Man, I been on "The Further Adventures of Lord Quas" for like a week now. Shit just keeps gettin better. Plus it's long as hell. I did a 30 mile bike ride Sunday morning and it lasted damn near the whole ride. It went off and I stopped and threw on "People Hear What They See" and only got to track 3 before I was back at the crib. SOOOO many dope beats. "Bullyshit", "Players of the Game" and "Bartender Says" are my standouts, though. What about yall?

P.S. I would pay to have like a 5 minute instrumental of the beat that starts at the 6:22 mark here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT8E7YT7puk

That's my shit! We had a post a while back and course the majority here prefer the first LP but this one connected with the k!d. The crowning achievement for Lib IMO.

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The National - Trouble will find me
Binary Star's new EP
R.A. the Rugged Man: Legends never die


and a ton of singles that are on repeat

werd.

I used to think this was a very overrated album. Thought the highs were some of Kast's best, but the rest of the album was meh to trash. Probably would have given it a 7 out of 10. The last few days I've reevaluated it heavily, finally HEARD some tracks I just dismissed in the past, and would give it a 9 out of 10 if you asked me today.

Stopped sleeping on Oddisee's People Hear What They See, and also checked out The Uncluded's Hokey Fright and the new J. Cole and Mac Miller.

held me down for like 2 months when they came out.

werd.

sorry...that's my shit. forever and ever.

shit is kinda hilarious. Can't believe I didnt know about his beef with Keith Murray, lol.

LOL, I know,right? I remember when he first came out thinking that he was a relative of Redman!! lol

still bumping that shit its insane

just discovered this bout a month ago, and it aint leaving the deck anytime soon.

Still that shit

...Alice Smith "She"...incredible project, well put together, and this women got talent...Peace!

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Revisited Karriem Riggins 'Alone' this past week and was blown away by it. Ran it like 5 times in 3 days.

...no doubt, it's a grower...peace is the word...

I wanted to (finally) listen to it this weekend but couldn't locate it.

can't seem to put it down.

They go hard on that jawnt! Most of the guys on there are from Cali, but it's funny how the album
reminds me of Old School, New York rap! Couple of times I thought I was listening to some of the
members from Wu-Tang, yo! lol

highly underrated.

i dusted this off a few weeks ago and keep playing it on my to work. forgot how much i liked it.

I like it even more than I remember. Such lush arrangments and positive feel

Always have tracks from it on playlists I make. Such a great, consistent album. Very underrated.

I always group this album with In My Lifetime, Vol 1

I think with a few cuts and better sequencing both could be AZ's and Jay-Z's best album respectively.

I remember when the video for Hey AZ dropped and how much I wasn't feeling it.

Especially after the Firm album, I felt like I was going to get more commercialized bullshit from AZ.

The album dropped the same day as Goodie Mob's Still Standing.

The album starts off strong with New Life and I'm Known.

Then the monster Nas collabo, How I'm Livin' which just continued the strong track record AZ and Nas had on features.

Trading Places was the official single and while that track was "whatever" back then, but now I like it even more.

What's The Deal is actually a good commercial track. I'll forever hate rappers for putting a sex interlude on the album. Same with someone getting shot. So the fact the interlude is at the beginning of this joint kinda knocks it back for me.

Love Is Love is probably the best song on the album. Great guest verse by Nature. This is what the Firm album should've sounded like.

The Payback and Sosa are two great 1verse songs. Beats are both tailor made for A.

Just Because was a slacker and just another extension of Hey AZ and the commercial shit on the Firm album.

It's a Boy Thing was horrible and I just remember hating that beat. It's not that bad now and I can play it but it definitely would've been cut.

Pieces of A Man and Last Dayz are both great tracks. 2 of the top 5 on the album.

Whatever Happened is one of the few times RZA did production outside of the Wu and RZA's need to mention "pussy lips" aside, this is a great joint.

Trial of the Century should've been cut. The beat is actually dope but I don't know who allowed that dude to do hooks.

Betcha Don't Know was like Just Because...more nonsense.

I've actually grown to like Hey AZ and probably wouldve taken off Just Because and Betcha Don't Know and just kept Hey AZ.

It's a Boy Thing and Trial of the Century also go.

My track listing would've looked like this

1 New Life
2 I'm Known
3 Trading Places
4 How Ya Livin'
5 Love Is Love
6 Hey AZ
7 Sosa
8 What's The Deal
9 Pieces of A Man
10 Whatever Happened
11 The Payback
12 Quiet Money (intro joint on Love Is Love later found on Half-A-Mil's album)
13 Last Dayz

'What the deal' is no joke one of my favorite AZ songs of all time. The sex intro is irritating though. But yeah, I have every bit as much love for that tune as the Rather Uniques etc.

Rip Kenny Greene. I also was a big fan of Intro.

#1

New Portugal

New and old Vampire Weekend

New QOTSA

I realize it's a mixtape but it's easily the best hip-hop project of 2013 right now.

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http://twitter.com/Gedi

"This is your world. Shape it or someone else will." - Gary Lew

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For Madmen Only is BY FAR the best thing to come out this year. It still hasn't left my rotation....

I have also recently discovered how much I slept on Jonwayne due to stupid superficial reasons....

I can't link up anything right now but those who are curious should google his "I'm a Poor Man" track....


Still diving into the new Zeroh release as well....

KMD? Just put it on to the iPod due to your post... Thank you sir.

that shit is so unique and haunting and soulful. love it.

also been spending a lot of time with black crowes Amorica for some reason.

and
eric clapton - unplugged
van morrison - astral weeks
quadron - avalanche
badu - new amerykah pt.1
sublime - 40oz

I haven't stopped listenting to it since I bought it.

Glad to see positive reviews.

Some people say the production is weak but I think it fits great with the lyrics and flow. No major complaints at all with this album.

Track listing No. Title Writer(s) Producer(s) Length
1. "The Recollection Facility" Pharoahe Monch 0:27
2. "Time2" M. Bruno · T. Jamerson Marco Polo 3:14
3. "Losing My Mind" (featuring Denaun) T. Jamerson Jesse West 3:17
4. "Heroin Addict" T. Jamerson · L. Stone Pharoahe Monch 1:05
5. "Damage" T. Jamerson · L. Stone Lee Stone 3:38
6. "Bad M.F." T. Jamerson · L. Stone Lee Stone 3:07
7. "The Recollection Facility Pt. 2" Pharoahe Monch 0:21
8. "Rapid Eye Movement" (featuring Black Thought) M. Bruno · T. Jamerson · T. Trotter Marco Polo 4:22
9. "Scream" Q. Chris · T. Jamerson Quelle Chris 2:28
10. "SideFX" (featuring Dr. Pete) Pharoahe Monch 0:59
11. "The Jungle" M. Bruno · T. Jamerson Marco Polo 4:13
12. "Broken Again" N. Banns · T. Jamerson · J. Singer · C. Soper The Lion Share Music Group 4:17
13. "Post Traumatic Stress Disorder" T. Jamerson DJ Boogie Blind, B.A.M. 3:43
14. "D.R.E.A.M." (featuring Talib Kweli) T. Green · T. Jamerson · L. Stone Lee Stone 4:24
15. "The Recollection Facility Pt. 3" Pharoahe Monch 0:28
16. "Eht Dnarg Noisulli" (featuring The Stepkids) T. Ibrahim · T. Jamerson The Stepkids, Pharoahe Monch 4:42
Total length: 44:45

Great project...Monch is that nice...

I loved their first album, which they dropped in 2012. This album is pretty damn good as well, though it hasn't struck me as being as good as their first one...yet. It's really damn good tho. I love King I Divine's beats.

They regrouped and started touring, I remember deciding not to go since the price point was so high (think tix were around 40-50) but I saw a concert review and got mad at myself.

Just great forward looking straight ahead rock.

Pretty much all of his mixtapes...there were some gems buried on the kanyestrumentals one...I'm hoping his debut lives up to my lofty expectations

He's got a weird shaped head (there's a picture of him without a hat on the inside of the cover, he kind of looks like Mr. Potato head or a beluga whale with glasses, I'm torn between the two) but when you look past that the album's pretty good. I told my cousin on the phone that I thought it was solid queens street shit and he just laughed at me. He never told me why though so maybe he was just laughing at something his brother (Daryl) was doing in the background. His brother's pretty funny in a "you laugh at him" kind of way, so it's very possible. There was one time when we were eating dinner with Daryl and he was eating coleslaw. Every time he took a bite of his cole slaw he would get some on his cheek and he never even noticed it. At first it was kind of annoying but then it just got funnier as dinner progressed. My cousin and I were cracking up and couldn't stop laughing the whole time and Daryl started getting really pissed. Of course that made us laugh even more, and finally after we had been laughing at him for about half an hour out of nowhere Daryl picked up one of the hot dogs that was on his plate and stuffed it in his pants. I looked at my cousin like "What the heck is your brother doing?" Then he unzipped his fly and pulled the hot dog out and started screaming at us. He was really cursing up a storm and he kept screaming "SUCK IT YOU LITTLE RANDY'S!! SUCK IT!" And by this point me and my cousin were really laughing hysterically, I mean almost choking on our food. And then Daryl goes "WHAT!!?? IT'S NOT GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU!!??" and he starts squirting mustard all over the hot dog in some kind of crazy rage and suddenly runs over to where I'm sitting and just starts shoving the hotdog in my mouth and mashing it in my face, but he's like half humping me, half just smushing the hot dog in my face with his hands. It was crazy. You ever have something send you into hysterics but then suddenly something makes you angry too? Like if someone tickles you and at first it's funny but then it gets really annoying but you're laughing too hard to show how annoyed you are? It's very frustrating. I got really pissed when he started mushing my face with the hot dog and messing up my glasses but I was laughing so hard I couldn't stop and so I just started swinging at him since the words wouldn't come. Then my cousin was like, "Break it up! Break it up, you guys!" and came over to separate us. Everything got real quiet and awkward after that and we ended up finishing our dinner in silence, but when I look back on it now, it was really funny. Classic Daryl.

So anyway, the Meyhem Lauren album is pretty good. He's got this one song, "Can't Fuck 'em All," that's probably my favorite. The chorus goes something like, "I can't fuck em all, I can't fuck em all" and my neighbor Cliff loves to sing that part. I told Daryl he should make a remix called "I Can't Fuck Any of Them" and he just gave me a blank look. I don't know if Daryl's all there. His family probably should have gotten him tested at school when he was little, but they moved around so much I don't think they ever had the time.

Can't test 'em all.

Loved Donny for years but mostly rocked only Everything is Everything, his live joints, or his greatest hits collection. Just started to really dig into his self titled and Extensions of a Man albums. Beautiful stuff, man.

Extensions in particular is a motherfucker. Holy shit.

I Know it's You has me damn near testifying whenever I hear it.

http://youtu.be/BxVph9uUG-w


http://twitter.com/collazo

ridiculous

it was doris before that

n/m

He is on such a streak right now it's not even funny. Everything he's done the last few releases, both instrumental and otherwise, is so solid.

I've been known to put "Lusitania" on repeat and just let it play for a half hour, no joke; same with "Three White Horses" from Hands of Glory.

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

or his album that he released this year, but Break It Yourself is really dope. I fucking love "Near Death Experience Experience", "Lusitania" and "Give It Away"...really great stuff

I thought Hands of Glory was just going to be a toss-off of unreleased stuff from Break It Yourself, wasn't expecting much... but there's a lot of good material on there. Not the sequential masterpiece that BiY was, but definitely worth a listen.

My only complaint about BiY was it ran just a touch too long. Don't know what I would cut, but I always found myself losing interest on the last few songs, even though they're all just as good as the rest of the lp...

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

James Brown - Live at the Apollo (1963), Prince - Dirty Mind... all brand spanking new to me outside of Dirty Mind.. but even that has been a complete re-discovery.. it's been a fun month so far.. oh and i've been stuck on like half of Push's My Name Is My Name (just the shit that goes *super* hard)

Couldn't even get thru 19 tho

Like "Crack Beauty" or "Changes". Some weird stuff.
I love how nuanced Kool A.D's content is. Especially on "Open Letter".
19 is the album with "New World" and "Fresh Prince", right?
You really gotta be in the mood for pitched-down/slow tempo drawl rap.
I like that album except for the dancey songs.
63 is good too. He's an absurdist rapper.

>Like "Crack Beauty" or "Changes". Some weird stuff.
>I love how nuanced Kool A.D's content is. Especially on
>"Open Letter".

he's got a lot of dope punchlines

>19 is the album with "New World" and "Fresh Prince", right?

yeah

>You really gotta be in the mood for pitched-down/slow tempo
>drawl rap.
>I like that album except for the dancey songs.

didn't seem to be a lot of differences from track to track & that style just aint my cup of tea

>63 is good too. He's an absurdist rapper.

he's good solo but i miss hearin him w/ heems too...do you know why they split?

amazing album.

Fave tracks:

Alone But Moving
I believe in Action
Make Up Your Mind
Over the Ocean

dissonant deconstructionist rock 'n' roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHepUIx9tKo

I got different songs stuck in my head throughout the day...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=auTY54Q59Y8

I feel like this hasn't received the attention it deserves. It's a really well-rounded, eclectic album, one of the most interesting I've heard this year (and it's been a really good year).

-thebigfunk

~ i could still snort you under the table ~

sleepresearch_facility - dead weather machine

one of the best things i've ever heard

It's been my first time listening to it in it's entirety. I had no idea how awesome this album was/is. It's an excellent album.