most pathetic excuse for wordplay in Young Money's "Bedrock"

is there a single person on ilx who stans for this worthless facebook whore?

― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:55 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

reading that vv article and it's like, this is the rest of the internet's chance to out popist ilx, pretty hilarious that everyone here is just standing back and laughing.

is that seriously the reference

now that I understand the kelsey grammer line it is making me lol

whiney have you heard "find your love"?

― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:00 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

see to me that's just kind of shitty even as an R&B song...those weak-ass "hey hey hey"s in the background and that cheesy chorus. that's what gets me, he's not even a great singer, he's just a good-for-a-singing-rapper singer, 3rd best voice in a boy band singer. you might as well buy a Howie Dorough solo album.

I was thinking maybe there was some television reference in the surrounding lines that would explain why mentioning Kelsey Grammer at the end of that would make a lick of sense, but no

i want to think that "getting the Kelsey Grammar joke" is like a litmus test for something but i'm not exactly sure what

"knowing something superficial about black American culture"?

He might as well go all out and say "I'm a bitchy old grandmother: TYLER PERRY"

scrambled eggs all over my face, what is a boy to do

yeah just checkin in to say keep up the hate and lols and i'm not sure i see the linkages between this and 808s

― call all destroyer, Tuesday, June 15, 2010 1:20 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

well... "find your love" is totally an 808s rip off -- it was even prod by kanye -- it's pretty blatant

i like wes anderson basically but i hate drake! i'm so complex :)

btw... drake wasn't exactly plucked from nowhere cuz he had a pretty face. he actually had a failed single with trey songz -- i remember him talking about seeing it on 106 & park & then it never getting played again or something. he certainly had some sort of... online "hustle" -- i don't think it's up to what whiney is saying, and it always seemed to me that he was being pushed by blogs more than he was pushing himself, but it wasn't straight to rap stardom for him -- altho the young money affiliation certainly didn't hurt

well... "find your love" is totally an 808s rip off -- it was even prod by kanye -- it's pretty blatant

― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 2:45 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i guess i'm speaking more about the approach/intent and like where kanye was coming from vs. where drake is coming from but point taken

see "Find Your Love" doesn't sound that 808s to me (or at least not any more than lots of Drake's stuff), has kind of a bright '80s R&B sample sound, although I have no idea what the sample actually is. if anything sounds like that lame Consequence single from last year.

yeah some people will go a little too far with the "oh he had these connections, he was being pushed all the way" thing...it's not like every other Young Money flunkie or Canadian TV star or nephew of someone from Sly & The Family Stone is a rap superstar too.

I f/w "Find Your Love"

tbh I am happy that I live in a self-defined bubble where the most I have ever heard of Drake is like the 5 seconds it takes for me to identify his voice and change to another channel

most people don't realize this, but B.o.B's uncle is Jerry Martini

for grocery bag completeness i should note that some random ass brisco song features the line

i'm in my own lane... BOWLING BALL

which rivals his own "i'm not about that britney spears initials/ that's BS" or whatever the hell he says on the "all i do is win" remix

for worst line of the year

but is brisco's delivery laser-guided enough to turn those into automatic catch phrases??

I really tried to do a song with Andre 3000, but I think it was meant for my second album. Dre is one of those people that needs you to do a little more. He’s one of those people that believe in his craft so much that he needs you to do more than just be over hyped or just famous. In his mind, I have to prove myself and the truth is, I do. That’s just being real. I have a lot of work to do, so I actually respect him for that. I think on the second album I’ll probably only have two features. I have a few people in mind and Dre probably will be one of them.

http://rapradar.com/2010/06/15/drake-on-denied-andre-3000-feature/

all is forgiven

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127834096

It's the lynchpin of the Drake marketing model, in which important rappers introduce listeners to the next important rapper as he raps about how important he is.

but is brisco's delivery laser-guided enough to turn those into automatic catch phrases??

― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 3:47 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Hahahahahahaha.

i was impressed by noz listening to some of the songs on the album 15+ times before reviewing it

my favorite thing that he's ever written about drake, is this:

punchlines like "I really can't complain, everything's kosher/ Two thumbs up, Ebert and Roeper" may not be terribly complex, but Drake's laser-guided delivery turns them into automatic catch-phrases.

which, as i pointed out on so many shrimp, makes no sense, because EBERT AND ROEPER TURNED THE PHRASE INTO AN AUTOMATIC CATCH PHRASE, HENCE THE WHOLE FREAKIN REFERENCE

― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 02:41 (7 hours ago)

rip gene siskel
― max, Saturday, 6 March 2010 04:42 (3 months ago)

so i guess no one alerted ebert back when bloodhound gang used his name as a punchline?
― jizzchin (J0rdan S.), Monday, 8 March 2010 08:58 (3 months ago)

probably because Siskel's name got dropped first....
― Ballistic, Monday, 8 March 2010 09:02 (3 months ago)

re "find your love" & it's 808s-ness

"[Kanye] had scratch references. I think the hook was in place"

the beat is almost more like a dancehall riddim tbh (there's another beat on the album that rips off that riddim that serani did "no games" over) but those "hey, hey, hey"s are cribbed pretty much wholly from 808s & i think in the context of drake as an artist it's kind of hard not to connect the two

anyway i think it's a great song

based on what you said i thought i'd like it but i wasn't feeling it at all, and i love "best i ever had" and some other drake rnb joints

cant believe there was a riot at a fucking drake concert

in nyc i sure can

i mean i "can" believe it i just dont want to

I think also there's a discernible difference in the warmth of "Find Your Love" and anything from 808s. The production on 808s (which I love, by the way: Kanye finally learns how to make drums that aren't paper-thin [then again, Graduation was pretty good for that too]) conveyed a sterile emptiness really well, which made since 'cause Kanye was heartbroken at the time, etc etc. "Find Your Love" is much warmer, there are even like live instruments, and it's just more like the purple-tinged glow after a thunderston, sort of hopeful and shit. Drake isn't the bitter cynic that Kanye is about love either (on this song, at least); he thinks that if he puts all his heart in it things will work out. Kanye knows they won't. The warmer production fits Drake's sentiment.

http://cdn.nahright.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/drake-thankmelater-booklet-2-thank-yous.jpg

these liner notes are absurd, especially when it gets to the part where he's thanking all these indie artists like Neon Indian, Passion Pit, The xx, and Grizzly Bear obv but then sprinkled in will be like "3 6 Mafia" and Z-ro

and michael rappaport

re "find your love" & it's 808s-ness

"[Kanye] had scratch references. I think the hook was in place"
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, June 16, 2010 12:19 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

doesn't say anything about that being during the making of 808s, i'm guessing it was like a year or so after the album was cut.

"Find Your Love" has that kinda whiny synth sound from "Do U" and I love that sound.

http://twitter.com/RealTalibKweli/statuses/16248492624

*smh*

people, u gettin hoodwinked

what an asshole

Submissions for the Rolling "..._______" thread:

It would seem that, on the leaked Dr. Dre/Jay-Z track "Under Pressure," Jay-Z says the following:

"I should be ducking these clubs... TIGER WOODS"

talib talib talib, you are making me forget black star :(

that new dre/jay track is garbage

http://twitter.com/RealTalibKweli/status/15579007853

making friends!

Gucci http://www.apples4theteacher.com/images/icons/states/maine.gif

i think the problem with a lot of the beatdown drake reviews is they try to take dude down on some highfalutin artistic merit shit, when really it's like: his raps are bad and don't sound good. like, my review would just be "my sister is currently listening to thank me later: the timbre and tones of his voice are pretty unpleasant." lol u mad is the only real necessary rebuttal to anyone dumb enough to stan for this.