lmao @ that beat, everytime i think the neptunes have hit rock bottom they dig a ditch
― some dude, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno i think its funny to imagine gucci chilling on the beach w/ an umbrella in his drink rapping to this
― deej, Monday, 21 December 2009 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
i wonder if he was like "i'm tired of getting these lush, full-bodied beats for free from my in-house producers, i should get something incredibly chintzy and cheap-sounding from the most successful and expensive producers of the past decade"
― some dude, Monday, 21 December 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
i think i'm developing a morbid fascination with pharell's quiet storm + big corny bridge tracks. they're terrible, but at least they're different from anything else. i'd love to hear the beat cd with the tracks that DON'T get picked.
xp
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Monday, 21 December 2009 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
this is definitely of a piece with "goodlife", which i don't think i've ever made it all the way through.
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Monday, 21 December 2009 22:04 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno if it wasnt for the hook i seriously wouldnt mind this at all. also, gucci's 2nd verse is pretty amazing
― deej, Monday, 21 December 2009 22:13 (fourteen years ago) link
this is all wrong cuz im doing it on one quick listen so plz help w/ corrections:
can it all make the time stopeverybody pallgucci stand, even heavily married man give applauseif ya sick ill prolly cut ya fingers off to get the ???and i come home evry night and take you out to eat on saturdaysyo ex-boyfriend was not a baller he was gettin by barelyhilarious, apparently lil homie likes a parodyi put amazing carats on you, you should see the claritywith a co-parent a daughter in the future she'll inherit iti cannot stop starin at ya i mean at ya drawssee the kid buy you a church and and we'll donate millions to charityacknowledge me and i can help you study more geographypsychology, my nuts ???? my biologyim stoppin ??? buy some propertyits lonely at the top so wont you come and get on top of me
― deej, Monday, 21 December 2009 22:22 (fourteen years ago) link
cue forks "psychology, my nuts ???? my biology" screen name
― wordy fappinghood (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 21 December 2009 22:28 (fourteen years ago) link
idk whats wrong w/ me but the ballads have really grown on me
― johnny crunch, Sunday, December 20, 2009 1:22 AM (Yesterday)
even though i generally skip spotlight, i think it would have worked as an Usher single. itd at least be better than another confessions rehash
― killah priest, Monday, 21 December 2009 23:47 (fourteen years ago) link
so besides the burrprint what are 2 other essential gucci mixtapes? i need to use up my 2 remaining datpiff downloads of the day
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 03:34 (fourteen years ago) link
whoa killah priest posts on here
should be dropping way more knowledge imo
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 04:37 (fourteen years ago) link
dyao: imo writing on the wall and either great brrrtain or the first movie
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 10:36 (fourteen years ago) link
sweet, thanks!
― =皿= (dyao), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 11:07 (fourteen years ago) link
burr russia is dope
― taoiseachizown (samosa gibreel), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 19:39 (fourteen years ago) link
― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, December 22, 2009 4:37 AM (17 hours ago)
it's been all downhill since i dropped that caesar borgia line on gza's cd
― killah priest, Tuesday, 22 December 2009 21:56 (fourteen years ago) link
cesare*
dude (b)asic (i)nstructions (b)efore (l)eaving (e)arth was some heady stuff
― jealous ones sb (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 22:00 (fourteen years ago) link
ya that's what i meant. heavy mental was great at times but b.i.b.l.e. is his best work. i havent heard much after that
― not really.. (killah priest), Tuesday, 22 December 2009 22:21 (fourteen years ago) link
"bingo" video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMgJLgsO8WI
― k3vin k., Saturday, 26 December 2009 00:58 (fourteen years ago) link
lol @ waka 3:29
― k3vin k., Saturday, 26 December 2009 01:03 (fourteen years ago) link
haha waka kinda owns that video
― aim chtza (The Reverend), Saturday, 26 December 2009 02:18 (fourteen years ago) link
waka is so gifable!
― stupid fruity crazy jag (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 03:03 (fourteen years ago) link
btw
bad hoes in chi-cagofirst class to mo-rocco
i like that this time their strategy for making it seem like gucci is not away in jail is releasing one video a week instead of one mixtape a week
― stupid fruity crazy jag (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 03:04 (fourteen years ago) link
haaaa
― aim chtza (The Reverend), Saturday, 26 December 2009 03:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Wacka is my fav weed carrier in ages.
― SORRY ASS IMPRESSIONS (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 26 December 2009 07:16 (fourteen years ago) link
So of his many mixtapes, which is the best?
― Mordy, Saturday, 26 December 2009 07:19 (fourteen years ago) link
eh, that question
download the .zip i posted upthread
― stupid fruity crazy jag (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 07:23 (fourteen years ago) link
Repost the link? I can't find it.
― Mordy, Saturday, 26 December 2009 07:29 (fourteen years ago) link
at the behest of tape store i made a small primer of the best gucci songs (imo) of 08 & 09 for those that are still looking
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?imdmzddiyzi
the tracks are all out of order & stuff so i would order them like this on a playlist if so inclined
09 (wasted not incl since it's v readily available)
first day outweirdshe got a friendgorgeous30 inches remixwonderfulwrist glissicebirdseverything
08
grapeyrunning backlike a lambonickelodeonphoto shoothot damnrims dancinlight showcolorshaunted house
― nog right (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, November 10, 2009 12:41 AM (1 month ago) Bookmark
― stupid fruity crazy jag (J0rdan S.), Saturday, 26 December 2009 07:59 (fourteen years ago) link
also download burrprint 3
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13793-the-burrprint-the-movie-3-d-the-state-vs-radric-davis/
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 11 January 2010 06:24 (fourteen years ago) link
good review.
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 11 January 2010 10:29 (fourteen years ago) link
"He says some stuff that doesn't make any sense at all: "Eat rappers like Jeffrey Dahmer/ Don't call us Sinead O'Connor.""
cmon tom
that diplo tapes out btw. i guessss i'll listen tonight
― Jacques_Lamure, Monday, 11 January 2010 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
haa i already caught that & alerted hq was hoping it'd get by
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 11 January 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago) link
this is probably old stuff for you guyz cuz yer all so hip but just in case:
http://maddecent.com/blog/2010/01/11/gucci-mane-diplo-presents-free-gucci-best-of-the-cold-war-mixtapes/
― scott seward, Monday, 11 January 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
i think one of the problems with this new diplo tape (and diplo in general) is that although it contains tracks by artists who i don't hate (and who in some cases i actually like), it makes the mistake of assuming that because ppl like both these artists on a separate level, they will gel and fit together to produce a product equal to, or greater than the sum of their parts. but this never ever happens.
― ianmaxwell, Monday, 11 January 2010 20:06 (fourteen years ago) link
but of course. lotsa people will love it.
― ianmaxwell, Monday, 11 January 2010 20:08 (fourteen years ago) link
fairly certain i wont like this
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 11 January 2010 20:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/13793-the-burrprint-the-movie-3-d-the-state-vs-radric-davis/― samosa gibreelgood review.― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej)
― samosa gibreel
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej)
Not bad, he's decent on it being a tough sell 'til it gives up its pleasures and what those pleasures are. would nitpick about
And with Gucci, there's also a sense of shared experience. People are listening to this guy; he's not just another voice in the internet echo chamber.
This idea smacks more of the rap writers echo chamber. "internet" rappers with 100,000 downloads are also a shared experience. Also no one i've read has done a really good job explaining why this merits a paragraph. this ties into considerations of matt's "old or new music" question that got bumped recently. also XXL or film columns publishing first week numbers, like who gives a fuck and why exactly? how important is it that the music become part of the pop culture, besides being easier to sell pieces on it?
He's found his audience by elevating ignorance to expertly absurdist art
gonna come out and call this flat out wrong, or at least not as true as saying like rapreviews did that he's built his buzz post-"So Icey" by killing guys and beating the case/beefing with jeezy.
Of course, the album came out when Gucci was back in prison and sold way fewer copies than expected.
it's dishonest to connect these.
Gucci's detractors took the opportunity to declare his regional stardom a grand illusion. Those detractors should [not detract but realize he's dope
a point nothing to do with the shared experience point these particular detractors are attempting to weaken, the one already he gave a graf to.
also think he rated the album about ten per cent too highly. that, like me, he doesn't dig "the run of mid-album R&B tracks" i think shows grading on a curve and what a low bar we have for the rap album format these days.
― zvookster, Monday, 11 January 2010 21:07 (fourteen years ago) link
i always thought deej was of the anti-"so the joke is this guy's retarded, right?" brigade
― ke$nan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:10 (fourteen years ago) link
hes a gangster rapper of course hes promoting 'ignorance' at some level
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:12 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean his hit single is called 'wasted' -- i think ppl just make a whole bunch of assumptions about what 'ignorance' actually means.
i think the question of popularity is absolutely relevent to the discussion of an album, & a discussion about where a record's place is in the grand scheme of things
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:13 (fourteen years ago) link
thats bullshit, his beef w/ jeezy & the murder case were in what, '05?? & his buzz only really started growing in mid-late 07, only really seemed noticeable a year after that.
this is the problem of living w/out regulated measurements of sales though, right? his detractors are wrong, gucci's music has resonated w/ huge numbers of rap fans.
if you read his blog he actually does like the R&B tracks aside from spotlight, he just doesnt like their sequencing & how it slows down the record in the middle.
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:18 (fourteen years ago) link
fucking brand nubian promoted 'ignorance' too, the problem is w/ ppl confusing style with substantive ideas -- gucci's style embraces 'uneducated' slang-y street dialect but that doesnt mean hes an ignorant person or that his ideas are any worse than lord jamars, which is kind of tom's point in bringing up 'worst enemy'
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:22 (fourteen years ago) link
of course i also think the idea that records are any more/less consistent now than they were back when is a total fallacy
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago) link
it's called "the best of the cold war mixtapes" but like half of it is from burrprint 3d and "photo shoot" is on it
― i want more SBs, lots of SBs (surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:29 (fourteen years ago) link
rap reviews get systematically lower scores on pitchfork compared to other genres. it's a brilliantly produced album by one of the most exciting rappers around, with some questionable pacing and a dogshit lead single. i am sure there are billion of non-rap albums with imperfect pacing and a couple dud tracks that have scored at least ten per-cent higher than 8.0. the album's a pleasure to listen to, i think that counts for a lot.
― samosa gibreel, Monday, 11 January 2010 21:39 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm put you in the papaaaaaaaaaaaaa
― ENN-Bomb (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 11 January 2010 21:46 (fourteen years ago) link