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>Rap wise meaning lyrically, content, flow, personality, etc. >etc. Safe n Sound felt like it was his own style, but >Rhythmalism felt like it was something we had NEVER heard >before, and didn't have much influence from any other >producers at the time. Same way the other post compares Diggin >u out to Gin n juice, yea it was great, but he used samples on >most songs, and most of them were recognizable as >hell....while Rhythmalism came with noooooo samples or even >interpolations aside from Speed (I think), and was on a whole >different level.
I hear you. And that's great, and like I said, Rhythm-al-ism is perfect in its own right.
But two things, one that I already touched on, and one that you touched on above, that confirm my feeling that S&S is his best: 1) as I said in my original post, it's the consistency of S&S that puts it above Rhythm IMO. Sure he used samples, but the samples all meshed together well. Sure it sounded similar to what he had done on Quik is the Name to a certain extent, but the beats were so crisp, hard, and chill all at the same time that I just find it unbelievable. The album sounds thorough and cohesive throughout. Like I said, a song like "Speed" doesn't fit the rest of Rhythm at all, even though it's not a bad song. I'm a sucker for a cohesive album so that's why it takes the cake. 2) as you touched on, S&S was Quik's own style which he sounded most comfortable over, which also (to me) makes it (slightly) preferable to Rhythm. While he took a lot of chances on Rhythm, and let's be honest, succeeded in just about all of them, S&S was kinda his comfort zone, and it showed. It had the west coast sound that was topping the charts but at the same time was so very specific to Quik that it separated itself IMO.
>Without giving TOO much thought, I'd rank em like..... > >1. Rhythmalism >2. Safe & sound >3. Quik is tha name >4. Balance & Options (even though he hates it) >5. Way 2 fonky >6. Trauma >7. Under tha influence >8. Book of David
Yea, I love Balance & Options as well, despite his own hatred for it, and I actually went back and ranked it higher haha after listening to it this week.
>And with that, most folks say "WTF, you think Book of David >was his worst album?" and it's like....I thin the main issue >is that there were no standouts on there to me, and that most >of us didn't have as high expectations as we did on other >albums, so we judge them different. On the other albums, it's >at least 1-2 classic, great tracks that he put out. Black >Mercedez, Trouble, Do I love her, Jus lyke Compton, Mo pussy, >etc etc etc....on each of his albums, great or not as good >(not bad), he had some standouts that we still love to death. >This album didn't have any....and nah, it didn't have but 2-3 >filler skippable tracks, and had some good songs, but just >nothing that made me love it like that.
"Nobody" wasn't a standout/classic?! Otherwise, though, I fully hear you. It still stood amongst my top albums of the year for 2011 but it's missing the "it" factor that many/most of his previous albums had. I still find it to be right in the middle of the pack in my rankings, but I get what you're saying.
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