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

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Net_Wrecker

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HiResDes said:
Compton isn't superior in any way in my opinion.
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I don't know man, 2001 is super front loaded. From 14-22 the only track I think stands up to the straight fire before that stretch is The Message. The rest isn't garbage but there's a considerable drop-off. Compton is a more consistent, better structured whole, and finishes with the strongest stretch on that album from Deep Water to Talking To My Diary. Gotta count for something.

This isn't me saying Compton is better than 2001 though. The highs on 2001 are too high.
 
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Discotheque

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compton is certainly a much more consistent album in quality from the start to end but it's also easily dre's worst album imo. the only one) where I don't really care to bump any of the tracks again tbh. 2001 had instant classic tracks. and chronic is chronic.

also half the time i couldn't even tell when dre was rapping. it was strange.
 
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enzo_gt

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There is nothing consistent about Compton besides the subpar, odd and forgettable verses and it's ability to get worse with every listen. I'm convinced at this point Deep Water is the only keeper.

Completely puzzled at any high regard for the album. Shame on y'all for even comparing it to 2001. Bang Bang shits on everything but Deep Water on there.
 
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Tokubetsu

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enzo_gt said:
There is nothing consistent about Compton besides the subpar, odd and forgettable verses and it's ability to get worse with every listen. I'm convinced at this point Deep Water is the only keeper.

Completely puzzled at any high regard for the album. Shame on y'all for even comparing it to 2001. Bang Bang shits on everything but Deep Water on there.
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11 days before Rodeo
 
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Dereck

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Storm Chamber said:
My hands are groomed like a pampered jew
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Fucking Roc, man
 
IrishNinja

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few spins in, and...i really wanna like compton more than i'm doing so far. dre switches it up awkwardly at times but i stan cube too hard to say anything about his verse...snoop, x, kdot...even em's wasn't terrible, just about what i expected. production on some tracks isn't bad either...just, not always fitting? there's pieces here, but they're not coming together for me.

like, we know this was a rushjob, i wasn't looking for that influence/2001 level production. i just can't see revisiting this much myself honestly

Cheddahz said:
would end up being the best pac album ever
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its like you saw that MGS snorefest post and the other idlewild and said yo i can make a worse one
 
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Grover Cleveland

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Shame that Rock had to fall for Top Dawg's sins, but good on the people for not falling for this fuckery and bullshit.

Labels holding CDs hostage until they get enough cats to fork over that 12.99 without hearing 80% of the shit from the album shouldn't become commonplace.
 
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RP912

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Net_Wrecker said:
Yo we letting this slide?

RP912, are you on The Drugs™ breh? 2001 still bangs incredibly hard. Sonically it's still the most crisp and hard hitting album I've ever heard in hip-hop. Big Egos? Xxplosive? What's The Difference? Still gotdamn Dre? C'mon man

People are lying to themselves if they don't admit that Compton is a more well structured project though, at the very least. 2001's second half is ehhhhhhh.
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Even when I first heard the album at the age of 14...it didn't move me at all. Coming from The Chronic, it just felt underwhelming. I did love Xxplosive though...but other than that, I seriously hated how west coast beats sounded around that time. Corny ass piano taps, that one loud synth, and struggle bass. Hence why I never bothered with a west coast album until The Documentary came out.
 
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codhand

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RP912 said:
Even when I first heard the album at the age of 14...it didn't move me at all. Coming from The Chronic, it just felt underwhelming. I did love Xxplosive though...but other than that, I seriously hated how west coast beats sounded around that time. Corny ass piano taps, that one loud synth, and struggle bass. Hence why I never bothered with a west coast album until The Documentary came out.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UENGjijz9O8
 
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Snuggles

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I liked the first Kendrick track on that album, sounded like a TPAB outtake, but Doctor Dre is painfully boring on the mic imo. Sorry. 😓
 
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PhoenixDark

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I only go back to Animals, and even then I want to skip all of Dre's parts. I've been trying to think what this reminds me of and came up with MCHG. Not production wise/sonically, but in terms of an established older artist blatantly trying and failing to sound like...well, the current sound. Dre's tone and voice throughout the album is just off, as Jay was on a variety of MCHG tracks. With that album I remember thinking someone like Rocky or Danny Brown could murder those beats. With Compton...eh, Kendrick murders a couple tracks as do Game and John Conner, but overall it's not really filled with memorable guest appearances. It's a continuation of the only thing Dre truly originated: filling an album with multiple wack ass flunkies who aren't even from your crew/city.
 
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Jo Shishido's Cheeks

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Haha. Obviously Dre has always had co-producers, but whether with Yella, Daz, Mel-Man, Scott Storch and everybody else he always had his hands in the beats somewhere.
Then look at Relapse where almost half of it was produced by Dre solo.
So for him to have not turned a single knob for 50% of his own solo is weird to me man.
 
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PhoenixDark

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Jo Shishido's Cheeks said:
Haha. Obviously Dre has always had co-producers, but whether with Yella, Daz, Mel-Man, Scott Storch and everybody else he always had his hands in the beats somewhere.
Then look at Relapse where almost half of it was produced by Dre solo.
So for him to have not turned a single knob for 50% of his own solo is weird to me man.
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Dre always changes stuff on beats, even Compton. Best believe he had snares changed, live bass added, etc. That's what he does. His fingerprints are all over GKMC in a similar fashion.

His entire production career is a mirage of him spicing up already dope beats, brehs. The sooner we accept this the sooner we can move closer to god.
 
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Jo Shishido's Cheeks

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PhoenixDark said:
Dre always changes stuff on beats, even Compton. Best believe he had snares changed, live bass added, etc. That's what he does. His fingerprints are all over GKMC in a similar fashion.

His entire production career is a mirage of him spicing up already dope beats, brehs. The sooner we accept this the sooner we can move closer to god.
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True true.
 
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Bronx-Man

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New kid in town. Time for that initiation.

Musical Tastes

1. Pick a Coast to rep (Chiraq or Atlantistan) - Beast Coast
2. What’s your favorite subgenre of rap? (Conscious/Backpack, Trap/Drill, Mafioso, WC Gangsta, Swag, Weed, Hyphy, Club, etc) - Industrial
3. Favorite Artists (Pick Five) - Kanye, Kendrick, Vince Staples, Flying Lotus, Kid Cudi
4. Favorite Artists Outside of Hip-Hop (Pick Five) - Tame Impala, Queens of the Stone Age, Daft Punk, Peter Gabriel, AC/DC
5. What was your hip-hop AOTY last year? What’s your current hip-hop AOTY? - Run The Jewels 2, To Pimp a Butterfly
6. What are you listening to right now? - Summertime 06
7. What’s something you like that you might consider a guilty pleasure? What’s something you haven’t listened to that you think a hip-hop aficionado might give you shit for? - To this day I am obsessed with Katy Perry songs. And I bought Born This Way by Lady Gaga on CD.
8. Rank a Random Rapper’s Discography (Pick Someone With > 3 Albums) - MBDTF > Late Registration > College Dropout > Yeezus > 808s & Heartbreak > Graduation > Watch the Throne


1. What do you like about the current state of hip-hop? What’s missing from the game? - It feels more varied than ever before, more stories are being told. Less trap shit would nice, idk.
2. Who’s Your Favorite Wu-Tang Member? - Ghostface
3. Jay-Z or Nas? Biggie or Pac? Young Thug or OG Maco? - Jay, Biggie, Thug
4. What Hip-Hop Album Are You Currently Anticipating? SWISH
5. Who is the Most Underrated Emcee? Who is the Most Overrated? GoldLink, Drake
6. Would You Rather Eat An Ass or Have Your Ass Eaten? - No.
7. Onions, Avocados, Both, or Neither? - Onions
8. Do you still listen to Eminem? Why? - Nope because it ain't 1999 anymore
9. Who’s your favorite pop artist? And who’s the finest? - Katy Perry
10. Recall a personal event that went down about a week ago... Me and my new roommate were walking into Taco Bell when we heard two girls yelling at the cashier. I went to up to ask why they were heated and they said they waited 45 minutes for a pair of Locos Tacos.
 
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Fjordson

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Bronx-Man said:
New kid in town. Time for that initiation.

Musical Tastes

1. Pick a Coast to rep (Chiraq or Atlantistan) - Beast Coast
2. What’s your favorite subgenre of rap? (Conscious/Backpack, Trap/Drill, Mafioso, WC Gangsta, Swag, Weed, Hyphy, Club, etc) - Industrial
3. Favorite Artists (Pick Five) - Kanye, Kendrick, Vince Staples, Flying Lotus, Kid Cudi
4. Favorite Artists Outside of Hip-Hop (Pick Five) - Tame Impala, Queens of the Stone Age, Daft Punk, Peter Gabriel, AC/DC
5. What was your hip-hop AOTY last year? What’s your current hip-hop AOTY? - Run The Jewels 2, To Pimp a Butterfly
6. What are you listening to right now? - Summertime 06
7. What’s something you like that you might consider a guilty pleasure? What’s something you haven’t listened to that you think a hip-hop aficionado might give you shit for? - To this day I am obsessed with Katy Perry songs. And I bought Born This Way by Lady Gaga on CD.
8. Rank a Random Rapper’s Discography (Pick Someone With > 3 Albums) - MBDTF > Late Registration > College Dropout > Yeezus > 808s & Heartbreak > Graduation > Watch the Throne


1. What do you like about the current state of hip-hop? What’s missing from the game? - It feels more varied than ever before, more stories are being told. Less trap shit would nice, idk.
2. Who’s Your Favorite Wu-Tang Member? - Ghostface
3. Jay-Z or Nas? Biggie or Pac? Young Thug or OG Maco? - Jay, Biggie, Thug
4. What Hip-Hop Album Are You Currently Anticipating? SWISH
5. Who is the Most Underrated Emcee? Who is the Most Overrated? GoldLink, Drake
6. Would You Rather Eat An Ass or Have Your Ass Eaten? - No.
7. Onions, Avocados, Both, or Neither? - Onions
8. Do you still listen to Eminem? Why? - Nope because it ain't 1999 anymore
9. Who’s your favorite pop artist? And who’s the finest? - Katy Perry
10. Recall a personal event that went down about a week ago... Me and my new roommate were walking into Taco Bell when we heard two girls yelling at the cashier. I went to up to ask why they were heated and they said they waited 45 minutes for a pair of Locos Tacos.
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Welcome breh.

I'm so conflicted by your answer to the second #5. GoldLink is indeed dope, but Drake overrated....

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Fjordson

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As others have said, it seemed like Kanye was maybe nearing a release of it (or So Help Me God or whatever it was called) but then pulled back and is now reworking / starting over.
 
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Eos

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Snuggles said:
Now I'm imagining how much better 808's would be if it was Drake on those tracks instead of Kanye..
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it would've been much worse of an album
can't see drake doing welcome to heartbreak, heartless, amazing, love lockdown, streetlights, etc as well as ye
 
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RP912

Banned
Jay Rock's album took my attention away from Swish, but since TDE is on some fuck shit with having fans try their luck to get the album on some claw crane shit...back to Yeezus hype.
 
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