^^
― tpp, Sunday, 8 January 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
i agree that rick ross is never inspiring and yes it's true that he is filling a void but i'm not ashamed of enjoying mainstream rap albums with brilliant guest features and hot production. i just like the void he is filling idk
― tpp, Sunday, 8 January 2012 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
y'all sound very disconnected imo
people love ross in deez streetz
― I had to google gucci mane (The Brainwasher), Sunday, 8 January 2012 18:07 (twelve years ago) link
stay schemin should be a hit
― sisilafami, Sunday, 8 January 2012 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
ILM selfmadeaerolexdude just affiliated
― unattractive on the inside (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 January 2012 18:42 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not a Ross stan by any stretch but it seems t o me his appeal is fairly straightforward, no? He has a moderately compelling character, sounds badass and picks great beats. Good guests and fairly consistant albums just add to it. Sure he's no lyrical genius, but he's good enough to create michael bay-esque picture of his lifestyle.
― irrational, Sunday, 8 January 2012 18:49 (twelve years ago) link
He's also come a long way from
"I'm fronting moneyMy money is right in front of me"
Still delivers a groaner now and then but far less than in his early days
― unattractive on the inside (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 January 2012 19:12 (twelve years ago) link
he doesn't need to deliver groaners because he is a groaner
― seasonal thug (some dude), Sunday, 8 January 2012 19:13 (twelve years ago) link
I don't see what his bedroom mannerisms have to do with anything
― unattractive on the inside (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
Rick Ross fandom is the most baffling thing in the world to me. Who knew that hip-hop was yearning for its own version of Poison?
this is the most brutal takedown
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 8 January 2012 19:51 (twelve years ago) link
What's wrong with Poison?
― irrational, Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:08 (twelve years ago) link
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, January 8, 2012 2:51 PM Bookmark
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BERa808ndhQ/TewvlTKgheI/AAAAAAAAAGw/E9pZKsSxIPg/s1600/swing-miss.jpg
― unattractive on the inside (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:12 (twelve years ago) link
haha i know right.
ship doesn't fuck with poison :(
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:16 (twelve years ago) link
I think he also compares well to Creed - rock for when you sort of can't tell the difference between Jimi Hendrix and Pat Travers
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:28 (twelve years ago) link
quick, what's aero's next "majorly respected dude vs. majorly unrespected dude" dichotomy
― mutant slow drum (BradNelson), Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:32 (twelve years ago) link
Whiney vs. Brad Nelson
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
Whitney Houston vs Gunnar Nelson
― Thug Luftwaffle (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:48 (twelve years ago) link
Hansen vs. Gunnar Hansen
― unlistenable in philly (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 8 January 2012 20:52 (twelve years ago) link
creed owns
― markers, Sunday, 8 January 2012 21:02 (twelve years ago) link
I feel sick
― unattractive on the inside (Neanderthal), Sunday, 8 January 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
lmao @ jordan nitpicking. stalley is fine on his tracks, and i think that guy is pretty boring. i don't know what krit would really do better. he'd be more distracting, probably
― somebody call the brinks truck (D-40), Sunday, 8 January 2012 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
went back and listened to teflon don today, i still don't think it's that great a record outside of the (obviously awesome) couple of singles. IMO this is a better record
― somebody call the brinks truck (D-40), Sunday, 8 January 2012 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
haha i know right. i have a hard time imagining even like the most clueless middle school kid genuinely LOVING rick ross and his music the way you know millions feel or have felt about wayne or tip or jay etc. ross reaching this level of success as kind of a genial collaborates with everybody isn't better than any of them jolly fat man figure just cements how cynical this whole era of rap is.
― seasonal thug (some dude), Sunday, January 8, 2012 11:05 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lgczjhAeak1qbccw0o1_400.gif
― somebody call the brinks truck (D-40), Sunday, 8 January 2012 22:57 (twelve years ago) link
lmaooooooooo amazing
― pug waffle (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 8 January 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
LOL
― flopson, Sunday, 8 January 2012 23:46 (twelve years ago) link
haha
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Sunday, 8 January 2012 23:48 (twelve years ago) link
i didnt know azealia banks wasnt british
― flopson, Sunday, 8 January 2012 23:50 (twelve years ago) link
i thought that was the appeal
apparently she's from harlem! who knew
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Sunday, 8 January 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
re: some dude, aero, DJP, etc.:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sShsoUL_zj4
― somebody call the brinks truck (D-40), Sunday, 8 January 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
wau, gucci-esque
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Monday, 9 January 2012 00:05 (twelve years ago) link
the triumph of ross as bangers over everything is a-ok by me
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 January 2012 12:17 (6 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
agree with this but i think theres a bit more to it than bangers over everything, imo the raekwonesque namedropping of luxury products over string samples is a crucial counterpart to the relentless bangers. also theres a humour to his epic imagery that carries the bangers by not having the tone be too bleak or monochromatic, which at its worst is confounding ("bitch i got 8 balls") and at its best absurd hyperbole ("talkin to the holy ghost/in my buggati")
― flopson, Monday, 9 January 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Sunday, January 8, 2012 6:55 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark
um, everyone, considering how she named her track "212"
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 January 2012 00:18 (twelve years ago) link
flopson i don't mean bangers as in literal like lex luger beats, i just mean dope rap tracks overcoming everyone's collective unwillingness to take him seriously
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 January 2012 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
agree with that obviously
― flopson, Monday, 9 January 2012 00:22 (twelve years ago) link
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 8 January 2012 19:18 (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
okay but then why does she rap the entire thing with a british accent?
― flopson, Monday, 9 January 2012 00:28 (twelve years ago) link
it does kinda sound like it could be a sarcastic 'lol i'm repping noo yawk bruv' thing the way she delivers it
― seasonal thug (some dude), Monday, 9 January 2012 00:30 (twelve years ago) link
i don't know, but any of y'all that heard her make repeated references to new york ("212", "two-one-zoo", "uptown A") and thought she was british are straight retards, sorry
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 January 2012 00:34 (twelve years ago) link
none of those code as new york to me, idk
anyway she sucks who cares
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Monday, 9 January 2012 00:37 (twelve years ago) link
haha none of those "code" as new york to me, says kevin k about the song being titled after manhattan's area code
― J0rdan S., Monday, 9 January 2012 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
k3v have you ever been to new york
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Monday, 9 January 2012 00:40 (twelve years ago) link
have ANY OF YOU BEEN TO NEW YORK
ah cool apparently she lives in montreal
― flopson, Monday, 9 January 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― somebody call the brinks truck (D-40), Monday, 9 January 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
i dont have 2 know where new york is 2 vote 'empire state of mind' #1 in p&j imo
― johnny crunch, Monday, 9 January 2012 00:42 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not saying i thought she was british, just that a casual scanning of that shitshow of a song could plausibly lead one to that idea
― seasonal thug (some dude), Monday, 9 January 2012 00:44 (twelve years ago) link
― bob loblaw people (dayo), Sunday, January 8, 2012 7:40 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
ha yeah I dont have its area codes committed to memory tho. and i haven't really listened to the lyrics or anything. just going by her voice
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Monday, 9 January 2012 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
xp yeah and then knowing lex liked it i just assumed
― rebecca blah (k3vin k.), Monday, 9 January 2012 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
2 dope records have dropped since the new year, the Ross & I Self Devine's new tape
― somebody call the brinks truck (D-40), Monday, 9 January 2012 02:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://rhymesayers.com/iselfdevine