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Here's one more Snoop-er.

http://xxlmag.com/online/?p=6122 - "Imagine" ft. Dr. Dre and D'Angelo

The rhymes sounds like "If I Had A Million Dollars" by Eminem (not the one by Barenaked Ladies thankfully)

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

A fourth Snoop track
http://xxlmag.com/online/?p=6118 - "Get A Light" produced by Timbaland and ft. Damien Marley.

It's been 10 years and I'm still not tired of Timbaland V. 1.0. Snoop isn't really rapping at the top of his game here, but all the space in the Timbo track makes him sound pretty assured. I love Damien Marley singing the hook that totally sounds like it was written for Nelly Furtado.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I'm at work so haven't listened to those but I'm still looking forward to the Snoop (I've heard "Vato" obv and I like it well enough)

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry I've been so absent from this thread, um, all year.

What's with all the e-40 hate? That album is noisier than most Def Jux stuff (not that I equate "good" with "noisy," but noise certainly reminds of why I liked hip-hop in the first place through records like Raising Hell and Licensed To Ill and Nation Of Millions which were essentially rock records). Especially that opener where he just raps over the skipping Digable Planets VOCAL sample and the voices totally fall on each other into this gross pile. Or the remake of "Fly Girl" which was pretty noisy and ugly to begin with 20 years ago (FUCK!) with the fork scraping "Let's Go All The Way" sample in there. And I actually thought Bun B's verse was the one verse about white girls and not coke until I listened to it again.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:17 (seventeen years ago) link

I like a bunch of the E-40 album - the opener, "Yee", "Go Hard or Go Home" etc

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:21 (seventeen years ago) link

I lost enthusiasm for it when they made "U & Dat" a single
it is good though.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I can get behind "U & Dat" (ha) cuz of that minor key melody and T-Pain's little vocal shivers.

But the phrase "You got me... acting a donkey" sounds like clunky slang made up on the spot to fit the rhyme scheme. And not in a good E-40 type of way.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

"it" = the e-40 album, not "U&Dat" which I think was pretty annoying.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Most of the E-40 is good. It just spins waaay off-track at the end. "U & Dat" was okay except for the radio killed by playing it every hour for six months. (As opposed to "To Me When To Go", which got played every hour for six months and I still got excited to hear it the 8000th time. The only song I have done a random shoutalong with the people in the car next to me.)

Sidenote: I am so happy to live in a hyphy-friendly city, even if it means people take Mac Dre seriously.

Another sidenote: People have been saying "acting a donkey" for years, and not just on the west coast, even.

― Rodney... (R. J. Greene), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

fav verses on one blood remix:

WC
Twista
Bun B
Slim Thug
and surprisingly Ja Rule!

Nas was decent but most of the east coast dudes don't come off so well.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

i don't think i'll ever stop being impressed by how fast twista can rap. i like the one blood verse cuz he does it all normal paced and then the very end of the verse it's a race to the finish!

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

The Fat Joe album is better than his last one, and it sounds comfortable, I think he's adapting better to the changing rap climate than most NY dudes. Whats with that Scott Storch beat thats trying to be Mannie Fresh? Is it true that he uses ghostwriters regularly?

AZ album is about what I expected, which is to say good/occasionally great but not really a step beyond the last one or anything. I like it a lot - he's such a rapper's rapper.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

who allegedly uses ghostwriters, Joe or Storch?

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

My bad, I added that sentence after I'd written the rest of the post. I meant Joe.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

AZ keeps talking about making ten rap albums. He'll have an incredible greatest hits but to me a lot of these are hit or miss, more cuz of the production I guess, but also he sets a really high bar for himself one his best tracks and some of the otherwise-good songs can't really measure up.

9 Lives is really shitty though.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd be shocked if Joe doesn't use ghostwriters.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I mean lyrically at any rate, his voice has never been really consistent - switching styles up so frequently. I was surprised reading another message board how many people hate his rapping though, and think he's 'boring'

I shouldn't be too surprised, i guess.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:12 (seventeen years ago) link

i miss the old DITC fat joe : (

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:17 (seventeen years ago) link

NEW YORK NEW YORK
BIG CITY OF DREAMS
WHERE ITS NOTHIN BUT FOREIGN CARS BITCHES AND TRIPLE BEAMS
I FIEND

his verse on that is one of the best ever

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I like Fat Joe talking about how surprised he is that Linda Carter is a latina and how she should rep that more.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:22 (seventeen years ago) link

deej otm re: AZ album; i still think the format is one of my top 10 singles of the year

― max (maxreax), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Fat Joe IS totally boring. The only reason he's got a high profile at all is cuz all the other fat rappers of his generation died.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:40 (seventeen years ago) link

And we all know that hip hop fans need a fat rapper to love. . .

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:44 (seventeen years ago) link

its true!

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Fat Joe still has that DITC swing in his voice no matter how chameleonic he gets. I would measure any FJ album by how good the beats are. So how are they?

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:58 (seventeen years ago) link

I heard a bunch of songs off the FJ the other night when he was doing a radio interview, and I was kinda surprised how good they were. Loyalty is a pretty good album and it sounds like he's sticking with that sound, less of the bullshit that was on All Or Nothing.

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:05 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah beats are pretty good-great all the way through.
Lyrically it alternates between strong and not so much.
I like his voice tho, yeah.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

whatever happened to guerrila black?

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:53 (seventeen years ago) link

whatever happened to guerrila ~~black~~ brick?
-- M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (matt@game[remove]informer.com), November 15th, 2006 6:53 PM. (later)

fixed

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Ethan if yr around - what did you think of the Boosie album that finally came out? I wanted to like it more than I do, I feel like lyrically he was stronger on Gangsta Musik but this has its moments.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Also anyone who isn't ethan, how is the new jim jones album.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:11 (seventeen years ago) link

...and I want to know about the Baby/Wayne album
no freudo

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:27 (seventeen years ago) link

lame Jim Jones vs. Jay-Z "beef" =

http://www.randomtuesday.com/pictures/office/308/andy_dwight.gif

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 18 November 2006 15:57 (seventeen years ago) link

listening to a stream of the new ice-t album on his website.

this ain't bad...man he really has an awesome voice.

it's pretty workmanlike but i dunno it's just good to hear his voice and how he enunciates so well again.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 19 November 2006 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

holy shit! there was this guest rapper i kept hearing on the new ice-t and i was all like "damn this dude is cool, who is he?" - looked on Amazon and it says its SMOOTHE THE HUSTLER!!! HOLY SHIT! THAT DUDE MADE MY FAVORITE RAP SONG OF ALL TIME! where's he been?

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Sunday, 19 November 2006 23:25 (seventeen years ago) link

"Broken Language" is quite awesome indeed. (Assuming that's the song you're talking about.)

― Rodney... (R. J. Greene), Monday, 20 November 2006 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link

rfi us hip hop heads - RASHEEDA

old, maybe last year already, but i can't get enough of 'georgia peach'

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 20 November 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

and she was on that awesome petey pablo track last year, and slsk has given me something rather fabulous called 'do it'. WHAT ELSE IS THERE.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 20 November 2006 00:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i hated stuntin like my boyfriend so i never bothered to cop weezy/birdman til today & obv dude is overrated as fuck lately but still

:-0

― and what (ooo), Monday, 20 November 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link

joint with joe crack, joint w/ daz & kurupt (can we get wayne/kurupt album now plz)

― and what (ooo), Monday, 20 November 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

Zero-cred going-on-30 Midwestern whiteboy Jew alphabetical top ten washed-up/cornball hip hop stanning list '06:

Clipse
The Coup
E-40
Ghostface
J. Dilla
Killer Mike
The Roots
Spank Rock
T.I.
Trae

― nate p. (natepatrin), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:39 (seventeen years ago) link

your list is gully as fuck compared with mine nate as mine will contain the LYRICS BORN LIVE ALBUM.

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:42 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, Spank Rock aside I think that's a pretty decent list, i've only heard like 2 of the albums but most of that stuff seems OK in and of itself

― Alex in Baltimore (Alex in Baltimore), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

I like the E-40, Dilla, Killer Mike, Trae and T.I. albums. Still haven't heard the Roots.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone heard the live DJ Quik album?

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link

where's hiphop harry?

― anticon jemima (ooo), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm basically with what Scott said about Spank Rock on the platonic thread in that it's all about the beats and I can ignore the MC at this point (fave track = the Nelson Riddle-sounding screw one where you can't even tell he's Q-Tip after an all-syrup Squishee).

The Roots album is pretty good on the whole but "Here I Come" is murderous; sounds like the Roger Troutman Chainsaw Massacre

xp I ain't fuckin' with him, total LL ripoff

― nate p. (natepatrin), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh I haven't heard the Clipse yet either.

http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8054/gqoe2.jpg

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

lol wtf

what is that

― anticon jemima (ooo), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

christ ethan wasn't kidding about that baby/wayne/dogg pound track

― parsley, sage francis, rosemary, and thyme (dubplatestyle), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link

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