yall this shit bangs fwiw
― vag gangsta (k3vin k.), Friday, 19 February 2010 05:15 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah this kinda works in spite of j holiday
― she got dumps like a rage, rage (The Reverend), Friday, 19 February 2010 05:22 (fourteen years ago) link
ive warmed to his voice but he's pretty undeniably in control of it right here
― vag gangsta (k3vin k.), Friday, 19 February 2010 06:43 (fourteen years ago) link
oh how come nobody told me how dope untitled was? I'd just kind of avoided it (hadn't even heard anything but "supaman high") on assumption that it would suck the big one
― the passantino of the christ (The Reverend), Saturday, 20 February 2010 13:35 (fourteen years ago) link
i don't think it's great overall but like any R. album it has some jams, i love "Be My #2"
― some dude, Saturday, 20 February 2010 14:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i got into it in January and while it's up and down, I think Exit is absolutely top ten all time for him
― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 20 February 2010 15:30 (fourteen years ago) link
Also Echo (Yodelkells!), Bangin' on the Headboard, Go Low, Like I Do and definitely Be My #2.It feels like an album where he's really reaching to try new things which is impressive, even if it didn't pay off everytime.
― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 20 February 2010 15:32 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone heard the chris brown mixtape yet?
― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 20 February 2010 17:31 (fourteen years ago) link
::races to google so fast he sprains a finger::
― waka flock*a*teens (some dude), Saturday, 20 February 2010 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
it's... gangsta grillz?
― forksclovetofu, Saturday, 20 February 2010 17:45 (fourteen years ago) link
didn't think they could dilute that brand any further after pharrell and ron artest but congratulations drama! looking forward to the justin beiber gangsta grillz.
― waka flock*a*teens (some dude), Saturday, 20 February 2010 17:59 (fourteen years ago) link
that would be the chris brown valentine's day mixtape o_0
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Saturday, 20 February 2010 19:16 (fourteen years ago) link
willie taylor from day26 also did a valentine's day mixtape - called sextape lol - that i d/lded on @BinkieER's recommendation. it was ok.
<3 all of u deeply
― plaxico (I know, right?), Saturday, 20 February 2010 22:51 (fourteen years ago) link
its prolly excellent but i havent listened to it yet. still love CB even if he is satan or whatevs
omarion album?
― /b/ OK (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 February 2010 05:28 (fourteen years ago) link
"speedin" is the obvious standout on that album, I also like "wet" a lot... otherwise it's pretty forgettable
― The Brainwasher, Saturday, 27 February 2010 07:41 (fourteen years ago) link
Haven't gotten around to Ollusion but wanted to chime in that Mario's D.N.A. from last year is being heavily felt lately. I liked "Break Up" but didn't expect there to be so much more to like. L.O.S. track uses Fray-like piano in conjunction with a pretty strong beat for a track that could have crossed over imho. "Before She Said Hi" is a 90s hip-house sound that doesn't get dusted off much these days. Tricky/Dream tracks are quality if not revelatory. Really only the Jim Jonsin track doesn't land. It's a solid album in a solid year for R&B.
― burrr-zum (jk), Monday, 1 March 2010 00:42 (fourteen years ago) link
ciara song is *shrugs*
― jaded scorer (k3vin k.), Monday, 1 March 2010 06:18 (fourteen years ago) link
sounds like soulja boy produced this tbh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1qXNRljN3F4
― jizzchin (J0rdan S.), Monday, 8 March 2010 22:43 (fourteen years ago) link
it's really good
if not a bit thin
ha! it interpolates gucci's "photo shoot" -- also maybe the first waka verse to please meh
― jizzchin (J0rdan S.), Monday, 8 March 2010 22:44 (fourteen years ago) link
i was kinda hoping he'd just keep doing 'waka flocka flocka waka flocka waka waka' or whatever for an entire verse
― killah priest, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 00:35 (fourteen years ago) link
has he stopped doing that now?
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 9 March 2010 01:00 (fourteen years ago) link
wow that chorus is pretty great
― noted schloar (dyao), Tuesday, 9 March 2010 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
lloyd ft mystikal prod by bangladesh
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_a58lv71Jfo
― funky house septics, let me drain you of this (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:06 (fourteen years ago) link
beat is this big brassy/jazzy thing that sounds... uh like "bouncin back"
― funky house septics, let me drain you of this (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:08 (fourteen years ago) link
bangladesh can be so good when he doesn't recycle the same shit over & over!
― funky house septics, let me drain you of this (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:09 (fourteen years ago) link
i trust that someone will alert maura
― funky house septics, let me drain you of this (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:11 (fourteen years ago) link
it's so nice to have mystikal back, i've welcomed him
― funky house septics, let me drain you of this (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
I like the beat but I dunno if lloyd's voice is a good fit for it
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:14 (fourteen years ago) link
yeah you might be right -- it opened up to me on headphones idk -- beat actually has a lot of empty space
― funky house septics, let me drain you of this (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 08:15 (fourteen years ago) link
I'm always real resistant to anyone ripping off ray but this is okay on first listen.
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:50 (fourteen years ago) link
i wish mystikal wasn't a rapist and had a music career instead :(dude's voice has changed
― forksclovetofu, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 14:54 (fourteen years ago) link
lmao @ lloyd trying to sell lines like "i'm a beast, i'm a dog" and "i turn into a manimal every time that the moon is full". his voice is so damn girly that when one verse started i spun around thinking my wife was in the room.
― some dude, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:01 (fourteen years ago) link
on one listen i agree with dyao, i like the song and the beat is actually really great, but it's not the perfect fit that the lush pixelcloud arrangements on lloyd's last ep were (did anyone else d/l it in the end? felt as though i was raving into a void about it - doesn't help that i can't think of a great deal to say about it but it's really pretty special, and i go back to it all the time)
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:14 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought it was v solid and of a high quality compared to most stuff that came out last year, but enough of a definite shift in content and production towards a more realistic(/generic) male r&b artist model to have killed his magic somewhat - for me anyway. i wasn't mad at it though, he gave the auteurish post-inc sound a good few years go and it wasn't getting him anywhere so fair play to him changing it up at young money now.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:46 (fourteen years ago) link
lloyd's ep was one of the great releases of 2009. if the-dream wasn't around I'd be claiming it was the prime rnb release.
i want more of that, to be honest. why couldn't that have been the foundation for an album? it's not like it screamed "INNOVATIVE" but it's damn well made it's still unique, the tone of it, the melodies. this one is 'decent', but it's nothing like what I want from Lloyd. I want the smoothness, the somber melancholy of "a night off"
― abcfsk, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:48 (fourteen years ago) link
baffled @ the two of you seeming to think the ep is on a par with the previous albums - i'm not saying there arent the odd residual resonances still lingering (which always will, with his voice) but that's all they really are to my ears.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I agree with you guys; that Lloyd EP was a revelation. I don't know why it was buried as a free download EP at the end of the year when nobody was paying attention... if he had added a couple extra songs, that would have been an amazing record. Young Goldie really had a cohesive tone that it carried throughout all seven songs, which was a refreshing break from the design-by-committee sound of too many R&B records.
I was really excited to hear Lloyd's follow-up full length, but this new song actually makes me a little less so.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
ship had the best criticism in this in that it's a bit incongruous for wispy ass lloyd to be all "i'm a beast, i'm a dog" -- otherwise i think it's a great song
― funky house septics, let me drain you of this (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 17:24 (fourteen years ago) link
I said this on another thread but I really like the Raheem DeVaughn album. Excellent points: 1) He uses Dr. Cornel West as a hypeman on several (skippable but hilarious) tracks. 2) No "Text Messages." ("Bulletproof" remains, but I don't hate it. 3) The topical songs aren't earthshaking but they are heartfelt and sometimes kinda inspiring. Don't listen to the 8-minute posse cut "Nobody Wins a War" if you are into realpolitik or if you have a low tolerance for Jill Scott doing spoken-word pacifist slam poetry though. 4) Six songs more or less in a row about sex, including the soon-to-be-infamous "B.O.B.", which stands for...naw, I don't wanna spoil it. It's not "Bombs Over Baghdad." 5) Kinda gotta get the 2-disc version or you won't get the 11-minute house jam "Lose Control" OR the Bun B feature on "Wing and a Prayer." "Soldier Story" also goes pretty hard.
― T Bone Streep (Cave17Matt), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago) link
mystikal sounds pretty good on that imo
― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 March 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago) link
That Raheem DeVaughn album was one of the year's big disappointments for me. It has a couple transcendentally good songs, "I Don't Care" in particular, but a lot of the didactic political songs (not to mention the Cornel West interludes) are really intolerable. Raheem has a great voice, but nothing to say that isn't really trite.
― Evan R, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 20:34 (fourteen years ago) link
lol at lloyd butching it up. good song tho
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 16 March 2010 23:39 (fourteen years ago) link
I need to play that ep again. it kinda went in one ear and out the other the one time I played it
agreeing with the others about the lloyd ep - so pretty and seamless, like a faberge egg
― but actually it is impossible to have a penis on the body of a mermaid (dyao), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 00:23 (fourteen years ago) link
i really dig the mystikal verse on this
― funky house septics, let me drain you of this (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
what makes the lloyd ep so special for me is, yeah, how coherent and thorough within its self-containment it is; there's a really strong sense of overcoming adversity throughout, whether re: lloyd's career or the various emotionally frozen women he sings to who find love impossible or unimaginable; or even the weirdly visceral extended drugs metaphor on "pusha" - and yet there's nothing strained or effortful about how these are resolved, lloyd makes it sound so pretty and graceful - he makes overcoming adversity sound alluring. the melodies throughout are always on point but i find the looped guitar samples on "think of me" and "everyday" particularly irresistible. and i never noticed how great the lyrics of the chorus are - "every cloud has its time before the sun" <3 <3
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 17 March 2010 10:53 (fourteen years ago) link