kanye west graduation

Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter
Ask most hip-hop heads who has ruled the day since B.I.G. and 2Pac passed away, nine out of 10 will say Shawn Carter

but how many hip-hop heads out of 10 choose
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This thread is not about Kanye at all :(

I apologize if that does not please you.

Like I said, I’m white and I deserve khakis and loafers with pennies in them. When I see a white kid from Rye County or Long Island or any other blessed region dressed in FUBU jeans and a doo rag, I think to myself, “That’s a shame. That kid has no identity.”

http://images.salon.com/books/feature/2002/05/07/ellison/story.jpg

relax, guys, he's just trying to make a dollar out of fifteen loafers with pennies in them.

I also love the dress. The dashikis, baggy pants, giant clocks that hang around your neck, throwback jerseys — they’re all vibrant and different and fun.

is this written by my great-aunt?

If you have no idea what I’m talking about, first check out Al Green, then check out Jay-Z’s “The Blueprint.” Don’t let me lose you.

I don't know how I missed "I’m a Dairy Queen" and "I also love the dress" in the same paragraph.

haha i usually get really annoyed when you two go off on a fennessy jag (no homo) but "I also love the dress" is O_o for all time

i'm a cauliflower.

jordan sargent is white???

"I'm a Dairy Queen Big Boy."

http://www.route-66.org/CruisinHallofFame/CHOF%202002/bobsbigboy.gif

My father is a police officer. I know crime sucks. But in the same way I want to hear him tell me stories about wiretaps and drug busts, I yearn to hear the other side from the Hamburglar and Captain Crook.

These must be printed out and left all over the Vibe offices. For the lulz, you know.

De La Soul formed in 1988 and quickly created what is now regarded as an indelible classic, the visionary “Three Feet High and Rising.” The legendary album, most notable for its creation of the “in-between-song skit,” was an instant success. Since then “the skit” has become a loathed tradition in rap music because of its failure to convey any thematic meaning on albums. But De La Soul has persevered in a genre where longevity is difficult to maintain.

i like the tpain kanye song

there should be more guest rappers on this. not cause kanye can't rap (i think i probably like him as a rapper more than 95% of the ppl on here) but cause i always thought he brought the best out of his guests. but what can you do.

trolling for a good lil wayne guest verse nowadays is like throwing darts with a blind fold on.

blindfold.

I was talking to a friend about chicken the other day. As it turns out, I completely missed the opportunity of a lifetime (one year's worth of free wings!). Damnit.

i will hear this 2nite

guys is hoos the fennessey of ilm

I worked at Dairy Queen. Don't ask me about it.

DRINK UP ALL THE FENNESSEY YA GOT ON YA SHELF

http://www.fennesseyranch.com/boarfennessey.jpg

So who on this thread is going to get a cease & desist e-mail first: the guy who posted a download link to the whole Kanye album, or the people clowning on Fennessey?

science projects

I'm liking the album so far. Song w/ T-Pain is way better than the first 2 singles, right now that and "The Glory" are my favorite tracks.

alex on tm

haha i dunno hoos do you let rap fashions in your house or on your body?

the only good part of "drunk and hot girls" is the name

BIG SEAN aka the dairy queen

And a lot of people caught offense to that: "What do you mean you are Hip-Hop?" Obviously, that was not my point of view - that I alone, am Hip-Hop and no one isn't. The point was that while I appreciate and respect the culture, it doesn’t mean I falsely (and lamely) try to emulate it. It has its place. That place just is not in my house or on my body.

- KRS-One

omigod best use of a Steely Dan sample ("Kid Charlemagne"!) ever, trumping even De La's.

i like this album a lot. love what sounds like soft-rock/70s MOR samples.

Better than Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz?

anything as good as drive slow or get em high

nah

Better than Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz?

That's the second time I've been asked.

I never liked "Get Em High" so it's hard for me to use that as a point of comparison in a good way.

I love the way the "Kid Charlemagne" sample is chopped, but I wish he didn't slather half of it in those ugly synths, it'd sound so much better without them.

My favorite Steely Dan rap sample is still Freeway and Joe Budden over a "Royal Scam" loop on the Ice City album.

get em high is a shitty beat but lolz lyrically

i have a blends tape that puts it over atliens thats pretty dope

talibs verse is XD

it doesnt help that kweli is on get em high either...

cmon man! 'i need some tracks you tryna pull tracks out / as my rhymes finna blow you tryna blow backs out'

i really just dont like kweli.

well i like certain songs here and there (i like the hot thing single out now) but he has maybe the worst voice in hip hop ever.

dont mock me because i know all the words to reflection eternal. just call me cultured.

years BEFORE he etc.

The first post in this thread is so classic.

he idolised puffy and mase but he also idolised native tongues cos he was a geekazoid. i cant imagine he had that huge a part in all the big balling that all the bad boy artists were involved in. he wasnt exactly one of the hitmen was he? he was just a small time producer back then.

I don't know how I missed "I’m a Dairy Queen" and "I also love the dress" in the same paragraph.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:09 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

he idolised puffy and mase but he also idolised native tongues cos he was a geekazoid. i cant imagine he had that huge a part in all the big balling that all the bad boy artists were involved in. he wasnt exactly one of the hitmen was he? he was just a small time producer back then.

-- titchyschneiderMk2, Saturday, November 24, 2007 1:57 PM (21 minutes ago)

I have no idea what point you're trying to make now or if it even has anything to do with the post by that Gavin dude that I was responding to, but he said Kanye was suddenly making big Puffy videos as if he was never part of that scene "until he realized in that typically coked-out megalomaniacal way that he was the biggest pop star ever," and I was just pointing out that Kanye has always been blatantly careerist and aspiring to be part of that sphere. of course he was an unknown peripheral figure in the 90's and didn't actually become a star until about 2004, but I'm pretty sure he would've put on a shiny suit in a second if they'd asked him to.

(lol xpost)

"I'm pretty sure he would've put on a shiny suit in a second if they'd asked him to."

i would agree. lol.

So who on this thread is going to get a cease & desist e-mail first: the guy who posted a download link to the whole Kanye album, or the people clowning on Fennessey?

-- Alex in Baltimore, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:51 (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

science projects

-- dylannn, Friday, 31 August 2007 02:54 (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

^^^this was the point in the thread where I lost my shit

Taking Sides: Having Your Embarrassing Undergrad Crit Online Forever For Others To Rip On vs. Random Server Crash That Destroys It All Forever

Took me long enough to find an example:

http://elm.washcoll.edu/past/070/01/70_1ran.php

we need a running kanye blogwatch thread.

the connect 4 game vs. jonah hill where 'ye goes and puts on his own song kindof reminded me of the boogie nights drug dealer scene and was amazing

i'll tie you to a chair and make you eat ur own defecation 8>

xpost

-- luriqua, Saturday, September 1, 2007 7:50 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Link

-- Curt1s is coming to Zwinktopia !, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:13 PM (Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:13 PM) Bookmark Link

fennessey lolz + i am serious rap criticism + issues with culture + hip-hop + some of the best yahh brigade zings = one of my fav threads of all time i aint bullshittin

by the way, which one's Pink?

Speaking of, have we had a thread dedicated to "Who Knew"? I don't think so. Maybe this should be it. Damn, that song is beautiful. I love that really tense buildup at the end. Pink's vocal reminds me quite a bit of Kelly Clarkson's on "Never Again." They're right next to each other on my top 50 singles of the year list (as of right now).

-- Tape Store, Saturday, September 1, 2007 7:03 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Link

retarded, pointless posts very much in character

so many o4u in this thead :D

The disconnect is that Kanye actually hears Daft Punk in its intended setting--clubs and parties. While most of the people who write and pontificate about Kanye on the internet only hear Daft Punk through their headphones while they eat doritos and get blog ass.

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:13 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Link

jeez does EVERY thread have to be about Perpetua?

-- Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, September 13, 2007 2:16 PM (7 months ago) Bookmark Link

btw did al just keep this fennessey article in the holster while waiting for the right time to use it or did he just stumble upon it the around the time the thread was started? we demand answers. or have you dudes lolled @ this before?

i'm often pleased by deadanimalhat.jpeg

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 06:12 (7 months ago) Link

just call me cultured.

-- and what, Friday, August 31, 2007 11:33 AM (7 months ago) Bookmark Link

lost meme

The show's what Kanye would expect from a band A-Trak likes. Loud and aggressive and playful, and he knows he's going to have bruises in the morning. He wants them.

He feels alive like he hasn't in what feels like months. The music drills into his brain, his heart echoes the thump of the bass, and he raises his hands above his head, loses himself in it, in the people, the press of bodies around him. Every once in awhile he catches a glimpse of A-Trak, eyes drifting to his from where he holds court at the bar - making sure I'm okay, Kanye thinks - and smiles. He can't disappear because no one escapes the watchful gaze of A-Trak. Kanye feels safe - first time in awhile for that, too.

When it's all over, A-Trak drives him home. They're silent, most of the way. A-Trak is like that a lot, when the cameras are off and they're out of the public eye. He chooses his words carefully, Kanye thinks. Knows the value of quiet. Smart guy.

They sit in Kanye's driveway for several long minutes, and Kanye mostly waits, because he senses there's something to say. He's more perceptive than people give him credit for.

A-Trak's fingers tap on the steering wheel. "Rosie O'Donnell wants to buy one of my bikes."

"Huh." Kanye's not sure what to say.

"She's gay."

"Yeah, I kind of already figured that out." There's a ghost of a smile on Kanye's lips.

"I'm gay, too, you know."

Kanye starts to giggle, because yes, yes, it's true. A-Trak is gay. A-Trak told them that years ago, when the whole thing started out, and he's not at all sure why it's funny, but Rosie's gay, and so is A-Trak, and maybe they'll be grand marshals of some Big Gay Parade somewhere. The giggles turn to full-fledged laughter, and before Kanye realizes what's happening he's laughing so hard he's crying. Then he is crying, great big fat tears streaming down his face and A-Trak's arms around him, A-Trak's voice soft in his ear.

It's been a long time since he's let himself cry.

When he's done, he wipes his face and gets out of the car, nodding at A-Trak, who rolls down his window. "Good to see you're still alive in there," he says, and backs out of the driveway. "By the way, you should check out this record by these French robot dudes, Daft Punk. Everyone at the club loves it."

Kanye stands there for a long time, well after his taillights have disappeared into the distance.

btw did al just keep this fennessey article in the holster while waiting for the right time to use it or did he just stumble upon it the around the time the thread was started? we demand answers. or have you dudes lolled @ this before?

-- J0rdan S., Tuesday, April 29, 2008 11:13 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

we lolled on board (and specifically about "I'm often pleased by Rakim" I think offboard) way before this thread, I think I had to stop clowning him (in public) by that point just because I don't need any more tough guy e-mail from dude about it, but the first post in this thread was just an opportunity I couldn't resist.

had tried to stop clowning him, i meant to say.

this thread = the gift that keeps on givin'

i'm translucent btw

got "Barry Bonds" on right now and can't help but be taken with how much it shats on "See You in My Nightmares"

so sean fenn has started a new group tumblr called Fetishizing The Other http://fetishizingtheother.tumblr.com/

do you guys think that he's gonna include "I also love the dress. The dashikis, baggy pants, giant clocks that hang around your neck, throwback jerseys — they’re all vibrant and different and fun."

that is vile

what a dairy queen

Huh, I always thought Donald Fagen was saying "Italian," not "champion."

-- jaymc, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 7:00 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol @ "did you realize you were Italian in their eyes." paging Passantino...

― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 3:14 PM (3 years ago) Bookmark

last time i listened to "Kid Charlemagne" i totally sang along to the line as 'Italian' without even thinking about it or doing it on purpose