official liveblog rap album review thread

i don't like (remix) / pusha, kanye, sean, chief keef, jada

jada's inclusion on this so puzzling to me, still. i don't really have much of an opinion on what kanye did to this beat but i like ye's verse on this a lot. THEY WANNA FIND ME NOT BREATHING LIKE THEY FOUND MIKE. anyway i think they added some ad-libs of pusha going "bang bang! haha!" i can't tell if it's supposed to be ironic or what

hahaha the kid cudi song is apparently produced by that fuckin guy who sang "hypnotize" over "umbrella"

― some dude, Thursday, September 13, 2012 1:16 AM (19 seconds ago) Bookmark

ha fuck i randomly heard this song at the gym the other day and almost purposefully dropped a 45 pound weight on my head

somehow this is only 12 songs. i'm truly astounded... in part because i'm not sure how kanye couldn't get CRUEL SUMMER out in the fucking summer when it only had 12 songs. but yeah this isn't very good, a lot of the songs sound cheap and messy. would've been a decent solo ye album tho.

kanye on "i don't like" is the worst verse of the year imo, i have no real opinion whatsoever of chief keef or this song but i'm kind of happy for him that he was able to get the original song's national profile up and out of the shadow of this terrible terrible remix

the 2nd DTP album is secretly the most redeemable modern rap vanity imprint compilation, was also the first time i enjoyed a tity boi verse!

i should check that out. underrated crew, obv.

kanye on "i don't like" is the worst verse of the year imo, i have no real opinion whatsoever of chief keef or this song but i'm kind of happy for him that he was able to get the original song's national profile up and out of the shadow of this terrible terrible remix

― some dude, Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:19 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yah otm the remix is garish as hell & ye's verse is an embarrassment

i do think pusha t & kanye rapping about club drugs is one of the corniest moments of the year. pusha t dropping ecstasy is so fucking funny to me for some reason. would put this song as my no. 1 of the year on principle if there was a remix where plies busted in for a verse right when pusha says "blue dolphins".

not sure if i lol'd harder @ this or at some dude staying up past his bedtime 2 read u liveblogging

also <3 this typo

golden sachs

eh today was like the only day this week i didn't have to be up super early. this thread is classic, though, don't knock it.

sarge do you have any opinions on who may have gone hard on any particular songs, and if so did any of them go in

after he takes a listen to the GOOD music album, he looks at it, and all he sees is more sound bites

that was great, j0rdan

It's official: I can save my cash for the Maya comeback

So thanks man, this sounds terrible

The funny thing is that some places (like Insound) were listing Cruel Summer as a Kanye album, I guess because they figured nobody would care otgerwise

tbf the single is credited to "Kanye West featuring" etc. and there's no name on the cover, so i can see how it'd get labelled like that

ah

sarge do you have any opinions on who may have gone hard on any particular songs, and if so did any of them go in

― la goonies (k3vin k.), Thursday, September 13, 2012 6:21 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

this is only for khaled albums :-)

♫♫the whole world is a couch/bitch im rick james tonight♫♫
♫♫the whole world is a couch/bitch im rick james tonight♫♫
♫♫the whole world is a couch/bitch im rick james tonight♫♫
♫♫the whole world is a couch/bitch im rick james tonight♫♫

pusha's not untalented but reverence for him always seemed bizarre and misplaced to me

― some dude, Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:54 AM (40 seconds ago) Bookmark

he used to be a really clever rapper but he's not even that anymore. he stopped being clever when he started rapping exclusively about luxury.

― J0rdan S., Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:56 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Seeing as Terius is heavily involved in it, I think the Pusha T album will be really dope. Exodus 3:16 was good, and he works well on Dope Bitch. The question is whether or not Pusha will be able to carry a hit single, hence when/if it will ever come out.

nahh shoulda been fabolous on 'dope bitch' and any other terius track pusha t is featured on

otm

Well, Terius seems pretty excited about it, so it might well be special I gather. I do agree that Fabolous + Terius is a better match, but I'm not really mad.

fabolous and terius was a good match 5 years ago but i can't see why anyone would care now

there hasn't really been a point in time that fabolous wasn't a better rapper than pusha imo

to the world / kanye & kells

the only voice you hear on this album for the first 2 minutes is kells doing some weird vocal scale exercise. saw various ppl on twitter freaking out over this hook but it's pretty corny to me, and i don't really like when kells is trying to sing LOUDER than really LOUD modern beats. anyway kanye's verse on this is okay... there's some bits about golden sachs and mitt romney on this that might get people talking, but they don't really make much sense so maybe not. by virture of kelly being on this i'll assume it's one of the better songs. there's an uncredited female vocalist at the end of this in typical overblown kanye fashion.

― J0rdan S., Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:29 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark

I dig this song tbh, like it when kanye goes in on the feel-good vibes. but I have an unusual high tolerance for corny shit

btw kanye sounds like big sean on this

the goldman sachs stuff made sense to me? like goldman sachs = the 1% = holding everybody else back + mittens doesn't pay tax so why should ye

if you asked me who on this album said "the world is my couch/ bitch i'm rick james tonight," i would've had a lot of guesses before kells

pretty dope album on the whole imo. i like that it feels sorta disposable, i really couldn't stomach another MY BEAUTIFUL DARK TWISTED FANTASY or WATCH THE THRONE right now

god the second half of this album is embarrassing. that keef remix is sorta unlistenable

it did, weirdly, make cold/theraflu sound doper than it did when i first heard it? thought that song sucked when it came out but now it kinda goes

don't know if it's depressing or comforting that kanye still thinks "a frew brews" is funny

def comforting

feel bad for Mannie Fresh that after all that talk he ended up with ONE production credit on the whole album (on a song with three producers)

the kid cudi song is one of the worst songs I've ever heard

and yet it's one of the best kid cudi songs i've ever heard!

otm

i think most of us dig this joint at this point? the bass & drums on this are just really cool. i do think pusha t & kanye rapping about club drugs is one of the corniest moments of the year. pusha t dropping ecstasy is so fucking funny to me for some reason. would put this song as my no. 1 of the year on principle if there was a remix where plies busted in for a verse right when pusha says "blue dolphins". in any event, fun to relive the one moment where it seemed like 2 chainz might rightfully take over the world.

― J0rdan S., Thursday, September 13, 2012 12:37 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is still otm but feels like it'll soon become kind of a quaint position to take as we enter the era of every other fucking rap song on the radio having a "molly" reference

yeah it's getting to be a bit much

jay's verse on "clique" is soooooo bad, have we talked about that

kanye's is worse imo

jay's attempt at doubletime is so embarrassing. it's like the rap equivalent of the slutty mom in "mean girls"

i dig every verse on that song

kanye's is just, don't do 32 consecutive bars on a single if your quality control is that low, no, stop it.

haha i like kanye's goofy-ass verse on that too.

was considering suggesting 'rolling molly world thread' for 2013 but i guess now it's too late

molly world is aite feel like the trend might burn out by then tho

all the better to be the name of the '13 thread!

can I just say that reading the Gorilla Zoe thread made me (re)discover "Shit on 'Em" and that song is hilarious

i think i can say with confidence that gunplay will never be involved in anything nearly as awesome as "gunplay ft. gunplay"

― khaled zeppelin (The Reverend), Saturday, March 13, 2010 12:00 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah obv

― hitler runoff (J0rdan S.), Saturday, March 13, 2010 12:08 AM Bookmark

damn, I really said that? my crystal ball was way off ;_;