"6000 sistas" = female WAKA
its monomania can be a bit much but i bet it sounds amazing when you're drunk. MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY MONEY COIN COIN GUAP
― lex pretend, Friday, 9 March 2012 09:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
most unmemorable song is "feeling good" - i'm sure i remember "the ladder" as being good? it def all goes up a notch at "matte black truck", from there to the end it's pretty flawless
Sure, but Dawn/Dirty Money seem better at swiping ideas from dance music than Kingdom is at swiping ideas from R&B
Not really interested in Kingdom wrt this debate but I think part of the problem with the danceification of R&B is that singers and songwriters haven't really got to grips with how the artists should sing over it*. DDM aren't immune from this, one of the reasons I don't rate Ass On The Floor as highly as most people is because the singers don't really convince over the top - when they aren't singing the "madder than a motherfucker" but they don't really sound like they know what to do over that beat. You get these sort of fairly drippy, open "stirring" melodies that just don't convince up against the rest of the track, awkward halfway houses between ballad and dance banger.
Contrast to how effortless and at home Kalenna sounds over something like Matte Black Truck. Then again this may be all rolled in with post-Umbrella R&B - a lot of this stuff feels very different melodically from anything pre-2007 or therabouts, ballads included.
*This is weird given the entire history of DIVA HOUSE is pretty instructive here. Not saying R&B artists should be aping diva house at this point but it's a pretty good guide as to what kind of performance works and what doesn't.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 9 March 2012 10:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Matt have you listened to "Black Lipstick" and "Change" yet?
(not that i agree with you about "ass on the floor" but...)
― Tim F, Friday, 9 March 2012 10:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, Black Lipstick is great. Dawn's own stuff is way better in this regard than either Kalenna or DDM.
― Homosexual Satan Wasp (Matt DC), Friday, 9 March 2012 10:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's my duty to inform you that there's a napoleon dynamite sample in the kalenna mixtape
― flagp∞st (dayo), Friday, 9 March 2012 11:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
The ballad/banger tension is a lot of what's great about "Ass on the Floor"!
― The Reverend, Friday, 9 March 2012 19:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
And like half the DDM catalog for that matter.
Chamber of Diaries is hit n miss but i like it, kinda hits that Last Train To Paris vibe more effectively for me than Tell Tale Heart. although i'm kind of weary of all the superhero-themed lyrics on both tapes.
― some dude, Monday, 12 March 2012 19:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
R&B mixtapes should come out with special "no-bullshit anonymous guest rappers" versions the way rap mixtapes have "no-DJ" versions
― some dude, Monday, 12 March 2012 19:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
but then you would never learn about bo deal
― flagp∞st (dayo), Monday, 12 March 2012 19:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol some dude otm
― The Reverend, Monday, 12 March 2012 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
that "Gilfriend" song just sounds like an edit of Aaliyah's "Girlfriend" though, i don't hear Naomi
ahaha oops! that was dumb of me. i obv had no idea that song existed. it's so good! the vocals on the nguzu mix DO sound a hell of a lot like naomi to me, though, and the tracklist credits it to "NA", which i assumed meant N/A before alex pointed out those are naomi's initials. and the souped up beat sounds like kingdom or girl unit. now i'm really dying to know what it is exactly.
― handy ban (lou), Tuesday, 13 March 2012 05:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 06:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
I thought it was Kingdom/ER related too ¯\(°_o)/¯
Whoa. I didn't know that existed! New Aaliyah. Wow. Yay.
― Somewhere between Fergie and Jesus (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 00:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
finally got around to the kalenna mixtape
"poison" rules
― Whiney vs. (BradNelson), Thursday, 15 March 2012 21:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Preview of the new single
― MikoMcha, Saturday, 17 March 2012 06:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have the biggest crush on dawn
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 11:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
(sorry for being male gaze-y)
― flagp∞st (dayo), Saturday, 17 March 2012 12:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
This sounds excellent.
― Tim F, Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
LOVELOVELOVE HERRRR! "i wanna be in a rainforest!"
also excited to hear the #smfu remix
also producer guy is v. cute
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Friday, 23 March 2012 07:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
apparently dirty money is "finished" though which is totally heartbreaking
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Friday, 23 March 2012 07:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
that sucks... not entirely surprising. they put a ton of effort (and presumably) music into making that album happen, wish they would stay committed to it but the fact that 'last train to paris' even exists is some sort of miracle i think, so i can't be mad.
― come on a #KONY (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 March 2012 08:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
presumably money**
dawn's not signed to bad boy any more and the tone of the last kalenna interview i read ("that part of her life is BEHIND HER and she is MOVING ON") did not imply that the end of dirty money was all that amicable
― lex pretend, Friday, 23 March 2012 08:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Friday, March 23, 2012 12:48 AM Bookmark
ayo
― The Reverend, Friday, 23 March 2012 08:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Friday, March 23, 2012 3:49 AM (3 hours ago) Bookmark
quit while you're on top, imo!
― dayo, Friday, 23 March 2012 11:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
judging by the new projects, still on top tho
― The Reverend, Friday, 23 March 2012 18:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I didn't know you pronounce richard like ri-shard as in shard of glass
― dayo, Saturday, 24 March 2012 01:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
wait what?
― The Reverend, Saturday, 24 March 2012 10:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://youtu.be/SMpyMFtmqKM
I really can't handle her dress, it's like sean young in blade runner
― dayo, Saturday, 24 March 2012 11:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
i feel like my perception has been altered in a deep way not experienced since i found out nancy whang's name is pronounced "wong", not "wang"
― The Reverend, Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
pro tip: even when a chinese person's last name is 'wang' it's still pronounced 'wong'
― dayo, Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
i wonder if that's actually "true" or just something that she's stylized like a pseudo stage name
― come on a #KONY (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm not gonna question somebody about the pronunciation of their name
― dayo, Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
she's from louisiana tho
― dayo, Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
true
― come on a #KONY (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
she seems very sweet
― The Reverend, Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is almost like the time i found out o'so krispie's real name is not o'so krispie.
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually it's nothing like that i just felt like dropping an o'so krispie reference tbh
― Peace (peaceful) (The Brainwasher), Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
u'so krispie
― flopson, Saturday, 24 March 2012 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is sooooooooooooo good
"Heaven"!
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Monday, 26 March 2012 22:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
only 2/3 through, but album of the year?
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Monday, 26 March 2012 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is not on uk itunes >:(
― lex pretend, Monday, 26 March 2012 22:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's not on any itunes yet
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Monday, 26 March 2012 23:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
album version of "save me from u" >>>>>>>>> og versio
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Monday, 26 March 2012 23:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
n
this last track! the production is incredible throughout and the tunes are a lot better than Tell Tale Heart, which I know some people will jump on me for, but I was never that hot on
― if you feeling frogbs, leap (The Reverend), Monday, 26 March 2012 23:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
so jellie of you right now
― dayo, Tuesday, 27 March 2012 01:06 (1 year ago) Permalink