official liveblog rap album review thread

^ this one is my favorite so far

"that's my bitch" (prod by q tip & kanye)

did they just not credit la roux or did they re-record the hook? good hook tho. grimy lil keyboard on this, drums rattling a bit. justin vernon has a writing credit on this, maybe he wrote the hook. this one is dope. oh maybe he's singing write now. would've liked to hear this as a r&b song.

welcome to the jungle (prod by swizz beatz)

it's been funny watching swizz play catch up to these two & pharrell for who can be the most worldly name dropping all types of fashion labels & shit. he can't really pull it off. man, i love swizz and all, but ppl really need to ask him to stop chanting all over every track he produces. this beat sucks actually.

jay on new day is genuinely good emotional stuff which is what i like rare glimpses of

but wouldn't sound quite as good if it wasn't... you know the jay-z talking points weirdo crooked billionaire villain 。。。 always knew he never cut up anyone (as himself skinny nigga on the boat or as rap music lyrical persona) but appreciated the line, unreliable narrator vibe. like all those beans/sieg/face or variations songs. jay comes off as sadder than sigel or face just because of the gleaming sheen of his charm being almost fully intact.

love that nina simone warble thing

who gon stop me (prod by kanye & sham "shake pas" joseph [huh?])

btw in case anyone cares mike dean has a prod credit on like every song here but i don't feel like listing him. oh man this is sooooooooooooooo dubstep. holy. "this is something like the holocaust" says kanye. this really bangs, well it would've if kanye wasn't rapping. kinda the big, stadium dubstep that a lot of stoners i knew listened to. oh the beat switch up on this is really ugly. idk, i'm bored of this now.

love that nina simone warble thing

― dylannn, Monday, August 8, 2011 1:59 AM (9 seconds ago) Bookmark

yeah this is great

that last song would be an amazing instrumental, doesn't really work as rap tho

jay just rapped "MOMA" & "corner", inevitable really

"new day" is like my least fave song lol i hate how they used that sample

but i don't listen to bon iver so maybe i'm not the target audience

FYI i looked up bon iver on youtube thinking it would be some stoned augustus pablo nina simone vibe but it was just a guy singing

murder to excellence (prod by swizz & S1)

another cool beat... chanting choir sample, bongos, some cool metallic production buried. kanye's hook on this is really nice & melodic. cudi has a credit on this, i bet he wrote that hook. man, kanye is challopping like crazy on this album. one of the better ones on here... kanye hasn't done social critique well in a long while tho. oh beat switch up, this song has a good, if not obvious, concept & sounds great. jay just quoted hanibal lecter.

FYI i looked up bon iver on youtube thinking it would be some stoned augustus pablo nina simone vibe but it was just a guy singing

― dylannn, Monday, August 8, 2011 2:04 AM (14 seconds ago) Bookmark

well, his new album is stoned augustus pablo nina simone vibe (i think). his first album is just a dude singing.

idk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3ePlc3Gi_8

made in america ft frank ocean (prod sham "shak pase" joseph)

frank ocean sounds pretty nice on this, hook is pretty corny tho. this is actually a pretty good approximation of mr. hudson rap, fluttery pianos & stuff but not in a lame way. actually this song is lame.

why i love you ft mr hudson (prod by kanye west)

why does mr hudson exist? not listening to this one

lol

anyway this album is predictably a monster from a production standpoint. almost all of the rapping is really boring & just uninteresting in every way that doesn't involve jay & kanye's cults of personality. i would fuck w/ a lot of this as instrumentals, cuz you've got a lot of talented ppl w/ the world at their fingertips pretty much, it's just too bad that one of those guys sucks at rapping. i don't think i'll listen to this again unless i feel the need to have more of an opinion on it. not a disaster or anything tho.

yeah I feel pretty much the same way as you do. "gotta have it" and "niggas in paris" are the tracks I'll go back to. but I honestly can't think of one quotable from either of them (besides "planking on a million" lol). not awful, but not something I feel the need to listen to again.

if i was the "racks on racks" dude i'd feel pretty proud of myself

fuck man it's like a good fat biography of hitler or something
even if you know what's coming and you find it revolting on an personal or maybe an abstract level the sheer excess and cruelty appeals in the same way that

i was into the bon iver song though

fuck man it's like a good fat biography of hitler or something

this works since kanye calls something the holocaust

very few tasteful or respectful holocaust references in rap music

jay: "i'm planking on a million" <------- s.m.d.h

lol

i mean it's kind of a funny line but you have to think about how it will sound beyond 2 hours after you recorded it

fuck another song he says some dudes hermes mocassins faker than auschwitz death stats

nooooo

whaaat

(that's not true)

after moma/corner i just don't know dogg

lol, the-dream has "additional vocals" on the opening track

LMFAO did "additional programming" on "lift off"

that dude verse simmonds has additional vocals on "who gon stop me"

i woke up this morning and catching up with twitter it was half about the london riots and half about this fucking album and i seriously considered unfollowing everyone giving a shit about kanye and jay-z. what is wrong with you all? do you expect it to be good? do you expect it to be amazing? are you actually excited to listen to it? are you incapable of ignoring it?

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lplnb7hyDZ1qkvtqmo1_500.png

Lol at this.

Sorry, legible version:

http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/8637966316/1/tumblr_lplnb7hyDZ1qkvtqm

Ihu$tla, I salute your Ihu$tle.

lol

except for the part where he rapped over ke$ha

what is wrong with you all?

like to make ppl laugh

do you expect it to be good?

not really no, but i didn't rule it out

do you expect it to be amazing?

not at all

are you actually excited to listen to it?

in a way

are you incapable of ignoring it?

no, but it was more fun not to

Please note the name of Yung Von's album.

i think Ihu$tla's masterpiece is actually "watch the throne" on the album 'detox'

^^ this

"that's my bitch" (prod by q tip & kanye)

did they just not credit la roux or did they re-record the hook? good hook tho. grimy lil keyboard on this, drums rattling a bit. justin vernon has a writing credit on this, maybe he wrote the hook. this one is dope. oh maybe he's singing write now. would've liked to hear this as a r&b song.

― J0rdan S., Monday, August 8, 2011 1:53 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

it blows my mind that you or breihan can listen to charlie wilson on this song and think it's the bon iver dude, wtf

also what does 'planking on a million' even mean

It means Jay-Z has stacks of money that he likes to lie on top of

well idk is charlie wilson even credited on that song? it's not crazy to think that bon iver could sing that

it's pretty crazy. i mean it sounds exactly like charlie wilson, who was on like half the songs on kanye's last album (often without guest billing)