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GAF-Hop |OTXI| Five Year Nation
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Storm Chamber
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Enter The 36 Chambers
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All samples are taken from Adrian younge? Could be interesting
Could definitely lose the mac miller and ab soul features.
Could definitely lose the mac miller and ab soul features.
yes. this has peaked my interest.
PhoenixDark
Banned
A lot of Younge's production often feels so soulless to me. I can definitely imagine Premo breathing life into it by chopping some of his shit to pieces. Something About April has some good tracks but overall I'm just not a big fan. He's a great guy though.
A lot of throwback, retro music today sounds very stilted and unorganic to me. And also a lot less melody. Motown didn't just have great studio musicians - which a lot of modern retro sounding music relies on. They also had great, great songwriters. Arguably some of the best in modern music history.
A lot of throwback, retro music today sounds very stilted and unorganic to me. And also a lot less melody. Motown didn't just have great studio musicians - which a lot of modern retro sounding music relies on. They also had great, great songwriters. Arguably some of the best in modern music history.
Storm Chamber
Banned
I just couldn't get into 12 Reasons to Die for probably this reason. Something about it was just so...off to me.
Emperor Bohe
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that track in the video is dope shit. so premo is sampling adrian younge's music? or he just is using his record collection? i'm confused
spindashing
Banned
I was about to say the same thing. It's a shame, I was extra hyped for that album. I should give it a listen again one of these days.
The listen to a retro album once a week thing sounds real fun, Esch. Definitely gonna go ahead and do that.
CountBlack
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Damn, Amber and Wiz getting divorced
Amber's single and ready to mingle brehs
Kanye won
ShinobiFist
Banned
damn, I really thought it was true love
Nope, the contract was up.
IrishNinja
Member
relevant & taken from the official thread
PhoenixDark
Banned
Same. Ghost being off beat didn't help. It's hard to make a dope live instrumental track when you don't give an MC space to do interesting shit flow wise. That's my problem with modern Roots stuff too - it's so simple, verse chorus verse chorus shit and Black Thought can't really go off.
Give me some break beats, man.
Syph Medwes
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relevant & taken from the official thread
I don't eat ass, but I could see the appeal
The Artful Dodger
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The version with Apollo Brown beats is much better.
90TilInfinity
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good call. good choice.
Here's a great song-by-song break down with the gawds
a song from the prespective of a bullet?
a song dealing with the untimely death of one's father?
my favorite track from this project is actually not on the album, but a remix of one that is
I can't imagine what it would have been like to listen to OK in 91 and 94 compared to everything else in hip-hop at the time, they were so different technically. Like Pharoahe rapping on a chromatic scale on Stress, who does/did that? And I remember putting Thirteen on repeat waaay back on my first listens of the album, which is basically his version of spazzing out. It's like, he doesn't rhyme along with the beat, he just fucking bounces on it, bobs and weaves around it, all perfectly controlled. Criminal how underrated this dude is.
Always hoped Prince Po would have a better solo career than he did, dude was more orthodox but still amazing. Social Distortion with DOOM was a tune though.
It does fit perfectly on the album though. It's almost cinematic when the beat drops.
Rastafarian42
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Fuck with the original heavy Jay went in.
Yeah, dope remix, best song on Nobody Smiling.
i remember my friend specifically saying something like "these dudes are weird, the big guy can go off."
while watching Stress, a video that was on Rap City and MTV Raps regularly.
but overall the appeal was, yes they're strange, but lyrically so ill (back when "skillz" had a different meaning) that you couldn't front.
Stress was a fuckin single.
Storm Chamber
Banned
Speaking of Apollo Brown, I didn't catch onto him until earlier this year
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUtj0X3BQtk
I'm addicted to this beat and OC always disappears for a bit then pops back up to drop some quality music
Miller isn't that bad, I do think his features are worse. Watching Movies was solid and has some dope songs.
CountBlack
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Bob Dobalina
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I never feel like I have anything to contribute here but as someone who hasn't gone through a lot of certified classics I'd love to jump in for the OK listening session. Did you guys already pick a date and time?
PhoenixDark
Banned
One of my favorite beats/songs of the last 5 years.
The album is full of beats and lyrics that feel very nostalgic and evocative.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK8Dtz3io88
Apollo Brown has been on a roll for awhile. Check out his project with Hassan Mackey from a couple years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jPd_f6zjVQ
Rastafarian42
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Jump in a plug session whenever you get a chance there may be one tonight just click the link in this thread we usually play some of our favorite songs from classic albums in a session.
he's hilarious.
How did you even survive?
Bring it On remix is great too jeeze. I'm replaying this and the original, pharoahe and po's flows on this are kinda blowing my mind rn
by listening straight to my cans like some kind of caveman
PhoenixDark
Banned
MuddyDonut
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All thisb OK love is warming my heart. Thought I'd never see the day where people gush about it. Shit is amazing.
Tokubetsu
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GUNPLAY FT. CORMEGA - "SAVAGES"
Gunplay stay making music for me and four other people on the internet. Cormega's verse whew
Gunplay stay making music for me and four other people on the internet. Cormega's verse whew
I mayve recognized the genius earlier if I were older than 2 when the record dropped (not a good excuse for getting into it THIS late but still)
Dumb luck, a sample on the song The Extinction Agenda sounded really familiar to me, and it was because I had listened to Hancock's Sextant for the first time earlier this morning
Dumb luck, a sample on the song The Extinction Agenda sounded really familiar to me, and it was because I had listened to Hancock's Sextant for the first time earlier this morning
Syphon Filter
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Dam that is a strange combo lol. Not bad,gunplay aight,never really listened to him before.
Nah Herbie Hancock's a blind spot. My overall jazz listening's been limited to just a couple of the greats: Marsalis, Davis, Mingus, Jelly Roll, Getz
gross
ViewtifulJC
Banned
Nas won
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