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Freeway's album is so fucking dope. It's like all the rockafeller feints at going straight-rock (Jay-Z's guns & roses, etc.) have come together in something glorious all built around snarling basslines and big rock keyboards. "Line 'Em Up" is great. "Life" with Beans is pretty great too.

He out Ems Eminem and I love how the voice drags and drawls like the wreckage of the afterparty.

I don't hear the ODB comparisons really tho.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Thursday, 27 March 2003 21:55 (twenty-three years ago)

I haven't spent nearly enough time with this record to say much of substance (too (w)rapped up in Killer Mike...), but it really is amazing, from what I heard. Where have the ODB comparisons been?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:01 (twenty-three years ago)

Holla! :-) By the way, notice that Sterling is not talking about the rapper that is actually called Beans (who also has a - pretty good! - new album out) but Beanie Sigel.

I like the record, that is, the first five tracks. After that come the rock samples (Eddie Money!) and it goes downhill from there. Best thing about Freeway is his vocal style (from whence the ODB references, I guess, although I find them far-fetched) which is extremely enthousiastic with lots of urgency.

― JoB (JoB), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:39 (twenty-three years ago)

That record is fire. There's a newish Clue CD, Clumeminatti Report (rimshot) where he totally decapitates Biggie's Unbelievable. If you can find Best of Freeway: Hits, Freestyles & Unreleased, there's some like Herculean freestyles on there, especially one where he threatens to kill members of The Lox with a hammer over MJ Blige's Family Affair. No more drama, Free!
Anyone checking for any of those younger East Coast dudes? It's like in 50's wake everyone is looking for the next big thing (tho 50 puts up Em numbers so that ain't fair). But I like a bunch of these dudes like Joe Buddens, Bad Seed, Saigon. Anyone?

― Chris Ryan (chrisryan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 22:57 (twenty-three years ago)

hey chris.

Freeway's album, at its best, reminds me of the burning struggle that was early 70s soul and R&B (think every act on Hot Wax or Invictus). It may come down to the sample sources and length of each bit that's sampled that weights the tracks, but it sounds like a breath of fresh air compared to most of what's been bustin' on the radio lately. The urgency comment is right on the money.

I think his record is tremendous. Plus he's rockin' a neck beard. You don't get much deadlier than that.

― mosurock (mosurock), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:19 (twenty-three years ago)

chris: joe buddens yes! at least on 'focus' and freestyling over 'in da club'! them other guys i don't know.

also i think alan tried to start a freeway thread a month ago and no-one answered so we should all feel bad.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:24 (twenty-three years ago)

What's good, Doug? Yeah Free is truly coming with some 21st Century throat beard stylings, totally advanced. That beard is real popular in Philly and is basically like hanging a sign around your neck that says, "Don't fuck with me." But Mitch, Buddens and Fab kill 'In Da Club!' There's some line Joe has like, "You came in hear rockin' Prada/Now you ask me for a cig/When you know they cost 8 dollars.' It's funny cuz it's true.

― Chris Ryan (chrisryan), Thursday, 27 March 2003 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm downloading it now (Im on 56k so it might take awhile), very anxious to hear it. I can't believe there's someplace on Earth where neckbeards are cool, though.

― Adam A. (Keiko), Friday, 28 March 2003 00:16 (twenty-three years ago)

they kill 'in da club' good or they kill 'in da club' bad? 'cos i meant good.

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Friday, 28 March 2003 00:33 (twenty-three years ago)

They kill it like they kill it dead good. "Nah I can't get you and your friends up in the club."

By the way, there are plenty of stranger things then neck beards that are considered cool in Philadelphia, sadly enough. Oh man, I spelled here, 'hear' up thread. Desert Storm MC's make me dyslexic. Adam: while you're downloading look for Freeway's "International Hustler," from the State Property sdtk. It's good rap and sadly was left off Phila Freeway.

― Chris Ryan (chrisryan), Friday, 28 March 2003 00:36 (twenty-three years ago)

I enjoy that new Fabolous album I got for free very much. "I'm sippin' liquor the color of Smurf skin"

― mosurock (mosurock), Friday, 28 March 2003 00:43 (twenty-three years ago)

I also attempted to start a Freeway thread about two weeks ago. Yall are behind the times.

That said, it's a very very good mainstream hip hop album - probably the best since Ready To Die.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 28 March 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

I also attempted to start a thread the day the damn album came out, and ended up talking to myself quite a bit. so i won't reiterate all my thoughts from there, but i'm glad y'all are no longer sleeping on it. Blaze came pretty hard for the whole project, some of his best work to date. I still can't get over "Flipside", it's like "Roc the Mic" x10. Peedi is really growing on me.

― Al (sitcom), Friday, 28 March 2003 02:48 (twenty-three years ago)

lovin' it after first listen.

the most consistent hip-hop record i've heard in a while, no filler.

― Mil, Saturday, 29 March 2003 00:46 (twenty-three years ago)

"Big Rock Keyboards"?

― matt riedl (veal), Saturday, 29 March 2003 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

total new wave genius.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 29 March 2003 02:04 (twenty-three years ago)

http://firefly.sparse.org/~mrt/cgi-bin/t.cgi?field=http%3A%2F%2Filx.wh3rd.net%2Fthread.php%3Fmsgid%3D3419256

― mosurock (mosurock), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm sorry, but I'm not sure I could get into anyone who calls himself the "black Bon Jovi".

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Saturday, 29 March 2003 17:48 (twenty-three years ago)

y-you mean Bon Jovi w-w-werent black!!??

(collapses in tears, worldview shatters)

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Sunday, 30 March 2003 00:29 (twenty-three years ago)

six years pass...

Jody Rosen gave new album with Jake One on Rhymesayers 3 1/2 stars in Rolling Stone. Wish I liked the album! (I'll give it another few tries.)

― Pete Scholtes, Sunday, 21 February 2010 21:51 (sixteen years ago)

The mixtape Free & Jake dropped before the album called The Beat Made Me Do It was a lot better. Free sounds a lot more spontaneous and energized and the production is all like naked soul loops with no drums or disco-funk beats.

― soft serve space age blap (The Reverend), Monday, 22 February 2010 01:12 (sixteen years ago)

Holla! :-) By the way, notice that Sterling is not talking about the rapper that is actually called Beans (who also has a - pretty good! - new album out) but Beanie Sigel.

lol at this

― soft serve space age blap (The Reverend), Monday, 22 February 2010 01:13 (sixteen years ago)

Okay he has grown on me. Like a beard.

― Pete Scholtes, Tuesday, 2 March 2010 19:11 (sixteen years ago)

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