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Originally Posted by noisereductions
also the Rick Ross has grown on me big time. Genius album. I love all the old 90's hip hop throwback shit in there. "Thug Cry" is beyond brilliant.
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I don't know. Ross left me a little cold this time around, and I haven't really given him another go. I like the album but more for the collabs than anything.
Seriously that "Maybach music" sample needs to go die in a fire. I am so sick of it.
I don't know if IGGY is THE best, but she's crazily, surprisingly good. And kinda hot but also not, in that Nikki Minaj big thighs and cheekbones kind of way. Both artists make me feel like I'm trying not to be attracted to their voices, and gangs always a losing battle.
On one hand I wish IGGY had gone harder on the production for more of the tracks, but I'm really not at all disappointed that it sounds exactly like it does. She's got an attitude on her too - check the Xxl freshman class interview - hah! And I don't hear that "trying to sound like I'm not trying to sound black" thing from her. I get that from almost all white rappers, and I can't get past it. At least admit you're trying, or you're just being insulting and not paying due credit to your influences.
Sigh.
I'm seeing propaganda for Carter V, and some whack updates about the new Kanye, but I'm still feeling ripped off. "Believe Me" is more Drake than Wayne, and to be perfectly fucking honest I am tired of that guy! He's not great, looks and dresses goofy, isn't clever, and has one of those heads you just want to huck a spit wad at. Seriously, he is not (NOT NOT NOT) great enough to be this big, or to think so highly of himself. Everything he does, someone's done before. The dreampop r&b on his last album? Uhhh Prince, Kanye, Frank Ocean... Everything else he's done? Uhhh... Jay Z, Kanye, Kanye, Jay Z.
We need to get real about Drake. The world needs to get real about Drake and Drake needs to fucking get real about Drake. He's there for lull between albums by Yeezy, Weezy, Jigga, and the like. He is not one of them, he is a stand in. And a lint roller. And ridiculous. And corny. And, again, not clever.
I like some songs and even whole albums but there's nothing with staying power. Nothing I'll be listening to 10 years from now, as I do with ever Jay Z album from the first run.
Makes it hard to like Canada, really. And I do! You can waltz into any drug store and buy narcotics, and they're not dumbasses about guns even though they use them like crazy because half the place is still hanging in the 19th century. Single layer universal health care and weed and all kinds of ok things. But his faces makes me punch air!