nah i don't think it's out yet. i just meant solely off name recognition. i guess "got money" could disprove the theory but i think that would've gone top 10 had they not put 4 carter III other songs on itunes immediately after.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 July 2008 07:57 (fifteen years ago) link
well, at this point I have no idea if "Got Money" is going to rebound up the charts once the video's out and "A Milli" and "Lollipop" have finally died down, or if it really is going to prove to be a weird (relative) flop by 2 sure things. i wouldn't mind NOT hearing it all summer, though.
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 07:59 (fifteen years ago) link
do you have any idea how it's doing airplay wise? i can't imagine it surging that much wrt digital sales even if radio starts to pick it up. i mean right now it's getting outsold by that awful david banner song while "a milli" continues to stay in the top 35 or so. i think they sacrificed its chart potential by including it in the pre-album release deluge strategy. i mean they had to have known that putting it on itunes right at the height of "lollipop"s success was going to irreparably stunt it.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 July 2008 08:07 (fifteen years ago) link
maybe it's t-pain fatigue though? i think "she got it" would've been a surefire top 10 last year and it barely crept inside the top 30 this year. i think if wayne's still got ultimate name recognition right now. i think if they did a properly timed release for "comfortable" it would be a huge huge hit.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 July 2008 08:09 (fifteen years ago) link
if
I dunno, it's hard to say whether the marketplace is burned out on T-Pain or what. You could say 2 Pistols or Tay Dizm or whoever just doesn't have star quality, but it's not like Flo Rida does either! If anything other rappers autotuning w/o T-Pain has just replaced T-Pain hooks for a lot of more popular rappers at this point, even if Kanye and Wayne are the only one making actually hits like that right now (lol "Rider Pt. 2").
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 13:07 (fifteen years ago) link
i kinda dig "cash flow" by ace hood. good t-pain hook on that one.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:22 (fifteen years ago) link
so are we supposed to take the T-Wayne announcement-via-t shirt as a serious thing??? or is that not gonna happen...like I Can't Fell My Face or really any number of other rap projects
― kid mush, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:32 (fifteen years ago) link
t-pain's t-wayne t-shirt
Yeah "Cash Flow" is definitely my favorite T-Pain cut of '08 so far. Not really so much for the hook, though, I just like the awesome drums and the fact that Ace is a halfway capable rapper compared to almost every other FL dude that blew up with a T-Pain feature.
xpost yeah I don't believe any of Wayne's collaborative projects other than with Baby will ever drop
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
I mean maybe after the C3 numbers every label that thinks they can get a Wayne/Juelz or Hot Boys reunion or T-Wayne album on shelves will shell out a big advance and try to make it happen, but I'm not holding my breath.
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
CASSSSH FLOOOOOO
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Ace is a halfway capable rapper
haha yeah halfway capable is probably the highest praise you can give most florida rap dudes
still, i ended up loving "boss" by rick ross, that beat is so mega and a great hook
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i would like a gif of t-pain doing his thing at a balcony : arms stretched pointing down swinging them low low low low. could be the new pdiddy+mase dance gif
― Sébastien, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Wayne/Juelz or Hot Boys reunion or T-Wayne album on shelves
this would be an AMAZING version of our future
i ended up loving "boss" by rick ross, that beat is so mega and a great hook
that shit was always crack
― kid mush, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:47 (fifteen years ago) link
"Boss" would be a dope album track, but it felt kinda forced as a single, and that sputtering "boss boss b-boss" bridge was like the sound of T-Pain running out of ideas epitomized.
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:50 (fifteen years ago) link
"boss" might be my favorite rap single of the year. it's between that, "say yeah" and "put on" i think. iirc deej clowned me for posting the boss youtube before anyone knew what it was and big upping the beat. crazy that it came from fuckin jr rotem. it's great though, the fact that it's basically just voices cooing.
i wouldn't bet on t-wayne ever dropping either. they say it's called He Rap, He Sing, but c'mon it took him 3 years to get carter III out so i wouldn't hold my breath. dedication 3 will drop before anything.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 July 2008 15:54 (fifteen years ago) link
how bout Rappas Ternt Robots
― kid mush, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 16:00 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah Rotem occasionally comes with some fire. still pretty impressed by the "Bust It Baby Pt 2" beat in spite of myself.
holy shit guys did you know that Ross and Birdman want to do an album together called BALD EAGLES FLY HIGH
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 16:07 (fifteen years ago) link
^^america's hip-hop ghost writer's projected incomes just skyrocketed
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 16:09 (fifteen years ago) link
worst of one world
― some dude, Wednesday, 2 July 2008 16:10 (fifteen years ago) link
jjjjjrrrr
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 2 July 2008 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
as someone who wants to t-pain further take over the world, im kinda disappointed that "can't believe it" is the first single from thr33 ringz cuz it's gonna flop (a little too sleepy + does the world really want THREE t-wayne singles?) but shit is really growing on me, esp the hilarious verses (ima put you in the mansion/ somewhere in wiscansin). could do w/o the wayne verse and still think this would be a bomb album track but whatever. thr33 ringz is gonna be a classic
― J0rdan S., Monday, 28 July 2008 03:13 (fifteen years ago) link
ha radio dudes were making fun of the mansion/wiscansin rhyme
― The Reverend, Monday, 28 July 2008 03:15 (fifteen years ago) link
IMA PUT YOU IN THE CONDO ALL THE WAY UP IN TORONTO
― J0rdan S., Monday, 28 July 2008 03:17 (fifteen years ago) link
"Can't Believe It" is decent up until the Wayne verse, but yeah, doesn't sound like a hit at all even given the pedigree.
not a Lil Mama teenpop booster at all and hated "Shawty Get Loose," but "What It Is (Strike A Pose)" might be my favorite T-Pain track of the year so far.
― some dude, Monday, 28 July 2008 04:19 (fifteen years ago) link
i think im reaching tape store/cassie levels of t-pain fandom here
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 August 2008 07:03 (fifteen years ago) link
why is your fandom peaking now, do you think his last few months have been on the level of what he did on '07? I'm still looking forward to the new album, but if he doesn't take it to the next level with that shit and deliver something better than the singles so far I'm off the bandwagon.
― some dude, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 03:19 (fifteen years ago) link
how is there not a single mention on this thread of the totally amazing sensory overload that is Boom?!? some people might question the wisdom of bringing in T-Pain for a guest spot when you're already using the same exact vocoder effect on your own voice, but somehow, twice as much actually does end up equaling twice as good here.
― bernard snowy, Wednesday, 13 August 2008 03:40 (fifteen years ago) link
-- some dude, Tuesday, August 12, 2008 10:19 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link
yeah i think "shawty get loose", "she got it", "cash flow" and "what it is (strike a pose)" (also "got money" but he's barely even in that) stack up pretty well with his guest spots from last year, and i like "can't believe it" a lot (mostly for the verses), at least a lot better than "bartender". mostly i was saying that just cuz on ilm im always bumping this thread w/ minimal responses that match my enthusiasm.
i think thr33 ringz is going be really really good, probably a little bloated, but there's a few people in pop music who i'd be interested in hearing totally go off the deep end, and he is one of them. idk if he's headed there or not, but in any event i think he has it in him to top epiphany, which i liked a lot but still seemed a little under what he's capable of doing. but yeah, mostly i made the reference to tape store cuz im always bumping the thread w/ super enthusiasm.
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 13 August 2008 04:51 (fifteen years ago) link
so here's tay dizm, the dude on the 2 pistols song that is less famous than 2 pistols himself. it's called "beam me up", with officer ross of course. always love to see the police reaching out to build a bridge with inner city youth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDNOoAWjQRY
its a bangladesh beat and one of teddy's weirdest hooks in a minute: "my chevy sit so high up off the flo/i feel like im an alien in a ufo/i go ooooh weeeee ooohh"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 17 August 2008 21:28 (fifteen years ago) link
is it really that weird considering the t-wayne entente and that the occasional bit of space talk's been known to occur in his earlier stuff anyway? seems deeply uninspired to me.
― r|t|c, Monday, 18 August 2008 01:17 (fifteen years ago) link
compared to "the boss", "she got it", "cash flow", "got money" etc i'd say yeah, it's one of the weirder things he's tried to push to radio in a while, and not really cuz of the "oooh weee ooooh" part ("mrs. officer", etc). it sounds really drugged
― J0rdan S., Monday, 18 August 2008 01:22 (fifteen years ago) link
not saying its necessarily "inspired" though
i love him!
― Surmounter, Monday, 18 August 2008 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Khaled/Kanye/T-Pain/Runners: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCT3V_kbFKQ
could grow on me but sounds like a mess right now, especially with Kanye once again proving he's not very good with Autotune and biting Wayne hard with all the shit/vomit puns.
― some dude, Tuesday, 19 August 2008 00:10 (fifteen years ago) link
watching access granted of the "can't believe it" video
t-pain has 150 top hats
video will feature t-pain on a roller coaster and wayne on ferris wheel
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 August 2008 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
::searches ebay for a t-wayne shirt::
― J0rdan S., Monday, 25 August 2008 23:49 (fifteen years ago) link
I've gotten to the point where all "Can't Believe It" does is remind how much better this song is with Akon singing almost the exact same thing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kS9Eqk46I
― some dude, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 12:34 (fifteen years ago) link
lololololololololol
http://i35.tinypic.com/316og00.png http://i35.tinypic.com/316og00.png http://i35.tinypic.com/316og00.png
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 26 August 2008 23:09 (fifteen years ago) link
haha, every time i try to watch this thing i pleasantly zone out somewhere halfway thru. still gets bitty and ott when wayne comes on, though obv this song would do less than nothing without his being there.
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 00:37 (fifteen years ago) link
I've gotten to the point where all "Can't Believe It" does is remind how much better this song is with Akon singing almost the exact same thing: (Embed)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5kS9Eqk46I
-- some dude, Tuesday, 26 August 2008 13:34 (Yesterday) Bookmark Link
i also zone out in much the same way when i try to begin to fathom this glimpse of nitpicking infinity
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 00:42 (fifteen years ago) link
similar titles, sung in approximately the same melody and cadence. it ain't rocket science.
― some dude, Wednesday, 27 August 2008 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
really just an excuse to remind myself that probably my fav Akon track of the last couple years was totally slept on, chartwise.
THE NEW MASCOT OF Rolling T-Pain Thread 2008
http://i33.tinypic.com/hwzue1.png
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 27 August 2008 01:27 (fifteen years ago) link
so "chopped n skrewed" then
this one is obv in the vein of "buy u a drank" and i think it's pretty good
between this, "can't believe it" and "silver & gold" it looks like thr33 ringz is going to way more synthetic and electronic than epiphany
― poetry unit (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 22:20 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/86a76df842
― forksclovetofu, Wednesday, 1 October 2008 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
wow i actually laughed out loud
― poetry unit (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 1 October 2008 22:36 (fifteen years ago) link
cursing seems to help.
― forksclovetofu, Thursday, 2 October 2008 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
1 "Welcome to Thr33 Ringz" 2 "Ringleader Man" 3 "Chopped & Skrewed" Ludacris 4:224 "Take A Ride (Skit)" 5 "Freeze" Chris Brown 3:386 "Blowing Up" Ciara 7 "Can't Believe It" Lil Wayne 4:348 "It Ain't Me" Akon & T.I. 9 "Feed The Lion (Skit)" 10 "Therapy" Kanye West 11 "Long Lap Dance Song" 12 "The Reality Show" Musiq Soulchild, Raheem DeVaughn & Jay Lyriq 13 "Keep Going" 14 "Superstar Lady" Young Ca$h 15 "Change" Akon, Diddy & Mary J. Blige 16 "Digital" Tay Dizm 17 "Karaoke" DJ Khaled
― finger blaster (J0rdan S.), Monday, 13 October 2008 00:55 (fifteen years ago) link