p. sure i heard dj khaled of all people give a shout out to "chiraq drillinois" recently. love "bars" by the way.
i like future's new album, bit more polished than "true story" which got mixed reviews on here. not super different in terms of future's input but the production is v. good
― chilli, Monday, 23 April 2012 21:29 (twelve years ago) link
Pluto is great.
― heiswagger (rennavate), Monday, 23 April 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
Pluto is awesome.
― longneck, Monday, 23 April 2012 22:11 (twelve years ago) link
i like most of pluto especially the r kelly track - apart from that the bangers are better than the garbled spaceballads
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 23 April 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link
The R Kelly track feels totally out of place to me. Makes sense to get it out of the way, but sort of an awful way to start after the Big Rube intro. And I like the track.
― heiswagger (rennavate), Monday, 23 April 2012 22:39 (twelve years ago) link
the kells track has grown on me -- before hearing it i was seeing delusions of something on the level of "i'ma flirt" or w/e, but i'm okay w/ it being a better "booty wurk"
i'm partial to the garbled spaceballads, but some of the bangers really kill ("permanent scar" and the one w/ snoop are the only ones i skip)
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 April 2012 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
<3 'neva end'
― johnny crunch, Monday, 23 April 2012 23:18 (twelve years ago) link
my favs are "turn on the lights," "truth gonna hurt you" and "straight up"
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 April 2012 23:20 (twelve years ago) link
oh and "you deserve it" obv
Has anyone pointed out the sheer audacity of immediately following the Big Rube track with the Kells track yet? The man seeks out contradiction and conflict.
― longneck, Monday, 23 April 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
That's such a power move. People seem to hate it though. Too confusing.
― longneck, Monday, 23 April 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
("permanent scar" and the one w/ snoop are the only ones i skip)
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 April 2012 23:03 (Yesterday) Permalink
wtf 'permanent scar' is one of the best on the album
also not sure whats so objectionable abt the kells song really
― man down (D-40), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link
n-e-way i think pluto is dope
― man down (D-40), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
yeah kells song is dope, although maybe i partly like it because it's been a while since he had a goofy uptempo joint like that
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 01:05 (twelve years ago) link
Guys.....so....um....The Goodie Mob reunion on The Voice.....the horror.....it was....like....the...worst thing.....I've ever seen
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:39 (twelve years ago) link
oh you've got to be kidding me that that was a thing
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:44 (twelve years ago) link
i watched a few minutes of The Voice but instead what i saw was Cee-Lo in a long black wig singing "Dancing In The Street"
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 02:59 (twelve years ago) link
oh fucking no
http://www.nbc.com/the-voice/video/Goodie-Mob-Fight-to-Win/1397926
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
fuck you cee-lo
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:53 (twelve years ago) link
i'm almost kind of impressed that that was as garbage as anyone could possibly imagine
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 03:58 (twelve years ago) link
man what the teetotal fuck
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:11 (twelve years ago) link
1) what is this i can't even2) i guess the light up grills are kinda cool?3) maybe like all the guys got real paid for this at least?4) seriously what is this i can't even
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
they've reunited like a gazillion times already so at least that's not what this is i guess
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:13 (twelve years ago) link
well i mean this is the run up for their first album w/ the original lineup in 10+ years
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:18 (twelve years ago) link
yeah but in theory that's what the 3am times square show I saw them do in 2009 was supposed to be for too
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:20 (twelve years ago) link
one of the most hilarious parts of the video is how much the light-up grill fucks up cee-lo's diction
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:21 (twelve years ago) link
My wife loved it \O_o/
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:23 (twelve years ago) link
you might've noticed that cee-lo is much much much more famous now than he was in '09 and there's a lot of clamoring to release whatever project he wants to work on, and that this performance was on a highly rated television show (that cee-lo stars in) xpost
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
I was laughing so hard and she was like "what... I think its kind of awesome, you're so weird"
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:25 (twelve years ago) link
it's hysterical because they were so clearly trying to be everything to everyone and ended up with something that neither the old goodie fans nor the new cee-lo solo fans could possibly embrace
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
So true.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
otm
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:28 (twelve years ago) link
the upside is that i can sorta square myself with this being the bizarro world al is talking about and still hope the album will have some worthwhile music
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:30 (twelve years ago) link
the warriors + starlight express + flash gordon + black eyed peas
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Kept waiting for daft punk to kick in and for khujo to do a windmill
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 15:20 (twelve years ago) link
anyone listened to coke boys 3 btw?
― gucci gyoza (tpp), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
it didn't sound all that great
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:23 (twelve years ago) link
also it should be noted that both "rolling diplo's homies thread" and "rolling #realtrapshit thread" have been added to my 2013 rap thread shortlist doc
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:24 (twelve years ago) link
::nods approvingly::
― some dude, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:28 (twelve years ago) link
#realtrapshit is good
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
love noz's review of pluto for spin
― J0rdan, Diddy (tpp), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
^^wow yeah just checked that out. i've not had the slightest interest in future but that convinced me to check it out.
― l0u1s j0rdan (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:27 (twelve years ago) link
future definitely has some chops
― boy, was that Dan Fielding hungry for some cake! (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:28 (twelve years ago) link
yeah, i've been kind of a future-skeptic but i checked out the song deej was raving about on twitter the other day and it's really good! so, i will be checking out the album
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
lots of important stuff here
http://www.cocaineblunts.com/blunts/?p=7043
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:42 (twelve years ago) link
mike jones song is kinda !!
"no cuffin" is o___O but also a total jam
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
it's like the swag rap version of "toot it & boot it"
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
re: noz's review, it is very good, i think his conclusion i probably shift in a different direction on, though.
As much as his early tracks benefitted from the freedom that hip-hop offers, he now seems burdened by its conventions. The purist will listen to this and imagine how much better it would be if Future tried to rap more. The more adventurous listener might wonder what he could accomplish if he broke free of his genre's gravitational pull entirely.
maybe i agree w/ this, or maybe i disagree -- but i think its that tension that energizes it, but shudder at the idea of him leaving rap behind entirely? that its grounding in rap convention charges it & gives it a root-edness that creates a necessary tension ... like 'turn on the lights' transcends rap completely, and is stronger for it, but 'permanent scar' is one of my favorite tracks on the record despite being completely about some of the formal defining rap conventions-- that 'turn on the lights' is that much more powerful b/c of its context & surroundings
so i agree w/ him in that, it does make you wonder what it would be like if he broke free, but i think i disagree that it would actually result in better music -- its more of a philosophical question to me, or something, rather than a practical one
― man down (D-40), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, great points. It's him on the fringes of rap music, still engaging with rap conventions but really engaging with and stretching those conventions. i agree if he forgoes them, i would be very worried.
― heiswagger (rennavate), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 19:30 (twelve years ago) link