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
presidential lifestyle you can call me gucci bushor gucci nixon cause i'm crooked smokin kush
― Jacques_Lamure, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 02:05 (fourteen years ago) link
ahaha
― not a playa but i ilx a lot (deej), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 02:08 (fourteen years ago) link
what is that from
amazing
― waka shame (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 03:57 (fourteen years ago) link
"diamonds on my neck," it's up on DGB. that lines esp. dope cause it follows "yellow chick, she prejudice, she only date republicans"
― Jacques_Lamure, Tuesday, 26 January 2010 04:03 (fourteen years ago) link
http://fatlacemagazine.com/2010/01/average-rappers-1-gucci-mane/
― titchy (titchyschneiderMk2), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
2. While neither Jeezy or Gucci are what you would call svelte, Jeezy at least has the decency to keep his clothes on and not bare his pot-belly, crusty-nippled saggy pectoral muscles and crap tattoos which look like they were done by Waka Flocka Flame’s ma dukes at any given opportunity. De La may have once urged rappers to Take It Off back in 1989, but we’re on some Please, Mate, Keep Your Fucking Shirt On type shizznit in 2010.
not a tracy jordan fan either then
― brrrrrrrrrrrrrt_stanton (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 30 January 2010 17:30 (fourteen years ago) link
lol J0rdan ref?
uniqlo = fail
eli porter namecheck = fail
not listing lemonade = fail
thinking pretty hard about a torso they 'find repellent' = fail
ignoring all the broke ass white dudes who *gasp* related to the PE stuff more than "South Bronx" is dud too, but other than that, good clean fun. pretty sure brandon sodabread dude is brokeass too, but he's probably 20 and so didn't relate in the first place.
― zvookster, Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:06 (fourteen years ago) link
looool dom btw
login: The One and Only Ashley backstory: light-hearted Watercooler, crush thread, and WDYLL contributor only who, after about four months, starts a thread linking to an op-ed article calling for the mandatory death sentence for all Muslims, saying "I think this is a good idea?"― Dom Passantino, Friday, August 24, 2007 10:43 AM (2 years ago)
― Dom Passantino, Friday, August 24, 2007 10:43 AM (2 years ago)
― max ipad (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:28 (fourteen years ago) link
rofl of ILB? he is writing for fat lace now, seriously
― zvookster, Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago) link
and martorialist, does he post here?
yeah that's him, didn't know he wrote for fatlace, tho the tone seems to fit him
― max ipad (k3vin k.), Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:32 (fourteen years ago) link
dom writes for fat lace? that is the most perfect marriage ever. i always wished he'd get picked up at hhc before they went under.
― brrrrrrrrrrrrrt_stanton (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
i thought the biggest fail was jeezy > gucci as mixtape rappers. i like 'trap or die' as much as the next guy, but even if you don't think he's a technical enough rapper or whatever, all those 09 tapes are solid as bricks and there's like a dozen of them.
― samosa gibreel, Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago) link
martorialist is another FL dude
― zvookster, Saturday, 30 January 2010 18:40 (fourteen years ago) link