official liveblog rap album review thread

both rae & ross's verses on this are really awesome fwiw

i could see this album sneaking into my top 10 cuz i never can really pinpoint how i end up feeling about ye albums over time -- there's def some really good shit -- the real issue here is whether "monster"/"so appalled" actually become more than tolerable over time & if the final two tracks actually suck

"dark fantasy", "gorgeous", "all of the lights", "devil in a new dress" (yes yes yes), "hell of a life" are all great tho

wasn't there a really old pre-college dropout kanye song called "gorgeous"

i used to love that song. "one look and muuuurder she wrote"

here's my 1000timesyes review of this album

Kanye West/My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: Late Registration post-30 Seconds to Mars phase & with no pop songs.#7

Adding that chick on "Dark Fantasy" is bad, bad, bad fucking move. The sampled vocals were enough, damnit.

btw i think i have the first ilx mentions of drake & waka

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 9, 2010 2:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

very 'deej' post

j0rdan has heard prince! color me surprised.

― sister soulja boy (The Reverend), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 3:00 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hes a the-dream stan -- needed the-dream context

wasn't there a really old pre-college dropout kanye song called "gorgeous"

i used to love that song. "one look and muuuurder she wrote"

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, November 9, 2010 4:15 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh yeah, "Drop Dead Gorgeous". RIP Murphy Lee's career!

what the hook 'gon be >>>> every song on this album

murphy lee was awesome

btw here's the first mention of waka from what i can tell

butthurt (deej) wrote this on thread letz talk abt gucci mane on board I Love Music on Jul 23, 2009

wocka is awful

acutally no, it was me

swag serf (J0rdan S.) wrote this on thread letz talk abt gucci mane on board I Love Music on Jun 16, 2009

the guy can rap \(o_O)/ - and believe me i have nothing invested in wacka flocka flame

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZ_rXp6nYKQ

^^and the young dude done paid young dude dues, dude

oh how times change

butthurt (deej) wrote this on thread letz talk abt gucci mane on board I Love Music on Jul 25, 2009

i actually think this first guest verse is kinda hard ... not all these weed carrier verses are bad at all ... but fuck LA the Darkman & Wocka Flocka

i'm only up to "runaway" and am getting pretty sick of kanye's voice tbh, also lol @ clean versions

this isn't a very exciting album! well, i guess it follows a series of not very exciting trailers.

I think "All of the Lights" is pretty fucking epic, though. Not saying it's actually good, tho?

kanye is the master of epic-but-not-actually-good

The mastered, fully mixed version, at least.

I think he's nailed epic-and-good a few times tho: "We Major", "Gone," in a weird way.

oh how times change

butthurt (deej) wrote this on thread letz talk abt gucci mane on board I Love Music on Jul 25, 2009

i actually think this first guest verse is kinda hard ... not all these weed carrier verses are bad at all ... but fuck LA the Darkman & Wocka Flocka

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 9, 2010 3:34 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hey no one was more surprised than me bud

i think i could kind of love "runaway" if it was really different. shorter, for one thing.

xp yeah i love "we major" and "gone" ("jesus walks" and "never let me down" too) - was talking about kanye 2010

Rob Sheffield gives it five stars at Rolling Stone: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/reviews/album/45342/232350

Really?!

i was really expecting "runaway" to build into something great after how awesome "devil in a new dress" became, but nope

it's a review in rolling stone xp

there is literally no reason for "runaway" to be NINE MINUTES LONG

all of these songs are too long

quite enjoying "hell of a life" tho

sheffield's whole thing for rolling stone is writing about how a pop artist's new album is better than their last album -- green day, taylor, kanye etc

"the erotic gloss of disco"

huh?

actually, it's whenever i manage to tune kanye out that this album approaches enjoyability most often

this part at least is right

Nobody halfway sane could have made this album.

i hereby refuse to read a single word that any rock critic writes about this, i just can't

Ya but of course they're too long, this is 'Ye's prog rap album.

And yeah, I mean Rolling Stone is shit, I'm just saying.

Ok, Rick Ross really suits this opulence of "Devil in a New Dress." More than Kanye, almost.

rick ross suits nothing

You were one of the hold-outs that didn't like Teflon Don, I presume, Lex?

that's gotta be a sad world to live in, not enjoying rick ross

"hold-outs"?!

it was as average as everything else ross ever does, i guess

i don't find asthma particularly opulent tbh

i don't find asthma particularly opulent tbh

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend),

LMAO

lol I mean the beats, not Ross's huff-and-puff flow.

I'm not saying it's a classic or anything.

he drags the beats down mostly - the best ones are the big monster lex luger ones and WAKA rendered those redundant

Fair play. I think he's reached a point he doesn't bring 'em down anymore, but I can see the other perspective too.

ross doesnt drop non-classics, except for port of miami

Back to 'Ye, tho.

Ok, Rick Ross really suits this opulence of "Devil in a New Dress." More than Kanye, almost.

― altered boners (rennavate), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 3:58 PM (21 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is because the song turns literally into a rick ross song

Which is why it's awesome!

well duh, but that's what i'm saying

I still like "Lost in the World".

But when Kanye starts rapping, it gets much worse.

so many cars, dmv thought it was mail fraud
different traps i was getting mail from
polk county, jacksonville, raped melbourne

gettin tupac money twice over
still a real n*gga, red coogi sweater dice roller

What track's that from?