letz talk abt gucci mane

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

fwiw:

Jonathan Bradley
David Drake
Tim Finney
Rob Harvilla
Andy Kellman
Tal Rosenberg
Alfred Soto
Kye Stephenson

Moving away from Terius for just a moment, only three voters for Ryan Leslie, one of which was me:

Brandon Soderberg
Ian Steaman
Renato Pagnani

Very disappointing.

i voted for 'transition'

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, 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.'

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

aight, point conceded

that all bypassed me and I never saw it later, so I just didn't know

Oh, deej, you're D4v1d Dr4ke? Makes sense now.

who

D@v1d "Aubrey Graham" Dr@ke

resident of sage francis's nuts

Davey Drako

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.

one of the moderators is google-proofing the real names of posters

we should have a spartacus moment right now

love the dr@ke

<3 dr@k3's c0ff33 c@k3

Surprisingly, the confusion has not lessened.

(pssst....he's not that dr@ke dude, like he's DRAKE dr@ke...ya heard?)

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/thelife/news/story?id=4837019

drummer for gay dad

Paul Shirley is an anagram for my name, glad u enjoyed my pseudonymous satire

Clumsy descriptions of sexual methods and locations? Check.

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.

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

Kid Cudi isn't just a rapper, he's a singer-songwriter.

^______________^

paul shirley's (hopefully urgently needed) epitaph:

I'm no great spokesman for race relations

heard lemonade on the radio last night btw, sounds INCREDIBLE in radio context

presidential lifestyle you can call me gucci bush
or gucci nixon cause i'm crooked smokin kush

ahaha

what is that from

amazing

"diamonds on my neck," it's up on DGB. that lines esp. dope cause it follows "yellow chick, she prejudice, she only date republicans"

http://fatlacemagazine.com/2010/01/average-rappers-1-gucci-mane/

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

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.

looool dom btw

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rofl of ILB? he is writing for fat lace now, seriously

and martorialist, does he post here?

yeah that's him, didn't know he wrote for fatlace, tho the tone seems to fit him

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.

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.

martorialist is another FL dude

samosa they basically said they were trolling

talkin bout joek failz

the stuff about jeezy being better/what gucci should be measuring himself against undid any decent points they made.

i even love his belly

i love his talking voice

they had no decent points. and why the fuck if u write for fat lace are you getting involved in bitter references to obscure village voice writers & bloggers? how much of your audience even knows who 'brandon soderwhathisface' actually is? unlike your dork ass most ppl did not find out about gucci mane thru internet rap nerd discourse