official liveblog rap album review thread

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?

i don't get the bfd about the "Monster" beat, it's kinda threadbare and simple without knocking very hard, sounds good when Nicki or some good mixtape rapper's on it but for the most part it's just there.

the original leaked "Monster" had a pretty long Bon Iver outro, but yeah pretty much every DJ cuts it after Nicki or maybe after a couple lines of the outro.

"devil in a new dress" ft. rick ross

i guess they tacked a ross verse on here? color me excited -- this was probably the best leak, bink really killed the sample on this -- damn this gets really good in the middle -- electric guitars come in & start echoing the melody of the sample leading into RAWSE -- def the best moment of this album so far -- this is like "late registration" gone more extra and it's super dope -- this sounds like a ross album, opulent live instrumentation but the sample still going beneath it -- ((((d-_-b))))

^^really delivers

re "monster" beat

idk it just seems like a good cypher sort of beat to me -- it's not like O_O production or anything but for a threadbare beat i think it gathers good momentum -- just good head nodding shit

ross' verse on that is really good "had ciphers with yeezy before his mouth wire /before his jaw shattered,climbing up the lord's ladder".. love the added instrumentation as well

kind of wish the beat would ride out like a minute longer (!!!) after ross tho

yeah that's the first real O_O moment on this

otm xxxp

it's more "this is a good beat for rapping on" than "this is an amazing beat itself"

bink outshined kanye on his own album

THE NINE MINUTE VERSION OF RUNAWAY

there's no extended intro or anything, just starts off as the single version of the song -- i dig this song on some 808s shit but it's not SINGLE OF THE YEAR or w/e -- i think maybe kanye threw a new verse on here after pusha's verse? idk i never really listened to this song that intently -- man i hope these last four minutes are not some spoken word nonsense, but here we go -- it would be lol if he just played the whole song back, he should do that on his next album -- the piano plinks from the intro come in, strings, intelligible harmonizing thru the intercom deal here, sounds like a broken radio tbh -- so this doesn't really live up to its potential at all, kinda just mumbly for no reason

WHO'S GONNA DO CUDI!?!?!?