Speakboxx was pretty great, it was only The Love Below that dragged that album down.
― Vulvuzela (Matt DC), Thursday, 1 July 2010 11:05 (thirteen years ago) link
S'boxxx is great, but it works best in context as a counterpart to The Love Below. This one has enough range to stand on its own.
― swvl, Thursday, 1 July 2010 13:54 (thirteen years ago) link
i just realized "Royal Flush" isn't on this u_u
those crackers weren't playing fair at Jive
― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 July 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
This is fantastic. tangerine, shine blockas, night night, the train pt. 2 are the ones that struck me the most on first listen. Great all the way through. I agree with this being better than speakerboxxx that was still awesome.
― gman59, Thursday, 1 July 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
shine blockas is summer as fuck
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Thursday, 1 July 2010 14:48 (thirteen years ago) link
"Back Up Plan" is real good
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 14:54 (thirteen years ago) link
You know what it is about this album?
Big Boi sounds like he's having a fucking blast making this music...there's just such a sense of enthusiasm and fun.
It sort of points how how joyless and dead a lot of stuff feels today.
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 14:56 (thirteen years ago) link
absolutely!
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:06 (thirteen years ago) link
that's why i don't even hate the skits really, they are kinda dumb but more in just a silly, stoned "kickin' it w/yr bros" kinda way
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
"Speakboxx was pretty great, it was only The Love Below that dragged that album down."
just cos dre3000 gets so much love theres no need for people to overcompensate with the big boi praise.
but yeah the thing about this album is that big boi sounds really hype and energetic. dont think ive heard him like this in a long time.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
the energy + enthusiasm on this album reminds me more of stankonia than speakerboxx/love below
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:17 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah Speakerboxxx had a pretty bummer vibe under a lot of it
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
kind of a bloated vibe, a bit like wu tang forever.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
but not as good.
Complaining about skits, really y'all?
― blap...tremendo (deej), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
dudes don't really do drive by shooting skits anymore, i could go for one of those
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
skits are kinda worthless these days, tbf
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
the skits make me smile. a lot of them are fun and really set the mood. tea time! c'mon. thats great stuff.
im pro skits on this album.
― gman59, Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
complaining about skits on an outkast album is kinda wtf
― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
I dug that, tho: "Unhappy" and "Reset" were among the best tracks on that album.
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont think big boi does 'deep' lyrical content all that well. esp not on his own. which is why big boi doing a more 'serious' bummer vibe album doesnt work nearly as well as big boi doing a big brash thing like this new album.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i unfollowed big boi on twitter after one time where he retweeted about a 100 people who said they liked his new leaked song. i did a tweet like "ok @therealbigboi thats ott...unfollowed". just tried to follow him again and give him another chance but he has me blocked! lol
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't wait to hear this album; i'm sure it's great and happy albums are awesome, but:
i dont think big boi does 'deep' lyrical content all that well. esp not on his own. which is why big boi doing a more 'serious' bummer vibe album doesnt work nearly as well
this is crazy talk. like jaymc said, "unhappy" gives the lie to all of that.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I think he's got depth to spare - his range is pretty broad
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
he is maybe most enjoyable being impish & braggadocious tho
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
diff strokes for....
i think hes def got range. i just dont think hes got the depth to really put as much into it or give it real gravitas like dre3000.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta echo all the "You Ain't No DJ" love
― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
eh 3000 hasn't displayed any gravitas in like 10 years
xp
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Full stream up:
http://www.billboard.com/#/features/release-of-the-week-big-boi-1004101148.story?tag=hpflash2
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
shakey not a int playas anthem fan?
― samuel :D (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
First skit made me LOL IRL so
― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
haha okay I forgot about that! yeah that was good
The Love Below is a mess, and the stuff that works on it isn't because of any "depth" (in fact I think it might be quite the opposite). For the most part you have to go back to Stankonia for any "wow that's kinda heavy" shit from 3000.
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^re: Intl Playa Anthem
3000's verse on Royal Flush (a great track, should've been included on this imho) doesn't strike me as particularly deep either. some good punchlines
x-posts
Royal Flush and a few other tracks had to be left out because of some contractual fuckup.
― Simon H., Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Can rtc repost that quote about how titchy is worse than geir
― blap...tremendo (deej), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
nobody is worse than geir
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
real heads will know that it's titchyschneider that is actually ilx's premier subliminal chinese water-torturer - geir is but childs play in comparison.
― r|t|c, Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:20 AM Bookmark
― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ this tho:
For a while I thought Geir and Titchy were trying to out-WTF one another but Martian has just stepped up and shown how a real artist does it.
― Matt DC, Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:56 PM Bookmark
― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
You know what it is about this album?Big Boi sounds like he's having a fucking blast making this music...there's just such a sense of enthusiasm and fun.It sort of points how how joyless and dead a lot of stuff feels today.― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, July 1, 2010 7:56 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, July 1, 2010 7:56 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
this really is how I feel whenever I dip my toes into hip hop these days (Lightweight Jammin excepted!)
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
"shine blockas" = a (the?) standout track for a lot of folks, maybe just cuz it's had more time to sink in. i like it, but it's not a favorite. then again, i don't often dig the smooth & floaty "euphoria" vibe that's become shorthand for wealth & success recently.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Tichy, what does it mean that Big Boi doesn't have the "depth" of Andre?
― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
big boi likes kate bush! that's hella deep
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
spkrbx/TLB suggested to me that 3000 had a (not "deep" but) far-ranging pop genius that big boi lacked, a willingness to experiment (successfully!) with any crazy shit that might happen to cross his mind
SLLF successfully repudiates the dre = genius, BB = hard worker dichotomy though
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't even think we need to hit yall with a second verse, but i - i think i just might because i - like to destroy shit
― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
a willingness to experiment (successfully!)
this is the detabable part
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
detabable? don't mind me
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
do they suck? if they do, and they get in the way of shit, then they should be complained about
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
really what's annoying about them is that they aren't separate tracks that I can delete/skip
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link