Or "This ain't no motherfuckin P" on Master P's Ghetto D. Classick.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:01 (sixteen years ago) link
There's a really funny skit on the Baby Boy Da Prince album.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
dude seriously i dont think i ever listen to any record straight thru, even tracks i love - its usually a diff config every time
― and what, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:02 (sixteen years ago) link
xp that skit is just the intro to make em say ungh not its own track
THIS RAPPIN 4TAY, WHOS THIS
― max, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
rap double albums tend to be way more consistently listenable than rock double albums
maybe because the only rock 2cd in recent memory is Stadium Arcadium.
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Jazze Pha makes more sense in the context of a UGK album way better than Lil Jon or Swizz Beatz.
I'm not anti-skits per se (hell, I quoted a De La skit a few posts ago), but I do admire Kanye for going for skit overboard on his first album (the two consecutive skits really pissed me off) to no skits at all on his third.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:06 (sixteen years ago) link
going for = going FROM, obviously
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
also NONE of kanye's skits have ever really been funny
― max, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:07 (sixteen years ago) link
"If this is P, lemme hear you say unnnngh"
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
xp "broke phi broke" is negative funny
― max, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:08 (sixteen years ago) link
Kanye's skits are good context-builders to his more conceptual albums
except that his "concepts" are annoying and not really interesting! o man a college degree is useless!! thanx kanye!!1! drop some more wisdom pls!!
― max, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:10 (sixteen years ago) link
it warmed my heart when I read that at a listening party Kanye said that the album would feature "no fake Bernie Mac!"
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, Graduation only has one less song than either of his first two albums, it's just that they have, like, ten mins worth of skits on them.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
With the bonus tracks, my count comes to 15 songs on the record. Which is not short.
― kenan, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:19 (sixteen years ago) link
Mine doesn't have any bonus tracks.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Mine neither.
Did you get it at Best Buy or ZShare?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
best buy one doesn't have bonus tracks.
― Jordan Sargent, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
college dropout--1:16:13 (14 tracks, incl. 12 minute final track, 7 skits) late registration--1:10:26 (17 tracks (1 bonus) 5 skits) graduation--51:18 (13 tracks (no bonus) 0 skits)
these are the editions i have
― max, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:25 (sixteen years ago) link
help i cannot stop listening to "flashing lights" k thx bye
― Davey D, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:26 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah Late Registration has 16 songs if you count "Late" and both versions of "Diamonds."
I didn't get "Flashing Lights" on the first couple listens but it really stuck with me today.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
he hates the paparazzis even more than the nazis
― da croupier, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:29 (sixteen years ago) link
and he HATES nazis, so you know he means business.
Davey D, are you this Davey D?
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:30 (sixteen years ago) link
Neither (I got it at Fred Meyers, which is the only place in town you can buy cds at 7AM when I get off from work.)
I wasn't counting bonus tracks on Late Registration.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:32 (sixteen years ago) link
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I always assumed so. If so, thanks for all the links that Paper Thin Walls gaffles on the daily.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
I believe the bonus tracks are on the import version?
― kenan, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
No, but I am a different Davey D.
― Davey D, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:39 (sixteen years ago) link
Pay up, Whiney.
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I was secretly hoping he was the one who wrote all the Kurtis Blow and Spoonie G songs
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:44 (sixteen years ago) link
I have Davy's Ride on cassette, but i haven't gotten around to listening to it.
Looks like the UK version has one bonus track and the Japanese version has two.
― kenan, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
Rev can use the money he just won to buy the import version of Late Registration
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 17:46 (sixteen years ago) link
What's weird about Graduation is that I just get next to no vibe/impression from it AT ALL, I play it through and eventually it's over and that's it and I have no desire to listen again. It's like air. Usually when I say "it's like air" i'm referring to some shit I've heard, way, way too much but I've only listened to this album like 4-5 times since buying it yesterday.
An analogy no-one will agree with:
CD: a fun, zany, microbrew LR: a big glass of strong red wine you can never finish at one sitting G: a glass of water
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 22:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Your tolerance is weak, dood.
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
I mean, I love the video an all, but fuck, I cannot listen to "Can't Tell Me Nothing" without picturing Zach Galifianakis and Will Oldham prancing around (especially when the hype man goes "ha-ha" - it's all about Bonnie Billy yo).
― Davey D, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 23:55 (sixteen years ago) link
After two listens, I think "Big Brother" is easily the worst thing on here. Not sure why anyone likes it.
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 September 2007 02:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Unless they really wish they could kiss Jay-Z's ass personally or something.
It's ass-kissing, but it's also kinda wounded. Which is either one of Kanye's most egregious "look at me and empathize with me" plays on the record, or it's pretty honest. Maybe it's tacky to write about someone is your hero and hurt your feelings, but he did, and there's a certain amount of balls to that whatever his intention.
― kenan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 03:39 (sixteen years ago) link
It just comes across as genuine and relatable, unlike a lot of the paparazzi-baiting on the rest of the album.
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― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 13 September 2007 03:40 (sixteen years ago) link
I guess I should just be grateful there aren't already four decades worth of songs with the word "Clive" in them.
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 September 2007 04:00 (sixteen years ago) link
hold up fennessey otm
― Jordan Sargent, Thursday, 13 September 2007 05:06 (sixteen years ago) link
Nice. Shows how it might have been, at least. Agreed with Vibe, that beat is crazy good.
― kenan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:17 (sixteen years ago) link
That backing track could be me farting over it, and you'd still say it's good.
― kenan, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:18 (sixteen years ago) link
Yeah, I found "Big Brother" to be the most honest track on the record.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 13 September 2007 11:55 (sixteen years ago) link
"flashing lights" is totally this album's darkhorse
― ^@^, Thursday, 13 September 2007 12:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm sorry but when has good rap had anything to do with "honesty"
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 September 2007 15:32 (sixteen years ago) link
reading your livejournal over some draggy metal pomp is not commendable
― da croupier, Thursday, 13 September 2007 15:35 (sixteen years ago) link
putting scarequotes around a word noone else has even used in the thread: classic or dud
― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 13 September 2007 15:38 (sixteen years ago) link