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

this is... quite good.... actually. would happily go so far (so very, very far) as to rate it above love king i think

trashy but persuasively consistent about it. feels more like just an honest skeezy dude dealwithit.gif and not so much the repetitious and crassly lumpen barrel-scrapings of a former poet

i mean like "maybe put my dick on it / over the weekend" has gotta be some sort of genius right

last few trax are pretty weaksauce though

"self-conscious" is pretty dope i think, as far as the final few tracks go

yeah more so as a tranche than individually i guess

trashy but persuasively consistent about it. feels more like just an honest skeezy dude dealwithit.gif and not so much the repetitious and crassly lumpen barrel-scrapings of a former poet

i guess we're just looking at opposite sides of the same coin - to me it seems he's got nothing left to say, which is fine when he falls back to those exercises in terius-dom that made me like him originally ("iv play", "slow it down") but when he rehashes his most amelodic, aimless material from LK i just can't deal with it.

on one listen my reaction is pretty much "pleasant and mild surprise that it's not as bad as i thought it would be (except when it is)" - felt like every so often there were flashes of new ideas but rarely followed through, the skeeziness enables terius not to fall on his face but there weren't very many real highs? i mean no matter what you think of love king it has "sex intelligent" and "yamaha"

"michael" is nice but there's a palpable lack of vitality there, like compare it to "take u home to my mama" for instance

still can't believe rtc turns his nose up at "slow it down"

i think "too early" was the stand-out on first listen for me, "turnt" was fun in a generic way (as is "high art", vaguely)

"pussy" and "equestrian" were terrrrible, "michael" drifted past rather, "loving you/crazy" had a few nice sounds but compared to all his big epics previously it's just inadequate

yeah "loving you/crazy" is just a complete stinkbomb, i take back everything i said about "abyss"

jay on "high art" is just so sad, someone put him in a home already

"Michael" can be epic or blah depending on my mood

"High art" sucked

I'm cherry picking on iTunes once this drops

"Michael" can be epic or blah depending on my mood

lol how many moods have you had since it emerged yesterday

Haha

I've listened to it a bunch lex, and every time it felt different

damn nobody told me fabolous sampled fancy

what when

throw it in the bag feat drake

ya that throw it in the bag remix is top notch

"new Orleans" is like 3:30 of dreams worst song ever and then 30 seconds of a really dope outro

"IV play" is really a monster though

i couldn't figure out what the end of "new orleans" was reminding me of, but it's "crossroads" !!

Feel like the Bone Thugs rip is one of several overt '90s homages on the album. I also get a major Teddy Riley vibe from some of the ballads.

i like "new orleans"

"IV play" is really a monster though

― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Wednesday, May 22, 2013 6:04 PM (51 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

gonna come talk shit about this itt once i've listened to it a few more times but yeah, i wanted to belatedly co-sign whoever was causing controversy by suggesting this bangs. really nice.

i like "new orleans"

― J0rdan S., Wednesday, May 22, 2013 5:47 PM (9 minutes ago)

yeah it's crazy how he can love this bitch, while he says fuck this bitch, while he fucks this bitch

i don't know. it's a fine song. i like the melody quite a bit.

it's a "sex intelligent remix" self-bite m/l

does anyone else feel like a really crucial missing piece of the jigsaw are terius' vocals? like, we all know he isn't the ~greatest singer~ or anything but his heart doesn't seem to be in it half the time, he sings most of the album like he sings demos. like the assholish lyrics of "michael" need a bit of panache to work but he doesn't sound invested in them like he did on eg "sweat it out" or even "florida university" in the past so you're just left with some nice los piano and a narrator you don't like

surprised no one's raving about "too early", i really like that one - the guitar works so well, love the combination of that with the pitch-shifted vox. and "holy love" is getting underrated, there's a drama there that the rest of the album lacks.

"new orleans" is completely unremarkable, it sits there and does absolutely nothing. fine song my ass. the central metaphor does not work on any level.

I agree actually

FINALLY coming around to "Dope Chick," which totally doesn't need Pusha at all

dope chick is the only thing i've liked since love king really

i think i might like the title track from the new one, idk i only heard it like once

title track is 10/10 classic one of the top 5 songs of the year so far imo

So is there a good rip of this somewhere now or did lex just cave in?

it's ~out there~

yeah i found some mp3s that sounded normal (unlike the purportedly 256kb[pbbpb one that was just a youtube rip)

not sure whats wrong with kevin new orleans is probably the best as far as whats been released

"4 play" is all about that outro

not sure whats wrong with kevin new orleans is probably the best as far as whats been released

― tundra, Thursday, May 23, 2013 5:24 AM (3 hours ago)

the last 30 seconds are pretty great when he switches it up but the rest of the song is dream at his misogynist mumblecore worst, it's like all of his worst qualities wrapped into one song

anyway i have no idea what kind of weirdo you have to be to prefer that song to "IV play", it seems like a pretty objective opinion to have to me

"it seems like a pretty objective opinion to have to me" is an amazing phrase

:)

jay is just biting 2 chainz on his verse, right?

a few weeks ago i turned on the radio in the middle of jay's bdkmv verse and "ME AND MY SPOUSE" sounded so much like 2 chainz for a second that now i can't unhear the occasional vocal similarity

it's sad how imo one of the greatest ever has spent the last several years of his career trendhopping like he has, wish he'd have just a little bit of self-respect

al have you listened to this yet or are you holding out on us

i don't have such an urgent thurst for winnie the pooh singing asshole slow jams that i can't wait for it to hit spotify

the title track is one of the least defensible things here, such a pale imitation of past half-glories

i don't have such an urgent thurst for winnie the pooh singing asshole slow jams that i can't wait for it to hit spotify

lmbo

it's sad how imo one of the greatest ever has spent the last several years of his career trendhopping like he has, wish he'd have just a little bit of self-respect

― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Thursday, May 23, 2013 1:19 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I haven't heard this yet but I'm feeling this assessment. ALso k3vin is my dream weathervane, so.