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I'd also like some headphone reccomendations, it's been a long hard summer and I'm going to treat myself. I'm looking at higer end of the market compared to the recommendations above. My budget would be around £250 not sure how headphone prices translate to the US. I don't actually mind if the sound produced is suited mainly for hiphop rather than a clean sound that works across all genres.
IrishNinja
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playing ace's dre day mix
dem transitions
dem transitions
If you buy bass-centric headphones and then EQ down the bass you're doing it wrong.
Also Detox you need to post in the headphone thread, as I don't wanna consume this one with the back and forth needed to figure out what's best for you.
I don't know what you're talking about lol, but thanks.
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I don't EQ at all so idk. They perform fine with a flat EQ for me. They've already got a pretty delicious curve. I guess if you were trying to get a flat frequency response out of them you'd EQ them. There's a good little V curve going on.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Digging it?playing ace's dre day mix
dem transitions
IrishNinja
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man, i love going from Louie the 3rd to older shit inside a few minutes, and it just blends. dre's sound really aids all of this i imagine - had to stop just over 3/4 way cause of work, this is one of those cuts i save for rough days so please believe ill be back on it by the week's end though...how's mr mef coming?
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http://passionweiss.com/2012/09/04/...hterhouse-will-never-ever-ever-work-as-group/
Doc Zeus welcomes you to Fall.
What some cynical ass shit this is…
“Lyricism” gets a bad rap these days. You may also know it as “lyrical ass lyricism,” “rappity rapping,” and “that boring stuff between all the adlibs.” But when practiced properly by a licensed professional, pure lyricism can be as thrilling and integral to popular music as a hot beat or industry co-signs. Think of the acute attention to detail in an Action Bronson song or the verbal dexterity displayed when Roc Marciano gets rolling.
Certain contrarians are quick to suggest that rapping well for rapping’s sake is an outdated mode of expression in hip hop that needs to be sent out to pasture like African medallions and Scott Storch. However, this ignores the intrinsic idea that rap music is built upon the spoken word and no matter how the genre evolves and expands into new artistic territories, rapping well will always be a valued and integral part of the culture. One only needs to witness the overwhelming positive reaction that Life Is Good received from the public this summer to understand how much it meant to the fans to see the greatest lyricist of all time return to what he’s best at. Lyrics still and will always matter. This is hip hop.
Terrible lyricism is a whole different story and “HOLY FUCKING SHIT, YOU GUYS” is Slaughterhouse terrible at what they do. The group’s latest album, “Welcome To: Our House,” is a shockingly inept tour de farce of bad ideas, inane punchlines and embarrassingly overt commercial concessions — especially for a group whose entire mythology is built upon the premise they are four elite lyricists joining forces to take on the industry that’s denied them their success.
Slaughterhouse are a “super group” in which every member of the team is Booster Gold and the only super power they possess is the power of piss-poor sport puns. If you were wondering what a tag team of Aquaman, Snarf from Thundercats, the Blue Power Ranger and Ringo Starr would sound like if they made music, this is the group for you.
What some cynical ass shit this is…
Let’s start with the most obvious gripe. As solo acts, Joe Budden, Crooked I, Joell Ortiz and Royce Da 5’9, have built a reputation as artists too dogmatically lyrical to connect with popular audiences. Common thinking suggests the biggest factor that’s kept them from storming the pop charts is the group’s fierce adherence to 90s hardcore traditionalism. They say they are just too damn real for the pop charts. So what do they do to combat this notion? Sign with Eminem and produce some of the most hideous attempts to crossover this side of a Lady Gaga single. (Pour one out for Kendrick, man…
Interscope Records has this particular nasty habit of sucking the originality out of their prey like fun-eating chupacabra only to replace their dried husks with a homogenous package of Wale. You can easily list the stock commercial concessions Slaughterhouse made for this record in order to convince (I don’t know?) teenage girls…boys…Paramore fans… (who fucking knows…to buy this record. There are moronic strip club anthems (“Throw That”
I mean… FUCK! Do you like Skylar Grey, Slaughterhouse fans? Well, the woman behind every single rap song you have hated the last three years is all over the place. There are rock hooks upon rock hooks upon sweeping majestic rock hooks and it’s yes, a remarkably cynical accomplishment. The conceit that a pack of thirty-something street rappers more comfortable rhyming over DJ Premier than sampling Paramore would want a Manic Pixie Dream Girl to histrionically wail all over “Enta Da Stage” is just laughably ludicrous. You can smell the crackling bullshit wafting from Jimmy Iovine’s office all the way to the Mathers Estate in suburban Michigan.
What some cynical ass shit this is…
Couldn't disagree with this dumb fuck more, but plenty of people in here will agree with it and are currently yanking themselves off to this blog.
Dude sounds like Budden killed his fetus or something. Salty.
Need to hear the hook but this sounds dope.
IrishNinja
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OMG havent heard slaugherhouse's most recent rappity-rap struggle yet but i'm currently yanking myself off to this blog tbh
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
Wow this is the stupidest thing I have read this week congrats
Might be ready to record It tomorrow
IrishNinja
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nice!
also to follow up on that Slaughterhouse blog thing, i wonder what ya'll would think about their other article, the top 20 albums of the first half of 2012
also to follow up on that Slaughterhouse blog thing, i wonder what ya'll would think about their other article, the top 20 albums of the first half of 2012
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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I think Life Is Good is too low for one...
IrishNinja
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(i do too, but id rather not comment because it'll just make kams or siddx make another analogy about things in buttholes and we'll be stuck with it as OT6's title)
It's a plane it's a bird it's Bath Salt video. Neogaf rap opinion, Shitty opinion apparently the same thing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cmHkzRb90D8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=cmHkzRb90D8
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Why you mad tho? haha, I'd say the people you weren't expecting to like Slaughterhouse album actually did like it(Me, Kam, etc)
LOL, I'm dying.
I think Life is Good is too high...Also some albums are in that top 20 that I haven't even heard so I'd probably replace those, move some albums lower like Skeleton, then move Alchemist and KA up
dskillzhtown
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UGK is the best duo. "Riding Dirty" alone confirms this.
If illmatic is a beautiful girl with some nice titties, life is good is an average girl with one titty. At first you're like "fuck she only has one titty, I kinda want that hot girl with two functioning titties back instead." But then you're like "well shit it's still a titty and it's perky." And then finally after a while longer you're like "fuck it I can't stand this lopsided bitch, lemmie go jerk it to pictures of the first girl."
Agreed- hit boys tweet about it sounds like there's gonna be opera sampled on the song too
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Hmm, close for me personally, but I give UGK the title of having the best double album I've heard.
and she is boring too, she just watches your ass struggle.
Blackace
if you see me in a fight with a bear, don't help me fool, help the bear!
I love UGK.. But I can't say they were better than Outkast
You're right, Atmosphere has a little something for everybody
IrishNinja
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pumper gifs? in my gaf-hop?
it's more likely than you think
it's more likely than you think
None of his stuff has come close to after school special for me
My girl a superstar all from a home movie.
PhoenixDark
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this is pretty much going to be like WTT. not an earth shattering album by any means, but just a great album to bump in the car and nod your head to. I like it.
Ridin' Dirty is the masterpiece IMO.
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He might as well just check out both Super Tight and Ridin Dirty, I don't have a preference on either since some days I prefer one over the other.
Fuck yes. #castlemusic
A-1 put out some new shit? Mix tape, album, what?
Agreed, that project holds a special place in my heart. My mind was blown the first time I heard it. I want more of that but he obviously doesn't want to be known for just that. Book of Adam or whatever was just simply okay. It had promise but just felt average at the end of it all.
I think Ridin' Dirty ages better for a new comer. Super Tight kinda has an older southern sound that you don't hear much these days. Kinda like a southern version of the old NWA/Ice Cube older albums that throw off some new comers. Super Tight is like 1B for me. Gotta give Ridin' Dirty the edge for One Day alone. Might be my favorite rap song ever.
Man Peter, why would you even listen to that? Lol.
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I can see that. I agree, One Day is definitely up there for me. Everytime I listen to that album and that song comes on, it gives me a chill down my spine. You know you love I Left It Wet For You tho.
I saw Lupe when he came to my school two years ago. He was late, stop the show to talk about how Obama is funding an international war, and performed for only like an hour. But- he did perform with a live band which was cool. I'd def go if its free, its the kind of show where anything can happen lol.
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