What Are You Listening To? (warning: Nsfw Language)

Rumor is this K. Dot and J Cole album will be out in Feb. Anyone confirm this?

 

Produced by Madlib, and featuring Kendrick Lamar.... Fire!!

 

Ehhh.... The Real Friends is below average, but great when compared to his last couple of albums. Dude can't rhyme. I'm more interested in the full song with K. Dot.

 

I loved Real Friends mostly because I love nearly every Madlib beat I hear.

 

I think Freddie Gibbs is the only gangster rapper I still listen too

 

So corny and catchy at the same time. I love Turquoise Jeep

 

I love those guys. I almost went and saw them live a couple years ago. I kind of still want to.

 

Me too. I was going to their concert in NY but I think I got sick and had to cancel

 

I'm glad you like it. I like 2 or 3 songs. I hate him the person, but as a producer, I think he's great. I think every album after BDTF were either trash or pale in comparison to his classics. But I won't say his great work is trash just because I hate him, but this album is a 1 1/2 out of 10 to me. But again, glad you like it.

 

I hear people say Yeezy is classic, much like people say that about Pimp a Butterfly and I'm willing to suggest maybe I just don't get it. But to me, they're not enjoyable to listen to.

While listening to Life of Pablo, I was typing notes for work while listening and not looking at song titles. Twice I stopped what I was doing to look at the song name because I liked it. Both times it was No Party in LA with K Dot. The Taylor Swift reference, bleached a holes, and him being on Zoloft (or maybe another anti depressant) caught my ear. Not much else. I also caught "all geniuses are crazy." What he's missing is that they don't know they're crazy, but he's trying to pass off his numerous... NUMEROUS acts of being a jerk as him being a misunderstood genius.

I gave it 2 listens, but admit I was also working. I tried to go back and give it another listen last night and within 5 minutes I was listening to Graduate and Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. You know, those are really great albums. Timeless. Classics. Does he have that in him anymore? I think he does. But he's caught up in trying to give us art, but instead of a Mona Lisa, he's giving us that painting of a potato that sold for millions.

I hate to say this because of my undying love for his early work, but I think the Ice Cube diss to Dre is fitting, "hey yo Dre, stick to producing." He's kinda like Jay Z rapping about Tom Ford instead of selling crack. I know they've moved on, evolved, and that's not their life anymore, but the stuff now is..... I just don't get it.

 

P.S. FML is pretty good. Like Eminem on various tracks, I recognize the risk of singing the chorus and hooks, when they obviously know they can't sing, but want to convey the risk / vulnerability.

 

I'm really disappointed with Kanye's last two albums. I really loved BDTF and expected them to be on the same level. I like "FML" though, about the only track that I have on repeat.

 

Even though I don't think much of this Pablo album, it's a MILLION times better than Yeezus, which is probably the worst album in history. Everyone. Ever. The absolute worst.