Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010)

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.

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

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.

yeah I think he's got depth to spare - his range is pretty broad

he is maybe most enjoyable being impish & braggadocious tho

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.

gotta echo all the "You Ain't No DJ" love

eh 3000 hasn't displayed any gravitas in like 10 years

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Full stream up:

http://www.billboard.com/#/features/release-of-the-week-big-boi-1004101148.story?tag=hpflash2

shakey not a int playas anthem fan?

First skit made me LOL IRL so

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.

^^^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

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Royal Flush and a few other tracks had to be left out because of some contractual fuckup.

Can rtc repost that quote about how titchy is worse than geir

nobody is worse than geir

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

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

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

lol

It sort of points how how joyless and dead a lot of stuff feels today.

this really is how I feel whenever I dip my toes into hip hop these days (Lightweight Jammin excepted!)

"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.

Tichy, what does it mean that Big Boi doesn't have the "depth" of Andre?

big boi likes kate bush! that's hella deep

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

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

a willingness to experiment (successfully!)

this is the detabable part

detabable? don't mind me

Complaining about skits, really y'all?

do they suck? if they do, and they get in the way of shit, then they should be complained about

really what's annoying about them is that they aren't separate tracks that I can delete/skip

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, 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.

speakerboxx showed quite a lot of experimentation btw

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

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

man cohen is so gangsta

http://www2.brandonu.ca/Academic/Arts/Departments/english/Kramer/Images/svcohen24b.jpg

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.

the opera on Gen Patton is a bit much

I agree – that's the track I had in mind upthread when I said it was cluttered in spots.

"Daddy Fat Stax" hasn't been mentioned, but great proper opener. Accordion on rap songs is always a good idea.

i wish big boi could be as deep as "roses really smell like boo-boo" man that was deep

― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, July 1, 2010 4:45 PM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

real talk

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.

"lookin at ya" sounds great at the very end

The chorus on "Follow Us" is garbage. Ugh. Can't stand it.

I get that Gen Patton is intentionally over-the-top bombast I think it just goes too far

the opera on Gen Patton is a bit much

― has arlen specter never heard clarence thomas's laugh? (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, July 1, 2010 4:10 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

naaaaaah I love Gen. Patton, it's nice to have one bombastic headbanger on the album

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"general patton" sounds like circa-04 dipset but with better rapping, which is a dope thing to sound like imo. i like how the horns lend some subtle funk to it.

Follow us would be preety amazing if they didn't have the surfrider foundation baby-are-you-a-badfish-too allstars singing on it

this record is going to explode my brain when everyone makes me want to hate it by saying stupid things about it on ilx

it is mostly fun, if occasionally a lil weird here& there

tbh i don't think the album is quite as good as most are making it out to be, it's a fun album, but not totally amazing and i feel like "you ain't no dj" aside, i'd already heard the best tracks

haha deej, on release day you should compile the 10 stupidest things said about it on ilx into a listicle