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GAF-Hop |OT14| The 6 God is Five Writers, And One False Idol
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Jay Rock ‏@jayrock 2m2 minutes ago
9-11 #90059
Return of the king
I'm gonna take this to mean it comes out September 11th in the year 90059.
the Larry Holmes foundation
kendrick gonna change the game and diss his own homies.
PhoenixDark
Banned
Yea it'll be Ab Soul but I think Q won't be too far behind. Wouldn't be stunned if Kendrick and Jay Rock are the last of the original group left on TDE in the next few years.
This has really been a blueprint for how not to run a label/sign to a major. Kendrick is fine, Q is fine. But Ab Soul and especially Jay Rock should have had 2013 releases. Kendrick crushed the building, he had the spotlight on him for months. It made no sense to waste that shit by not getting two more artists out the gate too. You have to strike when the iron is hot. Especially Jay Rock, coming off a memorable appearance on the biggest album of 2012.
I'd be really curious to see what the overhead and budget looks like because it really seems like they don't have the money to operate like we expect them to operate. These dudes are in the studio all year yet don't release shit. That has to be expensive - at least for the non-Interscope members. Nor are they touring nonstop. Something is fishy.
This has really been a blueprint for how not to run a label/sign to a major. Kendrick is fine, Q is fine. But Ab Soul and especially Jay Rock should have had 2013 releases. Kendrick crushed the building, he had the spotlight on him for months. It made no sense to waste that shit by not getting two more artists out the gate too. You have to strike when the iron is hot. Especially Jay Rock, coming off a memorable appearance on the biggest album of 2012.
I'd be really curious to see what the overhead and budget looks like because it really seems like they don't have the money to operate like we expect them to operate. These dudes are in the studio all year yet don't release shit. That has to be expensive - at least for the non-Interscope members. Nor are they touring nonstop. Something is fishy.
Storm Chamber
Banned
Definitely Ab-Soul.
Didn't dude threaten to leave over a magazine cover essentially calling TDE "Kendrick Lamar and friends"?
Didn't dude threaten to leave over a magazine cover essentially calling TDE "Kendrick Lamar and friends"?
Face it Tiger..
Banned
Sad really.
Q & Isaiah are the only ones I feel push their own weight outside of Kenny.
SZA is always around tho
still looking forward to 7/10 Jay Rock.
Storm Chamber
Banned
Let's be real
6/10 at best
6/10 at best
Exactly how I feel lol. Only really care about Isaiah at this point.
Good point Toku.
IrishNinja
Member
yeah, i don't recall if anyone here called that but after k-dot and then Isiah, it's a huge dropoff to the next spot for me
damn, this sounds spot-on
still looking forward to that 7
Tokubetsu
Member
my problem with rodeo is none of it's catchy
none of it
the closest we get is "piss on your grave" and thats because it's stilly/stupid
wasted starts out great, even a great flow from travis but then he goes a fucking beat changes with a fucking interlude in the middle of it garbage
pray 4 love comes close but again its on some Thursday era Weeknd shit where it just kinda..meanders. Which works for abel because he's a god damn singer but Travis is boring piece of fake cardboard
nightcrawlers beat is shit but rae sremm try their hardest props to them
maria im drunk is great but still has this 100% unneccesary intro
These are some examples but this is how it is through the whole album. It's so far up it's own fucking ass. Even 3500, probably the most straight forward track on the album has beat changes (at least subtler drop outs).
Compare to even something like Days Before Rodeo and it feels like a step backward. I know some of y'all love this shit but there's a difference between making a dope instrumental, with highs lows etc (s/o to all the dope scs out there) and a difference between a great song. Travis seems to think if you stick a beat change 1:20 in it's now automatically great or interesting.
There's nothing on Rodeo that hits the same level as Mamacita, Drugs You Should Try It, Skyfall, Sloppy Toppy or even Don't Play.
I know Esch likes to take shots at Kanye for the same shit but there's a difference between song outros and a fucking beat change every 60-90 seconds which this ADD ass album is full of.
Travis "Putting Two Different Songs Together Ass" Scott
none of it
the closest we get is "piss on your grave" and thats because it's stilly/stupid
wasted starts out great, even a great flow from travis but then he goes a fucking beat changes with a fucking interlude in the middle of it garbage
pray 4 love comes close but again its on some Thursday era Weeknd shit where it just kinda..meanders. Which works for abel because he's a god damn singer but Travis is boring piece of fake cardboard
nightcrawlers beat is shit but rae sremm try their hardest props to them
maria im drunk is great but still has this 100% unneccesary intro
These are some examples but this is how it is through the whole album. It's so far up it's own fucking ass. Even 3500, probably the most straight forward track on the album has beat changes (at least subtler drop outs).
Compare to even something like Days Before Rodeo and it feels like a step backward. I know some of y'all love this shit but there's a difference between making a dope instrumental, with highs lows etc (s/o to all the dope scs out there) and a difference between a great song. Travis seems to think if you stick a beat change 1:20 in it's now automatically great or interesting.
There's nothing on Rodeo that hits the same level as Mamacita, Drugs You Should Try It, Skyfall, Sloppy Toppy or even Don't Play.
I know Esch likes to take shots at Kanye for the same shit but there's a difference between song outros and a fucking beat change every 60-90 seconds which this ADD ass album is full of.
Travis "Putting Two Different Songs Together Ass" Scott
Discotheque
Banned
what? nightcrawlers is a damn catchy song. shit been stuck in my head since the leak. beat is on fire too. all 3 came through on that track.
you have a point with the rest but that track would look good on any pop-rap album. 3500 chorus is so hype but i don't like the constant beat switches on that especially. it should keep up with the energy that the chorus has. it goes from uptempo to super down tempo. future about to fall asleep on it and shit.
you have a point with the rest but that track would look good on any pop-rap album. 3500 chorus is so hype but i don't like the constant beat switches on that especially. it should keep up with the energy that the chorus has. it goes from uptempo to super down tempo. future about to fall asleep on it and shit.
The intro on Maria I'm Drunk and Travis on general on Pray 4 Love (best song) are great.
But yeah, generally the album is overdone and the exaggerated critiques people usually have for Ye are actually valid here. Its not really comparable to DBR in vibe so I don't intend to compare it as such for every song. Inversely I can say DBR doesn't really touch the places Nightcrawler, 3500, etc. touch.
But yeah, generally the album is overdone and the exaggerated critiques people usually have for Ye are actually valid here. Its not really comparable to DBR in vibe so I don't intend to compare it as such for every song. Inversely I can say DBR doesn't really touch the places Nightcrawler, 3500, etc. touch.
PhoenixDark
Banned
Can't argue with this. Sad thing is that Rashad's next project is gonna be held for more than a year, just watch. Q might not even get a 2015 release date, which will only delay Rashad more.
The Artful Dodger
Member
What's funny about TDE is how relatively little work they could have done to take the top spot again. Riding off the Kendrick Hype or just even releasing albums on time and properly promoting their artists.
It's like... almost more effort for them to find new ways to disappoint their fans.
It's like... almost more effort for them to find new ways to disappoint their fans.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
Don't understand how management can be so bad. TDE/Black Hippy had so much hype and they did nothing with it.
*listens to UOENO remix*
*listens to UOENO remix*
TDE had nothing until Q and Kdot showed up. Black Hippy was all Q's vision back when they were making mixtapes the fell like pebbles in an ocean. Now that those two have blown up, they don't know how to marry their two styles anymore. They only push them as solo artists, leaving everyone else behind that was supposed to "make it" along with them. TDE let the whole team fall apart of early gains.
I don't know if it was posted already but the weeknd first week album sales were 325,267 copies without streams and 415,267 units including streams
Psychological Intellect
Banned
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Yo this Q-Tip / Pete Rock / Large Professor show...
EDIT: ...is a little dull
EDIT: ...is a little dull
IrishNinja
Member
MuddyDonut
Member
Fuck Q-Tip, just give me an album. Pls
ehh i think a lot of it is catchy. travis just wont sit on any idea for more than about 2 minutes. so its like hes playing musical darts. i dig it but if he wants to get bigger he needs a "no" man.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
Member
Man they started off with this playful 10 minute freestyle between the three of them which was great... but since then Tip has just called D'Angelo and Andre 3000 on the phone to talk about Funk music :-/
Spinning some nice tunes in the background though still
Face it Tiger..
Banned
that Drake face is coli ready.
but I have one for the S A D B O Y S
EDIT: I didn't and regardless, fuzzy hair is hard.
but I have one for the S A D B O Y S
EDIT: I didn't and regardless, fuzzy hair is hard.
Did you make that? Needs some cleaningthat Drake face is coli ready.
but I have one for the S A D B O Y S
EDIT: I didn't and regardless, fuzzy hair is hard.
E for effort fam
EDIT: Understood
Only got a chance to run through it once, impressed he held an entire project for over 40 min.
IrishNinja
Member
for real, we been up for this zulu nation my ninja
we ain't been to work, aint hit our women etc etc
haha that's...that's barely a show, damn
Grover Cleveland
Member
Rastafarian42
Member
Travis projected to sell 90-100k not including streaming sales. Not really suprising dude has a lot of Kid Cudi's fan base plus a little bit of Ye's. The tours with Young Thug and Days Before Rodeo helped a lot as well.
Psychological Intellect
Banned
rodeo deserves it
MuddyDonut
Member
Does it
PhoenixDark
Banned
Those Rodeo first week numbers make me physically ill.
Black Republican
Member
heheh
Earl outchea lookin like the alcoholic Uncle at the family reunion
Dude looks like a broke Boots Riley :/
MuddyDonut
Member
Tidal exclusive
Tokubetsu
Member
Psychological Intellect
Banned
100% trash
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