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Old 08.21.2014, 07:06 AM   #901
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I've never given G-Unit the time of day, but I've never been opposed to 50, and I genuinely dig The Game (Jesus Piece was so underrated, even by me.. Title track is fuckin crazy) but I've never been able to really get into anything with the Eminem stamp on it... But with your review, I may just have to seek this album out.

yeah I actually ignored G-Unit completely while they were really relevant. I mean, I think everybody with a pulse got pumped from the "In The Club" beat and all, but just as a collective I wasn't really interested at the time. I think during the height of their popularity I was more into indie hip hop stuff. But eventually, slowly, I started getting interested in them over the years for various reasons.

The Game of course. I got into him right after Doctor's Advocate dropped and pretty instantly he became a favorite of mine. I agree w/ you on Jesus Piece. It's so awesome. But honestly, all his major label albums are solid as hell. I love them all. Anyway, I'm pretty bummed that he didn't stick around long enough to really be part of G-Unit's recording legacy. Obviously The Documentary has 50 all over it, but still woulda been cool to hear him on a straight group album.

Young Buck I got into via that Ratatat mixtape. 2007 was when I really fell hard for Southern hip hop, so it was a good fit. 50 has grown more interesting to me over the years as he's sort of faded from the spotlight. He spends a lot of time on his website. He dropped a bunch of albums posing as mixtapes in the last few years (stuff like War Angel, Forever King,).
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Old 08.21.2014, 07:54 AM   #902
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Ghostface Killah - Bulletproof Wallets
What a strange mess of a record. Nevermind that artwork. Nevermind that Epic botched the tracklisting. Nevermind the fact that much of the album's more interesting tracks ("The Sun") were cut due to sample-clearance issues. The real problem here is that Bulletproof Wallets is a good album. Unfortunately it was following two great albums, so by comparison this came off as completely underwhelming. But in fairness, there's actually a lot to like about it. The storytelling on "Maxine" is about as intense as Ghost gets and then a few tracks later he's delivering one of the more fragile lyrics of his career with "Never Be The Same Again." While some of the interludes certainly feel out of place, ultimately this is a decent album that only deserves some of the scorn it receives.

perfect!

and i love the synths on 4th Chamber. i have a soft spot for GZA's cold, monotone and sophisticated rapping style as well.

you guys are gonna forget about that Wiz album once you get to hear Travis' new tape, it's so much better, no contest! Quinata Pt. 2 sounds like a song from Yeezus, it's THAT good!
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Old 08.22.2014, 02:13 AM   #903
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Wiz is just fun for bumpin'. Plain and simple. He never lives up to his own rapping potential, cause he can't resist those hooks. But I think he'll continue to evolve, and Blacc Hollywood will be a big hit.

I'm missing A$AP A LOT right now. I realize, in his down time, that there isn't another rapper out there who goes for his preferred style of production. It's pretty progressive really, and I want his next album to drop almost as bad as I want Kanye's.

But there's been a lot of surprisingly good hip hop this year. It's not the complete let down I thought it was going to be, after all.
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Old 08.22.2014, 06:14 AM   #904
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Agree, agree, agree.
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Old 08.22.2014, 08:02 AM   #905
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Wiz' mixtapes are better than his albums. he makes the albums just to generate some money, his tapes are where you can find his interesting stuff.
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Old 08.22.2014, 04:42 PM   #906
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that DVD comes w/ a pressed CD of Live Love A$AP.
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Old 08.22.2014, 04:58 PM   #907
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yeah man my physical hip hop collection is starting to look nice, and just tipped it over 100 CD's.
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Old 08.22.2014, 09:30 PM   #909
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I wanna talk for a min about the importance of Q-Tip and the sound of NYC hip hop in the 90's. We all love ATCQ of course, but we never talk about Q-Tip as a producer. Consider this... he played a serious role in both Illmatic and The Infamous. I mean, that's some passing of the torch shit right there.
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true. the tracks he produced for The Infamous are my favs on the album.
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Fabolous - Real Talk
This album is pretty frustrating. After opening with an attention-grabbing spoken word intro (performed by Black Ice) it kicks off with a few pretty strong tracks and gives you the impression that the record on a whole will maintain a good momentum. But before you know it Fab's focus is lost and a sort of aimless meandering takes over for Real Talk's mid-section. There seems to be some kind of confusion over what kind of album Real Talk should even be. The title track seems worlds apart from songs like "Tit-4-Tat," "Baby" and "Girls" for instance. By the time you make it to the album's closing third you get hit with "Breathe," one of the defining single's of Fab's career. In fact the song is so good that it actually makes most of what has preceded sound even weaker. It's unfortunate, as Real Talk could have been a great album but instead is mostly a mixed bag of decent-to-great material.
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yeah man my physical hip hop collection is starting to look nice, and just tipped it over 100 CD's.


Sweet! Keep going at this rate and you'll surpass me before the end of the next decade!!!



J/kL0Lzzorz. Btw: my inbox is starting to feel like it's been stood up in a fancy restaurant.
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Old 08.23.2014, 11:08 AM   #913
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true. the tracks he produced for The Infamous are my favs on the album.

Not to mention the fact that he contributed to Watch The Throne, meaning that even Kanye would rather have q-Tip on a track than have all the production glory to himself. That's saying something.
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Old 08.23.2014, 11:15 AM   #914
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Hey, did you guys happen to read P4K's (largely bullshit) “Best Tracks” and “Best Albums” of the decade's first half?

If not, lemme break it down for you: it was largely bullshit. Notice how they included albums from this year in the top 20? I guess that's fair enough, but the albums they chose were rather whack, if you ask me.

And look at them, acting as though they even knew who Mac DeMarco or Actress were prior to their breakthrough albums. It's a way to retroactively award themselves cred, and I call bullshit.

YET: Kanye topped the albums list with MBDTF, and my all time favorite Yeezy song, which I didn't know they had such strong feelings about, landed at #3 on the tracks list (talkin' about “Runaway” in case you don't know anything about me).

So I can't totally fault them. But I can certainly fault them a lot.
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Old 08.23.2014, 05:31 PM   #915
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I read that too sev. No idea why so many 2013, 2014 albums were in there.
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Old 08.23.2014, 05:57 PM   #916
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^ That Sonic Youth/Cypress Hill track was my introduction to Sonic Youth.

I love you Mary Jaaaaaaaanneee

No idea who Big Mike is, but all the others are very solid pics. Awesome score Brad! My car's cd player and I are jealous! heh
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Old 08.23.2014, 06:25 PM   #918
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yeah Judgement Night is a great soundtrack.

Big Mike is just a DJ... that's a Jay-Z remix mixtape.
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Hey, did you guys happen to read P4K's (largely bullshit) “Best Tracks” and “Best Albums” of the decade's first half?

If not, lemme break it down for you: it was largely bullshit. Notice how they included albums from this year in the top 20? I guess that's fair enough, but the albums they chose were rather whack, if you ask me.

And look at them, acting as though they even knew who Mac DeMarco or Actress were prior to their breakthrough albums. It's a way to retroactively award themselves cred, and I call bullshit.

YET: Kanye topped the albums list with MBDTF, and my all time favorite Yeezy song, which I didn't know they had such strong feelings about, landed at #3 on the tracks list (talkin' about “Runaway” in case you don't know anything about me).

So I can't totally fault them. But I can certainly fault them a lot.
I get a perverse joy out of reading those lists, but jesus christ. are they actively trying to kill music? they're perhaps the most cynical organisation I've ever come across in the way that they've constructed these movements and then retrospectively eliminated them from this cultural lexicon (for which they're entirely responsible) purely because they don't feel them to be valid...

// I can't support any entity which ups a band like real estate or beach house. I don't even care if they're aesthetically pleasing (to middle-class white kids 'discovering' music because they 'love it' and distracts them from the vacuity of their entire fucking existence), is it among the BEST music to be released? this shouldn't even be a question, although maybe there's some subjectivity in the term...to me, best connotes a piece of work which actually achieves something, which would eliminate 95% of the shit from that list.

lol why the fuck do I care? they've won.
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