quik & kurupt - HEY PLAYA!

i've heard the whole thing now and the wacky bananas beats make more sense nestled in the flow of the record. you sort of get taught how to listen to the beats, starting with some very satisfying but not particularly challenging back-in-the-day style grooves and gradually the center loses its ability to hold

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, June 23, 2009 7:23 AM (7 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this is it exactly

yeah that is otm. the album is sequenced remarkably well

Agreed, there's a seven song run between Ohh! and The Appeal that's as pleasant as anything I've heard in long form release this year.
How's Bees to the Honey? Worth corralling and downloading?

yes

the appeal is my least fav song i think

also ... u guys ... hey play video shoot:

http://twitpic.com/86ag9

*hey playa

But what yall know about ridin camels! step yo game up!

^dj quik otm

the appeal is my least fav song i think

― matt h. (M@tt He1ges0n), Tuesday, June 23, 2009 1:44 PM Bookmark

maybe, but still pretty great in its own right. I love how quik's voice first comes in in this really unexpected way, with that wet reverb and then he has a funny-ass conversation with himself, especially the "you can fight the temptation"/"naw dawg she's as-si-an/ and she's finer than lacy stacy or kimmy kardashian" bit

i can't really get with "watcha wanna do", whoever said they'd like to hear e-40 on that beat was dead on though.
Kurupt _does_ get a little hit or miss on this after repeat listening; Quik sounds great throughout.

Cream is fucking dope as hell tho'.

deej what did you say in your review, something like "kurupt tries hard to say nothing in the most complicated way posssible"? or something...anyway that was totally great description of him i thought

cream is my fav by far

"kurupt tries hard to say nothing in the most complicated way posssible"

This only really makes sense talking about "9xs Outta 10" (although could apply just as well to Quik on "Hey Playa!" or "Jupiter's Critic & the Mind of Mars"). The rest of the album Kurupt is a lot more understandable.

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(although could apply just as well to Quik on "Hey Playa!" or "Jupiter's Critic & the Mind of Mars"

i disagree w this -- i think its pretty obvious what hes talking about on hey playa. jupiter's critic is a lil more oblique but its still got pretty concrete concepts going on

i.e. 'dropped by the majors,' owing taxes, etc

& about how getting involved in hip hop = lose your lust for sleep

"Ohh!" is my favorite today.

Loving this but the use of "twat" (pronounced with a r) really creeps me out.

i got two friends and they're my nuts/And all my ex-girlfriends hate my guts

you think i give a shhhhhhhit?
MAN UR WRONG

why not
not why

"watcha wan do" is such a great song but yoyo's beat-oblivious verse is terrible and completely inconsequential

MAN UR RONG

there needs to be a kurupt "MAN UR RONG" graemlin

k3vin is the fuckn yo yo with that post

imagine if yo-yo could go that hard for a whole album of quik beats...

http://scavenging.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/fire.jpg

she goes hard has hell but like i said she's completely beat-oblivious and is outclassed so bad by kurupt you wish she wasnt on it imo

there needs to be a kurupt "MAN UR RONG" graemlin

― The Reverend, Monday, June 29, 2009 8:32 PM (1 hour ago)

would bookmark

swag meter up let's flyyyyyyyyYYYYyyyyyy

someone say "me and your pussy were made for each other" IRL and tell us how it goes.

it don't matter if ya got bra and a thong on... only

i'm gonna listen to this song right now

good idea

HIP HOP

is the music of the devil!

i keep waiting for a "DIPSET" yell following the "swagga up let's fLYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY"

how do we ban forks from this thread

oh cmon, it's got the same kinda build to start as crunk muzik

wtf k3vin yoyo has like the best verse on that track ...? & its not beat-oblivious at all

i aint afraid of death
it's not livin that scares me

I love this album.

my favourite moment on the album might be when, after 'exodus' has bounced abstractly hither and thither for three minutes, suddenly BOOM the beat drops for the intense focus of '9xs outta 10'

yessss

I'MMA COME BACK AND SMASH YOUR BIRDCAGE

"jupiter's critic" is like whAAAA???

video for 'hey playa' dropped

camels

called

chris brown and rihanna

"you gotta keep them separated"

that's a great video - a rare club scene which actually conveys how much everyone's enjoying themselves, too

also, camels!!!

dope video imo