that article isn't saying i dont like the migos....?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 29 January 2018 20:44 (six years ago) link
Okay okay, so you «like» the migos. Well done.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Monday, 29 January 2018 20:52 (six years ago) link
fwiw im not the only one pushing against migos monomania here ppl have gotten absurd about it
Son said Migos > G-Unit terms of success. What success are we measuring here? G-Unit Records? G-Unit Films? G-Unit clothing? G-Unit video games? Please help me out.— Ice (@OfficiallyIce) January 29, 2018
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Monday, 29 January 2018 21:00 (six years ago) link
that should show son
― somebody toucha my fgti (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 29 January 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
Migos mixtape for after you get hardsonned
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 January 2018 21:20 (six years ago) link
migos can get back to me when they've got their own video game series
http://www.mobygames.com/images/promo/original/1480535474-1343739158.jpg
― khat person (jim in vancouver), Monday, 29 January 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
g-unit films is not really an album artist
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 January 2018 22:17 (six years ago) link
i watched the movie Get Rich or Die Tryin' the other day I forgot somehow they got Jim Sheridan to direct that!
― bhad and bhabie (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 29 January 2018 22:19 (six years ago) link
sorry, rescreened it
i don't think deej is wrong for questioning the attention that ppl put into the migos who are competent and formulaic and such could easily leave one cold -- the problem is that they're objectively popular and so the answer is a tautology
― J0rdan S., Monday, 29 January 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
not sure if you guys have discussed this or not but iirc they are bigger than the beatles
― gr8080, Monday, 29 January 2018 22:59 (six years ago) link
i have heard many times on twitter that they are bigger and also better than the beatles to i assume its prob true
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 January 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
jordan otm -- popular artist is given attention because they're popular
― k3vin k., Monday, 29 January 2018 23:13 (six years ago) link
The thing about Culture is that it's 'formulaic' only insofar as it dugs into the very essence of it's genre and stays there. It's such a pure sonic distillation of what they do, triplets, quarter notes, slow beats, ad libs, without anything to disturb the magic. No personal pain as with Future, no outsized personality like Young Thug, not really any melodies, no distracting narratives, everything is just moment to moment clashes of sounds, differing intensities. Vince Staples claimed he was inspired by club music on Big Fish Theory, but to my mind it was Culture that made rap sound like dance music, all about movement. I freaking love that album. I think I've said it before, but to me it's forerunners are albums like Funcrusher Plus.
― Frederik B, Monday, 29 January 2018 23:26 (six years ago) link
i love migos idc they have a strong sound, i dont know if competent and formulaic is any sort of current consensus on them but its kinda interesting contrasted to the opinion on them when they first came out which was technically deficient novelty act, smh cant get no respect
― lag∞n, Monday, 29 January 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
any more thoughts on Culture II? Still don't feel like I've scratched the surface properly. It sounds at once poppier but also less immediate to its predecessor. I like 'Made Men' quite a lot but a lot of the songs kind of drag a bit?
― brand new universal harvester (dog latin), Friday, 4 May 2018 13:54 (five years ago) link
About half of the tracks are at least good to very good, but it all still feels like just a bunch of songs. There's no thought to it. Just another day on the job. Two weeks later they probably could have released an equally long and equally good album. Which tells you something about how nice they are even when they're on autopilot, I guess. But it's mostly frustrating.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 4 May 2018 14:31 (five years ago) link
haven't revisited it in full, but i do return to some of the highlights. mostly "too much jewelry," "too playa," and "narcos."
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Friday, 4 May 2018 14:41 (five years ago) link
i havent really listened to it cause when it came out i had an amazon echo in my kitchen and i cld not no matter what i tried get alexa to play it
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 May 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
some albums have "t-shirt" some don't
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 May 2018 19:10 (five years ago) link
otm
― lag∞n, Friday, 4 May 2018 21:12 (five years ago) link
It's the 2K10's analog to Wu-Tang Forever, right? For lots of reasons.
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:21 (five years ago) link
what is
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:22 (five years ago) link
Culture II
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:24 (five years ago) link
what are the reasons
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:26 (five years ago) link
both doing/did well, but without the sense that they'll continue moving things forward commercially long and sprawling albums, when compared to their breakthroughs5 and a half minute less immediate than normal opening singles
a few parallels for sure? Forever is certainly more highly regarded, but, that album took a minute to find its fans.
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:32 (five years ago) link
ok sure
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
forever is such a flawed masterpiece, like every song has a bad verse
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:35 (five years ago) link
should we start a new poll “culture ii” vs. “wu tang forever” jk culture 2 would win
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:36 (five years ago) link
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:37 (five years ago) link
heh
What ARE records like Forever and Culture II? Not really New Jersey's, but... close.
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 5 May 2018 02:39 (five years ago) link
Supastars is actually pretty great, btw. It’s no t-shirt but it has grown on me.
And the verses on WTF were good iirc? The problem was that they didn’t quite come together as songs, and that there weren’t many real hits.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 5 May 2018 08:14 (five years ago) link
XpostCulture II and Wu Tang Forever aren't New Jerseys they are Use Your Illusions, a thing I just made up
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 May 2018 12:14 (five years ago) link
Sounds about right. Sr3mm is somehow NOT a UYI though.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Saturday, 5 May 2018 13:14 (five years ago) link
Man wu tang forever is way better than this... culture ii is if wu tang forever was recorded by Das efx... migos are not young millennial wu tang I’m offended
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:06 (five years ago) link
I do agree they’re both UYA’s though
"young millennial wu tang"
finally found my rapper name thanks
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:10 (five years ago) link
migos needs more guys if they want to be wu-tang the wu had like 25 guys ghostface killer, ugly sword, the gnarly monk and so forth
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:23 (five years ago) link
and several of those guys released classic solo albums before 'wu tang forever' dropped
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:31 (five years ago) link
who can forget gnarley monk's 'surf ninjas' lp
Yeah I mean I don't think they are on Wu's level
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/2CUoH6U.png
― lag∞n, Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:50 (five years ago) link
i wonder how that's aged
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:51 (five years ago) link
Culture II and Wu Tang Forever aren't New Jerseys they are Use Your Illusions, a thing I just made up
whoa
― I am Larry Bird I always make the trey (rip van wanko), Saturday, 5 May 2018 17:55 (five years ago) link
Wasn't comparing the quality of their work!
Comparing the cultural spot they find themselves in both heading into and out of the follow-up to their breakthrough.
― mr.raffles, Saturday, 5 May 2018 18:06 (five years ago) link
The new Takeoff tape is the best Migos-fronted release of the year
― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 November 2018 17:54 (five years ago) link
low bar lol
― lag∞n, Friday, 2 November 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
well yeah, but it is good
― fred-a van vleet (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 November 2018 18:16 (five years ago) link
Have we talked ab out Culture III at all yet?
― Urbandn hope all ye who enter here (dog latin), Monday, 19 July 2021 15:52 (two years ago) link
Wearing my “t-shirt” today
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link