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[PhoenixDark]

lol @ Pusha T being too focused on throwing rocks at Drake to master his album/mixtape. smh, no excuse in 2011 breh. I thought the first Fear Of God was completely forgettable especially given the hype, might not check this one out.

 

[Throavium]

I hear the new Lloyd Banks mixtape is good. I haven't heard it yet, but here's a link to it. http://www.thisis50.com/profiles/blogs/lloyd-banks-cold-corner-2-free-download

 

[Recon]

Perks are genius, they're just not for me. Players having an advantage because they play more is just not what I want in a FPS that I pick up and play occassionally.

On the flipside if I had the time and the drive to play often I'd probably like the system. It just keeps me from jumping in cause I know I have better things to do than play a few hours of COD a day.

Imagine if you played NBA 2K and the opposing player gets stat boosts cause he has played more than you? That's whack, even with matchmaking Id prefer a complettely level playing field in my FPSs. As a guy who has less and less time to devote to video games, It sucks that the perk idea is seeping into all MPs now

I dont need perks in my FPS. Counter Strike was perfect, IMO. You get more money for winning, but skill was the real key. In CoD, if you do well, you get to use a summoning spell for an attack copter to continue raping the other team. Shits broken. Maybe fun for the Dudebro crowd, but not for me.

 

[Recon]

Better hooks than Chamillionaire? 50 Cent?...I think these guys have some of the best hooks in the game.

Cham is vastly underrated for his hooks. His voice doesnt have much range, but its oddly soothing.

 

[Net_Wrecker]

I dont need perks in my FPS. Counter Strike was perfect, IMO. You get more money for winning, but skill was the real key. In CoD, if you do well, you get to use a summoning spell for an attack copter to continue raping the other team. Shits broken. Maybe fun for the Dudebro crowd, but not for me.

The bold is part of the reason I stopped playing CoD. At least in Battlefield I know any type of vehicle rape is because that player has skill and a good position. All the automated killstreaks in CoD reek of the scripted design in games of the past 4 years that I'm beginning to hate. I haven't even touched the B3 singleplayer because of how much scripted crap I've seen in the previews.

 

[DominoKid]

ASAP Rocky ripped his feature. who cares about Lloyd Banks in 2011 though.

 

[DominoKid]

Better hooks than Chamillionaire? 50 Cent?...I think these guys have some of the best hooks in the game.

Chamillionaire and 50 Cent are irrelevant currently.

 

[The M.O.B]

Cham is vastly underrated for his hooks. His voice doesnt have much range, but its oddly soothing.

True

Chamillionaire and 50 Cent are irrelevant currently.

Also True

 

[PBY]

so damn good. Its weird that rap albums don't sound like this anymore, love it.

 

[Esch]

CoD? Nah, not for me. Any GAF-HOPPERS gonna get skyrim? murk dragons? crawl some dungeons? Blast fools left n' right with spells?

You better haul ass 'cos I ain't with no fucking chase
So lace up your boots, 'cos I'm about to shoot
A true motherfucker going out for the loot

 

[Pinko Marx]

I'm not getting Skyrim till the GOTY edition. Bethesda ain't gunna fool me.
By that time the mod scene will have fixed all the stupid issues, give us higher res textures, cool mod, I'll have all the expansions, and a PC strong enough to run it on max will be cheap enough for me to get.

 

[Esch]

That was my original stance too, but I've watched enough footage at this point to know that I wanna play it day one. As far as glitches and leveling and the base combat, it looks pretty solid at this point, and i'm kinda fiending for some fucking around in a big open world.

I AM going to wait till black friday to pick it up though.

 

[Recon]

I might get it, but between Dota2/HoN and Diablo 3 next year, im not gonna have time for such a huge game. I still have New Vegas to play, been sitting in steam for a year, only played like 2 hours of it. Plus BF3, too many games man, too little time.

 

[Double D]

My house is almost ready for me to move in. My wife would probably divorce me if I decided to get into Skyrim this weekend. Not to mention I'm currently staying at my in-laws. Nothing says proud mother-in-law like walking into the living room at midnight and finding the 30 year old husband of her daughter playing a Batman videogame in his underwear. Hopefully I should be sufficiently settled in by Thanksgiving, though.

 

[overcast]

I dont need perks in my FPS. Counter Strike was perfect, IMO. You get more money for winning, but skill was the real key. In CoD, if you do well, you get to use a summoning spell for an attack copter to continue raping the other team. Shits broken. Maybe fun for the Dudebro crowd, but not for me.

CS was one of the greatest FPS of all time for sure. I was addicted to it for a while there.

I'll probably get Skyrim, although Skyward Sword is right around the corner...

 

[Throavium]

who cares about Lloyd Banks in 2011 though.

I don't have a reason not to.

 

[Esch]

Thurz-The Race

 

[DominoKid]

You gotta love Young Money

http://www.vibe.com/posts/drake-talks-new-nicki-minaj-raps-shes-about-get-back-some-spitter-shit

Nicki Minaj gave us a heads up about her upcoming new music and the return of her alter-ego, Roman Zolanski. Now her Young Money labelmate Drake is also warning the masses that the Harajuki Barbie is about to deliver those hard-hitting rhymes. In an interview with Stereogum, Drizzy Drake spoke on what Nicki said to him regarding her raps:

"Nicki told me she’s about to get back on some spitter sh*t. Which I’m excited for. One thing I don’t want her to do is ever like get lost in the pop world. I hear songs from people on the radio and I’m like, damn, that’s so and so? Really? That’s his new joint? She’s so good at it and it works for her, but she’s a fu*king amazing rapper. When she told me that today, we’re talking and we’re working on a joint for her album, she just told me “I just want to get back on some spitter sh*t.” So I hope she goes in on it."

Are you getting amped up for Nicki's upcoming music?

Drake low-key shittin on people again lmao. His interviews are fucking hilarious.

 

[MorisUkunRasik]

Proof that Drake listens to Drake on the radio.

 

[mileS]

The Cold Corner 2 is really good so far.

 

[kamspy]

I can't believe Heavy D is dead. This world sucks.

 

[Ken Masters]

Banks continues to bore me

 

[kamspy]

Banks continues to bore me

He needs to finish puberty. He sounds like the pimply kid on the Simpsons.

 

[wenis]

Thurz-The Race

Nice, I still have LA Riot playing pretty consistently.

 

[Throavium]

He needs to finish puberty. He sounds like the pimply kid on the Simpsons.

He didn't sound that way on his first album.

 

[abuC]

I can't believe Heavy D is dead. This world sucks.

I live in Mount Vernon, they better have some kind of event for him.

 

[Satyamdas]

On “Brand New Guy”— one of the hardest, chest thumping, shit talking songs on Live.Love.A$AP — A$AP Rocky says “fuck fly, I am fashion.” For the last week I’ve been trying to figure out what the fuck that means. Don’t get me wrong, the line sounds unbelievably cool. But the shit doesn’t really make sense if you think about it too long. At the same time though, rap was invented so dudes could say wild shit like that to an audience bigger than the 10 assholes they hang out with on a regular basis. If this was ’03, there’d be about ten thousand questionably attired dudes on MySpace using that quote as their headline. None of them would know what the fuck it meant either, but, you wouldn’t be able to tell those dudes shit. And that’s kind of what the record is all about. Live.Love.A$AP takes the feeling of being so fly that a motherfucker can’t tell you shit and stretches it out for about an hour. The record slows down time and lets you bask in your own reflection, daring anyone to challenge your swag.

One of the things that make Live.Love.A$AP work is that it sounds like nothing else out today, yet, it sounds like everything going on today. It’s a weird paradox. The Schrodinger’s Cat of rap if you want to get unnecessarily philosophical. The production pulls overt references from a ton of different places and times and synthesizes them into a style that unique to A$AP Rocky. There’s some Bone Thug flow, a bunch of nods to Houston and Memphis production, some post Kanye designer shoutouts, Clams Casino cloud rap production and a ton of Cam’ron’s dapper dandy narcissism. All mixed up in service of aggrandizing A$AP Rocky — and by the transitive powers of rap, the listener.

After hearing the single “Peso” — which sounds like a dude trying to kick game to a chick from inside a scene of a cartoon having a hallucination—you won’t be surprised to realize the entire album sounds like it was crafted by Darth Vader, DJ Screw and the ghost of Zack Morris from that one episode where dude almost smoked a joint. It wavers between sinister, screwed up tracks that sound like bad trips where machine elves tell you about their secret plans to invade our dimension and wavy compositions that sound like spending an afternoon doing the Dougie with those elephants from Dumbo. When the album gets full on hallucinatory, it’s a thing of swagged out beauty. “Wassup” produced by Clams Casino, sounds like heaven and Rocky just floats all over the track, knowing exactly when to dart in between the spaced out claps and when to sing song into the background ghost sounds. At the same time, the track speaks to the reoccurring theme of being fly as fuck and having everyone know it. Rocky spends the song talking about getting recognition in the hood and gangsters celebrating him for being “that pretty motherfucker.” Heads that fucked with The Wire can think of it as a song that expounds on Marlo’s motivating desire to have his name ring out. It’s about the desire for recognition and respect over all else. Heads that didn’t fuck with The Wire can think of it as a requiem for the girl who campaigned really hard to be prom queen and just ended up being a title less face in smeared eyeliner getting finger banged at a bonfire. “Trilla” sounds like a song written while A$AP Rocky was riding a horse in those Jeremy Scott winged Adidas kicks. That’s to say it’s got an ill country twang but it’s still over the top shit talk. “Leaf” featuring Main Attrakionz is classic Clams Casino cloud rap that makes you wonder if dude has an amazing connect to deadstock New Age records.

Live.Love.A$AP ultimately feels like fashion rap. Not because of the obvious shoutouts to Jeremy Scott and Rick Owens, but, because it feels like a suit you can put on and stunt in. It’s not so much about the lyrics individually or the production or delivery. Instead it’s the cumulative feeling from listening to the record, a feeling that you too can be a “pretty motherfucker”

I tried to find a .gif that encapsulated ridiculous pretension + terrible writing, but that was too hard. So this barfing .gif will have to do.

 

[enzo_gt]

Is there any rapper that has evolved less than Banks?

Outside of Papoose.

 

[Macca]

FUCKING HELL. Man, Big Day Out over here in New Zealand got announced as having Odd Future and Kanye playing and I was so keen to go. Now it turns out they both got cut. Fuck my life.

 

[Recon]

Is there any rapper that has evolved less than Banks?

Outside of Papoose.

Kanye. Also Cudi.

But i think i can safely call what they did Devolution, not stagnating like Banks.

 

[kamspy]

Is there any rapper that has evolved less than Banks?

Outside of Papoose.

He damn near stole 50s shine on those G Unit tapes that came out before Get Rich or Die Tryin'.

Lest not forget http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_5TgtHfoVY Probably the best rekilling of an original beat.

I could executive produce a 5 mic Banks album. Gimmie a budget and a Blackberry Fif. I'll bring you back a plaque.

 

[enzo_gt]

Kanye. Also Cudi.

But i think i can safely call what they did Devolution, not stagnating like Banks.

CuDi evolved too much to the point where he's beginning to mutate, but there was a spark somewhere MotM1 > MotM2, just wasn't executed properly. Kanye irrefutably evolved hip hop alongside him, nice try though.

@kamspy, but did he evolve? I swear if you listen to early Banks and Banks now and it's the same shit, irregardless of the quality of the music. He's incapable of broadening his range as an artist.

 

[kamspy]

He hasn't evolved, but that wouldn't stop him from making a great album with the right direction. At least far better than any album he's released. He's one of those rappers who's never reached their potential on the album.

Example: Illmatic

Large Professor and company basically used Nas the way a guitarist uses a Les Paul.

 

[Recon]

CuDi evolved too much to the point where he's beginning to mutate, but there was a spark somewhere MotM1 > MotM2, just wasn't executed properly. Kanye irrefutably evolved hip hop alongside him, nice try though.

@kamspy, but did he evolve? I swear if you listen to early Banks and Banks now and it's the same shit, irregardless of the quality of the music. He's incapable of broadening his range as an artist.

Okay Mr.Enzo "I back all my stupid claims up" gt. Where is your proof of this. Please explain since you say i never back my shit up. Please, enlighten me.

 

[kamspy]

Okay Mr.Enzo "I back all my stupid claims up" gt. Where is your proof of this. Please explain since you say i never back my shit up. Please, enlighten me.

Umm. Let me field this one enzo.

"The sky is blue, and water is wet"

 

[RPS37]

Just found out about this new Has-Lo

Only a couple songs in, but yeah.

 

[enzo_gt]

Okay Mr.Enzo "I back all my stupid claims up" gt. Where is your proof of this. Please explain since you say i never back my shit up. Please, enlighten me.

Took sampling to a whole other level, bringing it to the forefront of production again, made the soft rapper image acceptable for the mainstream, to some degree made it acceptable in the mainstream for rappers to talk about their emotions, fueled the electronic sound influx with Graduation, he's a trendsetter the list goes on. This is obvious stuff that you don't need proof for. Name a more influential artist in the last decade, or more cautiously I would say, since Pac.

Kanye opened up doors for pretty much every single big newcomer afterwards.

 

[HiResDes]

01. Reincarnate (prod. Audible Doctor)
02. Face in Disguise (prod. Exile)
03. Never Was Yours (prod. Kev Brown)
04. Inherit The Stars (prod. Paten Locke)
05. Light Years (prod. J-Zone)
06. Hindsight (prod. Apollo Brown)
07. One For Nana (prod. ST/MiC)
08. Deaden The Pain (prod. Small Professor)
09. The Cost (prod. y?Arcka)
10. Maxell UR (prod. Has-Lo)
11. Forty days (prod. Mike Fiveduece)
12. Retro Chic (prod. IMakeMadBeats)
13. Lies That Sound True (prod. Eric Lau)
14. Last Day Of School (prod. Oddisee)

 

[spindashing]

nevermind, touchy touchy

 

[overcast]

Damn. I was going to download those mixtapes but I need to get on the other laptop.. I'll do it later.

 

[Recon]

Took sampling to a whole other level, made the soft rapper image acceptable for the mainstream, to some degree made it acceptable in the mainstream for rappers to talk about their emotions, fueled the electronic sound influx with Graduation, he's a trendsetter the list goes on. This is obvious stuff that you don't need proof for. Name a more influential artist in the last decade, or more cautiously I would say, since Pac.

Kanye opened up doors for pretty much every single big newcomer afterwards.

I agree with you. But dont call me out for not putting up facts and backing up every single thing i say. I only asked because how asinine it is to assume every statement needs to be followed with why i believe that statement. Some shit just goes without saying. Domino and Kampsy having questionable taste is one of those things.

And about the Cudi/Kanye devolving, well thats my opinion. Kanye evolved to a point, then just completely fucking fell off with production and rapping. 808's was his last important work. Downhill since then, but it was one incredible run.

 

[HiResDes]

Just found out about this new Has-Lo

Only a couple songs in, but yeah.

It's the same tracks as before, but with new production...Not sure if I'm gonna double dip yet, but I probably will.

 

[HiResDes]

 

[kamspy]

Took sampling to a whole other level, bringing it to the forefront of production again, made the soft rapper image acceptable for the mainstream, to some degree made it acceptable in the mainstream for rappers to talk about their emotions, fueled the electronic sound influx with Graduation, he's a trendsetter the list goes on. This is obvious stuff that you don't need proof for. Name a more influential artist in the last decade, or more cautiously I would say, since Pac.

Kanye opened up doors for pretty much every single big newcomer afterwards.

Wow. I agreed that he evolved a lot and influenced a lot of east coast hip hop, but this is just pure hyperbolic wtf sauce. Tribe and De La did pretty well before Kanye. 2Pac and DMX might have slipped an emotion in there once or twice too.

 

[Recon]

Kanye worshiping from who else? At least it is consistent i guess.

 

[enzo_gt]

I agree with you. But dont call me out for not putting up facts and backing up every single thing i say. I only asked because how asinine it is to assume every statement needs to be followed with why i believe that statement. Some shit just goes without saying. Domino and Kampsy having questionable taste is one of those things.

And about the Cudi/Kanye devolving, well thats my opinion. Kanye evolved to a point, then just completely fucking fell off with production and rapping. 808's was his last important work. Downhill since then, but it was one incredible run.

Gonna agree to disagree on this then. Across two threads this is getting nowhere, but I admit you got me there.

 

[enzo_gt]

Wow. I agreed that he evolved a lot and influenced a lot of east coast hip hop, but this is just pure hyperbolic wtf sauce. Tribe and De La did pretty well before Kanye. 2Pac and DMX might have slipped an emotion in there once or twice too.

Tribe and De La are the last decade? But yeah those two also biggies, I retract the Pac statement but the last decade one remains.

BTW, HRD you gotta post some impressions on the Div. I loved the single, hope the album is better than their last tape at least. Dudes hold promise. They have some big production too.

 

[Recon]

November is filled with so much music...damn. Im going to be so damn broke.

 

[HiResDes]

You didn't like Mania?...Shit was fire! Well, I'll be back in an hour with impressions, but considered I really liked Mania and you didn't, take them with a grain of salt.



...Well guys I recommend skipping Conversation B, and getting the original album. Shit is just too overproduced and doesn't even begin to capture the same cohesive mood of the original, which he recently offered up for free!

 

[chixdiggit]

Yes! Thank You!