but i figure'd yall would appreciate this making of
http://www.xxlmag.com/features/2012/07/the-creation-of-blu-exiles-below-the-heavens-five-year-anniversary/

i like the snippets from the new one tho.

k.

along with Black Star, Grind Date, Game Theory & maybe Stakes Is High.

>along with Black Star, Grind Date, Game Theory & maybe Stakes
>Is High.

"everyone's entitled to their opinions" in the Nas post?

In other words, yea people around here love all the albums you just named (me included) but...that's just part of having an opinion, which we're entitled to, isn't it?

Iunno.

a highly disproportionate amount of praise/acclaim here contrasted by their overall view/standing in the genre outside of it.

and naturally the albums you named are gonna get praise on a website created by a group who in one way or another is affiliated with every artist represented by those albums...

I mean I get what you're saying but I don't, at the same time. Haha. Not trying to bust balls.

which in this case means De La & The Roots, those albums are viewed in higher regard compared to the rest of their catalog here than anywhere else.

You will never hear people outside this site bring up Game Theory as The Roots' best album, here it's damn near the majority.

You will also never read Stakes Is High or Grind Date brought up in a 'best rap albums' list like you will see 3 Feet or Dead but here (particularly amongst the younger contingent) they're often touted as being better.

This is what places albums like this in the 'Overrated-On-OKP' category, their place is measurably disproportionate to the overall consensus.

Get It? Good.

>which in this case means De La & The Roots, those albums are
>viewed in higher regard compared to the rest of their catalog
>here than anywhere else.

Such as where?


>You will never hear people outside this site bring up Game
>Theory as The Roots' best album, here it's damn near the
>majority.

Where outside this site?

Just about anybody I've ever talked to, Internet or face to face, who likes the Roots considers Game Theory to be one of their best 2 or 3 albums


>You will also never read Stakes Is High or Grind Date brought
>up in a 'best rap albums' list like you will see 3 Feet or
>Dead but here (particularly amongst the younger contingent)
>they're often touted as being better.

I don't think I've ever heard anyone call Grind Date their best album or even close to it. But plent of people here and elsewhere say they love it. Again, an opinion. It got good reviews.


>This is what places albums like this in the 'Overrated-On-OKP'
>category, their place is measurably disproportionate to the
>overall consensus.
>
>Get It? Good.

No need to be a bitch, bitch.

Roots affiliates?

.

.

considered 'Thriller' in certain underground or Def Jux circles but I'm not that familiar with those groups.

Since 1976

it was the stillborn line

on there along with the rapping was special.

>along with Black Star, Grind Date, Game Theory & maybe Stakes
>Is High.


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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)

since "Illmatic". That was quite a stretch. It was solid but that type of Hip-Hop isn't really the type of stuff that make me lose my shit or resort to hyperbole...

You guys who have fear of being labelled a backpacker
starting distancing yourself from it

Same crowd who unfairly shits on Talib in general

'Black Star' is in the masterpiece category, anyone
with ears knows it, its not debatable



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O_E: "Acts like an asshole and posts with imperial disdain"




"I ORBITs the solar system, listenin..."

(C)Keith Murray, "

and a solid opening salvo in Astronomy.

The rest is some of Hi-Tek's sleepiest beatwork, a lame Slick Rick homage which is basically redundant with Hater Players, and not much else worth remembering outside *maybe* Thieves In The Night.

It's a twelve-song collabo album that still manages to have plenty of snoozeworthy skipping material on it.

It's correct view is about a three-star out of five album when evaluated as an actual album outside the cultural milileu it was borne out of & symbolized.

Both Mos & Kweli's first solos were better and neither of those are amongst the Top 25-50 records this genre has to offer either.

Respiration is an all-time great rap song though, that was true then & remains true now.

.

n/m

that nigga get his carrer together or something?

cause if he would have lived up to the potential of this album there would be no need to be this nostalgic about an album that came out 5 years ago and a nigga still proving himself.

Cold hearted is amazing tho I'll give him that.

like mofo having 5 year high school class reunion...yall just want a reason to get fucked up stop it..most of yall still living at home right outta school talkin about 5 year reunion.

>like mofo having 5 year high school class reunion...yall just
>want a reason to get fucked up stop it..most of yall still
>living at home right outta school talkin about 5 year
>reunion.

Hahahaha good call.

>like mofo having 5 year high school class reunion...yall just
>want a reason to get fucked up stop it..most of yall still
>living at home right outta school talkin about 5 year
>reunion.
>

SICK!!!

Says a bunch of corny shit throughout this. Especially his last line, killed me:

"That led to the formation of Blu & Exile, and the making of the *now classic* Below the Heavens"

FOH bro who says that.

to a lot of different people in that interview...seems just generally enthusiastic about the album.

I don't blame him...its not a perfect album by any means but it is a phenomenal release- an outstanding album and he's a big part of why.

But dude actually comes across as Blu AND Aloe Blacc's biggest fan.


I didn't mind the read either...they are clearly trying to build hype and re-establish the brand after Blu's actions lately. Don't blame em at all.

Decent read...didn't realize how important Emanon was to putting Blu on...

***I'm still trying to figure out why Common turned down beats by Exile

>***I'm still trying to figure out why Common turned down beats
>by Exile


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I don't like the beat anymore because its just a loop. ALC didn't FLIP IT ENOUGH!

Flip it enough? Flip these. Flip off. Go flip some f*cking burgers.(c)Kno

Allied State of the National Electric Beat Treaty Organization (NEBTO)

so maybe be grateful someone else got them

we just hear about Common's a lot cause Kanye can't shut his mouth and other producers name drop him because who wouldn't want to submit beats to Common, especially pre-2007.

Isn't Exile white? LOL...

now that I've had some time to think of it that post was reactionary.

so I'm not even really sure why I went at him like that hah. It was the end of the work day tho so I guess it was just the office bringin me down.

i'd be turned off if one of my favorite artists called their just 5-years-old album a "classic" to the camera

that line still gets the "WTF" look from me. I was just saying I don't know why I went as far as to call the guy "obnoxious" in a general sense since really that's the only line in the whole interview that really made me go "this mufucker serious?"

I kind of feel for him.

I mean, with Blu's recent antics he has kind of f*cked up things for both of them....including their paper.

They have to re-establish the brand for this release.

That line's over the top, but I get why...

>***I'm still trying to figure out why Common turned down beats
>by Exile

He's been there, done that, he needs a little bit more urban thump than Exile can provide. It would have been hard for him to play the "I'm more masculine than you" card with Drake if he was rapping over Exile's Cali happy face beats.

i think i was the 1st one back in the day to post about bLu.. i had bought the 1st 12" singLe exiLe put out w/ kard off. on the A side, and i bought that joint because i heard the b-side, and bLu was ripping on the OG version of souL provider and the beat was way more raw, and i actuaLLy thought he was E-Voc from the B.U.M.S. who had went & gone soLo. LoL. bought that piece from UGHH.com. anyway, i had aLL the sound in coLor joints on vinyL too& shit.. the earLy mid 00's wasnt a bad time in hiphop Looking back, esp when myspace 1st was crackin

because literally nothing else he's put out has come close