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GAF-Hop |OTXVI| Build a Wall (of Better Top 20 Albums)
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Andrew Korenchkin
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Why?
Bounceounce
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More of a reaction to a discussion in a separate place where someone brought the two up and compared them.
I feel like praising Pusha T though so I'll continue with it.
His opening verse on Keys Open Doors is one of the greatest of all time (Malices verse is just as good as well).
TheRadNadz
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I cannot disagree with this. Push is my favourite rapper, even if Kendrick is more versatile.
His pen game is just so damn consistent, unmatched presence on the mic and even though it's mostly the same subject matter time and time again, it feels fresh each project. Plus he knows how to choose beats for sure.
Lmk when he makes a good album
Bounceounce
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He's a better techinical rhymer, is much better with wordplay and punchlines, plus I just prefer his writing style.
Really it's mainly Darkest Before Dawn, that project has really gotten into my head this year, one of my favorite lyrically performances ever, over a decade into his career and he's JUST perfecting his rhyming.
I recommend everyone play it 20 times this week.
If he broke out of his coke matrix then there wouldn't even be a question.
Hell Hath No Fury and Darkest Before Dawn.
Psychological Intellect
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DAMN. projections now at 510-520 FW.
KTT is literally going to explode
KTT is literally going to explode
Bounceounce
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They already have.
Question, why does everyone care about KTT?
We have speculation on an internet forum about reactions on another internet forum.
Anyway, The Watcher 2 came on shuffle in the whip, and I forgot how nasty it is. Prime Hov rapping like he knows he's the best rapper alive, and Rakim absolutely smashes it. (It sounds like he wrote Dre's verse, too.) I wanted to link it, but I can't find it anywhere. Youtube only has lame remixes and mashups.
We have speculation on an internet forum about reactions on another internet forum.
Anyway, The Watcher 2 came on shuffle in the whip, and I forgot how nasty it is. Prime Hov rapping like he knows he's the best rapper alive, and Rakim absolutely smashes it. (It sounds like he wrote Dre's verse, too.) I wanted to link it, but I can't find it anywhere. Youtube only has lame remixes and mashups.
QuantumSquid
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today i heard someone pronounce amine (the guy who made "caroline") as a-mine and i died a little inside.
Psychological Intellect
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nobody cares about KTT's opinion. It's just fun watching them in shambles.
Net_Wrecker
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Super underrated track. Rakim's verse is so good, and the way Dre reworked the beat wheww
YOU CAN TRY COPIN'
I'VE SEEN ENOUGH SHIT TO LEAVE YOU FRAME OF MIND BROKEN
I'M STILL ALIVE AND SCOPIN'
BE ANOTHER HUNDRED YEARS TILL MY SKIES CLOSE IN
AND I'MA DIE WITH MY EYES OPEN
THE WATCHER
Thanks for the recs I'll look into them.
Pusha has rapped about Coke for a decade and a half, the guy is a good rapper but his topics are pretty formulaic.
Bounceounce
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Yah, but he's so good at it.
It's incredible that so long into his career he's still able to come up with more coke metaphors and punchlines.
Bounceounce
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Kanye, Bon Iver, and the beat are amazing.
No disagreements, everything else tho...NeckPull.gif
ThisGuy
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Alright gaffers. I don't come in here often enough, I should change that.. Recommend me something new, please. Besides Kendricks new lp. I need some new albums to listen to. Any help is appreciated. I like it all, as long as its good, can't go wrong.
I just listened to Fetty Wap 679 a couple weeks ago. Stuff is crazy good. I've been slackn
I just listened to Fetty Wap 679 a couple weeks ago. Stuff is crazy good. I've been slackn
Honestly, it was on mbdtf. It was bound to be great.
ThisGuy
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Really reminds me of the new York sound. I like the way his hairline falls back almost as much as I like the beat. I'll look into him.
Check out Being You is Great, I Wish I could be you More Often and JIDs Never Story.
Tokubetsu
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Bounceounce
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Andrew Korenchkin
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10/10 song for me.
Andrew Korenchkin
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I'm curious to see how MBDTF does down the line. Obviously some people don't like it as much but if any artist has the potential for his discography to age really well, Kanye is the guy in this decade.
Andrew Korenchkin
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On another note, I'm going to try to making my way through every Sonic soundtrack. Sounds like a challenge, it's going to be fun.
Andrew Korenchkin
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torre_avenue
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Are you sure you're not 16.
ThisGuy
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I think its one of the best albums ever made myself. I'm bias as hell, kanye can do no wrong on an album in my eyes.
Quelle Chris is strange in a great way. Gonna be getting this for sure, gotta look into the rest yet, but thanks for the suggestions.
To be 16 again. I passed up on so many women. I was a fucking idiot.
Net_Wrecker
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Stop after S3&K cause they lost the funk after that.
Andrew Korenchkin
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I bought sa2 soundtrack and it kicks. Oddly enough I thought the game was boring when I bought it and I think the 3D Sonic games are universally garbage games outside of their music.
Yeah, it's a 10/10 for me.
You can't go wrong with the early 16-bit. I think the 2nd Genesis game is the best overall, with the first Adventure being my personal favorite.
Bounceounce
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7 years in and it's still getting the same acclaim as it recieved on release.
The only boons on it are Jay and Nicki's Monster verse, and the repetitiveness of Monster and So Appalled (though they're both great), TPAB is it's only competition for the top of the end of the decade lists atm, and since it doesn't have a moment as weak as those two verses and doesn't have songs as repetitive as those two it might boost it up, but I'm still taking MBDTF, it's seriously incredible.
Also:
LR/808s/MBDTF/YEEZUS>GKMC
808s/MBDTF/YEEZUS=TPAB
Andrew Korenchkin
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On another note, Lost in the World is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The first time I heard that ending, when everything drops.....euphoria inducing holy shit. What a perfect ending.
Bounceounce
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The re-recorded Bon Iver intro to the track made me tear up during a bad period last week, and Kanye's verse is perfect, everything about that album comes togther so well that it just overshadows the flaws.
The Gil Scott outro and the claps at the end too, I can't think of a better ending.
"I fantasized bout this back in Chicago.." is one of my favorite album intro lines as well, god Dark Fantasy (the song) is insane, one of the best beat drops of all time too.
Andrew Korenchkin
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Andrew Korenchkin
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Fjordson, come get your boy with the Warriors soundtrack of the year.
Psychological Intellect
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Always thought that song was fucking trash.
Some people don't like his voice now, but on that song? Yikes.
A lot of his pre s.80/Wayne clone stuff is damn near unlistenable.
Feel the same way about Drake. Only became listenable from Take Care onwards.
This looks like a job for lionpride and ken masters
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