Never been too impressed with him. He can rappity rappity with the best, but is a low tier song maker and would need an overbearing producer and executive producer to make a worthwhile full project.
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GAF-Hop |OT14| The 6 God is Five Writers, And One False Idol
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I was mostly talking about the beats on rap releases in '06-'12. The Pop production was on point most of the time. But even from what you listed from '13 not much stuck with me. BBC is the type of Pharrell beat I absolutly can't stand anymore f.e., and many of his Rap production sounded like that for years. I'm not going to pretend I haven't hummed Happy, Blurred Lines, and the Daft Punk songs all day, though. I listened to G.I.R.L.S. for maybe two weeks and never felt the urge to go back (Gust of Wind and Gush are great). I was really happy to see him finally getting mainstream success as a solo artist too but maybe I felt oversaturated after the Happy/Daft Punk craze.
And yo, just because I don't like his recent work as much anymore doesn't mean I've never been a fan. Neptunes were one of the most important influence on my taste in music next to Dilla, OutKast, Madlib, etc. and a huge part of my childhood/youth. In Search of... is one of my all-time faves and I'm still blasting my pre-2006 Neptunes mega-playlist with the Kelis, Clipse and Timberlake albums, hundreds of unfinished/unreleased tracks and demos.
Psychological Intellect
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meek mill with the formal L
smh
smh
Yo gonna be in Columbus tonight at Double Happiness if you're out and about we could meet up.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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Well a lot of the stuff I listed is rooted in the past and seems almost made for the old fans in some instances.
The RDGDGRN and Meyer tracks are pure N*E*R*D, one of the Miley tracks is from the In Search Of sessions, one of the Nelly tracks is an unused beat from the scrapped N*E*R*D album, the John Legend track is originally a Jamie Cullum track from 2005, etc...
So when somebody loved the old stuff, I can't see how you couldn't get anything out of the new work (or think it's trash). Some of this stuff is really consistent with the 'golden age' shit.
Anyway respect on being an ISO fan, I got a framed, still sealed vinyl next to me as I'm writing this :lol
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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Did we talk about this?
Album by Paul White and Eric Biddines.
Dropped a week ago.
First single Never Die f/ Mos/Yasiin Bey
and Auntie Pearl's House
Album by Paul White and Eric Biddines.
Dropped a week ago.
First single Never Die f/ Mos/Yasiin Bey
and Auntie Pearl's House
Agree to a point. I think most older rappers, especially those 10 + years in the game, face the same reality. Cover new subjects and fans want the old stuff. Cover old material and wow he never evolved.
That is why largely each great artist's best work is their first 2-3 albums. They run out "new" things to talk about unless they are growing outside of rap as people as well.
That said Pusha T is more repetitive to me because that's seemingly he ever talked about. Jay, Nas, and others always had more varied material to begin with so even if they go back to the well it doesn't seem as boring.
Plus they are better artists overall all day any day.
IrishNinja
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that chance track wasn't terrible
yup
its a two-edged sword though; watch OT lupe stans say that's why T&Y doesn't rank higher on AOTY lists
soon as my dude cited bubsy 3d im like "this man bout to link to an uli video"
good, shit really was outta line...not the time nor the place and poppa wu knew that
who else around ghost is pulling this fuckery though?
hate that im learning so much of this type shit he did after he's gone...RIP
yeah, surprising no one
yup
its a two-edged sword though; watch OT lupe stans say that's why T&Y doesn't rank higher on AOTY lists
And fuck Pharrell too. Dude's beats are like audio ambien. There's no life or energy in that shit. Seriously listen to this and tell me it's not like some Bossa nova Bubsy 3D music. Seriously I'm telling you Pharrell was one day playing videogames in his suburban home when he heard this and said "you know what, if I add some drums to this it's gonna be shway."
soon as my dude cited bubsy 3d im like "this man bout to link to an uli video"
good, shit really was outta line...not the time nor the place and poppa wu knew that
who else around ghost is pulling this fuckery though?
Sean P took over the HipHopDX twitter account for a day a few years back. Got some good stuff: http://www.miketrampe.com/sean-price-took-over-my-job-for-a-day-it-was-amazing/#more-6610
"If I was a cop I would watch worldstar and then pick y'all motherfuckers up"
"Do u make money taping ya friend committing a felony and posting it"
"So u ain't making money you just a private investigator aiding the cops"
"Don't be bitch ass Chauncey in menace 2society get rid of the tape fam"
hate that im learning so much of this type shit he did after he's gone...RIP
yeah, surprising no one
Guess it was promo for this?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/like-it-or-not-single/id1029587062
While this is messed up on its own.. their big focus for the rest of this year seems to be the Travis album. Ye probably followed our thread here and after seeing our reactions to the July fuckery he thought he needed to add his own twist to it
https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/like-it-or-not-single/id1029587062
While this is messed up on its own.. their big focus for the rest of this year seems to be the Travis album. Ye probably followed our thread here and after seeing our reactions to the July fuckery he thought he needed to add his own twist to it
ViewtifulJC
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diss tracks are almost always manufactured marketing. GOOD Music just taking it to the next level
#POWERFUL
#INNOVATIVE
/peterb0y
#POWERFUL
#INNOVATIVE
/peterb0y
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
GOOD and all associated affiliates are in the midst of the slowest shark jump in rap history. They couldn't even flame out properly, which is ironic.
Grover Cleveland
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The only thing lamer than wack diss tracks are label-sanctioned fake wack diss tracks.
Go work with Meek at Applebees if that GOOD Music ghostwriting check ain't good enough, Cyhi
Go work with Meek at Applebees if that GOOD Music ghostwriting check ain't good enough, Cyhi
MadSkillzBahamut
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Anderson .Paak's performance on Compton is incredible, most surprising thing about the album to me.
Eminem deliveries his expected awful verse.
Kenny going in.
Overproduced in places.
Some songs are meh, usually due to a shit feature or the overproduced thing.
Overall it's great.
Eminem deliveries his expected awful verse.
Kenny going in.
Overproduced in places.
Some songs are meh, usually due to a shit feature or the overproduced thing.
Overall it's great.
Syph Medwes
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Syph Medwes
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lol at that second tweet going completely over his head though
Can't tell if he's trying to be funny or is just being obtuse
ViewtifulJC
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That last tweet
BTW, guys a question: is there a) a new Future album out? And b) where is it available?
man we runnin this joke straight into the core of the planet Earth
anyway you gotta search under the conscious fuckery rap sub-genre
Storm Chamber
Banned
2000s conscious rap is a farce though
Need this turned into philosphoraptor or dumb white girl meme.
PhoenixDark
Banned
That's what's hot in the GOOD music kitchens?
Fake 'concept' diss tracks?
It's groundbreaking. I can imagine small minded people not understanding it, but free and artistic minds will fuck with it. It's all about product. The product here is beef. They cooked it together, sliced it up Chef Ramsay style, and served it to the masses. This is arguably the greatest beef of all time when you consider how much thought and art went into it. There was no art to be found in Takeover or Ether or Hit Em Up. Steve Jobs wouldn't fuck with Takeover, David Stern wouldn't fuck with Ether. But people who understand product can look at Elephants and see it for what it is: the iPhone of beef.
Can you imagine the fucking wankery in that songwriting session?
Cyhi : "So like this new Elephant... It's like i'm coming at you.... but i'm not really coming AT you, namsayin. It's like a metaphor, nahmean. For my progression from like behind the scenes to the forefront of Good music. I'm trying to step my career up to the next level"
Pusha:
Kanye: "That's genius man. It's that type of you know, metaphor, that I know you're so gifted at, like on New Slaves. You like, show the people how good you are with that and the rewards will come man.So you still want that flat two color album art? One color background, one color lettering? All caps? Same font?"
^ lol this is so forced. Rappers venting frustration coming at everyone in close proximity is hardly anything new/novel. And I mean it was tweeted by Pusha when it came out too. Creatively there's nothing wrong with it, it's only corny because dude admit to it so quickly and killed his own buzz, before he hit the press circuit so it's a null proposition.
PhoenixDark
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Haven't heard about this place before, seems pretty cool. What type of venue is it? Bar, restaurant, club? Are you up here by yourself?
edit: I should mention it's my friends birthday today so I'm not entirely sure if I could swing a meetup tonight, it's up in there air atm. I'm not sure why we haven't swung something yet, at least beer tasting or something.
Is this real brehs? Meek got a belly ring?
A belly ring my dude?
A belly ring?
philly right now like i aint from philly, fuck that
EDIT: It's real and he's had it for a minute
Yeah...weird track and idea all around.That's what's hot in the GOOD music kitchens?
Fake 'concept' diss tracks?
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
Yeah, it seems like every other week somebody is releasing a new boss approved, in house diss track with the frustrated rapper seeking approval like the lone white dude at a ghetto block party.
EDIT: A belly ring? Meek needs an intervention. Dude is clearly depressed.
Is this real brehs? Meek got a belly ring?
A belly ring my dude?
A belly ring?
philly right now like i aint from philly, fuck that
EDIT: It's real and he's had it for a minute
Oh hell
spindashing
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Wow
Is this real brehs? Meek got a belly ring?
A belly ring my dude?
A belly ring?
philly right now like i aint from philly, fuck that
EDIT: It's real and he's had it for a minute
Grover Cleveland
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Oh god no Meek why
As soon as you thought the fuckery was over it drags you back in
As soon as you thought the fuckery was over it drags you back in
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