Ryan Leslie, c/d, s/d

ehh im not feeling it

yeah it's ok but i don't think there's any reason for r-les to be rapping so much

the first few times i heard Wiz Khalifa's "Roll Up" on the radio i thought it was a really disappointing new Ryan Leslie song

"roll up" is much better than this

KICKIN IT W MY BAAAAYBEEE

The only Reason why Ryan doesn't all the fame is because he worked hard to get to where he got.. !! he didnt sell his soul to fuckin satan !!

AntonioCarlton2 4 months ago 82

thats 82 thumbs ups btw

It's cute how that's your favorite track from Transition.

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haw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHF3kNKCkbg&feature=player_embedded

New First Single.

why is he rapping on all of these? STOP IT R-LES

the arrangement and chorus are fantastically overblown but really the verses are just him shooting himself in the foot repeatedly

nice "grocery bag" bit in the first verse...

agree he really shouldn't be rapping, plus the music is nowhere near as interesting as usual imo.

He performed this when I saw him live last summer. It's def whatever. He shouldn't push autobiographical shit

Did you see him at that warehouse on Ravenswood?

Yah

this guy was really on some shit for a year there

STOP RAPPING, R LES

new album's production is so fucking good but ugh this is sub-kanye rapping so bad

haha yeah i read some interview where he talked about how rap-driven this album is and my anticipation instantly disappeared

yeah i haven't given a shit about his music for a while because of that nonsense

yeah this is a fucking travesty, he's stepped up his production so much, this is some gorgeous stuff, if he only gave these tracks to a real rapper or sang over them instead... ugh

rappers and singers getting too comfortable doing each others' jobs is like the downfall of recent popular music history imo

for every instance of that yielding a good song there are 50 bad ones

ha that's a pretty solid theory xp

yeah i checked out his youtube channel for the first time in a while recently...terrible.

this record does not sound good to me

yeah even production is bad.

i think it's quite good, the production? what you dislike about it?

the rock guitars,the emphasis on the live drums, surely plenty other things... i don't want to listen to it again.

yeah beats ain't even hot

hahahaha
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/rap_slap_kvSTBaoDlN18eNtiOLK72L

dude comes across like such a clown in this whole ordeal

hahahaa shit that seems like an onion article etc

how is this real

Didn't even know dude had a new album until Spotify told me an acquaintance was listening to it. Especially caught me off-guard because I thought this acquaintance only listened to folky NPR indie.

This isn't very good, is it.

it's awful

still can't figure out how making a youtube video promising a reward for yr laptop's return is legally binding

man this guy fell the fuck off huh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8VetbXWbFM

okay, I’m glad someone else revived this thread, because I was thinking the other day: did I coin “swagless”?

run it back off his new alb is good.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hr1Y70FEQRY
handful of good tracks on there i think

He has some slept on cuts where the production was pretty crazy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1fj5A1gBVH8

Donell Jones - Better Start Talking

"overdose"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiQciji2V9M

"elektro"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzLtgF1W2Sg

not to completely disregard your posts but i was talking to a zoomer recently who in the context of diddy trial stuff was like "why is cassie even famous?" and so i pulled up "u + me" on my phone and after two seconds of hearing the beat he was like "ohhhhhhhhhhhhhh"

what other rap/r&b beats from that era are as instantly recognizable even to people w/ no connection to the song or artist? like in the "name that tune" sense. "yeah!" probably? "me & u" might be the most iconic 5 notes of the mid 00s

"ice cold" is probably my favorite unreleased cut of his:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40gwYCraPag

these ryan leslie deep cuts are great.