Is anyone anticipating the new Diddy album?

ay brainwasher i know if you wanted it advertised you probably woulda done it yourself but yr new mix is fire man! hangs together really well

assumed it was a (perfect) last train homage so i put it here lol

yeah for real, i got it off this thread - DJs post your mixes for download and love it.

haha oh right soz - i just saw the p&j thread and googled his azz

ive had a tab open w his mix for days & havent gotten a chance to play it yet lol

oh this is dope, thanks for bringing it to attention

TSJ wrote up 'coming home'

gotta agree with the higher scores for this one, this song is 100% corn, but as a professional cornball I love it. woke up this morning with this stuck in my head. for all of my shortcomings WELCOME TO MY HOMECOMING!

some of diddy's best rapps on the album but yeah it's a bit corny for me, def in the bottom tier of songs on this incredible album

also love how awkward diddy sounds on this, which then codes as sincerity in the context of the song. all the random "yeahs!"

Still my least favorite track.

more discussion on this record tho, plz yes

also love how awkward diddy sounds on this, which then codes as sincerity in the context of the song

this is pretty key for me as well. there's something oddly relatable about Diddy for the first time...well...ever.

like when he says "I hate this song!" he says it in the same way he might if you were all just chillin on a couch, hanging out, and tears of a clown just randomly came on the radio

wkiw diddy

the corniness really makes "coming home" the perfect ending to the album, criticising it for its corn is kinda missing the point of the album's atonement/redemption narrative. it's not, y'know, my favourite track or anything either but it's totally right that it exists.

the best part of the song is how well it functions in the context of the album

nb i have never actually heard any of the songs diddy mentions

altho like i said upthread it's mixed like shit

lex......

It is impossible to have lived for nearly 30 years in a developed nation without having heard Ain't No Stopping Us Now.

Lex also what do you think of the BEP's awesome new song "The Time of my Life"?

you are joking aren't you tim? :?

He is a) joking, and b) teasing you for being totally clueless about any music that happened before you consciously started paying attention to new music, b/c 'Dirty Bit' samples a fairly well known song from the movie Dirty Dancing.

i know that! i've SEEN dirrty dancing. and i know about lots of old music.

not knowing tears from a clown or aint no stoppin us now is bonkers

- hence why he's clowning you, Lex

not knowing tears from a clown or aint no stoppin us now is bonkers

― *gets the power* (deej), Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:13 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark

Also, this.

i'm sure both of you haven't heard of many songs others would consider standards. who are those songs by, anyway.

david byrne, i think

Tears of a clown is Smokey Robinson. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now is by McFadden & Whitehead. House is not a home is Luther Vandross.

sorry

thankyou!

xp hang on were those jokes? :(

all three of those songs are ones that probably every R&B artist you have ever interviewed knows as a classic

house is not a home was sampled for 'slow jams'

mine was a joke

lex I'm not trying to be snarky in anyway, but I think it will help if you start listening to some old school (anything before 1995) r&b albums or a compilations of famous songs. Also, what was the starting year when you started to listen to music in a fandom way?

I'm very young, and I even know those songs and who did them. But then again I came from an area where soul music was part of the history of that city. Yet anyway, it would be good for you especially for a historical context in listening to contemporary r&b.

yah i mean i know these songs cuz they were huuuge on R&B radio here

altho 'tears from a clown' my dad used to play too

ok i feel like i've said this a million times but i didn't have a very pop culture oriented upbringing at all - the idea of my parents listening to any pop music at all, ever, is a total lol, the radio was barely on when i was growing up. started listening to the pop charts myself in '91, discovered the music press in '95 BUT immediately rejected it for its indiecentrism. i've gone back to discover a shit ton of old music myself over the years, but rarely talk about it. and i do it on my own terms, and if i sense anyone being didactic about something, it gets ignored.

I would really like a version of this album that emphasised the great pop hooks as opposed to the rapping.

Yeah that's suspiciously geirish...but just my own listening preferences talking. This isn't an ideological attack against hip-hop no no no.

Did you buy a copy of Press Play by mistake?

ok i feel like i've said this a million times but i didn't have a very pop culture oriented upbringing at all - the idea of my parents listening to any pop music at all, ever, is a total lol, the radio was barely on when i was growing up. started listening to the pop charts myself in '91, discovered the music press in '95 BUT immediately rejected it for its indiecentrism. i've gone back to discover a shit ton of old music myself over the years, but rarely talk about it. and i do it on my own terms, and if i sense anyone being didactic about something, it gets ignored.

― lex diamonds (lex pretend), Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:43 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

well diddy's not being didactic so go peep 'tears of a clown'!!

i don't feel like the album really emphasizes the rapping

i listened to those songs the other night cuz i'd never heard them

i don't think it's a rap album

i listened to those songs the other night cuz i'd never heard them

― hard as a markers (J0rdan S.), Thursday, January 20, 2011 1:56 PM (23 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

cant decide if this is more ridic than you not having heard madonna

ill give u a pass on 'house is not a home' cuz thats a quiet storm / black radio exp. staple

j0rdan not hearing those songs either is like "case closed" against lex

i would have probably listened to each of those songs today but i accidentally spent the whole morning rediscovering old kate bush and biggie, then i had work to do, and then this thread got my back up - also i'll have you know that i've added 155 new songs to my itunes this week already

there is really not very much rapping on this album, and what there is i consider absolutely necessary to how it works

HAVE LIFE EXPERIENCES THAT DON'T INVOLVE READING YR BLOGS

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i'm pretty sure not knowing madonna is more ridiculous

i dunno 'tears from a clown' feels like about as classic of a pop music staple as can exist, just a generation or 2 earlier

well diddy's not being didactic so go peep 'tears of a clown'!!

but diddy says he hates that song!

he's not saying it's a bad song, he's saying he doesn't like the feelings it conjures for him