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Originally Posted by noisereductions
g'damn the video for "Dis Generation" is fucking gorgeous.
http://vevo.ly/iln48T
I swear - not only was Thank You my favorite album of 2016, it's one of the absolute finest hip hop albums of the 2010's. Shit still amazes me. Unreal. |
Hey that's a goddamn cool ass video!
Its funny, I've been home sick with the flu ALL FUCKING WEEK, and I've been passively entertaining myself by listening to random shits on YouTube and Apple Music, but for some reason "Dis Generation" has been floating around in my head the whole time. Just yesterday I was humming it and thinking about the lyrics. So it's funny you should bring it up right now.
One problem I have is that Tip praises J. Cole. Praising Kendrick and Earl I get... praising J. Cole? What. Dude is weak.
Anyway,
We Got it From Here... Thank You 4 Your Service was a great record, but ultimately it didn't have the impact of
Pablo for me. Nowhere close in fact. I think it came in as my #3 or 4 album of 2016, and it was probably the strongest
rap album of the year — but as albums go in general,
TLOP just crushed it and everything for me.
But yes, it's a great album and "Dis Generation" is one of its highlights.
I wish it hasn't come out two days after the election. Jesus I was at a low point at that time. Everything I saw, heard, did, increased my dislike, and playing
We Got it From Here was no exception. Fucking
everything was tainted for me, and I'm still having a hard time hitting the reset button. I think Tribe bet on "The Donald" not winning, and their album was going to accentuate the victory of the oppressed and marginalized people of the world. Instead, it just served as a reminder of how fucked we all were/are. I remember listening to it and thinking about how much hope and joy must have gone into making those tracks, only to have it all sound kind of futile in the wake of T-Day. It was quite depressing actually.
Time heals all wounds though. As time swallows Trump and Ryan and Bannon, and gives them all ass-cancer and hopefully finds them out of jobs, this album will have more opppirtunities to be meaningful in other ways. But as of now, it's still a bit too bittersweet for me.
