who is that
― J0rdan S., Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:12 (fourteen years ago) link
http://a4.vox.com/6a00cdf3a0e976cb8f011015f6151c860b-500pi
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 06:19 (fourteen years ago) link
it doesnt help that tim didnt do a ballot this year!! lol
Sorry Deej i forgot about it and then missed the deadline. FTR though I might not have ended up voting for Burrrprint 3D in my top 10 - it usually comes in around 10 or 11 on my list from memory.
Deej I love that you voted for that Sneaky Sound System remix.
― Tim F, Wednesday, 20 January 2010 07:19 (fourteen years ago) link
haha well someone had to
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 08:11 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm confused about "shine blockas" too, i mean i really like it but...not the best of anything.
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:00 (fourteen years ago) link
between that list & the electrik red one it's like 40% ilx, 50% my aim buddy list & 10% people who read so many shrimp
it's sort of depressing how small an impact our obvious consensus picks really have
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 12:02 (fourteen years ago) link
also "soldier" is amazing
i dunno, lex, the consensus around the-dream seems pretty ilm-spawned, it just took a couple years to mushroom outwards. that does point to ilm-consensus as being slower to penetrate the larger crit-world than, say, p4k-consensus, but duh a lot more people read pitchfork than read ilm
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:57 (fourteen years ago) link
ppl hate azzerad? cuz i fuckin' love that book, super inspiring stories in there.
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 21:58 (fourteen years ago) link
no but who thinks he identifies great rap singles
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
shine blockas rox u r all gay
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, January 20, 2010 4:57 PM (50 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i remain v skeptical about The-Dream hype being ilm-spawned -- basically he triangulates a lot of things (moderately popular as an artist but big time producer/writer, weird/bad singing voice, idiosyncratic auteur vibe, multi-song suites and concept-y albums) that were always going to mark him as way more indie/critic-friendly than the overwhelming majority of mainstream R&B.
― The GAPDY Band - "You Jopped A Bomb On Me" (some dude), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:01 (fourteen years ago) link
its not ilm spawned ilm were just early adapters (well the 8 of us who paid attention to him around the 1st album anyway)
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:09 (fourteen years ago) link
his 1st album was a sleeper hit as much commercially as it was critically, but please, continue back-patting
― The GAPDY Band - "You Jopped A Bomb On Me" (some dude), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:15 (fourteen years ago) link
"i helped shape the critical consensus on the-dream and all i got was this lousy t-shirt"
― Na'vi Girls (Need Love Too) (M@tt He1ges0n), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:19 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, I just think a lot of the people who weren't paying attention the first time around and then did pick up on the 2nd album wouldn't have done so if we hadn't gotten the ball rolling on him critically. I mean, if it can all be boiled down to who The-Dream is and what he does, then why only the new album and not Love/Hate? I think the answer is obvious: critical momentum.
xp: I'm not trying to be all I/we were there first. I'm just observing, not taking credit.
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:20 (fourteen years ago) link
im not sure what your point is -- lots of 'just folks' were sleeping on him too? so we werent even taking our cues from what was popular -- *pats self on the back more*
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
xps to al
the first album sold more and had more hits!
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:21 (fourteen years ago) link
it's kinda weird that the first album got slept on to the extent it did, given the magnitude of the hits he'd written
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
rev the ball was kinda rolling on him critically with or without ilm, imo. there were ppl into him outside of this sphere as well
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:22 (fourteen years ago) link
fair, I just didn't see it at the time (which could be a sign of my own myopia, sure), whereas when LvM came out it all of a sudden plaudits all over the place, 4.5 stars in RS, etc
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:25 (fourteen years ago) link
fwiw:
Jonathan BradleyDavid DrakeTim FinneyRob HarvillaAndy KellmanTal RosenbergAlfred SotoKye Stephenson
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Wednesday, 20 January 2010 23:44 (fourteen years ago) link
Moving away from Terius for just a moment, only three voters for Ryan Leslie, one of which was me:
Brandon SoderbergIan SteamanRenato Pagnani
Very disappointing.
― rennavate, Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:00 (fourteen years ago) link
i voted for 'transition'
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
― لوووووووووووووووووووول (lex pretend), Wednesday, January 20, 2010 6:22 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
well, Love/Hate dropped like 6 months after "Umbrella" hit, and virtually every other major hit he's had besides "Bed" has been since then -- it's not like Ne-Yo's first album coming a solid year and a half after "Let Me Love You' or something, The-Dream jumped from writer of hit songs to major label artist pretty much overnight.
anyway that first album got tons of positive and sometimes rave reviews in Rolling Stone, NYT, Vibe, Entertainment Weekly, Pop Matters, etc. upon its initial release, way before he was an 'ILM favorite.'
― The GAPDY Band - "You Jopped A Bomb On Me" (some dude), Thursday, 21 January 2010 00:33 (fourteen years ago) link
yeahm the whole ILM embrace of the dream seemed like it came somewhere after poptimist major mag coverage, but before the dribbles of alt adoption
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:10 (fourteen years ago) link
aight, point conceded
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:11 (fourteen years ago) link
that all bypassed me and I never saw it later, so I just didn't know
― i'd look psychotic in a baklava (The Reverend), Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh, deej, you're D4v1d Dr4ke? Makes sense now.
― rennavate, Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
who
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:13 (fourteen years ago) link
D@v1d "Aubrey Graham" Dr@ke
― The GAPDY Band - "You Jopped A Bomb On Me" (some dude), Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:14 (fourteen years ago) link
resident of sage francis's nuts
― max, Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
Davey Drako
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:15 (fourteen years ago) link
LOL why did it change the vowels of his name into numbers? (I'm new here if you can't tell.)
And no? Yes? I'm confused now.
― rennavate, Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:17 (fourteen years ago) link
one of the moderators is google-proofing the real names of posters
― some dude, Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
we should have a spartacus moment right now
― prosthetic hard ass (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
love the dr@ke
― ('_') (omar little), Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
<3 dr@k3's c0ff33 c@k3
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:22 (fourteen years ago) link
Surprisingly, the confusion has not lessened.
― rennavate, Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:23 (fourteen years ago) link
(pssst....he's not that dr@ke dude, like he's DRAKE dr@ke...ya heard?)
― prosthetic hard ass (M@tt He1ges0n), Thursday, 21 January 2010 01:27 (fourteen years ago) link
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/thelife/news/story?id=4837019
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Thursday, 21 January 2010 09:31 (fourteen years ago) link
drummer for gay dad
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Thursday, 21 January 2010 09:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Paul Shirley is an anagram for my name, glad u enjoyed my pseudonymous satire
― some dude, Thursday, 21 January 2010 09:38 (fourteen years ago) link
Clumsy descriptions of sexual methods and locations? Check.
― maciej recognizing trill, Thursday, 21 January 2010 15:18 (fourteen years ago) link
i think he meant
As such, by the time my family had finished tiding its collective yule, my cache of music was as depleted.......UN RICE TRUCK AFTER SIX HOURS IN A SUDANESE REFUGE CAMP.
― killah priest, Thursday, 21 January 2010 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
havent read that espn piece yet but paul shirley is one of the most consistently entertainingly horrible music writers on earth. they should give dude a P&J ballot, what could it hurt
― ethan PADGY (k3vin k.), Thursday, 21 January 2010 22:03 (fourteen years ago) link
Kid Cudi isn't just a rapper, he's a singer-songwriter.
^______________^
― ethan PADGY (k3vin k.), Thursday, 21 January 2010 22:11 (fourteen years ago) link
paul shirley's (hopefully urgently needed) epitaph:
I'm no great spokesman for race relations
― ethan PADGY (k3vin k.), Thursday, 21 January 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago) link
heard lemonade on the radio last night btw, sounds INCREDIBLE in radio context
― ethan PADGY (k3vin k.), Thursday, 21 January 2010 22:33 (fourteen years ago) link