lloyd banks - "on fire"

they just played it on direct connect for the first time and i was eating dinner at the same time as i was watching it so i dont really have a very informed opinion yet but i like it a lot.

which i was surprised about, because i dont think he's a very good rapper and that havoc X dre -/- the fat boys production style all the 50/em/g-unit stuff has rarely appeals to me, but this has some nice orchestral stuff going on and hot guitar and that breakdown at the end is fire.

if i had to guess blind, i'd say it was scott storch

Eminem produced it.

I know. Me too.

good lord!

steepest learning curve EVER

Its that burning little organ riff that really brings it all together i think.

"moment of clarity" is easily in strongo's top 10 wackest beats ever file

That little opening effect made me think of El-P. Its got handclaps. This is really good.

damn you malfunctioning 5l5k search function! the lb track on kay slay's usual suspects is pretty hot too.

yeah the little snippet of another track they appended to this video (as per) was good. i may be getting excited for ths album.

I think Lloyd Banks is a pretty good rapper.

Production will make or break him though.

it's funny what different criteria i hold rappers to from even five years ago.

d k did a thread for the album last week and we talked a bit about this song: lloyd banks - HUNGER FOR MORE

my current favorite part is the way he says "tight ass pants, little wife-beatuhhhh". in a more ideal world this song would be as big as "In Da Club", although I doubt it will be. but they both have that foreboding orch-hit synth patch thing going for them.

I think this http://www.stylusmagazine.com/feature.php?ID=961

'Gs Up' or 'Geez Up' (i dunno the correct spelling) off a new Kayslay mixtape is pretty hot.

this sounds like a zippier "paitently waiting"

i had a hunch this was an eminem beat. best em beat ever. by, like, a hemisphere.

Blah blah blah looks like Craig David blah blah blah.

kwame co produced the song

as in Kwame with the fuckin' polka dots?

"warrior"= this summer's pick to click .damn it's catchy!

al, yes.

i'm a lot more meh than wow. it's ok. he's saying nothin, over a nice organ part. meh.

Really Saying Something is a lot to ask from rap these days

You being sarcastic? Can't tell, but agreed...I listen to about 10% of the hip hop now that I did, say, 5 years ago. And this isn't an attempt to start a whole hip-hop-is-dead thing...
Instead, I think it reflects how, when you get involved in a style of music heavily, the commercial stuff at the time seems exciting, and later seems played out. Sort of explains why I can't give a shit about any crunk / lil john / g unit type stuff.

no i'm not. i'm quite depressed with hip-hop this year. having to review one-to-three (usually mediocre at best) rap lp's every month this year has just demoralized me completely.

am i the only person to prefer young buck to lloyd banks? tho buck's single is also kinda meh.

I just don't believe you. Crunk is exciting as fuck. Trillville/Lil Scrap was great, TI was great, Juve was great, Banks is one of the most interesting lyricists in a long time. 50 represtents the real like no one before him.

(kid/50's son: Daddy, these nigga's ain't (hood/heard), drop that shit)

so what i grew up with them niggas / i ain't stuck with them niggas / we from the same hood / but i don't fuck with them niggas / shit pop off / i touch one'a them niggas / cu(t/ff) one'a them niggas / (buck/fuck) one'a them niggas
...
i ain't stuck with you nigga / i grew up with you nigga / but i dont fuck with you nigga / got shot in the back / turned around got shot in the eye / nigga shoot back / lay down and die / there's to message
my music / can you hear it god?
your man's never gonna blow and you're the reason why / it's disease infested / when i spit it any nigga could get it / fuck the frontin' and the rhymes / that ass'd get flat-lined / (white dude voice: can't we all just get along? / we used to be friends!) / haha naw fuck that, man / we used to pretend...

then some great banks punchlines like "they want someone famous to bout wit / so i walk around with my gun like it came with the outfit / i dont really like to toot my own horn, but BEEP / CH-CHT / CLACK / go to sleep...theres so much more i don't wanna type

this is "these niggas ain't hood" of g-unit radio part 6. on the cover they roast the cannes film festival's shit and are on terrentino's page easy.

fuck saying rap doesnt have much to say. more than ever.

at the end of the track the boy says something like "daddy, when you gonna be finished with this shit? i'm hungry."

i think they started recording two words over one another to get that effective ambiguity.

can't believe this is an eminem production. when did he get so good? this one actually sounds like he's happy. most of eminem's beats sounds like he doesn't truly want an mc on them, but this one is just ready for someone to tear apart, especially with that big dropout feeding right into the guitar part at the end of the chorus. it's like he knew banks would do fine, but really wanted to hear it on mixtapes this summer.

it's that organ, really. there's weird little clonky effects under those "little wife-beatuuuuh" lines too that i like. oh and that intro is great, sadly it never hits on the radio, it sounds like a clunky nintendo game booting up.

i would have sworn this was dre, but based on that player-piano breakdown, strongo's original scott storch guess is not far off either.