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GAF-Hop |OTXVI| Build a Wall (of Better Top 20 Albums)

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Nabs said:
Just listen to Akademics voice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wC50LS2odCI

He made an entire Youtube channel for this, and it has 350k subscriptions.

He comes off like a racist white dude.
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Okay, I kinda get Vic's point now.
 
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HiiiLife

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Aks outfits be gettin me weak sometimes

Game "coincidentally" flaming people who criticize the Tupac movie after 50 cent shits on it lol
 
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Stereogum has an early review up of Big Fish. Some choice paragraphs. Take what you will.

On production:
Two years ago, Staples released the landmark double album Summertime ’06. On that album, he spoke of young love and bleak hopelessness, and he did it over ominous, minimal beats from producers like Clams Casino, DJ Dahi, and longtime Staples booster No I.D. All three of those producers are absent from Big Fish Theory, which is a very different record. The new album is much shorter and much less lyric-focused, and it’s built entirely around clean, angular club-music sounds. But through its sharp, cold edges and its hostile flatness and its use of negative space, Big Fish Theory feels like, in its own way, a logical continuation of what Staples was doing on Summertime ’06.
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On Features:
But those big names, for the most part, have absolutely no impact on the music that Staples is making. “Love Can Be” reduces Damon Albarn to a disembodied, buried-in-the-mix voice. A$AP Rocky mutters a hook and does nothing else on “Samo.” I have literally no idea what Bon Iver does on “Crabs In A Bucket”; I can’t hear him anywhere. I think “Homage” gets the “featuring Rick Ross” credit just because Staples recycles the hook from Ross’ “Hold Me Back.” There are only two exceptions. On “Rain Come Down,” Ty Dolla $ign does the same croon-through-the-machine things that he already did so beautifully on “Fade,” Kanye West’s own Detroit techno tribute. And on “Yeah Right,” we bear witness to the strange spectacle of Kendrick Lamar tearing a SOPHIE beat to shreds. Kendrick doesn’t get any hall-of-fame quotes on the song, but we do hear what he can do with a deeply unconventional rap beat, and he hits it with something like five different flows in the space of a single verse.
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As for Staples’ own rapping, it’s as calm and icy and mean as ever. In a way, the album’s production sounds even more out-there because of how how unflappable Staples is on top of it. Big Fish Theory isn’t a lyrics-first album the way Summertime ’06 is, and sometimes the beats are so fast and propulsive that it’s hard to keep track of what Staples is saying.
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Very positive impression from them overall though.
 
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Catvoca

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Kendrick doesn’t get any hall-of-fame quotes on the song, but we do hear what he can do with a deeply unconventional rap beat, and he hits it with something like five different flows in the space of a single verse.
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Nabs

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Vince is killing this.

"Here's a fucking banana, eat a dick. Here's a fucking soup can, eat a dick."

It's really too bad that Akademics is so popular. This show would be so much more entertaining and watchable without him. He adds nothing to it. I'm glad he now realizes it and shuts up unless called upon.
 
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