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Kanye West & Jay-Z present: Watch The Throne
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Ninja Scooter
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Dabanton said:This pic is from July this year.
Not liking the look of the entire leg area. Lets hope she's back to her best soon...
Complex Shadow
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what i learned from WTT:overcast said:
you can let swizzy make beats, but don't let him near a mic.
DominoKid said:
but yea, gotta have it and even Otis have become 2 awesome tracks for me. Gotta Have It is just pure fun like Hate from BP3.
"blasting off like a laser, pew pew pew. db9 they go vroom vroom vroom" =
"(Racks on racks on racks, Maybachs on bachs on bachs on bachs)
Who in that? (Oh shit, its just blacks on blacks on blacks"
This is a good to very good album. But never nothing more than that. There are moments of greatness, but it's mixed together with mundane, ordinary or just good. Some songs verge on classic, but either a bad verse or some weird production keeps it from truly spectacular.
For me the only real classic song, one of the best hip hop tracks in years (for me personally) is Murder To Excellence. It's simply sublime. Poignant, different, important, lyrically strong and very well produced.
For me the only real classic song, one of the best hip hop tracks in years (for me personally) is Murder To Excellence. It's simply sublime. Poignant, different, important, lyrically strong and very well produced.
velvet_nitemare
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Anyone going to the Dec 12 show at The Staple Center?
Ninja Scooter
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velvet_nitemare said:
Didn't know it was happening. Are tickets gone/ridiculously overpriced now?
velvet_nitemare
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Ninja Scooter said:
Quick google search showed tix from $139. Pricey, but could be fucking epic.
iAmMaximus
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Dabanton said:This pic is from July this year.
Not liking the look of the entire leg area. Lets hope she's back to her best soon...
I cried a little.
velvet_nitemare
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Just saw that Alicia Keys pic, is she pregnant or something?
Christ she fell off.
Christ she fell off.
justin12140
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So im gunna have to say that my favorites of this album are:
lift off
niggas in paris
gotta have it
who gon stop me
made in america
why i love you
very good album. I think this might be slightly better than twisted fantasy
lift off
niggas in paris
gotta have it
who gon stop me
made in america
why i love you
very good album. I think this might be slightly better than twisted fantasy
velvet_nitemare
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Tokubetsu said:
Um, did you notice where i asked if she was pregnant? I obviously didn't know that, and i could see a woman gaining weight when pregnant. Chill out.
Wanda/Wander
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Throavium said:
I hope she doesn't go the route of the other Divas and decide to let herself go.
soul creator
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Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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*SMH* at all the Swizzy hate up in here, especially when it comes to him lyrically! Shit must be going over people's heads and shit. Personally, I got all the time in the world for Swizzy to drop some knowledge on me, just like in the 'Lord Lord Lord' track:VaLiancY said:
AK on the lap like whats that
clik clak
this is something special
this is something new
All white Bentley I call that momma
my life crazy like Obama's
you talk slick well I'm Osama
Bin Laden, whats happenin' I get it crackin'
all black carpet, Ima rich yeah
its gonna take you a couple years to get this here
thank AP while they thank me
and I'd be mad too if you aint me
call me Mr D's or Mister boss
see me riding clean in a Rolls Royce
niggas talking funny that's old money
niggas looking crazy but they acting funny
nowadays rappers, they like bloggers
you see me I'ma bank hogger
coming through your hood and I brings trucks
with 25's on it like what the fuck
hundred feet and better why they fuck you stick
paparzzi on the water, why the fuck you stick
my face got the fuck you pricks
my beats go hard like fuck you dicks
pourin' champagne damn thing
sit there rockin' sway nigga in the damn ring
aint a damn thing, money aint a damn thing
ask Yeezy and Mos we do the god damn thing
get down to the precious lovers
Hating cause he's a bank hogger. He already told you he do the damn thing! AK on the lap and all of that!
Agent_J
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i know athiest-GAF doesn't care, but jay-z and kanye are REALLY pushing an anti-religion agenda on this album. all kinds of blasphemy like mary magdeline on a stipper pole. not believing in god, because the beat is the religion. jay comparing himself to god and kanye to jesus. illuminati, etc.
to a god-fearing man like me, it disturbs me but at the same time, i know this is how many people act. they don't care about god anymore. tyler, the creator and odd gang future whatever are so satanic (omg they're just rapping right? lol) and people are following and listening to them so frequently it just saddens me.
to a god-fearing man like me, it disturbs me but at the same time, i know this is how many people act. they don't care about god anymore. tyler, the creator and odd gang future whatever are so satanic (omg they're just rapping right? lol) and people are following and listening to them so frequently it just saddens me.
soul creator
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slick7rick said:
he made Jesus walks, so he's never going to hell, sorry
Saren is Bad
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slick7rick said:
lol this is neogaf dude
Agent_J
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what significance? have you ever listened to jay-z's music before this? or even kanye west?
college dropout was CLASSIC. full of humble stories, family, hustling to make ends meat, and self-conscious introspective. his next album was a watered down version of college dropout. he lost his way with the graduation album. he had nothing else to say, but he had great beats to produce.
jay-z came from the streets, but there is no street talk on watch the throne. he has no more stories to tell. as a hip hop listener, this whole album (lyrically) is garbage. if it were not for the amazing production, i wouldn't keep listening.
it's only my opinion, and i know collectively GAF doesn't give a fuck what i say. but i just want to speak my mind. rap is so dead right now. these two artists used to be soooooo fucking good.
college dropout was CLASSIC. full of humble stories, family, hustling to make ends meat, and self-conscious introspective. his next album was a watered down version of college dropout. he lost his way with the graduation album. he had nothing else to say, but he had great beats to produce.
jay-z came from the streets, but there is no street talk on watch the throne. he has no more stories to tell. as a hip hop listener, this whole album (lyrically) is garbage. if it were not for the amazing production, i wouldn't keep listening.
it's only my opinion, and i know collectively GAF doesn't give a fuck what i say. but i just want to speak my mind. rap is so dead right now. these two artists used to be soooooo fucking good.
velvet_nitemare
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soul creator said:
Heh, took me a second lol
soul creator
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slick7rick said:
Hell, I'd even agree with a lot of this post. I don't see what any of this has to do with your "anti-religious lyrics omg!" post above though.
Jo Shishido's Cheeks
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slick7rick said:
:-OSwizz Beats (in Lord said:
I tried to tell everybody, Swizzy spits that true shit. He knows what's up slick7rick, he knows Kanye do the god damn(ing) thing too, we see you Kanye!
MaritalWheat
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slick, you should read Jay-Z's book (Decoded). I think you'll have a much greater appreciation of WTT after. It convinced me that Jay still has more than a little to say. And as to the religion part, well, that's opinion man--you can't fault them for what that message is just because you disagree with it. But regardless, that's only a part of it.
MorisUkunRasik
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slick7rick said:
Immortal is trash, sorry.
slick7rick said:
I think the problem is that you're not digging deep enough into the genre. Yeah, I know you said that you don't want to dive into indie rap, but Immortal Technique is indie as well. A lot of commercial rappers with conscious lyrics don't perform as well as they used to (Nas' last 2 LPs using shock value in order to sell records). Guys like Blu or The Illz (his free album, "The Pursuit LP" is incredible, shoutout to GAF-Hop for pointing me towards a DL link!) sound like they're geared towards the hip hop that you're looking for.
MorisUkunRasik
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Immortal has the flow of a middle school battle rapper. That's great that he can recite a history book to a beat, but he's boring as hell. How many times has he recycled that one flow now? Does anybody have a number for that?
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Lol, funny thing is that Odd Future is just putting on a front and does it to make fun of. They aren't really satanic and I believe one of the members is actually a christian..slick7rick said:
If I've got this right, basically your not getting your fill of political lyrical rap and so you come into a Kanye West and Jay-Z thread to say that hip hop is dead because your sub-genre isn't as prominent as it once was a decade or so ago? What do you want? Ye and Jay to change their style to appease you? For them to make the same kind of music forever? Also fearing some anti-religious agenda from The Throne after Ye put out an album discussing his difficulties with religion doesn't make sense. Can you not enjoy music with religion as the topic unless it's pretty much preaching to you? Are criticisms or struggles with religion not welcome?slick7rick said:
You dug a hole for yourself when you said you don't give a shit about indie rappers but do give a shit about "real hip hop." Your being ignorant of the entire genre and generalizing based upon who is most successful at the moment, and on a metric of how religious they are.
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