Best Song on Diddy - Dirty Money's "Last Train to Paris"

it may well be a sample, i haven't seen proper credits yet, but dawn sings it in the video

DON'T YOU KNOW I FUCKS WITH YOU
I NEEDED YOU

Top 3:

"Ass On The Floor"
"Shades"
"Hate That You Love Me"

Also love "Angels" actually, though the Serani version is better I think.

wtf @ "shades" love - i mean it's not unlistenable, and justin's verse is kind of mesmerizing even if it's objectively evil, but of all the songs??

90% for the "Woah!!!! What you gonna do when I'm perfect for you??" multitracked pinnacles. But I do love JT's sub-Drake verse too.

It's kind of the most Last Train To Paris moment on Last Train To Paris.

"Shades" is dope

Shades is fun. JT's grocery bags are at least forgivable because they aren't done in earnest as a serious rap. whereas Drake/Weezy/kayne and company I can picture leaning back and going "whoAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" after every hashtag they toss out

'someone to love me' is dope is that the one whiney liked

shades is A+++

"shades" is awesome -- great production & chorus

i listened to this in my car today & noticed that everything is mixed pretty perfectly except for "coming home"

i was kinda http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leftkrHJkw1qf8yek.gif @ critics being all "lol he says he'll fuck you on marmalade!" about "shades" -- a symptom of ppl refusing to see diddy as an actual artist

oh i didn't know we had an auto replace -- ilx mods always on the cutting edge of hilarious internet memes

i know right

I can get you mad get you mad
mods
don't understand don't understand
clods

haha until just now i actually thought people were just seriously overusing that gif

i was kinda http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leftkrHJkw1qf8yek.gif @ critics being all "lol he says he'll fuck you on marmalade!" about "shades" -- a symptom of ppl refusing to see diddy as an actual artist

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lighten up -- the marmalade thing is hysterical and a huge part of why that song is good

the dirty money verses are my favourite things about "ass on the floor", i think - i love the tension, that slightly drunk "i'm about to do something really fucking stupid" feeling (which turns out to be giving her soul up in that super-pretty bridge)

also the slight shift from "now i'm drunker than a motherfucker, tryna find my way back to your heart you motherfucker" in the first verse to "got me madder than a motherfucker, tryna fight my way back to your heart you motherfucker" in the second is perfect

are dead prez in the credits for "hate you now" or did diddy just thief the "hip hop" beat, incidentally? (think it works really well whichever way)

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_leftkrHJkw1qf8yek.gif

awesomeeee

sorry to derail; i need to hear this album tho

the dirty money verses are my favourite things about "ass on the floor", i think - i love the tension, that slightly drunk "i'm about to do something really fucking stupid" feeling (which turns out to be giving her soul up in that super-pretty bridge)

otm

i didn't realize how good the girl parts in "strobe lights" are -- actually underrated this song almost totally

and when the lights fade
blue lights they turn to grey
bitch you don't love me no more

this is where I go I told you so

still think the opening wayne verse is one of the most vicious things I've ever heard

yeah this part is awesome

i told her i would love her
love her as forever
forever's just a word
i put words together

such great economical usage of vocoder across this album

^^ yeah, I highlighted that part awhile ago - I really love it because 1.) it kinda encapsulates the vibes of a nightclub so perfectly, as a place where people go and prevaricate and stop at nothing to get what they want - including treating heavy concepts like true love* with careless abandon 2.) the last two lines are a perfect summation of weezy's m.o. as a rapper

*of course, I don't actually think anybody is really hurt by this - I can't imagine whatever girl weezy is saying this too actually thinks weezy means what he says - it's all part of the game

I also love the stage metaphor because it highlights the performative aspect of being at a nightclub

ass on the floor

good post, dayo

tnx - to expand on the second point i like the faux-humble aspect of it. it's like weezy is taking the schoolyard argument of 'what's the big deal, they're just words' and applying it to himself - but of course he knows how powerful words are, he's hyperaware, but he's hiding in this defense of 'I just put words together'

word

such great economical usage of vocoder across this album

the talkbox at the end of "your love" <3 <3 <3 didn't even notice it til this week - i love the climax, male/female/digitised voices all intertwining w/each other.

i caned this album this week cuz i had to do a review of it, and in most cases when that happens i feel a bit sick afterwards, like i've overdosed on the album and can't go back to it for a couple of weeks - not the case here, i was finding it completely fresh and exciting right up until i filed.

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"Hello Good Morning" deserved...something.

wow didn't expect such a clear win

fyi i can't remember what i voted for, still don't have a definitive answer anyway

i may not have even remembered to vote

Not sure I did either.

san te this is all your fault

this is why Repubs win elections

Dems not voting?

san te this is all your fault

i kno :((((((

"Someone to Love Me" 3

:D

voted 2. "Yeah Yeah You Would" (featuring Grace Jones)

strobe lights is really good

i still have no idea what the right answer to this question is