He's a genius, yes?
― Tape Store, Sunday, 11 November 2007 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
WHY AM I JUST NOW HEARING "DIAMOND GIRL"?
IT IS SO AMAZING.
― The Brainwasher, Thursday, 29 November 2007 23:51 (sixteen years ago) link
HOLY SHIT. I MIGHT POST THIS ON CASSIE THREAD, TOO: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nRO-M2p6IA
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 15 April 2008 22:41 (sixteen years ago) link
some talk about it in the r&b thread
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 15 April 2008 22:42 (sixteen years ago) link
s:
used 2 be ft fabolous just right promise not 2 call valentine r u coming back wanna be good to you megan rochell - my mistake donell jones - hands on you the cassie stuff
his album could be good but there's some really rub stuff too. hopefully he won't botch it.
― dbs, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 09:56 (sixteen years ago) link
Addiction is great but like most Leslie stuff, it seems it woudl work better if it was just a solo Cassie type thing. Dude should stay behind the deck
― baaderonixx, Wednesday, 16 April 2008 13:50 (sixteen years ago) link
i've been listening to "addiction" for months now but I heard it on a great soundystem the other day and now I can't stop playing it.. it's so MASSIVE and dark and awesome. That big bass stab in crazy.
― The Brainwasher, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 07:48 (fifteen years ago) link
i hope his album actually comes out this time.. sept 16th. should be a great day, jazmine sullivan AND this.
yeah def looking forward to this
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 5 August 2008 07:53 (fifteen years ago) link
is it coming out in the UK?
― mmmm, Tuesday, 5 August 2008 08:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Chanel Iman
― Tape Store, Thursday, 14 August 2008 20:39 (fifteen years ago) link
lol, not sure about this rumor...maybe it's personal? or maybe it's just for a video? he's all obsessed with the black issue of italian vogue.
― Tape Store, Thursday, 14 August 2008 20:42 (fifteen years ago) link
http://i42.tinypic.com/nganbt.jpg
instant classic amirite?
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:22 (fifteen years ago) link
cant stop wont stop listening to "gibberish"
― k3vin k., Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:23 (fifteen years ago) link
He reminds me of Bernard Wright.
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:25 (fifteen years ago) link
On one listen, "Quicksand" and "Gibberish" def seem to be the highlights. I still can't get over the feeling dude is a really poor singer, even if it isn't as apparent on most of the album tracks as on the singles.
― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i like how he seemed to give up on trying to take some kind of magic cover photo that would make him look handsome and just went for the most awkward posture possible
― n00bian princess (some dude), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:29 (fifteen years ago) link
haha yeah its like 'ugh when is this shoot going to be done hang on let me itch my ass' *CLICK* whoops last roll of film 'ILL TAKE IT'
― k3vin k., Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:31 (fifteen years ago) link
"Gibberish" is good but it's not a highlight imo.. "Out Of The Blue," You're Fly", "I-R-I-N-A," "Valentine", "Diamond Girl" (I still can't get over this song)..... It sucks that a lot of these songs have been around forever so the album doesn't feel particularly "fresh", but I can't wait to hear what he comes with next. And I have no problems with his voice... it's kind of nasally and he doesn;'t have much range but I don't ever find myself thinking "this would be better if someone else were singing it"... though someone on another forum said that they could hear Bilal doing these songs and I definitely hear that... "Just Right" wouldn't be out of place on Love For Sale
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:33 (fifteen years ago) link
weird that after 2 perfectly good and popular singles it's "How It Was Supposed To Be" that they ended up launching the album release with...the first few times I heard that song I thought Mario was bravely carrying on his recording career after some kind of debilitating throat ailment.
― n00bian princess (some dude), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:41 (fifteen years ago) link
the first few times I heard that song I thought Mario was bravely carrying on his recording career after some kind of debilitating throat ailment.
― n00bian princess (some dude)
lol
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:42 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno, his singing just seems kinda half-assed most of the time, like in the way Pharrells do, but not quite as annoying as that.
haha ship
― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:43 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah...the falsetto on "Addiction" is very Pharrell, but less obnoxious.
― n00bian princess (some dude), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Were "Diamond Girl" and "Addiction" actual hits? I haven't heard them other than of my volition at all.
― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
they were medium-sized hits on the R&B charts... both peaked at #25 I think. They got 106&Park play too....
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:47 (fifteen years ago) link
not big hits but i would say they were definitely hits, heard them both on the radio (particularly the latter) quite a lot.
xpost
― n00bian princess (some dude), Thursday, 5 February 2009 18:48 (fifteen years ago) link
"Bass & guitar by Tom 'T-Bone' Wolk"
― Andy K, Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:34 (fifteen years ago) link
"Keyboard by David Sancious"
― Andy K, Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Some guitar IS by Brent Paschke (Spymob, NERD)
― Andy K, Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:38 (fifteen years ago) link
Umm... is there some greater meaning to those posts (other than the last one) that I am missing?
― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Two names I did not expect to see in the credits.
― Andy K, Thursday, 5 February 2009 19:58 (fifteen years ago) link
Ah, I should have googled them instead of acting a Finn.
― The Reverend (rev), Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.hallandoates.de/images/Band/T-Bone_Wolk_1982_Japan-tour2.jpg
― Andy K, Thursday, 5 February 2009 20:02 (fifteen years ago) link
we talked about this a bit on the r&b thread too
my other favorite neptunes throwback is that ricky blaze / ron browz joint
― LOOK WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLA (deej), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
ricky blaze has a song with ron brownz
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:10 (fifteen years ago) link
????
― De Pussyclot Dolls (The Brainwasher), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
― LOOK WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLA (deej), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i feel free vs. quicksand
― LOOK WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLA (deej), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:15 (fifteen years ago) link
drums on that are way too fresh for it to be a neptunes throwback but ugh autotune hell
― n00bian princess (some dude), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:20 (fifteen years ago) link
u are a certified nu-browz hater though
― LOOK WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLA (deej), Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:23 (fifteen years ago) link
quicksand definitely sounds MORE N.E.R.D.-ish
find it kinda weird ships is all browz-furrowed given the latter owes 10000 x more to swizz beatz than he does t-pain autowhatever imo
― r|t|c, Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:32 (fifteen years ago) link
also that hook is str8 linkin park, what's to hate
― r|t|c, Thursday, 5 February 2009 23:33 (fifteen years ago) link
^what the fuck
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
anyway "valentine" is my shit right now - i think in this weird way his amateurism works wonders for the album, like he can't really sing and the arrangements often aren't anything spectacular so it leaves his writing right out in the forefront but the dude can reeeeally write hooks
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:43 (fifteen years ago) link
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lol yeah also he didn't even iron his shirt all the way
― your infinity in you is mad lifted (J0rdan S.), Sunday, 8 February 2009 22:45 (fifteen years ago) link
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real talk, if browz did most of these same exact joints w/ zero autotune they probably would be more on some swizzy shit and i probably would like it. but he didn't and they don't, so i don't.
― some dude, Monday, 9 February 2009 04:41 (fifteen years ago) link
so are we all liking this? 'gibberish' still kills me and the rest are solid and growing on me
― jammed hymen (k3vin k.), Monday, 9 February 2009 04:43 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm all liking the idea of buying the CD when it comes out on tuesday.
― some dude, Monday, 9 February 2009 04:48 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm suprised how much I like the album, considering I kinda hate R-Les.
― I cut my hand on a low-hanging disco ball (The Reverend), Monday, 9 February 2009 04:55 (fifteen years ago) link
looool - rl's totally some1 whose stuff i always look out for, for no real reason i guess. i liked transition a lot and listen to it all the time.
― m.m.m.m.m.m.m.m. can (Lamp), Sunday, 7 November 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i've come across a surprising amount of ryan leslie fans irl.
i'll be seeing him at fabric (!) on the 15th, if i am back from miami in time.
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Sunday, 7 November 2010 10:12 (thirteen years ago) link
fabric?
― 嬰ハ長調 (c sharp major), Sunday, 7 November 2010 10:46 (thirteen years ago) link
on a mon night!
(i think they've started putting on gigs now.)
― lex lex lex lex lex on the track BOW (lex pretend), Sunday, 7 November 2010 11:43 (thirteen years ago) link
ryan leslie is a perfect example of someone who makes a grocery bag punchline work 4 him
― challopian youtubes (deej), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:35 PM (22 minutes ago)
example, pls
― fruit of the goon (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 22:59 (thirteen years ago) link
if u dont f/w 'sunday nite' i dont f/w u
― challopian youtubes (deej), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 23:02 (thirteen years ago) link
It's cute how that's your favorite track from Transition.
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Tuesday, 25 January 2011 23:11 (thirteen years ago) link
new song
http://www.nextselection.com/joanofarc/
― kl0p's son (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:35 (thirteen years ago) link
where classical references meet grocery bags in an erosion of the boundaries between high and low culture
― lex pretend, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 23:50 (thirteen years ago) link
"maybachs & diamonds" is awesome
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 March 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link
"joan of arc" is dope -- every song off this project has been really great
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 March 2011 17:28 (thirteen years ago) link
ehh im not feeling it
― D-40, Friday, 18 March 2011 00:16 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah it's ok but i don't think there's any reason for r-les to be rapping so much
― lex pretend, Friday, 18 March 2011 09:38 (thirteen years ago) link
the first few times i heard Wiz Khalifa's "Roll Up" on the radio i thought it was a really disappointing new Ryan Leslie song
― some dude, Friday, 18 March 2011 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
"roll up" is much better than this
― D-40, Friday, 18 March 2011 14:28 (thirteen years ago) link
KICKIN IT W MY BAAAAYBEEE
― D-40, Monday, 16 May 2011 18:37 (twelve years ago) link
The only Reason why Ryan doesn't all the fame is because he worked hard to get to where he got.. !! he didnt sell his soul to fuckin satan !!
AntonioCarlton2 4 months ago 82
― D-40, Monday, 16 May 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
thats 82 thumbs ups btw
― Tyler/Perry's "Dude (Looks Like a Lady)" (jaymc), Tuesday, January 25, 2011 5:11 PM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― jaymc, Monday, 16 May 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
haw
― D-40, Monday, 16 May 2011 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHF3kNKCkbg&feature=player_embedded
New First Single.
― semi-ironic 'faggot' (Alex in Montreal), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 03:45 (twelve years ago) link
why is he rapping on all of these? STOP IT R-LES
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:18 (twelve years ago) link
the arrangement and chorus are fantastically overblown but really the verses are just him shooting himself in the foot repeatedly
― the smoke cloud of pure hatred (lex pretend), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:20 (twelve years ago) link
nice "grocery bag" bit in the first verse...
agree he really shouldn't be rapping, plus the music is nowhere near as interesting as usual imo.
― Suggest Banter (Local Garda), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 09:29 (twelve years ago) link
He performed this when I saw him live last summer. It's def whatever. He shouldn't push autobiographical shit
― lebroner (D-40), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
Did you see him at that warehouse on Ravenswood?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:08 (twelve years ago) link
Yah
― lebroner (D-40), Wednesday, 1 June 2011 13:40 (twelve years ago) link
this guy was really on some shit for a year there
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 28 June 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
STOP RAPPING, R LES
new album's production is so fucking good but ugh this is sub-kanye rapping so bad
― king louie riel (rennavate), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah i read some interview where he talked about how rap-driven this album is and my anticipation instantly disappeared
― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i haven't given a shit about his music for a while because of that nonsense
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
yeah this is a fucking travesty, he's stepped up his production so much, this is some gorgeous stuff, if he only gave these tracks to a real rapper or sang over them instead... ugh
― king louie riel (rennavate), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 17:32 (eleven years ago) link
rappers and singers getting too comfortable doing each others' jobs is like the downfall of recent popular music history imo
― my mansplain songz (some dude), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
for every instance of that yielding a good song there are 50 bad ones
ha that's a pretty solid theory xp
― lil dirk (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
yeah i checked out his youtube channel for the first time in a while recently...terrible.
― tpp, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:07 (eleven years ago) link
this record does not sound good to me
― fanute da croupier (D-40), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 21:13 (eleven years ago) link
yeah even production is bad.
― sisilafami, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
i think it's quite good, the production? what you dislike about it?
― king louie riel (rennavate), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 18:18 (eleven years ago) link
the rock guitars,the emphasis on the live drums, surely plenty other things... i don't want to listen to it again.
― sisilafami, Wednesday, 24 October 2012 18:59 (eleven years ago) link
yeah beats ain't even hot
― burrito smalls (some dude), Wednesday, 24 October 2012 20:42 (eleven years ago) link
hahahahahttp://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/rap_slap_kvSTBaoDlN18eNtiOLK72L
― Balls And My Word (ft. Devin the Some Dude) (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Friday, 30 November 2012 01:29 (eleven years ago) link
dude comes across like such a clown in this whole ordeal
― trinidad jokes (some dude), Friday, 30 November 2012 01:36 (eleven years ago) link
hahahaa shit that seems like an onion article etc
― tpp, Friday, 30 November 2012 10:14 (eleven years ago) link
how is this real
― tpp, Friday, 30 November 2012 10:15 (eleven years ago) link
Didn't even know dude had a new album until Spotify told me an acquaintance was listening to it. Especially caught me off-guard because I thought this acquaintance only listened to folky NPR indie.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
This isn't very good, is it.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 20:30 (eleven years ago) link
it's awful
― bish (bosch), don't kill my vibe (rennavate), Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
still can't figure out how making a youtube video promising a reward for yr laptop's return is legally binding
― tpp, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
man this guy fell the fuck off huh
― D-40, Wednesday, 19 December 2012 21:30 (eleven years ago) link