"money trees"
― original bgm, Monday, 21 April 2014 03:20 (ten years ago) link
i liked section 80 a lot more, i still haven't especially clicked w/ maad city. to the extent that i have stopped listening to section 80 while i wait maad city out, so as not to making it seem lesser by the comparison.
― j., Monday, 21 April 2014 03:26 (ten years ago) link
Maad City definitely isn't immediate. even his style of rapping on it, his cadences, his phrasing isn't ear-catching at first, not to mention the production is more dense.
I remember thinking after two listens "This is going to be another acclaimed album I don't get". I think it was about listens 4 or 5 before I liked it, and possibly 9 or 10 before I started loving it and its entire scope.
But returning to it this week after not listening to it since 2012 (since I quit listening to rap for a while) was full of riches. I remembered it all but it sounded even better than I remembered. Actually mellowed me the fuck out today!
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 April 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
I think part of the issue with my first listens of Maad City is I was listening to lots of 'slappy' west coast and shit like Compton's Moat Wanted so in comparison it was a lot more resolute.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 April 2014 04:46 (ten years ago) link
8. "m.A.A.d city" (featuring MC Eiht)
― IKEA metaballs (Spottie), Monday, 21 April 2014 05:27 (ten years ago) link
he closed w/ that tonight :-)
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Monday, 21 April 2014 05:36 (ten years ago) link
Voted "Swimming Pools" cause it feels like a standout, but this is a rare new-ish record, and an even rarer new-ish hip hop record, that feels like it demands to be heard as a whole. I still shut it off before "Compton" can begin, though, and I do appreciate that it has the courtesy to save its one dud track (yeah, I love "Backseat Freestyle"--sorry) for the very end.
― Inside Lewellyn Sinclair (cryptosicko), Monday, 21 April 2014 15:49 (ten years ago) link
Compton's Moat Wanted is a typo, isn't it :(
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Monday, 21 April 2014 15:53 (ten years ago) link
CARTOON & CEREAL
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 April 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
i think either "good kid" or "m.a.a.d city" though will have to relisten to make sure
i really appreciate that "backseat freestyle" and "swimming pools" were very public crossover anthems in the midst of this dense, conceptual record
"bitch don't kill my vibe" remains the worst
― lex pretend, Monday, 21 April 2014 16:09 (ten years ago) link
don't really gaf about this album but "maad city" is nice, although admittedly mostly for eiht
― k3vin k., Monday, 21 April 2014 16:16 (ten years ago) link
I love "Money Trees," mostly for Jay Rock's verse at the end.
― voodoo chili, Monday, 21 April 2014 17:01 (ten years ago) link
sing about me, i'm dying of thirst > the art of peer pressure > sherane aka master splinter's daughter > bitch don't kill my vibe
i could go on tho, i loved this album from the first time i played it. i haven't actually listened to section 80 tho, guess i should give it a shot.
― dyl, Monday, 21 April 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
Fuck it, I'm voting for "Poetic Justice".
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 04:19 (ten years ago) link
I am going with neither of the original two I propped up, and instead going with "M.A.A.D. City". love the Ice Cube sample/lyrical callback, and not to mention the intensity of the grim subject matter.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 04:43 (ten years ago) link
Good Kid
― Drugs A. Money, Tuesday, 22 April 2014 05:36 (ten years ago) link
Difficult - Peer Pressure vs Money Trees vs Good Kid vs Swimming Pools
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Tuesday, 22 April 2014 10:32 (ten years ago) link
that voice that says "just ridin....just ridin" on Art of Peer Pressure gets me every time. like it's his inner voice tryin to calm himself down, "we're just ridin, it's cool", hoping their actions won't keep escalating.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 April 2014 02:58 (ten years ago) link
Aw man, goddamn, all hell broke loose You killed my cousin back in '94, fuck your truceNow crawl your head in that noose, you wind up dead on the newsAin't no peace treaty, just pieces BG's up to pre-approveBodies on top of bodies, IV's on top of IV'sObviously the coroner between the sheets like the IsleysWhen you hop on that trolley, make sure your colors correctMake sure you're corporate, or they'll be calling your mother collectThey say the governor collect, all of our taxes exceptWhen we in traffic and tragic happens, that shit ain't no threatYou moving backwards if you suggest that you sleep with a TecGo buy a chopper and have a doctor on speed dial, I guess, m.A.A.d city
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:08 (ten years ago) link
there was a moment at the show last Sunday when he said something like he was glad we (the audience) was feelin' him and the place erupted for about 3 minutes and he paused and you could see it register on his face and momentarily overwhelm him, almost like he was K. Dot again seeing his dream realized in the future, and he got teary-eyed for a moment and said "Wow...that's love". probably the warmest moment I've ever had at a concert in general.
― getting strange ass all around the globe (Neanderthal), Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:10 (ten years ago) link
either money trees or MAAD city, the big fuckoff synth at the end of the latter might push it over for me
― Simon H., Saturday, 26 April 2014 03:38 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Sunday, 4 May 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Monday, 5 May 2014 00:01 (ten years ago) link
holy shit this A-Ha mashup
https://soundcloud.com/n04hmusic/a-hakendrick-lamar-take-on-backseat-mashup
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:53 (five years ago) link
ilm & hiphop is such a bizarre combo to me
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 18 October 2018 20:58 (five years ago) link
it is a v funny mashup indeed, well done
― niels, Friday, 19 October 2018 09:18 (five years ago) link
I didn't think the results would be Money Tree 10-2 Poetic Justice (two of my favorite tracks). And Bitch don't kill my vibe at 3.
― Nabozo, Friday, 19 October 2018 09:40 (five years ago) link
wow that mashup is glorious !
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 19 October 2018 10:05 (five years ago) link
still his best album. by a big margin.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Friday, 19 October 2018 13:46 (five years ago) link
well now we know what tori amos would've voted for
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1emfLQ-Jqw
― is he disgruntled adrian? (voodoo chili), Friday, 1 December 2023 20:39 (six months ago) link