but not as good.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
Complaining about skits, really y'all?
― blap...tremendo (deej), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:38 (thirteen years ago) link
dudes don't really do drive by shooting skits anymore, i could go for one of those
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
skits are kinda worthless these days, tbf
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:55 (thirteen years ago) link
the skits make me smile. a lot of them are fun and really set the mood. tea time! c'mon. thats great stuff.
im pro skits on this album.
― gman59, Thursday, 1 July 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
complaining about skits on an outkast album is kinda wtf
― got you all in ♜ ♔ (dyao), Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:13 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah Speakerboxxx had a pretty bummer vibe under a lot of it
I dug that, tho: "Unhappy" and "Reset" were among the best tracks on that album.
― jaymc, Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:15 (thirteen years ago) link
i dont think big boi does 'deep' lyrical content all that well. esp not on his own. which is why big boi doing a more 'serious' bummer vibe album doesnt work nearly as well as big boi doing a big brash thing like this new album.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 1 July 2010 16:17 (thirteen years ago) link
i unfollowed big boi on twitter after one time where he retweeted about a 100 people who said they liked his new leaked song. i did a tweet like "ok @therealbigboi thats ott...unfollowed". just tried to follow him again and give him another chance but he has me blocked! lol
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i can't wait to hear this album; i'm sure it's great and happy albums are awesome, but:
i dont think big boi does 'deep' lyrical content all that well. esp not on his own. which is why big boi doing a more 'serious' bummer vibe album doesnt work nearly as well
this is crazy talk. like jaymc said, "unhappy" gives the lie to all of that.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:26 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah I think he's got depth to spare - his range is pretty broad
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:27 (thirteen years ago) link
he is maybe most enjoyable being impish & braggadocious tho
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
diff strokes for....
i think hes def got range. i just dont think hes got the depth to really put as much into it or give it real gravitas like dre3000.
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:53 (thirteen years ago) link
gotta echo all the "You Ain't No DJ" love
― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
eh 3000 hasn't displayed any gravitas in like 10 years
xp
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Full stream up:
http://www.billboard.com/#/features/release-of-the-week-big-boi-1004101148.story?tag=hpflash2
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:05 (thirteen years ago) link
shakey not a int playas anthem fan?
― samuel :D (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:11 (thirteen years ago) link
First skit made me LOL IRL so
― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:13 (thirteen years ago) link
haha okay I forgot about that! yeah that was good
The Love Below is a mess, and the stuff that works on it isn't because of any "depth" (in fact I think it might be quite the opposite). For the most part you have to go back to Stankonia for any "wow that's kinda heavy" shit from 3000.
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:14 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^re: Intl Playa Anthem
3000's verse on Royal Flush (a great track, should've been included on this imho) doesn't strike me as particularly deep either. some good punchlines
x-posts
Royal Flush and a few other tracks had to be left out because of some contractual fuckup.
― Simon H., Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:23 (thirteen years ago) link
Can rtc repost that quote about how titchy is worse than geir
― blap...tremendo (deej), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:39 (thirteen years ago) link
nobody is worse than geir
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:46 (thirteen years ago) link
real heads will know that it's titchyschneider that is actually ilx's premier subliminal chinese water-torturer - geir is but childs play in comparison.
― r|t|c, Thursday, October 22, 2009 5:20 AM Bookmark
― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:54 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ this tho:
For a while I thought Geir and Titchy were trying to out-WTF one another but Martian has just stepped up and shown how a real artist does it.
― Matt DC, Thursday, November 29, 2007 2:56 PM Bookmark
― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 July 2010 18:57 (thirteen years ago) link
You know what it is about this album?Big Boi sounds like he's having a fucking blast making this music...there's just such a sense of enthusiasm and fun.It sort of points how how joyless and dead a lot of stuff feels today.― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, July 1, 2010 7:56 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
Big Boi sounds like he's having a fucking blast making this music...there's just such a sense of enthusiasm and fun.
It sort of points how how joyless and dead a lot of stuff feels today.
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, July 1, 2010 7:56 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:07 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:08 (thirteen years ago) link
this really is how I feel whenever I dip my toes into hip hop these days (Lightweight Jammin excepted!)
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:10 (thirteen years ago) link
"shine blockas" = a (the?) standout track for a lot of folks, maybe just cuz it's had more time to sink in. i like it, but it's not a favorite. then again, i don't often dig the smooth & floaty "euphoria" vibe that's become shorthand for wealth & success recently.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:15 (thirteen years ago) link
Tichy, what does it mean that Big Boi doesn't have the "depth" of Andre?
― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:36 (thirteen years ago) link
big boi likes kate bush! that's hella deep
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
spkrbx/TLB suggested to me that 3000 had a (not "deep" but) far-ranging pop genius that big boi lacked, a willingness to experiment (successfully!) with any crazy shit that might happen to cross his mind
SLLF successfully repudiates the dre = genius, BB = hard worker dichotomy though
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i don't even think we need to hit yall with a second verse, but i - i think i just might because i - like to destroy shit
― The Reverend, Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:54 (thirteen years ago) link
a willingness to experiment (successfully!)
this is the detabable part
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:58 (thirteen years ago) link
detabable? don't mind me
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 19:59 (thirteen years ago) link
do they suck? if they do, and they get in the way of shit, then they should be complained about
― get your bucket of free wings (underrated aerosmith albums I have loved), Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:08 (thirteen years ago) link
really what's annoying about them is that they aren't separate tracks that I can delete/skip
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:10 (thirteen years ago) link
― The Reverend, Thursday, July 1, 2010 3:54 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark
this. if the skits were half as awesome/punchy as his rhymes, then i think fewer people would be complaining about them.
― borntohula, Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:13 (thirteen years ago) link
speakerboxx showed quite a lot of experimentation btw
― samuel :D (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:30 (thirteen years ago) link
i wish big boi could be as deep as "roses really smell like boo-boo" man that was deep
http://www.mighty-vibes.org/forum/images/smiles/slowburner.gifhttp://www3.timeoutny.com/newyork/thevolume/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/leonard-cohen-songs.jpg
― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:45 (thirteen years ago) link
rev i love that line...reminds me of what dream said a year or so ago in the new yorker about not writing second verses
― /\/K/\/\, Thursday, 1 July 2010 20:49 (thirteen years ago) link
man cohen is so gangsta
http://www2.brandonu.ca/Academic/Arts/Departments/english/Kramer/Images/svcohen24b.jpg
― Q and Not Gucci (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
Hate the hook on "Follow Us" and I'm not crazy about one or two tracks, but fuck me if the rest isn't just completely awesome. Also, I kinda like having the two versions of Shine Blockas - it acts like a "fuck yeah, this again!" reprise.
― Simon H., Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:06 (thirteen years ago) link
the opera on Gen Patton is a bit much
― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
I agree – that's the track I had in mind upthread when I said it was cluttered in spots.
― Filmmaker, Author, Radio Host Stephen Baldwin (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:12 (thirteen years ago) link
"Daddy Fat Stax" hasn't been mentioned, but great proper opener. Accordion on rap songs is always a good idea.
― rennavate, Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:17 (thirteen years ago) link
― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, July 1, 2010 4:45 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
real talk
― horseshoe, Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:32 (thirteen years ago) link
someone lolled at "daddy fat sex" a while back, but yeah, no real mention, and it's great, excellent opener. "sax" though.
"follow us" makes me cringe, but i can't deny it. i mean, i really want to hate the chorus/hook, cuz it seems so objectively awful, but it works for me despite my reservations. have resigned myself to just plain liking it.
and "patton" has to be a joke, right? at least in part. wtf aspect makes the overcluttered ridiculousness a bit easier to take, but yeah, not a favorite.
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:33 (thirteen years ago) link
"lookin at ya" sounds great at the very end
― good news if you wear cargo shorts (contenderizer), Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:34 (thirteen years ago) link
The chorus on "Follow Us" is garbage. Ugh. Can't stand it.
― rennavate, Thursday, 1 July 2010 21:36 (thirteen years ago) link