Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010)

like what i complain about in that review is ball street journal feels kind of aimless and directionless, like he has no confidence or intent except releasing another record... by making this one such a massive undertaking it just sorta creates its own inertia of purpose ....

& it incorporates the new bay stuff w/out being indebted to it

sorry if this sounds like a super-subjective response but i should mention that anecdotally, i just hear a lot more rap fans talking about this one than his last couple. like, this feels like a record that is broadly appealing to u.s. rap fans. (this is definitely not reflected on the internet mostly, and particularly not reflected in gen. hip-hop media)

Are we talking about Night Shift or Day Shift or both?

^ yeah i'm still unsure on that

by inertia you mean just like, gravity right? - or is my grasp of physics inadequate

i think i feel what ur saying tho, like it's def a less compromised and more self-possessed album than i remember ball street journal being - and i think ur also right to say hopping on nu-bay wouldnt have rang true either; the (v vague) analogy that springs to mind actually is donaeo in the uk last year who - albeit through reinvention, ie he'd been around in different guises for years - really found his sense of self as an artist via the energy of funky house around him and its rebirth of the uk as a scene but never resorted to mimicry or pandering as such. obv there are different local logics at play with that comparison but basically

point #2 i will accept as a cheap shot but tbf it's not like his delivery doesnt naturally preclude hearing him in a more serious way to some extent

im talking about both -- i think by inertia i mean weight/gravity but also like ... the sense that he wasn't really controlling the direction, he just kept making tracks that he felt & the record sorta took an uncontrolled movement of its own, but that this movement is what was missing from his last few records.

i havent taken physics since i was 15 obv

both are pretty much a unified piece imo **esp** in the ipod age

how dope is the 'whip it up' beat

sry i said 'ipod age' w/out scare quotes

people are bein otm itt, I don't really have any desire to play this as an album through and through - just kind of cherrypicking random songs

so like inertia's resistance is in its ineluctable inevitability etc - crazy but i like it!

my fave typo of yours is still "peons to devotion" on ur old maxwell rvw fyi but i see some spoilsport sub caught it eventually :(

haha i caught it

btw wait til u hear 'knock em down music'

"If I look like I got some money ain't nobody gon' wanna give me none." True true, 40.

btw there's already a separate thread for the 40 albums fwiw

(I think they're both pretty great, Day may have a slightly higher ratio of great tracks imho. I never bothered with Ball Street Journal. Loved like 2/3rds of Ghetto Report Card tho)

hesa hesa hesa hes hes a gangsta

Ya I know Shakey, but I can't find it with a quick search.

Also, man I miss Jazze Pha beats. I was always a fan of dude's production.

the 40 thread is called lightweight jammin

im still uncontrollably repulsed by post ... '02 jazze pha beats

i'm sayin

sorry if this sounds like a super-subjective response but i should mention that anecdotally, i just hear a lot more rap fans talking about this one than his last couple. like, this feels like a record that is broadly appealing to u.s. rap fans. (this is definitely not reflected on the internet mostly, and particularly not reflected in gen. hip-hop media)

― blap...tremendo (deej), Saturday, July 3, 2010 3:13 PM Bookmark

I know no one really dug Ball Street Journal like that, but My Ghetto Report Card was a HUGE HUGE record here. You could not escape either of the singles and everyone was bumping the album.

is the dashiki making a comeback http://rapradar.com/2010/07/03/new-video-big-boi-x-big-rube-general-patton/

I'm actually doubting there will ever be another Outkast album after reading this

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/arts/music/04bigboi.html

Jive seems like the absolute worst possible outlet to record your music.

first lets lol at

The rapper Big Boi in Atlanta in May, photographed alongside a mirror.

The rapper Big Boi in Atlanta in May, photographed alongside... ANOTHER BIG BOI?

lol

Jive “had no involvement in the songs I recorded with Mr. Benjamin,” Big Boi said.
Ha is he parodying the Times style of using last names?

i'm thinking that maybe someone forgot to add brackets around that

otoh LA reid seems like the best record executive there is

"them crackas wasn't playing fair at jive" iirc

xp yeah, LA Reid has always struck me as an all-around pretty decent guy. I also appreciate how his def jam seems willing to cut their losses and just put a damn album out already if the music already exists, evem if it ain't gonna sell like that.

not trying to be be contrary here but reading between the lines of that article i'm not sure i quite see what's so demonic about vibe?? you can bitch all you want about evil money-grabbers insensitive to art but if i were a record exec in charge of half of one of the biggest selling outfits of recent years i dunno if i'd be happy to unquestioningly accept an album of dude pottering around in his shed either - it's not even like we're talking about a big ambitious project like idlewild here (which jive already took an L for). and then they're just supposed to hand shit over to def jam instead? come on

also are we talking about the same genius super exec la reid who just handed shyne a ten million dollar contract the second he came outta prison?

haha dunno why i wrote vibe, meant jive obv

because jive has a storied history of telling people they're gonna put their record out and then when the ink dries on the contract, they uncross their fingers and say MAYBE IN THREE YEARS MOTHERFUCKER LOL

and then they're just supposed to hand shit over to def jam instead?

it's not like they can use the Big Boi Feat Andre track themselves, so it's just churlish and spiteful to bar him from including it on the album.

mega xposts but re: dre not producing anything of meaning, I hesitate to bring it up but the 2007 Class of 3000 soundtrack had a few standout tracks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kn_EGLtOVGU
Andre just went off and did his own thing; hollywood called him back and he answered so good on him.

this record is going to explode my brain when everyone makes me want to hate it by saying stupid things about it on ilx

it is mostly fun, if occasionally a lil weird here& there

I suspect i'm gonna feel this way but for now "You Ain't No DJ" is brill. Also I love the parts of "General Patton" when the stop-watch hi-hats get replaced by a single ominous tic on the offbeat.

i'm a bit late on this but goddamn it is great

Only on ILX can you be late before the album comes out.

ahhh, night night is so awesome.

am i the only one that kinda digs the chorus on "follow us"

Follow us would be preety amazing if they didn't have the surfrider foundation baby-are-you-a-badfish-too allstars singing on it

― Vuvuzola Jesus (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, July 1, 2010 6:05 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

yeah i know everyone hates it!

i really like the chorus, i just wish like someone but TOMUZ PYNCHIN or whatever their retarded name is was singing it

do you guys think janelle monae was like "hey mom, i'm on the big boi album!" and queued up the track only to be greeted by "when was the last time you went teabagging?"

am i the only one that kinda digs the chorus on "follow us"

― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, July 7, 2010 10:05 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmarkno, i love it. one of the album's musical high points. tried to hate it, but couldn't.

am i the only one that kinda digs the chorus on "follow us"

*raises hand cautiously*...

It's actually one of the first things I can't wait to hear when I put on the album.

as sung by the dong beach dub allstars

What's wrong with the Follow Us chorus exactly? There are worse choruses on this record...

do you guys think janelle monae was like "hey mom, i'm on the big boi album!" and queued up the track only to be greeted by "when was the last time you went teabagging?"

― altered scones (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 8, 2010 1:27 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark

lol