bono_212
Blue Crack Distributor
Ok, see, that makes perfect sense, and really was what I assumed it meant all along, but at the same time, I just. wasn't. sure.
i'm looking forward to Lasers as well, i've really enjoyed every Lupe track i've heard.
could you recommend me an album? i've got about 15 of his songs, but they're all tracks we downloaded back when we thought we were gangstas back in the day.
btw i was reading up on that song the other day, and apparently it was a b-side! not just that but a lot of people (Biggie included) seemed to think it was a massive overreaction to the whole East v West thing that was going on.
you are going to be pleased with a number of tracks on my DI list i think
You know I joined this group on facebook back in the day, "if tupac and biggie were still alive lil' Wayne would be working at mcdonalds"
The fact that it came out the same year as Stankonia blows my mind. Is there any other excellent space-age hiphop like that? It's got to be a pretty minor niche, awesome though it may be.
Yeah, alright, that was a terrific recommendation, Cassie. Man. It was probably 3-4 songs too long, but I loved most of the tracks, so it's not a significant flaw either way. Blu is a terrific MC, and Exile's beats are lush. If there is a flaw with the songs themselves, it's that the lyrics swing too close to the autobiographical for my liking; it's the sort of TMI deal that sinks Kid Cudi for me, but this manages to slip by (for the most part) unscathed, because Blu is so much stronger an MC.
Dude, glad you enjoyed it! Yeah, 60 minutes is long for any album, imo. I'm still a hardcore believer in the 40-45 minute album. It's the perfect length.
If I may ask, because I've seen you mention this before, what are you looking for lyrically, if not the autobiographical? To me, I guess it seems like a whole lot of hip-hop swings dangerously close to that line, so I'm pretty curious.
I firmly believe Illmatic is probably the "best" hip-hop album of all time because it's so taut. No unnecessary tracks: all of them add up to the full, melancholic, beautiful picture.
The thing is, that album is also one of the most autobiographical around. And that's terrific. My beef with Blu is that, at least at this stage in his career, it seems as if all he could write about was himself, and while that's great in small doses, I felt the record got slightly navel-gazey in points. The storytelling wasn't quite as strong as I would hope. So, I dunno, I guess it's all a matter of degrees.
it's the sort of TMI deal that sinks Kid Cudi for me
yep. Man on the Moon II was in the bottom five albums i heard last year for pretty much that very reason. i smoke a lot of weed, and bitches love me, and i'm rich and successful and famous but man, my life is horrible, and hears 70 minutes expressing explicitly why.
every time i listen to Illmatic i hear something new. i think with time it too will become one of my favourites. interesting that Jay-Z diss on him in i think it's "The Takeover" is along the lines of, "you had a big hit with Illmatic, but you've done fuck all since then". now i really like The Blueprint and Jay-Z (obviously) but having heard that and The Black Album he can't match the remarkable Illmatic.