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Kanye West & Jay-Z present: Watch The Throne
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It's almost factual that Murder to Excellence is the only amazing track on this album.
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So there's no way he just didn't like the album? His pseudo hipster persona just did it for the lols right?mooooose said:
XANDER CAGE
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I really love this album, although I also loved Dark Twisted Fantasy so I'm sure that invalidates my opinion to many. It's way better than Blueprint III, that's for damn sure.
Max Armstrong
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My god, this album is even better when I'm sober. For some reason I wasn't really feeling That's My Bitch yesterday, but damn, that beat is bananas.
I've seen enough of his videos and reviews to know that if something has commercial backing or hype of any kind he loves to say his expectations were let down, NO MATTER HOW GOOD IT IS. However, if it's a no budget indie album he gives the artist total benefit of the doubt but still shrouds his reviews with the names of musical devices to make himself sound better when a lot of the time the musician isn't that deep.Dr Eggman said:
Just like in his interview for this, he complained that Ye and Hov were drunk off their egos and wanted them to make music with a harder hitting impact. Ye makes some good concept songs but overall they seem WAY more forced and trite than shit like Niggas in Paris which comes off 100X more natural. He also calls That's My Bitch CHEAP? He has no idea what he's talking about in production. Like one of the other posters here (who is/was an producer/engineer) said the drums are completely chopped (this hipster said they were boring and cheap), cheap scratches, and cheap synths. How was the synth cheap?! It was droaning and bass-y and unsettling without sounding cheap at all. It sounded full. Overall, synths ALWAYS end up sounding a little "cheap" by the nature of the beast. He just loves to complain about shit.
He's a fucking nerd bro.
POWERSPHERE
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Hey, this record isn't total shit. What's happened! Jay Z isn't as horrible as he's been in recent years. Sure he's no Black Album era, but he's doing it. And the beats are great.
Fun fact: Kanye didn't produce this. He owed Cam some tracks on a deal gone sour and let Cam have his pick, so Cam picked this and what would become Dipset Forever, but Cam didn't know that even though the beats were in Ye's stash they wre actually made by Brian Miller, a producer Ye collaborated with on College Dropout and worked on many other Rocafella releases during this time.brianjones said:
Amazing song though. Probably my favorite Cam song ever.
WanderingWind
Mecklemore Is My Favorite Wrapper
There is a reason why so many songs off this are basically just the name of the beats. The lyrics and everything are just so-so throughout, but the beats are all fantastic. Not really a bad one in the bunch, IMO. No Church is the clear standout on the record, and probably the only track I'll still be bumping a year from now.
polyh3dron
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1/10, would have given you a better score for misspelling Kanye like "Kayne".tehbible said:
Max Armstrong
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That's fucking ridiculous. Jay-Z is not the most creative guy around, but Kanye? You may not like his stuff, but NOTHING sounds like what he does, nothing. He always comes out with some new fresh sound that people will try to copy until he releases something else.tehbible said:
spindashing
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New Day is definitely growing on me.
Man, I just checked out the digital booklet that came with the album.
Man, I just checked out the digital booklet that came with the album.
That's some illuminati bullshit, I won't be surprised if we all die after listening to this album several times.
soul creator
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cacophony said:that shit
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DangerStepp
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While I do enjoy the album (it's taken some time to grow on me), I do agree with this guy on his points. Disagree with him or not, he's articulate and does well with hitting the high points as well as the low.Dr Eggman said:
DevelopmentArrested
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you know that's what jay-z has been rapping about for like 12 years now right?jordan0386 said:
cj_iwakura
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Wait, is That's My Bitch on the album? Also, I loved his Twista collaborations.
cj_iwakura
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overcast said:
SOLD.
polyh3dron
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THAT SHIT
Complex Shadow
Cudi Lame
that's whats wrong with music reviews. there is no one person that can review music without throwing his/her opinion in.cacophony said:
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Just listened to the needledrop review.
Mistake #1 - Calling it a pop rap album. It's not. Not in any way, shape or form.
Mistake #2 - Dismissing bragging completely as a negative point of the album, then saying in parts it's charismatic bragging so that makes it okay there.
Otherwise he's pretty on-point with his review. His scales are always on some other ish though.
Mistake #1 - Calling it a pop rap album. It's not. Not in any way, shape or form.
Mistake #2 - Dismissing bragging completely as a negative point of the album, then saying in parts it's charismatic bragging so that makes it okay there.
Otherwise he's pretty on-point with his review. His scales are always on some other ish though.
XANDER CAGE
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tehbible said:
Murder to Excellence? New Day? Made in America? Hell, some of the more party-hard-hell-yeah braggart songs have fairly personal issues raised in them.
Discotheque
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So Appalled is > this entire album.
Kanye needs to cut that annoying stretched syllables shit, I'm definitely enjoying Jay Z a lot more here. Still some songs on here are pretty entertaining, but Jay is the highlight of them all.
actually Kanye is alright on Murder to Excellence as well. But that track is the best on the album.
Kanye needs to cut that annoying stretched syllables shit, I'm definitely enjoying Jay Z a lot more here. Still some songs on here are pretty entertaining, but Jay is the highlight of them all.
actually Kanye is alright on Murder to Excellence as well. But that track is the best on the album.
Max Armstrong said:
Igotracksonracksonracks .... HAHHHHH?
But really, I don't think anybody has tried to copy Kanye. I think he's occasionally tried to position himself as the prototype for others to follow (see 808's), and he's original enough apart from his increasingly terribad lyrics, but nobody except maybe guys on his label have tried to sound like him, much less copy him. The rest of the industry kind of lets him do his thing, which is fine (again, apart from the lyrics, eww).
If it was 2 rappers you never heard of spitting lines like
"Damn baby pussy cant be your only hustle
Unless you bad as Naomi Russell
I mean a lot of niggas got money
So basically, Russell aint the only Russell
Russell Brand, Russell Crow
Zero Zero Zero Zero, a whole lot of 0s"
or
"Fuck your awards like Eddie Murphys couch
The Roc is in the building we should have stayed in the house"
you guys would probably laugh it off as terrible.
Technosteve
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when is this album going to be on amazon for 5 dollars?
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