[noisereductions]

Heltah Skeltah - "Sean Price"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tnMBflYsrQ

RIP

("some say Sean Price is nicest on mic devices")

[Severian]

Yo, NR, did you ever listen to 2014's Land of the Crooks, that double album that came packaged with Guilty Simpson's Highway Robbery? I think I recommended it to you specifically. Anyway, check it if you haven't yet. In memoriam.

(Actually it mate have dropped in Dec. of 2013, but the double album edition I have is from 2014... Happy listening)

[noisereductions]

you did recommend it to me via PM, and I haven't yet. Kept hoping to find a physical copy. But now might be a good time to give it a spin on Spotify or whatever. Bummer, man. I've been into Heltah Skeltah since they dropped. Loved Price's solo career. So sad.

[noisereductions]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

So no one is going to talk about it?

I'm only on the second listen of Compton, but so far it feels pretty uneven. A few more listens and maybe I'll dig the tracks that aren't moving me (Darkside/Gone being the main example). One thing that can't be faulted is Dre's production. Man, oh man he did good on that accord.

i don't have Apple Music or whatever.

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by Severian

Whoah whoah whoah... I'm not sure it's fair to say he had a "reputation" for smacking women around. But he almost definitely smacked some women around. Most people, I find, are blind to this side of his character.

Not sure what point I'm trying to make here.

Have you read LENNON, by any chance?

Nah man, a few of my friends have and said it's very much worth a read. Have you? I wanna read a book of that size but about McCartney instead.

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

i don't have Apple Music or whatever.

Neither do I. *wink wink*

[noisereductions]

Its coming out on cd in a few months. I can wait.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

Nah man, a few of my friends have and said it's very much worth a read. Have you? I wanna read a book of that size but about McCartney instead.

I gave it a shot, but it's just fucking massive, and I had some Ray Bradbury staring at me from the bookshelf at the time. I skipped around a bit, but ultimately I tossed it aside. Now it sits on my shelf, forever mocking me.

I almost never leave a book unfinished.

Anyway, I just bring it up because my father considers it kind of the be all and end all of Lennon bios, with plenty of attention paid to the unflattering and oft-neglected truths that his "legacy" sweeps under the rug.

[Toilet & Bowels]

Who cares about John Lennon, why did he get brought up? You might as well have brought up Geoffrey Boycott or Stan Collymore for all the relevance it has.

[Toilet & Bowels]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

You could say that, but you'd be wrong. He isn't really is he. Like, at all. To the point where I can't even see half a comparison. Or is this one of those "he's popular, so he's shit, innit" comments?

Yeah, I guess Foo Fighters and Green Day aren't corporate enough. Dr Dre is more like a wife beating Bono.

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Who cares about John Lennon, why did he get brought up? You might as well have brought up Geoffrey Boycott or Stan Collymore for all the relevance it has.

You decided to mention it when all I asked about was has anyone listened to his album. Point being I don't have to like the guy to listen to his music.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by h8kurdt

You decided to mention it when all I asked about was has anyone listened to his album. Point being I don't have to like the guy to listen to his music.

Pretty much.

[Toilet & Bowels]

Violence against women bothers me too much to be able to put it out of my mind when listening to someone's music.
However, even if Dre had never beaten a woman so bad she needed to have reconstructive surgery his music would still be overhyped pedestrian garbage.

[Rob Instigator]

Dre owes his milllions to Parliament Funkadelic.

[Bytor Peltor]

Dough Boi: Heaven-N-Hell

[h8kurdt]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Violence against women bothers me too much to be able to put it out of my mind when listening to someone's music.
However, even if Dre had never beaten a woman so bad she needed to have reconstructive surgery his music would still be overhyped pedestrian garbage.

Even The Chronic?!

[Rob Instigator]

 

[h8kurdt]

Ha!

[noisereductions]

Originally Posted by noisereductions

Not liking 3030 is weird to me. I like that album more than Octo even. But to each his own.

lulz @ Genteel neg-repping this post. I thought "to each his own" was pretty much a shrug.

[Severian]

Originally Posted by Toilet & Bowels

Violence against women bothers me too much to be able to put it out of my mind when listening to someone's music.
However, even if Dre had never beaten a woman so bad she needed to have reconstructive surgery his music would still be overhyped pedestrian garbage.

I'm pretty sure the old "love the music, not the artist" thing goes both ways. Hating the music simply because you think the artist is a cunt has never seemed super logical to me.

but I have to admit, that's some pretty disgusting shit. I don't actually recall the specific incident you're talking about... clearly it's been conveniently forgotten due to Dre's enduring cash cow status. But damn...

I've never been a big fan. I like the Chronic. But otherwise... Blehmeh