official liveblog rap album review thread

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?

that's the ross verse

oh yeah i never listened to "who will survive in america" lol

Lame that he chopped Lost in the World in half.

So this is Kanye's first miss album-wise, amirite?

the worst songs on here are still better than "homecoming" and "big brother" and "i wonder" and "drunk and hot girls"

wait fatass raped australia?!

it certainly continues the steady downward trajectory

xps

Except Big Brother, I Wonder, and ESPECIALLY Drunk and Hot Girls are great.

word

even if this isn't going tobe anywhere near his best, i can't imagine this being half as terrible as 808s

can we just dump every new iteration of the neverending Graduation debate here: ***RANKING KANYE***

This is much, much worse than 808s.

is there anything better than 'golddigger' on this