I love elzhi and expected it to be good. This is great. Love the production on it and elzhi is as good as ever. Right to the top of my AOTY list.
What's up with his voice sounding different on some tracks? On one I thought it was just a bad recording or maybe he was sick but then on a couple others he sounds like he's mimicking other rappers.
4. "RE: You're not lying" In response to Reply # 3
I caught that on "Say It Don't Spray It" (which had me damn near East Coast Stomping in public, no lie). Like he was mimicking other notable Detroit MC's or something
7. "yeah this is nice" In response to Reply # 0 Fri Dec-01-23 11:54 PM by Stadiq
Two very underrated/ underappreciated artists.
Once through I'm impressed, but El has been killing it. Happy to see the Oh No connect...wasn't expecting it.
It was **a little** more one-note than I had hoped, but I've only been through once so far. Just first impression, I know Oh No has more range than this....but maybe I missed some stuff.
As far as the voice change...man I heard an ODB impression at first. Gotta relisten. I'm sure there is a reason for it either way...just didn't catch it yet.
9. "Yeah this was pretty focused" In response to Reply # 7
Not a lot of variety but that doesn't take away from it for me. It felt like there was a clear sound they wanted to go for and Elzhi flows over it so well. Seemed like he used his vocals as another instrument. Gotta see if it fades for me on repeat listens.
11. "I love this album..." In response to Reply # 0
not sure how long it would take me to stream this 60x. I wonder how many people who really love this type of music will either, seeing as there is something new out constantly and how people like that tend to listen to a wide variety of music.
14. "Not 60 thousand times, 60 times" In response to Reply # 13
I figure if someone streams a 12 song album 60 times that's 720 streams. 720 times .007 is near 5 dollars. The album deserves it. I was just thinking about how preferred streaming is to purchasing. I don't think that amount of streams is realistic though, even if you are a big fan because of the pace at which music comes out. Then add to that the fact the youtube music is constantly taking my music off repeat and forcing a bunch of "similar" songs on me that I did not select.
Seems like the type of huge scam that should be illegal.
16. "RE: Not 60 thousand times, 60 times" In response to Reply # 14
I mean, the math definitely doesn't add up, and that stinks. I'm not sure how to solve it.
Bandcamp was a bit of a lifeline; I'd often throw my "I've listened to this enough that I'm a chump if I don't give the artist a legit sale" to mp3s there, or occasionally physical, understanding they got a better deal.
But your comment has me thinking: it would be interesting to write a small program that emailed you when you streamed an artist a certain number of times, basically saying "Pay up" -- lol.
JAESCOTT777 Member since Feb 18th 2006 28487 posts
Thu Dec-07-23 03:59 PM
17. "Best album I've heard in years " In response to Reply # 0 Thu Dec-07-23 04:02 PM by JAESCOTT777
It's the album I always dreamed EL would make.
Oh no's production matches as well than any combo I've heard Since Gangstarr
The sequencing stands out off rip Every song blends perfect into each other but majority tracks are Walked in by a instrumental interlude
Shit AOTY for me
there are multiple times in this project I actually question if there is anyone who can rap better than this?
He is leaning into flowing more on tracks And his word play is god like
He connects bars into each other but then stops and reconnects In unorthodox places while simultaneously connecting OTHER bars u might've thought was filler
High Society Member since Oct 13th 2003 7378 posts
Tue Dec-12-23 12:39 AM
18. "Since Gangstarr?" In response to Reply # 17 Tue Dec-12-23 12:40 AM by High Society
Bought The Disrupt off the strength of Stones Throw and being Madlib's lil bro. Not sure I had heard anything he'd done before The Disrupt and immediately fell in love with him.
If we keeping it funky, Oh No has had a pretty solid career since 04. He's put out a ton of dope projects:
Dr. No's Oxperiment OhNomite Dr. No's Kali Tornado Funk Animal Serum w/ Prince Po 3 Dimensional w/ TriState A Long Red Hot Summer Night w/ Blu The Professionals w/ Madlib
I actually haven't checked for No since The Professionals and seeing I've got some much welcomed homework. He's banged out a lot of music in the last 2 years:
A new Dr. No project (2022) - Off Air: Dr No's Lost Beach What looks like a collab joint w/ Percee P (2022) - Vs. An instrumental album deconstructing (2023) - Good Vibes A collab album w/ Tha God Fahim (2023) - Berserko A 2nd instrumental album deconstructing Roy Ayers (2023) - Good Vibes / Bad Vibes And the much discussed Elzhi collab (2023) - Heavy Vibrato
21. "No. This album was OK but as someone already mentioned ..." In response to Reply # 20 Tue Dec-12-23 11:47 AM by Brew
... it's a little one note. Which is fine, just didn't grab me really.
But more to your point, I did find that he was going hard on some more laid back beats on here lol, and not really finding the pocket. Which is maybe why I felt so underwhelmed by it.
He has BARS, to be sure. And I like the beats well enough. I just didn't feel like there were a lot of standouts.
23. "I can kinda see what you mean" In response to Reply # 20
I've said something similar about a lot of his projects. He rhymes in a scripted kinda way. He has this great lyrical skill but it's not varied enough like my fav top tier emcees where it isn't so much of the same style over and over. Tho I like this current album a good deal, I think I like it moreso because of the laidback beats that are kinda easy to chill to.
That Detroit x LA dynamic continues to be unbeatable.. the secret sauce that keeps on giving.
Motown Records Dre x Em JayLib CalTroit Guilty x Madlib C.R.A.C. (Blu x Ta'Raach) "Really Doe" Cypress Hill x Black Milk Jahari Massamba Unit (Karriem Riggins x Lib) Elzhi x G.A.M. this
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