friday, July 4, 2008 1:19 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

typo

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, July 4, 2008 10:47 PM Bookmark

damn, hoos should've claimed that shit

deej = cock wrangler.

― titchyschneiderMk2, Thursday, July 3, 2008 8:18 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

This album has the funniest skit on any hip-hop album ever.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, July 5, 2008 2:36 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Classic overall. If I was to do the black and white "classic-dud" format track by track it would be like this:
Disc 1
Life After Death Intro - N/A
Somebody's Gotta Die - classic
Hypnotize - Classic
Kick in the Door - classic
#! *@ You Tonight - dud
Last Day - dud
I Love the Dough - classic
What's Beef? - classic
B.I.G. Interlude - classic
Mo Money Mo Problems - classic
Niggas Bleed - dud
I Got a Story to Tell - classic

Disc 2
Notorious Thugs - classic
Miss U - classic
Another - dud
Going Back to Cali - classic
Ten Crack Commandments - classic
Playa Hater - dud
Nasty Boy - classic
Sky's the Limit - classic
The World Is Filled... - classic
My Downfall - classic
Long Kiss Goodnight - classic
You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You) - classic

― djdee2005, Thursday, April 1, 2004 9:52 PM (8 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

love that there was a time when our little deejy was of the ilxor/tuomas school of posting

give it a rest, dawg

favorite narrative compression ever: "that's when ron vanished / came back speaking spanish / lavish habits / two rings, twenty karats"

haha

the truest portrait of Reagan ever

its not just that he doesnt like it, its that his comments are so vague as to be meaningless. "his flow seems choppier" like wtf is he even basing that on? you and i can look at a building from different sides and describe it differently, and titchy would look at it and say its a cow

― deej, Friday, July 4, 2008 3:30 PM bookmarkflaglink

BIG is my favorite individual emcee. Playing this again for the 7 millionth time right now. i fuckin' love this album. it's so cinematic, the storytelling feels immersive in headphones. plus the glitzy tracks actually work for him, for the most part. the pop jams are dope, just like they were on Ready to Die.

I feel like maybe RTD is my fav, but I listen to LAD more these days. He seems more nihilistic on RTD at times.

"Last Day" is what made me a fan of The L.O.X.

why does he shoot Maxi Priest in "Niggas Bleed"???

― the Rob Based god (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, May 6, 2010 7:56 PM bookmarkflaglink

he just wanted to be close to u ;_;

THIS MY FOURF ALBUM
MY FOURF ALBUM

MY SHIT IS MORE JOHN BLAZE THAN THAT

This album has the funniest skit on any hip-hop album ever.

― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, July 5, 2008 2:36 AM (3 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

― azealia canks (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, April 17, 2012 6:25 PM (eight years ago) bookmarkflaglink