1. "Almost like a different person made these." In response to Reply # 0
Still two of his very best songs, and two of my favorites. They were my favorites back when they dropped and remain among my like top 10 favorites today.
6. "RE: I'd prob put Family Business as my #1 Kanye track" In response to Reply # 2
>And yeah, it's amazing listening to his first album and >thinking about how far gone he is from where he started from.
That dude is in there somewhere. That's how stuff like Sunday Service still happens.
But wow, what a difference. I still 'blame' the Taylor Swift thing more than folks seem to. I think that hit him in even a different place than his mom's death.
8. "Yea that seemed to be a major turning point." In response to Reply # 6
>But wow, what a difference. I still 'blame' the Taylor Swift >thing more than folks seem to. I think that hit him in even a >different place than his mom's death.
But I'd argue that his mom's death allowed for the Taylor Swift thing to happen. As brash as he was even prior to his mom dying, I don't think he'd have pulled that move if his mom was still alive, for some reason.
14. "RE: i miss this mos def" In response to Reply # 10 Sun Mar-31-19 08:46 AM by jimaveli
>never really liked kanye on this song but freeway and mos def >held it down > >America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan >than it has exported democracy.
That was during the time that I was confident Mos Def and Common were gonna conquer the rap earth with half albums of Kanye beats and the other half of whatever goodness they'd get from Hi-Tek, Dilla, and others. I was wrong of course, but oh well.
This reminds me: I'm still slightly mad at Common for moonwalking out of Electric Circus when the initial reaction wasn't good. I still need an explanation of how D'Angelo ended up not on the single version of Ghetto Heaven from LWFC. It betrayed the lineage between LWFC and Voodoo.
I'm NOT as mad at him as I was for Maxwell seemingly losing his aura over Embrya's reception. I thought it was the jam. It was 'slower' but Matrimony is easily one of his best songs ever.
>That was during the time that I was confident Mos Def and >Common were gonna conquer the rap earth with half albums of >Kanye beats and the other half of whatever goodness they'd get >from Hi-Tek, Dilla, and others. I was wrong of course, but oh >well.
That would've been the best for everyone. Hah.
>This reminds me: I'm still slightly mad at Common for >moonwalking out of Electric Circus when the initial reaction >wasn't good.
He's since come back around, thankfully. Listen to his appearance on ?uestlove Supreme, they talk about it at length and how it was ahead of its time.
>I still need an explanation of how D'Angelo ended >up not on the single version of Ghetto Heaven from LWFC. It >betrayed the lineage between LWFC and Voodoo.
I mean, gotta think D' was to blame, not Comm right ? Just based on historical precedent and all that haha.
>I'm NOT as mad at him as I was for Maxwell seemingly losing >his aura over Embrya's reception. I thought it was the jam. It >was 'slower' but Matrimony is easily one of his best songs >ever.
16. "common followed through with the kanye/dilla formula" In response to Reply # 14
and Be was an amazing album. But Mos's downfall was really he got lazy with the lyrics and he should have kept up with Talib and continued to make Blackstar albums. He got to a point where he couldn't carry a full song, while Talib couldn't carry a full album. They needed each other.
America has imported more warlord theocracy from Afghanistan than it has exported democracy.
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