first video to directly rip drive?
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Friday, 8 June 2012 02:33 (fourteen years ago)
kinda diminishing returns on this album
― kanye kardashian (lex pretend), Friday, 8 June 2012 07:58 (fourteen years ago)
oh man, that video.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Tuesday, 26 June 2012 23:42 (thirteen years ago)
album gets better with each listen
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 00:55 (thirteen years ago)
It's really good, but while half of it feels natural, another half feels like producer + MC. I've been obsessed with Mike since I first heard him. My ranking:
1. Pl3dge2. pledge 13. rap music4. ghetto extraordinary5. pledge 26. monster
― paulhw, Wednesday, 27 June 2012 01:11 (thirteen years ago)
kinda need to see this live i think
― Authorities don't know who shot the 50 Cent the goose. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 02:26 (thirteen years ago)
oh shit that reminds me...
i think the last two tracks are amazing.
― pvmic bellvm (goole), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 03:00 (thirteen years ago)
The whole album is impressive, but I think the back half is stronger.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 03:13 (thirteen years ago)
just getting around to hearing this. awesome stuff.
― alpine static, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 21:01 (thirteen years ago)
maybe my fave album this year
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 21:02 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah, it def has a shot at being my #1 right now.
― to welcome jer.fairall, pie is served. (jer.fairall), Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:19 (thirteen years ago)
"Willie Burke Sherwood" is my jam
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:23 (thirteen years ago)
I've deliberately avoided everything with El-P's name on since someone on ILM conned me into buying 'Fantastic Damage' 10 years ago and while I like this a lot there's something profoundly unfunky about most of the beats here. Obviously Mike himself slays and the production makes up for its clunkiness with sheer force but in practice I don't really want to go back to it that much.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:25 (thirteen years ago)
it is kinda of cramped
― goole, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:26 (thirteen years ago)
it had really rapid diminishing returns for me, was initially really into it but already could not care less
― lex pretend, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:42 (thirteen years ago)
'kinda of' ha whoops
― goole, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:42 (thirteen years ago)
i think this record is pretty inconsistent & wish i'd read what felt like a very honest piece on it because it also has some great songs
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:08 (thirteen years ago)
I will stand up for everything but Anywhere but Here
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:39 (thirteen years ago)
"Jojo's Chillin" for me.
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 16 August 2012 17:41 (thirteen years ago)
aka the best song on the record
― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 16 August 2012 18:02 (thirteen years ago)
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Thursday, August 16, 2012 12:08 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
write it!
― Jandek at the Disco (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 August 2012 18:32 (thirteen years ago)
It's an impressive record that's short on replay value.
― Vagelis (The Reverend), Thursday, 16 August 2012 18:41 (thirteen years ago)
Yeah. I listened to it a lot for a couple of weeks, haven't felt any need to play it ever since.
― Tuomas, Friday, 17 August 2012 10:34 (thirteen years ago)
i have similar feelings about it - something about the beats is just exhausting, too trebly, too harsh for headphones
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 August 2012 11:36 (thirteen years ago)
get a hi-fi, man
― catbus otm (gbx), Friday, 17 August 2012 15:01 (thirteen years ago)
I don't find it that trebly, (then again there's a fuckload of really trebly rap production from the last few years) and it packs a lot of punch. "Cramped" is the right word maybe. Kinda lumbering as well.
― Matt DC, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:03 (thirteen years ago)
Production is just fine.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Friday, 17 August 2012 15:27 (thirteen years ago)
Y'all are using words like cramped and lumbering like it's a bad thing.
― yodarman, Friday, 17 August 2012 18:33 (thirteen years ago)
Seriously tho
― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 August 2012 20:03 (thirteen years ago)
oh noes this sounds like weird old noisy 80s rap records halp
― Fareed Zaireeka (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 17 August 2012 20:04 (thirteen years ago)
not really
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 August 2012 21:29 (thirteen years ago)
if anything the opposite, everything's bright, crunched, maximized. i don't want to make a big deal out of it though. just the way it seems to me.
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 August 2012 21:31 (thirteen years ago)
and it doesn't remind me of the 80s at ALL. except maybe a little of jo-jo's chillin. i dunno, i guess i just don't like the beats all that much. still some great songs though. i love mike's rhymes and his delivery and sometimes the beats don't really get in the way. but it's not really all that "killer" to me. i can't think of any songs on here that you'd put on and the whole room would go "ohhhhhh shit" which is a shame!
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Friday, 17 August 2012 21:41 (thirteen years ago)
this sounds like those weird old noisy sounds my butt used to make in the 80s
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Friday, 17 August 2012 21:55 (thirteen years ago)
u weren't even alive in the 80s
― ticagrelor rotini (k3vin k.), Friday, 17 August 2012 21:57 (thirteen years ago)
oh, i was quoting whiney there
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Friday, 17 August 2012 21:59 (thirteen years ago)
if anything the opposite, everything's bright, crunched, maximized
yeah it may be 80s in spirit but sonically? gtfo
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 August 2012 22:00 (thirteen years ago)
can u guys stop this he means it sounds like public enemy or mantronix and it does, not "rappers delight"
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Friday, 17 August 2012 22:02 (thirteen years ago)
Rappers Delight was from the 70s bro
― Number None, Friday, 17 August 2012 22:04 (thirteen years ago)
lol
― reductio ad burzum (flopson), Friday, 17 August 2012 22:05 (thirteen years ago)
i wasn't even alive in the 80's cut me some slack
this does not sound like Public Enemy to me at all, this is not a sample collage record - it's a lot of compressed distorted guitars, synth washes, farting moog basslines, no drum loops all programming, etc. Mantronix eh okay maybe here and there.
― Shameful Dead Half Choogle (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 17 August 2012 22:22 (thirteen years ago)
I guess rapping about Reagan is pretty 80s
― formerly EDB (ed.b), Friday, 17 August 2012 22:29 (thirteen years ago)
haha
― ticagrelor rotini (k3vin k.), Saturday, 18 August 2012 00:07 (thirteen years ago)
to be real there's a few songs on here i think are awesome. just dont think its a slam-dunk classic record or w/e
jojos chillin is p dope
― protected by viper. stand back. (D-40), Saturday, 18 August 2012 00:56 (thirteen years ago)
now that killer mike is calling himself the rap bill maher on twitter maybe folks will rein it in a bit
― protected by kl0pper. stand back (D-40), Monday, 20 August 2012 00:13 (thirteen years ago)
― Vagelis (The Reverend), Monday, 20 August 2012 00:20 (thirteen years ago)
clearly a slam-dunk classic recordor w/e
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Monday, 20 August 2012 03:44 (thirteen years ago)
http://pitchfork.com/tv/youtube/13-music-videos/373-killer-mike-untitled-official-music-video/
― "Batshit crazy," the foam clog tycoon said. (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 22 August 2012 18:20 (thirteen years ago)
The vinyl comes with a bonus instrumental LP, a free poster and what is most certainly the coolest download card I've ever seen--the flipside of the card is a picture of the sticker-covered ghetto blaster from the album art. This doesn't sound like much, but it made the already-cool experience of unwrapping the vinyl even cooler in this particular case.
― this is the dream of avril and chad (jer.fairall), Saturday, 8 September 2012 01:58 (thirteen years ago)