in which lex recapshttps://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/aug/22/best-randb-blond-king-abra-frank-ocean
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:19 (seven years ago) link
the Jamila Woods tape is so good. apparently it hasn't been mentioned on ilm yet? I liked the Noname tape but Heavn is much more immediately impressive/appealing imo
― rob, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 14:30 (seven years ago) link
lex, PJ and Paris Jones are not the same person.
― ANU (sisilafami), Tuesday, 23 August 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link
Playlist is updated.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Friday, 26 August 2016 06:05 (seven years ago) link
lloyd put out a 'where i've been' song in may (!!) and the video came out a couple of weeks ago. i missed his voice so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rG6y-NKrHU&feature=youtu.be
― maura, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 14:56 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rG6y-NKrHU
― maura, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 14:57 (seven years ago) link
Man, it's been five years since King of Hearts, and almost seven since the Young Goldie EP. I wonder if he even has a label anymore?
― Evan R, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:03 (seven years ago) link
From what I read last night after coming across the clip, there's an entity that's going to release an EP soon — not sure what label that is though.
― maura, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:04 (seven years ago) link
EP is a good format for him. Low key, intimate, low stakes. I still return to Young Goldie every year or so and love it
― Evan R, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
"tru" is easily one of the most-played songs at the r&b station here so he must have some kinda label support
― dyl, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:51 (seven years ago) link
been so long since i last thought about lloyd. didnt he have an idiotic rapping phase
still remember u all fronting on 'cupid' though (tim excepted) so WHATEVER GUYS
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 16:02 (seven years ago) link
He put out that Playboy Diaries mixtape, which was bad, then got in a feud with Miguel because they both had the same haircut. Then he disappeared.
― Evan R, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 16:07 (seven years ago) link
i wasn't feeling "tru" the first time i heard it but it kinda has a confessional tp-2.com era r kelly thing going for it
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 31 August 2016 16:47 (seven years ago) link
what? I loved Cupid
― maura, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
IN FACT check out 2011http://furia.com/pjs/voter_686018.html
― maura, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:02 (seven years ago) link
he also put out the best new Christmas song of the 2010s
― maura, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link
i refuse to undermine my supernatural instinct by checking facts
― r|t|c, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 19:45 (seven years ago) link
https://soundcloud.com/chris_brown/what-would-you-doperhaps now that he's finally in jail and unlikely to pop right back out producers will stop giving him hot tracks? It's frustrating.
― thrusted pelvis-first back (ulysses), Thursday, 1 September 2016 15:19 (seven years ago) link
or you could just come to terms with him being kinda good? lol looks like he's not in jail either. Apparently the girl was crazy.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:23 (seven years ago) link
i still dislike "cupid" if that makes you feel better. terrible song
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
anyway this new Ye Ali song is teh shit
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENg9zHxuE5E
that chris brown song is nice in that it doesn't try and bash you over the head but it also doesn't really have much of a chorus to it & it's a blatant rip off of "what do you mean?" just grafted onto more traditional pop house instead of trop house
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:49 (seven years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, September 1, 2016 12:31 PM (nineteen minutes ago) Bookmark
surprised you fuck with something that sounds so much like bryson tiller, i like it tho
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
huh i could have sworn we had a "king of hearts" thread or poll, but i can't find it now
"lay it down" >>> cupid imo
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:01 (seven years ago) link
polow brought it on that record tho imo
this was my fav off that record https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLwnojWx0Ac
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:04 (seven years ago) link
in retrospect a lot of it sounded like a trey songz album
i KNOW there's a thread...iirc forks started it?
― have you ever even read The Drudge Report? Have you gone on Stormfron (k3vin k.), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Thursday, September 1, 2016 11:52 AM (fourteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i can see how it sounds like bryson tiller kinda, and i know that's the knock against dude, but it doesn't sound like a drake song to me except in the most "minimal/icy R&B slow jam sung by dude being a sleazeball" sense
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link
and sounding like fake drake songs is basically my issue with bryson tiller
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:08 (seven years ago) link
yeah the production is not really a misty 40 shebib rip off, it's more about his melodies & such
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:09 (seven years ago) link
"traphouse jodeci"... another repellently insolent nu-r&b nobody
― r|t|c, Thursday, 1 September 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
you dont like that song tho?
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:18 (seven years ago) link
I've long suspected a song or two was literally intended for trey songz. one of the no-name guest rappers on the record even calls Lloyd Trigger
― Evan R, Thursday, 1 September 2016 19:28 (seven years ago) link
lol
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 1 September 2016 20:25 (seven years ago) link
This new Tink is fire http://youtu.be/3wpl_BrNhuo
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 2 September 2016 19:20 (seven years ago) link
I really like this jesse boykins III album
https://soundcloud.com/jesseboykinsiii/sets/bartholomew3rd
― ANU (sisilafami), Sunday, 11 September 2016 21:18 (seven years ago) link
we all agree on usher/future rivals right
― r|t|c, Sunday, 11 September 2016 22:58 (seven years ago) link
New Bell Biv Devoe slaps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRrY2_4AKKs
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 14:28 (seven years ago) link
new Lloyd is nice and fizzy https://youtu.be/OiuxlwDWpBU
― maura, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCSDsieKkx0
R&B group produced by Super Furry Animals' Cian Ciaran.
― afriendlypioneer, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 16:00 (seven years ago) link
lmfaoooooo i originally thought the lyric in usher's "rivals" was 'call your baby that's only on Tidal' -_________-
album's got some (other) good trax
― dyl, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 18:06 (seven years ago) link
yeah it sounds pretty good? maybe w/o the standout tracks of looking 4 myself but w/o the garish genre hopping
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 13 September 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
I like the Usher album and really hope that the prolonged Tinashe-Dream collabo thing actually works out for her. What else is there to look forward to in 2016?
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 16 September 2016 08:53 (seven years ago) link
more banal longneck posts?
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 09:15 (seven years ago) link
Sorry. Im Sorry. Im trying to remove it
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 09:16 (seven years ago) link
.........Let me rephrase the question. Where do you guys go to find out about upcoming releases? I tried searching for fall 2016 r&b albums and came up with basically nothing outside of a tba tinashe.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Friday, 16 September 2016 09:43 (seven years ago) link
the usher album's a funny one. i found it simultaneously intriguing and insipid, before it ultimately dwindled away into the unmemorable. hard ii love!! i guess it seems an accurate reflection of the bright n trite wanderings of a post-relevant prodigy who never really got to become a particularly interesting person? (oh cool a horrible bust of me, i'll put it on the cover. it's flawed, that's interesting. we all have flaws.)
he's like a sort of jet set gap year tourist at this point - well-mannered, inquisitive, fleetingly engaged but m/l detached from the emotional current. each track has an attentive intricacy to it that adds up to a sort of light charm but not much more. it's not uncreative, in its way. it has a vague cohesion, of sorts. on the radio 'rivals' felt to me like the realest since confessions, but here it's just surface, no ache or sensuousness or whatever. on 'missing u' he sings "i miss you girl!!" exactly like he does on 'throwback', but it's just empty. feels like there are lot of moments like that here, where you can't tell between subtle callback and blank reflex memory.
i'm guessing a few other of these tracks would perk up ears out of album context too; 'crash', 'fwm' have a enjoyable low key bounce like 'show me'. 'bump'/'let me' (and 'no limit' preceding too by extension i suppose) forms a nice kind of abstracted atl tribute suite that suggests a vacuum-pack ciara
i dunno, it passes the time. there's no desperation or cynicism here, which is fairly admirable. i wouldn't want the "garish genre hopping" as j0rd correctly describes of the prev album all over again but there was at least a glee to it. [adam scott face moment before delivering "are we having fun yet"] Usher is No Longer Looking 4 Himself, And That's Okay (Meh Though)
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 11:25 (seven years ago) link
quite enjoyed that nyt style profile recently where he's all up on visvim and his metal pouch for keeping crystals. "Normally I’ll put a labradorite or rose quartz in the pouch — anything I feel like I need at the time."
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 11:36 (seven years ago) link
― Evan R, Tuesday, 13 September 2016 15:28 Bookmark
one of the ways you can tell e.r is an industry plant is that "slaps" is literally the only possible word u couldve deployed to put a positive bay-area-nostalgia-bubble spin on a track that's pointlessly senile in any other context. kudos!
― r|t|c, Friday, 16 September 2016 11:55 (seven years ago) link