most pathetic excuse for wordplay in Young Money's "Bedrock"

i think of this thread every time i hear the song

i think of this thread like 85% of the time i hear new rap

God, the exclamation of "balloons!" might be the nadir of Luda's career as a singles artist.

this was just on the main page of YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JVXf_uAWEx8

if you google "ludacris balloons" like the fifth entry is Singles Jukebox

a site i still can't write for, good lookin out, yall

im not really standing by the "grocery bags 'got' things" interpretation but its the only one that even approaches the world of meaning to me

― max, Thursday, January 7, 2010 11:43 AM (4 months ago)

all of gudda gudda's are the best

a site i still can't write for, good lookin out, yall

― unfunperson (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, June 6, 2010 12:34 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark

what do u mean

i asked like twice to contribute and never got an answer

word? via email?

yeah dude

unless u can do something i'll continue to
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69PcbIxF-04

I'm playing the Drake album in the background while I write some ish. If any grocery bags lines hit me, I'll post them here.

1. This time I'm really going off... FIREWORKS

2. Will I blow all this money?... HAMMERTIME

3. Bout to set it off in this bitch... JADA PINKETT
(I think we covered this one, but)

4. I can teach you how to speak my language... ROSETTA STONE

5. Two thumbs up... EBERT AND ROEPER

yeah i heard that he toned down the grocery bagginess on the album, good to hear there's some stuff to SMH at besides the stuff we already know from "Over"

smh @ pitchfork today, this album is fucking dogshit

Kanye stans so thirsty they'll drink whatever offbrand Dr. Rocket soda they can get their hands on

Funny because I figured it was part of the whole "THERE'S NO GOOD POP FOR US TO RALLY AROUND ANYMORE" dialogue around Pazz and Jop time which ppl used as a shitty excuse for putting "Girls" songs in the top 10. This is not good pop, and that's coming from a guy who listens to Katy Perry.

6. Presidential suite... BARACK HUSSEIN

lol

shit's so lame...JIMMY IN DEGRASSI

oh my god

7. I made enough for two n***as, boy... STUNT DOUBLE

haha

almost spazzed on someone for being all "8.4 but no BNM?" on Twitter this morning

it's a BM all right

http://blogs.villagevoice.com/music/images/pitchfork.jpg

Drake is the guy you get drinks with who talks about himself for a few hours-- if you're lucky, he might ask you for advice on one or two things. But this is OK because Drake's stories are better than yours. Like the one about how Lil Wayne befriended and signed him at the height of Weezy's powers. Or how he got with Rihanna last year. Or that time he flashed from a Toronto has-been to a top-flight hit maker off the strength of a self-released mixtape. Of course, there's the classic about sipping a few too many glasses of Ace of Spades and asking Nicki Minaj to marry him. Sounds like a sweet existence.

This is a very telling paragraph.

"Did I tell you the one about how I met Lil Wayne and he signed me at the height of his powers?"

"That was back when Weezy had x-ray vision."

If the album had any of those good stories on it, it might be listenable

"i just knew that she was fine... like a ticket on the dash"

http://righthearmedia.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/merriweather.jpg

His relatively progressive and gentlemanly style is contagious, too; on the soon-to-be smash "Fancy", T.I. ditches the "superficial gold-digging bitches" he once praised on songs like "Whatever You Like", instead opting for a single lady with her own BMW and Jaguar in the garage.

that's a real big "relatively" there.

this album seriously got a good review in pfork? or ANYWHERE? what. is going. on. with. "critics".

can I just point out that American indie ppl giving the stamp of approval to a Degrassi alum isn't really all that surprising, at least not to me

like he could have released a single called "I Eat Yr Baby's Entrails After Repeated Rapings" and someone would be talking about his daring satire or some shit

haha the review basically gives that up at the end:

As much as rap is built on artful navel-gazing, it's also founded in struggle. And just as Drake's dramatically exposed selfishness is unique to hip-hop, so are his adversities. He grew up in an affluent Toronto suburb and was graced with everything but a functional pair of parents, who split when he was three. Like Kanye West before him, Drake vies for superstardom while embracing his non-drug-dealing, non-violent, non-dire history-- one that connects with most rap fans in a completely reasonable way. And, suddenly, all that "I" turns into a lot of "we."

idk what degrassi is, but nothing about this album (which i actually gave in and listened to, and most of it is actually just insipid and boring when he's not being the worst lyricist ever) really screamed indie-crit catnip like kanye does even at his worst.

omfgomfg who is the retard who wrote that

i HATE people

Ryan Dombal, but we are all Canadian child actors who prove Kanye West is a horrible role model.

lmao @ lex

Degrassi High is a Canadian television show about sad-sack high school kids and how difficult it is to be a special snowflake, which IMO panders directly to the American indie mindset and generates a lot of slack-cutting where you would least expect, like for example with Drake

all the lines the review quotes, which are typical, are more objectionable to me than straight up "fuck her in the eye" misogyny.

ryan dombal, last time i heard that name was when i had to go in on his atrocious review of the last rihanna album on some other thread. iodfsjfknkjdsdlk'\;:"::"" HATE

I really miss the days when "the american indie mindset" was all about how disgusting a picture Unsane could put on their album cover

like iirc he was virtually victim-blaming her. i assume he's always this terrible?