i dunno how i feel about that really. not too excited on first listen; i tend to like ab soul more when he doesn't play up to the 'philosopher of the group' tag he's been given.
― bass, Wednesday, 18 April 2012 08:06 (twelve years ago) link
"enjoy your mind trip but don't trip on your mind" is awful
enjoying the ab-soul album a lot
― The Reverend, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
i think it might be as good as section.80 ??
― The Reverend, Sunday, 20 May 2012 07:26 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_71q5lVEjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12Y3e4OPUbM
i hadn't looked at the tracklist when i first listened to the album and danny brown coming out of nowhere put a big grin on my face
― The Reverend, Monday, 21 May 2012 18:34 (twelve years ago) link
Album IS very good. Got it last week off iTunes, just getting into it.
― Sonic adobes of stultifying hipsterdom (Spottie_Ottie_Dope), Tuesday, 22 May 2012 17:16 (twelve years ago) link
We are living in an age of genius. I love this song. My ten year old boy with autism loves this song and we let him listen to it despite the industrial cussing. My wife loves this song despite normally hating all things rap. This song is the first one that has united my household! It is The Shit.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 21 June 2012 23:01 (twelve years ago) link
I am talking bout There He Go
motherfuckers are still sleeping on the ab-soul record :(
― fanute gingrich (The Reverend), Thursday, 21 June 2012 23:21 (twelve years ago) link
it's alright
― Number None, Thursday, 21 June 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
It hasn't really hit me yet has that one. Gonna listen to it some more.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, 21 June 2012 23:53 (twelve years ago) link
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Thursday, June 21, 2012 7:01 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark
oh man, that's like one of my least favorite songs of the year.
― here's my lumber, so jack me maybe (some dude), Friday, 22 June 2012 00:41 (twelve years ago) link
Really? I am on the opposite end of the spectrum. I fucking love it.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Friday, 22 June 2012 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
Do you guys have any links to really good writing about anyone in black hippy? yes i've read noz in the fader
there was a twitter discussion tonite about the lack of quality writing about it & i've felt that way about it for awhile; that people seem happy that someone 'raps good' & 'has political ideaas' & it actually makes the music sound WORSE sometimes than it is, imo. like, writers are falling over themselves to make this stuff sound as woefully respectable & firm-handshake (c. ilx via rtc) as possible when the music is actually frequently pretty exciting, if a bit more mediated by kendrick's vaunted 'technique'
― google deeznuts (D-40), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 05:27 (twelve years ago) link
i can't stand KL's rhyming/delivery and find SQ deeply unlikable, which i'd be happy to write about at length is someone was paying me
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:16 (twelve years ago) link
which is not really what you're looking for but i see what you mean, people that hold their particular appeal inspire some pretty surface-level praise
― some dude, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 10:17 (twelve years ago) link
i like both of them but find the praise overheated & morality-dependent
― google deeznuts (D-40), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
tbh i'm not even sure how i'd go about writing about these guys without falling into the trap you describe (which is why i haven't tried or pitched). that might indicate a flaw in what they do, everything - the beats, the rapping - is fine and often a lot more, particularly in the moment of listening, but it's some way off ~blowing my mind~. it's all, like, the #25 album on your EOY list in a mediocre year
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:04 (twelve years ago) link
but i do like them
i mean i just listened to the new kendrick single for the first time, and i listened three times and i enjoyed those all the way through? but i don't *care* about it?
― bitch I'm on the 242 (lex pretend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:05 (twelve years ago) link
Like I was saying on twitter, I think a most of Black Hippy's best material is the emotional stuff (with Q as the exception, his best stuff is weird techno sex raps), and I think most rap writers are more comfortable writing about the more technical or political aspects of their records. So when that kind of emotional catharsis comes wrapped up in displays of technique or a rebellious political stance, it's the latter things that end up being written about. It's like... the Ab-Soul album is my favorite rap album this year, but the best parts are the songs where he's getting all emo about his dead girlfriend, the rappity-rap shit is just a bonus.
― chain the color of am0n (The Reverend), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
for sure - "Blessed", "His Pain", and "The Book of Soul" are all pretty fantastic imo
― Number None, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 19:18 (twelve years ago) link
Kendrick's tour is gonna be called 'music matters'
― google deeznuts (D-40), Friday, 20 July 2012 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
with Q as the exception, his best stuff is weird techno sex raps
wish there was more of these, I love them.
― Tim F, Saturday, 21 July 2012 17:50 (twelve years ago) link
tHe commitment tHis guy Has to capitalizing every single letter H in tHousands upon tHousands of tweets is so fucking corny
― Citizen Ship (some dude), Saturday, 10 November 2012 00:22 (eleven years ago) link
I cannot understand why more people don't get excited about Q. He is an extraordinary talent and has produced one of the best albums of the year.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 10 November 2012 01:30 (eleven years ago) link
I really fucking love Habits And Contradictions. My 10 year old son loves it and so does my wife, it's so rare have an album that is loved by my whole family. When I am old and dying that will mean something to me.
― Damo Suzuki's Parrot, Saturday, 10 November 2012 01:51 (eleven years ago) link
idk turns out I really like Hands on the wHeel a lot
― EZee4snappin (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, 11 November 2012 04:03 (eleven years ago) link
― Citizen Ship (some dude), Friday, November 9, 2012 6:22 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
apparently He does tHat in texts too b/c He's a Hoover crip
― D-40, Friday, 23 November 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
so it's corny gangsta shit
― The Doc Morbama (some dude), Friday, 23 November 2012 23:05 (eleven years ago) link
sHit
― J0rdan S., Friday, 23 November 2012 23:06 (eleven years ago) link
can you program your pHone to auto-cap the letter H every time
there's an app for that
― Number None, Saturday, 24 November 2012 00:04 (eleven years ago) link
"collard greens" is amazing
http://soundcloud.com/topdawgent/schoolboy-q-collard-greens/s-T4uQa
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 11:26 (eleven years ago) link
hope they don't push the album back any furtherhttps://soundcloud.com/topofnewyork2104/schoolboy-q-break-the-bank
― Number None, Tuesday, 21 January 2014 18:05 (ten years ago) link
and it's out there
― Number None, Friday, 21 February 2014 10:57 (ten years ago) link
under a minute into "los awesome" and i'm so hyped up
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 February 2014 11:13 (ten years ago) link
um these lyrics on "what they want" tho -_-
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 February 2014 11:23 (ten years ago) link
where is "banger (moshpit)" or was that never meant for the album?
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 February 2014 11:32 (ten years ago) link
thx for the heads up #0. This album has an impressively long wiki for something that's not out yet.
― pandemic, Friday, 21 February 2014 11:54 (ten years ago) link
a non-suga free leak of an album with suga free on it is kinda worthless
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 21 February 2014 12:56 (ten years ago) link
my version has the suga free track?
good album all in all, stop being gross about women tho
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 February 2014 13:07 (ten years ago) link
Did your version have 'gravy' the supposed clams casino one on it? I'm going by wiki here so who knows.
But the version I grabbed had 16 tracks.
Feeling the majority of beats on here.
― pandemic, Friday, 21 February 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
no, i got something purporting to be the deluxe edition but it's the 15-track standard edition as per wiki. already have "yay yay" off the deluxe obv so it's just "gravy" i don't have
the beats are really superb, yeah. "los awesome" is ridiculous
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 February 2014 13:15 (ten years ago) link
Come the end of the day I can tell what could have been 5 or 6 plays of this record will actually only be 2 or 3 cos I'll keep replaying track 2 'Los Awesome' instead of getting on with hearing the rest.
lol xp
― pandemic, Friday, 21 February 2014 13:17 (ten years ago) link
i'm a sucker for the strings on this
― lex pretend, Friday, 21 February 2014 13:32 (ten years ago) link
that 'Los Awesome' beat is hilarious, makes sense that Pharrell made it.
― festival culture (Jordan), Friday, 21 February 2014 14:24 (ten years ago) link
Swore that was Fred Durst singing on "Break the Bank" :(
― Evan R, Friday, 21 February 2014 16:53 (ten years ago) link
I keep hearing some annoying ad that uses the Menomena tune Q samples on There He Go, still got mad love for that despite it doing everyone elses damn head in. I like this new one, a lot less filler than on Setbacks... and the production is superb.
― xelab, Friday, 21 February 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
as much as i hated Habits & Contradictions, "Man of the Year" and "Collard Greens" jammed so i'm somewhat looking forward to this
― MISTERSNRUB (some dude), Friday, 21 February 2014 18:21 (ten years ago) link