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about half the album was very good

"ground level fan satisfaction" is a bit more than "all of my friends" though, which is where people talking about that kind of buzz usually fall down

most people agree that about half the album was good. you're just the only person who seems to think that was enough.

like if your batting average goes down 50% from mixtape to album, yes people will say you dropped the ball and probably stop paying attention (especially if it doesn't sell)

i'd rather have an album with genuine high points (even if just half of it) than one which is boringly solid throughout but without a single song i completely love (à la the new brandy) - the latter is far more likely to make me stop paying attention

anyway i'm not saying it was a great album or anything, and yeah he didn't pull off the transition to a major label release, but 50% very good = not terrible. kinda feel like the fact that it didn't sell is making people judge it more harshly than they should

because there's nothing sadder than selling out without actually selling

I don't think I genuinely love any of the songs on the album.

^

that one track with kid rock is still amazing but yeah i can't remember any of the others on there that i liked. the one w/ lil jon is cool actually.

but yeah i've effectively stopped caring about yelawolf... it's not so much that the album was bad per se as it was that he seemed so noncommittal & it just all came off really poorly. saying that it killed his buzz is a pretty accurate description! i.e. he's released a few mixtapes since then & i haven't seen a single review of one or anyone talk about them on twitter etc

i still maintain that i'd love to see him do a total deliverance style country album and preferably an entire collaborative album w/ kid rock

i think the kid rock track was the exact moment i was like "peace god"

i'm SURE when "throw it up" dropped before the album everyone was blown away by it

lol yeah kid rock track was trash

i actually did listen to the yelawolf/travis barker EP, it was ok

The reviews I read of this year's Heart of Dixie mixtape all frame the tape around the premise that Radioactive was a potentially career killing disaster.

Also, Yela opens the tape by rapping “Why do I feel like I never had Marshall Mathers’ co-sign sometimes?/Like Radioactive failed? Maybe when I tell myself I’m one of the best, I’m just lyin’," so he seems to think something went wrong there, too.

I co-sign w/ all the travesty talk.

This is Phantogram, by the way. I actually like them quite a bit but they have no place on a fucking Big Boi record. (Plus the collab they've already teased from the Big Boi record sucks.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yayPFhfYlOg

i'm SURE when "throw it up" dropped before the album everyone was blown away by it

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i def was hating but then i was never a huge fan

I'm just disappointed that he was unable to collaborate with Kate Bush.

i'm SURE when "throw it up" dropped before the album everyone was blown away by it

― #YOLO ONO (lex pretend), Wednesday, November 21, 2012 8:29 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

were they? i remember some nice notices for the gangsta boo verse...that's about it.

looking back at the yela thread, yeah some people put in good notices for the track, but no one was remotely as enthusiastic about it (or the album) as you

'throw it up' is terrible. eminem is unlistenable in 2011

― Regional Thug (D-40), Thursday, November 17, 2011 2:00 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

IT'S NOT ABOUT EMINEM IT'S ABOUT GANGSTA BOO

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Thursday, November 17, 2011 2:08 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

good god people listen to the right thing

― all i see is angels in my eyes (lex pretend), Thursday, November 17, 2011 2:08 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

she sounds fine i guess but the production is weak too.

― Regional Thug (D-40), Thursday, November 17, 2011 2:22 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hahaha, OTM

So yeah, I feel like to the extent that Radioactive didn't kill Yelawolf's career, it's because not a lot of people actually heard it. Terrible album.

yeah, and the problem isn't so much that he stopped rapping well so much as he just started making terrrrrrible creative decisions

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdtfjavamE1qkt07wo1_r1_500.gif

animate this -> u_u

stunned you haven't already

http://www.thefader.com/2012/11/26/stream-big-boi-f-t-i-and-ludacris-in-the-a/
OOOH

man TI goes in on that

hot beat

better than I expected but Luda still kind of embarassing

why does this sound like it was recorded underwater

#seapunk

http://s.discogss.com/image/R-662347-1305116364.jpeg

gotta repost because i was dying at some of these

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring pamplemoose and trinidad james

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring zooey deschanel and riff raff

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring terry richardson and carles

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring a birdfeeder and a crisp pair of air yeezys.

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring jimmy fallon and the roots

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring an old timey unicycle and a single complex dot com page impression

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring a documentary about a wartorn african nation and the white penis from the death grips album cover

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring guilt and narcissism

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring instagram and instagram

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring the fader front cover and the fader back cover

noz scaggs ‏@noz
big boi featuring the fader front cover and the fader back cover

― some dude, Tuesday, November 27, 2012 12:35 PM (32 seconds ago) Bookmark

this is the best one

definitely

you could prob comb through the fader back issues and make up a fake big boi tracklist that would look exactly like the real one

between the gif big boi cover & trinidad james' entire existence it def feels like some kind of weird moment in atl

i still have no idea what a trinidad james is, just one day i woke up and that was a phrase being bandied about everywhere as if common knowledge

same here

atlanta asap rocky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCBs5f1vxyw

gross

comparison actually does a$ap favors

man TI goes in on that
― U.S. State Department, Office of Rare Psych (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, November 26, 2012

new T.I./Andre >

big boi all jealous that tip got an andre verse

hot beat

― have a sandwich or ice cream sandwich (Jordan), Monday, November 26, 2012 6:55 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this beat goes hard

On thing I like about the song with Andre is that Tip sounds really relaxed in a way he hasn't often lately.

that trinidad james gold track seems like a joke