curren$y (or currensy i guess) - pilot talk

otm -- *gets high & rides around to it*

"chilled coughphee" is great

i think 'pilot talk' starts & ends really well -- the middle portion is kinda soft tho -- "seat change" beat is one of my least favorite of the year

michael knight is aight but that song w/ fiend is so dope

Hmmm, I actually feel like it takes a few tracks to really warm up. And that's including "Seat Change," which I agree is a bit weak. After that, though? My favorite three-track sequence on the album is right in the middle: "Roasted" (love the juxtaposition of hungry articulate rapping w/ that super-mellow weed-haze wood flute)->"Skybourne"->"Hangover."

"Address" should be the closer, to be honest. Switch the order of that and "Life Under the Scope," which has a kind of dinky beat, and you have a great closer.

finally someone agrees with me about that beat

pilot talk 2 is around -- still dont really feel michael knight but the rest is pleasin meh

thanx for the heads up

Love Pilot Talk 2.

got pilot talk 2 today and it is DOING IT for me. man I love this.

im into dis

Pilot Talk 2 >>>>> the first. I can't stop listening. The tracks are so much denser and slower, and Curren$y sounds totally comfortable kicking it.

gotta go out and get this today

yeah this shit is dope

i love "montreaux"

and the guitar on "A Gee."

"montreaux" reminds me of "The Caves of Altamira" kinda

I listened to this album three or four times straight the other night.

The second one is much better and it's it a lot to doneith Michael knight

yeah ive been saying this guys ... on the 1st one he was just a sleepy stoner, i was really confused about why ppl were so into it. this one hes back on the artful rap style that he does best

OG (The Jam) is like someone gave him a big cup of coffee

that's the best song on here, changed my mind

the beat on that flight briefing track is kinda absurd to hear in 2010

it's always so jarring when iTunes hops from Curren$y to Current 93- this has happened many times and it's just . . . whoah

i was really confused about why ppl were so into it.

I'd never heard of him before Pilot Talk, so.

deej when I'm making this active effort to not be on your ass all day "I've been saying this" on the day an album comes out is practically irresistible bait

'i told you so' was that curren$y was much better than pilot talk let on, based on his earlier mixtapes, which i mentioned/discussed upthread. ppl who included the 1st on one best-of lists are chumps imo -- subpar

also 'i told u so' is kind of basic-level deej persona ish

keep it classy

Never heard the mixtape, liked the first album a lot, love this one; the second album illuminates the first, actually.

you should hear the mixtapes, which are more albums than mixtapes anyway

will do

the second album illuminates the first, actually.

― look at it, pwn3d, made u look at my peen/vadge (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:22 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

how do u mean this? curious

I'm still working through PT2, understand, but without it I listened to PT1 for months as a series of discrete moments, rarely getting a sense of who Curren$y was.

i can see how that would happen -- esp if by 'who he is' you mean ... how he is about his art? kind of?

can't wait to hear pilot talk 2 (it's in the mail) -- really dug the first one

i dont think deej is the only one to prefer the mixtapes to pilot talk? seems a pretty common opinion

i like both pilot talks a lot. he def sounds 100x more alert on this one. nice counterweight imo.

also 'i told u so' is kind of basic-level deej persona ish

― challop and a muff (deej), Wednesday, November 24, 2010 1:18 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

because you've constructed a 'persona' for yourself doesn't make it less annoying fwiw

is it really all that 'constructed' -- u just mean 'because im self-aware about it'

either way, *shrugs*

deej what people are trying to tell you is that "I told you so" is a shitty look that you might make an actual effort to outgrow & rise above instead of feeling like getting so say it is life's #1 sweetest reward

sorry to have to be bein' a dick to u again but for real yo, everybody on the fuckin planet hates dudes who come w/"I was here first, I heard it first, how great that you now know what I knew all along"

like EVERYBODY....HATES that

I say that w/love though u won't believe it but just consider me your dashingly attractive grandfather who once saw Duke play or w/e

deej is otm about his mixtapes being way better than pilot talk tho

lol that is what's frustrating about deej, he actually knows his shit & is often right, and then he ruins being the guy who's right by standing on the corner w/a big sign that says DEEJ WAS RIGHT, RECOGNIZE

hahaha

is it really all that 'constructed' -- u just mean 'because im self-aware about it'

everyone enjoys being right & everyone is self-aware about that fact -- you're not the kanye of ilx

and anyway i'm not sure what you're claiming to be right about

anyway anyway i have yet to hear this record -- i dig curren$y in doses & when the production is juuuuuuust right, which i don't think it was that often on pilot talk -- didn't think it was lush enough all the way thru -- either way i like his style tons in theory, usually less in practice over the length of a full album

to my ears this splits the diff between lush & spare -- my expertise in the genre is at best dated but having said that there's a little bit of old west-coast crawl in this as I hear it, something v. understated & groovy. I listened to the whole album twice today with varying levels of attention & much, much pleasure, texting friends "fuckin A go hear the new curen$y" etc -- it just snapped for me, and I'm pretty out-of-touch rap-wise, listen to anything on stones throw & don't really hear much else so take that fwiw