This is rap's Gimme Shelter, Stop Making Sense, and Last Waltz rolled into one half-hour masterpiece
― Walter Galt, Sunday, 27 January 2013 02:25 (eleven years ago) link
what I am taking away from the first three tracks on Authentic is that LL is way more interested in collaborating with people than he is in making a cohesive album
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
you say that as if that's at all unique for the past 15 years of hip hop
― bish don't kmt (some dude), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
not at all unique, just... this is so LAZY
is there a gear below autopilot?
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:14 (ten years ago) link
authenticpilot
― bish don't kmt (some dude), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:16 (ten years ago) link
my entire hip-hop existence is defined by giving older dudes a massive pass and I've been pro-LL through "Headsprung" so the degree to which this whole thing is just a bland belly flop is legitimately upsetting
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
okay bland is maybe not the best word to describe "We're The Greatest", lol
― Call me at **BITCOIN (DJP), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 17:28 (ten years ago) link
LL, and increasingly Jay-Z, are kind of in a category to me of artists who've already had such unprecedented longevity that at this point anything good they do is just a bonus round and anything that sucks is like, well, they had a good run.
― bish don't kmt (some dude), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:01 (ten years ago) link
"my entire hip-hop existence is defined by giving older dudes a massive pass"
― Deafening silence (DL), Tuesday, 30 April 2013 18:08 (ten years ago) link
"my entire _____ existence is defined by giving older dudes a massive _____"
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 30 April 2013 20:09 (ten years ago) link
I am pretty sure that YouTube was invented so that one day it would be able to play this video. My friend who brought it to my attention explained it thusly:
"A German dude, who sounds like Falco, his mom driving a car and chiming in on the chorus with his dad in the back seat with an accordion and covering the scratches."
Absolutely brilliant. And when they finish the song, keep listening because German dude's outro is equally brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-VM5wqzhWY
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Sunday, 22 February 2015 05:30 (nine years ago) link
G.O.A.T, this one.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 10 October 2017 03:18 (six years ago) link