WAKA

heroic review, if only for inspiring those abysmal comments

this is so otm to me

Waka sells on the way his personality bleeds through his vocals and phrasing, the way his voice rolls, "I'ma die for this, shawty, I swwweartogod," on "Hard in Da Paint", imprinting his vocals in the most memorable possible way: "Mizz-ayy management, shit, that my motherrr."

one of my favourite flows on the album

b-l, double o d right side flag
nigga know me my green flag, bitch thats grove street
squeeze on my trigger til my trunk go deep
ride on my enemies niggas just ended me
niggas aint half offensive like me
100 grand chain you aint ish like me
(??) to my nigga g, baby

also the "woooOOOOOohhh, WOOoooooOOHH" ad libs in the part just after it

questlove Questo of The Roots
holy jolson batman pf gave http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14771-flockaveli/ a great rating. imma check it. hope its #likethat

ha

god that is pathetic

i think my review acknowledges that hes playing up an archetype but argues that he happens to do so with lots of skill and with a fresh take on those themes.

i dont think im fetishizing the actual archetype itself, or letting that archetype get in the way of taking a critical look at his work. i am suggesting that he is, on the whole, successful in creating a very focused and accomplished album within that style.

lol @ "holy jolson"

lol cosign

also:
questlove, k3vin k3ll3r has called you pathetic. please hand in your drumsticks.

seriously calm down.

not sure i'm feeling this new hardman look

it was funny but a professional hip-hop artist deciding to check out a rap record after scanning a pitchfork score is kinda u_u to me

hardman? moi? i'm chill.

?estlove is kind of obsessed with Pitchfork, he's always complaining about the scores they give Roots albums on okayplayer

i know we cool

xp haha oh i didn't know that

honestly i'd imagine pretty much everyone in the music biz from execs to producers or whatever must read pitchfork everyday right? hitswise it probably trumps anything else

My neighbors listened to this shit at club volume last night til 2AM.
TONIGHT, THEY LISTEN TO CECIL TAYLOR AND MERZBOW TIL DAWN.

woah are you my neighbour

http://i53.tinypic.com/16jqzig.jpg

http://tinychat.com/BABYBUFFYJR11

hes supposed to be chatting here but instead its a bunch of confused waka fans chatting w/ some rando white dudes

http://tinychat.com/gfva3

its a bunch of screaming girls right now lol

oh well i should probably be more productive w my time

haghaha

hmmmmmmm no talk of waka flocak myers

when the Halloween theme starts it off I got really excited...everyone knows the best flocka is sparse dissonant uncomfortable music like "uh Huh" and "Luv Dem Gun Sounds"

apparently Tay Beats has morphed into Tay Don the rapper

but fuck yeah this has some Lebron Flocka James 2 type shit on it fuckin sick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pyY0zKxSUAA&feature=related
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9f23C3fHvA

yeah i really like that song "Mind"

according to a youtube commenter Tay produced it

oh and according tot he man named Kayo who "raps" second, dude sounds fucking hammered

lol scarequotes completely appropriate there

yeah waka is on on "no sticks no seeds"

i actually have no idea who the guy is that takes up the majority of that song

it's not slim dunkin i don't think

apparently Kayo Redd is waka's younger brother

O_O

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MG14cFGYUzI

he's a fuckin ginger!

haha

I gave in and got this and it is d-_-b

duhhh

part of the reason was because of your review

thnx bro ^__^

ballers yesterday ribbing me for big upping waka, was pretty funny - they all fuck with gucci tho

I got stoked because deej said dude was playing up an archetype since that sounded like some v. weird terrain to be traversing but then I realized we probably mean different things by that word

R.I.P. Trav, on some lit major shit

in da club FLEX
afterparty FLEX
you know how we ball
all i know is ball
every dollar in pocket ima spend it all
when a nigga die they gon say shawty rolled

I say "GOT A MAIN BITCH, AND A MISTRESS" a few times a day in my head now

pow pow pow pow pow pow

eventually ksh will retain some other lyrics i think

waka waka waka waka

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9tboXUSIug4

fuck yeah!!!

been thinking, what really saved this record is that on the whole the weed carriers came through with solid verses. it's kind of a miracle there aren't more than a few actually horrible verses on it (lookin at u popa smurf), and i actively like the majority of them. they keep up w the momentum and tone of the album & that's essential to its effect. also a lot of them bring a less goofy presence than waka, who'd likely have been dulling w/out the more high pitched, malicious presence of most of the guest verses. might get crucified for this but i even like the gudda gudda verse

young money nigga imma rep to the death
you can see the ym tatted on my neck

kinda goes downhill from there but that's a bad ass way to start a verse. f/w slim dunkin, too. and i love the the yg hootie verse on karma. still have no idea what a kebo gotti is but i like his verse on grove st party

I always lol at the guest who goes "I get down with ten men" uhh n.h. much?

i agree to an extent -- still my favorite songs are the waka solo ones (first two + for my dawgs), but that might be because they're so precious -- i do think that it's a bit ridiculous that songs 3-12 all have guest spots, but it's mostly a minor quibble

I always lol at the guest who goes "I get down with ten men" uhh n.h. much?

― deej me how to whiney (dayo), Sunday, December 12, 2010 10:51 PM (12 minutes ago)

yeah i was thinking about polling the most pause-worthy lines on this album

ppl who criticize the record for having guest verses are the same ppl who think that the beats carry the record right?

"really wish this record was more like illmatic"