do ppl think that "miami 2 ibiza" is a bit garish? i think the big synth riff is kind of great, also love how far he takes the brand name thing
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:11 (thirteen years ago) link
"A bit" garish???!!!
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:49 (thirteen years ago) link
lol
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:50 (thirteen years ago) link
I'm not keen on that one really, or that whole section of the album tbh, it seems to fall into the "try and please everyone" trap you get with so many Brit rap albums.
The album version of Pass Out isn't as good as the single, the additions of those extra bars completely bungles the moment when the chorus suddenly explodes into drum and bass.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Hood Economics is terrific by the way, I remember hearing it on some Channel U compilation c. 2007 that was generally full of arse-end-of-grime Bearman types and it really stood out. The other track on that comp that that really stood out was Hey Girl by Ear Dis so clearly it was a harbringer of better days to come.
― Matt DC, Tuesday, 12 October 2010 08:55 (thirteen years ago) link
"obsession" & "invincible" are prob the two weakest tracks after "written in the stars" obv and maybe "snap"
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 09:01 (thirteen years ago) link
oh god i'm like the new york post gossip columnists that call all black r&b singers rappers!
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Monday, October 11, 2010 3:42 PM Bookmark
uh huh
― markers' make (The Reverend), Tuesday, 12 October 2010 16:53 (thirteen years ago) link
― Matt DC, Tuesday, October 12, 2010 1:53 AM Bookmark
this is otm
chamillionaire rapping over "pass out" http://hulkshare.com/tezov9120xbw
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 16 January 2011 05:29 (thirteen years ago) link
man "pass out" is kinda great, huh?
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:36 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks for those links btw lex - i loooooove "wifey"
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 20 January 2011 10:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Late to this
― A41 (admrl), Wednesday, 17 August 2011 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
written in the stars has to be one of the 10 greatest youtube basketball highlight tracks ever (and that's basically the best kind of music imo.)
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 23 October 2011 07:57 (twelve years ago) link
disc-overy
― Ravaging Rick Rude (a hoy hoy), Sunday, 23 October 2011 08:03 (twelve years ago) link
sexy seno-RITA i feel your ORA [aura]
fuck u
― calum-y maybe (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 July 2012 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
impressed that he thought that up with his tinie tempah-ral lobe
― I'm HOOSin' out, 36 o's, so I'm drivin' round with that steena (some dude), Sunday, 8 July 2012 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
haha i kinda like that verse
― hardhouse banter (tpp), Monday, 9 July 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
yeah that is textbook tinie! where others would sound lame he just comes off as cheeky
― r|t|c, Monday, 9 July 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
"baby i ain't talking books when i say that i can take you across the BORDERS!!"
like listen to the way he doesnt even try to play cool and disguise that delivery
― r|t|c, Monday, 9 July 2012 14:49 (eleven years ago) link
hickory dickory, i just had an epiphany why'd i call myself tinie if i keep thinking about bigamy
^ one of my favourite tinie joeks
― r|t|c, Monday, 9 July 2012 14:51 (eleven years ago) link
the rita/ora line isn't even that verse's real clanker
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Monday, 9 July 2012 14:53 (eleven years ago) link
i'll make you call me DADDY even though you ain't my DAUGHTER
just noooooooooooooooo
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Monday, 9 July 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
rita ora taking over with I'M READY FOR YA is an amazing moment on the seamus haji remix though
he has too much charisma to ever clank, this is the thing
― r|t|c, Monday, 9 July 2012 14:55 (eleven years ago) link
so I saw this guy perform on TV, Paladia HD was showing some British festival...
Is this dude like the B.O.B. of England or what?
― wack nerd zinging in the dead of night (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
exactly
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:18 (eleven years ago) link
Ha! otm
― Johnny Fever, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
(featuring Ella Eyre)(featuring 2 Chainz)(featuring Labrinth)(featuring Dizzee Rascal and Ty Dolla Sign) (featuring John Martin)(featuring Candice Pillay)(featuring Big Sean)(featuring Emeli Sandé)(featuring Sway Clarke II)(featuring Paloma Faith)(featuring Laura Mvula)
― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 October 2013 12:04 (ten years ago) link
Bingo.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 31 October 2013 12:20 (ten years ago) link
Seriously, I could not imagine a less pulse-quickening set of collaborators than that. Maybe stick Eliza Doolittle in there as well.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 31 October 2013 12:22 (ten years ago) link
Driving the car into the ditch by getting Jessie J on a track would at least show commitment.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 31 October 2013 12:25 (ten years ago) link
since no one else will be morbid enough to listen to this i shall now liveblog chucklesome tinie lines as they wash over me
― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:01 (ten years ago) link
1. thinking about life / listening to too short / maybe they'll have a statue of me in madame tussauds
2. trying to get fellatio / from girls as fresh as daisy lowe
― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:10 (ten years ago) link
3. tiger beer or cobra / lime in my corona / shakes down my bilateral periorbital hematoma
― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:15 (ten years ago) link
3 is #accidentalpartridge
― Legitimate space tale (LocalGarda), Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:21 (ten years ago) link
4. life threw me lemons / now celebrity juice on my sofa
5. and a girl to make a racket / call her anna kournikova / had to put me in another tax bracket / so much for my diploma
6. roses gabor (no!) / ester dean (yes!) [wtf]
7. another woman under cover like a bryan ferry album
― r|t|c, Thursday, 31 October 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
She take it off but leave on her stilettos / You know you can find me around white girls like Othello
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:47 (ten years ago) link
i have no idea whether any of these lines are on-the-nose rtc parodies or not
― lex pretend, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:49 (ten years ago) link
kournikova reference :)
what is he doing talking about roses gabor but not getting her on the album
if i was to listen to this, this line would be the point at which i would stop, btw
― lex pretend, Monday, 4 November 2013 18:50 (ten years ago) link
(featuring Emeli Sandé)
and YOU AGAIN!
she's on the robert glasper too
A cursory skim has confirmed this to be an completely unsurprising dud, but 'Don't Sell Out' is pretty fun.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 November 2013 19:00 (ten years ago) link
(featuring Dizzee Rascal and Ty Dolla Sign)
wait what
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 November 2013 19:02 (ten years ago) link
the song with 2 chainz is remarkably bad
The Dizzee/Ty Dolla Sign track is called 'Mosh Pit'.
Guess what it sounds like.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 November 2013 19:04 (ten years ago) link
haha the daisy lowe line is obv the best thing on the album. (and yeah cosign on 'don't sell out')
music got too shit for me to continue this lil project after the first few tracks, although the othello one is giving me new life
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 November 2013 19:05 (ten years ago) link
The Othello one is from the same song as the Daisy Lowe one!
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 November 2013 19:08 (ten years ago) link
His voice has either gotten deeper or he's deliberately making it so and he's lost a lot of his youthful charisma in the process :/
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 November 2013 19:09 (ten years ago) link
oh! well that's handy
goes without saying the worstest line is 'trampoline's "i'm just strictly speaking anne frankly"
although "in a white ferrari spider, rolling with anansie" afterwards is prob his legit hottest
shift k3y remix of that is obviously choice btw
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 November 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
― Matt DC, Monday, November 4, 2013 2:04 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark
nooooo
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 November 2013 19:10 (ten years ago) link
then she vogue / then she vogue / AGYNESS DEYN
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 November 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
you can pretty much tell when a dumb 2 chainz verse is him being sly and when it's him not giving a flying fuck about the quality of the song, and the tinie tempah one might be the best example of the latter
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 November 2013 19:16 (ten years ago) link
the sad part is that in an alternate world, tinie f/ tity would be the perfect vortex of dad joek rap
― old homophobic boom bap rap traditionalist (The Reverend), Monday, 4 November 2013 19:28 (ten years ago) link
otm, if he can lavish "sold out arenas you can suck my penis" on derulo idk why he would phone it in for tinie :/
bit sad about this album tbh, there was no reason for it to be a flop
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 November 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
when the 2 chainz joint came out i thought he was going for full on american crossover but the guests on this don't make it seem like that is the case
maybe he felt shook by the idea of rudimental snatching his career?
― J0rdan S., Monday, 4 November 2013 20:13 (ten years ago) link
nah i think the tity bit was always intended as a bit of extra comeback glamour before going for the same template as the first album. feel like that's a known brit strategy although examples escape me
eesh 'mosh pit' was produced by rick rock apparently
― r|t|c, Monday, 4 November 2013 20:28 (ten years ago) link
Rudimental are different enough from Tinie for them to be plenty of room for both of them, but it's true that the pop-grime crew have been totally caught out by the sudden paradigm shift in the British mainstream. It says a lot that none of them have even bothered to jump onto this year's sound.
― Matt DC, Monday, 4 November 2013 20:32 (ten years ago) link
great shift k3y tunes on 'youth'. the whole thing is sooo good.
― flapp.y, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link