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

yeah I'm not a fan of that one either. It has a nice melody and production but it's too repetitive and she sounds cold and empty.

This album got a lot of play this weekend. So, so good.

It's a good album to play while hanging with bros.

In my case, bros being a gender neutral term. Twas a dance party at our place Saturday night.

love Big Rube goin in at the end of General Patton

we can end the vicious cycle affecting our youth today if we just stop lying... if we just stop lying... stop lying... ... lying

In my case, bros being a gender neutral term. Twas a dance party at our place Saturday night.

― Official Cheese-Filled Snack of NASCAR since 2002 (B.L.A.M.), Monday, July 12, 2010 12:10 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

braggin

finally got this--it's rock solid tho i don't think i'm in love with it. not crazy about: vonegutt, the endless janelle chorus, the yelawolf verses (unfortunately!). pretty crazy about: tangerine, shutterbugg, a good lil jon production! not seeing the blaqkout comparison--that was way more one dude's crazy vision and frankly it's much weirder than this.

also the ad for antwan's pit bull kennel in the cd booklet is pretty o_0

yeah thats the other thing about all the big boi defending - for all the stuff about him dre3000s equal, the reason people just dont get as excited is that hes always the more down to earth, regular kind of guy compared to dres weirdness/adventurousness. you can see why they need each other. big boi on his own is very capable and solid and consistent and everything, but he lacks that extra something that would make these tracks more interesting/'different'. dre3000 on his own meanwhile is left to indulge all his bad ideas of wackiness unchecked and while more 'brilliant' needs someone like big boi to make things more fully formed. kinda why this album, though good, and with about 4-5 standouts/virtual big boi/kast classics, isnt really much more than solid. hard to really fall in love with it, hard as big boi tries, not least cos hes so dependent on outside guests.

these songs don't need to be wackier.

If I didn't read ILX, I don't think I'd ever have realised The Love Below was so reviled. I feel like the last person here who actually rates it. I'm not sure whether, according to Whiney's theory, this makes me not racist or a particularly stubborn racist. It's confusing.

xpost - i didnt say wacky.

dorian it obviously means youre a racist in denial.

Cool. Just checking.

you are all of the varied many types of racist. your racism contains multitudes.

agree with call all destroyer's take 100%.

and to expand on "you ain't no dj" - absolutely LOVE the beat. been listening to lots of old IDM records lately and this track hits me in the same pleasure zone. rigid, funky, TOUGH. would fit right in on a gescom record.

but the first yelawolf verse just sounds so... leaden? doesn't sink the track but eh.

did not realize lil jon produced "hustle blood" until just now. crazy.

yelawolf's flow on that track is kinda weird and threw me off at first but clicked on successive listens

i don't get why ppl are so amazed that lil jon did "hustle blood". he's been doing shit that sounds like that forever.

^^^yeah doesn't strike me as an unusual production for him either

xpost

yeah, I'm not ruling the dude out. hopefully the same thing happens for me.

just a little bit of a bummer since it's easily one of my fave beats on the album.

can't say I've followed lil jon closely but I haven't heard anything that delicate from him that I can recall

yelawolf's flow on that track is kinda weird and threw me off at first but clicked on successive listens

― Mister AOR (The Reverend), Tuesday, July 13, 2010 1:11 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah it is a weird flow, kinda breaks up the momentum of the track, but i kinda dig it

i'm not sure if i like it, but it seems pretty ballsy to leave that much space in a verse on a big boi track, when he just eats up those 16th notes (although i guess that's what andre 3k does to some extent, he's just way better at it)

it hasn't really clicked w/ me either. my reaction was basically that he'd blown a big opportunity; but then i figured big boi must hear something in it that i don't.

just to add to the chorus, this is really really really good

I kind of think yelawolf just didn't wanna outshine big boi on his own track

Like T.I. did

well that's one theory

love yellawolf's choppy flow on "you ain't no DJ", esp. relative to big boi's density & speed. it's only the first verse that's so off-kilter anyway.

current favorite = "hustle blood", unlikely to be unseated. and i guess most people aren't gonna come around on "follow us" [sad]

point me at other Lil Jon songs that sound like Hustle Blood plz

if that "follow us" chorus is successful at anything it's for getting stuck in my head for over a fucking week now

xpost, it's a great chorus. I've said like a million times I love "Follow Us" but just can't stand the "bros icing bros" tone of dude's voice. it would be like my fave song on the album for me if they got like Cee-Lo or someone to sing it. I still play it all the time.

i agree with that

thing is, i hate that style/tone/type of music, too, but it works for me in context. and i guess, sure, if someone i actually liked were delivering the chorus in a style i don't ordinarily have problems with, i might like it more...but it's hard to say. love it as it is, cringe factor included.

i'm kinda noncommittal on it, but BOI does it ever sound like the next single after shutterbugg

I don't think we've discussed how MASSIVE "Shutterbug" sounds in the car, on the radio, especially the intro: the drum program, stuttering bullfrogs, two-note synth hook. I mean -- WOW.

still dont like yelawolf

^yeah me either. Only truly weak link on the album for me, and not to be a 3 Stacks hater, but the beat on that is maybe the weakest on the album

i think the only one i don't really like is the jamie foxx song

Have to say I found it pretty lol I got an advert for big boi's kennel in the inlay.

also the ad for antwan's pit bull kennel in the cd booklet is pretty o_0

it would be totally amazing if Big Boi travelled back in time and retroactively inserted an ad for his pit bull business into the Speakerboxxx/Love Below booklet

WAIT WHAT HOLY SHIIIIT

i'm pretty sure that shit like that has been inside rap albums forever?

::shrug:: not the ones i have (nb i don't have speakerboxx/tlb)

get some Public Enemy or Ice Cube albums, buy a Rapp Gear bomber jacket or Lench Mob hat

shutterbugg still reminds me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ngsO-TT2GI

Yeah I see it, but Shutterbugg itself is way better come on.

the bubble bunch is dope wtf

i don't think that was a criticism

yeah wtf is wrong with you deej

the "bros icing bros" tone of dude's voice.

Explain?

http://www.bestmusiconcampus.com/_media/GA/KennesawStateUnivers/Vonnegutt/image/v9.jpg

http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~mrl35/recent-photos/riddhis-birthday-formal/smirnoff-ice.jpg

i don't think that counts as explaining