official liveblog rap album review thread

liveblogging dedication 3 here

Stoked for the madness

dedication 3

i guess anyone can sound good over the art of storytelling pt 4 beat but all the no names here (mack maine, jae millz) sound real grimey. good look. meanwhile wayne's rapping in a total drugged up way with a lil bit of autotune in his voice and spitting some real C+ rhymes ("so hip-hop like two bunnies)"

dick pleaser

this one is awesome. don't recognize the beat (clown me here) but it's really spare and low-key which allows wayne to go off in these two word tangents in the really skittish way like he does on weezyana. on drought 3 i always liked him going over snap songs that let him just play around with flow ("all my guns knee high/m-o-n-e-y/that's what i rely/on, i'm gone"

always thought Jae Millz was one of the best out of that whole last generation of NYC never-gonna-bes, good to see he's getting a lot of shine off this.

ain't i

looking forward the most to this one but once the beat starts playing i just want to hear the young dro verse. jae millz is only an aight rapper dunno why he's on here. i guess jadakiss or whoever hasn't putting out enough mixtapes lately. wtf @ millz: "this is the dedication 3/ you can't replace we/ that's like asking a group of muslims where the bacon be". classic fecal matter wayne w/ in the first two rhymes. yeah this is retarded. wayne's not even rapping or singing. he could've killed this beat imo :/. raps too much about eating pussy.

the other side

la the darkman is not a good rapper. who is he anyway? none of these other guys can rap at all really but by virtue of showing up next to tweaked out wayne they at least sound pretty good until you start listening to tired ass punchlines about cheese. every wayne punchline here is "y like x". we must demand more in a post-obama era.

or in an obama era

just looked up the dick pleaser joint on youtube & the beat is off

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4uuyy_too-short-ft-lil-john-couldn-t-be-a_music

Like 4th-string Wu-Tang La the Darkman?

x-post

so madd la the darkman reinvented his former wu tang killa b-teamer ass as a dj drama aphilliate in atl - i sold dudes album back to the cd store back in 2000 for like 3 bucks and now its on ebay for 80 bucks

this was the joint offa that

he used to hang around ear wax records like every damn day back in 05 with these bootleg cd-rs but i guess dude is makin $$$$$ now

my weezy

the beat selection on here is totally on point but besides doing some cool things with his voice wayne is pointless. shanell sings but sounds like a ghost. im not sure if lil twist is a chick or 13 year old boy but either way this is hilarious. i think he just threatened to kill ppl who threaten his friend, lil wayne's daughter, who i think is 7. as for tyga, today i woke up really hoping to hear a bunch of verses by a second-rate yung berg.

she's a ryder

wayne on here is like "can't believe it" verse but more weeded if that's even possible. i thought it was funny when dj drama said "obviously there is more singing on here but wayne is in that zone". the palpable disgust in that statement alone was lol. gudda gudda is like mack maine with less personality and even less brain cells. can't wait to hear more.

still i rise (nikki minaj solo song)

over the no matter what beat. nikki minaj can really spit and even though she's not saying shit on here she's still way better than maine or millz or whoever. her verse on drought is classic. she sings the hook and it's really good actually. singing about nostalgia. this song actually hits but it just might be the verse.

La The Darkman is Willie Da Kid's older brother so that's how he started showing up on every other DJ Drama project

wow i had no idea that la the darkman had made down south comeback! crazy.

sunz of man on the next young dro album!

just might be the beat*

magic

more autotune raps. "i wanna fuck your head off and then fuck your ankles loose/the drink the juice". this vibe is kinda cool and wayne doing necro goth rap would be kinda cool given his drugginess if he hadn't been on this formless, sleepy tip for like a year or whatever.

whoever you like

excited about wayne going over this one in a world eating itself kinda way. more "cant believe it" style stretching words over like 5 seconds. "you could fuck whoever you like". jae millz talking about letting you fuck tyga. every hoodrat's dream im sure. fast forward through this bullshit

get bizzy

a tape of wayne going over snap beats would be murder imo. not so great on this one due to more autotune raps but i'm still down with anything that lets him follow his flow wherever. "im not talkin about fleas when i say im ticked off". it's come to this. more gudda gudda. this guy has a future if mack maine ever becomes the dictator of cuba and needs a body double

i got that gangsta (LA the darkman solo)

my version has it tagged "i goth that gangster" which is probably the most interesting thing about this one. you dudes will like this one. willie the kid shows up. i like this dude. interesting flow w/ that really bratty voice that young skinny dudes from NY have. "i know yung la/ the real young la" i lol'd

dick pleaser

feat. baby ?

jae millz talking about letting you fuck tyga. every hoodrat's dream im sure. fast forward through this bullshit

more gudda gudda. this guy has a future if mack maine ever becomes the dictator of cuba and needs a body double

lol

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.

dedicated (skit)

wayne basically says that every artist on young money is never dropping an album, and that we should check them out elsewhere, where they are assuredly doing their thing. then he implies that he's gotten head from dudes and then goes "i'm looking for straight beautiful women- nah im lyin"

put on

dj drama should be jailed for allowing tyga to rap over this beat. there's kind of a nice suspense built up to wayne rapping over this beat but if kanye straddled the line between using autotune as an emotive device and using it to ruin a good rap verse wayne certainly doesn't straddle that line.

wayne basically says that every artist on young money is never dropping an album, and that we should check them out elsewhere, where they are assuredly doing their thing. then he implies that he's gotten head from dudes and then goes "i'm looking for straight beautiful women- nah im lyin"

ok can you transcribe this in full

why is that not surprising at all?

outro

"for the future i'm on this rock shit". a little ways in gudda gudda starts banging out a beat on a table. wayne: "dream of fucking ms sarah palin/ don't mccain's heart look like it about to fail him". ok 4 mins of silence. then wayne starts rapping a la dedication 2 except he actually killed the ambitionz aa a ridah beat on that tape. nothing of note here.

it's not surprising, but it is somewhat surprising for Wayne to actually admit as much

hay guyz what cd should i liveblog when i get home today

ok can you transcribe this in full

― she ain't shy no more she changed her username to some dude's bitch (some dude), Friday, November 14, 2008 2:58 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark

"i wanna make it clear that every artist you hear on young money is most likely to be doing their own thing somewhere else. so what i would love for you to do... is to actually get into them over there. if they're good over here then most likely they are great there. pay attention to them, they are making moves. and if you wanna be down with us it's easy, give a nigga some head or something [everyone in the studio laughs]. no homo not to the niggas though i'm not looking for no mo rap [unintelligible-- i think he says "lame" or something]. i'm straight. i'm lookin for some straight, beautiful women - nah i'm lyin"

hahaha thanks

goddamn it just dl'd this and the zip was bad : (

this fuckin guy

lollll

n/h gettin a workout there

wtf

I GOT OTHER MEN PUTTING THEIR LIPS ON MY DICK... no homo

[everyone in the studio shakes their damn head]

*rolling my damn eyes*

ok it worked, listening to the "intro"

dick pleaser

this one is awesome. don't recognize the beat (clown me here) but it's really spare and low-key which allows wayne to go off in these two word tangents in the really skittish way like he does on weezyana. on drought 3 i always liked him going over snap songs that let him just play around with flow ("all my guns knee high/m-o-n-e-y/that's what i rely/on, i'm gone"

lol on the version i got this song is named "Thingy Pleaser"

hahaha mine was too

Chingy Pleaser

First dick to please meh

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~usgenweb/ok/cimarron/tombstone/garrett/judkinsralphwaynejr2ndstone.jpg

I pray Thee Lord my dick to please

best thing so far is his imitation of sarah palin playing the flute

wayne just somebody to wipe his ass

"black on chrome like darren mcfadden" was a good line

ya tru

but wayne always has the best sports punchlines

otm

Well, Terius seems pretty excited about it, so it might well be special I gather. I do agree that Fabolous + Terius is a better match, but I'm not really mad.

fabolous and terius was a good match 5 years ago but i can't see why anyone would care now

there hasn't really been a point in time that fabolous wasn't a better rapper than pusha imo

to the world / kanye & kells

the only voice you hear on this album for the first 2 minutes is kells doing some weird vocal scale exercise. saw various ppl on twitter freaking out over this hook but it's pretty corny to me, and i don't really like when kells is trying to sing LOUDER than really LOUD modern beats. anyway kanye's verse on this is okay... there's some bits about golden sachs and mitt romney on this that might get people talking, but they don't really make much sense so maybe not. by virture of kelly being on this i'll assume it's one of the better songs. there's an uncredited female vocalist at the end of this in typical overblown kanye fashion.

― J0rdan S., Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:29 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

I dig this song tbh, like it when kanye goes in on the feel-good vibes. but I have an unusual high tolerance for corny shit

btw kanye sounds like big sean on this

the goldman sachs stuff made sense to me? like goldman sachs = the 1% = holding everybody else back + mittens doesn't pay tax so why should ye

if you asked me who on this album said "the world is my couch/ bitch i'm rick james tonight," i would've had a lot of guesses before kells

pretty dope album on the whole imo. i like that it feels sorta disposable, i really couldn't stomach another MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY or WATCH THE THRONE right now

god the second half of this album is embarrassing. that keef remix is sorta unlistenable

it did, weirdly, make cold/theraflu sound doper than it did when i first heard it? thought that song sucked when it came out but now it kinda goes

don't know if it's depressing or comforting that kanye still thinks "a frew brews" is funny

def comforting

feel bad for Mannie Fresh that after all that talk he ended up with ONE production credit on the whole album (on a song with three producers)

the kid cudi song is one of the worst songs I've ever heard

and yet it's one of the best kid cudi songs i've ever heard!

otm

i think most of us dig this joint at this point? the bass & drums on this are just really cool. i do think pusha t & kanye rapping about club drugs is one of the corniest moments of the year. pusha t dropping ecstasy is so fucking funny to me for some reason. would put this song as my no. 1 of the year on principle if there was a remix where plies busted in for a verse right when pusha says "blue dolphins". in any event, fun to relive the one moment where it seemed like 2 chainz might rightfully take over the world.

― J0rdan S., Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:37 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is still otm but feels like it'll soon become kind of a quaint position to take as we enter the era of every other fucking rap song on the radio having a "molly" reference

yeah it's getting to be a bit much

jay's verse on "clique" is soooooo bad, have we talked about that

kanye's is worse imo

jay's attempt at doubletime is so embarrassing. it's like the rap equivalent of the slutty mom in "mean girls"

i dig every verse on that song

kanye's is just, don't do 32 consecutive bars on a single if your quality control is that low, no, stop it.

haha i like kanye's goofy-ass verse on that too.

was considering suggesting 'rolling molly world thread' for 2013 but i guess now it's too late

molly world is aite feel like the trend might burn out by then tho

all the better to be the name of the '13 thread!

can I just say that reading the Gorilla Zoe thread made me (re)discover "Shit on 'Em" and that song is hilarious

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

― khaled zeppelin (The Reverend), Saturday, March 13, 2010 12:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah obv

― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Saturday, March 13, 2010 12:08 AM Bookmark

damn, I really said that? my crystal ball was way off ;_;