His best album and one of my top 10 albums.
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His best album and one of my top 10 albums.
Ebro interview about T.L.O.P
Already posted in the album thread but thought you guys might want to hear it as well
Already posted in the album thread but thought you guys might want to hear it as well
Today I Wrote Nothing is a Def Jux album released 15 years into the future.
Gates' is really close to overtaking Jeezy on my all time list. Best songwriter right now
Discotheque
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yeah his new album barely got any mentions in here. 2 phones is a track of the year contender.
though future hype and kanye hype kind of swallows everything up. you can't compete with that.
Storm Chamber
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I still havent dived into History Will Absolve Me yet. Today has so many layers, it's crazy.
Cesare Borgia
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Thanks for the recommendations. Can't wait to play Barter 6 on this set up.
Glass Rebel
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I like the visuals but Summer Sixteen was an instant recycle bin classic. Hope it's not on Views.
Hope that Views font will be the album cover
Agreed, but I think it will be. From the sound to the rapping, I want none of that from Drake.
Always has. OVO logo is fantastic, and even as far back as So Far Gone dude's imagery and such has been on point. Mark of greatness TBH.
I'd like some sort of creative stylizing of the city skyline. I'm sure there's a KTT cover of the sort that already exists.
It always makes me wonder how powerful Kendrick would be if he had Drake's business sense and marketing
Kanye too, but Kanye is too artsy and caught up in his own schemes to come up with something that cohesive.
I want to forever hate on Drake, but he's (or the people behind him) extremely business-savvy. The whole 6God persona has elevated the man to a damn-near household name.
Those billboards got me pretty hype.
I'd say dereck would be the one to watch for Billy woods type shit. Always on point.
Cesare Borgia
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Not a Kendrick fan but yea. Dude is from California yet released an album without touring the state to build home base buzz. Speaking of touring I really don't think he's half as popular as advertised. Dude hasn't even done a major tour for his new album. Instead he did the type of small mini tour someone like Kevin Gates can do - small avenues with 2,000-15,000 people.
Has he ever headlined a big tour? I know he was on Kanye's last tour, and I'd imagine his people are begging Cole to take him on tour next. Cole can sell out MSG, he's clearly the bigger artist right now. Not that I like either but still.
IrishNinja
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Any Jay talk that doesn't include the Black Album I ain't got time for
The things people do to be put on, damn
The things people do to be put on, damn
YES.
IrishNinja
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....nahhhh
RD & Blueprint got arguments as classics, but Black album is peak jigga with top tier production, flow and a lot less fat than those (particularly BP1)
RD & Blueprint got arguments as classics, but Black album is peak jigga with top tier production, flow and a lot less fat than those (particularly BP1)
that eminem production
RD is goat hov flow wise and lyrically. clever rhyming schemes and metaphors as well.
I prefer Blueprint as well, but you're buggin
production alone puts those over the top for me. now I will say, Jigga That Ninja and the title track are pretty boring.
oh and forgot about Girls, Girls, Girls. that's better than anything on Black Album as well lol
Rastafarian42
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Waves
Yeezy Season is at all time.
If you draw, better be Picasso.
IrishNinja
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You're trippin
I don't believe there's one peak Jay Z.
I could go through each point in his career going up to American Gangster and pick out a point where he appears to be in his zenith on some level, starting with RD-Vol 1, and then I know Vol 3 get's a lot of hate and when I listened to it recently I almost cut it off because of the three trash songs in a row that were playing, but besides those three it has peak bars from Jay Z throughout.
Of course Blueprint Jay was also fantastic and had some excellent showing of his lyrical ability, but I think the real strength on it was his general song writing ability and charisma more so than on the other albums because it's generally more sparing lyrically (still above other rappers), but still sucks you in and has classic lines after classic lines.
And for me Black Album Jay is something I don't have a lot to say about, but as always he killed it.
And then American Gangster Jay is such a different Jay from the rest of his career I just love it, he took such a different direction with the ad-libs and how he would use his voice (like on party life) and his flow was so smooth and his rhyme's/general lyrics/metaphors and whatnot could easily contend for being his best, just an amazing album imo, probably my second favorite.
I like this unfinished song from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFjGaZx4-FM
I could go through each point in his career going up to American Gangster and pick out a point where he appears to be in his zenith on some level, starting with RD-Vol 1, and then I know Vol 3 get's a lot of hate and when I listened to it recently I almost cut it off because of the three trash songs in a row that were playing, but besides those three it has peak bars from Jay Z throughout.
Of course Blueprint Jay was also fantastic and had some excellent showing of his lyrical ability, but I think the real strength on it was his general song writing ability and charisma more so than on the other albums because it's generally more sparing lyrically (still above other rappers), but still sucks you in and has classic lines after classic lines.
And for me Black Album Jay is something I don't have a lot to say about, but as always he killed it.
And then American Gangster Jay is such a different Jay from the rest of his career I just love it, he took such a different direction with the ad-libs and how he would use his voice (like on party life) and his flow was so smooth and his rhyme's/general lyrics/metaphors and whatnot could easily contend for being his best, just an amazing album imo, probably my second favorite.
I like this unfinished song from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFjGaZx4-FM
Wow. Real nice. Though hearing Blu just makes me think about his insane twitter blowup a few months ago..
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The writing on the wall says you better practice listening to artists without recalling their twitter tirades. You're gonna need all the practice you can get.
Angelus Errare
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Well to be fair many of Drake's friends attended nice schools and are knowledgeable in marketing and the like, and by extension Drake because of his Degrassi days (not a shot at Drake by any means). Most of Kendrick's people are from the street, marketing isn't going to be a strong suit for them.
But yea Kenny needs a better marketing team behind him. Problem is many of these huge marketing teams that record labels give a person when they sign don't know shit about marketing hip hop, or building a hip-hop brand. Many of them are filled with marketing people who came from different industries.
I actually wrote an essay as part of one of my design classes on this issue.
True. New era in that regard because of social media.
Glass Rebel
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Drake with the GOAT marketing team
but can't even spare a single tweet for that new Majid Jordan
but can't even spare a single tweet for that new Majid Jordan
Nabs
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CunninLynguists - A Piece of Strange 10 Year Anniversary: http://cunninlynguists.co/product-category/anniversary/
The Deluxe Bundle is $75, the 2XLP Vinyl is $25, and the Remastered CD (with Instrumentals and Live CD) is $15.
(If you've never checked for the album: https://cunninlynguists.bandcamp.com/album/a-piece-of-strange)
Psychological Intellect
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don't even need to sign up for tidal
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