young jeezy - thug motivation 103

the leaks off of this haven't really caught any buzz

oh well

i really like the supposed "street single" w/ autogoon emeritus plies http://usershare.net/5jl8sln9en8w# ("white girls fun, cuz all them swallow" - algernod plies, goon m.d.)

it definitely sounds as good as the good album tracks on 'the recession' -- has that laconic kingpin feel

should probably be 201

lovin this

plies' voice is O_0

lol max

Thug Motivation 4500 (must be a Thug major and have sophomore standing)

or have a waiver signed by slick pulla

imo plies doesn't need to make solo records, he can just be ridiculous for 12 bars on other people's records every now and again for all i care

there's something kind of funny about jeezy having a street single, his pop singles sound like everyone else's street single

MY GOONS GOT GOONS

he's using that weird like... patois drawl on the hook like he did on "vacation" -- i pretty much love this song

my goons got goons > my girl got a girlfriend

^exact thought

yeah keep playing this. no-one makes anthems that creep up on you like this quite like jeezy

hearing "lose my mind" on the radio has made me love it

song snaps so hard

yeah never thought it'd be such a monster til it hit heavy rotation

it's kinda crazy to me that jeezy seems immune to the big flop single, at least when it comes to his first joint off a new album

i think him not actually being that big a singles artist chart-wise makes him kind of flopproof. i mean if "Lose My Mind" hadn't taken off i don't think anyone would bat an eye and they'd just move on to the next single (is it still supposed to be a Beyonce collab?).

should probably be 201

― max, Tuesday, March 2, 2010 8:53 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

think it's funny jeezy raps about drinking rose and then having the hardest thing in the lot

if "all white everything" (prod by shawty redd) is actually about coke, it would be the most predictable and most predictably awesome jeezy song ever

it's about falling in love with a girl at one of Diddy's white parties

and then covering her with semen

>:-[

look at you lookin' like a milkshake

^^

lol @ the song dropping at 1.03 pm on friday

i am so excited

"all white everything"

http://www.dirtyglovebastard.net/?p=25788

it's weirdly lacking in that "who dat" overwhelming energy but i guess that's intentional -- i think it's kind of a banger tho, love the beat & it's cool to hear jeezy do a 'concept' track like this -- i think it's kind of a banger tbh

beat is ridiculous

You see, I disagree about the beat. I like it but I don't love it. This just doesn't sound like a single to me, but a deeper album cut.

Niggas still wearing fruity stones... man who does that!!?

This has been pushed back yet again. looks like 9/28 went from being a huge release date to merely a decent one, what with T.I. pushing his back too.

Guess I'll have to let Recession tide me over.

it's about falling in love with a girl at one of Diddy's white parties

― some dude, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:39 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

and then covering her with semen

― some dude, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:39 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

>:-[

― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 6:40 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

hearing "lose my mind" on the radio has made me love it

― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Saturday, June 5, 2010 7:46 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark

this is a dynamic that really kinda fascinates me. what is it about the context of hearing a song on the radio vs. (say) hearing it on your headphones in your bedroom that can make it instantly more likeable? this has happened to me with all kinds of stuff, and it definitely happens a lot with jeezy where (i guess) the big production has more space to breathe in my car, but i feel like it's about more than production style.

????????

I can't speak for J0rd but for me "Lose My Mind" definitely went from a good song to a great one when it hit heavy rotation for a number of reasons: it held up to repetition, it felt a lot ballsier as a radio hit than if it was just a 'street single' or album cut, and it just stuck out like a sore thumb next to all the R&B and Young Money shit it was sharing playlist space with. and yeah, the beat sounds good on a car stereo.

yeah part of it is the context of other songs on the radio, part of it is hearing something on decent speaker system & part of it is the repetition of hearing something a lot and that altering your opinion on it

i dig this mysterious phenomenon but sadly they don't play young jeezy on the radio where i live. but like, i only really fell in love with lady gaga when i started listening to the radio regularly at a job i started this summer & not as if this is not a rehash of what some dude posted (it just stuck out like a sore thumb next to all the R&B and Young Money shit it was sharing playlist space with) & age-old cliche wisdom but there's something to be said for 1. having no control over what song is played next and 2. the way songs are arranged demographically & musically on a radio playlist that got me thinkin good n hard about how different songs make do with similar means, w/o breaking confines of a station's narrowly defined aesthetic. & when you come out of a drought of garbage and one of your jams comes on it's a lot more potent than loading up a youtube or w/e

i think a part of this effect also has to do with the communal quality of radio just knowing that tons of other people are hearing it makes it seem somehow more potent

there should've been some punctuation in there

i think a part of this effect also has to do with the communal quality of radio just knowing that tons of other people are hearing it makes it seem somehow more potent

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Tuesday, September 21, 2010 5:13 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

definitely

i've never got the "communal experience" thing w/radio, ever. if i'm by myself listening to it, it doesn't even feel like anyone else is. communal listening is when there are other actual people with you.

not that i ever listen to the radio any more, but hearing a song out and about, in the wild, not of your own accord, can def have a sorting-wheat-from-chaff effect. you have a very honest and instinctive reaction to them, and it can be surprising to find that you welcome hearing certain songs that, played evaluatively in one's bedrooms, don't seem that special. i guess i get that in shops, clubs, anywhere w/piped music.

but pretty much everything about the radio suxxx and i wouldn't miss a thing if the entire medium was to vanish right now.

what i've just posted notwithstanding, i honestly don't understand why i'd want to let some twat radio presenter decide what songs i'm going to listen to when i can do that so well for myself. and then TALK OVER THEM ALL LIKE A TWAT! even before the internet, when i had no choice but the radio, i'd spend half the time yelling at presenters to stfu for one goddamn minute. have never heard one that i haven't hated.

somehow it doesn't surprise me that you've spent some time yelling at the radio, lex

lol

radio's great, btw

"Lose My Mind" is a fucking monster track. "All White Everything" is not really.

yeah lose my mind is awesome

radio's great, btw

― markers, Tuesday, September 21, 2010 6:56 PM Bookmark

i'm stupid dumb big, my rooms got rooms

how has nobody mentioned "jizzle" yet. what a turd

agreed. I'm ticked cuz half the things i had on pre-order yesterday got pushed back :/.

yeah aren't def jam usually p good with these things (i.e. why big boi went there to release sllf?) and considering jeezy must be their biggest artist (bar jay obv) you'd think they'd be all for it - especially against jeezy, more beef stories = free press, on top of the kanye v. 50 thing.

against gucci obv, not jeezy v. jeezy

i've been a bit out of the loop this year, but when did it become consensus that rick ross blew up by biting jeezy? i've seen it said in a few places lately. this from the rolling stone report from his listening session: "Ross has quickly and effectively Talented Mr. Ripley-ed Young Jeezy in the past two years, becoming a superstar in the process."

i might have bought that after Port of Miami (hence jeezy appearing on the "hustlin" remix) but in 2011 i dont really see it.

yeah in 2006 it felt like def jam was molding rick ross very deliberately as like 'we could use another jeezy' but both RR's rapping style and most of his music at this point is pretty distinct from jeezy's.

btw 103 is now supposedly set to come out on december 20th:

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/2011/11/young_jeezy_tm_103_album_preview.php

odd that the tracklist there includes "lose my mind" but none of the 5 more recent singles from the record, i'm sure that'll change between now and the release date though

I'd say it's true only in the sense that hes the closest rap has to a huge street rapper in the jeezy mold but thats zooming out pretty far

What did u think of "shake life"

VK: You say you see it in his first record and then wonder how it can be true he blew up supposedly doing it? Well its not like Port of Miami was a tiny record and then he went on to some new sound. He went hard on Jeezy's adlib game from day one and used it to then go somewhere.

oh man i hated "shake life" -- terrible hook and use of the sample and it annoyed me that they made it an official single right when "flexin'" was starting to get some buzz and i thought that was gonna be a hit

ross does ad libs? like besides the recent grunting thing?

ross and jeezy have such different rhyming styles

we shouldn't talk about rolling stone's rap writing

from that VV post

A perpetually delayed release date coupled with a glut of mostly underwhelming early singles had people lumping the album in with perpetually-in-limbo relases like Detox and the follow-up to The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.

o________________________________________________O

rolling stone?

i've seen it said in a few places lately. this from the rolling stone report from his listening session

lol, it's only been like a few years since the recession? tm 103 = chinese democracy now?

ya, back to a hoy hoy, the narrative that i'm objecting to (and its repeated in that SOTC post) is that ross has used jeezy's style to usurp him "in the interim" between The Recession and now ("in the past two years" in the Rolling Stone thing). i think's some dude's first response is pretty much otm

it's cuz they're two of the only popular gangster rappers left, and are both big dudes? idk

it's cuz they're two of the only popular gangster rappers left, and are both big dudes? idk

this album prob is not going to be v good

ya, ya, and maybe

tbh i see no reason to have low expectations for this record -- even if the singles haven't set the world on fire his recent mixtapes have all been pretty solid and the features/producers look decent, jeezy doesn't seem to have lost any sense of what his music should sound like.

yeah i figure its not gonna be 'recession' level but it could easily be a solid record

yeah I thought his verse on the hustle hard remix was really great

but I remember hearing other jeezy tracks recently where he went back to rhyming the same word with the same word

idk i'm sorta wondering if the process of making this record beat him down & he just stopped being inspired by it -- in that VV post it quoted him saying something like "i'm glad this project is over!"

i don't look for verbal dexterity with Jeezy, I look for that sore-throat yell with occasionally-cool coke rap lyrics and intense beats....

idk i'm sorta wondering if the process of making this record beat him down & he just stopped being inspired by it -- in that VV post it quoted him saying something like "i'm glad this project is over!"

― J0rdan S., Sunday, November 6, 2011 11:23 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

if this record turns out like lupe's last album where it's clear by the end he was just desperately making any song the label might like in hopes of getting a release date, i'll agree, but afaict it seems like jeezy stuck to his guns and never lost sight of what his appeal is or what kind of music he makes.

eminem, andre 3000, jay-z confirmed guests on teh album

so andre 3000 is just on everyone's album now huh

The snippet of the Jay/Andre track that cam out ages ago sounded pretty cool actually

andre hilariously turned down doing a feature on drake's first album so i was very disappointed to hear he's on take care (xpost)

Is there ever gonna be another outkast record our are they done?

kind like an unofficial sequel to International Players Anthem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVhRIOVNaDw

god that pic still mes me LOL

andre hilariously turned down doing a feature on drake's first album so i was very disappointed to hear he's on take care (xpost)

― some dude, Sunday, November 6, 2011 1:44 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this sorta folds in nicely w/ my general :( that drake has been grudgingly accepted by hip hop

idk his first album had features from jeezy, t.i. and jay-z, i think his acceptance happened a long time ago

http://youheardthatnew.com/

has an extensive summary of the listening session for the jeezy btw

not a v informative one but nonetheless

Is there ever gonna be another outkast record our are they done?

― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, November 6, 2011 11:47 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Supposedly they signed to Epic recently and are working on a record. Who knows tho.

anyone heard TM-103? thoughts? even worth hearing? failure? I havent heard a damn thing about it.

there was a sandbox thread, consensus seemed to be that it's def worth hearing but by no means his best

doesn't seem fair that TM:103 has a "Higher Learning" posse cut omitting freddie gibbs.

i'm hoping the new Yo Gotti is better but i wouldn't be surprised if it's half made up of previously released mixtape cuts

i didn't realize that the yo gotti coming out next week is his first 'proper album' in 5 years and is the one that "5 star" and "women lie, men lie" were supposed to be singles from, jesus

yea it's hella strange that he dropped an actual studio album in 06 then just lived in mixtape land for five years

actually this new jeezy is pretty nice, i thought it would be shit.

i'm hoping the new Yo Gotti is better but i wouldn't be surprised if it's half made up of previously released mixtape cuts

― Neanderthal, Monday, January 2, 2012 9:40 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

as if anyones actually listened to all those mixtapes

"way too gone" should be a single

everythang too imo