kanye west graduation

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.

i liked kweli before he started trying to show he could do battle raps, sex-raps, gun-raps, etc etc. maybe thats me 'limiting' him but still.

2000 seasons was great though, yeah.

Y'ALL ASSUMED I WAS DOOMED OUT OF TUNE BUT I STILL FILL THE NOTES WITH REAL NIGGA QUOTES

It's weird to think that as short as three years ago, Com could sound pissed without simultaneously sounding self-righteous, but whatever.

i love tk's verse on get em high but common's kinda suxx

I feel much the opposite.

ain't you meet that chick at that conference wit yer mom?

REMOTE..................CONTROL

anyone know what the sample on "Big Brother" is? the riff reminds me of Prince's "It's Gonna Be Lonely" but I know that's not it.

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

-- Tape Store, Friday, August 31, 2007 2:36 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Link

yeah me too...fennessey needs to stop frontin like he knows the DQ game...if you can't make a peanut buster parfait don't even fuckin speak to me if you see me

slap the mister misty out ya fuckin face

THAT'S WHY I ABUSE YOU WHO ARE NOT THUGS

he's not literally a dairy queen, he just loves the dress

And It Don't Stop

Michelangelo Antonioni (1912-2007)

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Hip hop fashion is a distinctive style of dress originating with the African-American youth living in New York City and Los Angeles. Each city contributed various elements to its overall style seen worldwide today. Hip hop fashion complements the expressions and attitudes of hip hop culture in general. Hip hop fashion has changed significantly during its history, and today it is a prominent part of popular fashion as a whole across the world and for all ethnicities. The dashikis, baggy pants, giant clocks that hang around your neck, throwback jerseys — they’re all vibrant and different and fun.

If I played guitar I'd be Jimmy Page...

Woody Allen (1935-2012)

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the back half of this gets kinda syrupy. in a not so good way.

O RLY? Syrup? On a Kanye West album?

sizzurp.

"Drive Slow"

r.i.p. paul wall guest verses

Light up the stage and wax a chump like a candle...

Steven Soderbergh (1965-2017)

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does it say more about sean fennessey or kanye west that ILM is more interested in making fun of sean than talking about kanye west's new album?

it says more about ILM

Graduation r a serious album deserving of a serious thread. This just isn't it.

i do like the album but it feels a bit bitty. not really a crafted album like he did with late registration, more just a slightly uneven clutch of tracks.

im often pleased by hurricane fennessey

Sean “Hurricane” Fennessey, meanwhile, had some things to say about the list, as well as some things to say about hip-hop blogging in general. He was too busy doing whatever it is he does to come up with his own list, but according to The Hurricane, the overall list skewed “Eastern and obvious,” which he took as a sign that hip-hop blogging is pointless compared to the important work he does with Vibe magazine.

The thing is, The Hurricane has had his share of run-ins with hip-hop bloggers over the years. About two years ago, I had to call shenanigans on the fact that he gave Kanye West’s Late Registration a glowing, ridonkulous review in Pitchfork and didn’t bother to mention anywhere in it that he just so happens to be the proprietor a Kanye West fansite.

Later, a guy named Ian Cohen called him out for his similarly ridonkulous Clipse stannery, to which The Hurricane responded with the following email, which was widely circulated in lower-level music writing circles. Normally I draw the line at posting people’s personal correspondence, but I figured this would be instructive as far as understandin this guy’s thought process.

Just for the record, I read blogs, just like every other magazine editor I know. If you actually want to do this for a living, you really ought to be careful about airing people out.

No hard feelings. You just sound like a chump.

S.

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