Tokubetsu
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Yo, listen to this y'all:
http://youtu.be/ay51KDsadpE
I don't know how you can not "get" Young Thug.
http://youtu.be/ay51KDsadpE
I don't know how you can not "get" Young Thug.
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I occasionally like him the same way I like anchovies, but the answer to that is pretty simple; he's occasionally grating and annoying as fuck. He has good moments for sure, but the hit : miss ratio is pretty big for me and when he misses its one some "x out of the window annoyedly" shit.
Basically, the only thing that could do it is another Ayo Technology. Didn't force 50 to stray too far from his core, kept him at the forefront by association, and was crossover.
I think New Day was the last attempt at that, but then that song sort of imploded once the label fuck up happened. Then he released Major Distribution which I'm pretty sure he thought would have been the knockout but that shit was flimsy.
The current strategy makes a lot of sense, he's positioning himself as a sort of legacy act but has his business in place so that he doesn't need to rely on label red tape.
based on the Bandcamp looking cover i wasn't expecting this.
Thug is good. This song is bad; the production is pretty struggle. If Thug could carry melody a bit better he might be a problem. Unfortunately he just likes to do whatever most of the time.
Tokubetsu
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Whole tape is fucking good:
http://www.livemixtapes.com/mixtapes/27603/rome-fortune-drive-thighs-lies.html
Yup.
As usual with every interview he will go into some business school level thesis about why this happened or that happened but the real answer is that his music sucks. Want to know why it won't get played on the radio? Cause it sucks as a radio song. It sucks as a song overall. 50 isn't the only artist who considered "old" now but others seem to adapt and make hits still. 50 seems to be regressing. At least before he had a ear for production and even the "meh" songs were helped by great sound.
I don't even buy that the audience moved on and they wont' want aggressive content. The audience wants something that sounds good. They don't listen to verses necessarily. The production has to carry 50 and he keeps failing single after single.
Funnier still how every single person that was his friend or partner now hates him and speaks against him. At what point do you look in the mirror and realize its you? Its not Jimmy. He loves money. Why would he purposely not promote your albums? Even before the beats sms audio fiasco, his singles weren't tracking. Banks, Yayo, Game, Buck, and whoever else can't get along with you. Hmm wonder why? I'm shocked he hasn't come out and dissed Dre who seemingly didn't get along with him or dissed Em yet. After all its everyone else's fault but his so why not them too?
50 isn't to blame for their lack of success though. Nor is it new that the "crew" of the breakout artist doesn't make it. Classic Bleek syndrome. But those artists didn't have every single associate speak out against them or shit on them on the way out.
He also doesn't seem to realize that just because he made it the way he made it, not every artist he signs can get the same breaks and make it. He seems angry at them for not doing more but truthfully how many artists truly just make it on grit? How many great artists are under appreciated, don't sell as much, and then settle for a lower tier acceptance?
Way too many assumptions to even start, but 50 addresses this pretty directly, I don't know how you could say those dudes weren't salty on their own accords. 50 said he's guilty of enabling them. Banks had done one song before he got his label deal and an album that went plat. He didn't know the grind. Same goes for the rest of them. 50 was willing to give them contract releases too, but they didn't have any backbone to speak up, and just wanted to lay in the cut.
As for new artists, 50 just doesn't have a good ear for them. He's signed hot trash since the start of G-Unit, outside of Game, who got away. No work ethic, needed to be babysit to put any records out, and in recent years, artists that had nothing novel about them that were worth paying attention to. He's not angry at them though (another assumption I understand where it comes from; on top of the aggressive thing which seems to keep being thrown around).
Can't wait until PD gets to the part of the interview where he hints at the Nas x 50 thing for Summer Jam for him to change his tone.
Holy shit, Diggy did 21k first week? That's like.. 20k times what I expected.
lol
nah i think Maino takes it
"First off u can't measure me by [what] I didn't sell, [because] just a few [years] ago I was an inmate. So that's 18,000 people riding wit me."
PhoenixDark
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Smoke, which is 50's big mainstream song, has 1.5mil views on youtube. That's not impressive to me when you consider it's supposed to be his mainstream hit. If you watch the video you'll notice Trey Songz isn't in it, and 50 is on screen for like 20 seconds. Doing a traditional video with Trey Songz guarantees you at least 3-4mil views on youtube breh, why go left when on something this simple? It reminds me of J Cole's Born Sinner videos, where he tried to be "different" and just came out with a couple very stale videos.
Yes 50 is getting 1mil views on a lot of his stuff, but again...none of the songs are going viral, making noise, etc. And considering The Coli exposed how crazy obsessive his crowd sourcing, paid social media army is...I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those views were bought. They get to 1mil and taper off, nearly every single one. Interesting...
Yes 50 is getting 1mil views on a lot of his stuff, but again...none of the songs are going viral, making noise, etc. And considering The Coli exposed how crazy obsessive his crowd sourcing, paid social media army is...I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of those views were bought. They get to 1mil and taper off, nearly every single one. Interesting...
lol @ just choosing to ignore the other half of the videos which are over 2 mill, invalidating said theory, or else he would have clearly "bought" more views for his lead single to push it
stay schemin
Tokubetsu
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Oh god, we have been here before. Both sides, stop.
It's his highest charting single since Ayo, but still not very high.
Also for some reason he thought it was a good idea to hold that song for Street King Immortal instead of Animal Ambition. AA is a for-sale mixtape it seems. Nobody cares about it now, not sure why it would entice people in the fall.
Yeah what do they even mean? How does it translate to anything? The crowd checking for youtube vids is not necessarily the same crowd that will buy albums.
All his interviews are the same. It was everyone else's fault but his. Couldn't be that his music just wasn't good critically or commercially. He always had this attitude and its not shocking to see that every single person that used to be part of his crew doesn't like him personally. The Complex list of top 10 excuses have all been used by 50 since his 3rd album release basically.
They had their own failings but they were there for the ride but once they realized 50 himself wasn't popping anymore and he wasn't going to continue to just give them money/deals, they realized his personality wasn't worth it to keep with him.
http://www.sharebeast.com/e3liuc9ib5h1
Snippet of that wayne track w/ drake verse
KTT thinks Carter V is itunes stealth dropping tonight
Snippet of that wayne track w/ drake verse
KTT thinks Carter V is itunes stealth dropping tonight
I don't want to get excited.. but IANAHB2 had some decent tracks.
As long as Wayne doesn't come on that being feces/eating pussy/i are an alien trifecta of bullshit lyrical content, this could be something good.
Discotheque
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it's probably the voice isn't it? i've been enjoying his stuff consistently so far but even i can get a bit grated by his incoherent sounds.
carter v will be shit. unless he gets a bunch of juicy j beats. those were great on IANHB 2
Enter The 36 Chambers
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Mobb deep ft noyd - itinerary
http://allhiphop.com/2014/04/30/mobb-deep-ft-big-noyd-itinerary/
Man this song is pretty good.
But that hook, is the laziest dumbest shit I've ever heard in a song. It's literally a recording of the voice over that gps uses when giving directions.
http://allhiphop.com/2014/04/30/mobb-deep-ft-big-noyd-itinerary/
Man this song is pretty good.
But that hook, is the laziest dumbest shit I've ever heard in a song. It's literally a recording of the voice over that gps uses when giving directions.
PhoenixDark
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Another thing I notice is that he's hyper critical of every artist except himself. He can break down why Jay struggles to do x or Banks can't do y, but he never does any self reflection.
Yeah, its the bits where he stops rapping and starts making rastafarian dog bark adlib noises that sound like Henry Armstrong uppercutting Lil Wayne' in the nuts repeatedly.
EIH OI AIH THUGGER AIH EHHEHH IAAIH EIHHHH
I'm still convinced on the hook/bridge of Stoner he is saying "I feel like Facebook, I feel like Facebook."
The Return of
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Wtf??
The Return of
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RIP Azealia Banks career. Just was a random thought that I haven't heard SHIT from her in so long
Mobb Deep live? ..zzzz
She dropped a song this past week, I think. Might have been Angel Haze, I can't remember. Didn't bother to post lol
EDIT:
Salva ft. Kurupt, ScHoolboy Q, Problem & Bad Lucc Drop That Bitch.
Bob Dobalina
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CountBlack
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this dude does too much.
meh, he took it in stride, no problems here
I...don't really see how this is a W
but it's not...
it's the equivalent of telling the class your mom cuts your hair when you're rockin' a crooked ass bowl cut
Fan #1: She taught me how to suck dick.
Fan #2: Lil' Kim taught you how to suck dick?
Fan #1: You gotta learn from somewhere.
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great avatar btw
It's not a W or L, it's just goofy. Why even address it? If you wanna swag on people by trying hard to look fresh with your pocket lint roller, do it I guess. If people wanna think you're a cornball for doing so, whatever. I'd rather he publically apologize for the discusting, fatherless way he hugs up on professional athletes like he does. That shit is so cringeworthy I actually pity him, and he's a multimillionaire who waves away pussy I'll never get within sniffing distance of.
I think the first rap I heard was some Jigga or Nelly on the radio or Pac/Will Smith from my brothers room. I didnt really fuck with it till like 9th grad when a fellow metalhead put me on to 90s rap hard. The changing point was listening to liquid swords. I listened to nothing but that LP for 2 or 3 weeks. The rest is history.
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