i told her i would love herlove her as foreverforever's just a wordi put words together
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 April 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
I have never underrated weezy on strobe lights
― dayo, Monday, 23 April 2012 21:46 (eleven years ago) link
the strobe lights are dancingwe've taken all the chancesshe question what we areand i'll drink to the answer
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 April 2012 21:47 (eleven years ago) link
yeah dayo you're the only one
i mean i totally subscribe to the theory that every element of the album contributes to the whole and wouldn't want to change a thing -- BUT if i was going to delete anyone from the record it'd totally be Wayne
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Monday, 23 April 2012 20:31 (1 hour ago) Bookmark
yeah no i do think we're p much on the same page here generally but just for me weezy's presence on the album was vital in kinda idk, emulsifying the cocky/dreamy "hate you but i love you but i hate you" motherfuckers that's stoned patient aspect that i think would otherwise have got a little lost just with diddy carrying it. obviously subsequent releases in the ddm canon have further gone some ways towards internalizing the whole aesthetic so that perhaps now weezy doesnt quite seem as necessary, but at the time (and still in terms of lltp as a standalone piece) he was pertinent
also i say weezy's 'presence' rather than contribution specifically - i would suggest it's important to note all guests on the album have their characters sublimated into the lttp vibe, almost like they're mutliplicites of a single conflicted self rather than discrete entities cosigning the main body. like i might have first said ross was eminently the least essential person on this but even he works as a sort of texture of in-the-here-and-now brash celebrity unaware of the diddy/biggie melancholies to come
― r|t|c, Monday, 23 April 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
these are not the lines i would choose to type out to sell wayne on "strobe lights" to sceptics (though i do like his turn on it)
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 23 April 2012 21:53 (eleven years ago) link
lil wayne's attitude on 'strobe lights' is like someone pulling the wings off of a fly
― dayo, Monday, 23 April 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
forever's just a wordi put words together
pretty devastating imo
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 April 2012 21:54 (eleven years ago) link
really fits into the dark, doubtful middle third of the album
― dayo, Monday, 23 April 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
love hypothetical polls btw, dudes should fail to realise them more often
― r|t|c, Monday, 23 April 2012 21:56 (eleven years ago) link
i would suggest it's important to note all guests on the album have their characters sublimated into the lttp vibe, almost like they're mutliplicites of a single conflicted self rather than discrete entities cosigning the main body
this is so crucial yeah! but the best ones are also entirely recognisable as themselves, or at least they're basically still doing what they normally do, so it's not just straightforward self-anonymising in service of diddy, it's kind of...almost like the other way round, an extension of the sade love (and how diddy quotes those songs diddy on "coming home"). it's him identifying with what wayne, justin etc do and using them as mouthpieces.
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Monday, 23 April 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
We should also have a "best guest appearance on a version of a LTTP song that didn't make the album" failed poll.
e.g. Nicki vs Cassie vs Serani vs ??
― Tim F, Monday, 23 April 2012 22:48 (eleven years ago) link
basia
― r|t|c, Monday, 23 April 2012 22:52 (eleven years ago) link
for me it would be between jt on "shades" and wfb on "strobe lights"
good post, rtc
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Monday, 23 April 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
Cathy Dennis
― Exile in lolville (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 23 April 2012 22:56 (eleven years ago) link
― Tim F, Monday, April 23, 2012 6:48 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
which song had serani on it???
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 April 2012 23:01 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=elCCheTdOpA
― r|t|c, Monday, 23 April 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
oh that's a tease
― J0rdan S., Monday, 23 April 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Monday, April 23, 2012 5:46 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
.......
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:10 (eleven years ago) link
― r|t|c, Monday, April 23, 2012 5:56 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
yeah i got to have the convo i wanted w/o the embarrassment of starting yet another thread about this album
― Poor Turrican (some dude), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
haha it's ok i've done the same thing several times with terius, then ilxor polled it for me later anyway. win-win!
― dharunravir (k3vin k.), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 01:00 (eleven years ago) link
Which had Cassie on it?
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:02 (eleven years ago) link
it was one of the ones off the prologue mixtape, she wasn't particularly noticeable iirc
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
There was a PROLOGUE mixtape?!
― twinkin' and drinkin' and ready to fly (Alex in Montreal), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:12 (eleven years ago) link
yeah, it was released on the vogue website w/ a little piece by andre leon talley
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
it was like 4 actual songs and then a bunch of interludes of famous fashion people speaking iirc
there were technically two prologue mixtapes if you count the one with felix da housecat from the previous year as well
― liberté, égalité, beyoncé (lex pretend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:14 (eleven years ago) link
oh damn, i forgot about both of those
― hologram ned raggett (The Reverend), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:36 (eleven years ago) link
ahh i forgot that felix da housecat mix ever existed. was pretty great iirc?
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:41 (eleven years ago) link
'lovers land' clip from making the band 4 - clown all u like but this sounds dope imo, that pressplay drama
― r|t|c, Friday, 20 February 2009 18:48 (3 years ago) Bookmark
ooh and this
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
haha omg diddys tears of a clown/is a house a home routine in coming home is so lol, I forgot abt this, made even better by the fact that I can't tell how much it's on purpose, I'm watching the fuse top 100 rap videos countdown
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:10 (eleven years ago) link
also hilarious dame dash hamming it up w his shirt off on the yacht in big pimpin
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
eric roberts is in the smack that video
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:41 (eleven years ago) link
why doesnt jt timberlake make music anymore, so fd up
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:42 (eleven years ago) link
drake is here o no
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:45 (eleven years ago) link
the chorus of this song includes the phrase 'I just wanna be successful'
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:47 (eleven years ago) link
haha
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:50 (eleven years ago) link
lol i just thought to myself 'jay and kanye should make an album together' what a terrible idea
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:51 (eleven years ago) link
this was while otis was playing
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:52 (eleven years ago) link
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Sunday, October 21, 2012 3:50 AM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
spottie where are you?
― racewar driver (k3vin k.), Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
Home, why?
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Sunday, 21 October 2012 03:59 (eleven years ago) link
lol that was creepy i guess
it says your post was at 4 am, i thought you lived on the west coast, why are you posting from the future?
― racewar driver (k3vin k.), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, Phoenix. 9 pm here. This thing is UK time or something right?
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
dude you can change that! preferences
― racewar driver (k3vin k.), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
Haha, oh.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
greenwich mean time bro
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:04 (eleven years ago) link
Done, ty.
― Spottie_Ottie_Dope, Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
like half of these songs arent technically the promised 'hip hop'
― --bob marley (lag∞n), Sunday, 21 October 2012 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
I mean jamie fox