official liveblog rap album review thread

hahaha mine was too

Chingy Pleaser

First dick to please meh

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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

actually yeah he does..you can tell he actually watches sports a lot, doesn't just drop in random names like kobe and jordan

he has an espn blog right??

yeah

on dedication 2 he has a skit where he talks about only watching sports and sports-nerd shows on espn

jae millz is so average and boring

somebody should do new tpain

why the fuck is jae millz on this

he now makes decisions like the way he raps

i like "I goth the gangsta"...but it's weird...like they just dropped some random track from a 97 dj clue mixtape in to dedication 3.

now i'm weezy f fuckin fuckin fuckin fuckin baby.

the end.

i don't think i'll end up listening to this very much.

jae millz is so average and boring

― any major some dude will tell you (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 14 November 2008 22:52 (43 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Nah, dude was always the best of the New New York buzz.

^^^all-time banger

okay that song is great.

i will always like songs that use a repetitive soul singing hook like that. best production gimmick ever.

Who = underrated Jae Millz jam from before Ron Browz started making cheesy AutoTune club shit

oh shit props to Drama for shouting "rest in peace K-Swift" on track 11

jae millz is most notable for agreeing to lose to ness in an episode of making the band

in a freestyle battle

what it do
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"say you will"

b/w the line on here, "when i grab your neck/i can feel your soul" (or something) and his couplet on t-pain's "therapy", kanye's been rapping a lot about choking a bitch. this one is a weird opener, the outro is all echos and blips and bleeps for about 3 mins (no vocals) so it almost feels like the album closer. the echos build up in the background nicely while kanye im presuming presses a casio key every so often. nice to zone out to

"welcome to heartbreak"

more of the "love lockdown" drums. big tribal thump, kanye singing about emptiness and not having a fulfilling life (paraphrase: "a friend's kid showed him his report card/ all i got wa a new sports car"). more synths pushed way in the background and i'm not feelin the autotune on this one cuz it makes it sound like he's singing thru an answering machine or something (kinda strokes-y treatment). another outro with swelling strings with an ascending piano and kanye sounding like a lil kid wailing "and i won't stop". good not great. this whole thing sounds like the lost 300 soundtrack or something

"heartless"

i think this is the weakest joint that i've heard off here even though the kiddie "next episode" keyboards are awesome. heavier bass on this one, def going at his ex on this one. idk nothing else too memorable. in the chorus he filters off some background vocals in diff directions and when they finally come together w/ the main vocal it sounds pretty good.

"amazing" (ft. young jeezy)

mournful piano with these clicky drums. lots of these sounds start out sounding real ugly before they move into another part. this chorus awesome, kanye repeating "it's amazing" over big drums and more backing vocals. this one is totally goth and foreboding, i think he pitches jeezy's ad libs way way low in this one so he sounds like a drill sergeant. poppiest hook on here so far. jeezy sounds like the god on this one after kanye drops the track out. jeezy can't do shit wrong right now and his emo raps are the shit esp. after the hook kicks back in after his verse

"love lockdown"

dunno what else to say about this one except that i think it's really great, esp the outro which if kanye actually arranged them then he's got more in him than i thought. the drums throughout this whole song are just huge imo esp after "amazing" which has these grasshopper drums that are aight i guess.

love lockdown outro (((d-_-b)))

"paranoid" (ft. mr. hudson)

haha this is totally shameless 80s. overtly dance vibe is weird and kind out of place esp this chorus which sounds like a disco chorus kind of. this synth sounds cheap and ugly, i think this is the first song where the cheap production worries are actually held up. melody in the verses here is cool, catchy repetition like "amazing". another hilarious outro on this that sounds like chromeo kinda.

"robocop"

i'm concerned about this one. this song is the first time i've had a problem with kanye's singing. the verses have these great violins and they need some delicate singing or something and ye + autotune sounds a little too raw for them. this one has an aiight chorus but it's too long. ok lol @ the glockenspiel on here. the orchestration on here is really nice. i was about too type that this one is too long but the second half has kanye really trying to sing and it's sweet.

"street lights"

song has the best verse to chorus build + release out of any of the songs on here i think. the synths scratching out here in the background sound kinda like animal collective or something. more choral backing vocals. really nice look but maybe im just a sucker. do these sound like snow patrol or something? that would be cool with me. for some reason i liked the demo better. this is the song that needs a huge outro but there really isn't one.

"bad news"

most autotuned out vocals here. "i just heard some real bad neeeewwws". this one sounds like the weakest so far. kinda just patters out. i started reading about keyshia cole's mom.

"see you in my knightmares" (ft. lil wayne)

weird synths here (the songs have more elegant pianos and some string compositions i think). kanye doing his alien voice here but it actually works i think here cuz this voldemort dungeon music fits it here more. he drops the autotune to drop about trina or superhead i guess. kind of a good verse. wayne hits on his weird sort of psychosis imo actually. kind of a dirge of a song though.

"coldest winter"

more huge drums a la "love lockdown". synths are good too. this could be fleshed out into an m83 song i think. i like this one but i wish it went out with a big outro instead of peeling its layers and fading out.

dunno if i accomplished anything here but i like this record a lot though im not sure how much

is anything not autotuned yet? xp oh damn that's the whole thing?

it's all autotune except it doesn't sound like "put on" autotune or even love lockdown autotune. motly it just makes his voice rougher.

its kinda funny kanye jumping all over autotune now when he considers himself such a tastemaker

robocop is hilarious

ya it is

i'm not feelin the autotune on this one cuz it makes it sound like he's singing thru an answering machine or something (kinda strokes-y treatment).

haven't heard the song you're referring to but that seems like a pretty apt description of all the vox i've heard on this record

man...this totally going to get a critical blowjob, isn't it?

you think? it seems like it's going to be pretty divisive as far as reviews go, and definitely not as well reviewed as his other albums.

Ultramagnetic MCs's Critical Blowjob

yeah i dunno...just like a "adventurous" non-rap-album-by-a-rap-artist-that-most-rock-critics-know-by-now...seems like it would be in that "love below" zone