though tbf
‘Yeezus’ was wack to me,” Jamar said, in reference to Kanye West’s most recent album, a strange and sonically abrasive work that received acclaim and solidified West in the eyes of many as this era’s most important pop star. “You got people who blindly say, ‘That album was so genius.’ And those are the people who will take hip-hop and fucking let it drive right off the fucking cliff—who will listen to ‘Yeezus’ and say, ‘That was so artistic, the way he drove hip-hop off a cliff.’ ”
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 March 2014 19:07 (ten years ago) link
Except that driving genres off a cliff is a great thing to do. Not taking a sound to it's limits because your afraid it can't handle it, that's weak. And conservative.
― Frederik B, Monday, 24 March 2014 19:19 (ten years ago) link
yup
― The Reverend, Monday, 24 March 2014 19:23 (ten years ago) link
Also Yeezus isn't necessarily more abrasive than vintage Bomb Squad & a bunch of other stiff Jamar is probably down with
― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 24 March 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
Wow, if anyone could make Macklemore look sympathetic, it's this clown.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 24 March 2014 19:43 (ten years ago) link
i think "driving hip hop off the cliff" can be interpreted as demolishing the car rather that "taking a sound to its limits"and my beef with yeezus is not that it's abrasive so much as it is unfun, bloviated and generally uninterestingi guess really my reasons for disliking kanye and jamar's reasons for disliking kanye are really differenti just don't like kanye is what i'm saying
― We hugged with no names exchanged (forksclovetofu), Monday, 24 March 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
jamar's objection to the sound seems token in comparison to his weird fixation on "masculinity", which is a) bullshit and b) explains a lot...this idea that hip-hop is inherently a masculine venture. that's where his conservatism seems to stem from - not the beats, it's all about gays and beta males (and white people) (i guess women are not on his radar at all?).
i mean i'm a drake hater but his grounds for criticising drake are also bullshit, this guy is the worst
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 March 2014 20:10 (ten years ago) link
although as always anything that gets people invested in Traditional Masculinity shook has to have some worth, and when those people are shook it's always fun to see
― lex pretend, Monday, 24 March 2014 20:11 (ten years ago) link
beta males thing made me lol... is ariel pink the new threat to rap??
― coops all on coops tbh (crüt), Monday, 24 March 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/kelelam/oicu/this is pretty good
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 19 August 2014 16:51 (nine years ago) link
New album, Riot Boi out this Friday, Nov. 13. First taste of it is very promising:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0zjfW2qY1U
― Fetty Wap Is Strong In Here (cryptosicko), Monday, 9 November 2015 19:25 (eight years ago) link
listening to this now. wooo yeah
― avant-garde, sissy bounce, zombie rave, aquacrunk, warlock, oceangrunge, (imago), Monday, 23 November 2015 14:18 (eight years ago) link
the album, i mean
this album is so great, le1f is so great
― cory artangel (Stevie D(eux)), Monday, 23 November 2015 15:15 (eight years ago) link
rly good
― bla.p, Monday, 23 November 2015 23:55 (eight years ago) link
Seapunk is still alive. Girl at the coffee shop has a prominent jellyfish tattoo, seapunk dyed hair, and is dressed in athleisure
― 🦅 (Trϵϵship), Friday, 31 August 2018 12:50 (five years ago) link