Big Boi - Sir Lucious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010)

tastes of ppl who enjoy rap for its 'wacky characters'

and idk if this is directed at me or not but Waka and Keef are not wacky characters...? they're def caricatures of a certain type

can u read? young thug, dude

and no, human beings are not caricatures

ok nm

Lmao at nova judging Juicy J w/o knowing 3-6

― ruffalo soldier (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, August 20, 2014 5:28 AM (15 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i'm not judging his career tho, i'm just saying I don't like his recent shit & I'd be cool never hearing "Dark Horse" again (that's not entirely his fault though)

young thug isn't middlebrow but there are aspects of his persona that def appeal to the (and middlebrow prob isn't even the best word for this) generic tastes of ppl who enjoy rap for its 'wacky characters' aspects instead of the music

the only people keef's buzz has disappeared w/ are media types, i mean the hottest rookie rapper of 2014 just got signed aping the GBE sound of two years ago

― rap steve gadd (D-40), Wednesday, August 20, 2014 10:09 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ok but isn't this always gonna be an element with left-field creative types, no real getting away from it

also I don't think finding some of dude's lyrics/delivery amusing or getting amped to the "wackier"/wilder elements of his flow/beats has to be condescending or ironic

BOOMING POST, ums

yeah, just yeah

I don't know if it's by people not really listening to the actual music instead of just reacting to the idea of what "Native Tongues" represented

it's gotta be this, i don't know how anyone could listen to tribe or jungle brothers or de la soul and come away with "preachy"

it's some of the funnest, most laid back music ever made

BOOMING POST, ums

― The Reverend, Wednesday, August 20, 2014 11:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

tru

Yeah the perception of Native Tongues got to be that they were preachy and boring so quickly, that's how they seemed to me when I started listening to hiphop in the mid90s. Thing is I kept hearing A Tribe Called Quest singles and got over it p quick

Oh and brimstead otm

I've tried to articulate those points in that past and failed. I will probably be referencing and/or copy n pasting that post for many years.

Really the Tongues only started getting preachy in 96 and even then not all of them.

And even then it's of the jaded, hectoring variety, not in the earnest, wideeyed way of say Arrested Development or first album Digables.

Stakes is high is a pretty preachy album. I know a lot of people think it's the best De La album but it's where they fell off to me.

could be argued that nearly anything else comes off "preachy" when pimp/thug/dealer amorality is your baseline for realness

The Native Tongues don't really exist as any kind of group or movement by Stakes is High

at the time the criticism was that they were soft and flaky not preachy fwiw

Yah i know

well i know u know

i was addressing "the thread"

did u know i knew too?

eye know

well played

lol

Haha

The Native Tongues don't really exist as any kind of group or movement by Stakes is High

uh iirc ACTUALLY they were officially reinstated on Stakes Is High

but i mean...like you saw the tribe doc how much bad blood there was....you think everyone was like kicking it and shit and working on each others stuff like the old days?

Big Grams, the quicksilver collaboration between six-time Grammy Award®-winner Big Boi, and the groundbreaking genre-bending duo Phantogram (Sarah Barthel and Josh Carter) have completed their self-titled studio debut, BIG GRAMS. The eponymous 7-song collaboration will be released September 25th on Epic Records.

BIG GRAMS marks Big Boi's first official release on Epic Records, since signing with the label last year. Phantogram and Big Boi collaborated previously on a handful of tracks from Big Boi's second solo album, 2012's Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors, namely "CPU," "Lines" and "Objectum Sexuality," the latter also produced by Phantogram. Phantogram have released multiple EP's and two studio albums, which have produced two Top 10 alternative hits, "Black Out Days" and "Fall In Love." The duo is signed to Republic Records.

BIG GRAMS TRACKLISTING
1. Run for Your Life
2. Lights On
3. Fell In the Sun
4. Put It On Her
5. Goldmine Junkie
6. Born to Shine f. Run the Jewels
7. Drum Machine f. Skrillex

dunno about this

I bet the Skrillex song is better than it should be

Objectum Sexuality

is this a Tool album

Big Objectum Sexuality f. Bjork

someone goes on adjective timeout

if nothing else this is gonna prompt me to listen to both big boi albums today

pretty good tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HM0qq_WtH7U

I'm feeling this much more than anything I remember from the second album

yeah i was meh about the phantogram tracks on vicious lies w/ the exception of "lines," which i really liked

on first blush, it's solid

like both on their own but got bored of this halfway thru

well it's no Kate Bush collab but it'll do

Lol I never did check out the second album cause it seemed so conceptually flawed and I was never as hot on the first album as a lot of people were but this is cool. Phantogram's 2000s hiphop vibe works for him.

First Big Boi album is so solid front to back. New single with Adam Levine is a little WTF but I have faith for the album in general

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/big-boi-announces-new-album-boomiverse-releasing-2-songs-on-420/

What do we think of the new one? Snoop, Kurupt, Killer Mike tracks solid.

enjoyable