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GAF-Hop |OT14| The 6 God is Five Writers, And One False Idol

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mooooose said:
that mac miller is way better than it should be. interesting song structure and mac rapped his ass off at the end with something that made him feel vulnerable. i'm impressed by his potential to crossover further with a major label debut
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Haven't heard the new shit but I'm on board. Mac is a talented guy. Good producer, maybe also a good song writer, even if he'll never be a great performer.
 
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Discotheque

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Ninja Dom said:
Right, I'm listening to this new Dre album for the first time now.
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it's aiight. production is the real standout here. this justus kid is like the most blatant bootleg of drake.

i'm only on 4th track so far though lol. waiting for this xzibit verse i'm hearing about.
 
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XANDER CAGE

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enzo_gt said:
Just finished listening. Man, I'm a massive Dre stan but this ain't it. Few thoughts:

1) Dre verses feel weird. He's rapping too fast or in cadences that take away the presence his voice usually has. The lyrics themselves can get kind of good sometimes but often it just sounds like Dre is spitting some generic raps.
2) Lots of seemingly wasted Marsha Ambrosious features.
3) Production is sometimes boring, but other times it's on point. I don't think it's dated, dude has a signature sound and is interpreting it in different ways just like he did with 2001, and it's the most divergent it's ever been. Ultimately it's not the beats that make it disappointing, but that it isn't filled front to back with great songs. Do I blame Dre? Do I blame everything being themed around a biopic of an already well documented group and time in his life?
4) Shout outs to Dre making a skit out of him shooting at his ex-wife. SMH.
5) Cube's "today was a good day" line kind of makes you really aware how weird this project is. Rhymes inspired by a movie about themselves.
6) Doesn't impress me until Deep Water halfway through the album. Keepers are probably Deep Water, One Shot One Kill, For The Love Of The Money, Animals and maybe Just Another Day.
7) Eminem verse isn't that bad. Dude is mostly carrying one idea/story through an entire verse, and that's something we only really see from old/early Em.
8) Autotune/voice effects pop up when you want them least.
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I'm reeling from how bad the back half of Loose Cannons is. Tastelessness aside, it's also just really fuckin' bad. The skit completely kills the momentum, wastes a perfectly good beat, hilariously poor acting, that stock-ass gunshot sound effect, and it goes on forever. The rest of the album has been pretty good to great so far but the groove I was getting into first listen was totally ruined.

But yes it's also shockingly stupid
 
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Discotheque

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was getting ready to write off this mediocre album until deep water/one shot one kill played. those two are good and then the game gives us some really fun west coast flow too.

first half is mostly boring and some very spastic production, all over the place. it sometimes bumps but it never really finds the groove that dre's previous god-tier stuff has done. really missing a nate dogg or something. hell he should have just used 12 year old white drake more if he wanted. kendrick's competent and does his thing but it aint stuff that made me want to rewind like i normally would from a feature from him

second half is bumping though.

oh and also man dre's ghostwriters should have stuck to one style. i can't even tell when he's rapping on a track sometimes.

edit: dare i say eminem's verse > kendrick ones. didn't think i would say so before listening but i think it's more impressive. it may or may not be the nostalgia talking though. eminem back on a dre album.
 
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The Artful Dodger said:
I still like the Dre album, despite the GAF-Hop shitting.

/shrug.
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It's well sequenced and very well produced. An easy listen overall, they even got a listenable verse from Eminem. It doesn't have those killer standout tracks, verses, or hooks the previous albums had, but what are you gonna do. Most of the people on here are past their prime or not built to make anthems.

Kendrick tried to be "that guy", Snoop woke up for 2 tracks, Xzibit went hard, Ice Cube put some effort in, The Game is spitting, Jon Connor held his own...... It's ok, I guess.

My only problem is I know there's a version of Detox from like 2006-2011 collecting dust somewhere filled with nothing but traditional bangers and west coast notables that's better than this album. It's cool though, at least we can collectively close that chapter and move on.
 
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Jay Rock "90059" ft. Lance Skiiiwalker

M-m-maybe y'all are right about TDE. This sounds like it fell off an old Wu-Tang truck.

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Done with my first listen of Compton. It's better than I expected it to be and even though I don't fuck with most raps on this the production is so f'ing good that it carries the whole album. Justus might be 9God but I must admit that his contributions don't feel forced; another 'controversy' about nothing, as always.

Kendrick's parts are so and so; Deep Water is peak-Kendrick, the rest feels okay. Game does a fantastic job and proves that the Game/Dre combo is still the best for him. Xzibit and Snoop delivered solid stuff as well. A lot of the "no names" do a good job too, but man I can't shake of the feeling that there should have been way bigger names on this. At times this feels like listening to a bunch of reference tracks.

Overall, a very solid 2015 Dr.Dre album. Nothing that blows my mind, but this bumps. Really hope that one day he will produce an entire album for somebody like Kendrick for example.
 
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manipulate

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OKAY so I like it, the production is bangin'. Whoever said it feels like a modern interpretation of the classic Dre style is right on. I was cooking while I listened to it so I can't say I noticed any standouts yet and all the tracks are bleeding together at the moment but overall it seemed solid as hell. Few things

- The way the beats are nostalgic yet modern is truly impressive. This will likely be glossed over by a lot of people, but there simply isn't anything that sounds like this coming out these days. It's terrifically lush.
- Dre is rapping too fast. Everyone is too fast honestly. Cube stands out because he isn't. The hell is going on with that?
- Eminem was p good actually.
- That overwrought skit in Loose Cannon is baaaaaaaaad. A confronting reminder of the worst part of late 90s/early 00s rap.
- Last track is great, great, great. I love that sample, and Dre isn't quite as rapidfire.
- I bet it bangs in the whip.

Tokubetsu said:
Jay Rock "90059" ft. Lance Skiiiwalker

M-m-maybe y'all are right about TDE. This sounds like it fell off an old Wu-Tang truck.

muFYf6l.gif
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Does Jay Rock have any solo material as good as his verse on Money Trees? I know that verse by heart.
 
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Large pro made the point on NPR with hank shocklee that the hits nowadays would be slow ballads back in the day.
 
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woooo, that new Gangrene....

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The album people really wanted this friday.
 
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Grover Cleveland said:
In other news...RIP Meek Mill

Homie just took this beef off wax and straight to the streets
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assuming this is about the Vlad TV Ab interview, all Ab said in that interview was the truth, he said he wont do a song with either one of em. he's staying out of the beef, and that Drake objectively had a better song, he went on to say some people in philly thought Meek's response was bad or trash, but never said that's how he feels about it personally. he claimed philly still fucks with Meek, despite the objective L he took caused by multiple direct lines from Drake that hit the target. ar-ab said he would gain nothing from a Meek collab at this point. he's right. a Drake collab now seems slightly more possible though.

Meek is really missing the forrest for the trees on this one
 
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Courage

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New Gangrene is decent. Driving Gloves is the best track and we already heard that.

Other highlights: Scrapyards, Gluttony
 
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