official liveblog rap album review thread

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

pretend im not 'deej' asking this but a 'person who really likes golddigger'

aint messing with no broke broke!

not a fair question imo. "gold digger" is his best song.

i mean, neither college dropout or graduation have a song as good as "gold digger"!

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

― altered boners (rennavate), Tuesday, 9 November 2010 22:55 (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol, you not hear the previous two or blueprint 3?

How is BP3 Kanye's failure? BP3 is good, btw.

And I'll keep it in the RANK KANYE thread, but you know my opinion on his previous two.

BP3 is good, btw

smh

SB

not really doing the "graduation is the best kanye album" camp any good w/ that opinion

anyone got production credits for this?

def. feeling some of the production but yeah kanye doesn't seem to have enough of his normally 'snappy' raps to fill these long songs so it just kinda drags

i like this album a lot tbh

i skip "all the lights" though

i think that i like it a lot too -- gotta get into the final tracks tho

'hell of a life' is pretty crazy

like:

dark fantasy - hilarious beat imo
gorgeous - amazing rae verse + like this beat
all of the lights - epic
monster - 3:30-5.00
devil in a new dress - love this retro kanye sound but this isn't produced by him right?
runaway - i was expecting the album to be more along these lines
hell of a life - this beat is rawwwwwwwww

couldn't make it through the last 3 songs - painful

"all of the lights" sounds like a jumbled mess to me, I get that that's what he was going for but... yeah. also, don't like the chorus

it is a bit of a mess but still one of the best constructed songs of this album

i feel like everything people say about "all of the lights" is refracted through the lol guest list. like if it was just billed as f/ rihanna and maybe one or two of the more audible other people i don't know if people would be calling it "epic" or "jumbled," it's just kind of a weakass song.

i can't even hear any of the guests i think the horns are what make it sound "epic"

who else is on "All of the Lights"??

how to make a classic 'ye album = just get rhymefest and bink/just blaze/no i.d. together and to dress up like nerds, forget to invite 'ye to the sessions.

yeah, just blaze and rhymefest. what inspired dudes in 2010. maybe just could lay down some beats as good as "all the above".

i've downloaded the new dj khaled album

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drake/ross/wayne - "i'm on one"

i think this is one of the best beats of the year, but the song still leaves me cold. even the beat tho could be better than it is, there's some cool guitar sounding stuff lurking underneath that i wish were fleshed out a bit. anyway, i'll stand my ground that wayne's verse on this is an abomination, regardless of whether or not he was aiming for trying to sound super stoned. he sounds lazy & bored to me. the most interesting development on this song is further confirmation that ross has lapped wayne two times over as a rapper and that drake has really gone full asshole recently, it's like he's already entered his 'my beautiful dark twisted fantasy' phase while bypassing the years in between that. but honestly i think it's a good look for him, cuz i never really bought him as conflicted and contemplative. for the biggest rap single of the year, we could have had worse, i guess.

ross/wayne/plies/t-pain - "welcome to my hood"

we already know that this one is really boring. i still confuse this song with "all i do is win", which brings me to a theory that no one else could care about. "all i do is win" emerged during the nba playoffs as a near ubiquitous stadium song, and i think unfortunately that it's end up being khaled's most enduring single ever. the real heads know the deal pick is "holla at me", "we takin over" is the critics pick, but "all i do is win" is gonna be played ten years from now. as for "welcome to my hood", plies should be on every song on this album. wayne's flow on this is so lazy too, sheesh.

jeezy/ludacris - money

this is produced by lex luger, which i guess was a really predictable development for this album. he's kind of the new runners now that i think of it, tho w/ a bigger bag of tricks and a wider rolodex. it really sucks that jeezy is jumping on the luger train, he's a better fit on drumma boy & shawty redd beats. when luger songs are good they really hit, but when they're bad they're really bad. this song is like a trotting elephant or something. suffice to say that the jeezy/luda collab off whichever luda album that was is much better than this. truly i have nothing to say about this song, it's rap wallpaper. ha, the bridge (?) on this has khaled going all dj drama.

waka/ace hood - i'm thuggin

another luger one, but this is total 'flockaveli' territory. and just like flockaveli, there's a totally underwhelming & unnecessary guest. ace hood's new luger produced single is so similar to "hustle hard" that it's squarely "kinda lol mostly sad". the thing i said about this being flockaveli territory? that was before i realized that waka doesn't have a verse. the first thirty seconds of this is gonna be the best part of this album, isn't it?

fab/jada/mary j - it ain't over till it's over

heard this one the radio & thought it was really terrible, but the beat is actually a bit cooler than i originally realized. if anything it breaks up the epic banger monotony. fab & jada really phoned the verses on this. this could actually be a pretty solid mary j solo single in another universe, but the rappers treat this like a contractual obligation. just noticed that there's no nas on this tracklist. end of an era, really. "it ain't over till it's over" is such a perfect empty cliche for a khaled album. moving on.