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1. Torch
2. Lord Have Mercy
3. THat Part (feat. Kanye West)
4. Groovy Tony / Eddie Kane (feat. Jadakiss)
5. Kno Ya Wrong (feat. Lance Skiiiwalker)
6. Ride Out (feat. Vince Staples)
7. Whateva U Want (feat. Candice Pillay)
8. By Any Means
9. Dope Dealer (feat. E-40)
10. John Muir
11. Big Body (feat. Tha Dogg Pound)
12. Neva Change (feat. SZA)
13. Str8 Ballin
14. Black Thoughts
15. Blank Face (feat. Anderson .Paak)
16. Overtime (feat. Miguel & Justine Skye)
17. Tookie Knows II (feat. Traffic & TF)

listening to it now...

Schoolboy always had a gangster but smooth persona; even him documenting his drug addiction last record had a poetic sheen to it.

This one tho? Grimey and desperate as fuck. Alot to unpack; lots of major or subtle beat shifts...mix of live instrumentation (rock guitar!).

It might be a couple tracks too long, but it's got range. He shows a lot of growth on this album. A much more mature Q. Some of the shit in here is so goddamn hard. Ride Out with Vince Staples definitely stands out in that regard. John Muir is definitely one of my favorite tracks. Could probably do without Big Body and Justine Sky's part of Overtime, which until then was vastly superior to Studio, imo. So, it's got a few flaws, but overall fire and his best album. TDE is 2/2 this year.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

I don’t hear a breakout radio hit but I don’t fuck with radio so what the hell do I know but I think this might prove to be significant.

i could see "Overtime" getting some radio play if miguel's hook is cleaned up a little...but i doubt Q is looking for crazy radio play. he already said in an interview that he wishes he wasn't on interscope since he doesn't give a fuck about being on every radio station.

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Feels like a spiritual child of Game Theory production wise.

It’s probably just me but sonically this feels like Game Theory 2.

Pretty much every beat has me expecting Black Thought to chime in.
I’ve gone through it twice and I’m struggling to think of a hip hop album in recent memory that I like this much. It basically gives the same feeling I got listening to Train of Thought, Black On Both Sides, Like Water For Chocolate, Aquemeni, etc for the first time. There’s a rare level of cohesion from track to track, and not in the generic ‘trap beatz’ or ‘soul beatz’ album sort of way.

I want to jump on that next song but I don’t want to leave the current track either. The beats, rhymes, hooks, interludes, everything fits together and flows seamlessly from one to the next without feeling repetitive or monotonous.

Time will tell but on first glance this is going to be a landmark album. This every bit as adventurous as TPAB to me but has a much more accessible uniformity than Kendrick’s jazz ethos on TPAB.

but it is at least a top 5 release.

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This hard ass, gangsta ass album next to those is pretty funny.
I'm glad you like it that much.
TPAB is to me, the best rap album of the last decade plus, and I definitely think there's something to be said about this being Q's TPAB... The art shows through sonically in a way it never has before.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

It’s a loose comparison to be sure.

Those albums stand out as some of the more thoroughly cohesive albums I can think of. This is musically more adventurous than any of those
Far as Game Theory, listen to “Fase Media”, “In The Music”, “Baby”, “Can’t Stop This” in particular.

The dark, dank, and damn near dire music on those joints has an awful lot in common with what I’m hearing on Blank Face. You could throw “Groovy Tony” and “Ride Out” and “John Muir”right in the middle of Game Theory and never know the difference as far as the production itself goes.

Train of Thought, just check the whole album from a structural standpoint, along with certain sample choices. Shit on Lord Have Mercy he’s rockin a Kweli flow and his voice even has a similar inflection and tone, hell even the recording of his vocal on that reminds me of Kweli on TOT. “Know Ya Wrong”, musically, would sit perfectly inside of TOT.

“Whateva u Want” and “Big Body” feel like a “TPAB beats with a breezy sort of funk.

It’s not the same by any means and it’s probably all in my own head but I’m picking up on a lot of small elements that evoke those albums. It’s thematically different but sonically evokes plenty of pieces of those albums for me.

That said I completely get it if others don’t make those same connections.

read reply and was like ehhhhh - I dunno.
I wasn't really impressed after one listen.
But! I think that's because I was expecting something different.

Next listen I had your thoughts in mind considering
Game Theory is my fav album from The Roots and TOT was an enjoyable
listen when it came out.

I definitely heard what you were hearing the past couple listens.
Good call.

This album is great.

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Probably dress like Kane to this very day

Even with high expectations of Q as an artist, this album surprised me with it's dopeness. It's the type of album I have to make a conscious effort to stop listening to because it has been on rotation for hours strait.

This is easily my favorite album this year.

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Can't believe Tyler did this one.

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Yes! She's on the drugs. (c) BoHagon

it's a very dope grimey album but i think it should've been released in autumn for maximum impact. i don't see myself listening to it much while its so hot outside.

and mixedbyali is the new dr.dre. The mixing is impeccable and refreshing after hearing so many poorly mixed albums in recent times

I hope we get a video for it, this track to the whole album up a level

PEACE LOVE and MONEY

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So CyHi wrote Ye's "That Part" verse. Makes sense now lol. Q delivered! Simple as that.

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

this shit, even with its (at times) problematic aspects of hood blackness, is giving me life

i think outside of "ride out" (which should've closed the LP), and the first half of "know You Wrong" all the best songs were released as videos, which does nothing to take away from how good it is. ohh the wrong rapper got featured on "Groovy Tony", we all know it should've been... but the "eddie kane" second half wewwww

only ones I'd cut are "whateva U want", "Str8 Ballin", and MAYBE "Big Body" (interestingly enough produced by Tyler)... even thought I understand Q was just trying to switch up the tone here and now for an album as insular and guttural as this, but Q always been poetic and raw and he should know, 4 albums deep, that's enough

"Dope Dealer" with 40 gunna have me acting a damn fool in my whip. And again, a Swizz feature/production in post 2010 will always be gold as "lord Have Mercy" proves

the production is contemporary, while pulling from the best of Wu-y eastcoast tradition, and traditional 90s west coast slap

i think i like it better than Malibu right now, which is ironic since Paak's voice murmurs throughout the whole album, still the sequencing is a LIL bit off

i still have Habits & Contradictions as Q's best, but this may be his masterpiece and 2016's top 3

Swizz post 2010 is automatic dope.

I agree.

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I'll listen to Buck and Nas instead for my summer jam off that album.

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Swizz is the one that ruins it.

Nas' verses are dope.

...have me checking for this one

in my ride.

Gat damn this joint bangs!

My first go round and I'm just getting to Black THougHts.

This and Oxymoron are two of the best back to back drops by any artist. Up there with ATLiens and Aquemini; Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders; GKMC AND TPAB; and illmatic and It Was Written.

>This and Oxymoron are two of the best back to back drops by
>any artist. Up there with ATLiens and Aquemini; Low End Theory
>and Midnight Marauders; GKMC AND TPAB; and illmatic and It Was
>Written.

go lol your ass back to the aesop rock post and be happy.

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Just so happens I'm a reasonable human being and know these comments are overboard especially when his first album came and went.

But since you want to be a jack ass...why were you even in the Aesop Rock post?

Just so you could be a hypocrite in this post?

Cool.

>Just so happens I'm a reasonable human being and know these
>comments are overboard

Lol who are you to tell people their personal and subjective taste is "overboard"?

You're being the definitive opposite of "reasonable". That's kind of your gimmick in music posts though.

especially when his first album came
>and went.

What does that album have to do with the opinions expressed about this album?

We've established how unreasonable you are, now you're showing how completely illogical you are.

Your backpack must weigh a ton.

>>Just so happens I'm a reasonable human being and know these
>>comments are overboard
>
>Lol who are you to tell people their personal and subjective
>taste is "overboard"?
>
>You're being the definitive opposite of "reasonable". That's
>kind of your gimmick in music posts though.
>
>especially when his first album came
>>and went.
>
>What does that album have to do with the opinions expressed
>about this album?
>

If you paid attention to be post instead of diving in to reply to me in attempts to fulfill your sense of purpose then you would see that my post was referring to the fact that people are actually saying Oxy and Blank are on the same page as Low End and Midnight when o e of those albums came and went and the other has been out for less than 24 hours.

If that is going a little overboard then more power to you.

>We've established how unreasonable you are, now you're showing
>how completely illogical you are.
>

Yet you're the one responding without actually reading the thread.

>Your backpack must weigh a ton.

Did that feel cool to type?

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I enjoyed it.

Meanwhile you're in multiple threads asking when this album comes out instead of taking your fucking idiot ass to Google to find out.

Glad to see you have some sense.

in the year 2016?

i came into that post curious, and didn't say anything negative to anybody, unlike your dumbass. i didn't even put down aesop rock. you don't know what the word hypocrite means. idiot, i swear.

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And before you respond, know that you getting emotional after seeing a "LOL" is not the same thing as me putting down Q.

You just can't conceive of letting people enjoy something without you stankin up the joint with your fuckery.

I bet you still tag up your bedroom walls. Probably got a closet full of frayed JNCO's

So I guess we're even.

It's not "hyperbole" to enjoy things more than you do, but somehow you're convinced that your personal, subjective tastes are the barometer by which other personal, subjective tastes should be measured.

People enjoy things differently than you. In fact, plenty of things you love other people hate. That likely comes as a tremendous shock to you but that's how these things work.

The "arbitrary music snob" gimmick is dated. You should really find a new gimmick. If it's not a gimmick and this is just who you are?

Yikes.

That's what I find hilarious.

You and others hear an album once and start making statement like "this is the best album in X number of years" and "Oxy and Blank are up there with the best two album run ever"

Come on my man...if that isn't hyperbole then I don't know what is.

Just come in here and talk about the music...no need to overstate things for shock value.

And then get upset when I call bullshit.

>You and others hear an album once
>nd start making statement
>like "this is the best album in X number of years" and "Oxy
>and Blank are up there with the best two album run ever"

THIS. Shit like this is why you're a fucking buffoon.

I STARTED PLAYING THE ALBUM AT 6AM
And was still listening when I first posted about it.

That's what, 7 hours straight before I said a word?

Fun facts, captain caricature:

I have an hour drive into work and work in an office where headphones are allowed and encouraged. I also have a Rhapsody subscription.

Every Friday morning the first thing I do is check for new releases and download anything interesting. I didn’t even know the album was coming, so it’s not like I had some preconceived expectation.

I've had it on repeat all weekend, every chance I had and stand by my initial opinion 100%

But you’re so deep into your clown ass character that you think you know everything about my listening habits.

Did YOU listen to it for that long before expressing an opinion on it?

Shit

Do you even HAVE an opinion on it? Because all I see is you trolling other opinions. You’re not contributing anything at all except buffoonery and terrible character work.

Nothing in hear sounds dumber than your forced, baseless assumptions.

>Come on my man...if that isn't hyperbole then I don't know
>what is.

Lol, come on my man, if you’re not an outdated, clichéd music snob internet troll, I don’t know what is.

You’re the poster child for that shit.

You don’t even have actual, objective opinions or counterpoints, just canned catch-all “lolz you like this more than I do lolz” trolling nonsense. You’re a fucking clown with nothing to offer but that. You haven’t offered an actual opinion. No real critique, no pro/con break down, no “good/bad/ugly” no frame of reference, just “LOL!” and “Hyperbole!”.

You’ve brought absolutely NOTHING of any substance whatsoever to the discussion.

>Just come in here and talk about the music...no need to
>overstate things for shock value.
>And then get upset when I call bullshit.

LOL again with your fucking personal regulations.

“Just come in here and discuss things the way I want you to”.

Look, when you run the site you can force the conversation into whatever tight little box you require.

Get over yourself. People have different opinions than you about music. You are not the arbiter of what people should and shouldn’t like and to what degree.

Take it easy.

I can like Q and call out the hyperbole at the same time.

Perhaps you're the one to caught up in your own agenda to see it any other way.

Step off the ledge bro.

7 hours of straight listening!

I guess we now have our measure of how long we should listen to something before comparing it to albums that have been out for decades.

Cool.

>7 hours of straight listening!
>I guess we now have our measure of how long we should listen
>to something before comparing it to albums that have been out
>for decades.

...or people aren't merely forming snap opinions after "one listen".

Keep moving the goalposts though, that's a standard tactic for clown ass caricatures like you.

>That's what I find hilarious.
>
>You and others hear an album once and start making statement
>like "this is the best album in X number of years" and "Oxy
>and Blank are up there with the best two album run ever"

"This and Oxymoron are two of the best back to back drops by any artist. Up there with ATLiens and Aquemini; Low End Theory and Midnight Marauders; GKMC AND TPAB; and illmatic and It Was Written."

That's how I see it. I didn't say that you or anyone else needed to see it or feel the same way I do.

Rock on though, playbwoi.

Again, an album that came and went and one that has been out for a weekend should not be compared to albums that have been out decades.

You're basically comparing a basketball player who has had a great year to Jordan with that statement.

RE: And it's still a ridiculous statement to make

>Again, an album that came and went and one that has been out
>for a weekend should not be compared to albums that have been
>out decades.
>
>You're basically comparing a basketball player who has had a
>great year to Jordan with that statement.
>
>

First: it’s a terrible analogy.

An album is a recording. The album is what it is from the day it drops onward. It doesn’t change. The songs don’t get better or worse, though the context in which they are received by a given listener might change. Still, it’s a static product and can be compared to any album at any time.

The passage of time will determine where an album ultimately falls in a historical context, but that passage of time is not required to determine how one piece of music stacks up against another.

It’s just about the laziest and intellectually inept devices people employ when trying to discredit immediate high praise for art. An album is a product that exists in the same way today, tomorrow, and the next. We’re discussing just that: an album, not a career. Or, in the case of one poster above, two albums in direct comparison to two other specific albums.

Yet, you went with a basketball analogy, an incredibly fluid and dynamic endeavor. Worse, you viewed this as a guy “having his best season” to Jordan. Not Jordan’s best season, but JORDAN, which implies the totality of his career.

The notion that we need some long period of time to determine how good an album is or isn’t is absurd and downright arbitrary. It’s also a telling response from a guy like you, who still hasn’t offered a single thought on the actual album itself despite flooding the post with your trite little missives toward those who actually did.

You’re clearly, inarguably the guy who is “in his feelings” because he can’t stand to see something new get the high praise it deserves because it hasn’t met your arbitrary moratorium.

What’s funny here is not only can you not provide an idea of a reasonable amount of time that should pass before accepting the glowing though purely subjective praise of a piece of art, but the fact that the second you DID provide that number, you would only further illustrate how arbitrary and petty it really is.

You're doing nothing but proving my point.

You're in your feelings.

Neither you nor the hip-hop community will talk about this album next year just like his last album.

"feelings" is the guy who ONLY has an opinion on other opinions, but hasn't bothered to really express anything about the album we're talking about.

You really want this to be one way, but it's the other. The fact that you can't be bothered to attempt anything resembling a real discussion is the most telling aspect of this.

I expressed opinions on the album up to and including some left-field reference points at least one guy initially dismissed and completely understood after further listening.

I expressed opinions on the sort of album this *could* be viewed as down the road.

I even expressed opinions on your opinions.

You know, like a reasonable, thoughtful human being.

Conversely, you're doing what you're doing: mindless trolling with no substance.

"feelings" is the guy who can't engage in reasonable, substantive discourse.

Feelings is you, champ.

You're really pressed to make a point huh?

Where are you performing that wack ass spoken word piece on 'feelings' this weekend?

I would like to show up and boo that bullshit in person.

Still incapable of articulating a coherent thought on the album itself?

Still pissy that people like something more than you do?

Still clinging to tired, lazy, meritless and easily debunked arguments?

>Still incapable of articulating a coherent thought on the
>album itself?
>
>Still pissy that people like something more than you do?
>
>Still clinging to tired, lazy, meritless and easily debunked
>arguments?
>
>

At any rate I'm done feeding trolls (psst, you, dummy) in this post.

Unlike you I actually came in here to discuss the album, and it's clear you came here with the sole to derail any actual discussion with your buffoonery and will continue to do so as long as you have someone willing to feed you.

Hopefully someone else comes along before you die of starvation.

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Fuck a sig.

I dunno what else to say about it.

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Not that average ass rat faced eunuch voice clown you all fawn over.


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>1. Torch
>2. Lord Have Mercy
>3. THat Part (feat. Kanye West)
>4. Groovy Tony / Eddie Kane (feat. Jadakiss)
>5. Kno Ya Wrong (feat. Lance Skiiiwalker)
>6. Ride Out (feat. Vince Staples)
>7. Whateva U Want (feat. Candice Pillay)
>8. By Any Means
>9. Dope Dealer (feat. E-40)
>10. John Muir
>11. Big Body (feat. Tha Dogg Pound)
>12. Neva Change (feat. SZA)
>13. Str8 Ballin
>14. Black Thoughts
>15. Blank Face (feat. Anderson .Paak)
>16. Overtime (feat. Miguel & Justine Skye)
>17. Tookie Knows II (feat. Traffic & TF)
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>listening to it now...

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the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

Shit sounds hella personal.

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"You can't beat white people. You can only knock them out."

Me? Mad? Hardly...I'm posted up in a 5 star hotel in Peru sipping mojitos.


Is he related to you? You got a crush on him or something?

Shit sounds hella personal.

Edit.... lol at going to a Kendrick Lamar show. I'd rather watch cspan

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along with an unnecessary diss.

"Not that average ass rat faced eunuch
voice clown you all fawn over."

This post isn't about Kendrick at all,
so yeah it was you who sounded mad at
the love dude gets... so much that you
had to insult him and his fans in a
post about his homeboy's album.

I wasn't gonna respond, because it
reeked of desperation and insecurity,
but now you just hiding your hands
after throwing stones.

You could at least own that.

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Stop being sensitive.

I post the same way about action Bronson and Danny brown etc . It's okay. Go listen to untitled unmastered and gently rock yourself to sleep. Shouldn't take long considering how boring it was.

>along with an unnecessary diss.
>
>"Not that average ass rat faced eunuch
>voice clown you all fawn over."
>
>This post isn't about Kendrick at all,
>so yeah it was you who sounded mad at
>the love dude gets... so much that you
>had to insult him and his fans in a
>post about his homeboy's album.

"You mad" is the most played out retort on Okp. Again, I'm probably one of the most content people here. But keep reaching buddy. I'm sorry your feelings got hurt (not really)


>
>I wasn't gonna respond

And yet you did.

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>I post the same way about action Bronson and Danny brown etc .

>"You mad" is the most played out retort on Okp. Again, I'm
>probably one of the most content people here.


Also one of the maddest apparently.

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...or give you nosebleeds.

Good luck with whatever you do.


>>I post the same way about action Bronson and Danny brown etc
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>>"You mad" is the most played out retort on Okp. Again, I'm
>>probably one of the most content people here.
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>Also one of the maddest apparently.
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U look mad...

or just insecure behind someone else's musical tastes
Kinda like Anonymous in this post
doing the most.

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Or people's personal taste.

I simply am telling people to take it easy on the hyperbole which is 100% fair.

No one is still talking about his last album and when it dropped the feedback was average at best. Now all of a sudden it's on the same level as Low End Theory and ATLiens?

And this album hasn't been out for a week and people are stating its the best album in 5 years on par with Midnight Marauders and Aquemini?

The shit is a little ridiculous.

The most cohesive album since Game Theory?

Why not just praise the album without all the extra shit?

When people instantly bring up classic like that to compare a brand new album to it just comes off as an agenda.

We constantly do that here and it's bullshit to me.

>Or people's personal taste.
>
>I simply am telling people to take it easy on the hyperbole
>which is 100% fair.

This is the part that you're way too self absorbed to understand. You're so caught up in YOUR personal taste and perception of this that it’s difficult for you to accept that other people like it MORE than you.

When you say “hyperbole” you’re saying people are exaggerating the quality of the album….

….which means you’ve designated your own personal tastes as the barometer by which others should be measured.

Like, you think your personal taste is home base for shit like this and everyone else needs to fall in with your perceptions.

>And this album hasn't been out for a week and people are
>stating its the best album in 5 years on par with Midnight
>Marauders and Aquemini?

Please, tell us the arbitrary length of time YOU require for OTHER people to draw comparisons to albums?

What does the passage of time do to the product? Aquemini is the exact same album today that it was the day it dropped. TBFLP will be the same album today that it will be twenty years from now.

This "it just came out" shit is arbitrary as fuck.

>The shit is a little ridiculous.

No, you’re ridiculous. You

>The most cohesive albm since Game Theory?
>
>Why not just praise the album without all the extra shit?

Why the you so bothered by it?
Hell you can’t even articulate WHY it’s such a big deal.

Why can’t people like the album the way they like it, discuss the things it evokes to them, and draw whatever comparisons they want without you having a tantrum over it?

That sounds an awful lot like entitlement. That sounds like the reaction of a spoiled brat who is angry whenever someone doesn’t view the world the way he does.

>When people instantly bring up classic like that to compare a
>brand new album to it just comes off as an agenda.

Lol what. What would the “agenda” be, exactly? What’s the big agenda that threatens you so much that you need to do battle with the notion that, OMGZ, someone likes something more than you?

>We constantly do that here and it's bullshit to me.

You constantly do this in music posts and feel the need to correct the perceptions of those that don’t fit your own.

You’re bullshit.

We both know you won’t actually engage any real discussion coming your way. You’ll drop some bullshit one liner and avoid an actual discussion because you’re nothing more than a troll.

I wasn't even talking to you.

Keep typing all your rage about someone having the opinion that OMGZ this might be as good as your precious Midnight Mauraders and OMGZ it's only been a week and OMGZ that's too much for you to handle.

Omg someone likes an album more than you!!

As long as your content with you hip-hop opinion being bullshit

So, just to recap: you’re a clichéd internet message board hip hop snob.

I honestly wouldn’t be shocked if you turned out to be a white hipster from an upper middle class neighborhood.

wish that shit was longer.

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Falcons, Braves, Bulldogs and Hawks

Geto Boys, Poison Clan, UGK, Eightball & MJG, OutKast, Goodie Mob

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjwL77dQ2Lo

I can see that beat going place with the right artist.

X is definitely not that artist if you ask me. Hopefully he gets his career back on track but I'm definitely not on board if that's what he's up to these days.

that video is amazing(ly bad)

Haven't finished it yet.

It takes all kinds to make up a world, son. -My pops

I just live for the comments -Da wiz

But to each his/her own.

Probably didn't really start clicking for me until the track with Vince Staples. Strong middle. Couldn't maintain through the end, but still relatively strong.

Decent album on first listen, but not blowing me away. I'll give it a few more.

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I think the over the top praise is due to him not releasing anything in 3 years and people being hungry.

Oxymoron is much better.



>http://s32.postimg.org/5lcwyuqt1/qwxo7fxj.jpg
>
>1. Torch
>2. Lord Have Mercy
>3. THat Part (feat. Kanye West)
>4. Groovy Tony / Eddie Kane (feat. Jadakiss)
>5. Kno Ya Wrong (feat. Lance Skiiiwalker)
>6. Ride Out (feat. Vince Staples)
>7. Whateva U Want (feat. Candice Pillay)
>8. By Any Means
>9. Dope Dealer (feat. E-40)
>10. John Muir
>11. Big Body (feat. Tha Dogg Pound)
>12. Neva Change (feat. SZA)
>13. Str8 Ballin
>14. Black Thoughts
>15. Blank Face (feat. Anderson .Paak)
>16. Overtime (feat. Miguel & Justine Skye)
>17. Tookie Knows II (feat. Traffic & TF)
>
>listening to it now...

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...

and have different musical tastes than you.

This notion of "over the top praise" is ridiculous.

It's music.
It's entirely subjective.
We can agree, disagree, agree to disagree and all that.

But the criticism of any reaction as "over the top" is absurd.

I could see if we were discussing the album in an objective context of "greatness" with factors like impact, influence, etc *right today* because at that point there are tangible metrics we could use to arrive at an objective conclusion.

Since we're talking about it from a subjective standpoint in the here and now, there's nothing more objectively "over the top" than the reaction to the high praise some of us have given this album.

If someone said it was either the greatest or absolute worst piece of recorded music in all of history, neither could objectively be considered over the top. That's their subjective opinion.

Frankly it's telling that the people who are praising the album in here have had some actual discussion on the album while the people whining, crying and bitching over said praise have barely discussed the album because you're all so strangely bothered by people so thoroughly enjoying something you don't.

>and have different musical tastes than you.
>
>This notion of "over the top praise" is ridiculous.
>
>It's music.
>It's entirely subjective.
>We can agree, disagree, agree to disagree and all that.
>
>But the criticism of any reaction as "over the top" is
>absurd.
>
>I could see if we were discussing the album in an objective
>context of "greatness" with factors like impact, influence,
>etc *right today* because at that point there are tangible
>metrics we could use to arrive at an objective conclusion.
>
>Since we're talking about it from a subjective standpoint in
>the here and now, there's nothing more objectively "over the
>top" than the reaction to the high praise some of us have
>given this album.
>
>If someone said it was either the greatest or absolute worst
>piece of recorded music in all of history, neither could
>objectively be considered over the top. That's their
>subjective opinion.
>
>Frankly it's telling that the people who are praising the
>album in here have had some actual discussion on the album
>while the people whining, crying and bitching over said praise
>have barely discussed the album because you're all so
>strangely bothered by people so thoroughly enjoying something
>you don't.

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I wanna go to where the martyrs went
the brown figures on the walls of my apart-a-ment...