killer mike raps el-p produces "R.A.P. Music"

Not at all. I just don't like the album that much, no need to take it personal.

apparently his next album is gonna be produced by burn one. should be dope.

nice

didn't think to check if there was a thread; been loving this since it dropped and the single is a MONSTER
with a very Driver influenced zombie video that i can pass on
but likely track o' the year material; best bun b feature i've heard in forever

New video for Big Beast is pretty cool and very NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8-RmM5py1c

lol the first 3 or so minutes i was like oh this isn't that band then o_O naked zombie chicks eating brains

first video to directly rip drive?

kinda diminishing returns on this album

oh man, that video.

album gets better with each listen

It's really good, but while half of it feels natural, another half feels like producer + MC. I've been obsessed with Mike since I first heard him. My ranking:

1. Pl3dge
2. pledge 1
3. rap music
4. ghetto extraordinary
5. pledge 2
6. monster

kinda need to see this live i think

oh shit that reminds me...

i think the last two tracks are amazing.

The whole album is impressive, but I think the back half is stronger.

just getting around to hearing this. awesome stuff.

maybe my fave album this year

Yeah, it def has a shot at being my #1 right now.

"Willie Burke Sherwood" is my jam

I've deliberately avoided everything with El-P's name on since someone on ILM conned me into buying 'Fantastic Damage' 10 years ago and while I like this a lot there's something profoundly unfunky about most of the beats here. Obviously Mike himself slays and the production makes up for its clunkiness with sheer force but in practice I don't really want to go back to it that much.

it is kinda of cramped

it had really rapid diminishing returns for me, was initially really into it but already could not care less

'kinda of' ha whoops

i think this record is pretty inconsistent & wish i'd read what felt like a very honest piece on it because it also has some great songs

I will stand up for everything but Anywhere but Here

"Jojo's Chillin" for me.

aka the best song on the record

i think this record is pretty inconsistent & wish i'd read what felt like a very honest piece on it because it also has some great songs

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write it!

It's an impressive record that's short on replay value.

Yeah. I listened to it a lot for a couple of weeks, haven't felt any need to play it ever since.

i have similar feelings about it - something about the beats is just exhausting, too trebly, too harsh for headphones

get a hi-fi, man

I don't find it that trebly, (then again there's a fuckload of really trebly rap production from the last few years) and it packs a lot of punch. "Cramped" is the right word maybe. Kinda lumbering as well.

Production is just fine.

Y'all are using words like cramped and lumbering like it's a bad thing.

Seriously tho

oh noes this sounds like weird old noisy 80s rap records halp

not really

if anything the opposite, everything's bright, crunched, maximized. i don't want to make a big deal out of it though. just the way it seems to me.

and it doesn't remind me of the 80s at ALL. except maybe a little of jo-jo's chillin. i dunno, i guess i just don't like the beats all that much. still some great songs though. i love mike's rhymes and his delivery and sometimes the beats don't really get in the way. but it's not really all that "killer" to me. i can't think of any songs on here that you'd put on and the whole room would go "ohhhhhh shit" which is a shame!

this sounds like those weird old noisy sounds my butt used to make in the 80s

u weren't even alive in the 80s

oh, i was quoting whiney there

if anything the opposite, everything's bright, crunched, maximized

yeah it may be 80s in spirit but sonically? gtfo

can u guys stop this he means it sounds like public enemy or mantronix and it does, not "rappers delight"

Rappers Delight was from the 70s bro

lol

i wasn't even alive in the 80's cut me some slack

this does not sound like Public Enemy to me at all, this is not a sample collage record - it's a lot of compressed distorted guitars, synth washes, farting moog basslines, no drum loops all programming, etc. Mantronix eh okay maybe here and there.

I guess rapping about Reagan is pretty 80s

haha