a site i still can't write for, good lookin out, yall
― unfunperson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 6 June 2010 17:34 (thirteen years ago) link
im not really standing by the "grocery bags 'got' things" interpretation but its the only one that even approaches the world of meaning to me
― max, Thursday, January 7, 2010 11:43 AM (4 months ago)
― ksh, Sunday, 6 June 2010 17:40 (thirteen years ago) link
all of gudda gudda's are the best
― if i recoil correctly (crüt), Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:12 (thirteen years ago) link
― unfunperson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, June 6, 2010 12:34 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
what do u mean
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i asked like twice to contribute and never got an answer
― gorilla vs burrr (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:32 (thirteen years ago) link
word? via email?
― gonjasufi smacker (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:39 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah dude
unless u can do something i'll continue tohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69PcbIxF-04
― gorilla vs burrr (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:46 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm playing the Drake album in the background while I write some ish. If any grocery bags lines hit me, I'll post them here.
1. This time I'm really going off... FIREWORKS
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:34 (thirteen years ago) link
2. Will I blow all this money?... HAMMERTIME
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:46 (thirteen years ago) link
3. Bout to set it off in this bitch... JADA PINKETT(I think we covered this one, but)
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:50 (thirteen years ago) link
4. I can teach you how to speak my language... ROSETTA STONE
5. Two thumbs up... EBERT AND ROEPER
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:52 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i heard that he toned down the grocery bagginess on the album, good to hear there's some stuff to SMH at besides the stuff we already know from "Over"
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
smh @ pitchfork today, this album is fucking dogshit
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Kanye stans so thirsty they'll drink whatever offbrand Dr. Rocket soda they can get their hands on
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:57 (thirteen years ago) link
Funny because I figured it was part of the whole "THERE'S NO GOOD POP FOR US TO RALLY AROUND ANYMORE" dialogue around Pazz and Jop time which ppl used as a shitty excuse for putting "Girls" songs in the top 10. This is not good pop, and that's coming from a guy who listens to Katy Perry.
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 13:59 (thirteen years ago) link
6. Presidential suite... BARACK HUSSEIN
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:01 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:02 (thirteen years ago) link
shit's so lame...JIMMY IN DEGRASSI
― i don't always play indie, but when i do, i prefer xx (m bison), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:03 (thirteen years ago) link
oh my god
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:05 (thirteen years ago) link
7. I made enough for two n***as, boy... STUNT DOUBLE
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:06 (thirteen years ago) link
haha
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:07 (thirteen years ago) link
almost spazzed on someone for being all "8.4 but no BNM?" on Twitter this morning
it's a BM all right
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:09 (thirteen years ago) link
http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/images/pitchfork.jpg
Drake is the guy you get drinks with who talks about himself for a few hours-- if you're lucky, he might ask you for advice on one or two things. But this is OK because Drake's stories are better than yours. Like the one about how Lil Wayne befriended and signed him at the height of Weezy's powers. Or how he got with Rihanna last year. Or that time he flashed from a Toronto has-been to a top-flight hit maker off the strength of a self-released mixtape. Of course, there's the classic about sipping a few too many glasses of Ace of Spades and asking Nicki Minaj to marry him. Sounds like a sweet existence.
This is a very telling paragraph.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:16 (thirteen years ago) link
"Did I tell you the one about how I met Lil Wayne and he signed me at the height of his powers?"
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
"That was back when Weezy had x-ray vision."
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
If the album had any of those good stories on it, it might be listenable
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:20 (thirteen years ago) link
"i just knew that she was fine... like a ticket on the dash"
http://righthearmedia.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/merriweather.jpg
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:21 (thirteen years ago) link
His relatively progressive and gentlemanly style is contagious, too; on the soon-to-be smash "Fancy", T.I. ditches the "superficial gold-digging bitches" he once praised on songs like "Whatever You Like", instead opting for a single lady with her own BMW and Jaguar in the garage.
that's a real big "relatively" there.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
this album seriously got a good review in pfork? or ANYWHERE? what. is going. on. with. "critics".
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:22 (thirteen years ago) link
can I just point out that American indie ppl giving the stamp of approval to a Degrassi alum isn't really all that surprising, at least not to me
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
like he could have released a single called "I Eat Yr Baby's Entrails After Repeated Rapings" and someone would be talking about his daring satire or some shit
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:25 (thirteen years ago) link
haha the review basically gives that up at the end:
As much as rap is built on artful navel-gazing, it's also founded in struggle. And just as Drake's dramatically exposed selfishness is unique to hip-hop, so are his adversities. He grew up in an affluent Toronto suburb and was graced with everything but a functional pair of parents, who split when he was three. Like Kanye West before him, Drake vies for superstardom while embracing his non-drug-dealing, non-violent, non-dire history-- one that connects with most rap fans in a completely reasonable way. And, suddenly, all that "I" turns into a lot of "we."
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
idk what degrassi is, but nothing about this album (which i actually gave in and listened to, and most of it is actually just insipid and boring when he's not being the worst lyricist ever) really screamed indie-crit catnip like kanye does even at his worst.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
omfgomfg who is the retard who wrote that
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
i HATE people
Ryan Dombal, but we are all Canadian child actors who prove Kanye West is a horrible role model.
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:27 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao @ lex
― dat nigga del griffith (zvookster), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Degrassi High is a Canadian television show about sad-sack high school kids and how difficult it is to be a special snowflake, which IMO panders directly to the American indie mindset and generates a lot of slack-cutting where you would least expect, like for example with Drake
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
all the lines the review quotes, which are typical, are more objectionable to me than straight up "fuck her in the eye" misogyny.
― dat nigga del griffith (zvookster), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
ryan dombal, last time i heard that name was when i had to go in on his atrocious review of the last rihanna album on some other thread. iodfsjfknkjdsdlk'\;:"::"" HATE
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
I really miss the days when "the american indie mindset" was all about how disgusting a picture Unsane could put on their album cover
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
like iirc he was virtually victim-blaming her. i assume he's always this terrible?
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:30 (thirteen years ago) link
b-b-but Drake inspired TI to give up materialistic bitches for the independently wealthy! What could be more refreshing, unexpected and progressive than that?
― da croupier, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"I wish I wasn't famous/ I wish I was still in school/ So I could have you in my dorm room/ I would put it on you crazy"
... okay really?
― rugged and unrelenting (even brutal) (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:32 (thirteen years ago) link
8. I can bring em through and shut em down... ONYX
― insane drown posse (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 14:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Guys, I need to go to the emergency room
I think I SMH too hard and sprained something