Loving this anti-lex album.
― longneck, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:43 (nine years ago) link
i never knew so many people wanted drizzly r&b from nicki, wasn't that the stretch of roman reloaded that literally no one can remember
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:49 (nine years ago) link
aside from starships being on the radio, can anyone remember the majority of roman reloaded beyond the first 6 or 7 tracks?
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:50 (nine years ago) link
excuse you for overlooking "gun shot"
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
i like the first 3 songs
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:05 (nine years ago) link
i thought the rap section of her last album was overrated though
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
how long is the "rough opening stretch" cos i sat thru the first... 9 and (excepting maybe the bey) lost the will to live
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:06 (nine years ago) link
i thought "feeling myself" was kind of wack, not really a great use of beyonce
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:07 (nine years ago) link
oh goodie 'buy a heart' has yung berg sampling 2014 drippy bass hit 'stay' by henry krinkle
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
"feeling myself" is a mess but maybe entertaining enough if it falls into place. bey sounds more like wilding-out cartoon-voiced nicki than nicki does at any point
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:12 (nine years ago) link
i forgot bey was there and just liked it as a fake kendrick jibber jabber thing
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:14 (nine years ago) link
ugh even the traditional trini bubbler is on some washed out mixpak tears shit
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:16 (nine years ago) link
haha now i see that this album is a extremely extended shaggy dog joke prelude to 'anaconda', v good nicki
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:19 (nine years ago) link
this album makes "anaconda" sound AMAZING
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:20 (nine years ago) link
alright, finished now, this is the worst album of the year, peace
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:22 (nine years ago) link
― lex pretend, Thursday, December 11, 2014 12:20 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it really does and i was not that into anaconda when it first dropped tbh
there have been far worse records this year but it's p mediocre overall, not a surprise
― just a couple of assholes having breakfast (slothroprhymes), Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:33 (nine years ago) link
twitter seems to be weirdly enthusiastic about this album huh
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
actually "feelin myself" beat is dope, reminds me of the "rich as fuck" beat
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:36 (nine years ago) link
nicki quoting "coco" will age well
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
Anaconda still weak.
― longneck, Thursday, 11 December 2014 17:39 (nine years ago) link
"four door aventador" is sick
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:00 (nine years ago) link
it's the most lil kim song nicki has ever done
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:03 (nine years ago) link
Nicki is subverting lex?
The prophecy foretold this day would come...but...there is another *unravels scroll*
― you say tomato/i say imago (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:06 (nine years ago) link
the singles do sound better in context, whatever that's worth
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:29 (nine years ago) link
how in the hell is "truffle butter" (lol) (...lol) track 22?? such a sick beat
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:41 (nine years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgBWeoJdbhA
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:44 (nine years ago) link
what a slog these opening tracks are
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:50 (nine years ago) link
― r|t|c, Thursday, December 11, 2014 11:22 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lmao
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:52 (nine years ago) link
maybe i shouldn't be listening to this hungover
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:57 (nine years ago) link
choruses are all hot garbage so far, even the jessie ware one, which sounds pleasant but is listless and unstructured
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:58 (nine years ago) link
idk if i can survive through "only"
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:04 (nine years ago) link
odd side effect of this album has been to make me go back to la bella mafia (which is a lot better)
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:05 (nine years ago) link
hoping for at least 1 or 2 instances of the coked-out "stupid ho"/"come on a cone" insanity that hopefully surpasses the comparatively tame "anaconda"
― billstevejim, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
finally, "four door aventador" is not horrible and is in fact great
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:16 (nine years ago) link
not only are the choruses garbage but all the guest vocalists and rappers make nicki sound like such a weirdly muted presence on her own record. which is ridiculous when she's built her reputation from owning songs with only a guest verse
― prolego, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:24 (nine years ago) link
I've found there are two schools of Nicki Minaj fans: ones that worship her unconditionally and ones that demand she rap like Eminem on speed at all times
― Evan R, Thursday, 11 December 2014 19:29 (nine years ago) link
Just FYI "Truffle Butter" used to be The K.I.D Heat and Mally Mall feat. Drake and Tyga "Whatcha Say" ... i believe a DJ Carisma joint ...was out back in september
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:03 (nine years ago) link
Now RIP https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuO0K4XaMO0
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:04 (nine years ago) link
although apparently tyga wasn't supposed to be on it https://twitter.com/thekidheat/status/539518867073032192
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:14 (nine years ago) link
this album sounded like it had a couple ok songs on it, once again though popular rap in 2014 is trash
― deej loaf (D-40), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
so far the bonus tracks are all good-to-great? wtf happened with this record
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
"four door aventador" paired w/ "yonce" would break someone's lower back like seriously
― j. winters (josh), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:26 (nine years ago) link
bonus tracks being better than the standard edition tracks is sort of the story of 2014 pop albums
― prolego, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:29 (nine years ago) link
"shanghai" is better sinogrime than anything on that fatima al qadiri record
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:30 (nine years ago) link
lol yeah but usually there's at least idk the presence of life on the standard edition
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:32 (nine years ago) link
I'm only on my second listen, but I think this is being underrated, at least in this thread. A few duds aside, this album is roughly on par with the other two
― Evan R, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:35 (nine years ago) link
Wow this is the most uniformly remorseless ILM dismembering of any anticipated album since... I dunno the Aeroplane one?
― Matt DC, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:39 (nine years ago) link
oh man, its not as bad as that
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 11 December 2014 20:40 (nine years ago) link
"four door aventador" is sick― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:00 Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkit's the most lil kim song nicki has ever done― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:03 Bookmark
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:00 Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― lex pretend, Thursday, 11 December 2014 18:03 Bookmark
nah this one gets nul points too in the grand scheme of things imo, nicki's whole career is about her waxing and waning on this axis but never previously had she gone dead-end leaden pastiche like this... like it's not a horrible track but as an index of cluelessness it ultimately sticks out more than any of the dr luke type cuts she's ever done
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:02 (nine years ago) link
haha turns out it's produced by some pop brit dude from pinner
should have called himself d-dot cotton
― r|t|c, Thursday, 11 December 2014 21:03 (nine years ago) link