Is anyone anticipating the new Diddy album?

i haven't been able to check out anything new in the month of december at all :/ fucking dead laptop

I was amazed to hear that some company were able to vastly increase its sales of some shitey vodka to African Americans, merely by getting Puff Diddy to endorse it.

so basically you were amazed by the concept of endorsements?

sounds like he perceives a lack of discernment in the african american community

trying to find the appropriate gif ....

that ciara/diddy dirty money/jazmine sullivan all released pretty amazing albums in the final stretch really shows up the concurrent kanye love

I have a really hard time calling the Diddy album "amazing". Its way better than I expected, but still falling short of Kanye's or even being among the best of the year (full disclosure: Kanye isn't going to make my top ten either). And I'm really having a hard time hearing what you guys are hearing in that Jazmine Sullivan. I love "Holding You Down", but the other three tracks I've heard just aren't exciting me.

Anyway, what I wanted to say that I think we can blame publications with early due dates just as much as we want to blame the critics for not giving these albums love. Also, I'm far from getting any of this mainstream rap/R&B promo stuff, how are they about sending out advances?

am i imagining it when he says "let's end this charade" but pronounces it "Sade"?!

it's stronger than pride

sort of feel like whether you prefer this to kanye is about as good a 2010 litmus test as we're gonna get

I think another interesting discussion to be had about the two albums is the insular vs collaborative nature. We may have already touched on this somewhere, but too much shit to wade through to find it. I mean, both feature tons of guest stars, but Kanye's is one very singular vision while Diddy's, while the whole vibe is very focused, feels like so many different minds being thrown into it. My thoughts aren't really clear yet on which I prefer, but I find it interesting to think about.

Maybe the wrong thread for this, don't want to start a whole new one, but have you guys heard that new David Banner? The cover art alone makes it look like it might share some ideas with this Diddy thing.

it doesn't

okay, insightful

shit had no idea "change" a) wasn't on the album and b) was a terius job. love that one - no idea how it could have been left out, seems essential

alright now that i think of it it seems sort of terius in an idiosyncratic way - according to wiki, this is a tricky joint - what are some reference points for this? i'm sort of blanking

dont' say "sorry" btw

ugh apologize in advace for the following 25 terius posts u_u

"Change" is on the deluxe edition (which is better than the undeluxe edition)

"loving you no more" remix ft t-pain & gucci mane
http://hulkshare.com/mnwys2may4wy

i think i've gotten to the point where, also counting "ass on the floor" and "i know", i love basically every song that's not tagged as "ft. [somebody]" and am gradually but surely working my way into the rest

oh ok forgot about that first brown joint and also "yeah yeah you would", love those too

i keep skipping the middle part of this but that's just because i love "last night pt 2", "i know", and "change" so much and just want to get to them

who the hell decided to cut "last night pt 2" and "change" from the album proper i wanna know

chris brown's last verse on "i know" is secretly one of the best on this whole album

"change" sucks

^truth bomb

"lsat night pt 2" is great but i'm not sure it would fit into the album -- it's like "veteran" on love king or something -- i get why it was left off, the fact that it exists is enough

LSAT night

if i skip any songs on the album it's the last two

"LSAT night" is like a vampire weekend title

"i know" -> "coming home" is a great 1-2 -- also "coming home" probably has diddy's best performance on the album

btw k3v "change" reminds me of "mama"

this is actually quite cool.

i've been (mis)hearing this line in the second verse of 'yeah yeah you would' as "didn't want to be your mistress / but now i'm too proud of it" which i've loved as 2010's answer to "thought i wouldn't really give a fuck / but now a bitch all in love". was kinda bummed when i realized that's not what the lyric actually is

Sad state of the homogeneity of Young Money,but I mistook Lil Wayne for his wannabe Drake on two tracks on this until I read the label!

<3 this album btw

I like it a lot too. I am no Diddy fan and prefer the new Kanye, but sonically this sucker's all over the map, in a good way. An album for people who like sounds yo

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YOU WOULD

ok I went from liking this a lot to loving it. "Yeah Yeah You Would" and "Looking for Love" are my favs. i love the sterile nature of the latter.

shit man the last minute of "hate you now" just pops off

man, i really like this album, but "change" is just not very good. underwhelming considering the creative minds involved.

"i know" -> "coming home" is a great 1-2 -- also "coming home" probably has diddy's best performance on the album

― a snooki and a killer (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, December 29, 2010 5:13 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

"I hear 'Tears of a Clown'...I hate that song!" never ceases to crack me up

this really is a p good album huh

i ended up pnjing it btw

it really is sort of incredible

"I hear 'Tears of a Clown'...I hate that song!" never ceases to crack me up

― washa flocka brain (some dude), Tuesday, January 4, 2011 12:22 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol yeah, but I actually love it because it sounds sincere instead of some of his ghostwritten stuff

the whole song is like "diddy ponders some deep thoughts"

was my #3 album

i do feel like pretty much every song on this album really does open up w/ repeated listens [...]

― ad hom alone (J0rdan S.), Monday, December 13, 2010 5:34 PM (3 weeks ago)

this is true for me too - originally i liked the first run of songs and then a few at the end, but almost every song has some really rewarding nugget buried that you don't appreciate until you've heard it a few times - i mean the first half of "strobe lights" is pretty useless for me but then that last minute is just killer, then there's the last minute of "hate you now", which took couple of listens for me to realize how incredible that changeup really is. and those gorgeous layers of vocals on "ass on the floor", even the very end of "your love" (probably the worst song on the album), but i'm a sucker for those chipmunk vocals. the back part of the album, which is i think pretty clearly the inferior half (especially if you don't have the deluxe!!) contains i think diddy's best rapping on the record, so that picks up some of the slack.

i'd be kind of interested to see everyone's poiii from this album

def an album that really takes a few, I always liked it but it was more a 'oh gee that's nice' type feel after the first two listens, and I didn't appreciate the density until about the third or fourth listen (especially the first time played in hte car)

you are all suckers, I understood its genius before I even clicked the download link

My number two album of the year but might end up number one if I keep enjoying it so much. "ass on the floor" is about as good as music can be.

originally i liked the first run of songs and then a few at the end, but almost every song has some really rewarding nugget buried that you don't appreciate until you've heard it a few times

yeah - i really think this is a function of how frenetic the whole thing is, even when it's meditative, how many voices there are passing the narrative around and how many sonic change-ups there are beneath them - and yet the whole coheres so easily into really enjoyable club r&b.

i almost can't pick a top 3 yet because it flows so easily - maybe "yeah yeah you would", "i hate that you love me", "shades"?

agree that "change" isn't great - v.amusing to remember how terius was all like "i've done this song that's BETTER THAN UMBRELLA" a couple of years ago (jesus that's how long it's taken for this album to get off the ground)