the artist?

on some "i just gotta hear it bc everyone else will be talkng abt it" shit?

whats the science on that?

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albums leak.
i was at the store the day MJ's history dropped
because i wanted to get a copy of it as soon as possible.

and i wasn't the only one.

i can't imagine anybody having that type of anticipation for ANY album
nowadays.






but to answer your question,
i (used to) give an album a listen if it had a lot of hype
was because i love music, so if everybody was talking about an album,
i wanted to get exposed to the music that got folks going.

and yes, if an album got a shit load of hype,
even if i didn't like it on the first spin,
i'd give if a few more spins so i could figure out
if i was missing something that everybody else was hearing.

usually, i'd get to the root of what folks liked about it
even if it wasn't my cup of tea.



because usually, if a lot of folks dig an album,
there is SOMETHING to it. maybe the album was challenging me
and i missed an angle that i didn't hear on the first listen.



but music isn't as important to me as it once was,
so i'm okay if i miss the boat on certain things.


i understand why folks
try to get their hands on every new album that has a buzz,
because i remember a time in my life when nothing was more
exhilarating than hearing new music and having those chills going up your spine when it connects with you.



but nowadays, i'll get to it when i get to it.
if i get to it at all.



it's all good. part of growing up, i guess. lol

like i notice in the cop post lots of ppl sayin they dont rly fuck w/ ross but still givin their impressions...or just in general u see ppl clown a lot of these rappers but they still rush to hear the leak of their album so they can participate in the peanut gallery

personally i dont have time or patience to sit thru and pay attn to an album if im not a fan of the artist or have heard somn i truly like thats related to the album


i get what ur saying too abt wanting to see wat others are excited abt re: "big" releases but i guess even as a teenager i narrowed the type of stuff i listened to to the point where except certain hiphop albums, what was generally popular wasnt on my radar (and im not boasting at all, probably missed tons of good shit or styles of music that couldve led me to other artists in the same vein and my tastes wouldnt have been formed as narrowly as they are, or if not my taste, bc i dig a variety of sounds, my knowledge beyond just the songs that got mtv vids)

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>like i notice in the cop post lots of ppl sayin they dont rly
>fuck w/ ross but still givin their impressions...or just in
>general u see ppl clown a lot of these rappers but they still
>rush to hear the leak of their album so they can participate
>in the peanut gallery
>



i know what you mean.
i don't do that anymore, but i used to.

i remember when i got caught up in the hoopla behind "get rich or die trying." i remember because i was on the campus of hampton university, and the hype was inescapable.

folks were playing the mixtape in their cars,
some of the DJ's were playing the stuff,
and i heard 50 cent's material everywhere
even though i wasn't making an effort to hear it.

50 was everywhere. i heard folks talking about his backstory,
i heard people bumping his music in their whips as they were driving by, i heard the music coming from folks' dorm rooms. it was
inescapable.


then the video for wangster dropped. and then the album.




i didn't buy the album right away,
but i knew every song because everybody was playing it.


and it was cool to be able to chime in on the conversations
when folks were talking about it.




i liked the idea that something was commercially viable,
AND it was artisticly solid. that's the sweet spot for me.
i liked the idea that the masses were behind something that i could
cosign. as dumb as it sounds, it felt like i was "a part of something."


i hadn't LOVED an album that everybody around me loved since
mike jackson's "dangerous," so that was cool.

i understand why folks do it.



it's the same reason i'll check up on movies or tv shows
that folks are talking about. just to be a part of the small talk
around the water cooler or whatever.

so i get it.


music just doesn't hold that place for me anymore.


for example, i don't like rick ross,
and i have 0 desire to give him a chance.
(i did hear a song with mary j. that i thought was good, though.)



>personally i dont have time or patience to sit thru and pay
>attn to an album if im not a fan of the artist or have heard
>somn i truly like thats related to the album
>
>
>i get what ur saying too abt wanting to see wat others are
>excited abt re: "big" releases but i guess even as a teenager
>i narrowed the type of stuff i listened to to the point where
>except certain hiphop albums, what was generally popular wasnt
>on my radar (and im not boasting at all, probably missed tons
>of good shit or styles of music that couldve led me to other
>artists in the same vein and my tastes wouldnt have been
>formed as narrowly as they are, or if not my taste, bc i dig a
>variety of sounds, my knowledge beyond just the songs that got
>mtv vids)

Out of sheer curiosity.

Because I also bought HIStory the day it came out. I was 14.

I was the only one there to buy that.

(granted, this was in central Oregon, so. . .)

~Austin

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i'll be 30 in december.


(i don't mean to say that there was a LINE to buy the album.
but i know other MJ fans that bought it the same day i did.)

I was under the impression that you were much younger.

Don't know why.

I'm 31, obviously.

~Austin

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Granted I grew up in an age that digests music in a very different way than you did. I have 682 singles/EPs/albums from this year alone; even when PR people send me links to stuff I don't care about, know I don't like or won't have time for, I take it just so it's there if it ever comes up on a shuffle or something and I change my mind. I'm absolutely a hoarder in that sense.



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no time and no energy to try to check it all, so even if talked abt alot just cant do it myself

prolly has somn to do w/ age/era-of-growing-up

i used to dl a lot of shit and listen 1nce or never listen but still dl bc i figured i may get to it one day or what have you...

i think this is why i feel like always paying for music now, unless offered free by the artist, it invests me in giving it proper time and narrows the focus on what/who to listen to bc i only have a certain amt of $ to spend on music (similar to growing up when free music only came by dubbing from friends or recording the radio)

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last year. and only working 3 hour days with huge tip money most of the two before that. since I started writing, I've covered at least 100 albums a year plus dipped back into close listening with older albums (and older new discoveries) to fill out the handbook link below.

but now that I'm working truly serious hours I mostly just collect MP3s for the sake of having them in the collection, and the most music-related thing I do during my week is add all the mixtapes and albums I'm received in the mail/email/downloaded. Through 7 months, I've barely cracked 30 albums I've listened to enough to write about, hip-hop or otherwise. At work I just listen to stuff I already know I like. I feel incomplete but I supposed this is what momma always warned me about.

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"This is the streets, and I am the trap." © Jay Bilas

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once i started downloading lps
i started to go back and listen to the lps i passed on due to financial constraints
now, i just download what i like
whether it's an event or not
if it's somethin' i don't fuck with, like this harry fraud guy, i don't even bother

but usually, since i like to see what's poppin', i'll give most things a listen once to see if somethin' sticks with me

life always offers you a 2nd chance...it's called tomorrow. use it wisely

Actually I just realized I haven't heard Blueprint 3 or My Dark Twisted Fantasy. It's weird because I consider myself a fan of both artists. If I find the vibe of the album to be off-putting, I'm not going to rush to check it out.
I like Ross too, but based on the two cuts that were posted last week I don't know about that one either. The fact that he would allow that Andre 3K debacle to take place makes me not want to mess with the album at all.

(hip-hop wise, at least)

I mean, the stuff is accessible enough that I can give about any album a try so I can at least see what the conversation is about. I'll give any album at least one listen through. If I like it, then I'll purchase it. If not, hey, there's lots of other shit out there that I can bump.

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I just don't rush to do it with the crowd much anymore.

then again, I was always like that.

if after a few songs or a previous album, i'll know if i fucks with an artist or not, so i wont give subsequent lps time. if albums are receiving a lot of hype praise i def check it out, but at my own pace.

examples of the former: i don't consider myself a fan of Wayne or Ross, but i'll def listen to songs of theirs, and there are quite a few i like, but (with the exception of Carter III) i haven't given any of their albums any serious attention, because I don't need to.

examples of the latter: Below the Heavans, was getting A LOT of love on this board when i first joined, but i really didn't listen to that album until Nov / Dec of that year. Needless to say I'm not a big fan of it. another would be Watch The Throne, listened to it months after all the misguided thesis papers were written about it, and ended up loving it

Even if it's just once.

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Heavy Ro'
Jay Rock - Redemption
Roc Marci - RR2
Travis Scott - Astroworld
Taz Arnold - rAd americA

...an MASSIVELY HYPED album just ´cause yalls actin´ like its the rebirth of QUALITY hip hop... Oftentimes, mos of it actually, I skip, skip, skip tho.

Ends up listenin´ for a few secs, push the button. No, not the play one.

This goes for smashes like:

WTT, MBDTF, BP3, EMs last 4, etc. etc.

I´ve got my own "event" albums -

A whole album of Bumpy and Premier? Thats HUGE to me, MilitiaxMilitiaxMilitia...

OC doin´ a collabo album with Apollo Brown - ole´ boombap meets new boombap? - THATS an event...

Marco Polo doin´ an album with H.Stax of F.A.B.I.D. fame? - could be CLASSIC to me...

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NEW Edo.G album FreEDOm coming soon!!!

So with the lack of new albums, yeah I'll check for something even if I don't typically fuck with the artist.

be available i'll check em out