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GAF-Hop |OT7| Either die the GOAT or live long enough to become Nas.
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I was just fucking with you lol cause you know how I feel about Half LIfe 2
havent listened to Yeezus yet but I agree with this.
I've tried listening to all of Mac Miller's album 3-4 times now and each time I only get to halfway or 3/4 through it before I either doze off or shut it off. His sleep inducing raps/voice can't carry a 19 track album, no matter how good the production is (its pretty good for the most part). His voice is just so...soft, no energy in any of the tracks coming from him.
Just finished it.
I have to say, I think Kanye may have just constructed his best album yet. I usually bag on his music for being sonically and ideologically incoherent, but on this he really took it to a different level. He took the best part of his work since Graduation and synthesized it with sounds of the underground and mainstream. Not just in rap too. There are some moments on here that remind me of my favorite death metal albums from high school. This keys section on hold my liquor had me catching literal feels, reminded me of Windows from The Red in the Sky is Ours. I think Kanye really transcended rap with this album. My favorite track from MBTDF is Lost in the World, and I love that the lighter sections on this album evoke that otherworldly, ethereal symphonic feel that you would hear from some shit like Solar Fields or other ambient. The industrial sections are also pretty well done. To be honest, this album is sonically speaking right up my alley in every possible way. HE EVEN REMADE A C MURDER SONG. It's like he was listening to all my favorite classic electronic and metal music and synthesized it with his own music and the underground rap stuff pushing shit forward like TNGHT Death Grips, Shabazz, Killer Mike and El-P. The best part is he actually managed to compose songs with gradual compositional changes, natural evolution instead of the sophomoric, immature transitionless beat changes on all his post 808s work. This album is to me, a bonafide classic, the best Kanye album. And people are going to hate it.
5 mics.
Not sure about being his best album, but I agree with this.
i think reviewers will like this album too,
but fans expecting something like the first six tracks of mbtbdsbafgfd, might be disappointed
pusha did not make the cut, luckily justin vernon is on here three times lol
and just like Tarantino his old stuff is more enjoyable
naw, Kill Bills and Inglorious Basterds are among his best.
I know it's so weird.
Jackie Brown, come on man! classic De Niro
Kill Bill 1 was a mess. 2 was the shit.
Discotheque
Banned
Jackie Brown will never be topped. But Kill Bill is pretty decent (as a whole and individually, loved both films)
PhoenixDark
Banned
I was expecting Esch to shit on the album, damn brehs. I'll wait for thabiz's "stuck in the 90s ninja" review tho, before I acquire the album.
Its almost like a more accessible Death Grips.
seeing this gif synced w/ the sample in OnSite is hilarious. somebody should shop a Yeezy smiley on Eddie Long
stahp. that shit was a lady snowblood/yojimbo/sanjuro remake turned on 10.
aint going to get one from me.
Kill Bill was his most stylish movie I felt.
The Return of
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I can't stop bopping my head, no PP
The Return of
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This shit is just great, I don't even care bout ranking it, but man the spots it is hitting for me. Haven't even gave it a chance in the whip either yet
I wish I could see my homie's face who listens only to trap music listen to this for the first time. He'll probably be like man this is some bullshit you are playin lmfao
Or at least til New Slaves or Blood on the leaves maybe comes on
I wish I could see my homie's face who listens only to trap music listen to this for the first time. He'll probably be like man this is some bullshit you are playin lmfao
Or at least til New Slaves or Blood on the leaves maybe comes on
CountBlack
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BLOOD ON THE LEAVES.
SHIT FUCK CUNT.
SHIT FUCK CUNT.
5 months until people call this album ass
nothing will ever be as influential as 808s in this genre for a while.
PhoenixDark
Banned
You mean in the mainstream. Because everything I've read about this album sounds like another case of Kanye mining the underground, giving it some polish, and getting credit for "creating" a sound.
Same shit he did with soul loops. People still act like him and Just Blaze popularized that shit, as if RZA/Wu Tang Forever doesn't exist.
Not that much. People are gonna recoil from this shit mostly. And the Underground already had these sounds.
In many ways though this is one of the defining characteristics of hip hop music as a genre. Without other forms of music hip hop doesn't really exist at all, so i especially don't have a problem with it. The point is that it's engaging, powerful, and ambitious in how intense it is. The underground is the church and Kanye just did some missionary work. Maybe that's what he's best at truly, if you look at his career.
Yeah, I mean on the radio and in the mainstream. This is the biggest release to do something like this.
Exactly.
victreeb3l
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dude i used this app hailo to get a cab and they said they would refund me $10 and i still dont have it yet
at first i was like whatever its just lunch money but black skinheads is kinda making me want to get up in arms, kick their office doors down and get it back myself
Oldschoolgamer
The physical form of blasphemy
If he makes another album, I hope he puts his ghostwriters to better use. His minimalism is showing off how weak he is lyrically.
Is that Keef on Send It Up? I don't understand how anyone can hate that track.
Is that Keef on Send It Up? I don't understand how anyone can hate that track.
hearing from rick rubin, that yeez did five or six verses at the 11th hour with "gusto" makes me wonder
http://pitchfork.com/news/51175-rick-rubin-discusses-the-intense-completion-of-kanye-wests-yeezus/
reminds me of the panda bear x daft punk 11th hour collab, which was a result of having no ideas
the music is really good, outside the box production, complete with music that makes the listener slightly uncomfortable (which i love). lyrics... i gotta listen more,
http://pitchfork.com/news/51175-rick-rubin-discusses-the-intense-completion-of-kanye-wests-yeezus/
reminds me of the panda bear x daft punk 11th hour collab, which was a result of having no ideas
the music is really good, outside the box production, complete with music that makes the listener slightly uncomfortable (which i love). lyrics... i gotta listen more,
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