Yeah, cause I'm right there with them on that.I guess I have a problem then.
Pilot Talk or Covert Coup need to be in the top 10, can't have 3 Currensy releases in the top 10 though.
GKMC, XXX, Flockaveli, Take Care (if it even counts lol), and possibly LiveLoveASAP are the five best albums in terms of being good bodies of work, influential, and original in execution (if not content).
Other than Esch loving Currensy and giving Kanye his due, which I just can't do, he's right on.
HnC is awesome in establishing Q but it's also really long and misguided.
I said possibly and when I said originality I specifically added in execution rather than content, for LLA. You know it deserves it bruh.smh at you giving dap to LLA for execution/originality and panning Yeezus for it tho, but i see you
I said possibly and when I said originality I specifically added in execution rather than content, for LLA. You know it deserves it bruh.
Big Bois first album deserves more love too.
Fuck the follow up.
Yeah, I fuck with most of your list. Currensy has some duds under his belt, but those 3 releases are ridiculous.The fact that you're having this internal debate shows us how dope Spitta truly is.
It deserves love but not top ten albums of the past five years. Maybe an honorable mention. Maybe.Big Bois first album deserves more love too.
Fuck the follow up.
Agreed 100%.Big Seans first album deserves more love too.
Fuck the follow up.
Shit was better than HnC any day of the week.It deserves love but not top ten albums of the past five years. Maybe an honorable mention. Maybe.
It deserves love but not top ten albums of the past five years. Maybe an honorable mention. Maybe.
Lmao at no love for life is good
the reclusive Damu The Fudgemunk returns with a new instrumental EP
http://damuthefudgemunk.bandcamp.com/album/spur-momento-trailer
I'm laffin tooLmao at no love for life is good
Teflon Don, Deeper than Rap, and Port of Miami are cool w/me but if i'm giving anything MMG dap it's Self Made 1, and i did.
Teflon Don is better than 90% of the albums you guys are listing.
I never got into Self Made Vol. 1 except for Ima Boss, but I only listened to the entire album like once when it came out, I might have to give it a spin in the car one of these days.
Also, it's crazy how good The Night's Gambit is. Clear AOTY for me. So good. I was meh on Grief Pedigree, never cared too much for it. I found KA monotone, and the production was just ok to me. He seemed basically like a budget GZA minus the flow, but man, it just clicked so hard for me. This album is vivid as fuck. It has the picture painting and imagery of an old Wu-Tang album or Nas in their prime. When Ka is doing his narrative, hypnotic emceeing I felt like I could imagine the sonicscapes he was painting. It's been a long, long time since I felt that way about an album, period. I think I used to look at this type music and knock the raps for being technically bereft and mediocre in flow, but PD was essentially right; the emceeing is the way it is to give the beats and bars as much room as possible to breathe and leave an organic, powerful impact. I haven't paid much attention to the production credits on this, but it's incredible. Best produced and cohesive album of the year alone. Sparse, minimalist drums, keys, and strings arranged in a refreshing way such that KA is able to exploit them in different ways for his stories and bon mots. It's maudlin, but just maudlin enough to prevent it from being cheesy or insincere or corny. This album reeks of 'wisdom' to me, and you can hear it in the lyricism present. I have always been of the opinion that artists, scientists, athletes, professionals of any kind are at their greatest in their youth. This album has shown me that the perspective and experience of old age can indeed be fruitful if picked at the right time, like a steak aged and rotted for maximum glutamic acid.
Classic album.
If you can't fuck with this, like, do you even like hip hop?
Real Top Ten Tentative of 2013-2009; Esch edition
1. Good Kid, mAAd City
2. XXX
3. Cigarette Boats
4. Covert Coup
5. The Night's Gambit
6. Flockaveli
7. KRIT Wuz Here
8. Russian Roulette
9. Old
10. Live Love A$AP
RUNNERS UP:
Section 80, My Beautiful Twisted Dark Fantasy, Yeezus, Return of 4eva, Pilot Talk, Cancer 4 Cure, RAP Music, Self Made Vol. 1, Rare Chandeliers.
Ka's lyrics are often second to none. If people could just get past the "monotone" vocals they'd discover someone who literally takes days to write songs due to how much thought and care he puts into every line. He plays with rhyme patterns effortlessly, all while painting the most vivid pictures you'll hear this year.
This album is a lot more minimalist than Grief Pedigree, which has more head nodding soul loops. But it works perfect. I'm so glad the album is getting love.
Another thing: the vivid lyrics never become graphic. He doesn't have to detail who got shot where. You can tell he's truly haunted by shit he's seen. In a way it reminds me of Lovecraft horror where the reaction to terror is often described more vividly than the terror/monster itself.
you had me till you started talking about rotting steak. Throw that in the bushes and get me a fresh well done steak breh
You're right in the sense that Teflon Don is more influential with BMF putting on that Lex Luger sound, but I like the songs on SMV1 more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUeLNimOjmk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5spMjy8uhc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZW1STjbKSs
MMG actually makes the best posse/team cuts in the biz tbh, even if I think they're really stale right now.
I do need to give DtR and TD a relisten though. It's been years.
yeeeeeeeeeeees.1. Good Kid, mAAd City (2012)
2. Revenue Retrievin': Overtime Shift/Graveyard Shift (2011)
3. Based on a T.R.U. Story (2012)
4. Blue Dream & Lean (2011)
5.Rich Gang (2013)
6. Habits & Contradictions (2012)
7. Hell: The Sequel (2011)
8. Born Sinner (2013)
9. Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty (2010)
10. BlaQKout (2009)
Also listening to this KA album and Mr MFN Exquire is a better rapper to my ears. Noble Drew Ali is better than anything on KA's album