6/7/2011, imma drop that body work / fuck my brains out double single (TERIUS NASH aka THE-DREAM, LOVE IV: anticipation and adoration)

fwiw he is not to be trusted

my main irl rap friend, i should say

You need a three strikes rule, maybe Big Sean praise is worthy of all 3 strikes though. I wish I had an irl rap friend.

don't we all

bastid could have released this on a day i have nothing to do but nooooooo has to do it 10 minutes before i need to leave.

spanish guitar on "long gone"!

Is this good then? I was kinda braced for it being terrible given that a man with Terius's quality control was willing to give it away free.

i'm only a few tracks in, nothing blew me away until "long gone"

"ghetto", which comes after it, is TERRIBLE. who is this big sean person

seems a lot more consciously diaristic than anything he's ever done before

which means there's a lot more of a sense of ~the real terius~

that's not necessarily a good thing :/

sounds pretty though, mostly, in a low-key way not in a "here are my epic song suites" way

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BUT NOW YOU'RE CONSTANTLY BLOGGING AND SHIT

sounds pretty though, mostly, in a low-key way not in a "here are my epic song suites" way

i'm only on #2 but the minimalism is nice; the melody's almost like some kinda soft rhodes part & much of the song just goes in loops

<3 wedding crasher. on some love/hate sh!t imo

on first listen i think this is pretty great

less about the sudden left-turns of the previous two records, more about setting up an environment in which terius can oscillate for 5 minutes at a time. swampy yet translucent r&b.

Getting heavy Drake and R. Kelly vibes from the first few tracks.

more about setting up an environment in which terius can oscillate for 5 minutes at a time is absolutely right. Holding back on an opinion for now.

Wedding Crasher aside this is sounding like the collection of shitty offcuts it probably is.

^^ could barely get through the first 4 songs. 1977 is alright too.

Grinning like an idiot as I listen to this. I recognize that this is probably rail material, but I'm too damn delighted to care.

Rolex music! Damn.

honestly have no idea what ill think of this

Casha has a nice voice for a ten-year-old boy.

I kind of dig Silly.

silly is a good song but yeah her voice ain't muc

Y'all know the original, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzqPOK6RmsE

oh n/m then

Andy K, always impressive

damn

i'd never heard the original "silly" but if yall aren't familiar with deniece williams you really must hear "free"

and indeed, here it is

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

i'm fond of the whole this is niecy album that it's from

The rawkout at the end of "This Shit Real N***a" is just NAGL for Terius.

At least he hasn't put something like that on a real album. Yet.

at least it wasn't the whole song

lol i was going to ask jokingly if "silly" was a deniece williams cover -- really don't wanna hear this shit now

I posted that last message only halfway through and it got better almost immediately after that. And then radically worse. Only real keepers are Silly, 1977 and maybe Wedding Crasher. Otherwise it's really sub-par in terms of both songwriting and production - the one with Pharrell that explodes into rock guitars is fucking awful.

The rest is kinda like an hour's worth of Sex Intelligent except not really that good.

I think it works best as a zone-out listen. If you put it on and don't ask anything from it, it's a nice little treat. But there's not a single track on here that matches anything from L/H, LvM or even Love King.

^officially scared to listen to this

idk it exceeded my expectations personally

i like "wake me when it's over" & "wedding crasher" as much as anything on LK outside of the suite

idk it exceeded my expectations personally

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:54 PM (54 seconds ago) Bookmark

tbf has there been a terius leak u havent liked

what does "terius leak" mean?

^officially scared to listen to this

I dunno, it meets a need for me. I feel the same way about the Trey Songz "Anticipation" tape; the songs don't really bowl me over, but it's got a good vibe to it, and whenever I need something pleasant (and a little unobtrusive) to listen to, it's there for me in my iTunes

xp is there solo terius music that i do not like? aside from a song here or there, not really, no

i think the album needs to be met on its own terms -- comparing it to his previous three albums doesn't seem right to me because i think it's designed to do different things

kinda hate that line of crit-talk tbh, does it bang or does it not bang, that is the questeon

idk man how about you listen to it

gonna when i get home!

xp is there solo terius music that i do not like? aside from a song here or there, not really, no

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, August 31, 2011 2:57 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

which is sort of why i distrust your snap-approval judgment

is it better than either of his three albums? no. that said, i don't think it's that far off of love king, which i think is a solid level or two below his first two albums anyway. but i don't think my post is crit talk anyway, i think terius would agree w/ me. i don't see anything wrong w/ trying to understand the artist's intentions.