official liveblog rap album review thread

haha, I think I did at one time, but I haven't heard it in a couple years

if it's crime
lets have fun
lets have fun
it's that old tricky one
triple oh woah woah
if you scared
get your gun

i don't even know wtf that means but i love that song so much

high like space
4-5 on waist

imo the juelz verse on crunk muzik is better on this knuck if you buck remix

waynes verse is great on that too

even by LOLCAMWTF standards this one off crunk muzik is giggleworthy

So tell Lu-cy
that her boo-bie's
loco
Coo-kie
monster
who he?

Jim Jones has as little to do with "Crunk Muzik" being as great as it is as he did making any of their music notable...the only thing he ever actually made much better was Cam'ron's Nas diss over Hate me now, and he didnt rap on it...

but other than this i kinda lost track of what's going on. not gonna defend shawty lo any further cuz yeah he's a clown

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uptown gorilla ft jc

pretty standard track even by zoe's standards, farting horn beep, budget trey songz hook, snooze button. btw why do rappers insist on having bad r&b singers do hooks, it's not all that hard to say some shit on a chorus with out it being by some nasally voiced no one's ever heard of. chop and screw an old pimp c line at least

to reiterate from upthread:

I know there are about a million exceptions to what I'm about to say, and I'm probably challoping, but r&b hooks on non-pop-oriented rap tracks are almost always detrimental.

― A REAL GOON (The Reverend), Wednesday, December 10, 2008 8:11 AM Bookmark

what it is ft. rick ross & kollosus

more synthetic horns, from my dude zaytoven tho. can't tell if there's some slight autotune on this but zoe has a sing songy flow on his verse. chorus is pretty good, always thought zoe had a knack for good choruses. didn't pay attention to what he said in his verse tho. officer rawse is good on this beat but it sounds like a bad dj blend in a way cuz the beats on his own songs are always so hi-fi and monolithic and this is just a tinny southern beat. kind of a missed opportunity imo. kollosus is who? zoe had a sick verse on a remix of his single later last year or something and he's completely unremarkable here. song is pretty good tho, pretty standard but it's got a good hook

dope boy

autotune hook, like this one though, it's got a nice laconic stoned thing going on, problem is that he never stops singing. it's almost like "turn my swag on" insomuch as the verses and hook are almost indistinguishable. this one gets kinda boring sadly, had potential. i wonder if zoe's gonna listen back to this album in 10 years and become horrified when he realizes how dated it's gonna sound, kind of a perfect album for 2009 though. only good southern rapper leans hard on autotune and tinny drumma boy beats and knockoff drumma boy beats and comes up with some oddly listenable songs

only good southern rapper

this is like "he's only good" not "gorilla zoe is the only good rapper in the south" obv

challop prevention

kollosus is who?

he kinda killed this song though. I disagree.

sorry had to run an errand

"lost"

i'm really into this song. the lyrics are kind of retarded but it's a nice slice of post-wayne paranoid autotune detached rap. production from drumma boy is on point here, esp. the synth part that synthy string thing that comes in every few bars. also like the line here about smoking cigarettes, a part of life forgotten by rap songs

i'm dumb

i already know this song is #1 banger on the album, has been my shit since it leaked like over the summer. if yall aren't familiar lemme type out this hook again: I'M DUMB/I'M A DODO/STILL IN THE HOOD/I GOT WORK FOR THE LOW LOW. nice big stomp here from mixtape mainstay fatboi. this is kind of the best gorilla zoe song, a playful beat like "hood nigga" that let's him swagger a bit in the silly way that he does. scraggle voice sounds great here. if yall listen to anything of this album youtube this one

actually dunno if i'm dumb needs to be 5 mins long but ill take what i can get

btw lemme note that i'm really feelin this album right now but basically the only rap i listen to nowadays is southern swagger rap over cheap synth beats and if gucci isn't putting out an album i'll take this until his next official mixtape drops

whatever happened to "Walk Wit A Waddle" with Gucci??

this album is good but I might delete four r five of the tracks because they are unlistenable. like "Echo"

shit on em

holy shit i'm fucking dying at this song. chorus: "i poo poo/i poo poo/i shit on em/i shit on em". "pepperoni extra cheese/i gotta shit, i need a pamper" "diarrhea on you niggas like niagra falls, cuz i know how to ball, i buy out the mall" this is all w/ autotune btw. im gonna choose to believe that zoe is doing a send up of wayne/kanye style punchlines in which case this is like the best song ever

walk wit a waddle had a video, not sure xactly why they left it off the album

wasnt very good tho

alright he just started in on a double time verse about shitting on ppl

"shit on your whip man shit on your bitch"

hood clap

produced by someone called "dee jay dana". "if youre hood and you know it clap your hands". "fuck george bush, his daddy and his momma/im smokin this obama while im countin up these hunneds". nice beat here tho, twinkling bells and handclaps all the way thru. weird bridge that's mixed too loudly. this is pretty good even tho it sounds like all the rest of them

helluvalife ft. gucci mane and oj da juiceman

this song is kinda boring so i'm just gonna post a blog post i already wrote about this song

Haven't heard the whole Zoe album yet (do I want to?) but I was naturally HIGHLY INTRIGUED by the Gucci/OJ collaboration. It's about the fifth best Zoe/Gucci song that exists in the world (and about the 1,800th best Zaytoven beat), and it's really only notable for OJ's verse, made possible by the fact that Gucci appears to not be trying and Gorilla Zoe is now apparently incapable of not singing. OJ's verse packs the vitality that all his verses seem to have, and it's almost the quintessential OJ verse in a way because he rides along shouting as he does (actually starts off the verse biting Gucci's Michael Jackson diamonds line from "Light Show") not saying much but commanding attention, but he hits this line where it's almost like he should be taking a breath except he goes "YOUNG JUICE MAN/ GODDAMN I'M A HUSTLA" and it's an almost unexplainable "aahh" moment, like all the gears in his verse finally locked into place. It's the kind of thing that seems tossed off until it's chopped and screwed on an "anthemic chorus", except with OJ the anthemic part is completely instant.

i got it ft. big block

im running out of things to say about gorilla zoe songs except that they are all exactly the same and like basically most of them. this is like "whatever you like" except he sounds like a poltergeist w/ autotune and the beat is this creepy piano thing. stuck this one in the middle for a reason i assume

watch me ft. young chris

what a random feature. drumma boy got it w/ this beat, swirling trance synths. zoe singing nonsense. it's good

man i

this is apparently a piano ballad from the atlanta rapper gorilla zoe. hi hats on this are kinda nuts but i wonder if zoe has any idea what's going on in this album. singing about wanting to fuck j lo. some guitar part that sounds like marnie stern just came in. this song is kind of weird and pretty good tbh. zoe is a weird dude

talkback ft ebony love and roxy reynolds

apparently these chicks are porn stars. pretty disgusting song so i fast-forwarded to the roxy reynolds part. she's pretty worthless except for the orgasming ad-libs.

im being lulled to sleep by this album - it's tinny sameness is hypnotizing me

so sick

another space ballad from zoe. this song is kinda sweet, and the beat is pretty great. zaytoven always gets these synth bleeps that sound like burbling lava and he's surprisingly got a good ear for different percussion sounds. zoe just said something about a soft taco

echo

this song is... in a way i admire zoe's yearning to make a roller rink jam w/o the help of t-pain

lollll the hook to "shit on em" is so retarded awesome

i'm still not sure after reading all that if i have any interest in hearing this album. i like Zoe and his first album was alright but i can't see it + AutoTune being too appealing to me.

just listening to this now - half these tracks were on zoe's mixtape last year. which i really enjoyed, dude has a real knack for a hook. they seem to have been tightened up a bit, lil details added here and there like that weird sproingy spiral sound on 'lost', and guest verses added/taken away (like lil' wayne's on 'lost', wtf, that was really good).

i loved the roxy reynolds guest verse last year ("betta eat something, this ain't ramadan"!), looking fwd v much to ebonylove

ok i don't think i'm going to be listening to 'shit on em' again :/

Was "Shit On Em" on a mixtape from last year at some point? I swear my neighbor was blasting a track back last August with a chorus very, very similar to that... but it didn't sound like Zoe to me.

bah, ebonylove didn't do a separate verse, just double-tracked roxy's

ok, enjoyed that album! absolutely no surprises but it's hooky ear candy, there's not much to it but it's something i'll go back to a lot.

^^cosign

southern swagger rap over cheap synth beats

always need more of this

coals to newcastle get wiped out, totally

half this album is like zoe is trying to make the b.o.b album

southern swagger rap over cheap synth beats

always need more of this

― preview& potmXII& chinchillas& surfboar (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Tuesday, March 17, 2009 2:28 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

smh

half this album is like zoe is trying to make the b.o.b album

― dude n ned (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, March 17, 2009 3:53 PM (32 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that sounds awful

a lot of it is pretty good, really hooky

zoe's got a sort of playful, jocular presence when he's rapping imo so he makes weeded autotuning that is still interesting. the str8 rap trax on here ("helluvalife" and "i got it" etc — "i'm dumb" excepted) are the most boring songs on the album