**the-dream terry nash love king the-poll**

"Abyss" is so fucking awesome. Like 50 "Nikki"s at once.

― Spo-Dee-O-Dee-Dopaliscious! (The Reverend), Saturday, June 4, 2011 3:22 AM (6 hours ago)

yeah i've always wondered what "nikki" would sound like without a tune and if dream sang it like he just rolled out of bed

"abyss" is gorgeous and has a tune

yeah wow the end of "yamaha" --> up to just before the hook on "nikki pt 2" is incredible

i mean i'm not just realizing this now but it's been a few months

if only the sun would come and help dry the water away <3

personally i prefer cry til you drown your FACE

lol k3v u crazy and rong

My favorite production trick on the album: The naturalistic lead vocals vs autotuned ad libs on "Sex Intelligent"

I'm surprised that folks seem to universally hate the title track. I think it's pretty fun! Might have to vote for Make Up Bag though...

It's an introduction and no more.

i think the title track is great, easily one of the best songs here

i adore "florida university"! "abyss" "turnt out" "fu" and "veteran" are my faves...think it's between "abyss" and "veteran."

and yeah i love the title track...such a pretty melody.

my sister was a "veteran" for halloween because of this album. i don't think anyone understood.

lol uh what did she wear

i think she wore fatigues and camo makeup. it doesn't bear thinking on too deeply, tbh. also in pretty poor taste, but that's halloween, i guess.

it would have been funny if she dressed up like terius

how the hell would someone "get" that a person dressed as a veteran is a reference to a bonus track from a middlingly-selling r&b album

and you guys used to bust on me for thinking he was the center of the music universe!

hating on "nikki pt 2" in any way is just wrong

not as wrong as thinking this album is better than LVM, but close

the verses are great, the "keep showin up keep showin up" etc part sounds terryble tho - compounded by the decision to repeat it after the second verse

i wonder if nikki is a mavs fan -- might flip my opinion on the song tbh

anyway, as a stone cold terius stan, i don't see how you can hate on "nikki pt 2" if only for nerdy callback reasons

I still hold out hope for the Chronicles of Nikki EP

i voted for nikki pt 2. may not be the best 'song' on there but it's the prettiest moment

a year on i still listen to 'love king' and 'love/hate' all the time but 'love vs. money' less so

imo it's kinda sad that the little Princealike thought he could get a way with using the name Nikki for one of his own characters

I think he got away with it quite well

Feel like the-dream threads now always descend into

http://clevelandcivilwarroundtable.com/images/events/emancipation_proclamation.jpg

the freeing of the slaves? idgi

yamaha was the song that stood out to me the most when i first listened to love king, but at this point i would def say florida university is my favorite

team of rivals?

this album is straight bs

team of rivals

these threads are basically the superfans plus a few people like me and rtc who obviously own and enjoy the albums but just aren't THAT into it, not exactly an epic clash of taste

detractors are welcome tho will be met by a falsetto chorus of 'u mad'

IF IT AINT MY LOVEEEEEEEEEEEEE
U BETTER HAVE A DOCTOR ON STAND-BY

torn between "veteran" and the buildup to the second chorus in "abyss"

I really like: Veteran, Sorry, Yamaha, Love King and Make Up Bag quite a lot, but it's Abyss for gotdam sure. That huge build up til the piano creeps in and the beat drops and the vocals swell is so tasty.

FILA is a fine song, but it sounds like a less robust version of Rockin That.

LK took longer to appreciate than the first two, but the payoff was/is there.

these threads are basically the superfans plus a few people like me and rtc who obviously own and enjoy the albums but just aren't THAT into it, not exactly an epic clash of taste

― a http://bit.ly/kv895M (some dude), Saturday, June 4, 2011 5:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

yeah, i'm in the non-superfan camp. i'm a fan, sure, but all things in moderation. of the songs i haven't mentioned, glad the title track is getting some attention. it's not among my very favorite tracks, but it's damn good, and was mostly ignored in the initial ILM appraisals, iirc. don't get "make up bag", though, still not on board w that.

these threads are basically the superfans plus a few people like me and rtc who obviously own and enjoy the albums but just aren't THAT into it, not exactly an epic clash of taste

― a http://bit.ly/kv895M (some dude), Saturday, June 4, 2011 5:31 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

This was sorta my point but n/m

"Make Up Bag" is a drab shitty song and the fact that the guy's gorgeous wife divorced him for cheating just as it was flopping as a single makes its lyric even more odious.

haha, yes I agree with all of that.

i dunno, if i had to worry about the lyrical content i wouldn't listen to lots of things, i think the production is really great on "make up bag"...

if i loved the production/song, i'd forgive the crap lyrics, but no

went with abyss btw

voted 'priceless' #lostallcredibility

sex intelligent remix likely a close second

s'funny, those are the two i flipped a coin between. went with SIrmx, but not without regret.

the block i usually skip is panties to the side/turnt out/february love (latter two not actively bad but i don't really NEED to listen to them ever)

Same here - the first is actively awful and the other two I like but their relative restraint feels kinda out of place against the preposterous excess of the rest of the album. In a certain mood though I go directly for Turnt Out and February Love on their own though.

Veteran is magnificent and it still annoys me that Terius included Panties To The Side instead of it.

I kinda think of Nikki Pt 2 and Abyss as the same song, they don't really work on their own. Wish they were one track really.

veteran is amazing yeah...forgot about that in my deliberations.

panties to the side is the song ive most warmed up to after initially always skipping it; now i kinda group it w/ 'ditch that' or 'hit it on the road' as overt standalone-type tracks that are good to drive or jog to