Is anyone anticipating the new Diddy album?

Coming Home is great. Um. Did not anticipate liking this so much?

Admire the audacity of the cover. Wish they'd just released it as Dirty Money.

But if I had to pick between the overstuffed with features concept hip hop albums of 2010, this takes it, I think.

Whoa @ "Looking For Love"

Downloading now. I'm really excited to perhaps care about a Diddy album for, like, the first time ever.

― Gus Van Sotosyn (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, December 13, 2010 4:58 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

his last one is good dude -- p sure all the people excited about this one were feeling 'press play' too

I'm as guilty as anyone of being lol Diddy for well nigh a decade now.

yeah i don't think I ever 180'ed so hard as when I realized I adored 'Press Play'

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2010/12/diddy_dirty_money.html

this is the first Diddy album I've ever considered buying

haha sooo tempted 2 hate on this album right now
holding contrarianism in check

J0rdan otm about this petering out towards the end (like T.I.'s bit on "Hello Good Morning" though).

all of HGM is fire

an air mattress seems like a dumb place to hide money tho

this peters out at the end only in the sense that the first like 7 or 8 tracks are an incredible run -- the back half is still great tho

it's styled "diddy - dirty money"

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Monday, December 13, 2010 5:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

blech

― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 13, 2010 5:23 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

it's really "Diddy-Dirty Money" with no spaces around the hyphen, which is even more awkward

i think the first six proper tracks are an incredible run - there's so much packed in there, so many ideas, and i love the way all the voices crowd in, no one voice really being allowed to wrest control of a song - it really does make it feel v urgent in an action movie kind of way.

second half doesn't click with me as much though i think that's actually cuz i'm so familiar with its highlights already, and the chris brown tracks seem the weakest (not just cuz it's him).

― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Tuesday, December 14, 2010 12:08 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

ok, just listened to this per your request on the Kanye thread, and i like it. funny thing is, the second half is WAY more appealing to me than the first--which seems kinda bland/run-o-the-mill to me. but, yeah, "Shades" is pretty damn great track! dig them X-men references--tailor-made for Dan, i'd say.

wait, Chris Brown is on this? okay, not buying it

^^i wish people wouldn't keep trying to sneak c.brown back into our lives under the "feat." guise - he's not objectionable here (and luckily the songs he's on are the weakest anyway, not just cuz of him), but i def disapprove. he's on the new keri hilson album too, disappointingly, esp given its themes. (it's actually way more impressive than i expected, that aside.)

Posted yet? nabisco's review.

i think the point about diddy looking past indie rock for artiness is a great one

Yeah: Diddy summoning the arty instincts in well-heeled, familiar guests (Grace Jones is used for her touchstone qualities though).

putting this on now and O_O at 'yeah you would' beat

this is like that usher rubber balloon beat done good

Okay, you cats sparked my curiosity on this. (And, no, not a late jumper on Diddy or whatever, I did also buy and enjoy (although nowhere near as much as some of you guys) Press Play too). Was it worth the extra bucks I paid for the deluxe version?

u_u @ "hashtag rap"

Both mistake grandeur for art, as if the thing that makes a "masterpiece" is the fancy frame, or the marble pedestal, or the velvet curtains, and not the work itself. Both imagine songs will get better if you just keep adding cool stuff to them, and that "ambition" is about scale, not meaning.

havent listened to the diddy-dirty money (lol) yet but feeling this as a MBDTF critique

On track ten now, "Angels", and I'm really not feeling this that much. I guess I'm approaching it weird, due to the comparisons to the Kanye - guess I was hoping for something a little less "safe"? I don't know, too much R&B padding too?

deluxe edition is necessary imo

am i the only one who does an indie rock double take when he says "i thirst more"

I'm not one of those "OMG MBDTF is the best album of the year" folks, just to be clear, but I'm kind of wishing I hadn't approached this through the lens of "this does a better job of some of the things Kanye tried to do". I think I might have been more pleasantly surprised. At this point, I am just looking for "weirdness" where it doesn't need to be. Liking the song with Trey Songz right now though.

jon its more like a svelt R&B version of the same kind of ambition, rather than a pink floyd its a sade

sonically i don't think it's weird or out-there so much as packed with ideas and hooks (and y'know emotion too). lyrically it's pretty o_0

but then i don't think MBDTF is particularly weird either - it's just that it hews to kanye's aesthetic whereas this one, at least in its strongest stretch, is v clearly hewing to a club aesthetic

nabisco's review is, dare i say it, unfailingly OTM.

lol, did you guys notice in the comments where nabs says "Kanye's album is way, way better"?

lol

playin it safe

obama style compromise imo

so i bought the deluxe edition and it claims to have three bonus tracks (i know itunes edition came with extra one, maybe this is just a typo?). only 18 songs listed. maybe an unlisted bonus? will report back.

my deluxe is coming on friday...

my soul HOOOOWEELLLLS at the moon

kanye smedley

hey people who have been all like "lol why should i pay attention to p diddy" no way out was a classic (fuiud) way back in 97 so

no way bro

I'll go so far as to say "pretty good" but it's no five-star classic.

:-/

its a classic

its a classic

it's good. definitely no five-star classic but maybe four.

like a hard four, or a four and a half

better than "pretty good," ffs

its not a classic

i fuck with The Saga Continues too, mad underrated album

oh wait i didnt realize what was being talked about ive never heard that album