Per Oddisee’s Instagram...

They performed together last night at the JFK Center for the Performing Arts.

Anyone go?

Hopefully they do a whole album.

can't wait !

Ayeee!



"I'm twenty-two, catch
In the prime of my life,
I don't have time to be a wife"

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"She was on that tip about stoppin' the violence
About my people she was teachin' me..."

>Hopefully they do a whole album.
I agree...ideally all Oddisee beats and Phonte raps...Oddisee's a great producer but I'm good on his lyrics

His only flaw is he sounds exactly the same on every song.

He is a technically proficient rapper who def takes story lines beyond the usual subjects. But at a full albums length it starts to feel homogenized.


werd.

"People Hear What They See" is such a dope album to me from a production standpoint but halfway thru I get so bored by his flow.

It’s not his flow to me...it’s his diction.

No matter what vibe of the song, he attacks the beat the same way vocally as opposed to matching the feeling.

His flow and rhyme scheme definitely switch up though.

I think it the reason some people say that he comes off heavy-handed or preachy.

It's his diction, his tone, his presence ... always the same.


>It’s not his flow to me...it’s his diction.
>
>No matter what vibe of the song, he attacks the beat the same
>way vocally as opposed to matching the feeling.
>
>His flow and rhyme scheme definitely switch up though.
>
>I think it the reason some people say that he comes off
>heavy-handed or preachy.

>I think it the reason some people say that he comes off
>heavy-handed or preachy.

^^This is my problem. I don't mind the way he attacks beats.
Weird thing is, he's the ONLY rapper I find too preachy. I love KRS, and tons of "conscious" rappers that get criticized for being "holier than thou". Never really bothers me. All rappers preach some lifestyle or another.
The only time I feel like I'm being talked down to by a rapper, is when I'm listening to Oddisee. I think its because he's "humble-bragging"...or that he's just not clever/sharp enough lyrically to make his humble-brags work, imo.

He just isn’t creative or clever enough to pull
off being as preachy as he is.

He also doesn’t seem to open up about his own
faults/mistakes etc.

Even if you compare him to Tay- obviously
Phonte is 50x the rapper he is. But Tay’s music
is also honest/sincere/relatable.

Oddisee is none of that.

I’ve tried several times, and I can’t get in to him

Repetitive flow + boring content + talking down to me?

Nah.

Beats are cool I guess, though there are easily
20 producers I’d be more hyped about working
with Tay

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Great news...brothers gonna eventually come to appreciate the genius of Oddisee...

Is that still happening?

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

Just rocked some Diamond District the other day.

Interesting to see how this collab sounds. We could probably string together two accapella's to a dope Oddisee beat and get a taste.


werd.

"We only planned on doing 5-6 songs, but we hit a stride so we did 12."

Hope they tour afterwards too!

I’m so glad Phonte is regularly rapping again.

And I LOVE Foreign Exchange, but it was just too early for rapping Phonte to be gone for good. He’s too good at it.

So his two solos had wack beats?

I realized there were 3-4 great songs + cheap
sounding filler

Damn shame.

>So his two solos had wack beats?

plenty of room for improvement in the production dept, yes

Looking forward to this.

It was a pretty good show. Seeing Phonte do So Help Me God in the Kennedy Center was surreal, lol.

I wondered if he performed too. Great that they’re rocking together again. Easily top 3 favorite rap group for me.

only pointed out bc these things never seem to happen when actual release dates/time frames get officially announced, let alone alluded to

“I got Phonte to agree to do an EP with me” followed by “2019 is murder” pretty much alludes to that. *shrugs*

Recorded both sets...haven't posted them yet...

Epic Night to say the least...

i really wanna hear that shit

https://youtu.be/sxKP505VT-8

werd.

Shit, he DID do stand up during this event. I know Phonte is naturally a funny cat. But he got stand-up chops. Looks like it was a great night.


werd.

The chord at the beginning of TWYDI always get me. Then Pooh coming out...man takes me back. Thanks for sharing.

...now anybody can see it for free (and Google gets most of the benefit because every click adds to their online ad dominance)...whereas pre-cameraphone days, you could keep rocking the same set throughout a tour, now you get to the next town and they've already seen that set on Youtube. I'd say if you plan on seeing Tay live in 2019, you should probably not click that. If you like being surprised anyway...some people watch a bootleg of a whole movie before they go to theater to see it LOL

On one hand, I feel like everything would be more energetic if the crowd was fully engaged instead of watching a show through their phone and not getting hype because they're trying to keep their hand steady...

on the other hand, there are people all over the world who will probably never get to see Tay live because they live in rural Yemen or wherever...and Youtube is where they can plug in.

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com

Dude was out of breath by the second song. He obviously didn’t spend much time rehearsing that. I cut it off when he urged what appeared to be a half white crowd to repeat the hook “so help me god, I’ll murder you n——s”. Um. No.

Peace,

Spirit (Alan)
http://wutangbook.com