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Inserting lots of ifs shit sounds like a Pharrel b-side.
I've noticed that this song tends to get Kanye stains in their feelings hardbody. I guess it must be hard to process your idol spiritually rolling over on his back for an emotional stan belly rub from another man.
dude so emotional he can barely rap lmao
Tokubetsu
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Emperor Bohe
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Discotheque
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deez nuts: owl pharaoh
Misterinenja
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Pickles the Firecat
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#1 regardless of genre for me right now, and I think it has been an amazing year for music. Black Up was a different level though and over time Lese Majesty hasn't gotten there with me. But it hasn't been very long yet and it feels like a record that will grow even better with time.
Yeah, still album of the year for me. I'm having trouble articulating exactly how i feel about it, which means it probably has 5-10 more listens in the near future and more beyond that.
Better than Black Up.
Pickles the Firecat
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The first time Black Up clicked with me I felt like I was in a world where the laws of physics stopped working and dudes could do anything they wanted. It was like the ultimate expression of freedom and creativity and possibility in record form. Really inspired me and pushed me in new directions. Pulled me out of a more pessimistic state of mind at the time. It's unfair for Lese Majesty to have to live up to that on a personal level so I'm not sure if it'll ever pass Black Up for me. But I do love it, even if I feel like Esch in that I don't know exactly what I want to say about it yet.
Yeah definitely not there with ya'll. It just isn't captivating at all to me. It doesn't have the catchy hooks or nearly enough bangers as Blackup or even Of Light for me. Like where's the bass? Also the songs in which Ishmael's voice is too drowned out are sleep inducing for me. Every time I listen to the album in full there are sections where I suddenly feel drowsy and it comes total background music, which is sad when I'm trying to listen intently with my headphones at a decent volume. The production reminds me of the low-fi experimental pop of someone like Nima or Atlas Sounds, but Ishmael's voice just is put to such poor use at times for me. There are a few songs that I really like, namely Motion Sickness and They Come in Gold, which are two of the least lethargic sounding of the bunch. I appreciate its sparseness, and it's experimental nature, but for me silence is only golden when it's coupled with something dynamic. The experiments on Lese Majesty sound like were conducted as an effort to cure sleep apnea.
Bullshit.
This, and your comments on Pinata got me extra full of sodium chloride, breh. Fuck a banger, fuck a hook. This is like, the next step of ambient rap. This is like Phaedra made by a bunch of black dudes reading 5%er forums. Not everything needs to be drenched in bombast or be a wall of sound to be incredible. These dudes outchea coming at you with some how-does-this-even-exist Robert Fripp and Eno rap and you outchea asking for some Rustie. Stop it slime.
The songwriting is a step back too....There's nothing that captures the emotional triumph of Are you... Can you... Were you?
I don't even know what Ishmael is saying half the time on Lese Majesty. It's very monotonous and makes even some good lines sound inconsequential.
solemn swears melding into harem aria, is better than anything on blackup. this truely is some next level shit. nobody is doing this. its the pink floyd of rap.
has nothing to do with liking pink floyd. its about seeing where they were sonically for time, and respecting that.
Tokubetsu
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It's intelligent spaceship trunk music. I love the album.
lol don't try to force yourself to like the album. Shabazz isn't that nice. People here make it seem like they're some next level shit but they really aren't.
I'd liken it more to something more like a trappier Biosphere or Solar Fields rather than Pink Floyd but I can see some of the parallels drawn with some of the spacier artist of around that time period like a Van Der Graaf Generator. That's why I made the Fripp/Eno comparison. Simply put Lese Majesty is a journey straight up. It builds on a theme/motif and carries it like the best of ambient or maybe even romantic music with some sparse interludes to keep things interesting. Shit is amazing. When I think of rap, I don't really think of the future of mankind or space, but LM evokes feelings of things to come like maybe no other album I've heard before. Yet on some level the way it comes together is almost a throwback. it's low on sensationalism, concise.
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IrishNinja
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Had to go look up redbones, my man dug deep for that one
This post is gonna end up making me check out this album.
The Return of
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Wtf are you serious??? How the hell you don't know what that means
the lyrics are at the forefront when required. i really dont get this complaint. especially coming from you.
Black Republican
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lost boyz album is pretty sweet
I saw the pre-edit, get your computer in check, racist ass homies.
That depends on you, I think. Can you rock with some understated shit? Do you have patience or an attention span? Or are you the kind of person that needs a lot of noise and brouhaha going on to keep yourself from mentally fidgeting (kanyetothe disease)? Shit is like a flower in bloom. It's a gradual change through the seasons, bregh.
Speaking of flowers blossoming - https://soundcloud.com/1812922/wild-enough
Pickles the Firecat
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See, I don't really agree with this. Lese Majesty feels like they approached lyrics as more of a grounding vehicle for listener's comfort. Like a reassuring base that keeps the record from pushing too far. I think that's dope. Ultimately vocals and lyrics are good, to me, if they add something material to the record. And in this case they did. It just wasn't through your typical rap means.
#EATCAKE
this is dope
I will concede to being wrong, but it's hard to vocalize what I don't like about it. I've given the album about five complete listens, that's more than I give most modern rap albums that I don't entirely love. At times I wasn't really enthralled by the backing music either. But I also don't think Russian Roulette is the greatest album. Maybe I'm just not into strong conceptual rap albums unless they're somewhat blunt and surface-level like XXX and GKMC. Although I loved Jeremiah Jae's Rawhyde more than anyone, but the concept of it was rather accessible. I value immediacy in rap above all else, because when I compare the music of Lese Majesty to my favorite ambient/electronic albums shit doesn't even register.
No kidding, that CNN host got me sweatin
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