official liveblog rap album review thread

bringing real rap back ft rum

is this song a fucking joke? who the hell is rum? what kind of name is this? THERE IS ALREADY A GUY NAMED GUNPLAY, GUY. jesus this guy terrible. this is like if a sewer rat could rap. I AM BRINGING MY SKIP BUTTON BACK, RUM.

so i feel like i know what going hard is, but what is the distinction wherein one begins to go in?

bring the money out ft nelly/jeezy/ace hood/boosie

this is a hilarious group. nelly is using a weird cadence here. most uptempo beat here -- triumphant keyboards that would be strings if anyone cared about this album. nice hook from jeezy. boosie totally phoned his verse in here but it's nice to hear his voice & energy here amongst this general world's fair of mediocrity. this beat is pretty nice. second best song on here easily after the nas joint. oooh some nice grocery bag lines from ace hood -- "i'm the shit, period... GOTEX/ fuck a hater in his thoughts... SAFE SEX" & "mr. hood stretch money... BOWFLEX" -- well nice to know that ace hood is making culturally relevant references, here in the year of our lord, 2002.

going in is a feeling -- you just know it when you see it

on that last song, i would say that boosie went the hardest, and he went... halfway in. just the tip of in.

http://pleasedress.me/img/2845.gif

on my way ft kevin cossum/ace hood/gunplay/ball greezy/desloc piccalo/rum/ice berg

this has to be the most incomprehensible posse cut ever to appear on a major label album? btw that list is not one of those test questions like "WHICH OF THESE PEOPLE DOES NOT EXIST" -- i think ace hood & gunplay just rapped? i literally have no idea what any of these guys voices sound like. ball greezy had that really amazing song a few years back, funny to see him show up here. he said his name in his verse here and he can actually flow. i believe that i am listening to desloc piccalo right now? i'm in college, i'm 21, and i'm sitting here on my bed drinking beer in my room alone, listening to desloc piccalo rap, and posting about it on a message board. i'm sorry mom.

ball greezy went the hardest here, but he did not go in

i am drinking dos equis right now & can confirm that i am not the most interesting person in the world tonight

i can't think of a more uninteresting 6 minute song than that one

interrupted by another phone call

MUSTA BEEN A GOOD PHONE CALL

rep my city ft pitbull/jarvis

not only does this album have the most phone in verses and choruses and beats in recent memory, but it also has the most phoned in rapper names. iceberg, rum, jarvis. pitbull is on this song rapping spanish. i won't hate. this beat is alright, some cool drum programming in the context of this album. and you can actually here the bass. i'm not gonna listen to this whole thing though.

this album was garbage, only a few verses went hard and i think only nas truly went in. OH WELL.

haha -- talking about baseball

i am now going to cleanse my spirit by listening to "holla at me"

loooool jordan u killin it

ur goin xtremely hard

that's wot she said

can we just reflect on what a desloc piccolo is

i can't believe we went 7 months w/o a liveblog -- one of my fav goon pastimes

^^^ jordan you are a saint and in the next life you will come back as something awesome like a tiger

:-D

hahahah <3 u boo yoga flame 4 all time

submit that bitch to da capo '10

yeah jordan you killed it

haha, you guys

DA BLAPPO BEST LIVEBLOGS 2010

man you went in so far you might as well just spend the night in it and find your way back tomorrow

bringing real rap liveblogs back

this thread = i have overcome the evilest hate ever that mankind has ever witnessed

i think i can say with confidence that gunplay will never be involved in anything nearly as awesome as "gunplay ft. gunplay"

loll

yeah obv

damn, this is one of those moments when I really wish I could know what l0u1s jagg3r might think about gunplay ft. gunplay

i have a lot of those

damn Lamp postin all properlike itt

stuntin

over the banner/chris brown beat. our very own david drake shows up on here. not a very good rapper. wayne finally starts rapping over this one at the end. 40 mins or some shit.

― t-t-totally some dude (J0rdan S.), Friday, November 14, 2008 3:51 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha is this the first ilx mention of drake

my beautiful dark twisted liveblog

btw i think i have the first ilx mentions of drake & waka

"dark fantasy"

this starts off w/ minaj's awful british accent -- i really dig this beat & flow -- rapping on the firs verse goes, second verse gets a little off the rails w/ the kings of leon crap -- bridge where he rhymes seance/parents/heroines is predictably, uh, kind of a mess -- but this is very much the "good morning" of the album, probably the best actual rap song on here

"gorgeous" ft kid cudi & raekwon

as everyone knows i hate kid cudi more than the nazis so we'll see how this goes -- well he has the chorus here, very droney & sounds like a kid cudi album -- well actually i'm not sure if this is a chorus or a singy verse cuz we're :55 in -- alright so this is the verse that kanye rapped on funk flex last week -- good verse imo, rapping through an intercom effect, maybe he's been listening to the strokes -- beat is a cool looped electric guitar sample kinda thing -- "choke a south park writer with a fishstick" -- waiting out for rae's verse now -- the "fucking roach/fucking coach" line is dope -- god damn raekwon is such a fucking good rapper

dark fantasy - umm does that mean its good or

i don't think kanye got the south park joek

the beat switch up during rae's verse is cool -- guitar expands out into a solo kind of thing, more pronounced pianos

i don't cop tims it's lived in lenses kid armani suits fresh fruits bally boots and benzes

"power"

this one felt hella minor to me but once it started getting radio play it started to sound pretty massive -- the rapping here is patchy as all fuck but i'll just vibe out to the production for 5 minutes def

"all of the lights (interlude)"

strings & piano echoing the melody of the hook in the actual "all of the lights" -- this is pretty

"all of the lights" ft the clive davis grammy's after party guest list

i really dig this song -- feels like this if anything delivers on the promise of kanye being able to be an 'adventurous' pop star, not to mention i think the hook is just great -- folding 20 artists into it works w/in the theme of the song too so it doesn't feel like a "thing"

that song sounded totally horrible the one time i listened to it

really i was almost hoping that at the last minute this would end up being a double album just so it wouldn't be all the songs that i already heard and wasn't thrilled with + like 3 'new' songs

"monster"

this beat on this is really dope, it's too bad about this guest list -- they should've let ross go for more than 4 bars or w/e he gets cuz he's legit the best rapper in 2010 on this joint (bon iver excepted of course) -- jay's verse on here is prob one of the worst things of the year -- refresher course: everyone wanna know what my achilles heal is/ LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVV" -- fuck man back in 2004 this would've had freeway & beanie on it -- nicki really does massacre everyone on here -- the edited version of this is hella lol -- there's an extended outro on this w/ bon iver singing i think, or maybe i never listened to the leaked version all the way thru -- in any event, "monster"

that song sounded totally horrible the one time i listened to it

― deej otm (some dude), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 2:28 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol i knew you'd hate this -- rihanna hook!

fuck man back in 2004 this would've had freeway & beanie on it -

kind of puts some things in perspective

"i'm so appalled"

more dope production on this -- b/w "monster" & this song & "devil in a new dress" the middle of this album has a really dark, brooding but still sort of swaggering feel, but there's just a bunch of superfluous bad rap verses which kind of ruin how dope this stuff could really be -- it's kind of fucked up to hear jay on two straight tracks, but surrounded by nicki minaj, cyhi da prynce and bon iver -- this song kind of really drags coming after "monster"

you think i kneejerk hate Rihanna's voice?