i like wes anderson basically but i hate drake! i'm so complex :)
― it's hard out here for a special snowflake (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:49 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:51 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:53 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
I f/w "Find Your Love"
― nakhchivan. nakhchivan. nakhchivan i wanna rock ya (The Reverend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Damn these skinny jeans' pockets. (HI DERE), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:55 (thirteen years ago) link
most people don't realize this, but B.o.B's uncle is Jerry Martini
― nakhchivan. nakhchivan. nakhchivan i wanna rock ya (The Reverend), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 18:56 (thirteen years ago) link
for grocery bag completeness i should note that some random ass brisco song features the line
i'm in my own lane... BOWLING BALL
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:37 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 20:38 (thirteen years ago) link
for worst line of the year
but is brisco's delivery laser-guided enough to turn those into automatic catch phrases??
― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Tuesday, 15 June 2010 21:47 (thirteen years ago) link
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/
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 00:50 (thirteen years ago) link
― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Tuesday, June 15, 2010 3:47 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
Hahahahahahaha.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:08 (thirteen years ago) link
i was impressed by noz listening to some of the songs on the album 15+ times before reviewing it
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 01:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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)
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)
probably because Siskel's name got dropped first....― Ballistic, Monday, 8 March 2010 09:02 (3 months ago)
― dyaon't (sic), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 03:41 (thirteen years ago) link
re "find your love" & it's 808s-ness
"[Kanye] had scratch references. I think the hook was in place"
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:19 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 04:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 16 June 2010 05:05 (thirteen years ago) link
cant believe there was a riot at a fucking drake concert
― max, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 05:19 (thirteen years ago) link
in nyc i sure can
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 06:00 (thirteen years ago) link
i mean i "can" believe it i just dont want to
― max, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 06:11 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― rennavate, Wednesday, 16 June 2010 06:38 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:37 (thirteen years ago) link
and michael rappaport
― killahpriest (/\/K/\/\), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
"[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.
― Mr. Srehtims (some dude), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 16:47 (thirteen years ago) link
"Find Your Love" has that kinda whiny synth sound from "Do U" and I love that sound.
― nakhchivan. nakhchivan. nakhchivan i wanna rock ya (The Reverend), Wednesday, 16 June 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/RealTalibKweli/statuses/16248492624
― its like why GROCERY BAG and not saddam? (deej), Thursday, 17 June 2010 05:28 (thirteen years ago) link
*smh*
― Tavarius Polk (The Reverend), Thursday, 17 June 2010 05:48 (thirteen years ago) link
people, u gettin hoodwinked
what an asshole
― Youve Beenexposed (J0rdan S.), Thursday, 17 June 2010 06:06 (thirteen years ago) link
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"
― Becky Facelift, Thursday, 17 June 2010 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
talib talib talib, you are making me forget black star :(
that new dre/jay track is garbage
― it's hard out here for a special snowflake (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/RealTalibKweli/status/15579007853
― dat nigga del griffith (zvookster), Thursday, 17 June 2010 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link
making friends!
― da croupier, Thursday, 17 June 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
Gucci http://www.apples4theteacher.com/images/icons/states/maine.gif
― ban grocery bagger (The Reverend), Thursday, 17 June 2010 19:43 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― them goons you rock, make em sb (samosa gibreel), Thursday, 17 June 2010 22:54 (thirteen years ago) link
Eminem:
Do you think rap has peaked creatively?No. Hip-hop right now — there are certain artists who put hip-hop in a good state.There are a lot of talented people, and there’s a lot of young talent coming up, like B.o.B, Jay Electronica, Lupe Fiasco and Drake.
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:37 (thirteen years ago) link
two people in that list are rappers
I know rap is where you stan for whoever's famous because that's where the money is. Props for Andre 3000 for telling Drake to fuck himself
― peabo bison (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:38 (thirteen years ago) link
― them goons you rock, make em sb (samosa gibreel), Thursday, June 17, 2010 4:54 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark
I'm not stanning for the album -- I gave it 3.5 stars in my review -- but I think it's quite good. I like the timbre and tone of Drake's voice, particularly when he's singing, as his voice can sound a little whiny when he raps. But you know what? His raps sound good. Yeah the lyrics aren't the best ever, but they're hella fun to rap along with, and that counts for a lot.
― rennavate, Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:51 (thirteen years ago) link
the problem with Drake's voice is that it sounds a lot like Young Berg's voice.
― fantast (ico) (some dude), Thursday, 17 June 2010 23:59 (thirteen years ago) link
er Yung i guess
I don't remember Yung Berg being as annoying.
― ban grocery bagger (The Reverend), Friday, 18 June 2010 00:03 (thirteen years ago) link
If you mean a less annoying version of Yung Berg, then I'd agree to an extent.
― rennavate, Friday, 18 June 2010 00:04 (thirteen years ago) link
But you know what? His raps sound good. Yeah the lyrics aren't the best ever, but they're hella fun to rap along with, and that counts for a lot.
― rennavate, Thursday, June 17, 2010 7:51 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark
i'm not really finding much of this "fun" you speak of. and i have spend a lot of my life listening to, like, teenagers rap on jerk songs, which to me is often fun despite bad-ish lyrics.
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 18 June 2010 00:07 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, a huge part of my problem with Drake is not even that he writes terrible lyrics, but that (as a rapper, at least) he sucks all the air out of everything.
― ban grocery bagger (The Reverend), Friday, 18 June 2010 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link