#rememberwhenRickRoss was the most respected correctional officer out there?... wait that was Edie Falco's character in Oz. 2:09 PM Jul 20th via web
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 04:09 (thirteen years ago) link
that was very funny, must admit. would read again.
― The Brainwasher, Friday, 23 July 2010 04:12 (thirteen years ago) link
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHA those Tweets are fucking gold. I'm dying here. hahahahaha
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 04:17 (thirteen years ago) link
listening on headphones, "live fast, die young" is kind of a mess of a production -- not sure that vocal sample really fits with the orchestral feel of the rest of the thing
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 04:52 (thirteen years ago) link
who produced that song on the drake album that also bit that "no games" riddim a la "live fast, die young"
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 04:53 (thirteen years ago) link
diddy's verse on this is so hilarious
first of all, bragging about being the first person to write a check for haiti is incredibly crass even by rap standards
also is there any more of a transparent way to show that rick ross ghostwrote a verse for you than by rhyming "maryland" and "marilyn"
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 04:55 (thirteen years ago) link
'teflon don' will get 10x better if you replace "super high" with the remix
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 22, 2010 11:35 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
this is my most otm post on ilx
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 04:57 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah "live fast die young" is crap. it feels stuffed into the album, kind of the only thing in it that does but i guess it woudn't be a rick ross album without that
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Friday, 23 July 2010 04:59 (thirteen years ago) link
"tears of joy" makes that song totally unnecessary
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Friday, 23 July 2010 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:55 PM (4 minutes ago) Bookmark
Totally. The moment Diddy starting rapping I KNEW Ricky wrote that verse for him.
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:01 (thirteen years ago) link
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Thursday, July 22, 2010 10:53 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark
Are you talking about "Show Me a Good Time?" Kanye...
I think the song's alright, but with those vocal samples undernearth it's all too cluttered.
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:08 (thirteen years ago) link
ha, figures
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:10 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, they work on the Drake, not here.
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
nah they were shit on the drake album too
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:11 (thirteen years ago) link
I dunno, they worked with the "scratched" chorus and it's like Kanye's trying to prove he's back-to-the-basics with the nod to the boom-bap, and I think it works. There's enough space on the track for them to be effective.
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
"aston martin music" is really good
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
Yep. That should be the closer.
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
lol it sounds like chrisette is singing "listening to the yeah yeah yeahs"
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:16 (thirteen years ago) link
i should've spoken before this song got all 'thank me later'
shouldn't have**
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, July 23, 2010 1:16 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark
hold on, this is exactly what she is singing
the fuck????????
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
tell me i'm wrong?
I think Drake adds a ton of pathos to the track, but you know I like Drake doing in situations like these (and in general). At least he didn't get a verse.
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:18 (thirteen years ago) link
can we talk about chrisette michelle singing about listening to the yeah yeah yeahs on this rick ross album instead
Yes, that's what she's singing. And I love how she just like squeezes it in at the very end of her hook.
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
am i wrong to be dumbfounded by that?
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:20 (thirteen years ago) link
Nah, I didn't even realize it until you pointed it out. Awesome moment.
I can totally picture Rick and Chrisette driving on the highway listening to the YYYs... ok I can't, but that's why it's great.
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:21 (thirteen years ago) link
saadiq sounds almost indistinguishable from ne yo on this track
― ASBO slice (J0rdan S.), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:22 (thirteen years ago) link
Ugh. I DON'T WANT CALL-AND-RESPONSE CHORUS WITH RICK SINGING.
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:23 (thirteen years ago) link
And Saadiq's voice sounds all pinched and just rubs me the wrong way. And I think Instant Vintage is a classic.
― altered boners (rennavate), Friday, 23 July 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
#rememberwhenRickRoss rapped with incredible breath control for a man of his considerable girth? ...wait that was Big Pun. Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:49:46 PM via web
#rememberwhenRickRoss brought smiles to the faces of the world's children with his bushy beard and big belly? ...wait that was Santa Tuesday, July 20, 2010 5:51:31 PM via web
loooooooool
― original bgm, Friday, 23 July 2010 11:38 (thirteen years ago) link
to everyone boosting this album - you are stupid
rtc out
― r|t|c, Friday, 23 July 2010 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahaha some dude what is your twitter?
― hoes on my dick cos my groceries bagged (tpp), Friday, 23 July 2010 11:53 (thirteen years ago) link
http://twitter.com/alshipley
― some dude, Friday, 23 July 2010 13:13 (thirteen years ago) link
hahahah listening to the yeah yeah yeahs is classic
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Friday, 23 July 2010 13:14 (thirteen years ago) link
the best hook on the album after "b.m.f." is wiz khalifa singing "smokin them pina colada papers baby girl we don't fuck with them bluuuuuuuuuuuuunts/ unless i'm with the boooooooooooosss"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 July 2010 07:41 (thirteen years ago) link
"super high" beat is totally the shit -- for some reason it just pops more on the remix -- i think that dope live base just sounds... warmer in the context of two stoners rapping about getting super high
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 July 2010 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
also "trees gets twisted up like fingers and gang signs" is a super dope image from currensy
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 25 July 2010 07:44 (thirteen years ago) link
also the village voice review of this is great
Pfork did a 180 this morning, after giving low marks to the first two Ross albums and not even bothering with the third:
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14482-teflon-don
― ilxor has truly been got at and become an ILXor (ilxor), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 13:27 (thirteen years ago) link
have to say, of all the people I'm disappointed in for boosting Ross I'm most disappointed in Cohen, who I can usually count on to take down shit rap albums hilariously
― The chickbad from the ludicrous 'ludacris' song (some dude), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 13:51 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah before i opened that review i was expecting a HHNF style takedown
― righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:49 (thirteen years ago) link
game recognize game tho
― righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:50 (thirteen years ago) link
And he gave Arcade Fire thumbs up yesterday, which was a bigger surprise.
I love this album but not on Ian's terms.
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
But more importantly, Ross has proven to be among the last of dying breed. His studio albums feel like events that demand the ears and opinions of rap fans.
this is weirdly true
― righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
co-sign everything except that Trilla was dope and the first of his event/zeitgeist/barometer of the American moment albums
it's a 3peat
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
teflon don > trilla > deeper than rap
neither of the first two felt like an EVENT like 'teflon don' did tho
― righteous lecoq (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 16:08 (thirteen years ago) link
cuz HE'S BIG MEECH
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 16:11 (thirteen years ago) link
― Gucci Mane hermeneuticist (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, August 3, 2010 11:56 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
not really, he likes a lot of bedwetter rock, i only read his rap reviews most of the time.
― The chickbad from the ludicrous 'ludacris' song (some dude), Tuesday, 3 August 2010 18:48 (thirteen years ago) link
so is this guy like the dave edmunds of rap douchebaggery or something? that review seems to suggest we should be glad he's grown into the '90s or something
― da croupier, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 19:04 (thirteen years ago) link
nothing off Mastermind appeals?
― Spottie, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 03:56 (six years ago) link
it was interesting while it was on
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 14:02 (six years ago) link
I haven't heard this album in years but I suspect I'll still love it.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 14:05 (six years ago) link
teflon don is classic. pretty much everything around this era was
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 14:12 (six years ago) link
I can't imagine reaching for any Rick Ross album other than Teflon Don or Rich Forever, but Mastermind was interesting because, along with all of Ross's Harry Fraud and Nas collabs, it revealed what a traditionalist the guy is. Made it really easy to imagine a scenario where he spends the rest of his career just playing to the "real rap" crowd, releasing solid but unexciting LPs that never change much kinda like Wu-Tang and Boot Camp and all those old New York types do.
Kinda a funny turn for a guy who began his career so reviled by traditionalists.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 1 November 2017 18:21 (six years ago) link
i'd listen to deeper than rap too.
― ANU (sisilafami), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 18:38 (six years ago) link
Albert Anastasia
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Wednesday, 1 November 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Even the triple c’s has a couple joints
nicki minaj is not a thing i am meant to put in my mouth
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― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 December 2019 05:32 (four years ago) link
10 years old today
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Monday, 20 July 2020 20:35 (three years ago) link
still awesome btw
― mozzy star (voodoo chili), Monday, 20 July 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
started sellin dope, was 2 legit 2 quit
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:35 (one year ago) link
strange choice to put "bmf" and "mc hammer" at the back end of the album. maybe stacking it with "i'm not a star" at the beginning would've been tough peak to descend from
― avatár the way of watár (voodoo chili), Friday, 10 March 2023 16:39 (one year ago) link
this album is a window back into better days so I spin it a lot
― hootenanny-soundtracking clusterfucks about milking cows (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 March 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
i'm gonna JFKlike JFKand my JFKis a J... EFF KAYYYYYY
― I think I'm Princess Peach... King Koopa (Whiney G. Weingarten), Wednesday, August 4, 2010 8:23 AM (3 months ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
I STILL hear this in my head when I think of this song almost 13 years later, lmao.
still love this album and inexplicably been bumping it again the last few weeks. feels a little weird blasting BMF in my car in fuckin' 2023 with the world going to hell and falling apart but y'know, whadya gonna do
― the manwich horror (Neanderthal), Saturday, 20 May 2023 05:23 (ten months ago) link
Sorry to butt in but since this is at the top now, can anyone kindly direct me to the current hip hop thread? I mostly want to work though my cognitive dissonance over some Confederate flag crap Westside Gunn posted — I just should probably just let it go right. This is old news to most hip hop heads.
― recovering internet addict/shitposter (viborg), Saturday, 20 May 2023 05:27 (ten months ago) link
Post by ludicrously capacious bag (voodoo chili) from rolling get sturdy high bpms 2023 on ILX - rolling get sturdy high bpms 2023
― Fizzles, Saturday, 20 May 2023 13:57 (ten months ago) link