Ryan Leslie, c/d, s/d

WHY AM I JUST NOW HEARING "DIAMOND GIRL"?

IT IS SO AMAZING.

HOLY SHIT. I MIGHT POST THIS ON CASSIE THREAD, TOO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nRO-M2p6IA

some talk about it in the r&b thread

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used 2 be ft fabolous
just right
promise not 2 call
valentine
r u coming back
wanna be good to you
megan rochell - my mistake
donell jones - hands on you
the cassie stuff

his album could be good but there's some really rub stuff too. hopefully he won't botch it.

Addiction is great but like most Leslie stuff, it seems it woudl work better if it was just a solo Cassie type thing. Dude should stay behind the deck

i've been listening to "addiction" for months now but I heard it on a great soundystem the other day and now I can't stop playing it.. it's so MASSIVE and dark and awesome. That big bass stab in crazy.

i hope his album actually comes out this time.. sept 16th. should be a great day, jazmine sullivan AND this.

yeah def looking forward to this

is it coming out in the UK?

Chanel Iman

lol, not sure about this rumor...maybe it's personal? or maybe it's just for a video? he's all obsessed with the black issue of italian vogue.

http://i42.tinypic.com/nganbt.jpg

instant classic amirite?

cant stop wont stop listening to "gibberish"

He reminds me of Bernard Wright.

On one listen, "Quicksand" and "Gibberish" def seem to be the highlights. I still can't get over the feeling dude is a really poor singer, even if it isn't as apparent on most of the album tracks as on the singles.

i like how he seemed to give up on trying to take some kind of magic cover photo that would make him look handsome and just went for the most awkward posture possible

haha yeah its like 'ugh when is this shoot going to be done hang on let me itch my ass' *CLICK* whoops last roll of film 'ILL TAKE IT'

"Gibberish" is good but it's not a highlight imo.. "Out Of The Blue," You're Fly", "I-R-I-N-A," "Valentine", "Diamond Girl" (I still can't get over this song)..... It sucks that a lot of these songs have been around forever so the album doesn't feel particularly "fresh", but I can't wait to hear what he comes with next. And I have no problems with his voice... it's kind of nasally and he doesn;'t have much range but I don't ever find myself thinking "this would be better if someone else were singing it"... though someone on another forum said that they could hear Bilal doing these songs and I definitely hear that... "Just Right" wouldn't be out of place on Love For Sale

weird that after 2 perfectly good and popular singles it's "How It Was Supposed To Be" that they ended up launching the album release with...the first few times I heard that song I thought Mario was bravely carrying on his recording career after some kind of debilitating throat ailment.

the first few times I heard that song I thought Mario was bravely carrying on his recording career after some kind of debilitating throat ailment.

― n00bian princess (some dude)

lol

I dunno, his singing just seems kinda half-assed most of the time, like in the way Pharrells do, but not quite as annoying as that.

haha ship

yeah...the falsetto on "Addiction" is very Pharrell, but less obnoxious.

Were "Diamond Girl" and "Addiction" actual hits? I haven't heard them other than of my volition at all.

they were medium-sized hits on the R&B charts... both peaked at #25 I think. They got 106&Park play too....

not big hits but i would say they were definitely hits, heard them both on the radio (particularly the latter) quite a lot.

xpost

"Bass & guitar by Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"

"Keyboard by David Sancious"

Some guitar IS by Brent Paschke (Spymob, NERD)

Umm... is there some greater meaning to those posts (other than the last one) that I am missing?

Two names I did not expect to see in the credits.

Ah, I should have googled them instead of acting a Finn.

http://www.hallandoates.de/images/Band/T-Bone_Wolk_1982_Japan-tour2.jpg

we talked about this a bit on the r&b thread too

my other favorite neptunes throwback is that ricky blaze / ron browz joint

ricky blaze has a song with ron brownz

????

i feel free vs. quicksand

drums on that are way too fresh for it to be a neptunes throwback but ugh autotune hell

u are a certified nu-browz hater though

quicksand definitely sounds MORE N.E.R.D.-ish

find it kinda weird ships is all browz-furrowed given the latter owes 10000 x more to swizz beatz than he does t-pain autowhatever imo

also that hook is str8 linkin park, what's to hate

^what the fuck

anyway "valentine" is my shit right now - i think in this weird way his amateurism works wonders for the album, like he can't really sing and the arrangements often aren't anything spectacular so it leaves his writing right out in the forefront but the dude can reeeeally write hooks

i like how he seemed to give up on trying to take some kind of magic cover photo that would make him look handsome and just went for the most awkward posture possible

― n00bian princess (some dude), Thursday, February 5, 2009 12:29 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha yeah its like 'ugh when is this shoot going to be done hang on let me itch my ass' *CLICK* whoops last roll of film 'ILL TAKE IT'

― k3vin k., Thursday, February 5, 2009 12:31 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

lol yeah also he didn't even iron his shirt all the way

find it kinda weird ships is all browz-furrowed given the latter owes 10000 x more to swizz beatz than he does t-pain autowhatever imo

― r|t|c, Thursday, February 5, 2009 6:32 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

real talk, if browz did most of these same exact joints w/ zero autotune they probably would be more on some swizzy shit and i probably would like it. but he didn't and they don't, so i don't.

so are we all liking this? 'gibberish' still kills me and the rest are solid and growing on me

i'm all liking the idea of buying the CD when it comes out on tuesday.

I'm suprised how much I like the album, considering I kinda hate R-Les.

where classical references meet grocery bags in an erosion of the boundaries between high and low culture

"maybachs & diamonds" is awesome

"joan of arc" is dope -- every song off this project has been really great

ehh im not feeling it

yeah it's ok but i don't think there's any reason for r-les to be rapping so much

the first few times i heard Wiz Khalifa's "Roll Up" on the radio i thought it was a really disappointing new Ryan Leslie song

"roll up" is much better than this

KICKIN IT W MY BAAAAYBEEE

The only Reason why Ryan doesn't all the fame is because he worked hard to get to where he got.. !! he didnt sell his soul to fuckin satan !!

AntonioCarlton2 4 months ago 82

thats 82 thumbs ups btw

It's cute how that's your favorite track from Transition.

― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:11 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHF3kNKCkbg&feature=player_embedded

New First Single.

why is he rapping on all of these? STOP IT R-LES

the arrangement and chorus are fantastically overblown but really the verses are just him shooting himself in the foot repeatedly

nice "grocery bag" bit in the first verse...

agree he really shouldn't be rapping, plus the music is nowhere near as interesting as usual imo.

He performed this when I saw him live last summer. It's def whatever. He shouldn't push autobiographical shit

Did you see him at that warehouse on Ravenswood?

Yah

this guy was really on some shit for a year there

STOP RAPPING, R LES

new album's production is so fucking good but ugh this is sub-kanye rapping so bad

haha yeah i read some interview where he talked about how rap-driven this album is and my anticipation instantly disappeared

yeah i haven't given a shit about his music for a while because of that nonsense

yeah this is a fucking travesty, he's stepped up his production so much, this is some gorgeous stuff, if he only gave these tracks to a real rapper or sang over them instead... ugh

rappers and singers getting too comfortable doing each others' jobs is like the downfall of recent popular music history imo

for every instance of that yielding a good song there are 50 bad ones

ha that's a pretty solid theory xp

yeah i checked out his youtube channel for the first time in a while recently...terrible.

this record does not sound good to me

yeah even production is bad.

i think it's quite good, the production? what you dislike about it?

the rock guitars,the emphasis on the live drums, surely plenty other things... i don't want to listen to it again.

yeah beats ain't even hot

hahahaha
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/rap_slap_kvSTBaoDlN18eNtiOLK72L

dude comes across like such a clown in this whole ordeal

hahahaa shit that seems like an onion article etc

how is this real

Didn't even know dude had a new album until Spotify told me an acquaintance was listening to it. Especially caught me off-guard because I thought this acquaintance only listened to folky NPR indie.

This isn't very good, is it.

it's awful

still can't figure out how making a youtube video promising a reward for yr laptop's return is legally binding

man this guy fell the fuck off huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8VetbXWbFM

okay, I’m glad someone else revived this thread, because I was thinking the other day: did I coin “swagless”?

run it back off his new alb is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr1Y70FEQRY
handful of good tracks on there i think

He has some slept on cuts where the production was pretty crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fj5A1gBVH8

Donell Jones - Better Start Talking

"overdose"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiQciji2V9M

"elektro"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzLtgF1W2Sg

not to completely disregard your posts but i was talking to a zoomer recently who in the context of diddy trial stuff was like "why is cassie even famous?" and so i pulled up "u + me" on my phone and after two seconds of hearing the beat he was like "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

what other rap/r&b beats from that era are as instantly recognizable even to people w/ no connection to the song or artist? like in the "name that tune" sense. "yeah!" probably? "me & u" might be the most iconic 5 notes of the mid 00s

"ice cold" is probably my favorite unreleased cut of his:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40gwYCraPag

these ryan leslie deep cuts are great.