Side note, during the whole KTT craziness around Yeezus release, nothing made me laugh as hard as the 8th post down in this thread. #dead
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Goddddammnn lmao
Yeah this is exactly the problem. Miller's album is that way too, but without highlights. It's a mesh of production. And the production is so damn good, just nothing pops. The problem when your album is almost too sonically cohesive.
Net_Wrecker
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Albums over 45-50 minutes need to be REALLY good to even be considered "good." I don't know why most rappers risk it.
A short, more hype Born Sinner could've probably been a pretty solid album.
God damn, that place is a fucking cesspool.
Edit: I'm pretty sure we're listening to two different Mac albums, enzo
MuddyDonut
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I remember wanting to download this earlier in the year, I think. Just downloaded.
Yeah thought his album sucked tbh only reason I picked it up was for the drive credits song.Looks like a few mixes are going to be on that KavinskyXAbel release.
I can't even begin to say how curious this has me, not even hyped--Curious. Kavinsky's more miss than hit with me, and is the weaker of the 80s noir electro acts, imo, but this... I don't even know. This feels like magic waiting to happen.
I feel like Miller has some stand out tracks in the first half for sure. I agree though. That's why I'm giving Cole another shot, seeing which tracks are which.
XXX felt like perfect length, that had 19 songs. They were so different from each other though. So it was fine.
Not sure. Dude has such a great discography now. So great.
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Depends on your definition of classic, but I feel confident in saying T.i. certainly has had quite a huge influence on most mainstream hip-hop albums nowadays, especially the ones that try hard to have that one single that caters to everyone. I really hate that every T.I. album is like that nowadays. So ridiculously formulaic at this point
MuddyDonut
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Urban Legend (commercial classic) or Trap Muzik (genre classic). pick one.
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Man, I gotta say I really disagree with this. I think J Cole project is more sonically cohesive, but it just meshes altogether in a way that makes it boring. I feel the opposite for Mac Miller project honestly. I don't see(hear) what you are hearing. The only tracks I can remotely agree with you meshing together is like the last 3 tracks(REMember, Someone Like You, and YouForia). Everything else is different enough from each other not to bore me. I don't go from I'm not Real to SDS to Bird Call to Matches and think damn this is just one long ass track
Haven't got one yet.
Hey if you have a little more money I forgot to suggest The Somic MH463, which are better than some $200 headphones, but you'll need to replace the pads, which suck on them with these. But they are open, and don't block sound out as well.
Maybe that's just recency bias in effect, but I do plan to give the album a few more listens later, same with J. Cole.
Impressions here of the J. Cole album seem to be lining up 1:1 with Common's last album right now though. I wonder if I'll go back to Born Sinner and it'll be a lot better for me but I doubt it.
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Honestly all Cole would have to do is switch out some tracks with some of the ones from Truly Yours 2 and 3. I would actually consider it great. It's really odd too because the complaints about Cole beats not having good drums doesn't apply to majority of the songs from Truly Yours 2 and 3
Also I think there have been plenty of really good albums, and I don't understand how people act like there isn't a single memorable one. If that's the case you've become burned out with the genre itself, and need to expand your horizons instead of relying on hip-hop as the end all, be all.
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T.I. - 'Urban Legend' is a classic
...T.I.'s albums can be formulaic, but at the very least they don't seem half assed. None of the mans albums have been offensive.
Speaking of T.I. he probably my favorite feature artist.
Sure there have been some really good albums, but nothing that's sticking in the back of the ol' noggin. Nothing I'd actively go seeking out to listen to right now. That album hasn't existed this year, not yet. Last year for me it was HnC. I'd go back to it over the entire year and still just fuck with it as a full album, not just as a couple tracks here and there. That full album experience isn't out there, not yet, not in hip.hop I don't think.
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I wasn't saying it as if I personally don't believe he has a classic. Also, his previous apologetic albums are offensive to me, but he did what he had to do to lower his prison time I guess
Or, you are listening to other genres and Hip-Hop isn't striking the iron like it should; Which is what I'm gathering is the case for most of us in here expressing the sentiment.
Nah, I choose not to live with that. I want there to be that one killer album this year that I'll be bouncing back to later into this year and next. It'll be there, still plenty of time.
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Kanye needs to the stop with releasing his recent CDs like it's fucking Pokemon or some shit
Sounds good to me. The darker, the better.
I just need a Lil Sad LP. I really need something more then an EP.
Edit: Wouldn't be surprised if Waka put out some dark AOTY shit.
Yeezus
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Trap House 3
FBG: The Movie is still my most listened to release this year
Team Jones
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I didn't take that it that way, and OH GOSH (Big Sean Voice) I forgot about 'No Mercy'. THAT was offensive!! Lets ALL forget that.
nah just switch the whole fuckin album out.
Listening through Watching Movies with the Sound Off... a lot of these beats sound like some of the garbage I hear while scouring BC. Struggle synths, and punchless drums.
On the flip-side, I'm loving the roksyopp keys on Objects in the Mirror. That ambiance.
E: might have spoken too soon. Red Dot Music is hot too. This isn't a second-half stronger ordeal is it?
On the flip-side, I'm loving the roksyopp keys on Objects in the Mirror. That ambiance.
E: might have spoken too soon. Red Dot Music is hot too. This isn't a second-half stronger ordeal is it?
teacher say what comes after a sentence...i said APPEAL! i'm too real!
Nope. It's an overall strong ordeal.
Rob Sonic - Alice in Thunderdome
Deniro Farrar - The Patriarch
Kanye West - Yeezus
MFN Exquire - Kismet
IAMSU - Kilt 2
P-Money - Gratitude
French Montana - Excuse My French
Killah Priest - The Psychic World of Walter Reed
Jeremiah Jae & Oliver - Rawhyde
Zeroh - Bred
Quelle Chris - Niggas is Men
Cult Favorite - For Madmen Only
Milo - Things That Happen At Night/Day
Bones - Creep
...Just some of my favorites
Deniro Farrar - The Patriarch
Kanye West - Yeezus
MFN Exquire - Kismet
IAMSU - Kilt 2
P-Money - Gratitude
French Montana - Excuse My French
Killah Priest - The Psychic World of Walter Reed
Jeremiah Jae & Oliver - Rawhyde
Zeroh - Bred
Quelle Chris - Niggas is Men
Cult Favorite - For Madmen Only
Milo - Things That Happen At Night/Day
Bones - Creep
...Just some of my favorites
I'll check them out. Thanks for the suggestions.
MuddyDonut
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I feel like I've been listening to that Killa Priest forever and still have not finished it.
Tokubetsu
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Too many Patriarch 1 tracks weren't new to me.
Tokubetsu
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I love you Miizy but if you're coming up with better synths please send me them, let's collaborate because I will lace you with some fire drum patterns.
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That was the only thing I didn't like about it. I mean some of those tracks on the album were released before Kill or Be Killed even came out
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